We learn to prepare a delicious compote from a dogrose. Simple tips for housewives

With the advent of spring, every self-respecting hostess wants to pamper her family with not only original, tasty and healthy dishes, but also beverages prepared from a wide variety of foods containing a sufficient number of vitamins needed at this time of the year. That is why it is worth paying attention to the berries of the harvest of last year, which preserved a large number of substances so important for the body. For example, an easy-to-prepare compote of rose hips, which will be discussed in this article, can be the ideal solution to quench your thirst and make up a supply of vitamins, amino acids and other substances that our depleted body needs so much in the spring.

Rosehip is quite deservedly considered one of the most useful berries. He can be called a real storehouse of vitamins. The content of ascorbic acid in hips of dog rose reaches six percent of the total weight of the fruit. Also in this product, carotene, vitamins E, PP, K, P, B2 and a whole "bouquet" of organic acids - linoleic, oleic, citric and apple - can be found in sufficient quantities. In addition, molybdenum, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese and iron salts, essential oil, tannins and other elements necessary for the body are found in this berry.

How to brew compote from the dog rose, many know - in this there is nothing complicated. But how to bring new colors and flavor to a rosehip drink? The recipe can be either simple or complex, so the cooking time of this drink will fluctuate quite a lot.

The simplest way to prepare such an invigorating and useful drink, like compote from a dogrose, does not take much time. It is enough to cut large berries, to clean them from hairs and seeds, to wash the peeled berries, and then to blanch them in boiling water for two minutes. Then add sugar to the resulting drink (about three hundred grams per liter of water) or honey, and a little citric acid (half a teaspoon and a liter of water). After that, let the compote be infused, filter it and cool it. A compote from a dogrose is ready.

But from the same number of berries you can cook not just a compote, but a real masterpiece, more like a juice. This requires a little more time, but it's worth it.

The washed and peeled berries are allowed to dry a little and boil until softened. Add to our "potion" cut into slices apple, juice of one lemon and half a cup of honey (based on two liters of liquid and three hundred and a half kilograms of berries). We bring it to a boil, let it cool down a little and filter. The resulting pulp should be grinded with a blender or pestle and again diluted with a cooled syrup. We put the resulting drink on a slow fire and bring to a boil. Now we get not just a compote from the dog rose, but almost juice. To taste, you can add a little more honey or sugar and citric acid, cool and serve to the table.

It is important to remember that such a decoction is not only pleasant to taste, but also has a number of useful and medicinal properties. It is recommended to use it for a variety of diseases, including pertussis, pneumonia, diphtheria and scarlet fever. Drink of rose hips is also advised to include in the diet for the early healing of various wounds and for faster bone fusion in fractures.

Compote from rose hip will help regulate metabolism, increase resistance to various infections, improve a person's condition after illness and will help improve performance. This drink plus everything else and regulates the work of the gastrointestinal tract. And this is not all the medicinal properties of such a simple drink!