Fragrant compote from grapes is important to cook from homemade fruits or in the season when the berries on the market are offered at the most attractive prices. A properly prepared drink is perfectly stored all winter and pleases guests and home with its bright taste. You can roll it into cans, even meringue sterilization.

Classic compote of grapes with sterilization

Composition of products: half a three-liter jar of dark grapes, 2 l of water, 720-740 g of granulated sugar.

  1. The proportions of the products can be slightly changed to your liking. For example, increasing or decreasing the number of berries and / or sand. The more grapes are in the composition, the brighter and richer the drink will be.
  2. The fruits are well washed and get rid of the stalks. This must be done carefully so as not to crush the berries.
  3. A 3 L glass jar is sterilized in advance. Grapes spill out into it.
  4. From above the fruits are filled with water boiled with sugar.
  5. A jar of grapes and syrup is placed in a pan with a liquid heated to 60 degrees. In this case, the water in the tank should only reach the shoulders of a three-liter can.
  6. Under cover, the compote is sterilized for 20-25 minutes.

Next, the container is wiped with a towel, rolled up with a sterile lid, turned upside down, wrapped in a blanket and left to cool completely.

How to cook without sterilization?

Ingredients: half a three-liter jar of dark grapes, 2 liters of water, 720-740 g of granulated sugar, a pinch of citric acid.

  1. The first step is to prepare the berry clusters. They get over, spoiled or overripe parts are removed. Grapes are laid out on a colander and washed very carefully with ice-cold running water.
  2. Fruits are not left for some time, so that excess glass is removed from them, then they are separated from the branches and laid out on the bottom of a well-washed and sterilized jar (volume 3 l).
  3. Syrup is brewed from the amount of water and sand indicated in the recipe. Prepared berries are poured with it, after which the container is tightly closed with a sterile lid and left for 20-25 minutes.
  4. Then the syrup (without grapes) is returned to the pan, brought to a boil and boiled for 2-3 minutes. At the very end, a pinch of “lemons” is poured.
  5. Berries are poured repeatedly.

Compote for the winter immediately rolls into jars of convenient size with boiled metal lids.

The containers turn upside down, wrap themselves in a blanket and leave to cool completely.

From white and blue grapes

Ingredients: 220 g of blue and white berries, the same amount of granulated sugar, filtered water in an amount corresponding to the size of the jar.

  1. Fruits are carefully selected. Dry and rotten berries mercilessly thrown away - they are able to spoil the finished compote. The grapes are washed with running water, after which they are laid out in a colander so that the glass is excess liquid.
  2. Berries are poured into a prepared three-liter jar.
  3. First, 1 liter of water is brought to a boil. They fill the contents of the container. The can is closed with a lid and left for 12-15 minutes.
  4. Water without berries is poured back into the pan. The right amount of liquid is added to it to fill the entire jar, and sand is also poured out. With constant stirring, the syrup is boiled for 5-6 minutes.
  5. They pour grapes in a jar, after which the container is rolled up with a special key. The cover is used metal.

The container is turned over, wrapped up and left to cool completely.

Procurement of a drink for the winter from the variety "Isabella"

Ingredients: 2 cups with a hill of granulated sugar, 4.5 liters of filtered water, a kilo of ripe grapes.

  1. Two three-liter glass jars are washed with baking soda. After thorough rinsing with water, they are steam sterilized. This procedure will take 20-25 minutes.
  2. Grapes are carefully removed from the branches. All spoiled or dried berries are thrown away. Sorted fruits are washed in several waters, laid out in a colander and poured with boiling water.
  3. Sand is added to the amount of liquid indicated in the recipe. The mass is brought to a boil and cooked until the sugar grains are completely dispersed.
  4. Jars are filled with grapes by about 1/3. Top berries are poured with boiling syrup. Under the covers, they are left for about half an hour.
  5. Syrup without grapes is poured into a pan, brought back to a boil and returned to the banks.

It remains to roll up the containers with a key, wrap them in rugs and leave them down for 24 hours.

Stewed apples and grapes

Ingredients: 5 l of purified water, a kilo of sour apples, 620 g of grapes, 8–9 tbsp. l with a hill of granulated sugar.

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  1. Apples get rid of everything superfluous and chopped coarsely. The grapes are washed, peeled from the branches.
  2. Syrup is boiled from water and sugar, after 4-5 minutes prepared fruits are dropped into it.
  3. After boiling, the mass is left on the stove for another 3-4 minutes under the lid.

Ready compote from grapes and apples should be infused and cooled, after which you can remove the first sample from the drink.

With the addition of oranges

Ingredients: 220 g of dark grapes, half a large orange, 170 g of granulated sugar, 720 ml of purified water, 2 sprigs of fresh mint, cinnamon stick.

  1. The grapes are removed from the branches, moved and washed.
  2. Orange flesh without zest and white layers is cut into arbitrary slices.
  3. Prepared fruits are laid out in a clean, sterilized jar.
  4. The water is brought to a boil, grapes with orange are poured with it. After 5-6 minutes of insisting the contents of the jar, the liquid is again poured into the pan and brought to a boil. Then the remaining components are added to it, which should boil for 2-3 minutes.
  5. The hot drink is returned to the jar (without cinnamon!).

The container is hermetically sealed with a lid, turned over, wrapped in a blanket and left for a day.

Stewed compote - recipe “drink immediately”

Composition of products: 720 ml of purified water, 330 g of grapes of any color, 160 g of granulated sugar, a pinch of lemon.

  1. Grapes are removed from the branches and washed.
  2. Syrup is cooked from water and sand for 7-8 minutes. Berries are immersed in it.
  3. After the next boiling, the mass is boiled for 6-7 minutes at minimum heat.

The drink cools to a comfortable temperature for consumption and is served on the table.

With strawberry

Composition of products: 3 l of purified water, 4 tbsp. l with a hill of sugar, 170 g of fresh strawberries, 220 g of white grapes. How to cook a compote of grapes with strawberries, we will consider in more detail.

  1. Washed grapes and sugar are placed in boiling water. The mass is boiled for 5-6 minutes with an average boil.
  2. Next, prepared strawberries fall asleep without sepals. Together, the ingredients are cooked for only a couple of minutes, otherwise the berries will become too soft.
  3. Ready compote should be infused for 15-17 minutes.

A drink with ice and fresh mint leaves is served.

With cloves and cinnamon

Ingredients: 260 g of dark grapes, ½ tsp each. ground cinnamon, cardamom and cloves, 4-5 tbsp. l with a hill of granulated sugar, 2 liters of water.

  1. The grapes are separated from the branches, moved, poured into a pan with sugar and poured with water.
  2. After boiling the liquid, all seasonings are laid out to the berries.
  3. A drink is brewed for 15-17 minutes.

Ready-made compote is delicious to serve both cold and hot.