Greetings, my dear readers.

As I promised earlier in the article in which we looked at it, today I will tell you - when is the best time to pick this berry? What methods exist for preserving berries so that chokeberry fruits contain the greatest amount of useful substances? What chokeberry preparations can be made for the winter? What can you do to please your loved ones today? Here is a short list of issues that we will touch on here.

Chokeberry berries can hang on the branches for quite a long time if birds do not actively peck them or bird repellers are used in the area. But the most important question will definitely arise for those who have chokeberries growing in their yard: “When is the best time to pick the berries?”

The most convenient time to collect these fruits for jam, compotes, liqueurs and other delicacies is September-October. Chokeberry preparations will help diversify the table and help the body maintain vitamin levels during the long winter months, as well as fight some ailments.

Then the berries are removed from the branches and frozen. But if you want to get a berry with the best taste and the greatest content of nutrients, then you should know: after the first frost, chokeberry reaches its full perfection.

Preparations for the winter from chokeberry

Preparation for the winternatural berries

1. During collection, you need to cut off the scutes (tassels) with scissors, placing them in shallow trays. In order to always have fresh berries at hand all winter, the branches can be hung in a cold place where there is no access to sunlight, for example, in a basement, cellar, underground, in the attic of a country house or in a closet on the balcony of a city apartment. The optimal temperature for such workpieces is about +5 degrees.
2. In order to obtain dried chokeberry, the berries are separated from the stalks and laid out in one layer on paper, turning it periodically. This should be done in a well-ventilated area at a temperature not exceeding +50 degrees. That is, using ovens in this case is not profitable - the beneficial properties of the berries are lost.
3. A convenient method for those who use freezers or have a large freezer in their refrigerator is quick freezing. Then the chokeberry will delight family members all year round! In this case, harvesting healthy berries for the winter will not require any costs. Just make sure that the berries, separated from the stalks and quickly frozen, are arranged in portions in the freezer. There is no need to defrost the entire volume of fruits once again in order to prepare, for example, compote or bake a pie.

How to make chokeberry jam?

The most common chokeberry preparations, the recipes for which are the most popular among housewives, are, of course, jam.

The preparatory stage before making jam is heat treatment of chokeberry berries.

Aronia berries differ from all others by being somewhat dry. Therefore, they should be “softened” before cooking jam. To do this, the fruits are immersed in boiling water for several minutes (from 3 to 5), and then in cold water. And only after this procedure they are thrown into a colander and transferred to a container for making jam.

By the way, the decoction obtained by boiling berries with boiling water should not be poured out - a certain amount of useful substances has passed into it. Therefore, it is best to cook “Assorted” jelly from it, adding syrups of other berries and fruits, sugar and starch.

Recipe for chokeberry jam without sugar

The benefits these berries bring to people suffering from diabetes have already been discussed above. Therefore, care should be taken to ensure that these patients are also provided with chokeberry jam recipe, but without sugar.

Making such a preparation is a little more difficult than with sugar, but it’s worth it, believe me! We only need a large saucepan with water in which the jars of berries will be placed. Place a rag on the bottom of the pan.

Bring the water in the pan to a boil, fill jars (it is best to use half-liter jars) with berries treated with boiling water to the brim and place them in the pan. Boiling water should reach the hangers of the jars, but not pour into them, so the fire should be kept low, just to maintain a boil.

When the water boils, the berries will “settle” a little, so you should add more berries to the free space. This process must be continued for 20-40 minutes. Then the jars are removed one by one from the boiling water and sealed tightly with metal lids.

Recipe for chokeberry jam with sugar

The most common option for preparing chokeberries is to jam the berries with sugar. To prepare, the housewife will need a container of the appropriate size, a stove and the necessary components included in the composition:

berries (1 kg), sugar (1.5 kg) and water (half a liter). The quantity can be reduced or increased while maintaining the specified proportions.

You should not use a slow cooker, as it is not cost-effective: the berries are too hard, so the process will simply drag on for a very long time.

From half a kilo of sugar and half a liter of water (you can use part of the water in which the berries were blanched) a syrup is prepared, which is poured over a kilogram of chokeberry fruits (the weight is determined before heat treatment with boiling water), which is poured over the prepared berries. After the mixture boils, it is kept on the fire for another 5 minutes, constantly stirring the jam. Then the container is removed, and the brewed berries are left to soak in syrup for 8-10 hours.

The last step is finishing the jam. The container is put back on the fire, a kilogram of sugar is added and cooked until tender, until the syrup, when dripped onto a surface, retains its shape and does not spill.

You can put the finished jam in jars with either metal or plastic lids. You can even cover with clean pieces of plastic film, wrapping them with twine moistened with water from below. After drying, the twine decreases in size, tightly tightens the piece covering the neck of the jar, thereby creating a tightness.

Recipe for chokeberry and apple jam

To prepare this wonderful jam, you need to replace half of the berries with apples, which before cooking are also blanched for 3 minutes in the boiling water left after scalding the chokeberry.

Sugar syrup is prepared from the water remaining after blanching by pouring sugar into it, after which the syrup is dissolved, remove from the heat. Then apples and berries are placed there and left for 3-4 hours. After boiling the mixture for 5 minutes, let the jam steep again for 3 hours. This procedure can be repeated several times until the chokeberry becomes juicy and soft. After this, the jam is laid out in jars and closed with either nylon or metal lids.

Recipe for chokeberry jam on cherry leaves

A wonderfully tasty jam is obtained if you first boil the cherry leaves for 5 minutes in water for blanching the berries.

• The jam is prepared according to the recipe described above; to prepare a dessert from a kilogram of chokeberry, you need to take 100 grams of cherry tree leaves.

Recipe for chokeberry jam “Assorted”

Citrus fruits are often used to make chokeberry jam. This dessert is prepared according to the usual recipe, only before the last stage of cooking, citrus fruits twisted in a meat grinder along with the peel are placed in a container with the mass.

• For a kilogram of berries, it is recommended to take a couple of oranges and one lemon.

You can also add apple slices to the assortment. This is usually done after the first cooking of the jam.

• For a kilogram of berries, it is enough to take half a kilo of apples. After laying them and adding the remaining sugar to the mass, the jam is infused for 3 hours, boiled for 10 minutes and infused again for the remaining 5 hours (when preparing regular jam, the infusion process is carried out once for 8 hours).

Black chokeberry compote

It’s very nice to take out a jar of compote in winter and treat yourself. There are several recipes for making this drink.

Chokeberry compote - first recipe

The simplest of them is a one-time pouring of hot syrup over the berries.

The chokeberry is thoroughly cleaned and washed before being placed in a container.

The berries are poured into sterile jars to one third of the volume.

To prepare such a winter preparation, you need to take sugar and water in a ratio of 1 to 2. This mixture is brought to a boil and boiled for five to ten minutes. Then, immediately after removing from the heat, pour the syrup into the chokeberry in a jar.

You should immediately close the containers with compote with metal lids. The jars, turned upside down, are wrapped warmly and left until they cool completely. Then you can go down to the cellar.

Chokeberry compote - second recipe

Sometimes housewives do this: berries poured into a jar are poured with boiling water, measuring its volume. Then the entire contents are poured into a saucepan, along with the berries, and boiled until the berries burst. At this time, pour the required amount of sugar into the contents of the pan and boil for ten minutes. I believe that in this case a lot of useful substances and vitamins are lost...

This mixture is then poured into jars, with boiled chokeberries placed in them, and the lids are rolled up.

Chokeberry compote - recipe with citrus fruits

An excellent drink is made from several components - assorted compote. Prepare it in the same way as described in the second recipe, only before pouring the hot mixture of berries and syrup into the jars, add slices of peeled orange and half a lemon.

I make this recipe a little differently:

• I fill the already prepared jars one-third full with berries, then add orange and lemon slices.
• I fill the jars with boiling water. I let it sit for 5 minutes, drain the water from the jars into a separate pan, pour in sugar (1.5-2 cups per jar), and bring to a boil. And again I fill the jars with it. I roll them up with metal lids.

I turn it upside down at night. In the morning or the next day I lower it into the cellar.

Chokeberry compote - recipe with sea buckthorn

For preparation, take berries and chokeberries in a 2:1 ratio. All berries are washed, peeled, and dried on a clean towel.

The jars are sterilized by steam.

The syrup is prepared at the rate of 130 grams of sugar per 3 liters of water. Berries are placed in jars (the proportions are indicated above) so that a third of the container is filled, and hot syrup is filled up to the neck (just above the shoulders).

Then the jars of compote are sterilized in boiling water. For 3-liter containers, this procedure will take half an hour, for 2-liter containers - 20 minutes, for liter containers, 10 minutes will be enough.

After the jar is taken out of the water, it should be “rolled up” with a metal lid, again sterilized in boiling water. The sealed jar should be placed upside down on the lid, wrapped and kept for a couple of days.

Chokeberry dishes and drinks for the holidays

The interesting thing is that from this wonderful berry you can even make dishes and drinks that will decorate the festive table and can even become the highlight of the feast.

Chokeberry liqueur recipe

Making this wonderful and quite healthy alcoholic drink is quite simple.

• It is enough to pour washed chokeberries into a three-liter jar up to the shoulders (this will be about one and a half kilograms of berries), add about half a kilogram of sugar and pour it all with vodka, without adding 2 centimeters to the edge of the neck. Usually 1-1.5 liters of alcohol is enough if a 3 liter can is chosen as the filling container.

Seal the liqueur with a triple layer of parchment paper or a plastic lid, then place it in the refrigerator or cellar for two months. After this period, the liqueur is poured into bottles, sealed tightly again and stored in a cool place until use.

Cake “Skorospelochka”

So that the berries from the liqueur do not go to waste, they can be used for the cake. This dessert is quite suitable as a breakfast sponge cake if it is not decorated with cream. If you bake several biscuits, make a cream layer and decorate it on top, then it can become a fairly simple and cheap, but amazingly tasty cake.

• For a couple of glasses of flour you will need a glass of kefir or yogurt. Actually, fermented baked milk or other thick milk product would also be suitable. There you also need to pour a glass of sugar and a glass of chokeberry jam, add half a glass of berries from the liqueur and break a couple of eggs. Now, after mixing, you need to add half a teaspoon of tea soda, mix again and leave to rise for five minutes.

The dough is laid out in a form greased with any fat and baked for half an hour in the oven at +180 degrees.

Chokeberry wine

Wonderful chokeberry wine is not only beautiful, tasty, but also healthy. It is only important to remember that abuse of even the most useful product can lead to negative results. But 200 grams per day of this divine drink - a real storehouse of vitamins and minerals - will help normalize blood pressure, have a beneficial effect on vision, improve sleep and intestinal function.

This is how wine is made:

• Pour 2 kg of chokeberry minced in a meat grinder into a 10-liter bottle and add 1.5 kg of sugar. If you want the wine to be richer and tastier, add 5-6 kg of berries. You can add a handful of raisins and a handful of gray rice for more active formation of wine yeast. Then they put a medical glove with a pierced middle finger over the neck and place it in a warm place. The bottle does not need to be opened again, but you should not forget to shake it thoroughly every day.

First option: After 3 days, add a glass of sugar and 2 liters of cooled boiled water to the container. Put the glove back on and continue to shake the contents of the bottle daily.

Second option: It is possible in 10 days. Yeast is just beginning to form from the berries. Raisins and rice speed up this process, but if they are not added, then after 2 days no yeast will form. Unlike the first option, the wine will be ready not in 33 days, but in 40.

Another 10 days pass, and the home winemaker repeats the procedure again - adding a glass of sugar and 2 liters of water to the container.

After another 10 days, the procedure is repeated again. And now 10 days have passed again, and a total of 33 days have passed since the wine was touched. It's time to drain the wine! But if by this time the glove “sends” greetings to you, sticks out to the top, inflated with gases, then you should wait a little - a day or two.

The drained wine is left to settle. After a couple of days, it is carefully poured into another bottle, trying not to stir up the sediment from the bottom. This procedure also needs to be done three times, every 2-3 days, until the wine becomes clean and transparent. Then it is considered ready to eat. You can store wine in a cool place with the lid closed. If this is a jar, then a plastic lid will be quite suitable.

You can replace some of the berries with others or even use fruits, such as apples, pears, grapes, currants or cherries. The ingredients can be either frozen or dried. The taste of assorted wine will be more interesting and subtle.

Chokeberry juice

You can simply and quickly prepare chokeberry juice, which can be stored for quite a long time. Watch the video with this recipe:

Chokeberry - recipes for blood pressure

1. It should be recalled here that this berry itself is already cure for because it normalizes it. Therefore, the easiest way is to eat 100 grams of fresh fruits daily (frozen berries can be used for this purpose) three times a day if there are no problems with varicose veins, thrombophlebitis and peptic ulcers.
2. For greater benefit, a decoction of berries is often used, prepared from a kilogram of crushed fruits and 100 grams of water. The mixture should be boiled for half an hour over low heat, then the strained broth should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 24 hours. Drinking a decoction before meals normalizes blood pressure. You need to drink half a glass at least 3 times a day.
3. Also useful chokeberry infusion. To prepare it, 3 tablespoons of dry berries are enough, which are steamed in a thermos with two glasses of boiling water. Drink the infusion in the same way as the decoction, 3 times a day, half a glass.
4. 50 grams of crushed berries are mixed with a tablespoon of honey and taken daily for 10 to 40 days.
5. Freshly squeezed chokeberry juice, consumed 3 times a day half an hour before meals, has a remarkable effect on normalizing blood pressure. They drink a quarter glass - this is often enough for the disease to recede.
6. You can improve the taste of the “medicine” from chokeberry juice and enhance its effect with honey. In this case, add a teaspoon of honey to two-thirds of a glass of fresh juice. The resulting mixture is divided into three daily doses and taken 30 minutes before meals. After two weeks of use, you need to take a two-month break, after which it is recommended to repeat the course of treatment.

This is such a wonderful berry - chokeberry! Prescriptions for blood pressure, by the way, do not reveal all of its therapeutic capabilities. It’s not for nothing that old people say that you can’t buy health, but you can grow it in the garden. And this saying relates to the subject of our conversation today - when we looked at all sorts of simple recipes from chokeberry or chokeberry.

This is where I end the article, dear friends, but it would be interesting to know if you prepare any recipes for dishes or preparations for the winter from chokeberries? Please share in the comments to this article.

Few people like chokeberry, even despite its undeniable health benefits. The taste of this berry is peculiar, bitter and astringent. Most often, chokeberry is used to prepare alcoholic tinctures. Let's learn how to make delicious jam from it that everyone will love, especially children!

Benefits and features of chokeberry

The valuable qualities of chokeberry can be listed for a long time. It is very important for women that the fruits of this plant are dietary and contain only 47 calories per 100 g, which means they help keep their figure in good condition. But besides this, chokeberry is a source of a large amount of vitamins, minerals and other beneficial substances needed by our body.

Table: composition and energy value

Element	Substance content per 100 g of product
The nutritional value
Calories	55 kcal
Squirrels	1.5 g
Fats	0.2 g
Carbohydrates	10.9 g
Alimentary fiber	4.1 g
Organic acids	1.3 g
Water	80.5 g
Mono- and disaccharides	10.8 g
Starch	0.1 g
Vitamins
Vitamin PP	0.3 mg
Beta carotene	1.2 mg
Vitamin A (VE)	200 mcg
Vitamin B1 (thiamine)	0.01 mg
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)	0.02 mg
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)	0.06 mg
Vitamin B9 (folate)	1.7 mcg
Vitamin C	15 mg
Vitamin E (TE)	1.5 mg
Vitamin PP (Niacin equivalent)	0.6 mg
Chemical elements
Calcium	28 mg
Magnesium	14 mg
Sodium	4 mg
Potassium	158 mg
Phosphorus	55 mg
Iron	1.1 mg

In addition, the content of phenolic flavonoids (anthocyanins) provides the berries with a black color, shielding them from exposure to sunlight, and contributes to their astringent taste.

Chokeberry is a source of vitamins and nutrients

If you regularly eat chokeberry, you will notice that you are looking younger right before your eyes. This applies not only to appearance, but also to the general condition of the body. This wonderful berry is an excellent preventative against inflammation, bacterial infections, diabetes, nervousness and even cancer! And recent studies have proven that chokeberry fruits will significantly enhance the effect of treating all these diseases.

For those who want to lose weight, especially after winter, chokeberry will be a real discovery. It has a general balancing effect on the body, speeds up metabolism and will provide you with all the necessary set of vitamins during this period of the year. This plant has a very interesting feature: it prevents the accumulation of fat, in particular at the abdominal level.

What's the best way to prepare for the winter?

In summer and early autumn, when chokeberry ripens, its fruits can be eaten immediately, picked from the bush and washed in running water. Fresh berries will last no more than a week in the refrigerator, so you need to decide how you will process them to stock them for the winter.

Note! For any preparations, choose beautiful, dense berries with an even color and a clean, shiny surface. It is better to throw away wet fruits covered with stains immediately: most likely, they are spoiled and will spread mold.

From chokeberry you can prepare for the winter:

In this article we will tell you about making chokeberry jam. In winter, you can add it to tea, compote, and also to pies and muffins as a filling.

The main components of chokeberry jam

The standard set of products for classic jam is as follows:

• chokeberry berries;
• granulated sugar;
• water.

Since chokeberry fruits have a peculiar bitter, astringent taste, you will need a lot of sugar - about 1.5 kg per 1 kg of berries.

Choose strong, dense and clean fruits for jam.

Agree, it would be boring to make jam only from chokeberries. After all, we love experimenting with flavors! So chokeberry goes well in winter preparations with many berries, fruits, spices and other products. You can combine it in jam with:

• apples;
• oranges and lemons;
• nuts;
• plums;
• zucchini;
• mint, lemon balm and other herbs.

We will present to your attention several different recipes for making such jam. They will become a kind of “starting point” for your further experiments, because chokeberry is so good in tandem with other products that it would be a sin not to try as many options as possible! In addition to taste and aroma, such combinations acquire additional benefits for the body.

Gallery of additional ingredients

Spicy clove buds Walnut kernels Sweet raisins Cinnamon sticks Fresh apples

Recipes

We'll start with the classic preparation. This jam has a beneficial effect on the condition of the whole body and improves immunity.

Classic version

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: 40 min.

Classic chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of chokeberry;
• 1.3 kg sugar;
• 1 glass of water.

Cooking process:

1. Take a pan of suitable volume, pour water into it and add sugar. Stir until completely dissolved. To do this, you can warm up the water a little.
2. Wash the berries and remove the stems. Place in a saucepan and place in boiling water for 5-7 minutes to blanch.
3. Boil the syrup and add blanched berries to it. Cook for 10–15 minutes over medium heat. After this, remove the pan from the heat and leave the mixture to cool for 3-4 hours to room temperature.
4. Place the pan with the future jam on the fire again, bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes.
5. Immediately distribute the jam into the jars, seal with lids and leave to cool at room temperature. Jars must be cleanly washed and sterilized.

This jam is stored equally well both in the room and in a dark, cold room, such as a basement.

Delicious combination: chokeberry, lemon, apples and nuts

There are so many vitamins in this jam that doctors recommend enjoying it after long-term serious illnesses and operations.

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: about 70 minutes.

Apples are an excellent addition to chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

• chokeberry berries - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• apples (preferably Antonovka or other sour varieties) – 300 g;
• walnut kernels - 300 g.

Cooking process:

1. Pour boiling water over peeled and washed chokeberry berries and leave overnight.
2. In the morning, take 1 glass of the resulting infusion, mix it with 1.5 kg of sugar and boil until completely dissolved to make a syrup. While it is boiling, add berries, apple slices and pre-crushed nut kernels. Boil for 10 minutes and let cool slightly for 1-2 hours. After this, repeat the cooking process 2 more times for 10 minutes.
3. When you cook the mixture for the third time, add lemon to it. Pre-scald it, peel it, cut it arbitrarily and be sure to remove the seeds - because of them the jam will be bitter.
4. Cover the pan with the prepared jam with a cotton cloth and cover it with another container of the same diameter. This way you will create an air cushion that will significantly soften the rowan fruits.
5. Leave this structure overnight, and in the morning, spread the infused jam into sterilized jars and close the lids. Store the preparation in a cool place (unless, of course, you eat all the jam in a week!).

Quick jam - five minutes

Preparing this jam will take you the least amount of time.

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: about 40 minutes.

Preparing five-minute jam will not take you much time

Ingredients:

• 2 kg of chokeberry berries;
• 1 kg sugar.

For this jam, it is easier to use not the exact amount of products in grams, but the proportions: for 2 parts of fruit, 1 part of granulated sugar.

1. Blanch the washed berries in boiling water for 5 minutes, then grind in a meat grinder or blender. Mix thoroughly with sugar and place on low heat. Heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Turn up the heat a little more, wait until it boils and cook for 5 minutes.
3. Distribute the jam into clean, sterilized jars. Place them in a large saucepan, pour water up to the shoulders of the jars. After the water boils, sterilize the jam for 20 minutes, then roll up the lids.

If you want, add a little citric acid or baked mashed apples to the five-minute jam.

After the jam has cooled at room temperature, put it in the basement for storage. A refrigerator will also work - the main thing is that it is dark, dry and cool.

Note! You can easily determine the readiness of chokeberry jam by the state of the berries: as soon as they sink to the bottom, you can remove them from the heat.

Dry Kiev jam from rowan and plum

This recipe is very unusual. At first glance, it will seem complicated to you and will require a lot of time and attention. But the result will incredibly please everyone!

Difficulty level: difficult. Cooking time: 60 minutes.

A very unusual and original recipe for chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

• 250 g chokeberry;
• 250 g red rowan;
• 500 g plums;
• 400 g sugar (of which 300 g for syrup, 100 g for sprinkling);
• 300 ml water;
• 1 g cloves.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the rowan berries and separate them into small clusters (several berries per branch). Place in the freezer for 30 minutes so that the bitterness leaves the rowan and only the tartness remains.
2. Divide the plums into halves and remove the pits. It is better to take fruits of the “Hungarian” variety, not overripe and hard.

   Peel the plums and halve them

3. Place the pan on the fire and prepare the sugar syrup. Add fruits to it, boil for 5 minutes. Don't forget to skim off the foam during cooking. At this stage you can add cloves.

   Boil plums and berries in syrup for 5 minutes

4. Remove the jam from the heat and let it sit for 2-3 hours. Cook in two more batches. You can cook plums and rowan separately from each other, but this is optional.
5. You can easily determine the readiness of the jam by eye. The plum pulp, retaining its shape, will become honey-like, and the red rowan will take on an amber color.
6. Remove the fruits from the pan with a slotted spoon and place them in a sieve. Wait for the syrup to drain.

   Let the berries and plums drain

7. Sprinkle plums and rowan berries with fine sugar (you can use powdered sugar). Place on a wire rack and place in the oven for 2.5 hours at a temperature of up to 100 degrees. Make sure that the fruits do not dry out.

   Dry the fruits on a wire rack in the oven until ready.

This dry jam is somewhat reminiscent of candied fruits. It can be stored for a long time even at room temperature and any humidity in a tightly sealed container.

Recipe with zucchini

Yes, you understood correctly: we will combine berries with this wonderful vegetable. You are probably familiar with recipes for many unusual zucchini dishes. Why not make delicious jam from it and chokeberry?

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: 80 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry;
• 1 kg zucchini;
• 1 kg sugar;
• 2 cinnamon sticks;
• 1 lemon.

1. Sort through the rowan, peel it from the stalks and wash. Pat dry slightly.

   Wash the zucchini and rowan berries thoroughly

2. Wash the zucchini, cut off the peel, remove the seeds. Cut into small cubes.

   Peel the zucchini and cut into cubes

3. Place the rowan berries and zucchini in a bowl, add sugar and mix gently. Leave for a couple of hours. During this time, the products will release juice. Stir again and leave for another 3 hours until the mixture is well soaked.

   Mix the products with sugar in a bowl and leave for a while

4. Place the bowl over low heat to simmer, add the cinnamon sticks and squeeze out the lemon juice (be careful not to let the seeds get into the jam). Wait for it to boil and cook, stirring constantly, for 30 minutes. This jam produces almost no foam.

   Cook for 30 minutes, adding cinnamon and lemon juice

5. Leave the jam overnight until completely cooled. Boil it again for 30 minutes and, while still hot, place it in sterilized jars. Roll up the lids and let cool in the room. There are no special storage conditions: you can leave it in the house, put it in the refrigerator or put it in the basement.

   Place the finished jam into jars before it cools down.

The berries in this jam do not lose their shape, and the pieces of zucchini resemble candied fruits.

"Field of Dreams"

A very simple recipe containing products that will give the jam an extraordinary aroma and delicate sweetness.

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of rowan berries;
• 1 kg sugar;
• 200 g raisins;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 orange.

Cooking process:

Store the jam in a cool, dry place.

Quick dry chokeberry jam (without cooking)

Here is another recipe for dry jam, which compares favorably with the previous one in its simplicity and speed of preparation.

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: about 40 minutes.

Ingredients:

Cooking process:

1. Wash the rowan berries thoroughly. If desired, remove the stems. You don’t have to do this: the berries on the branches look even more interesting in the finished jam. Boil 1 liter of water in a saucepan and add citric acid. Pour the berries into boiling water and blanch for 2 minutes.

   Blanch chokeberries in boiling water for 2 minutes

2. Take a clean baking sheet and use a slotted spoon to place the berries from the pan into it. Make sure the water drains properly. The layer of berries on the baking sheet should be about 3 cm thick.

   Boil the berries covered with sugar in the oven for 20 minutes.

3. Remove the pan from the oven and let the berries cool. After that, place them on parchment paper sprinkled with sugar and leave to dry at room temperature. When the berries look like candied fruits, the jam is ready. You can enjoy it right away or put it in dry glass jars for long-term storage.

   Dry the berries on paper until ready

Sugar free jam

In addition to all the positive qualities, chokeberry is very useful for people with diabetes. They can also treat themselves to chokeberry jam, but without the sugar content.

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: about 60 minutes.

For such jam you do not need to follow the proportions of the products. The recipe is a little more complicated than jam with sugar, but there are no particular difficulties in its execution.

First of all, you need to prepare a large pan, wide and with low walls. Place a rag on its bottom.

Treat the chokeberry berries with boiling water and place them in half-liter jars. Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Place the jars of berries in boiling water so that the water reaches their shoulders, but does not pour inside. Reduce the heat under the pan to just maintain a simmer.

While the water is boiling, the berries in the jars will settle slightly; you will have to add them to fill the empty space.

The boiling process should last no more than 40 minutes. After this, remove the jars from the pan, roll up the lids and let cool at room temperature. Store in a cool, dry place.

Video about making chokeberry jam without cooking

What can you combine with?

Like any berry, chokeberry, even in the form of jam, is perfect for any holiday or everyday table.

Jam diluted with boiling water will be a very tasty and healthy substitute for tea. This drink will charge you with energy for the whole day, cure colds, strengthen blood vessels, and boost immunity. With regular use, you will notice that your mood improves, melancholy goes away, giving way to composure and calmness.

This drink goes very well with a hearty sandwich: a slice of white bread, butter, a slice of cheese and a spoonful of chokeberry jam. You will surely like the spicy taste.

Needless to say, this jam is great as a filling? If you love baking, then you will appreciate the taste of pies, cupcakes, muffins, filled with jam prepared according to any of the above recipes.

Roll with chokeberry jam

You probably know how to bake apples with honey. Be sure to try replacing honey with chokeberry jam - the taste will amazingly surprise you! If you like to add sweetness to fresh berries and fruits, cut them into pieces and mix with jam. Add the resulting mass to cottage cheese, oatmeal and any other porridge, and get a complete, satisfying, tasty and healthy dish for the whole family!

A simple sandwich with chokeberry jam will fill you up and give you energy!

In the end, for restless children, such jam is just a godsend: spread a little on a slice of bread, have a snack on the go, and with fresh energy - to new exploits and adventures!

Good afternoon, dear friends and guests of the site “I am a villager”!
Today we will make delicious preparations for the winter from chokeberry. In the previous article we learned about it, it will be great if you prepare this healthy berry for the winter.

I especially recommend that people suffering from high blood pressure stock up on this healing berry.

The most useful preparation for the winter of chokeberry is drying. Dried berries retain their beneficial properties.

You can store the berries for 2 years, packed in a cardboard box or glass jar, covered with parchment paper. Store in a dry and dark place. Dried chokeberry berries are used to prepare vitamin teas, compotes, jelly, bake pies and make medicinal infusions.

The easiest way is to scatter the berries on a baking sheet in one layer and dry them in a well-ventilated area, stirring as you go. When the berries stop shrinking and become wrinkled, they can be stored.

If you cannot dry the berries in the air, dry them in the oven, placing them for a while at a temperature of no more than 60 degrees. The berries should not lose their color and smell.

Dry the berries in the oven, spread them on a baking sheet, stir, the temperature is first 40 degrees, and when they begin to wilt, increase the oven temperature to 60 degrees.

I really like drying chokeberry berries in brushes. We cut off the bunches of berries with scissors and hang them on a thread stretched in the attic, balcony or veranda. In winter, I removed the brush and ate it. Vitamins are always at hand.

Chokeberry pureed with sugar

The healthy product, without being subjected to heat treatment, preserves vitamins and beneficial compounds. It is recommended to use during cold epidemics and the onset of vitamin deficiency.

For 1 kg of berries we take 800 grams of sugar. Grind the berries through a meat grinder twice. You can grind it with a blender.

Add sugar and stir thoroughly, let stand and stir again. Try it, if the sugar has dissolved, place it in sterile jars and cover with plastic lids. Store in a cool, dark place.

Aronia jam with apples

I made jam for the first time this year, and it turned out delicious. I advise you to cook according to my recipe.

• 3 kg of rowan berries,
• 4.5 kg sugar,
• 1 kg ,
• 0.4 g walnuts (can be replaced with cinnamon, half a teaspoon),
• 3 glasses of water,
• 2 large lemons.

Pour boiling water over the berries, leave for 12 hours, and drain the infusion. Prepare syrup from 3 glasses of infusion and sugar. Add berries, peeled and seeded apples, lightly chopped nuts to the syrup, cook for 5 minutes from the moment of boiling.

Let cool until warm and cook for 10 minutes from the moment it boils. Add the chopped lemons and cook for another 15 minutes. Don't forget to remove the foam.

Remove the jam from the heat, let it cool slightly and pour into sterile jars, close with simple lids and put away for storage.

You can take a small amount, I just have a large harvest of berries, so I make a lot of jam.

Chokeberry raisins

• 1.5 kg of berries,
• 1 kg sugar,
• 2 tbsp water,
• 1 teaspoon of citric acid.

We make syrup from water and sugar. Dispense the berries and citric acid into boiling syrup and cook for 20 minutes. Cool and place the berries in a colander, let the syrup drain and place the berries on a baking sheet to dry on parchment paper. Stir occasionally while drying. Dry for 3-4 days. Store in a paper bag or glass jar under a gauze tie.

It will be very tasty if you sprinkle the berries with powdered sugar before putting them to dry.

The syrup left over from cooking the berries is poured into a sterile container and stored for making drinks and jelly.

You will get a very tasty drink - liqueur, if you mix syrup with good vodka 1:1. I tried it, it’s a wonderful, beautiful and tasty drink.

Universal berry for compote

Chokeberry berries give a very beautiful color to compote and can be combined with any fruits and berries. One handful per three-liter jar is enough to paint a pleasant, rich color.

For 1 three-liter jar of compote we take 0.5 kg of sugar. Pour chokeberry berries into the jar, filling it 1/3 full, add apples or any other fruit (you can use just one handful for taste).

Cook the syrup, add 0.5 sugar to 2.1 liters of water, carefully pour the boiling syrup into the contents of the jar and immediately twist it, put it under a fur coat until it cools.

Compotes are stored for a very long time, several years.

Compote is very easy to prepare with it!

Still, no matter how you preserve it, frozen berries are the healthiest berries. It retains up to 75% of all beneficial properties and compounds.

Simply freeze (spread out on a baking sheet), place in a bag and seal tightly, it's ready to freeze.

A delicious wine is made from chokeberry, this year I’ll try to make a little, what comes out of it, I’ll report back next year.

Once again I want to remind you that chokeberry is a very healthy berry, do not ignore it, it is especially useful for hypertensive patients and diabetics. Eating rowan berries strengthens the immune system and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.

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Watch the video recipe for making chokeberry juice.

Recipes for chokeberry (chokeberry) are quite numerous. These are compotes, liqueurs, jams, preserves, adjika and others. All of the above options store well in winter. In addition to being sealed, rowan can be dried or frozen. And experienced housewives manage to bake pies with tart berries. If you don’t know what to make from chokeberry for the winter or just want to please your loved ones with something special, then the following recipes are for you.

Chokeberry jam with apples

Chokeberry recipes for the winter come first. This delicacy will please all family members. If there are household members who have been diagnosed with hypertension, then it is worth having several jars of chokeberry jam in the cellar. It will be an excellent remedy for pressure.

You will need:

• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• rowan - 1 kg;
• water - 0.5 l;
• apples - 0.5 kg;
• citric acid - half a tsp.

Cooking steps:

This preparation of chokeberry and apple can be stored both in the cellar and in the closet. Low temperatures are absolutely not necessary.

Video recipes for chokeberry in jam and marmalade

Apple and chokeberry manna

If you have fresh, frozen or dry rowan berries at home, chokeberry recipes will come in handy. You can pamper your family with delicious pastries. Manna with chokeberry turns out very soft and tasty.

You will need:

• semolina - a glass;
• sugar - 100 g;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
• kefir - 0.5 l;
• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• apples - 2 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 0.5 tsp;
• chokeberry - 0.5 cups.

Cooking steps:

You should cut the manna in the mold and when it has already cooled down.

Apple and mountain ash compote for the winter

You can make a compote from one chokeberry, but then it will turn out tart. And if you combine it with an apple, you get a very tasty and healthy drink.

You will need:

• water - 1.5 l;
• sugar - 200 g;
• apples - 3-4 pcs.;
• chokeberry - 250 g.

Cooking steps:

Prepared according to this recipe from chokeberries with apples, there is no need to sterilize. It will keep well at room temperature.

Aronia liqueur

The aroma of this drink is unsurpassed, as is the taste. You can serve this liqueur for any occasion; you can’t help but like it.

You will need:

• vodka - 500 ml;
• rowan - 2 cups;
• sugar - 2 cups;
• cherry foliage - 80-100 pcs.;
• water - 1 l;
• citric acid - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking steps:

1. Initially, you should prepare the chokeberry berries. Remove them from the brushes and wash them.
2. Place the rowan berries in a large saucepan, fill with water and add sugar. Place the container on the stove and keep it over medium heat for about 10 minutes, after boiling. Add citric acid in 2 minutes.
3. Leave the syrup to cool. Then strain, pour into glass jars and cover with lids.
4. Place closed containers in a cool and dark place to infuse for at least a week.
5. Then pour vodka into the syrup, close the lid and leave again for a while.

The proportions can be changed. There may be less or more vodka.

Recipe for chokeberry jelly for the winter

This delicacy can be spread on bread or placed in baked goods. As mentioned above, chokeberry lowers blood pressure. Therefore, this jelly can be used to treat hypertension.

You will need:

• chokeberry - 2.5 kg;
• water - 3 glasses;
• sugar - 1 kg.

Cooking steps:

You can add less or more sugar. The optimal quantity is 1 kg.

Adjika

This chokeberry recipe will be useful for lovers of spicy dishes. You can prepare an unusual seasoning for meat. This adjika will be something special at any time of the year.

You will need:

• chokeberry - 1 liter jar;
• sugar - 250 g;
• garlic cloves - a glass;
• - 1 PC.;
• salt - 4 tbsp. l.;
• cloves - 1 tsp;
• ground pepper (black) - 1 tbsp. l.;
• hops-suneli - 1 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp.

Cooking steps:

Do not consume adjika during the day, it needs to brew. Can be stored in the refrigerator for about 6 months.

Garlic with rowan

A savory appetizer will also come in handy with meat dishes. It is aromatic and contains a lot of vitamins. It is very easy to prepare.

You will need:

• chokeberry berries - 500 g;
• garlic - 4-5 medium-sized cloves;
• spices and salt - to taste.

Cooking steps:

The best place to store snacks is in the refrigerator.

Chokeberry recipes: tincture

Tinctures can be made with vodka, alcohol, cognac or moonshine. This drink would be perfect for a holiday. It will not only be tasty and unusual, but will also benefit the body. You should not drink this drink excessively, especially for people with low blood pressure.

You will need:

• alcohol-containing liquid - 1 l;
• rowan - 1 kg;
• sugar - optional.

Preparation:

You can store this tincture for as long as you like.

By the way, many people reuse strained berries. The taste of the tincture is not much different.

Kvass from chokeberry

Any kvass helps normalize the gastrointestinal tract, improve metabolism, and has a positive effect on the heart and blood vessels. And if you add berries or fruits to it, the drink also becomes a storehouse of vitamins. If the composition contains chokeberry, then the kvass will become rich in organic acids, microelements and biologically active substances. The beautiful ruby ​​color of the drink pleases the eye, and the composition itself perfectly quenches thirst.

You will need:

• water - 1 l;
• rowan - 250 g;
• sugar - a glass;
• yeast - 10 g.

Cooking steps:

You can drink kvass either at room temperature or chilled. The taste remains unforgettable in both cases.

Here are the best recipes for winter chokeberry preparations. You can experiment with ingredients - remove or add something to suit your taste. But, if you do not have experience in conservation, then you should not deviate from the above instructions.

Adjika from chokeberry - video