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Irga is a small berry with a mild, sweet taste. To prepare it for the winter, many housewives cook compote. Other fruits or citric acid can be added for a bright taste. The order in which the ingredients are prepared does not differ depending on the recipe chosen. Consider the best ways to make compote from irgi for the winter.
General cooking tips
Regardless of which recipe is preferred, there are several basic features of the preparation of the drink. Let's briefly list them:
- Due to its chemical composition, Irga has a sweet, fresh taste. To add a sour note to the drink, add other fruits, citric acid, or vinegar.
- Before starting the cooking process, the berries should be sorted out, thoroughly peeled and washed.
- All cans and lids that will be used must be sterilized.
- It is allowed to spin the compote from the yirgi without boiling for a long time. In this case, the drink is made concentrated, and before direct use it should be diluted with water.
- Sterilized recipes take a little longer to prepare.
Some methods are designed for a 1 liter can, others for 3 liters. Several recipes will be discussed next. Ingredients are calculated based on a volume of 3 liters.
Citric acid drink recipe
Consider the first recipe for a blank, which involves sterilization. To prepare it, you will need to take the following ingredients:
- Peeled irga - 500 g.
- Sugar - 600 g.
- Water - 2.5 liters.
- Citric acid - 8 g.
First you need to prepare the berries - sort them out and rinse. Then they are immediately laid out in clean containers.
The second stage of preparing compote from irgi is cooking sugar syrup. To do this, pour 2.5 liters of water into the pan and add 600 g of granulated sugar, which should dissolve completely during the cooking process. When the syrup is ready, the prepared volume of citric acid is added to it.
At the third stage, the prepared berries are poured with the resulting syrup. The next step is sterilization. By this time, the hostess should have a large saucepan prepared with a piece of cloth at the bottom. The future compote is covered with lids and placed in a container.
Next, water is poured into the pan, not reaching about 5 cm to the necks. The finished container is put on low heat. As soon as the water boils, you need to sterilize the jars for no more than 10 minutes.
After this time, the cans are rolled up with lids and turned upside down. The finished product is left to cool completely. After opening, such a drink does not need to be diluted with water.
Sweet and sour compote with currants
To add the missing acid to the compote from sirgi, some housewives boil it with the addition of black currant. A drink according to this recipe will have a brighter taste. The cooking procedure is almost the same as described above.
Based on a 3-liter volume, you will need to prepare:
- black currant - 300 g;
- irga - 700 g;
- sugar - 350 g;
- water - 3 l;
- citric acid - 3 g.
The first stages are cleaning and washing berries, sterilization of containers. Prepared fruits are immediately placed in jars, first black currants, then irgu.
3 liters of water are poured into a saucepan, brought to a boil and a syrup is prepared with the addition of citric acid and sugar.After the sugar has melted, the liquid must be boiled for another two minutes.
The laid fruits are poured with syrup, covered with lids and sent for sterilization. As mentioned in the previous recipe, the time for a 3 liter can is 7 to 10 minutes.
After boiling, the compote is rolled up with lids, turned over and left to cool. The drink with the addition of black currant is considered one of the favorites of the housewives. It has a pleasant sweet and sour taste. If desired, you can use red currants, in which case the amount of sugar should be increased by 50 g.
Recipe for Citrus Lovers
To make the compote from sirgi for the winter have a pleasant sour note, you can add a few slices of lemon and orange. In this case, you do not need to add citric acid.
The following ingredients are taken for the drink:
- irga - 750 g;
- orange - 100 g;
- lemon - 100 g;
- water - 3 l;
- sugar - 350 g.
First, the fruits are prepared. Irga is sorted out and washed. You should also rinse oranges and lemons. Then they are cut into thin slices. The bones are removed. Containers are sterilized.
First, berries are placed in clean jars, and then fruit slices. The prepared volume of water is poured into a saucepan and boiled. After that, the containers are filled and allowed to wait for 10 minutes. Then the water is again poured into a saucepan and sugar is added. The syrup must be boiled and boiled until the sugar is completely dissolved.
The hot sweet liquid is poured back into the berries and rolled up with a clean lid. In order for the citrus flavor to be clearly felt, the compote needs to stand for two months.
Express compote from irgi
If the hostess does not have much time for homemade preparations, you can make a quick compote from irgi for the winter. This will require the most readily available ingredients:
- Irga - 750 g.
- Sugar - 300 g.
- Water - 2.5 liters.
At the first stage, jars and lids are sterilized. They sort out the berries and wash them. Next, the fruits for the drink are poured into the cleaned container.
Prepared berries are poured with boiling water, not reaching the neck of about 3 cm.The water is left to infuse for about 15 minutes. The liquid that has not entered the jar is not required, it can be drained immediately.
After waiting 15 minutes, the water is again poured into the pan. Sugar is poured there - about 300 g. The berry itself is quite sweet. Therefore, it is impractical to add a lot of sugar to the product. The syrup should be brought to a boil and cooked until the sand is completely dissolved.
The finished liquid is poured into a jar. This recipe for compote from irgi for the winter does not provide for boiling. Banks can be rolled up immediately or screwed with threaded caps. Then they are turned over and left to cool.
Concentrated compote recipe
Concentrated compote from sirgi will be a solution to the problem in the event of a lack of containers for billets. As you might guess from the name, this drink must be diluted with water before use.
To prepare the concentrate, you will need the following ingredients:
- ripe irgi berries - 1 kg;
- water - 1 l;
- sugar - 300 g
As with any compote, you first need to sort out and rinse the fruits, sterilize the jars and lids. Peeled berries are placed in prepared containers.
In the next step, the syrup is cooked. Pour the entire volume of water into a saucepan and add sugar. Boil until it is completely dissolved. It is not necessary to bring the syrup to a strong thickening. Pour the prepared syrup into a container with berries.
Cover the jars with the future compote with a lid and send for sterilization. Three-liter is enough for 10 minutes. It remains to roll up the containers with compote and, covering them with a blanket, leave to cool.
How to sterilize
Before preparing compote from irgi for the winter, you should sterilize the jars and lids necessary for storing it. There are several options for how you can do this.
In the microwave
Sterilization in a microwave oven is relevant for housewives who make blanks in small containers.First, you need to rinse them thoroughly with soda, rinse and pour half a glass of cold water into them. Leave them on the highest power in the microwave. For cans with a capacity of 1 liter, 5 minutes will be enough, 3-liter cans are sterilized for 10 minutes.
On a water bath
Pour water into a large saucepan with jars for blanks and boil it. Wait 3 to 10 minutes depending on the volume of the cans.
A similar method should be used to sterilize the caps. Pour water into a saucepan, lower the lids there so that they are completely drowned in the liquid, and leave to boil for 5 minutes.
Sterilization of containers with compote
If the recipe provides for sterilization, put the compote jars in a large saucepan with a piece of cloth at the bottom. Water is poured in so that about 3 cm remains to the necks. Then the entire container is placed on low heat and waited for boiling. After that, sterilized from 3 to 10 minutes, depending on the volume. Half-liter cans take 3 minutes, while 3-liter cans take 7 to 10.
How to use compote berries
In fact, compote irga will also not be superfluous. You can use one of the following suggestions:
- Place on top of baked goods as decoration.
- Rub the pulp through a sieve and make a sweet puree.
- Prepare a pie filling or a cake layer.
The finished drink turns out to be a deep red color. It has an unusual taste and a pleasant, delicate aroma. Anyone who has an irgi bush on the site should try one of these recipes:
