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Kompot

Name: Kompot
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Poland
Ingredients: 2 Apple; 200g Frozen Mixed Berries; 2L Water; 60–100g Sugar; 1 (optional) Cinnamon Stick; 1 tsp (optional) Lemon Juice

Drink

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Kompot is a lightly sweetened drink of seasonal fruit simmered in water, made almost daily in Polish homes and a must at Sunday lunch.

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📖 The Story Behind This Drink

In Poland and across Eastern Europe, big pots of kompot are made from garden and market fruit — strawberries and cherries in summer, apples and plums in autumn. It’s a Sunday-lunch staple, and on Christmas Eve a dried-fruit version, kompot z suszu, is one of the twelve dishes.

🌆 Where it’s enjoyed: At Sunday lunch, a pitcher of kompot with fruit at the bottom sits among the pierogi and cutlets, and the kids ask for refills.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Apple 2
Frozen Mixed Berries 200g
Water 2L
Sugar 60–100g
Cinnamon Stick 1 (optional)
Lemon Juice 1 tsp (optional)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the apples into 8 wedges, skin on, and remove the cores.
Bring the water to a boil, add the apple and cinnamon, and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
Add the berries and sugar and simmer 5 minutes more, until the water turns a pretty red.
Turn off the heat, cover, and let cool. The fruit keeps flavoring the drink as it cools.
Add lemon juice if you like and chill. Pour into glasses with some of the fruit.

💡 Tips for Success

Keep it lightly sweet — think of it as "drinkable fruit."
Mix any seasonal fruit — cherries, plums, rhubarb. It’s also a thrifty way to use up overripe fruit.
It keeps 3–4 days in the fridge. Drink it cold in summer and warm in winter.

🍽 Goes Well With

Pierogi Ruskie

Kotlet Schabowy

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