Candied apricots

Great and healthy sweet candied apricots at home. Candied apricot chew tasty, they are sweet and fragrant. Having prepared candied fruit from apricots, we will preserve all their usefulness, nutrition, and further reveal their wonderful taste. But here's how to make candied apricots, I will tell you further.

Ingredients:

• Apricots - 1 kilogram;
• sugar - 1.2 kilograms.

Step by step recipe for candied apricots

1. Wash non-ripe, preferably hard apricots in cold water. Then let it drain.
2. Cut them into halves and remove the seeds.
3. Put the prepared apricots in a colander and blanch in boiling water for 1-2 seconds, cool in cold water and place in an enameled basin.
4. Prepare syrup from 1.5 cups of water, in which apricots are blanched, and sugar. Pour apricots with boiling syrup, cook for 15 minutes over low heat, then remove the dishes from the heat and leave for 10 hours.
5. After aging, boil apricots for 15 minutes and leave back for 10 hours.
6. For the third time, boil the apricots until cooked, put on a sieve, leave for 1-1.5 hours to completely stack the syrup.
7. Arrange the cooled apricots in a single layer on a sieve and dry in the oven at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° C. Lightly dried fruits, sprinkle with fine sugar and dry in a warm oven.
8. Finished candied apricots, put in clean, dry jars, cover with parchment paper, tie and store in a cool, dry place.

Candied apricots can be used in the preparation of desserts, pies, cakes, decorate ice cream.

Delicious to you preparations, and bon appetit!