The fruits of black chokeberry have a tart specific taste and a high content of useful elements. Many people today mistakenly believe that the product is not suitable as a raw material for making desserts. Chokeberry jam has an unusual taste, but for proper preparation, you need to know a number of important subtleties.
To get a tasty treat from black berries, it is important to follow the technology of its preparation. For recipes, only ripe fruits are selected, unripe and spoiled ones are removed. Rowan fruits have a rather strong thick skin, so you cannot get a tasty treat without preliminary processing.
To give the proper softness property, the following methods are used:
- boiling water treatment;
- aging in boiling water;
- blanching.
After softening the skin, the berries will acquire the ability to soak in syrup, and the jam will turn out to be soft in consistency. Many people note the bitter taste of chokeberry. A large amount of sugar allows you to get rid of this deficiency. On average, the amount of sand when making jam should be 2 times the weight of the berries.
After picking chokeberry berries, the first thing to do is to select them. To do this, choose ripe fruits without signs of rot and damage. Excess debris and leaves are removed. Next, it is important to rinse the berries well, which can be done under a stream of ordinary warm water, since the berries are resistant to external influences.
Next, a method of processing the fruit is selected to soften the peel. With a small amount of fruit, you can pour boiling water over them several times. With a large amount, they are placed in a large container, poured with boiling water and kept on fire for 5 minutes. Next, the berries must be transferred to a colander and wait for the water to drain completely.
Methods for making blackberry jam
Rowan berries go well with other berries and fruits. Apples and oranges are considered to be the best companions.
A simple recipe
In order to cook the jam, you will need 250 ml of water, berries in the amount of 1 kg, sugar 1.5 kg.
Jam making process:
- boil a glass of water and, adding sugar, achieve the consistency of a thick syrup;
- add mountain ash to the container with syrup and, stirring constantly, cook the mixture for 12 minutes;
- remove the pan and leave for 3 hours;
- bring the jam to a boil and leave again for 3 hours.
Then the jam is heated with constant stirring for 15 minutes. Without allowing strong cooling, it is laid out in sterilized jars and rolled up with lids. The average yield of jam with this amount of ingredients will be 2.5 liters.
With apples
For jam take:
- 1 kg of mountain ash;
- 0.4 kg of apples;
- 0.5 l of ordinary water;
- 1.5 kg of granulated sugar;
- 5 g citric acid;
- 5 g ground cinnamon.
A syrup is prepared from half a liter of water and granulated sugar, berries are placed in it and kept on fire for 5 minutes. After boiling, the container is removed from the heat and removed to infuse for 6 hours. After that, add the rest of the granulated sugar and cook the mixture for 30 minutes.
The apples, peeled from the skin and core, are cut into small slices and placed in boiling water, boiled until a soft structure is obtained.
The fruit is placed in a colander to drain the water. After that, boiled apples are mixed with chokeberry soaked in syrup and boiled for 5 minutes. Add seasoning and citric acid, mix and put in jars. The average yield of jam with this amount of ingredients will be 3 liters.
With oranges
Main Ingredients:
- 1 kg of mountain ash;
- 0.5 kg of oranges;
- 0.3 kg of lemons;
- 2 kg of granulated sugar;
- 200 g of walnuts.
The berries are scrolled using a meat grinder. Fruits are dipped into boiled water and boiled for 10 minutes. They take out lemons and oranges, cut them in half and remove the seeds, after which they are passed through a meat grinder together with walnuts. The twisted ingredients are combined, mixed, covered with sugar and put on low heat. After boiling, they are kept on the stove for 7 minutes, after which they are laid out in jars, covered with lids. Next, you need to make a shelter for the cans from a warm blanket.
The recipe "Five minutes"
For cooking, you need 2 kg of rowan berries and 2 kg of granulated sugar. The fruits are boiled in water for 5 minutes, taken out and, after drying on a flat surface, grind in any convenient way. For these purposes, you can use a meat grinder or blender.
The berry mixture is placed in a container, covered with sugar and put on the fire for 5 minutes, while stirring constantly
Storage features
After making black chokeberry jam, it must be laid out in jars. To do this, they are pre-sterilized and only then used. Top containers are closed with metal lids to prevent air ingress and ensure long-term storage. For consumption in the near future, you can close the jar with a regular lid and put it in the refrigerator. Jars rolled up for the winter can be stored at normal temperatures.
On long winter evenings, we enjoy in our warm homes all that we have managed to prepare in the summer. And we not only strive to cook something tasty. It is also important for us to take as much as possible of the very best of any vegetables, fruits, berries.
The cohort of the most useful berries, from which you can prepare a huge variety of winter preparations, also includes chokeberry, chokeberry. Its most useful qualities are preserved in various forms. ... There is drying, pickling, etc. It takes a special place. So today we will practice with this beautiful, modest-looking, but a real treasure trove of vitamins, a berry.
How to dry chokeberry?
Very simple. There are several methods. After removing the stalks from the bushes of ripe berries, send them to dry on the grates. Then spread in a layer (2 cm) on parchment laid out on a tray and dry outside or in the oven. If we dry it in the oven, then it will take about 30 minutes, at a temperature of 30-40 degrees. When the berries have cooled down and no juice will be released from them, the temperature in the cabinet will be increased to 55 degrees. But we observe that everything useful does not perish, for the sake of which everyone started. The brown color of the berries is a signal of their readiness. Or, having tied rowan umbrellas in bunches, we will hang them in the kitchen, where there is good ventilation. The electric dryer dries quickly and with maximum preservation of vitamins.
Application : baked goods, teas, jellies, compotes, etc.
Cooking chokeberry jam for the winter
Important! 100 grams of berries will enrich our body with iron, manganese, iodine. Thanks to the use of chokeberry berries, we may not get atherosclerosis, hypertension, we will sleep soundly, strengthen the immune system, remove radioactive substances from the body. And vitamin P will strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and this is one of the key advantages of these fruits.
Jam from this original berry with a specific taste turns out to be incomparable. Like other berries, it can be cooked in several ways, with the addition of other fruits, in grated, just boiled form, etc.
Recipe number 1
Ingredients
- Sugar - 1 kilogram
- Water - 1 glass.
Preparation
Let the water drain from the washed berries. Boil the syrup and dip the berries into it. It would be nice to put the jam overnight (at 8 o'clock), then in the morning it would be possible to complete the process without transferring the whole day. Bring to a boil and remove from the stove. Let it insist for a few more hours. We continue to cook until the chokeberry sinks to the bottom of the dish in which it is boiled. Then the jam can be rolled into jars.
Recipe number 2
Ingredients
- Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
- Sugar - 1 kilogram
- Water - 1 glass
- Apples - 1 - 2 pcs.
- Cherry leaves - a couple of handfuls
Preparation
Boil syrup from washed cherry leaves. Why send them to a bowl, fill them with water and bring to a boil over low heat. Let's strain the infusion, cook the syrup. We will boil it and put the sorted and clean berries in it. About 15 minutes before cooking, put finely chopped apples. You can wipe it, or you can close it like that.
Application : toppings, pastries, desserts, drinks, etc.
Recipe number 3
Ingredients
- Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
- Sugar - 1 kilogram
Preparation
Rinse the berries, let the water drain, cover with sugar and let the mass boil. Let it cool, and again on the fire - for 2-3 minutes. Let it cool again, and so - 3-4 times. If it is sweet, you can drip a few drops of lemon juice. Then, in a boiling form, we twist it into sterile jars. The berries will be whole!
Cooking delicious chokeberry jam
Important! Yes, the berries, nondescript in appearance, also taste tart. But we are in no hurry to be indignant, they say, what kind of jam can be obtained from chokeberry!
After all, you will receive not just jam, but a product saturated with a unique chemical composition in the form of organic acids, vitamins B2, B9, E, PP and C.
Recipe number 1
Ingredients
- Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
- Water - 1.5 cups
Preparation
The berries, ripe and cooked, are steamed in a saucepan with water under the lid until they soften. Then the fruits are pounded through a sieve, we need to get mashed potatoes. After sending it to an enamel bowl, add sugar, mix it so that it completely dissolves. Cook in one go and, spreading hot in clean jars, pasteurize for about 20 minutes.
Recipe number 2, with the addition of apples
Ingredients
- Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
- Apples - 400 grams
- Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
- Water - 2 glasses
Preparation
Adding a glass of water to the mountain ash, steam the berries. When they become soft, pass through a sieve. In the same way, we will steam the apples, cut into slices and filled with a second glass of water. We also rub this mass through a sieve. Put sugar in the mixture of both mashed potatoes, and cook, stirring everything, in one go. In this case, the prepared jars filled with hot jam are also pasteurized for about 20 minutes.
Recipe number 2, with the addition of quince
Ingredients
- Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
- Quince - 400 grams
- Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
- Water - 2 glasses
Preparation
First, soften the quince - it is harder than the mountain ash. Fill the quince pieces with water, heat them on gas. We will do the same with the prepared rowan berries. Steam them until soft. Add sugar, cook for about 10 minutes. Put the steamed quince here and cook in one step until tender. Pound the mass through a sieve and spread it hot in sterilized jars. We will pasteurize the cans for about 20 minutes.
Application: baked goods, desserts, baked goods, etc.
What about chokeberry drinks?
This berry is incomparable in drinks. Color and simply unique. The taste is very original. And if you take into account the usefulness of mountain ash, then you can prepare more drinks, and in different types. Let's start with compotes, they say, they quench thirst well and help with hypertension!
Important! How much vitamin P is there in 100 grams of fruit? Let's compare. 4000 mg! Whereas orange and lemon contain 400-500 mg, black currant - up to 1500, cherries and cherries - up to 900, gooseberries and lingonberries - up to 650 mg.
Recipe number 1. Black rowan compote
Ingredients
- Rowan black-fruited - 2 kilograms
- Sugar - half a kilogram (according to your taste)
Preparation
We put the washed and removed mountain ash from the branches in boiling water, and after a couple of minutes we will send it to the prepared jars, taking one third or half. It all depends on the purpose of the spin. If you drink right away, you can fill a quarter of the jar with berries. Add sugar to taste to boiling water, pour berries into it and twist. This carousel of sweet and sour astringency will bring tons of fun!
Recipe number 2, with the addition of apples
Important! The presence of a mass of iodine compounds in the pulp of the mountain ash will also please you. In this regard, these fruits are inferior only to feijoa.
Ingredients
- Rowan black chokeberry - 5 tablespoons
- Apples - kilogram
- Water - 4.5 liters
- Sugar - 4.5 cups
Preparation
Better to choose small apples. If large specimens, then cut them into slices. We put everything in a bottle (liter, two- or three-liter) and cook the syrup. Then pour apples and berries with this boiling syrup. Turning their necks down, wrap them well with something warm and leave them until morning. This number of products is for two 3-liter cans. Compote of excellent concentration can even be stored at home, and not in the cold. By the way, you can combine mountain ash with other fruits and different berries.
Recipe number 3
Ingredients
- Sugar
Preparation
Soak the finished berries for a couple of days, remembering to change the water. We send them to jars and fill them with boiling sugar syrup, prepared in the usual way. Sterilize for 25 minutes. - liter, 50 - three liter.
Recipe number 4
Ingredients
- Chokeberry
- Sugar
Preparation
We sterilize jars with lids. Boil the berries in boiling water for a few minutes. Salt the broth, put it in jars, covering with lids. Add sugar (to taste) to the broth, bring to a boil and pour into jars. We will do this one more time and tighten. We put as many berries as we wish - the more of them, the more concentration.
Application : for puddings, cereals, for drinking.
Making chokeberry liqueur at home
Unique! Unique! Incredibly delicious! The list of compliments to the mountain ash spirits goes on and on. A big plus of the liqueur is that you can drink it on a holiday, at dinner, and serve it to unexpected guests. By the way, you won't drink a lot of it, it's so concentrated!
Recipe number 1
Ingredients
- Rowan black-fruited - 1 kilogram
- Sugar - 500 grams
- Vodka - 1 liter
- Cloves - 2-3 pcs.
Preparation
Wash the berries plucked from the branches, let them dry and cover them in a convenient way. If only mashed potatoes came out. Let's send everything to a clean jar (3 liters), put sugar and cloves here. By shaking the contents, we will achieve distribution of sugar. Close the lid and set aside for a couple of days. Having poured vodka here, just close the lid, and forget about the drink for a couple of months. But shake slightly regularly. Strain it and pour it into bottles.
Recipe number 2
Ingredients
- Blackberry - 500 grams
- Cherry leaf - 100 grams
- Sugar - 800 grams
- Water - 1 liter
- Vodka - 0.5 liters
- Citric acid - 2 tsp
Preparation
In a bowl, crush the berries with leaves. Fill the mixture with water and boil for 10 minutes. Then, pouring sugar, citric acid here, another minute. Cook 20 on a small flame. When it cools down, strain the drink, pour it into bottles and add vodka.
We put homemade chokeberry wine
Important! Rowan is very popular not only in summer or winter. She is also loved in the off-season. Berries or products made from them are especially relevant as a multivitamin for fatigue. So, it is enough to pour 30 g of dried berries with boiling water (2 glasses) and insist in a thermos overnight. And then drink half a glass three times half an hour before meals. Chokeberry wine is also useful.
Ingredients
- Rowan black-fruited - 1 glass
- Cherry leaf - 50 pieces
- Water - 1 liter
- Sugar - 250 grams
- Citric acid - half a teaspoon
- Vodka - half a liter
Preparation
Put a clean mountain ash in water, add sugar and cherry leaves. Let it boil for about 10 minutes on low heat. Strain after cooling down, add citric acid and sugar. Stir thoroughly and cook again on a small fire for a quarter of an hour. After cooling down, pour vodka. Let well-sealed bottles of wine stand for a couple of weeks in a dark place. We always taste it while cooking.
A simple recipe for chokeberry tincture with honey
And for a regular meal, and for any holiday, the tincture will be good. In addition to pleasant relaxation, we will recharge ourselves with a lot of vitamins and minerals. On cold March days, it will be a good cure for colds!
Ingredients
- Rowan black-fruited - 2.5 cups
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Vodka - 1 liter
- Oak bark - 1 pinch
Preparation
Even if the drink is not prepared quickly, it is worth it! Cook the berries by sorting, rinsing, and put them in jars. Pour the honey melted in a water bath into a bowl, and put clean oak bark. Filling with vodka, we will remove the future drink away, for 3-4 months. But sometimes you need to shake it slightly. After the required time and after filtration, we pour it into beautiful bottles. Astringent and not sweet tincture, even with tea - super!
Application : for tea, for a festive table.
Candied chokeberry for the winter
Important! If you cook candied fruits from these fruits, people with diabetes will get an ideal product with a sugar substitute, sorbitol. The substances in the leaves improve liver function. Candied fruits are unmatched!
Recipe number 1
Ingredients
- Blackberry - 1 kilogram
- Sugar - 1 kilogram
- Water - 1 glass
- Citric acid - 1 teaspoon
- Vanillin - 1 sachet
Preparation
After the berries have stood for two days in water (we drain them a couple of times a day), we cook the syrup and put the mountain ash into it. We cook for an hour, at the end we put vanillin with citric acid. Then the berries should stay in a colander overnight. Then we will scatter them on paper, and let them dry out for another day. Will be well stored in a glass jar, sprinkled with sugar. Don't pour out the syrup - it's great in tea!
Chokeberry has a beneficial effect on human health. Regular use of berry-based jam strengthens the immune system, eliminates cholesterol plaques, and normalizes the activity of all internal organs. To get the most out of your health benefits, consider popular recipes for treats.
Chokeberry jam: a classic
- water - 230 ml.
- granulated sugar - 1.25 kg.
- chokeberry - 0.95-1 kg.
- Find the right container for cooking treats. Mix granulated sugar with water in it and put on medium heat. When the mass begins to boil, turn down the burner. Cook the syrup until smooth, stirring occasionally.
- While the sweet mass is boiling down, tackle the mountain ash. Arm yourself with nail clippers, cut ponytails and remove any debris. Wash the fruit.
- Take a second heat-resistant container, add running water to it, boil. Add mountain ash for a 5-minute blanching. The syrup is ready, add hot fruits to it.
- Now put the future jam on the fire, setting the mark to a level between medium and minimum. Continue simmering the berries for a quarter of an hour. Use a slotted spoon to remove the foam.
- When the set time has elapsed, turn off the hotplate and let the treat cool down. After 5 hours, start the heat treatment again, after boiling, cook the mountain ash for 15 minutes.
- Next, pack the composition into perfectly clean containers and immediately close with tin lids. Insist the treat upside down for 12 hours, then put it in the cold.
Chokeberry and orange jam
- large raisins (preferably seedless) - 220 gr.
- rowan fruits - 950 gr.
- lemon - 60 gr.
- orange - 100 gr.
- granulated sugar - 980 gr.
- Prepare the mountain ash by sorting and rinsing. Get rid of ponytails with a pair of nail scissors. Dip citrus fruits in boiling water for 1 minute, then wipe and chop in half slices.
- Combine the listed ingredients, if desired, you can scroll them in a blender. Next, put the composition in a saucepan for cooking treats, sprinkle with sugar. Wait about half an hour.
- Within the allotted time, wash the raisins in warm water and soak them. Next, get rid of the liquid, dry it, add to the infused berries and fruits.
- Set heat-resistant cookware on fire, wait until boiling begins. Reduce the power as soon as this happens. Continue simmering the treat for another 40-45 minutes.
- When this time is up, pour the jam into jars and immediately close the lids. After cooling, transfer the treat to the cold, use it after a week.
Chokeberry and cranberry jam
- mountain ash - 480-500 gr.
- freshly squeezed apple juice - 120 ml.
- granulated sugar - 550 gr.
- lemon juice - 45 gr.
- apple (pre-diced) - 150 gr.
- cranberries - 120 gr.
- Free the berries from the twigs, rinse the fruits and place in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then transfer to a strainer and let the water drain.
- Combine lemon and apple juices, add granulated sugar. Pour this mixture into a saucepan, cook until the particles are dissolved.
- When the syrup is ready, send the apple cubes to it. Continue heat treatment for a quarter of an hour.
- After this time, add the mountain ash, bring the mass to a boil and leave to cool. After about 5 hours, re-cook the treat.
- When 10 minutes have passed, turn off the hotplate, let the treat cool down. In the final time, boil the contents and pour into the jars, close.
- sour apple - 280-300 gr.
- granulated sugar - 1.6 kg.
- walnuts (peeled kernels) - 320 gr.
- lemon - 70 gr.
- mountain ash - 1.1 kg.
- Rinse the blackberry, put it in boiling water and wait 8 hours. After this period, put the fruits on a sieve, let the liquid drain. Measure out 250 ml. the resulting infusion, add sugar to it, set the dishes on fire.
- Start boiling the syrup on medium heat, after boiling, lower the heat. When the sand dissolves, add rowan and chopped apples.
- After 3 minutes, add the walnut, broken into pieces. Continue simmering for 10 minutes. Then cool the mass, leaving the jam for 4 hours.
- Carry out another 2-3 heat treatments, do not forget to cool the jam between approaches. When the last languor comes to an end, put a lemon in the mass. Citrus must be washed and chopped beforehand.
- Turn off the stove, cover the neck of the dishes with gauze cloth or bandage. Place a flat plate on top of the container to create a cushion of air (it will soften the berry).
- Leave the cooked treat for 10 hours, then start packing in clean containers. Carry out the capping with nylon caps or parchment with a tourniquet.
Chokeberry and pear jam
- walnuts or almonds (peeled) - 180 gr.
- pear - 230-260 gr.
- mountain ash (blackberry) - 680 gr.
- sugar - 700 gr.
- drinking water - in fact
- lemon - 65 gr.
- Go through the blackberry, removing all damaged and wrinkled specimens. Rinse under the tap, put in a container and add boiling water. Let it sit for 10 hours, then pour off 250 ml. infusion. Remove the rest of the liquid.
- Combine granulated sugar with broth in a saucepan, send for cooking and wait for the grains to dissolve. At this time, rinse the pear, chop into cubes.
- Rinse the citrus fruit, cut into equal sized pieces. Remove the lemon pits, they are responsible for the bitterness. Fry almonds or walnuts in a skillet, then scroll through a meat grinder.
- By this time, the syrup had already boiled. Add pear, lemon, mountain ash to it. Simmer until boiling, then cool for 5 hours. Repeat the steps 2 more times, add the nuts at the final stage.
- Remove the hot mixture from the stove, cover the opening of the pan with gauze or cotton cloth. Place a flat plate on top of heat-resistant cookware. After 3 hours, pour the jam and swirl.
Chokeberry and zucchini jam
- cinnamon pods - 2 pcs.
- blackberry - 950 gr.
- lemon - 1 pc.
- granulated sugar - 980 gr.
- zucchini - 970 gr.
- Sort the rowan, rinse and lay on a towel. Leave to dry for a third of an hour. Prepare the zucchini during this period. It must be peeled, washed and chopped into pieces of equal size.
- Combine the berry with the zucchini, sprinkle with granulated sugar and stir by hand. Wait 4 hours for liquid to come out. When this happens, mix again and wait an hour.
- After the allotted period of time, set the dishes with the contents on the fire, add cinnamon and lemon juice. Bring until the first bubbles appear, then cook for another half hour.
- Since the jam is cooked without foam, you can slightly stir the composition and not watch it at the stove. When 30 minutes have passed, turn off the hotplate, leave the treat for 8 hours.
- Carry out the second heat treatment, while hot, pack the delicacy in sterile dishes. Cool, cover with parchment paper and tighten with a tourniquet. Take it to the cold.
Chokeberry and currant jam
- granulated sugar - 1.1 kg.
- red currant - 300 gr.
- black currant - 280 gr.
- mountain ash - 575 gr.
- Go through 2 types of currants, remove the berries from the branches. Now do the same with the chokeberry. Place the fruits individually in a colander and rinse.
- Spread the raw materials on towels, wait until they dry completely. Sprinkle the berries with granulated sugar and stir by hand. Set aside in the cold until juicing comes out.
- After that, mix the fruits and keep them in the refrigerator for another day. After a specified time, set heat-resistant dishes with raw materials on the fire, cook until a thick consistency is obtained. Pour and swirl.
- apple (it is better to take Antonovka) - 0.45 kg.
- citric acid powder - 5 gr.
- granulated sugar - 1.55 kg.
- freshly ground cinnamon - 3-4 gr.
- filtered water - 430 ml.
- chokeberry - 1 kg.
- Go over the blackberry. Eliminate any dented, cracked, or rotten parts. Place the rowan in a sieve and dip it several times in a bowl of cold water. Remove all debris and twigs.
- Pour 1.6L into a saucepan. running water, bring to a boil and reduce power to medium. Send the blackberry in a container with liquid, cook for 5 minutes.
- After blanching, leave the berries in a colander, dry. Rinse again under the tap. Now pour out the drinking water according to the recipe, mix it with sugar in an enamel bowl.
- Begin to simmer the syrup by setting the saucepan to low heat. When the grains melt, send the mountain ash to the sweet base. Simmer for another 5 minutes, stirring the mass.
- Turn off the burner, leave the treat for 7-9 hours so that the fruits are soaked in sugar. Then rinse the apple, do not remove the skin, but cut out the centers. Chop into cubes or half rings.
- Take another saucepan, mix apples and running water in it. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 4 minutes (blanching). Remove the fruit and leave in a colander.
- Now tackle the mountain ash. Warm it up for a third of an hour, stirring occasionally. Add the apples after the allotted time. Boil the composition until a thick consistency is obtained, add citric acid at the end.
Chokeberry and plum jam
- granulated sugar - 0.4 kg.
- mountain ash-blackberry - 270 gr.
- freshly ground cloves - 1-2 gr.
- plum (Hungarian variety is preferable) - 0.5 kg.
- mountain ash red - 260 gr.
- table water - 0.3 l.
- Wash two types of mountain ash and sort through the fruits. Divide the branches so that 3-5 berries remain on each. Place the raw materials in the freezer, wait an hour. During this time, bitterness will come out of the mountain ash.
- Rinse the plum and remove the white deposits and dry. Cut each copy, remove the bone. Boil the syrup with water and granulated sugar. When the sweet base boils, add plum and mountain ash to it.
- Continue to heat the raw material for 6-8 minutes. Get rid of the foam in a timely manner. Add the cloves, remove the dishes from the stove.
- Let the treat stand until it's at room temperature. Then repeat the cooking 2 more times. At the end of the last simmering, you can add a little cinnamon.
- Cover the dish with the treat with gauze and wait 3 hours. After a while, pack the contents into jars, twist with tin, nylon or parchment.
Jam based on chokeberry and other components normalizes the psycho-emotional background, fights insomnia, lowers blood pressure, eliminates fatigue and treats migraines. It is recommended to consume at least 45 grams per day. goodies, combining it with pastries and hot drinks.
Video: chokeberry rubbed with sugar
Chokeberry is very useful, but not all housewives are honored. The fact is that these berries have a tart, slightly bitter taste and not everyone seems to be suitable for making desserts. In fact, chokeberry jam, if prepared correctly, turns out to be very tasty, and the astringency gives it a kind of "zest".
Cooking features
Compliance with the technology of making chokeberry jam is a guarantee of its pleasant taste and long shelf life.
- To make the jam, you should pick ripe mountain ash. It must be sorted out in order to get rid of spoiled berries, and at the same time cleaned of adhering leaves. Rowan should be washed thoroughly, you can even under running water - this will not harm the berries.
- The skin of the chokeberry is quite dense, therefore, before making jam from it, it is poured with boiling water for a while or even blanched for several minutes in boiling water. This is necessary so that the syrup can saturate the berry.
- Chokeberry has a bitter taste, therefore, when making jam from it, you should not regret sugar: it should be at least one and a half times more than berries.
- Ready chokeberry jam is laid out in sterilized jars. Only in this case, you can count on the fact that it will not deteriorate long enough, it will stand all winter.
Many people combine chokeberry with apples, oranges, and other fruits. Gourmets claim that in this case the jam is much tastier.
A simple recipe for chokeberry jam
Composition (for 2.5 l):
- chokeberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1.5 kg;
- water - 0.25 l.
Cooking method:
- Prepare the berries: sort out, rinse well, remove the stalks.
- Place the rowan in a colander and dip in boiling water.
- After 5-7 minutes, remove the colander with berries, let the water drain.
- Boil a glass of water and, adding a little sugar to it, cook a thick syrup.
- Dip the mountain ash in boiling syrup and simmer it over low heat, stirring, for 12 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and leave to cool for 3 hours.
- Bring the jam to a boil again and cook for 10 minutes, again leave it to cool for 3 hours.
- Bring the jam to a boil again and cook for 15 minutes.
- Spread the jam on pre-sterilized jars, screw them tightly with lids.
- When the jam has cooled down, store it in a closet or other place where you store supplies for the winter.
Simple chokeberry jam can be stored at room temperature, after opening the jar, it must be moved to the refrigerator.
Chokeberry jam with apples
Composition (for 3 l):
- chokeberry - 1 kg;
- apples - 0.4 kg;
- water - 0.5 l;
- sugar - 1.5 kg;
- citric acid - 5 g;
- cinnamon - 5 g.
Cooking method:
- Go over, rinse the berry. Dip in boiling water and blanch for 5 minutes. Remove the berries and immerse in cold water for 5 minutes. Take it out again and let the water drain.
- Cook syrup from 0.5 l of water and 0.5 kg of sugar.
- Dip chokeberry in syrup, boil it for 5 minutes after boiling and leave for 6 hours.
- Wash the apples, cut a seed box out of them. Cut the apples into small wedges and dip them in boiling water. Cook the apple slices in it until they are soft, then remove and put in a colander to drain excess water.
- Add the remaining sugar to the container where the chokeberry is in the syrup.
- Boil the chokeberry for half an hour.
- Add apple slices, cook with them for another 25 minutes.
- Add citric acid and cinnamon to the jam, stir.
- Cook the jam for another 5 minutes and put it in the jars that need to be sterilized in advance.
- Close tightly with metal caps (you can use the usual ones, for seaming with a wrench, you can use screw caps).
- After cooling, remove the jam for the winter.
Chokeberry jam with apples turns out to be sweet and sour, with a pleasant tart aftertaste. Another advantage is its seductive aroma with notes of apples and cinnamon.
Chokeberry jam with oranges
Composition (for 3.5 l):
- chokeberry - 1 kg;
- oranges - 0.5 kg;
- lemons - 0.3 kg;
- sugar - 2 kg;
- walnut kernels - 0.2 kg.
Cooking method:
- Rinse and dry the selected berries, scroll through a meat grinder.
- Wash oranges and lemons, put them whole in boiling water for 10 minutes, remove and wipe.
- Cut oranges and lemons into large slices, remove the seeds and, without peeling, turn through a meat grinder.
- Chop the walnut kernels. You can also use a meat grinder for this.
- Combine black chokeberry puree, citrus fruits and walnuts. Mix well.
- Cover the mixture with sugar and put on a low heat. After the mixture boils, boil it for 5-7 minutes, remove from heat.
- Without cooling, arrange in sterilized jars, seal them.
- Turn the jam jars over, wrap a blanket over them, and leave overnight.
- Store the jam in the morning. It can also be put in a closet, but it is best to store it in a cool place, for example, in a cellar or refrigerator.
Chokeberry jam with oranges, lemons and walnuts is not only a tasty treat, but also a very healthy product. It strengthens the immune system, helps fight anemia.
Chokeberry jam "Pyatiminutka"
Composition (for 3 l):
- chokeberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 2 kg.
Cooking method:
- Go through and wash the berries. Dip them in boiling water for 5 minutes, remove from it and pat dry on a paper towel.
- Grind the mountain ash in any way. The easiest way to do this is by turning the berry through a meat grinder, but you can also use a blender.
- Cover the chopped mountain ash with sugar, stir and put on low heat.
- Cook over low heat, stirring, until boiling.
- After boiling, turn the heat up and cook over high heat, stirring, for 5 minutes.
- Arrange in sterilized jars, cover them with lids, while not rolling.
- Place a piece of cloth in a large saucepan (you can use a tea towel). Put jars of jam there. Fill a saucepan with water so that it is "shoulder-length" cans.
- Place a pot of jars on low heat. After boiling water in a saucepan, sterilize the jars for 20 minutes if they are half a liter, 30 minutes if they are liter, 15 minutes if their capacity is less than half a liter.
- After removing the cans from the pan, roll them up. Leave to cool at room temperature.
Five-minute jam is healthier than usual, as it undergoes less heat treatment and retains more vitamins. However, at a high room temperature (above 18 degrees), such a delicacy is bad, it can deteriorate, so it is better to keep it in the refrigerator or basement.
Chokeberry jam turns out to be very aromatic, especially when made with oranges or apples, has a unique tart taste. This is a very healthy dessert that even children will love. It is worth spending a little time and effort on the preparation of such a delicacy - the efforts will surely pay off.
Along with other fruit and berry plants, chokeberry jam, popularly called chokeberry, is also popular.
Once imported from Canada, chokeberry was grown in Russia as an ornamental tree. But the properties of its berries attracted V. Michurin, who was able to prove that the fruits contain a large amount of useful elements that make chokeberry not only a healing, but also quite nutritious product.
Since then, housewives have added chokeberry jam to the menu of winter preparations. They did not seek out special delights in the invention of recipes - the methods of cooking almost any sweet product are always the same. It's just that each housewife makes her own individual additions, which makes any recipe unique, be it jam or.
Preparatory procedures.
Whatever berries are used to make jam, they must be pre-processed. Only ripe fruits are used for harvesting. Concerning chokeberry - it is harvested in late autumn, when severe frosts begin. The low temperature deprives the berries of their unpleasant bitterness.
Chokeberry is cut from the tree with brushes - so it will be more convenient to soak them. To finally rid the berries of bitterness, they are kept in cold water for another day. During this time, the fluid should be changed twice.
After the water procedure, each berry is separated from the tails and combs, then sorted. Spoiled mashed fruits are removed immediately. The rest are put in a colander and blanch in constantly boiling water for 10 minutes. Now the fruits of the chokeberry are ready to be used in recipes for making delicious jam.
The easiest way to make chokeberry jam is according to the recipe of our grandmothers. It is considered the most reliable for long-term storage.
- Prepared berries - 1.2 kg.
- Granulated sugar - 1.2 kg.
- Water - 0.5 l.
Jam cooking algorithm
First you need to make a syrup from water and sugar. When it thickens enough, without turning off the heat, berries are poured into the container and boiled. This should be done in 3 steps:
- The berries are boiled in syrup for 10 minutes, then set aside and cooled for 10-12 hours.
- Next, the syrup is boiled without berries - they should be removed for a while.
- After 15-20 minutes, the mountain ash is returned to the syrup and boiled until fully cooked.
The jam is packed in dry preheated jars. After sealing the container with lids, leave to cool.
A variation of this recipe
If the jam is stored not in cool cellars, but, for example, in the pantry of a city apartment, the finished product should also be subjected to pasteurization. To do this, not yet sealed cans, but only covered with lids, are placed in a pan with hot water (about 70 degrees) and pasteurized for 9 to 15 minutes (depending on the volume of the can).
After pasteurization, the containers with the jam are removed, the lids are rolled up on them, and the jars are placed for natural cooling.
Chokeberry berries in syrup
Here is another recipe for chokeberry jam that housewives have been using for a long time - berries in syrup. In this case, it is not mountain ash that is added to the syrup, but the opposite is true. Why the berries in the jam remain almost intact.
Ingredients used in the recipe:
- Rowan berries - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 1.5 kg.
- Water - 0.6 l.
The sequence of cooking jam
The sorted fruits are poured with the syrup, prepared as usual, and kept for about 8 hours. And only then they start cooking the jam.
Put the basin on the stove on a small fire and immediately remove the jam after boiling. After 15 minutes, the procedure is repeated. There should be at least 5 such visits. This will allow the jam to thicken well without burning.
Jam with additives
A very aromatic, unusually tasty jam is obtained if other ingredients are added to the chokeberry. The recipe now proposed is good because such a product can also be used as an adjunct in the treatment of colds, hypertensive crises and vegetative-vascular distortion.
Ingredients:
- Rowan - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 1.3 kg.
- Water - 2 glasses
- Fruit and berry juice (any) - 1 glass
- Lemon juice - 0.5 cups
- Rum - 2 tablespoons
Jam making
The unusualness of this recipe in comparison with the previous ones lies not only in the addition of rum and juices of other berries to the jam. The preparation of the chokeberry is already different. The berries are pre-baked in the oven for about 5 hours. In this case, the container should be covered with a lid so that the fruits give juice.
- The juice protruding from the chokeberry is drained and combined with water and sugar.
- The syrup is cooked in the usual way.
- Next, rowan berries are returned to the syrup, fruit juice is poured in and rum is added. Continue to cook.
- At the final stage, lemon juice is poured in and after 5 minutes the jam is removed from the heat and packed in jars.
As you can see, nothing out of the ordinary, but the result will be stunning.
If you practice making jam and compotes for the winter, then be sure to try, the recipes of which we have shared with you on our website.
Chokeberry with citrus
Citrus jam itself is considered spicy. And if you combine it with black chokeberry, you get an amazing-tasting product that can be used to fill pies and season porridge.
Ingredients:
- Chokeberry berries - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 2 kg.
- Water - 1 glass
- Oranges - 2 pcs.
- Lemons - 1 pc.
Citruses can be peeled, but for those who love savory flavors, it's best not to.
Cooking sequence:
This recipe is another way to make chokeberry berries. It differs slightly from the ones given above.
- The fruits are placed in a saucepan and covered with water.
- Covering the container with a lid, the berries are put on fire and steamed for 5 minutes.
- Without removing from the heat, remove the lid, add sugar and cook for another 5 minutes (stirring, of course).
- After removing the jam from the stove, they forget about it for about 3 hours. During this time, they prepare citrus fruits - twist them in a meat grinder or grind them in a blender (to whom it is more convenient).
- When the time is right, put the jam back on the stove, add the remaining sugar and bring to a boil. After that, twisted oranges with lemon are added, everything is thoroughly mixed and the heat is immediately turned off.
Pieces of apples (0.5 kg) can also be added to this recipe. But they are brought in before the jam boils.
Chokeberry with nuts
The more healthy ingredients in the jam, the more nutritious it is. In this recipe, walnut adds its components to the healing properties of chokeberry. At the same time, modifying the taste of the jam for the better.
Ingredients:
- Rowan fruits - 0.6 kg.
- Sugar - 0.6 kg.
- Water - 1 liter.
- Walnuts - 0.15 kg.
- Apples - 0.2 kg.
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
The sequence of preparation of the product
This recipe will also differ from those described above. Even the approach to making syrup is somewhat different.
- Aronia berries are poured with hot water and left overnight.
- In the morning, the infusion is poured into another container.
- To prepare the syrup, take only 1 glass of mountain ash infusion and mix it with sugar.
- While the syrup is cooking, you should tackle the rest of the ingredients:
- Apples are peeled and cored. The fruit must be cut into either small wedges or cubes.
- The zest is removed from the lemon. The citrus itself is crushed into small pieces and sent to the refrigerator for now.
- Peeled nuts should be covered.
- Prepared apples, nuts and berries of a chokeberry are stacked in a syrup over the fire. After boiling, the jam is boiled for another 15 minutes. Then remove from heat and set aside for 3 hours.
- The 15 minute boil procedure should be repeated 3 more times at 3 hour intervals. In the last run, add lemon.
Chokeberry jam without syrup
You can make delicious jam from chokeberry without first cooking the syrup - just fill it with sugar. But in this case, for reliability, you will have to resort to sterilizing the finished product.
It is also well suited to the dinner table in winter, which is rich in vitamins and useful microelements, which is very important in the cold season.
Ingredients used in the recipe:
In this recipe, there are only 2 ingredients - chokeberry berries and sugar. They are taken in a 1: 1 ratio. And the mass of mountain ash is determined here by the chopped berries.
Jam preparation procedure
- Blanched berries are passed through a meat grinder. And this must be done twice: first through a coarse-mesh lattice, then through a fine one.
- Next, the resulting mass is rubbed quite well with sugar. Then you can use one of the points - either put it on the fire right away, or let the sugar first dissolve in the chokeberry juice.
- The grated mass is put on a small fire and, with constant stirring, boil for no more than 5 minutes. Then the jam is packed in heated jars, which are covered with lids and sent to a saucepan for sterilization.
- The initial temperature of the water for heat treatment must be at least 80 degrees. Sterilization is carried out for 15 minutes - for containers of 0.5 liters, and within 25 minutes - for 1-liter cans.
There are still many different recipes for making unusual chokeberry jam. By modifying the basic proportions, you can also prepare various variations of sweet food: jam, jams, lozenges, which will delight not only little family members.