Lingonberry compote for the winter

Lingonberries, along with cranberries, are one of the healthiest and in recent years they are even more popular than any exotic fruit. Lingonberry compote for the winter is one of the simplest types of homemade preparations, requiring a minimum amount of time and effort. And the result is a completely ready-to-drink medicinal drink.

The benefits of lingonberry compote

If he doesn’t know about the beneficial properties of lingonberry, then every person probably guesses. The abundance of vitamins, first of all, C and group B, allows her to increase the resistance of the immune system and cope with a variety of infectious diseases that await at every step in cold and wet weather.

In compotes, berries undergo minimal heat treatment, so most of the nutrients are well preserved.

Due to the rich mineral composition and variety of organic acids in lingonberry, compote from it:

• helps with hypertension, reducing blood pressure, strengthening blood vessels;
• has a beneficial effect on the heart muscle;
• increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood;
• helps to resist radiation sickness (quinic acid);
• strengthens the gums, due to the content of tannins;
• promotes muscle growth and at the same time reduces the size of the fat layer (ursolic acid);
• is a powerful antioxidant.

And the most important property of lingonberry compote is that it, with its powerful diuretic and disinfectant properties, optimizes the functioning of the kidneys and urinary system.

Can lingonberry compote during pregnancy

The last property of lingonberry compote is very important for pregnant women, because it helps to cope with edema and other problems of the urinary system during this important period. In addition, lingonberry usually does not cause allergies, and compote from it is able to raise vitality, which is also important for pregnant and lactating women. And thanks to its rich vitamin and mineral composition, lingonberry compote will help to compensate for their natural deficiency in the body of women during this period.

True, not everyone is delighted with the peculiar taste of this drink, but the addition of other equally healthy fruits and berries can soften and improve its taste.

How to cook lingonberry compote correctly

Lingonberry compote can be made both on a regular stove and with the help of modern kitchen helpers, for example, a multicooker. There are usually two main methods of making it, regardless of the recipe:

• by filling: double or even single;
• by cooking.

Regardless of the method chosen, there are two main strategies for preparing lingonberry compote for the winter and the use of any of them in different recipes depends on the taste preferences of the hostess.

1. If the appearance of the drink is in the first place, that is, you want to get an absolutely transparent compote with whole, undamaged berries, then lingonberries are poured immediately with boiling water and practically do not boil.
2. If you want to get the most saturated with berry juice, a concentrated drink reminiscent of fruit drink, then the berries should be crushed before boiling and cooked for at least 5 minutes.

Lingonberry is a forest berry, so there will always be a lot of natural debris in it, from which it will need to be freed before starting the cooking process. But its skin is rather thin, therefore, in order not to damage it during cleaning and sorting, it is better to fill it with cold water for 5-10 minutes. Then pour into a colander and, immersing it several times in clean water, ensure that all the garbage remains outside. Then it is poured onto a clean towel to dry.

As in working with any sour berry, it is not allowed to use aluminum dishes for preparing compote, the walls and bottom of which may react adversely with substances in the lingonberry composition.

The addition of sugar is necessary to soften the sour taste of the berry, but remember that the less sugar is added, the more useful the preparation will be. Often, to soften and complement the taste of lingonberry compote, sweet fruits and berries are also added to it: apples, pears, plums, blueberries, blueberries.

Additionally, the addition of spices helps to flavor the taste of the drink and make it richer: vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom, star anise.

How much to cook lingonberry compote

As noted above, lingonberry compote for the winter is often prepared with little or no cooking in order to preserve the maximum of nutrients. The maximum time allowed to simmer over low heat is 12 minutes.

The classic recipe for lingonberry compote

You will need:

• 2 kg of berries;
• about 1.5 kg of granulated sugar;
• 6 liters of water.

The drink prepared according to this recipe retains a significant part of the nutrients. But it is necessary to sterilize both empty and filled cans.

1. The berries are sorted out, rejecting all spoiled specimens, and rinsed.
2. Heat the water to a boil, dissolve all the sugar in it, heating the syrup for at least 10 minutes.
3. Arrange the berries in sterile jars so that they occupy no more than ¼ of the jar. In this case, the concentration of the compote will be close to drinking.
4. Add hot syrup to each container.
5. Place the jars in a wide saucepan and pasteurize for about half an hour (liter containers).
6. After the end of pasteurization, cans with compote can be immediately rolled up, cooled and placed in storage.

Lingonberry compote for the winter without sterilization

It is even easier to prepare lingonberry compote without sterilization, and with the attached photos it will be quite easy to do this.

For one three-liter can of the finished drink, you need to find:

• 500-600 g lingonberries;
• 200 g sugar;
• about 3 liters of water.

Recipe preparation method:

1. Rinse thoroughly and boil glassware in water or over steam.
   
2. Sort out and rinse the berries, dry them and place them in a hot sterilized jar.
   
3. Pour boiling water so that the water rises almost to the very neck.
   
4. Cover and let stand for 10-15 minutes.
5. Drain the water from the jar, add the required amount of sugar to it, and, bringing to a boil, make sure that it is all dissolved in the liquid.
6. Pour the sugar syrup again into the jar to the berries and immediately tighten it tightly with a machine.
   
7. Place the jar upside down, place it under a warm blanket and leave to cool for at least 12 hours.

Lingonberry and blueberry compote

According to the recipe described above, a lingonberry compote is prepared without sterilization with the addition of other wild and garden berries. For example, blueberries will give the drink a noble dark color and sweetish aftertaste.

Put on a three-liter jar:

• 350 g of lingonberries and blueberries;
• 1.5-2 liters of water;
• 100 g sugar;
• 1 tsp lemon peel.

Sweet blueberry and lingonberry compote for the winter

Wild blueberries are much more difficult to find on the market, although cultivated varieties have been encountered in recent years. Lingonberry compote with blueberry also differs in sweetness, aroma and color. It is prepared using the same technology, replacing the blueberries in the previous recipe with exactly the same amount of blueberries.

Lingonberry and strawberry compote for the winter

The combination of strawberries and lingonberries will give the compote such an original taste that hardly anyone will guess what it is made of. Strawberries will likely need to be used frozen, as they tend to be gone by the time the lingonberries ripen. However, you can also find remontant varieties that bear fruit throughout August and September.

You will need:

• 250 g lingonberries;
• 250 g strawberries;
• 300 g granulated sugar;
• about 2.5 liters of water.

Making a recipe:

1. The berries are washed or thawed (if used in ice cream).
2. They are transferred to a sterile three-liter jar, filled with boiling water, and left for 4-5 minutes.
3. The water is drained, and sugar syrup is prepared on its basis.
4. The berries are poured over with boiling sugar syrup and the jar is immediately twisted.

Blackcurrant and lingonberry compote for the winter

The same recipe is used if you want to combine lingonberries with black or red currants, or even with both berries at once.

Prepare:

• 2 cups currant berries;
• 1 cup lingonberries;
• 1 cup granulated sugar;
• the amount of water - how much will fit into a three-liter jar after pouring.

Fragrant lingonberry and cherry compote

An incredibly tasty, beautiful and healthy compote is obtained from lingonberries and cherries, and it is also easy to prepare it if you use the method of a single pouring with boiling water followed by pouring sugar syrup.

According to the composition of the ingredients, the recipe requires:

• 500 g lingonberries;
• 1500 g pitted cherries;
• 2 tsp grated lemon zest;
• 400 g granulated sugar;
• water - how much will fit in a 3-liter jar.

Compote turns out to be very concentrated, and when used, it will need to be diluted.

The easiest recipe for lingonberry compote for the winter

Using the simplest recipe for making lingonberry compote, you can even get by with a single fill.

All ingredients for crafting can be taken from the previous recipe. And the recipe itself consists of the following steps:

1. Prepared berries in a colander are blanched in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.
2. Placed in pre-sterilized jars.
3. Sugar syrup is prepared by boiling it, as usual, for 5-10 minutes.
4. Pour lingonberries in jars with boiling syrup and instantly roll up.
5. It is imperative to cool the compote under a blanket in an inverted state in order to undergo additional sterilization in this form.

Assorted lingonberry compote with one filling

Of course, it will be very tasty to combine lingonberries and a variety of berries and fruits in one drink. This recipe describes an example of an assorted compote, the ingredients for which are easy to find.

You will need:

• 200 g lingonberries;
• 200 g blueberries;
• 100 g of cranberries;
• 500 g apples;
• 400 g granulated sugar;
• water - depending on the desired concentration of compote, but not less than 2 liters.

It is very simple to make lingonberry compote according to this recipe, but the apples need to be given time to infuse.

1. Apples are washed, peeled from seed walls and cut into small slices.
2. The water is heated to a boil and the slices of apples, cut and placed in a saucepan, are poured with it. Leave for three quarters of an hour.
3. After insisting, the water is drained, sugar is added to it and, warmed to a boil, boiled for 5-8 minutes.
4. Assorted berries are added to the jars and the syrup is poured on top in a boiling state.
5. The manufacturing process is complete, the cans can be twisted and placed upside down under insulation.

Irgi and lingonberry compote

Irga, for all its usefulness and unpretentiousness, is not very popular with gardeners. But in terms of the content of vitamins, it is not inferior to the same chokeberry or even black currant.

Lingonberry compote with the addition of yergi will have a very beautiful dark shade, and the taste of sweet yergi will very well set off the sourness in lingonberry.

For a container with a volume of 3 liters you will need:

• 300 g lingonberries;
• 300 g sirgi;
• 300 g sugar;
• about 2 liters of water.

A drink is prepared according to this recipe in an already known way, with the help of one pouring with boiling water and subsequent final pouring with sugar syrup.

How to roll up lingonberry compote with orange for the winter

Lingonberry compote with the addition of orange turns out to be inimitably tasty. Citrus fruits always bring with them a unique aroma of the holiday, and this drink is good to use on New Year's Eve, warm or even hot.

You will need:

• 300 g lingonberries;
• 1 orange;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• ½ tsp cinnamon;
• about 2 liters of water.

Making a recipe:

• Before use, the orange is scalded with boiling water and the zest is rubbed separately, which is then used for compote. They are also cleaned of white peel and seeds in the pulp, which can impart bitterness to the drink.
• Lingonberries are prepared in the usual way.
• Boil water with sugar for 5 minutes, add ground cinnamon.
• Orange pulp and grated zest are placed in sterile jars along with lingonberries.
• Pour in boiling syrup and twist for long-term storage.

How to cook lingonberry compote with lemon for the winter

Lingonberry compote is prepared in the same way with the addition of lemon, which is also used almost entirely. It is only necessary to remove the seeds from the pulp.

Only granulated sugar is usually added 2 times more in quantity.

Lingonberry compote with vanilla

And if vanillin is added to the sugar syrup during cooking, then the taste of the lingonberry compote will soften significantly, and the drink itself will become even healthier.

For 1 kg of lingonberry berries take:

• 400 g granulated sugar;
• 5 g vanillin;
• 2 liters of water.

Lingonberry compote with apples

Lingonberries with apples are a classic combination, they perfectly complement each other both in taste and in saturation in compote for the winter. According to this recipe, the fruit is initially boiled, which makes the taste of the drink more concentrated.

The composition of the ingredients is as follows:

• 2 kg of lingonberries;
• 1 kg of apples;
• 1 kg of granulated sugar;
• 5-6 liters of water.

From this amount of products, you should get about 3 three-liter jars.

Making a recipe:

1. Lingonberries are prepared in a standard way.
2. The apples are washed, cut out with seeds and cut into slices of approximately the same size.
3. Sugar syrup is made from water and sugar.
4. Apples cut into slices are placed in it and cooked over low heat for about a quarter of an hour.
5. Then the fruit is laid out with a slotted spoon in sterile jars.
6. And lingonberries are placed in the syrup and boiled for about 10 minutes, then they are laid out on top of the apples using the same slotted spoon.
7. Fruits and berries are poured with syrup in which they were cooked and hermetically sealed.

Plum and lingonberry compote for the winter

Lingonberry compote with plums is prepared in almost the same way. Plums are necessarily free from pits, and it will not take much time to boil them - 10 minutes is enough.

Otherwise, the technology and the ratio of ingredients are exactly the same as in the recipe with apples. But the color of the compote will be somewhat different, of course, its taste and aroma will change.

Lingonberry compote with pears for the winter

Lingonberry compote with pears is made in a similar way.

The recipe requires the following products:

• 2 kg of ripe pears, but still quite hard;
• 1.5 kg of lingonberries;
• 0.8 kg of granulated sugar;
• 1 liter of water.

The manufacturing process is very similar to the technology described in previous recipes, with the only difference that pears are boiled in syrup for only 10 minutes, and lingonberries are placed in it for just a minute, and then immediately laid out in jars.

How to cook lingonberry, apple and prune compote

In this recipe, lingonberries have wonderful neighbors in the form of apples and prunes. The last component, in addition, has a beneficial effect on the intestines and increases efficiency, and all together they fully satisfy the body's needs for vitamins and minerals.

The ratio of the components is as follows:

• 500 g lingonberries;
• 400 g pitted prunes;
• 7-8 medium apples;
• 200 g sugar;
• about 6 liters of water.

The manufacturing method is not fundamentally different from the previous recipes:

1. Syrup is prepared from water and sugar.
2. Fruits and berries are washed, cleaned of unnecessary details. Cut apples into slices, and prunes into 2-4 parts.
3. First, apples are added to the sugar syrup, after 10 minutes prunes and after the same amount of time lingonberries.
4. The fire is turned off, and the finished compote, together with berries and fruits, is packaged in sterile jars and twisted.

Frozen lingonberry compote

In a similar way, compote is prepared from frozen lingonberries, where the so-called five-minute recipe is used.

The composition of the products is as follows:

• 150 g frozen lingonberries;
• 200 g sugar;
• 2-2.5 liters of water.

To cook frozen lingonberry compote, use the following recipe:

1. Lingonberries are pre-thawed in a natural way, taken out of the freezer and left at room temperature for 8-10 hours.
2. The liquid obtained from defrosting the berries is poured through a sieve into a saucepan where the compote will be cooked, and the required amount of water is added.
3. The berries are washed under running water, removing all spoiled specimens and plant debris.
4. A pot of water is put on fire, heated to a boil, sugar is added and boiled until it is completely dissolved.
5. Then lingonberries are poured into sugar syrup and after boiling they are boiled for exactly 5 minutes.
6. They are laid out in sterile containers and tightened with sterile lids.

Delicious cranberry and lingonberry compote

Another classic combination is the proximity of cranberries and lingonberries in one jar. After all, they often grow in nature in the neighborhood. And even in a compote made from frozen lingonberries and cranberries, berries can complement each other with their healing properties.

To get a three-liter jar of this two-component compote, you need to take:

• 1 glass of those and other berries;
• 120-130 g granulated sugar;
• 2.5-3 liters of water.

The recipe resembles fruit drink in the way it is made.

1. The berries are sorted out, washed in cold water and slightly dried.
2. Fall asleep with sugar and grind with a blender or wooden crush.
3. In a separate container, water is heated to a boil and the berry mixture is placed there.
4. After boiling, cook for about three minutes.
5. Poured into sterile containers through a sieve, leaving the mashed berries outside.
6. Banks are being rolled up.

How to make lingonberry compote with spices and white wine for the winter

This recipe for lingonberry compote is not intended for children, although it is almost impossible to taste alcohol in taste. Wine only adds sophistication and pleasant aroma to the finished drink.

Would need:

• 0.7 kg of lingonberry berries;
• 0.35 g sugar;
• 0.22 ml of white wine;
• 5 g of ground cinnamon and cardamom;
• grated zest from one lemon;
• 2-3 grams of ginger.

The recipe making process is very simple:

1. The berries are laid out in a dry and clean jar, sprinkled with sugar and ground spices in layers.
2. Ginger and grated lemon zest are added to the last layer.
3. The jars are covered and sterilized in boiling water for about a quarter of an hour.
4. After the end of sterilization, immediately sealed hermetically.

How to close sugar-free lingonberry compote for the winter

Sour fruits and berries can be easily harvested for the winter without the use of sugar, since the acids they contain are good preservatives in themselves.

All you need is the lingonberry itself and water.

The recipe making process is simple:

1. Lingonberries are washed and dried.
2. 1/3 sterile jars are filled with berries and poured with boiling water so that 2-3 cm of free volume remains in the upper part of the jar.
   Important! This space is necessary for boiling the compote during sterilization.
3. Then the cans with compote are placed in a wide saucepan with hot water, at the bottom of which a small towel is placed.
4. Sterilize for at least 10 minutes if using liter jars.

Lingonberry compote for the winter without cooking

Due to the presence of natural preservatives in lingonberries, it can easily be stored during the winter period just under water.

For 1 kg of berries, about 2.5 liters of water are used.

1. The berries are tightly placed in a glass container and poured with boiled water at room temperature, so that it completely covers the lingonberries.
2. Cover with a nylon lid and store in the refrigerator.
3. Throughout the winter, the liquid can be poured, using to prepare compote or fruit drink. And just add clean water to a jar of berries.

How to cook lingonberry compote for the winter in a slow cooker

In a multicooker, you can quickly and easily prepare lingonberry compote, and then pack it into jars for storage for the winter.

Prepare:

• 600 g lingonberries;
• 250 g sugar;
• 2 liters of water.

Recipe preparation:

1. Water is poured into the bowl of the appliance and heated using the "steaming" mode until boiling.
2. Add sugar and lingonberries, cook for about 10 minutes more.
3. Packaged in sterile containers, tighten.

Storage rules for lingonberry compote

Lingonberry compote stays well throughout the winter and at normal room temperature. It is better to store sugar-free compote in cooler rooms. And compote without cooking is usually stored in a cellar or refrigerator.

Conclusion

Lingonberry compote for the winter can be prepared with almost any berries and fruits, and in any case it will be a very tasty and healthy drink.

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