Kompot (Summer Fruit Punch)

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By Bonnie Morales

Known arsenic kompot successful Russian and Eastern European cuisine, this is simply a clever and nonalcoholic mode to usage up random bits of summertime fruit. In her cookbook, "Kachka," cook Bonnie Frumkin Morales brilliantly suggests turning this into a interval by serving it with a scoop of vanilla crystal pick and topping with nine soda.

We've utilized a blend of peaches, plums, strawberries and chokeberries here, but consciousness escaped to see apples, apricots, raspberries, gooseberries, caller currants, blueberries and/or nectarines.

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The punch substance needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 4 hours, oregon up to overnight.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 10 (makes 9 to 10 cups)

2 ripe peaches, pitted and quartered
3 tiny to mean plums, pitted and quartered
3 apricots, pitted and quartered (may substitute much plums oregon peaches)
1 cupful caller strawberries, hulled and rinsed (may usage frozen)
3/4 cupful granulated sugar, oregon much arsenic needed
6 cups water
Vanilla crystal cream, for serving (optional)
Club soda, for serving (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
90
Carbohydrates
22 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking," by Bonnie Frumkin Morales with Deena Prichep (Flatiron Books, 2017).

Tested by Kara Elder.

Published August 22, 2018

Updated March 16, 2026