Swedish Fruit Compote - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 pint blueberries
    1 pint blackberry
    1 pint strawberry
    1/2 pint raspberries
    1/2 cup frozen apple juice concentrate
    1 cup water
    1/4 cup maple syrup
    1 tablespoon potato starch or 1 tablespoon cornstarch
    1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
    mint leaf (for garnish)
Preparation
    Clean all berries separately.
    Pick over and discard inferior berries.
    Hull strawberries, cutting the larger ones in half.
    Set all berries aside in separate bowls.
    Combine apple-juice concentrate, water and maple syrup in a medium saucepan
    Place potato or cornstarch in a small bowl and stir in 1/4 cup of the apple-juice mixture; add starch back to pan.
    Add blueberries and cinnamon and bring to a simmer (mixture will be cloudy at first) until mixture turn clear and transparent
    Carefully stir in blackberries and strawberries and remove from heat.
    Refrigerate and let cool completely.
    Gently stir in raspberries.
    Serve in goblets or large wine glasses and garnish each portion with a sprig of mint.

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