Vitamin compote of sea-buckthorn. Cooking recipes

The fruits of sea-buckthorn are used in cooking both fresh and recycled. They are a valuable and preventive remedy for certain diseases. We advise you to make blanks from this berries for the winter. For example, you can make juice, jelly, jam or compote of sea-buckthorn. But first let's find out what is valuable this fruit.

Sea-buckthorn: its useful properties

Berries contain vitamins A, B, C, E and K, as well as a huge amount of trace elements, for example sodium, magnesium, aluminum, manganese. Fruits contain sugars, ascorbic acid, carotenoids, tocopherols, alkaloids, organic acids. In folk medicine, sea-buckthorn is used to treat and prevent ARI, beriberi, gastric ulcer, atherosclerosis, with a decrease in potency, low hemoglobin, overwork, and so on. You can continue the list for a long time. But there are contraindications. The use of sea-buckthorn is not recommended for the following diseases: diabetes mellitus, dental disease, diarrhea, acute cholecystitis, urolithiasis and with individual intolerance. Be careful, first of all, consult a specialist for advice if you can eat this berry. Next, we learn how to make compote of sea-buckthorn. It will take a minimum amount of products and time. Here are a few recipes.

Compote of sea-buckthorn

Traditional Recipe

Main Ingredients:

• Fruits of sea-buckthorn (500 grams);
• Water (550 grams);
• Granulated sugar (450 grams).

Cooking method

Fruits of sea-buckthorn berries, remove from the pedicels. Then wash in cold water. Throw it on the sieve. We are now preparing sugar syrup. Take the pan, pour the water and add the sugar. We boil it. Sterilize the jars and fall asleep to the sea buckthorn. Fill all with hot syrup. Pasteurized in boiling water cans: a volume of 0.5 ml - ten minutes, and 1 liter - fifteen minutes. Time to check from the moment of boiling. We roll the banks. You can cook compote of sea-buckthorn with the addition of other products.

Compote with pears

Main Ingredients:

• Sea-buckthorn (500 grams);
• Sugar (700 grams);
• Pears (one kg);
• Water (one liter).

Cooking method

To cook compote, take pears sweet varieties. Small fruits will be preserved entirely, and large cut into slices. Sea buckthorn and pears are placed in sterilized cans. Fill with syrup (how to cook - see above). Pasteurize and roll the cans. Instead of pears you can take apples.

Assorted compote of sea-buckthorn

Main Ingredients:

• Sea-buckthorn (1 kg);
• Rose hips (600 grams);
• Sugar (50 grams);
• Apples (one kg);
• Water (one liter).

Cooking method

My apples, we clean from the core (you can also peel the peel). We cut into slices. In boiling water about five minutes blanch. Then immediately pour cold. We select large, hard and mature hips. Remove the pedicel. Cut the berry in half and cleanse the seeds and hairs carefully. If the fruits are small, it is better not to cut them in half, but to put them all in one piece. I wash my sea-buckthorn and remove the stems. Sterilize the banks. Apples, dog-rose and sea-buckthorn are stacked in layers. We seal it. Fill with hot syrup. Pasteurize the banks. We roll it up.

Prepare a useful compote of sea-buckthorn is very simple and fast. Drink it warm or chilled. Strong to you health!