Delicious and healthy dogwood compote

6.10.2018 Winter blanks

Nobody can escape the spring breakdown. Some are stocked with pharmacy vitamins, others are building the right menu to support the body. Dogwood compote has no competitors when it comes to recovery. Fresh dogwood berries remain sour for a long time, there are few who want to feast on them in the summer and autumn. In the compote, dogwood becomes soft and sweet and sour. Such berries will please everyone.

The main secret is in the drink itself, a glass of cool compote affects the body no worse than an energy drink with caffeine. Stewed dogwood quenches thirst, refreshes, tones, fills the body with energy.

This recipe is designed for a 3 liter jar, and step-by-step photos will tell you the sequence of the process.

Ingredients:

dogwood - 450 g
sugar - 300 g
water - 2.7 l
citric acid - 1 tsp.,
star anise star - 1 pcs.

How to cook stewed dogwood

So that the berries in the compote remain intact and even, take a dense ripe dogwood.

Berries are washed by placing a sieve under a powerful stream of water. Shake the sieve, remove unsuitable berries.

To roll compote you will need a sterilized three-liter jar. All suspended dogwood is poured into the prepared container.

Lay citric acid. In no case refuse it. Without lemons, stewed fruit cannot be stored until spring.

A jar of dogwood is filled with boiling water: first to the middle, in a minute - to the shoulders. The sterile lid is placed on the neck of the can so that there are no gaps. Boiling water should be in the bank for 10-12 minutes.

Sugar is poured into a saucepan. They throw an asterisk in the same star.

The pinked water is drained from the can, the sugar quickly dissolves in a warm liquid. The pan with syrup is put on fire, boiled for 3 minutes.

Syrup is poured into a jar of berries. Dogwood compote roll up.

At first the berries will appear wrinkled, but in the morning they will become even and smooth. The jar with the compote is turned over, wrapped in a blanket, leaving until morning.

The infused compote will become brighter. Berries, which were freshly burgundy, may become cracked, and red ones will remain intact.

The infused drink will be bright, in the glasses it looks elegant and festive.

Dogwood compote can be drunk after intense physical training. During a cold, he is drunk hot, in its effect it is equal to lemon tea with ginger.