Apple Compote Recipe

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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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At this point I would like to present my professional version of the Apple Compote Recipe.

With a detailed step by step instruction I accompany you to the perfect result.

Autumn time is apple time. The apples ripen now not only in the supermarket shelf, but also in the gardens and on public trees.

There are so many wonderful varieties in small and large, sweet and sour, red, colourful and yellow.

This variety inspires me, because with all of them you can cook, bake and also grill and fry great dishes and dishes! I picked my apples myself: It is a special mix of small varieties.

Small apples are usually particularly healthy and aromatic… hmm

You are invited to follow my recipe suggestion, I also present many variants. I wish you good luck!

1. Shopping List for Apple Compote

For our aromatic cooked fruits I didn’t need long to think: Here I proudly show you my classic variant with a fine Calvados note.

Ingredients list for Shopping/Garden and Kitchen Check

• apples
• sugar
• lemon
• Calvados
• vanilla
• cinnamon
• star anise
• cloves

My way to a perfect compoteI would like to give you three of my maxims for your preparation:

1. I peel the apples, cut them evenly and add lemon juice quickly. That way the apples don’t get brown.
2. Add sugar, calvados, vanilla and the other spices and mix well. Then I let my apple pieces stand in the marinade for almost 3 hours.
3. At the stove I let the apples simmer for a while in the closed pot. A part of the liquid evaporates naturally and a wonderful consistency develops.

For such a fine compote for eyes, nose, mouth and stomach you do not need much time and only some ingredients.

Don’t take the glass in the supermarket – a homemade apple compote tastes 1000 times better!

Motivation Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt

2. Recipe Apple Compote

Step by step it’s easier. Below is the recipe with exact ingredients. Good success!

Apple Compote

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 4

Calories 83

Preparation Time 15 Min.

Cook Time 20 Min.

Total Time 215 Min.

Simple instructions for preparing stewed apples.

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Ingredients

1000	g	apples (My apples are self-picked)
150	g	brown sugar (I take raw cane sugar)
1	pc	Lemon (I use an organic lemon)
8	cl	Calvados (original from Normandy)
1	pc	vanilla pod, the vanilla pulp
4	pc	cloves
1/2	bar	cinnamon
4	pc	Star Anise

Equipment

Instruction

Preparation step 1

Prepare Apples

Prepare the ingredients.

Start peeling 1 kg apples.

Preparation step 2

Cut Apples

Cut the apple quarters without the core into cubes of about 1 cm in size.

Preparation step 3

Prepare cooking

Finish peeling all the apples and putting them in a bowl.

Preparation step 4

Prepare lemon

Halve a lemon and squeeze the juice over the apple pieces.

Stir once so that there is lemon juice everywhere and the apples do not turn brown.

Preparation step 5

Add sugar

Add 150 g brown sugar.

Preparation step 6

Add vanilla pulp

Halve a vanilla pod with a sharp knife. Scratch out the vanilla pulp with a knife.

Preparation step 7

Add cinnamon

Break open a cinnamon stick lengthwise with your hand and halve it.

Preparation step 8

Add anise

Add 4 pieces of star anise.

Preparation step 9

Add cloves

Add 4 cloves.

Preparation step 10

Add calvados

Add 8 cl Calvados to the apples.

Preparation step 11

Marinade apples

Add all the ingredients to the apples and mix with a wooden spoon.

Now leave the apples in the marinade in the fridge for about 3 hours.

Preparation step 12

Compote cooking

Heat the ingredients up in a saucepan and then simmer at a reduced temperature for about 20-30 minutes.

Preparation step 13

Serve

Remove the compote from the heat and allow to cool.

Pour into bowls.

To eat, remove cinnamon, aniseed and cloves.

Enjoy your meal!

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3. Nutritional Information

4. What kind of Apples for a Stewed Apples?

I would recommend any aromatic apple and as far as possible self harvested apples or fallen fruit!

Elstar, Jonagold, Alkmene, Braeburn, Holsteiner Cox, Boskoop, Gala, Idared… all are equally suitable for compote or puree

Apple varieties info from chef Thomas Sixt

5. How Durable is my Apple Compote?

You can store my compote in the fridge for 3 days.

For a larger stock I take this way:

• I use sterile screw glasses.
• Therefore I put the empty, heat-resistant glasses together with the lids in a pot with boiling water.
• My compote has to be very hot in the glass.
• Then quickly put the lid on it and screw it down tightly.
• Thus the compote in the glass holds nearly 1 year. – By the way also a great gift and souvenir!

6. Variants of the Apple Compote

A compote on apples isn’t applesauce. A compote is lumpy. The apple sauce is rather the pureed variant. This can be achieved quickly by stroking through a sieve.

So the difference is not big. It is only a question of the desired haptics on your tongue. I love haptic and optical the compote 🙂

There are many ways to Rome, i.e. many tastes. Therefore I would like to present you wonderful variants of my presented classic.

7. What Goes Well with Apple Compote

Apple compote harmonises excellently with the following dishes…

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