Dried apricots compote - tasty and useful drink which is rather easy to preparing in own kitchen. At the same time depending on own taste the recipe of such compote can be altered easily.
Preparation of compote from dried apricots
Dried apricots compote represents rather simple drink in preparation which at the same time is much more useful, than carbonated drinks with high content of sugar. To prepare it, there are enough only three main ingredients - dried apricots, sugar and water.
So, the classical recipe of compote from dried apricots assumes use of 200 grams of a starting crude on which has to fall a half-glass of sugar and 1 liter of water. Such ratio of ingredients will provide to ready compote rather saturated, but not too sweet taste therefore if you prefer more sweet drinks, the amount of sugar can be increased. Besides, it must be kept in mind that the grade and, respectively, degree of sweet of the used dried apricots can be various therefore if the raw materials used by you - very sweet, it is possible to put a little less sugar.
From such quantity of products a little more than 1 liter of ready drink will turn out. In case the bigger amount of compote is required, the specified proportions should be increased, observing a ratio between them. For example, to receive twice more compote, it is necessary to take 400 grams of dried apricots, 1 glass of sugar and 2 liters of water. Process of preparation of compote will occupy no more than half an hour. At first dried apricots needs to be washed out carefully and to achieve more saturated taste of drink, it is worth wetting it in the required amount of water for 5-10 minutes. After that dried apricots in the same water should be put on strong fire and to bring to the boil. Then it is necessary to add sugar, to lower fire to a minimum and to cook compote within 10-15 minutes. Having removed from fire, it needs to be cooled up to the room or lower temperature then drink is ready-to-serve.
Modifications of the recipe
The provided recipe can be considered basic for preparation of drink from dried apricots, however if desired it can be diversified, having added to it additional ingredients. So, for example, other dried fruits which can be mixed with it are perfectly combined with dried apricots, observing proportions of ingredients so that the total amount of raw materials on 1 liter of water still made about 200 grams. So, for example, it is possible to add raisin, dried apples or pears, prunes or any other dried fruits to dried apricots at your choice. Besides, sugar as a part of the initial recipe can be replaced with honey and also to add to spice compote which you love, for example, cinnamon, an anise or other seasonings. It is possible to give an unusual note to drink by means of addition of fresh or dried berries, for example, of a dogrose or cowberry.