If you ask any adult or child what compote is made from, you will probably hear in response that it is made from fruits and berries. But imagine that compote can also be cooked from vegetables, and pumpkin is the most suitable of them. Try it - perhaps this drink will enter your menu as one of your favorites.
How to make pumpkin compote
Compote from this vegetable has an original and unique taste, smell, and most importantly - a bright and juicy sunny color. In addition, it is very useful because it has a lot of vitamins and minerals. The main component of this drink is pumpkin - dietary product containing a small amount of calories. This vegetable is often used in the fitness menu. It is boiled, baked, stewed, added to cereals, vegetable stews and desserts.
The drink will turn out delicious if you follow these recommendations:
- the vegetable should be medium or small in size, then it will have more natural sweetness;
- it is better to take a whole pumpkin than a pre-cut piece;
- muscat variety - the best choice for making dessert
- pay attention to the peel of a sunny vegetable: it should be smooth, shiny, dense and hard;
- spices, citrus fruits and fruits can give an expressive taste to compote, as well as citric acid and vanilla sugar.
cooking recipes
Wanting to diversify the options for how you can deliciously and simply cook pumpkin at home, culinary experts are posting more and more on the Internet. interesting recipes compotes that can be served to guests and surprise them unusual taste, and you can also drink daily, replenishing your body with useful substances.
regular compote
This recipe is very easy to perform, at the same time it is a good alternative to other compotes, juices, tea and coffee in winter period, since its main component is affordable and sold in every market.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 400 g;
- sugar - 250 g;
- water - 2 l.
Cooking process:
Video: How to cook pumpkin compote
Important! The optimal size of the cube for cooking is 1.5 cm. Make sure that the cutting is uniform, otherwise part of the product will be ready earlier than the other, and this will affect the taste and appearance drink.
with apples
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 300 g;
- sugar - 0.5 tbsp.;
- water - 5 tbsp.;
- apples (Antonovka or Semerenko, preferably sour varieties) - 2 medium (~ 200 g);
- dried fruits (prunes, as an option - raisins or dried apricots) - a handful;
- cinnamon - on the tip of a knife (to taste).
Cooking process:
- Prepare the vegetable by removing seeds and fibers from its core, and removing the rough peel. Rinse the apples and remove the seeds and core.
- Cut the pumpkin into medium cubes or slices, like apples.
- Boil the syrup by adding sugar to the water. If desired, prunes, dried apricots or raisins can be added to it. In order for dried fruits to reveal their taste potential, they should be boiled in syrup for 10 minutes.
- Add to dried fruit syrup sunny vegetable, and when the water boils - and apples.
- Cook compote until done.
Did you know? A combination of pumpkin with any citrus fruits, as well as pears, apples, plums, quince and pineapples will be successful. When cinnamon, cloves, vanilla and cardamom are added to the drink, the vegetable will absorb a maximum of aroma and taste, which will make the compote original and spicy.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 kg;
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 1 l;
- pineapple juice - 0.5 l.
Cooking process:
- Prepare the pumpkin in the same way as in the previous recipes, ridding it of the peel and internal seeds.
- Slice it to mimic the original pineapple pieces sold in canned. But if you do not want to waste time cutting circles, it will be enough to cut the vegetable into small rectangles.
- Bring pineapple juice to a boil.
- Pour chopped pumpkin with boiled juice and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
- Boil syrup from water with sugar.
- Arrange the pumpkin sticks soaked in juice in jars and pour syrup over them.
- Close the container and let it cool down.
Important! Pumpkin compote will delight you even more with its unusual, sweet and aromatic taste if served chilled.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 500 g;
- sugar - 4 tbsp. l.;
- water - 2 l;
- zest of 1 orange;
- orange - 1 pc.;
- citric acid - at the tip of a knife;
- vanilla sugar - 0.5 tsp;
- spices: cinnamon, cloves - to taste.
Cooking process:
- Prepare the vegetable for cooking: wash, peel it and peel it from the inside. Wash and dry the orange.
- Cut the pumpkin into medium sized cubes. Grate the peel of an orange, preparing its zest for use. Divide the pulp into slices, remove the bones, make a fillet.
- Boil water in a saucepan, then add pumpkin cubes, orange fillet and sugar to it. Boil for 10-15 minutes.
- Add orange zest to compote citric acid and vanilla sugar, cook for another 10 minutes.
- If desired, the taste can be made even richer with the help of spices such as cloves and cinnamon.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- sea buckthorn - 200 g;
- sugar - 350 g;
- water - 2.5 l.
Cooking process:
- Prepare the main ingredients by first washing them and cleaning them of excess.
- cut vegetable small cubes.
- Put pumpkin cubes and sea buckthorn berries in a jar for spins (3-liter).
- Boil water. Pour boiling water over the contents of the jar and let it brew for 10 minutes.
- Drain the water from the jar into a saucepan and add sugar to it. Boil it again, making sure that the sugar is completely dissolved. To do this, stir the water well.
- Pour pumpkin-sea buckthorn mixture with syrup.
- Make a twist, turn the jar over and let it cool naturally.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 500 g;
- apples - 500 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- water - 4 l;
- citric acid - 10 g.
Cooking process:
- Prepare the main ingredients by peeling them from the peel, core and seeds.
- Grate pumpkin. Pour in water, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and grind the boiled mass through a sieve to obtain a homogeneous mass. Add citric acid and sugar.
- Grate the apples and squeeze the juice out of them through cheesecloth. You can chop the apples with a blender and strain the juice.
- Mix pumpkin pulp, apple juice and all other ingredients and cook for 5 minutes.
Did you know? orange vegetable consists of 90% water and contains a record amount of beta-carotene.
With lemon
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 3 kg;
- lemon - 3 pcs. medium size;
- sugar - 500-600 g;
- water - 3-4 liters.
Cooking process:
- Prepared pumpkin, from which the seeds and peel were removed, cut into cubes. Peel the lemons and cut into slices of medium thickness.
- Fill 3 liter jars 1/3 full with chopped vegetables. Add lemon.
- Boil the sugar syrup, making sure there are no grains.
- Pour pumpkin with lemon in jars with boiled syrup.
- Put the jars in a container and sterilize each for 10 minutes.
- Roll up the jars, let the compote cool naturally and enjoy the compote for a long winter.
Pumpkin is a very common product in our region. Many use it in their diet simply as an additive to porridge or, at most, bake vertuta with pumpkin filling. I decided to expand your recipe knowledge using pumpkin and make compote. I will tell you step by step how to cook such a miraculous and delicious compote!
"Live" pumpkin compote
Kitchen tools: liter jar(I took with a thread), a screw cap for a jar, a knife, a cutting board, a citrus juicer, a juice container.
Ingredients
It is worth noting that from right choice pumpkin depends on its taste, and the benefits that it will bring. We need a fruit with a dry stalk, with a hard skin and a clearly readable pattern on it - this indicates that the fruit is ripe. It is better to choose a medium size fruit, because a large pumpkin can be too fibrous and its taste is bitter. The optimal weight of the pumpkin should be 3-5 kg, while its weight should be heavy for its size.
Cooking
- Cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.
- Add honey to lemon juice, stir and set aside.
- We cut the pumpkin, clean it from the peel and seeds. We cut its peeled pulp into cubes.
- We take a jar and fill it tightly to the top with chopped pumpkin, we tamp it well. She then sits down in volume.
- Pour the pumpkin with lemon juice and honey.
- The remaining volume of the jar is filled with water to the brim and twist the lid.
- Shake the jar of compote well and turn the lid down so that the juice with honey is evenly distributed.
- We send the compote to the refrigerator. After a day, the compote is ready for use.
In such a recipe, all the vitamins and nutrients of the pumpkin are preserved, since we do not subject the product to heat treatment.
Video recipe for "live" pumpkin compote
This short video shows each step of making pumpkin compote. After watching it, you should have no questions left.
Did you know? If you decide to get rid of excess weight - pumpkin to help you. It helps speed up the metabolism and the energy value is only 25 kcal per 100 g of product.
Boiled pumpkin compote
Cooking time: 30 minutes.
Servings: 5-6.
Kitchen appliances and inventory: blender, stove, bowl, cutting board, citrus juicer, saucepan, knife.
Ingredients
Cooking
- We clean the fruit from the peel and select the seeds.
- Cut pumpkin into small pieces.
- Pour water into a saucepan and add chopped pumpkin to it. We put sugar in there.
- Squeeze the juice of one lime and add to the pot.
- We put the pan on a moderate fire. Cook until the pumpkin is soft, about 15 minutes after the water boils.
- When the pumpkin is ready, remove the pumpkin pulp from the broth into a bowl and leave it to cool slightly.
- Beat the cooled pulp with a blender until smooth.
- Add pulp puree to pumpkin broth.
Such a pumpkin compote can be twisted for the winter. It turns out a compote with a sweet and sour taste, lime gives a touch of freshness to this broth.
Video recipe for boiled pumpkin compote
This video clearly shows the steps for making pumpkin and lime compote. This recipe will surely be appreciated by lovers of citrus notes in drinks.
Innings
Pumpkin compote is served chilled or room temperature. You can decorate a glass with compote with a beautiful straw and a slice of lemon or lime.
Pumpkin goes well with citrus fruits, I gave you a recipe with lemon and lime, but it will also be delicious to make pumpkin compote with orange. Pumpkin goes well in compote with different berries, such as raspberries or strawberries. A vitamin "explosion" will be pumpkin compote in combination with sea buckthorn. If you have a juicer, then cook with green apple for breakfast, it will energize you good mood and energy for the whole day.
Pumpkin is a very useful product, it simply must be in your diet. It is rich in beta-carotene, which, getting into the human body, can turn into vitamin A, which we need so much. It contains substances that strengthen nails, hair and give our skin firmness and elasticity.
Be sure to stock up on pumpkin in the fall and cook compote from it. Pumpkin in compote will support the body with micro and macro elements throughout the winter and spring period, when our body needs it most. The process of preparing a drink is elementary, not requiring time and budget costs, and there are a lot of benefits from such a compote.
The usefulness of a pumpkin can be endlessly sung praises, since, in my opinion, this is very required product in the diet, especially for children. My mother told me to make pumpkin compote when, once again, dancing, I unsuccessfully tried to feed my little daughter with such healthy pumpkin porridge. And a miracle happened, she liked the compote. Now I have two children of school age, and I continue to cook pumpkin compote for children, because pumpkin helps in the fight against fatigue, improves mood and helps prevent the development of caries.
Appearing in Russia in the 16th century, the pumpkin took root so well on the lands of the landlords that it began to be considered a native Russian vegetable. Cooking recipes with its use are very diverse. Various desserts and winter preparations, more than a hundred types of pumpkin jam and compotes have a specific refined taste and have beneficial properties.
The benefits of pumpkin
The popularity of pumpkin is due to its unique composition, rich in minerals and vitamins, low calorie content and dietary properties. Also, this vegetable has a long shelf life when cut, and with a short heat treatment does not lose its useful qualities.
Pumpkin contains:
Variety of recipes
Compote with the addition of orange, ginger and peach is considered a truly exquisite refreshing drink. It consists of a tablespoon of ginger, 100 grams of sugar, 3 oranges, 200 grams of pumpkin pulp, 50 grams of pistachios, a teaspoon of green tea and 2 peaches. First of all, you need to pour sugar with a glass of water and cook until sugar dissolves.
Next, add the peeled pumpkin cubes and cook for 10 minutes. Then catch the pieces of vegetable and put on a paper towel, let them drain and cool. At this time, separate the pulp of oranges from the peel and film and finely chop. orange peel and chop the ginger on a fine grater, along with green tea put in a container, pour a glass of boiling water and let it brew for five minutes, covered with a lid. Then cut the peach into small slices, pour over them with the previously obtained tea infusion with ginger and zest and leave for another five minutes. At the end, add chopped orange and mix.
Pumpkin Vinegar Drink. It is necessary to prepare 1/3 cup of 6% vinegar, one tsp. citric acid, 400 grams of granulated sugar and 400 grams of pumpkin pulp. It is required to cut the vegetable into cubes and put in a container. Then dissolve citric acid and vinegar in 0.5 liters of water, pour the pumpkin with the resulting solution and leave for a day. After that, drain the infusion into a separate pan, add to it granulated sugar, boil and cook for 5 minutes. Next, you should add pieces of vegetable to the boiling syrup and boil for another 5 minutes. Ready drink pour into sterilized containers, roll them up and turn them over, covering them with a blanket. After a day, remove the blanks in a place for long-term storage.
Fancy drink
This is just a small part of the tips to help you understand how to cook pumpkin compote for the winter, recipes for quick consumption. They are so diverse and sometimes contain such unusual set of products that any gourmet can find a drink with their favorite zest, and every housewife can create a masterpiece that will delight and saturate useful elements the whole family on cold winter evenings or to refresh and give strength on a hot summer day.
Foreword
With a pumpkin, many are accustomed to baking delicious pies and cook porridge, but not many dare to cook compotes. But in vain - the drink will turn out to be very original and no worse than fruit.
Necessary tools and materials
This vegetable contains minerals and vitamins, which have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the gallbladder and liver, contribute to the normalization of the water balance in the human body. It has been noticed that people who regularly consume pumpkin dishes improve their complexion. With short processing, most of the useful substances, so the conservation of pumpkins for the winter is the best option permanently in your diet.
You can make a drink from pumpkin alone, but not every family member will like its slightly sugary taste. The addition of various berries and fruits allows you to give the drink a variety of flavors. taste qualities. Recipes for compotes from pumpkin cubes with the addition of apples or citrus fruits are very popular with housewives. In addition, to emphasize the taste of the drink, you can add different spices: cinnamon, cloves, cardamom.
For the preparation of compote, dessert varieties are best suited, which are characterized by a bright orange color of the pulp. After preparation, the drink turns out to be very tasty and beautiful in appearance.
To prepare a drink, you will need the following ingredients:
- water - 1 l;
- pumpkin pulp - 500 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 1 cup (200 g);
- cloves - 6 pcs.;
- vanillin - added to taste.
To begin with, pumpkin slices need to be washed well, get rid of the seeds and separate from the peel. The peeled pulp is cut into small cubes. Prepared pumpkin cubes are placed in a saucepan (or basin), covered with sugar and poured with water. At the same time, the water level should only slightly cover the pumpkin, so you should be prudent when choosing a container for brewing a drink.
Next, the container with the future compote is placed on the stove and brought to a boil, while the fire should be slow enough, after which freshly squeezed lemon juice or pieces of it are added. Cook in boiling water for at least 20 minutes, stirring constantly. The pumpkin cubes should soften, but be careful not to overdo it.
At the end, we add spices in different variations - here every housewife should choose her own composition, which will distinguish her compote from her neighbor's. Together with spices, the drink should boil for a very short time, just a couple of minutes. After that, pumpkin compote for the winter is poured into jars prepared in advance and rolled up with boiled lids using a key.
original recipe – along with pumpkin in the form of compote! To prepare a drink this recipe you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- water - 1 l;
- pumpkin pulp - 200 g;
- apples - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 1 cup (200 g);
- spices are added to taste.
Pumpkin is one of the most useful products, from it you can cook soups, cereals, make various desserts and other dishes. You can also prepare it ahead of time. One of the most popular preparations is pumpkin compote for the winter. If you cook it in compliance with the necessary rules, then it will appeal to many and at the same time it will stand well even at room temperature.
Cooking features
Pumpkin compote is prepared in a completely different way than from fruits and berries. For this reason, before proceeding with conservation, it is worth studying the features of the technology.
- For compote you need to choose pumpkins dessert varieties. They are characterized by a bright orange flesh and a sweetish taste.
- You need to cut the pumpkin pulp into very small cubes, no more than 1.5 cm, otherwise they will have to be cooked for too long. Try to keep the pieces about the same size - so they look much more appetizing in compote.
- Pumpkin compote is made without sterilization: first it is boiled in a saucepan, and then it is poured into jars. Banks must first be sterilized.
- If you make compote from pumpkin alone with water and sugar, it will seem to many not tasty and fragrant enough. Therefore, when cooking, spices or fruits are added, which give a pleasant sourness and a tempting aroma.
Subject to the cooking technology and recipe, pumpkin compote will turn out tasty and appetizing, so almost everyone will like it.
Easy Pumpkin Compote Recipe
Composition (per 3 l):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1.5 tbsp.;
- water - 2 l;
- citric acid - 1/3 tsp;
- vanillin - 1 g.
Cooking method:
- Peeled and peeled pumpkin pulp cut into small cubes.
- Put pumpkin pieces in enamel pan, sprinkle with sugar and fill with clean cool water.
- Put on medium heat and wait for the water to boil.
- Reduce heat, add citric acid and cook for 25 minutes.
- Add vanilla, stir.
- Pour the compote into sterilized jars, seal them tightly.
- Turn the jars upside down and leave to cool.
- After the compote has cooled, put it in a dark place where the temperature is not too high (up to 20 degrees).
Pumpkin compote with warm vanilla notes will be a pleasure to open in winter. This compote is very sweet, so before serving it must be diluted with clean water.
Recipe for fragrant pumpkin compote
Composition (per 3 l):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 0.75 kg;
- water - 2.25 l;
- sugar - 0.25 kg;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- cloves - 3 pcs.
Cooking method:
- Prepare pumpkin pulp and cut it into small cubes.
- Boil a glass of water, dissolve a glass of sugar in it, put a cinnamon stick and cloves, boil for 10 minutes.
- Take out the spices, put the pulp of the pumpkin into the syrup and boil it for 5 minutes.
- Add the rest of the water and simmer the compote over low heat for 25 minutes.
- Pour the compote into sterilized jars. Roll up the jars with metal lids and turn over.
- After the jars have cooled, put them in the pantry.
Video recipe for the occasion:
The spicy aroma of pumpkin compote prepared according to this recipe will not leave anyone indifferent. It is especially pleasant to drink such a drink on cold winter days.
Pumpkin compote with apples
Composition (per 3 l):
- pumpkin pulp - 0.4 kg;
- apples - 0.6 kg;
- sugar - 0.3 kg;
- water - 2 l.
Cooking method:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut a piece of pulp of the desired size, cut into small cubes (no more than 1 cm).
- Wash apples, cut seed boxes out of them. Cut the apple pulp into approximately the same cubes as the pumpkin, or slices.
- Mix the pieces of pumpkin and apples, put them in a saucepan.
- Boil water and pour over the pumpkin-apple mixture.
- When the water has completely cooled, put the pan on low heat, bring its contents to a boil.
- Add sugar, stir and cook for 10 minutes.
- Sterilize the jars and fill them with hot compote.
- Seal the jars tightly with prepared lids.
- Turn the jars over, wrap them in a blanket and leave for a day.
- After 24 hours, remove the blanket and put away the compote for the winter.
Pumpkin-apple compote is sweet and sour and has an attractive aroma.
Pumpkin compote with lemons
Composition (per 3 l):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 0.5 kg;
- lemons - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg;
- water - 2 l.
Cooking method:
- Peel the pumpkin, cut its flesh into cubes, cover with water to cover it completely, and simmer until the pumpkin is soft.
- Arrange pumpkin pulp in pre-sterilized jars.
- Wash the lemons thoroughly and cut into thin semi-circles, removing the seeds along the way. It is not necessary to peel the lemons - the zest will give the compote a tart taste with a subtle bitterness.
- Put lemon slices on a pumpkin.
- Boil 2 liters of water (you can use the same pot where the pumpkin was boiled).
- Add sugar and make syrup. You need to cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Pour boiling syrup into jars with pumpkin and lemon.
- Roll up the cans and place the bottoms up.
- Wrap jars with compote.
- After a day, remove the finished compote for the winter.
The tart sweet and sour taste of this compote, which has a pleasant citrus aroma, is liked by many. It is very refreshing and also very useful.
Pumpkin compote with orange and peach
Composition (per 3 l):
- pumpkin pulp - 0.3 kg;
- oranges - 0.4 kg;
- peaches - 0.3 kg;
- sugar - 0.25 kg;
- green tea(large leaf) - 5 g;
- grated ginger - 20 g;
- water - 2.5 liters.
Cooking method:
- Cut pumpkin flesh into small cubes.
- From a glass of water and the same amount of sugar, boil the syrup, put the pieces of pumpkin in it and boil them in it for 10 minutes.
- Wash the orange, remove the zest from it, cut the pulp into cubes.
- Zest, ginger and green tea pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes, strain.
- Pour the infusion into a saucepan with syrup and pumpkin. Boil for 5 more minutes.
- Wash the peaches, remove the seeds from them, cut the pulp into cubes.
- Put oranges and peaches to the pumpkin, add the remaining water.
- Boil after boiling for 10 minutes.
- Pour the compote into prepared jars, cork them, turn them over and cover with a blanket.
- After the compote has cooled, it can be put away in the pantry.
Compote made from pumpkin according to this recipe has a bright color and a sunny aroma with hints of peach and oranges. On frosty winter days, it will warm, remind you of summer.
