Gooseberry mojito compote for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make mojito for winter? Let's prepare the ingredients for this wonderful drink. In the summer, when green gooseberries ripen on the plot, you can pamper yourself and your household with them at least every day. It remains only to collect some berries. And if mint also grows in its garden, then the drink will turn out to be even healthier and more natural. You will need to purchase a lemon, unless, of course, it is also grown at home. In winter, you can use frozen

2. Step 2:

   

   Gooseberry berries are washed under running water, they need to be thrown into a colander and let the water drain completely. To make the berries in the drink look more beautiful, it is better to cut off the tails of the berries on both sides, but in principle it is not necessary to do this, they do not affect the taste of the drink.

3. Step 3:

   

   Lemon is well washed, if it is purchased in a store, then it is better to wash it with soap to remove plaque from the skin of the fruit, since lemon is cut and used together with the peel for compote. Cut the lemon into thin slices. if there is no lemon at hand, it can be replaced with ordinary citric acid by adding 1 teaspoon per three-liter jar to the drink.

4. Step 4:

   

   In clean (washed with soda) and sterilized jars we put gooseberry berries, lemon slices and mint greens washed and dried on a paper towel, who does not really like such spicy herbs as mint, can add a few leaves of this herb to it.

6. Step 5:

   

   Fill the contents of the jars with boiling clean water to the neck, cover the jars with clean lids on top and leave them for 25 minutes. The lids do not need to be tightly closed.

7. Step 6:

   

   Then pour the water from the cans into a saucepan, pour sugar, put on fire and bring to a boil. Mix the solution with a spoon so that the sugar completely dissolves. Turn off the fire.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour sweet boiling marinade over gooseberries with mint and lemon in jars. We close the jars or roll them up with sterilized clean lids, if we make this drink for the winter, wrap the jars in a warm blanket and leave them warm for two days until they cool down completely and put them away for storage in the pantry. Or without rolling up the cans, we cool the drink in the refrigerator, pour it into glasses and serve it to the table. Bon appetit!