How to prepare dried fruit compote in a Redmond multicooker

Household appliances for the kitchen are designed to make life easier and more delicious. Not so long ago, a multicooker was a novelty, but now almost all housewives have one. With its help you can prepare a wide variety of dishes from soups to homemade bread. We'll tell you how to prepare dried fruit compote in a Redmond multicooker.

Useful characteristics of compotes

Compote takes you back to childhood and reminds you of the school canteen. Its benefits to the body can hardly be overestimated. Dried fruit compote for babies will also be useful for adults:

Compote of dried fruits with cherries increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood (the internal environment of the human and animal body) .
With rose hips – saturates the body with vitamin C, restores kidney function, and promotes weight loss.
Dried apricot is good for arthritis and joint diseases because it contains a lot of calcium.
With dried apricots and raisins, it restores the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, increases immunity and performance.

How long should you cook dried fruit compote after boiling? It depends on the recipe and the selected program. The best time is 1 hour.

Aspects of making compotes

Dried fruit compote in the Redmond multicooker is prepared using 2 methods: in the “Soup” mode or in the “Stewing” program with the following heating. In soup mode, the drink is prepared within an hour. “Stewing” lasts 40 minutes, but the rest of the time the compote is cooked in heating mode. Which program to choose depends on the preferences of the housewife.

Sugar is added to the drink according to taste, but you need to keep in mind that dried fruits are most often sweet in themselves. The best amount of sugar for compotes with a multicooker capacity of 3–4 liters is from 4 to 10 tablespoons.

The components of the recipes can simply be changed based on the season or preferences.

Traditional compote recipe

Let's start with the usual compote recipe in the Redmond multicooker. The ingredients you will need to make it are:

3 liters of water;
400 g dried fruits (apples were used in the recipe, but they can be changed);
sugar to taste.

Wash the dried fruits and soak in warm water for about half an hour.
Pour water into the multicooker bowl, switch to the “Heating” mode and wait until it boils.
Pour the ingredients into the bowl, set the “Stew” mode and the cooking time - from 40 minutes to an hour. Brew the drink with the lid closed.
When the compote is finished, set the “Heating” mode and leave for about 20 minutes.
Strain, pour the compote into another bowl, cool and put in the refrigerator. It must be drunk within 2 days.

With dried apples, prunes and dried apricots

Another delicious recipe for dried fruit compote in the Redmond multicooker. For production you will need:

prunes, dried apricots and dried apples in equal proportions - 150 g each;
4 liters of water or an amount that does not cross the highest line if the multicooker is designed for the smallest amount of water;
cinnamon stick or one teaspoon if it is powdered;
2 star anise.

As in the previous recipe, wash the dried fruits and leave them to soak for half an hour in warm water.
Pour water into the multicooker bowl and set it to “Cooking” until it boils.
Place the dried fruits in the multicooker bowl, set the “Stewing” mode and the cooking time to forty minutes.
After half an hour, add cinnamon and anise to the container and leave the compote to cook for the remaining time.
At the end of cooking, set the “Heating” program and its duration – 25 minutes.
Strain and pour the compote; it must be drunk within 36 hours from the date of production.

Rosehip compote

Recipes for dried fruit compotes in the Redmond multicooker include various ingredients. We present for you a recipe based on rose hips. To make the drink you will need:

200 g rose hips;
3 liters of water;
sugar (maximum 8 tablespoons), the recipe allows substitution for fructose.

Wash the rose hips and place them in the multicooker bowl.
Add sugar.
Fill with water.
Switch to steam cooking mode and set the cooking time to 15 minutes.
When finished, turn the multicooker to heating mode and leave for an hour.
The compote must be strained, poured and stored in the refrigerator, and drunk within two days.

With dried fruits and raisins

Any multicooker is equipped with a special measuring cup; you will need it in this recipe for dried fruit compote in the Redmond multicooker. You will need:

400 g dried apples;
1 measuring cup raisins;
measuring cup of sugar;
3–4 liters of water.

Wash the dried fruits and leave them in water for about 20-30 minutes. After time has passed, dried fruits can be washed again and the old water can be drained.
Pour the fruit into the multicooker bowl and add sugar.
Close the lid, select the “Soup” mode, setting the cooking time to 1 hour.
Strain and pour the compote at the end of the program.

Compotes from dried fruits in the Redmond multicooker are prepared very simply and turn out rich and fragrant. The drink can be served hot or cool.

Vitamin compote from dried fruits

Servings: 6
Cooking time: 60 minutes

Recipe Description

It would seem that there is nothing easier than cooking dried fruit compote in a slow cooker.
But remember how compotes vary from housewife to housewife and the reason for this is not always due to the difference in ingredients. The rich taste of compote is determined by the process of its production. How the compote will be useful also depends on it. Just imagine what happens to the most valuable vitamins and microelements when the compote is cooked for a long time (for half an hour (or maybe more)), and even over high heat.

It turns out that the ideal conditions for cooking compote are slow boiling (simmering) and the infusion process.

To prepare dried fruit compote in a slow cooker you need:

A mixture of dried fruits or, simply, dried apples – 400 g;
Raisins – 1 multi glass;
Sugar – 1 multi glass;
Water.

Cooking step by step:

To begin, rinse the dried fruits and raisins in a colander under running water.
The quantity and composition of dried fruits is determined by taste preferences and can be easily changed.
Fill the “raw material” with water at room temperature and leave for 20 minutes.

After a while, add water and carefully rinse the dried fruits a couple more times.

Pour everything into a bowl and add sugar.
Its quantity can also be changed to taste.
In addition, different sets of dried fruits require different amounts of sugar. This will have to be found experimentally. For example, you don’t need to add a lot of sugar to apple compote in a slow cooker if the apples are sweet.

Pour water into the bowl (you can use boiling water or cool water) and decide on the cooking mode.

There are two good options:

You can use the “Soup” or “Stew” modes. Typically, the duration of these modes is 60 minutes. Boiling in these modes is weak or completely absent, therefore, most of the necessary substances will remain in the compote.
Or you can turn on the “Steaming” mode before the compote boils, and then change the mode to “Heating”. “Heating” time is 70-80 minutes. In this case, useful substances are also preserved.

In both cases, in order for the apple compote in the slow cooker to be rich and have a distinctive taste and smell, you should leave it in the oven with the oven turned off, under the lid, for at least 1 hour.
More is possible. Then cool the compote.
I prepared the compote using the first method.
Bon appetit!

Prepared dried fruit compote in a Stadler form multicooker. Power 800 W.

Try another recipe for compote in a slow cooker, you can read it on this page.

Dried fruit compote in a slow cooker

A common drink in Russian cuisine, compote, is popular and known throughout the world. It will appeal to adults and children, it is simple and affordable to make, and you can tell almost everything about the desired properties of the compote. Not almost everyone knows how to cook dried fruit compote, although there is essentially nothing complicated in making it. Compote is brewed from new and dried fruits, and the most rich and tasty drink comes out of dried fruits. In the hot season, cold compote can refresh and give a boost of energy, and in winter you can simply warm up by drinking a glass of a hot drink made from dried fruits. Depending on what specific fruits and berries are included in the compote, its taste, color and even beneficial properties will differ. By cooking dried fruit compote in a slow cooker, you will retain a very high amount of vitamins and microelements in it.

Ingredients:

dried apricots – 1/3 cup
raisins – 1/3 cup
prunes – 1/3 cup
hibiscus tea – 2 tbsp.
sugar – 5 tbsp.
water – 1.5-2 liters

How to prepare dried fruit compote:

We will complement the unique drink made from dried apricots, prunes and raisins with hibiscus tea; it will give us a pleasant color to the compote and a special sourness to its taste. We will start making compote in a slow cooker by preparing the goods. Dried fruits should be thoroughly washed, because quite often they are dusty. Dried fruits can not only be washed under running water, but also doused with boiling water. Place peeled dried fruits in a multicooker bowl.

Add dry hibiscus tea leaves to the bowl. Naturally, this is an optional component of the drink, and if this tea is not to your taste, simply do not add it.

Add the required amount of sugar; you can use brown sugar or regular granulated sugar. By the way, you can safely reduce or increase its quantity, depending on how sweet the drink you want in the end.

Pour clean water into the bowl and close the multicooker lid. If the model of your kitchen assistant has a “compote” mode, choose this specifically for brewing a drink. If there is no such program, use the “quenching” key. Both programs are automatic with a duration of 1 hour. The multicooker will turn itself off after the end of the program.

After this, you can give the compote the opportunity to brew on the “heating” program.

Pour the compote into glasses and serve for family tasting.

Now you understand the usual recipe for dried fruit compote, and you can simply prepare it at home!

Creator of the photo recipe: Svetlana Kislovskaya!
Multicooker Panasonic 18. Power 670 W.

Dried fruit compote in a slow cooker

Dried fruits retain almost all the beneficial characteristics that they have in their freshest form. When cooking their compote, almost all of the necessary parts are transferred into the decoction. The result is not only a tasty, but also a necessary drink that can be brewed at any time of the year. But making a drink from dried berries and fruits takes much longer than from new or frozen ones, and not every housewife can afford to stand at the stove for an hour, waiting for the watery dessert to be ready. A slow cooker can come to her aid. Compote in a slow cooker also takes a long time to prepare, but without the role of the cook himself. All the housewife needs to do is prepare the food, place it in the unit’s container, launch the appropriate program and go about her business. The smart technology will perform the main task independently, announcing the readiness of the drink with a sound signal.

Individual manufacturing

It’s easy to create compote from dried fruits in a slow cooker, and even a novice housewife can cope with this task if she knows and takes into account a few points.

You can make compote from all the dried fruits by making a bouquet yourself or using a ready-made set. The taste of compote is sweet and sour, it can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the proportion of sour dried berries and fruits (prunes, cranberries) or sweet ones (raisins, dried apricots).
The more dried fruits you take per liter of water, the richer the taste of the compote will be. The richness of taste and color also depends on how long the drink is prepared.
The time for making dried fruit compote in a multicooker depends on the selected program and the power of the unit, and also on whether the ingredients were filled with hot or cool water. In the “Soup” program, production lasts 1-1.5 hours; in the “Stew” program, the drink is cooked a little faster (40-60 minutes). In the case of compote, it is better to overcook it than to undercook it, so it is better to set the time longer than required rather than the shortest.
Before putting fruits in a multicooker, they need to be washed and steamed by briefly filling them with warm water.
How much sugar to put in the compote depends on the gastronomic preferences of the cook, the taste and amount of fruit used. Usually add from 1 to 5 tablespoons of sugar per liter of water. Practice indicates that if sugar is added at the end of production, significantly less of it will be needed, because the cook will focus on the taste of the finished compote, taking into account the sweetness imparted to it by the fruit.
To give the compote the most saturated color, you can drink tea. Zest, cinnamon and other spices will make it most fragrant.
Dried fruit compote becomes most delicious if, after finishing the main program, you let it brew, leaving it in heating mode for an hour.
There is no need to throw away the steamed fruit from the compote. They can be used to make the insides of pies or as an independent dessert.
Dried fruit compote can be served hot instead of tea or cool as a refreshing drink.

The usual recipe for compote with the consistency of dried fruits in a slow cooker

compote mixture of dried fruits – 0.5 kg;
sugar – 100-150 g;
water – 2.5 l.

Place dried fruits in a bowl, pour boiling water over them.
After a quarter of an hour, drain the water, wash the fruits under the tap, place them in a colander, and transfer them to the multicooker container.
Sprinkle dried fruits with sugar. It's best not to sweeten them too much at this step. If the finished compote does not seem sweet enough for you, you can add sugar to the ready-made drink. It will only be necessary to create this before it cools down.
Boil water and pour it into the multicooker bowl.
Lower the lid and start the unit by selecting the program for making first courses (usually called “Soup”). Set the timer for 1.5 hours.
After the main program is completed, bring the compote to the desired taste by adding a little more sugar, and leave it to simmer for an hour in heating mode.

If you serve the compote cool, first let it cool to room temperature, then pour it into a decanter or pour it into glasses, and put it in the refrigerator for further cooling.

Traditional recipe for dried fruit compote

dried apples – 0.2 kg;
dried pears – 100 g;
dried apricots – 100 g;
prunes (with pits possible) – 50-70 g;
raisins – 50 g;
water – 2.5 l;
sugar – 0.2 kg.

Wash dried fruits under running water.
Pour 2-3 cups of boiling water over them and leave for 15 minutes.
Drain the water. Place the fruit mixture in a multicooker bowl, add sugar, and add water.
Start the unit by selecting the “Stew” program for 50-60 minutes, depending on the power of your multicooker.
After the sound signal, keep the compote for another hour in heating mode.

All that remains is to pour the compote into glasses, cool if desired and serve. The drink prepared according to this recipe is sweet, has a rich taste and brownish color.

Catchy dried fruit compote with hibiscus

dried apricots – 100 g;
prunes – 100 g;
raisins – 100 g;
water – 2 l;
hibiscus tea – 30 g;
sugar – 120-180 g.

Rinse dried fruits, steam and pour boiling water for 20 minutes. Drain the warm water and place the fruit in the multicooker bowl.
Add sugar and hibiscus tea to the fruit. It will give the compote additional sourness and the most striking color.
Boil water, pour in the food in the multicooker bowl, and lower the lid of the device.
If your device has a program called “Compote”, launch it and wait for an hour for the multicooker to turn off. If your unit does not have the above program, cook the compote for an hour in the stewing mode.
After finishing the main program, simmer the compote for 30-60 minutes in heating mode.

Before serving, the compote prepared according to this recipe must be strained, because tea leaves falling into the mouth can spoil the pleasure of consuming a tasty drink.

It is most convenient to cook dried fruit compote in a slow cooker. For this purpose, it does not matter which of the 3 programs is suitable: “Compote”, “Soup”, “Stew”. So you can prepare a tasty drink without any hassles in any device model.