A large crop of apricots is a great opportunity to please household members with delicious dishes, desserts and compotes. Orange velvet apricot goes well with the delicate freshness of citruses. Stewed fruit from it resembles Phantom in color, and if you add a little orange, you get a real home-made fantasy of apricots and oranges. She is very popular not only with children, but also with adults.
Unlike a purchased product, such a drink turns out to be completely safe, and tastes really like the products of a well-known brand. It is very simple to prepare it: each mistress will surely find her own recipe for a fragrant beautiful compote.
Fanta from apricots and oranges - the general principles of preparation
There are two options for preparing a drink: with and without sterilization. In the first case, the jar will have to be kept in boiling water to get rid of bacteria and prevent acidification. In the second case, the compote is not sterilized, but rolled up immediately after the first pouring.
To prepare apricots for use, they need to be washed with running water. Use the fruit can be whole, with seeds, halved or chopped to a puree state. It all depends on individual preferences.
Rinse oranges thoroughly, scrub the wax and chemicals. The peel is not removed: it gives the drink the very taste of "real" forfeit.
Banks must be washed with soda. Whether to sterilize them over steam depends on the housewife and the specific recipe. Lids should be rinsed with boiling water or boiled in boiling water for several minutes.
Fanta from apricots and oranges "Home"
A delicious drink can be made from apricots, oranges and lemons. The apricot seeds will need to be removed. The result is a rich homemade fantasy of apricots and oranges with a subtle lemon tint. The amount of ingredients is indicated for one three-liter jar.
Ingredients:
• a half-liter jar of ripe apricots;
• whole orange;
• half a lemon;
• a glass of sugar.
Cooking method:
Rinse and halve the apricots. Throw the bones.
Wash the citruses well, brush the peel, put in a deep cup and pour boiling water.
After a minute, pour the water, wipe the orange and lemon with a clean cloth to remove wax, and cut into slices about ½ cm thick.
In a sterilized jar, put orange and lemon circles, halves of apricots.
Pour in sugar.
Boil water and pour jar of boiling water.
Roll up immediately.
Shake the contents of the jar to disperse the sugar.
Put cans under a warm old blanket and cool for at least 24 hours.
Store in a cool place.
Fanta from apricots and oranges "Simple"
The simplest version of apricots and oranges forfeits has a mild taste, as it is done without lemon and orange peels. Compote perfectly cook their overripe garden fruits. The amount of ingredients is given on a standard three-liter jar, if necessary, it must be proportionally increased.
Ingredients:
• 14 overripe apricots;
• half an orange;
• a glass of white sugar;
• boiling water.
Cooking method:
Wash and sterilize the cans, dry by turning down the neck.
Pour boiling water over the orange, peel, separate half the fruit and cut it into circles.
Wash the apricots, halve them, take out the seeds.
Put the halves of apricots and slices of orange on the bottom of the jar, cover with sugar.
Boil water in a large teapot and pour boiling water over the fruits with sugar.
Roll up with metal covers, turn them upside down and put them under a thick blanket.
Cooled banks should be stored in a cool, dark room.
Fanta from apricots and oranges "Winter"
The magic drink prepared according to this recipe is especially tasty in the winter. It is very similar to the popular "Fanta" from the store, but much more useful. The peculiarity is that for this option, formes from apricots and oranges need to boil sugar syrup, and sterilize the compote itself. The amount of ingredients is indicated in one liter jar.
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of ripe apricots;
• 130 grams of granulated sugar;
• 750 grams of water;
• one circle of orange.
Cooking method:
Wash the apricots thoroughly, but do not remove the seeds.
Boil the orange with boiling water and cut into rings. Each ring is divided into four parts.
Sterilize jars over steam or in a hot oven.
Arrange apricots and orange slices immediately in jars.
Boil syrup from water and sugar. To do this, boil water, add granulated sugar there, stir. While stirring, wait for new boiling and complete dissolution of sugar. Boil the syrup for two to three minutes.
Pour jars of hot syrup.
Cover the cans with lids and sterilize.
To do this, pour water into a wide pot and put it on fire.
At the bottom of the pan, lay a piece of cloth or put a wooden stand, an inverted plate. It is important to prevent the glass jar from touching the iron bottom.
To lower jars with compote into water so that it reaches a coat hanger.
When the water boils, sterilize the jars with compote for 20 minutes.
Cork the compote, turn over and cool.
Fanta of apricots and oranges with citric acid
Instead of natural lemon, citric acid can be added to the homemade phantom of apricots and oranges. It will turn out no less tasty and moderately sweet. The amount of ingredients is indicated for a three-liter jar. The recipe involves sterilization.
Ingredients:
• a liter jar of ripe apricots;
• two oranges;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• a teaspoon of citric acid.
Cooking method:
Washed apricots divided into halves and take out the seeds.
At the bottom of a clean sterilized jar, put apricots.
Wash the oranges thoroughly and cut into 5-6 slices.
Pour sugar and citric acid.
Boil water and pour fruit over the neck.
Cover the cans with scalded metal lids.
In a wide saucepan, heat water and sterilize three-liter for half an hour in the same way as described above.
Cork jars and cool upside down under a warm coat or blanket.
After 1-2 days, rearrange them in a cool place to store.
Fanta from apricots and oranges "Twisted"
An unusual version of an orange-apricot drink with lemon. Its peculiarity is in the preparation of fruit gruel instead of using whole fruits. A very simple, fragrant drink with a taste of fanta is especially popular with kids.
Ingredients:
• three kilograms of apricots;
• a kilogram of oranges;
• one lemon;
• four kilograms of sugar.
Cooking method:
For this version of homemade apricot and oranges, the pulp of overripe apricots is best suited. Beauty does not need to be preserved, and therefore, you can take fallen fruits, with darkened barrels or damage to the skin.
Wash fruits well.
Remove the seeds from the apricots.
Cut citrus fruits into medium-sized slices.
In a meat grinder, twist (in one cup) apricots, orange and lemon slices along with the peel.
Mix the mass until smooth.
Three-liter jars to sterilize and lay in a hot container of fruit puree.
Take a glass of sugar in a glass of apricot-citrus slurry. This is the amount of ingredients for one three-liter jar.
Boil water and pour in the jar neck.
Roll up immediately and cool as described above.
Store in a cool place.
Fanta from apricots and oranges "Fairytale"
Really fabulous taste differs this version of the forment of apricots and oranges. It is prepared simply, without sterilization.
Ingredients:
• four hundred grams of apricots;
• half an orange;
• sugar to taste;
• 800 ml of water.
Cooking method:
Rinse and dry the apricot fruit first in a colander, and then on a paper or woven towel.
Dried apricots halved and discarded.
Wash the orange, wipe with a cloth.
Cut an orange into circles (be sure to throw out the seeds).
Wash two-liter cans with lids with soda and boil over steam for 20 minutes.
Put fruit at the bottom of each jar.
Boil the syrup from water and sugar to taste. You can take on the indicated amount of water about half a glass of sand.
When the syrup boils, and the sugar has completely dissolved, pour jars of apricots and roll up immediately.
Judge upside down, put in the basement or on the balcony.
Fanta from apricots and oranges - tricks and tips
It is important to choose apricots for the recipe in appearance and taste. Ideally suited for harvesting, fully ripened appetizing-looking fruits. They are usually moderately soft and at the same time dense, the bone is easily separated from the pulp. Such fruits do not fall apart under the influence of boiling water, retain their shape.
If the appearance of the compote is important, you should select ripe or slightly unripe fruits. You can’t use completely green unripe apricots: they will give the drink a bitter taste. Rumpled, ripe fruits can make the drink cloudy, but are perfect for the "Twisted" version of the forme of apricots and oranges.
Jars with sterilized compote can be stored at room temperature. However, they must be protected from sunlight by being placed in a closet, pantry or covered with a thick cloth.
Preserved apricot slices from compote can be used to decorate baking.
Serving homemade phantom is better chilled. And if the house has a real siphon, then the compote can be aerated. In this case, it will be completely identical to the purchased product.
