What are we cooking?

How many minutes to cook berry compote?

Reading time - 5 minutes.

The berries are smaller and more tender than fruits, so cooking berry compotes is less: literally 5 minutes is enough for a raspberry or strawberry compote, and a compote from any berries without a skin: blackberries, cloudberries. Berries with skin (currants, grapes, gooseberries, hawthorns, lingonberries, sea buckthorn, irga, cranberries, etc.) cook longer just because of the skin: 15-20 minutes.

Frozen berries are processed with frost, therefore, after complete defrosting, cooking compotes based on them for more than 5 minutes is not recommended.

In this case, the cooking time is dictated not only and not so much by the boiling time. The berries should also be processed before boiling the compote. Raspberries, blackberries and cloudberries are easiest to process as they grow tall and don't even need to be washed. Frozen berries must be defrosted before cooking the compote (you can directly in the water), but in order to cook the compote from seedless grapes, you will have to sit for painstaking cleaning for only 15 minutes.

June 05, 2019 Last update June 05, 2019 Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

How much to cook / Tips / How many minutes to cook berry compote?