The unpretentious thorny bush of rose hips is loved by many summer residents and gardeners, but not only for its unpretentiousness and gentle fragrance of flowers, but also for the enormous benefits contained in its berries, which can be harvested from late summer until frost, to then prepare a tasty and healthy compote from rose hips.

Dried rosehip compote

Dried rosehips can be purchased year-round, so this is a great product for making fragrant compote. You can sweeten the drink with both sugar and honey. The only difference is that honey is dissolved in a ready-made warm compote, and sugar is put in boiling water.

For a spicy compote of dried rose hips you will need:

  • 1500 ml of drinking water;
  • 250 g of dried rose hips;
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • ½ orange;
  • sugar or honey to taste.

Cooking step by step:

  1. Sort the dogrose, rinse under running water and put in a thermos. Pour hot water and insist for half an hour.
  2. Steamed berries, together with water, pour from a thermos into a pan, add cinnamon, zest of half an orange and bring to a boil.
  3. Pour and stir sugar, boil for five minutes, turn off the heat, pour in the juice squeezed from half an orange, and insist until it cools completely under the lid.

The ready-made broth of rose hips contains a lot of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which has a beneficial effect on the immune system, but negatively affects tooth enamel, so after eating rosehip compote, it is better to rinse your mouth with clean water.

Fresh berries

Fresh rose hips do not eat so often.It can be harvested only for a couple of weeks at the time of ripening, but if you are lucky enough to buy or collect fresh berries, then you can cook a healthy compote from them, in which there will be more vitamins.

For this drink you need to prepare:

  • 2000 ml of water;
  • 100-150 g of fresh rose hips;
  • 150-200 g of any other berries (raspberries, blackberries, strawberries);
  • sugar.

How to cook compote from fresh rose hips:

  1. Boil water in a suitable pan and dissolve the sugar in the boiling liquid. Its amount should be adjusted to your liking.
  2. Sort the wild rose, laying aside the spoiled berries, if desired, you can remove the seeds and hairs in the middle. But even without such manipulations, the compote will turn out delicious.
  3. Pour the prepared rose hips and washed other berries into boiling sweet water. Since vitamin C, which is contained in fruits, breaks down during prolonged heat treatment, the berries should be languished on fire for no more than 5-7 minutes.
  4. Then turn off the stove, cover the pan with a lid and insist until it cools. Before serving, filter the compote through several layers of gauze or filter for a coffee machine and cool.

How to brew a drink in a slow cooker

You can cook rosehip compote in a slow cooker, using the "Extinguishing" mode. Since this program involves heating the contents of a multi-pan to no more than 90-93 degrees, most of the ascorbic acid and carotene remain in the finished drink, and do not disintegrate when boiled. Rosehip berries in such a compote can be supplemented with dried fruits and berries to your taste.

Proportions of ingredients for a drink prepared in a multicooker:

  • 150 g of dried rosehip berries;
  • 50 g dried rowan;
  • 140 g of sugar or a little more / less to taste;
  • 3000 ml of drinking water.

Compote should be cooked in this way:

  1. Sort the berries and, if necessary, rinse in cool water. Then, together with sugar, put in a slow cooker and pour cold water.
  2. Close the lid of the device, start the “Extinguishing” option for 60-90 minutes. After the sound signal, you can hold the compote for a little longer on heating, and then insist on cooling for a couple of hours.

Rosehip and apple compote

This is a very simple and tasty recipe for a drink that can be prepared at any time using both fresh and dried apples. The approximate ratio of the components of the decoction is given below, but they can be changed by making the compote more apple or dogrose.

Structure:

  • 90 g of dried rose hips;
  • 240 g of fresh apples or 120 g of dried;
  • 70 g of granulated sugar;
  • 10 g of orange or tangerine zest;
  • 1500-2000 ml of water.

The sequence of actions:

  1. Put the pot of water on the fire and bring to a boil. Meanwhile, prepare apples and berries. Sort the dried ingredients and, if necessary, rinse. Wash and slice fresh apples.
  2. If the apples are dried, then they are placed in boiled water and boiled for 10 minutes, then the dogrose is added, and the compote is cooked for another 5 minutes. Fresh apples are put together with rose hips.
  3. After that, turn off the fire, add sugar to the drink, stir, cover and insist for half an hour. Filter the finished drink and pour into a jug or other container.

With the addition of dried apricots

You can add any dried fruits that can be found in the kitchen to compote from rose hips: raisins, prunes, dried apricots and others. But to make the drink really tasty and the ingredients give as much taste as possible, you need to adhere to a number of cooking rules. Consider them all on the example of a compote of dried apricots and rose hips.

The composition of the drink includes:

  • 100 g of rosehip berries;
  • 200 g dried apricots;
  • 50-75 g of sugar;
  • 2000 ml of water.

Working process:

  1. Dried apricots to review and set aside defective copies. In the container in which the drink will be prepared, lay the dried fruits, pour them with cold water and leave for 6-8 hours so that they swell well.
  2. To give the rosehip more of its taste, the berries need to be chopped.For this, seeds are removed from them along with the hairs, and the pulp is then slightly kneaded in a mortar.
  3. Dried apricots put on fire in the water in which she spent the required number of hours. When the water boils, we send prepared dogrose and sugar to the pan. Cook the compote for no more than 5-7 minutes.
  4. Insist the ready-made drink to cool completely under the lid, and then be sure to strain through several layers of gauze so that hairs from the core of the rosehip, which can irritate the mucous membranes of the mouth and larynx, do not get into it.

People's advice:hawthorn

Cooking technology with hawthorn

In herbal medicine, a decoction of rose hips and hawthorn is used to reduce high blood pressure, but if there are no contraindications (low blood pressure or pregnancy), then thirst can be quenched without therapeutic purposes by drinking compote from rose hips with hawthorn.

Ingredient composition of the drink:

  • 100 g of rose hips;
  • 100 g of hawthorn berries;
  • 700 ml of water;
  • sweetener to taste.

Cooking Algorithm:

  1. Sort the dogrose and hawthorn, pour over boiling water and put in a thermos. For a greater flavor, the berries can be kneaded a little.
  2. Boil water and pour the prepared fruits on it. Hold the thermos open for a while, then close the flask tightly and leave everything overnight.
  3. After this, the drink can only be filtered and sweetened to taste.

Berry compote for children

Citrus fruits rich in vitamin C often cause allergic reactions, so it will not be possible to strengthen children's immunity with these fruits. In this case, berry compote from rose hips and blueberries will come to the rescue.

To prepare it you need:

  • 90 g of dried rose hips;
  • 30 g dried blueberries;
  • 1250 ml of water;
  • 60 g of honey or sugar.

Cooking:

  1. Grind the hips, crushed with seeds and hairs, along with dried blueberries and mix. Pour the resulting mixture with hot water in half the volume of the prescription amount. Insist all 20-30 minutes.
  2. Strain the infusion through cheesecloth, and pour the resulting squeeze out again with boiling water and also insist, combine both portions of compote and sweeten. Vitamin compote is ready.

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