It will take half an hour to prepare gooseberry compote .
How to cook gooseberry compote
Products for gooseberry compote
For a 3-liter jar
Gooseberries – 1.2 kilograms
Water – half a liter
Sugar – 300 grams
How to cook gooseberry compote
Chop gooseberries with toothpicks, add water and cook for 5 minutes after boiling. Transfer the berries to sterilized jars. Prepare a syrup from the water in which the gooseberries were boiled: pour the water into a saucepan, add sugar and put on fire. Boil the syrup for 5 minutes after boiling, then pour the syrup over the berries, roll up the jars with compote and cool. Remove cooled cans of compote for storage.
Tasty Facts
The taste of gooseberry compote depends on the variety: sour varieties should be balanced with sugar or sweet fruits, sweet varieties do not need a lot of sugar.
Gooseberries for harvesting compote should be used unripe – then you get a transparent compote with a bright taste. Ripe gooseberries are recommended for making compote for the day.
Since the taste of gooseberries is often mild and can be interrupted with sugar, it is recommended to cook compote only from gooseberries for the day, and to prepare compote for the winter, it is preferable to add other berries and fruits to gooseberries.
How to make gooseberry and orange compote
Products for compote
Gooseberries – 1 kilogram
Oranges – 1 piece
Water – 1 liter
Sugar – 1 kilogram
How to cook gooseberry and orange
compote Select early sour gooseberries for compote. Rinse the gooseberries, dry, cut off the tails. Wash the orange and cut into slices. Boil water, add sugar, stir it and boil the syrup for 10 minutes. Put berries and fruits in syrup, cook for 30 minutes. Arrange the gooseberries and oranges on the bottom of sterilized jars, pour over the syrup and roll up the jars.