Category Archives: Fruit Compote Recipes

Homemade Preserve Recipe – Zucchini Preserve Recipe With Pineapple Juice

Zucchini preserve recipe with pineapple juice ingredients:

  • 1,5 kilograms zucchinis
  • 2 liters water
  • 2 lemons
  • 500 grams sugar
  • 500 ml pineapple juice

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Homemade preserve recipe instruction:

Wash and clean zucchinis and cut it in dice shape.

Squeeze off lemons, mix lemon juice with water and pour that over diced zucchinis. Leave them like this for 24 hours in refrigerator.

Cook 100 grams of sugar in 1 liter of water and add strained zucchinis in it. Cook it all together for about 15 minutes.

Strain zucchinis again and place them in jars.

Separately, cook 400 grams of sugar in 100 ml of water to melt, cool it and pour pineapple juice in it.

Pour zucchinis with pineapple sugar syrup, seal the jars and process for 15 minutes in boiling water bath.

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Homemade Grape Compote Recipe With Honey

Homemade grape compote recipe ingredients:

  • 1 kilogram grapes
  • 1 liter water
  • 300 grams sugar
  • 100 grams honey
  • 10 grams vanilla sugar

Honey grape compote recipe instruction:

Wash and clean grape berries and arrange them in few clean jars.

Pour sugar in water to boil and add honey and vanilla sugar in it. When sugar is melted, pour syrup over grape berries and seal the jars.

Cook compote in the sealed jars on the steam 10 minutes, turn off the heat and let them gradually cool like that.

Store your homemade fruit compote in the cool and dark place.

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Medlar In Heavy Syrup – Sugarfree Compote

Medlar in heavy syrup ingredients:

  • 1 kg medlars
  • 1 lemon (juice)
  • 200 g honey
  • 1 vanilla stick
  • Rum
  • Water

Sugarfree compote recipe instruction:

Wash half ripe medlars, peel them, cut them in half, pour lemon juice over them and let them stand for 15 minutes.

Pour cold water over fruits and cook it for 5-7 minutes. Add honey and vanilla stick and cook it 5 minutes more. Take out vanilla stick.

Pour hot fruit compote in sterilized jars, pour 1 teaspoon of rum over the compote (in every jar) and seal the jars.

Place jars in boiling water (to cover 2/3 of jars), reduce temperature to a low temperature and cook it for 15 minutes.

Wrap jars in a blanket to stand 24 hours.

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Store your medlar compote in dark and cold place.

No Cook Sour Cherry Compote Recipe

No cook sour cherry compote recipe ingredients:

  • 5 kilograms sour cherries
  • 3 kilograms sugar
  • 1/2 cup white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup rum

Easy homemade fruit compote recipe instruction:

Wash sour cherries, clean them from stalks and cherry pits and place them in large saucepan.

Pour sugar, vinegar and rum onto sour cherries, stir them, cover the saucepan and let it stand in cold place for 12 hours (stir cherries occasionally, so sugar can melt).

Pour sour cherry compote in clean and dry compote jars, seal them and store your homemade fruit compote in dark and cold place.

Homemade Fruit Compote – Peach Compote Recipe

Peach compote recipe ingredients:

  • 1 kilogram peaches
  • 2 cups water
  • 400-500 grams sugar

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Homemade fruit compote recipe:

Pour sugar in water to boil. Cool it.

Wash peaches, peel them off and remove peach pits from them. Cut peaches in a half and arrange them in the jars.

Pour cold sugar syrup over fruits in the jars and seal them.

Pour cold water in the deep pot and put jars in it (to sink in, but water must be under the lids). Cook it to boil and then remove the pot from the heat.

Take jars out from the pot, let them cool and store your peach compote in the cool and dark place.

The Difference Between Jams and Jellies, Marmalade, Preserves, Compote and Syrup Recipes

The difference between them comes in the form that fruit takes.

How to make jam?

Jams are made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency and does have fruit bits.

How to make jelly?

Jellies are made by boiling sugar, the juice of fruit and with gelatin or pectin, and does not have fruit bits.

How to make marmalade?

Marmalade is a clear sweetened jelly, sometimes with fruit rind and without fruit bits.

How to make preserves?

Fruit Preserves – fruit made into jams or jellies and cooked whole or in large pieces, so as to keep its shape.

How to make syrup?

Fruit Syrup is a thick sticky solution of sugar and concentrated juice of a fruit.

What is compote?

Fruit Compote is a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup.