Lemon sugar compote

Non-classical use of lemons can be more than successful. I have no doubt that everyone knows about the benefits of lemons for our body: it saturates with vitamins, and lemon compote quenches thirst very well in the heat. And that's why I suggest you cook lemon compote according to the following recipe.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 0 % 0 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 100 % 6 g
24 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Before cooking lemon compote, they need to be thoroughly washed, and preferably with household soap.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    And in order to get all the bitterness out of the peel, you just need to pour boiling water over them and hold them in it for a couple of minutes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Next you need to cut the lemons together with the peel into rather large pieces.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Boil the water separately and put our prepared lemons there.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cook them for 5-7 minutes, then add sugar and mint leaves.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cook for another 7 minutes, remove from the stove and insist the finished compote.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Serve the lemon compote chilled, after taking out lemon slices and mint leaves.

To twist the lemon compote for the winter, prepare the jars, sterilize them, pour more hot compote and immediately twist.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lemon - 16   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Mint fresh - 49   kcal/100g
  • Dried mint - 285   kcal/100g
  • Mint - 49   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g

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