You know what you can make from grapes for the winter. With pleasure we will prompt! For example - compote from grapes. Yes, yes it is compote. It is simple and easy to perform, it turns out tasty and varied, if you add other fruits or berries to it.
And the compote is beautiful. After all, this is also important. And it does not matter which grapes you take as a basis - white, pink or blue. You can take a mixture of varieties. You can also make compote more or less concentrated, focus on your taste.
If you have simple grapes growing in your yard - lidia, curls, isabella, use them. It is not necessary to take elite varieties. From simple homemade grapes, a fragrant, rich compote is obtained. You can also buy such grapes on the market, pay attention to visitors from nearby villages, they will surely find what you need.
Ingredients per 2 cans of 2 liters:
Grapes - 600 grams;
Sugar - 160-200 grams;
Water - 3.5 liters;
Citric acid - 2 teaspoons.
Recipe:
The first step is to determine how you want to close the grapes. This can be done in two ways - only berries or whole brushes. The latter option is more suitable for three-liter cans.
Preservation of citric acid is mandatory; it acts as a preservative. It can be replaced with a few slices of lemon - 1-2 per jar is enough.
In addition, you can improve the taste (or diversify it) add cinnamon, cloves, anise.
There is no need to sterilize the cans before preservation, since we will use double filling. But if you cannot make seals without preparing cans, we suggest that you sterilize them in a multicooker. Pour water into the multicooker bowl to the bottom mark. Put the steaming bowl, put the jars on it. Choose the mode - stew or steamed. Sterilize the jars for 10 minutes. Then place them down on the towel.
In the prepared jars, lay the grapes (or brushes).
Pour jars of boiling water. Do this carefully so that the jar does not burst (although after sterilization, the likelihood of this is very small).
Leave the jars for 15 minutes to sterilize. There is no compote color at this stage (even if you use dark grape varieties).
After 15 minutes, drain the water into the pan. Add sugar and citric acid. Put the pot on the fire and bring to a boil. Try the syrup to taste, if you are not sweet, add more sugar.
Fill the cans a second time and immediately roll them with prepared lids. Wrap the jars until they cool completely with an old plaid. If you took only dark grapes, then after cooling, the compote will be saturated in color. White grapes will not give color.
