What to do with chokeberry fruits. Recipes for chokeberry preparations and dishes: a complete guide

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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. We 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.

Overseas guest

Chokeberry is a direct competitor to blueberries in maintaining vision health

The native land of chokeberry is North America, but now this plant can be found in many of our gardens and summer cottages. She feels comfortable almost everywhere. The exception is saline, swampy and rocky soils. Fruits rich in useful substances appear already in the third or fourth year. The berries reach their best quality after the first frost, when it is recommended to pick them. Although for harvesting for the winter, you can pick ripe fruits already in early and mid-autumn.

Read more about the beneficial properties and contraindications for consuming chokeberry in the article:

How to preserve berries: preparation options

If you carefully cut the chokeberry clusters along with the stalks, and then hang them in a room where there is no access to sunlight and the temperature does not rise above +5ºС (cellar, basement, attic or closet on the balcony), then the berries will remain fresh for a long time.

The berries do not lose most of their advantages when frozen, dried and dried, as well as when preserved with short-term heat treatment.

How to dry properly

Drying chokeberry is perfect for cooking compotes in winter

Dryers for fruits, vegetables and berries have become good helpers for modern housewives. They can also be used when preparing chokeberries, but only when the heating in the apparatus is below 50ºC, otherwise some of the vitamins will still be lost.

It is better to dry chokeberry fruits naturally. First, the berries are separated from the stalks, washed in running water, which is allowed to drain well, and scattered on paper in a thin layer in a room where there is good air ventilation. From time to time the berries are stirred. The finished product is stored in paper bags or fabric bags.

How to freeze

Freezing will be juicier than drying, but dried berries are more flavorful

In a spacious refrigerator freezer or special freezer, chokeberries can be quickly frozen. To do this, separate the berries from the stalks, wash them and dry them. The only important nuance of this process is to divide the entire volume of fruits into small rational portions, which will subsequently be defrosted separately for preparing various dishes.

Gentle canning

You can add apples, cherries and even orange zest to the jam!

When preparing home preserves for the winter, housewives strive to preserve the usefulness of fruits and vegetables as much as possible. To achieve this when canning chokeberries, long-term boiling of the product or prolonged heating at high temperatures should be avoided.

What is prepared from chokeberry

The short answer to this question: “They prepare everything that they can from other berries, and even a little more.” To briefly list it:

• drinks: compotes, tea, fruit drink, jelly;
• berries ground with sugar;
• jam made only from chokeberry and with the addition of other fruits;
• jams and marmalade;
• marmalade, pastille, candied fruits;
• jam and jam;
• baked goods: pies, pies, muffins, biscuits, charlottes;
• sauces and seasonings, vinegar;
• alcoholic drinks: wine, liqueur, tincture, liqueur, moonshine and mash.

Recipes for cooking chokeberry dishes

A surprising number of different dishes and excellent preparations for future use can be made from this healthy berry. Recipes for some of them are given below.

Chokeberry wine at home

Chokeberry wine is a healthy product, but diabetics are not allowed to drink it.

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 5 kg,
• sugar - 1 kg,
• raisins - 50 g (optional),
• water - 1 l.

1. Carefully sort the berries, removing unripe and spoiled ones. Carefully sterilize and dry the container where the wine will be prepared. The chokeberries are not washed to allow natural fermentation.
2. Each berry is crushed with clean hands and placed in a glass, enamel or plastic wide vessel with a capacity of 10 liters. Add 0.5 kg of sugar there. A handful of unwashed raisins poured into a vessel has a positive effect on the fermentation process. The resulting mass is thoroughly mixed and placed in a room with a temperature of +18°C - +25°C for seven days. Stir the entire mass 3-4 times daily.
3. During this period, watch for the berries to rise to the surface. Once they are collected in the top layer, you should collect them with your hands and squeeze out the juice from them. The squeezed berries are not thrown away, but all the juice (both remaining in the vessel and obtained during squeezing) is filtered through cheesecloth or a colander and poured into the vessel where it will ferment, filling less than half of it. Install a water seal on the container or put on a rubber glove with one pierced finger, place the fermentation container in a dark place at room temperature.
4. The squeezed berries are mixed with 0.5 kg of sugar and a liter of warm water at about 30°C, stirred and left at room temperature in a dark place for five days. This mixture is stirred daily and the floating parts of the berries are drowned in it to prevent mold from appearing. After the fermentation period has expired, the mixture is filtered through a colander. The collected pulp can be thrown away, and the strained juice is poured into the fermentation vessel and the water seal is placed again.
5. Young wine will be formed in 25–50 days, when the fermentation process ends - gas bubbles will not pass through the water seal for a day or the glove will fall and will not rise again. By this time, sediment will appear at the bottom of the vessel, and the color of the drink will become lighter. The young wine is carefully poured into another vessel through a straw, without touching the sediment. You can add sugar to the drink to taste or, for better storage, fix it with vodka or alcohol diluted to 40–45%.
6. The wine will mature in filled to the top and tightly closed vessels for three to six months in a room with a temperature of 8–16°C. Once every month or month and a half, the wine needs to be filtered if sediment appears at the bottom. If sugar was added to the young wine to improve the taste, then the seal should be put back on the container for the first time (up to 10 days).
7. The finished wine is stored in hermetically sealed bottles. In the refrigerator or cellar it will retain its quality for 3–5 years. Its strength is 10–12% if no vodka or alcohol has been added.

Classic chokeberry tincture

Classic chokeberry tincture will help lower blood pressure in some cases.

The most delicious tincture is obtained from large berries caught by frost, but you can also use dried chokeberry, taking it in half the amount required in the recipe. The base of the tincture can be vodka, diluted alcohol, purified moonshine, cognac.

Ingredients:

• black rowan berries - 1 kg,
• vodka (alcohol, cognac) – 1 l,
• sugar - 300–500 g to taste (optional).

1. The berries are carefully sorted, small and spoiled ones are removed, the raw materials are placed in a jar, the alcohol base is poured in, sugar is added, and stirred. The liquid should cover the chokeberry by 2–3 cm.
2. The vessel is closed with a lid and kept in a room at room temperature.
3. Infusion period is 2–2.5 months. Shake the jar every 4-5 days.
4. The finished product is bottled and hermetically sealed. At room temperature, the tincture can be stored indefinitely.

Chokeberry liqueur

Chokeberry liqueur is easier to prepare and does not require alcohol

To prevent the chokeberry liqueur from becoming bitter, you should use fresh, large, healthy berries that have been caught in the frost to prepare it. Remove all small items and spoiled fruits.

Ingredients:

• chokeberry berries - 3 kg,
• sugar - 1 kg.

1. Berries should not be washed. Grind them until smooth with your hands, a blender or a wooden pestle.
2. The mixture is poured into a glass jar, sugar is added, and stirred.
3. The vessel is covered with gauze and placed in a dark place at room temperature. Stir the mixture daily with a wooden stick.
4. After 3-4 days, install a water seal or put on a rubber glove with a punctured finger. At the end of fermentation, after a month and a half (there will be no bubbles in the water seal or the glove will fall off), the drink is purified through a gauze-cotton filter.
5. The liqueur is bottled, tightly corked and kept for 2–3 months in a cool room with a temperature of 10°C to 16°C. After this, it is ready for use within a year or two.

Soft drinks

This bluish-black berry is not only healthy, but also tasty. Drinks made from it have a delicious aroma, rich bright color and many useful and healing properties.

Compote for the winter

Aronia compote - your vitamin boost for the winter

To prepare canned compote, chokeberry berries are sorted, all excess is removed, washed and dried. Sterilized jars are filled one third with berries, poured with boiling water and left to warm for three minutes. Then the water is filtered and brought to a boil again to prepare syrup at the rate of 0.5 kg of sugar per liter of water. After adding sugar, boil the solution, stirring, for 5–10 minutes, pour it over the berries and seal the jars. They are turned upside down, wrapped and left to cool completely. Store the compote in a cool place. It will be ready for use a month after preparation.

Chokeberry tea

Chokeberry tea will help support the immune system

A tasty and healthy drink is prepared, as a rule, from dried fruits or leaves of chokeberry. A few tablespoons of raw material are poured into 500 ml of boiling water and left for 5-7 minutes to infuse. Very interesting and healthy drinks can be obtained by supplementing chokeberry with dried fruits and leaves of raspberries, currants, and cherries.

Chokeberry and cranberry juice

Chokeberry and cranberry juice is a sour vitamin bomb on your table

Ingredients:

• water - 1.5 l,
• chokeberry - 0.3 kg,
• cranberries - 0.1 kg,
• sugar - 5 tablespoons.

1. To prepare fruit juice in any convenient way, puree chokeberries and cranberries, rub it through a sieve and strain off the juice.
2. The remaining cake is poured with water and brought to a boil, the foam is removed, and sugar is added. Boil for about 15 minutes and set aside for half an hour to infuse and cool.
3. Strain or carefully drain the broth, add the juice of fresh berries to it. The drink is delicious both hot and cold.

Chokeberry jelly

Chokeberry jelly will help normalize stool

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 100 g,
• lemon - 1/2 pcs.,
• sugar - to taste,
• starch - 40–80 g,
• water - 1 l.

1. The preparation of jelly begins by diluting the starch with a small amount of cooled boiled water. The more starch used, the thicker the drink will be.
2. The berries are washed and crushed into puree. Strain the chokeberry juice through a sieve and squeeze out the lemon juice.
3. The dense part of the berries remaining in the sieve is filled with water and boiled for 10 minutes.
4. Then the broth is filtered, sugar is added to it and boiled again.
5. While stirring the sweet broth, pour diluted starch into it, bring to a boil and remove from the stove.
6. Fresh chokeberry and lemon juice are added to the jelly, mixed, and poured into glasses or cups. Serve hot or cold.

Recipes for winter preparations: what can be prepared

Every housewife knows how important it is to stock up on all the gifts of nature for the winter, which will help overcome the cold, weakened immunity, and illness. Increasingly, the list of winter supplies includes chokeberry preparations - this priceless storehouse of everything that the body needs.

Chokeberry, ground with sugar (five minutes without cooking)

Raw chokeberry, ground with sugar, is healthier than jam

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1.2 kg,
• granulated sugar - 800 g.

1. Carefully sorted and thoroughly washed chokeberries are dried on a large piece of cloth or towel.
2. First, half the berries and half the sugar are crushed in a blender to a smooth puree. A separate vessel is poured with boiling water and the resulting mass is placed into it.
3. Then the same operation is carried out with the second part of the berries and sugar.
4. Both parts of the resulting puree, combined together, are stirred for a while to quickly dissolve the sugar, and then left for a quarter of an hour, covered with a lid.
5. Place this uncooked jam in small sterilized jars and close with sterile lids. Store the product at the bottom of the refrigerator.

Chokeberry jam will become a real decoration of the winter table

Ingredients:

• chokeberry berries - 1 kg,
• sugar - 1 kg,
• water - 3 glasses.

1. Pre-washed chokeberry is poured with cold water for a day.
2. For tomorrow, preparation begins by boiling syrup from water and sugar according to the recipe. Drain the water from the berries and pour hot syrup over them, leaving until it cools completely.
3. After the syrup is drained, bring it to a boil and cook for 20 minutes.
4. Then add berries to it and cook for another 30 minutes.
5. The finished jam is poured into sterilized jars and tightly closed with lids. You can store the workpiece in the refrigerator, cellar or other cool place.

Preparation of chokeberry with apples

If there is not much chokeberry for curling, mix it with apples

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg,
• apples - 400 g,
• sugar - 1.3 kg,
• water - 2 glasses,
• cinnamon - to taste.

1. The chokeberry berries are washed, removing the stalks, then dipped in boiling water for five minutes and rinsed with cold water.
2. Separately prepare syrup from two glasses of water and 0.5 kg of sugar. It is stirred until completely dissolved, then the berries are added.
3. After boiling, cook over low heat for 5–7 minutes and leave to infuse for at least three hours; you can leave it overnight.
4. Then the jam is heated again to a boil and the remaining sugar and washed, peeled and peeled apples, cut into pieces, are added to it. Lovers of cinnamon flavor add a cinnamon stick. If cinnamon is only available in powder form, it should be added at the very end of making the jam.
5. Boil the mixture for another 15 minutes. During this time, all the fruits will be ready.
6. Place the finished jam in clean jars and store at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Jam, marmalade

Chokeberry jam has a beautiful ruby ​​color and is loved by children

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg,
• sugar - 1.2 kg,
• water - 1.5 cups.

1. The sorted and washed berries are poured with water and cooked under the lid for about half an hour until the berries become soft.
2. Then, after draining, they are crushed with a blender or rubbed through a sieve.
3. Add sugar to the resulting puree and mix.
4. The mass is boiled until reduced in volume by approximately one third. Then they are rolled into jars.

Candied chokeberries

Candied chokeberries are a healthy delicacy if used wisely

This well-stored preparation, which is also very easy to prepare, can become not only a healthy and tasty treat, but also a homemade “medicine” for people suffering from hypertension.

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1.5 kg,
• sugar - 1 kg,
• water - 200 ml,
• powdered sugar - to taste.

1. The berries are carefully sorted, substandard ones are removed, washed in cold running water or changed several times, and dried on a cloth.
2. Syrup is made from water and sugar. It is heated to a boil, after the crystals are completely dissolved, the berries are poured into it. You can cook the berries immediately until tender or let the syrup boil, set it aside for a couple of hours, and then cook over low heat for about 20 minutes without covering the pan or bowl with a lid. Five minutes before the end of cooking, add citric acid.
3. The cooked berries are carefully strained through a colander, as they are easy to damage while they are still warm. When the berries reach room temperature, they are transferred to a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Heat the oven to 50°C and place a baking sheet in it for 2 hours. After the time has passed, the oven is turned off, but the baking sheets with the berries are not removed, but the berries are allowed to cool completely again.
4. After all the procedures, the chokeberry is generously sprinkled with powdered sugar and stored in containers that can be hermetically sealed.

homemade baking

This healthy and tasty berry is used to bake open, closed and grated pies, charlotte, gingerbread, pies with yeast, puff pastry or unleavened dough, muffins, muffins, sponge cakes, rolls and even make cakes. Below are recipes for some of these products.

Chokeberry pie is a bright accent on the table during breakfast or snack

Ingredients:

• berries - about 400 g,
• eggs - 3 pcs.,
• kefir - 1 glass,
• sugar - 1 glass,
• flour - 2 cups,
• soda - 1 teaspoon,
• vinegar to quench soda
• butter or margarine for greasing the baking dish,
• semolina or flour for sprinkling the mold.

1. The chokeberry berries are separated from the stalks, carefully sorted, washed well, and dried on a towel. Then they are mixed with a small amount of flour so that they are more evenly distributed in the dough.
2. To prepare the dough, beat the eggs and sugar well. Continuing to beat, add kefir and slaked soda. After adding flour, knead a thin dough (the consistency of thick sour cream). Pour berries into it and mix.
3. Choose a form in which the dough will be placed in a layer 2–3 cm thick. It is greased and sprinkled with flour or semolina. Place the dough into it and level its surface.
4. Bake for up to half an hour in an oven preheated to 200°C until the crust is browned.

Yeast dough pies with chokeberry

Pies with chokeberry will remind you of warm autumn

To fill the pies, you can use fresh or thawed chokeberries, adding sugar to taste. Thawed berries are less tart. Many housewives prefer to mix chokeberries, for example with currants, for filling pies, supplementing them with pieces of peeled apple. The sweet filling corresponds to a rich yeast dough, which can be prepared according to any recipe. You can use this:

Ingredients:

• milk - 0.5 l,
• sugar - 100 g,
• salt - 0.5 teaspoon,
• yeast - 1 small packet,
• flour - 900 g,
• butter - 100 g vegetable or 80 g melted butter,
• eggs - 3 pcs.

1. Milk is heated to 40°C, sugar and yeast are added, and allowed to stand warm for 20 minutes.
2. Add a third of the flour, salt, and leave to ferment in a warm place for 40 minutes.
3. Pour in the oil, lightly beat the eggs with a fork, sifted flour, knead well and place in a warm place for 2 hours. Afterwards they knead and again place in a warm place for an hour and a half.
4. Place the molded pies on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and bake at 180°C for up to half an hour. The baking time depends on the specific oven.

Cupcake with chokeberry berries

Cupcake with chokeberry looks very elegant

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - one and a half glasses,
• flour - 2 cups,
• sugar - 1 glass,
• baking powder - 1.5 teaspoons,
• soda - 0.5 teaspoon,
• apple juice - 1 glass,
• eggs - 2 pieces,
• butter - 2 tablespoons,
• salt - a pinch,
• powdered sugar for sprinkling cupcakes.

1. In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients except powdered sugar.
2. Beat apple juice, eggs and butter with a mixer into a homogeneous mass. Add the dry mixture of ingredients to it and mix. Add berries and mix again.
3. The dough is transferred to a baking dish, previously greased and sprinkled with flour, and leveled.
4. Preheat the oven to 175°C. The cake is baked for about 20 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden stick or toothpick. The product is ready when it is inserted into the center of the cupcake and comes out completely dry.
5. The finished cake is left to cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then removed and cooled. When serving the product, lightly sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

Aronia desserts

Aronia berries can be prepared in such a way that they will not only become a source of many substances necessary and beneficial for the body, but also delicious desserts that will bring great pleasure to all family members.

Marmalade

Chokeberry marmalade can be made without sugar by adding stevia

You can make marmalade from chokeberries without adding additional thickeners, since the fruits themselves contain a sufficient amount of pectin.

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg,
• water - 1 glass,
• granulated sugar - 500 g,
• vanilla sugar - 5 g.

1. The washed chokeberry is poured with water and boiled over low heat until the berries soften. Then they are rubbed through a sieve, sugar is added to the puree and cooked over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly.
2. The baking sheet is covered with parchment, greased with a thin layer of refined vegetable oil. Preheat the oven to 160–170°C. The boiled thickened puree is laid out on a baking sheet, the surface is leveled and placed in the oven, leaving its door ajar for better air circulation.
3. Dry the marmalade until a thin crust appears on top. Then remove the pan from the oven and leave until completely cooled.
4. The finished layer of marmalade is transferred to a cutting board, the parchment is removed and cut into portions, which are sprinkled with vanilla sugar on all sides.

Chokeberry jelly for the winter

Chokeberry jelly can be stored in a jar

Ingredients:

• chokeberry berries - 800 g;
• sugar - 650 g;
• instant gelatin - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• drinking water - 1.2 l.

1. The washed berries are kneaded by hand in a deep saucepan and the juice is drained.
2. The remaining pomace is poured with boiling water, boiled for a quarter of an hour and filtered through a sieve lined with gauze.
3. Add sugar to the broth, stir, and boil for 7 minutes after boiling.
4. Pour about a glass of broth, dissolve gelatin in it and return to the total volume. The previously squeezed berry juice is poured into it and continue to cook for about five minutes.
5. The finished jelly is poured into prepared jars and sealed with lids.

A forgotten delicacy - rowan pastille

Chokeberry marshmallow - a healthy treat for children

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 10 glasses,
• sugar - 5 glasses,
• egg white - 2 pieces.

1. The berries are separated from the stalks and carefully washed, placed in a saucepan and crushed with a wooden spoon.
2. Pour sugar into the resulting mass, cover with a lid, and place in the oven preheated to 160°C.
3. After a sufficient amount of juice has been released, the mass is stirred to better dissolve the sugar, rubbed through a sieve and allowed to cool. Add whites to the warm mass and beat everything until white.
4. To dry the future marshmallow, use a heat-resistant glass dish. Place a third of the whipped berry-protein mixture on it and place in the oven at 80°C.
5. When the mass becomes dense enough, lay the second third of the mixture on top.
6. Drying is then repeated with the third part. After this, the dish is covered with clean white paper and a lid. Store the pastille in a dry and cool place.

Classic chokeberry syrup

Sometimes when preparing chokeberry syrup, hawthorn berries are added to it

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 2.5 kg
• water - 4 l
• citric acid - 25 g
• sugar - by volume of juice: 1 kg per liter

1. Pour freshly boiled water over the berries and add citric acid, stir, cover with a lid, wrap warmly and leave for a day.
2. The next day, strain the liquid through several layers of fabric. To ensure that the juice remains clear, it is better not to squeeze the berries, but to make jam from them.
3. The resulting juice is measured in a liter jar and the appropriate amount of sugar is poured into it, stirred and heated for 10 minutes on fire. Then the syrup is poured into sterile containers and closed with lids. The product can be stored at room temperature, since the high sugar content acts as a preservative.

Aronia sauce for meat, poultry, fish

Chokeberry, a berry with excellent unique taste and aroma, can be used not only for making sweets and drinks, but also become the basis for preparing sauces and seasonings for meat, fish, and vegetable dishes.

Chokeberry sauce has a beautiful color, pleasant aroma and can be stored for a long time

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg,
• garlic - 2 medium heads,
• hot pepper - 1–2 pods,
• granulated sugar - 1 cup,
• salt - 2 tablespoons,
• Khmeli Suneli seasoning – 1 tablespoon,
• ground black and red peppers - to taste,
• vinegar 9% - 3 tablespoons.

1. Thoroughly washed and dried chokeberry berries, peeled garlic and hot pepper (if you remove the seeds from it, the sauce will be less spicy) are passed through a meat grinder.
2. After stirring the resulting mass, add all the other ingredients and knead again until the sugar and salt dissolve.
3. The finished sauce is placed in sterile jars and sealed with sterilized lids. The product is stored in the refrigerator, as it has not undergone heat treatment. Its shelf life is approximately six months.

We are very conservative in our culinary preferences and preferences. Chokeberry dishes prepared according to the recipes outlined in the article will help add more variety to your diet, supplementing it with healthy and tasty products.

If you want to improve your health, support your immune system and do it exclusively with natural means, you should definitely pay attention to chokeberry or chokeberry. Recipes with this juicy berry were known to the American Indians! And in Rus' they knew how to prepare a tasty and healthy delicacy from chokeberry.

The low-growing shrub, strewn with glossy blue-black berries, began to be cultivated in North America long before a white man set foot there. With the help of chokeberry juice, Indian tribes successfully dealt with wounds and skin diseases, fever and stomach ailments, and treated a good dozen other ailments. In the 17th-19th centuries, this plant was also developed in Rus' - first as an ornamental shrub for the garden, and then as a festive table dish. Rowan, soaked and dried, in honey and sugar, in pies and liqueurs... During the Soviet era, chokeberry juice, tinctures and extract began to be actively used in medicine, and they were used to treat hypertension and atherosclerosis.

Nowadays, chokeberry is a time-tested and officially recognized medicine, a vitamin supplement for food and simply a delicious dessert for those with a sweet tooth. And let it not be used as widely as the more common raspberries or strawberries! Over many centuries of acquaintance with this berry, housewives have invented many recipes with chokeberry, both simple and more complex. Once you try a fragrant berry pie, fruit drink or homemade chokeberry wine, you will certainly be eager to continue your culinary experiments with this strong, sweet and sour berry. And the recipes collected in this article will help you cook easily and with pleasure.

Chokeberry jam

What will you need?

• 1 kg of berries. You will need to first prepare them for use. Pick the berries from the bunches, sort them, wash them, place them in a suitable container and keep them in an oven preheated to 80 degrees for 3 hours.
• 1 kg sugar.
• 500 ml water.
• 200 g of freshly squeezed juice from any fruit or berries.
• 100 g citric acid.

Remove the berries from the oven and drain the juice. Combine it with water, sugar and prepared fruit juice, boil until thick. Pour the berries set aside into the resulting syrup, reduce the heat and continue to keep the mixture on the stove until the rowan berries become transparent. Add citric acid to the jam and stir well. Turn off the stove, wait five minutes and remove the pan from the heat. All that remains is to roll the jam into jars or let it cool and start tasting.

Chokeberry syrup

Two small but very useful berries - rowan and hawthorn - work real miracles. Under their imperceptible but positive influence, the heart and blood vessels are noticeably healthier, the circulatory and nervous systems are strengthened, cholesterol decreases and the manifestations of atherosclerosis are reduced. Microbes and viruses that attack the body recede, and overall health improves. If you have come across hawthorn syrup with chokeberry in a pharmacy or on store shelves, then you probably know how healthy and tasty this product is. But you can make it at home by making some changes to the process of cooking rowan jam!

Pour an equal amount of boiling water over a glass of washed hawthorn berries, keep on the fire for another 5 minutes, set aside from the stove and let it brew under the lid for 2 hours. Prepare chokeberries in the oven using the above method. Then combine rowan berries, infusion and hawthorn fruits with 1 kg of sugar and half a liter of water in one saucepan. Boil the liquid until it reaches the consistency of syrup, then strain. The content of nutrients in each spoon will simply go off scale!

Try serving this syrup with pancakes for breakfast and you can enjoy the magical taste without worrying about extra folds at your waist.

Chokeberry compote

Drinks made from chokeberry have a rather unique taste: sweet, but quite tart and with noticeable sourness. To ensure that every member of your family will like the future compote, cook rowan berries together with sweet apples.

Prepare:

• 1 kg of chokeberry berries;
• small lemon;
• 2-3 large apples;
• half a kilo of sugar;
• 3-4 liters of water.

Rinse the berries. Peel the apples, cut into quarters and remove the core. Wash the lemon with a hard sponge and cut into large circles. Boil water, add fruits, berries and all the sugar. Boil for another 15 minutes, turn off the stove and let the compote cool without removing it from the burner. Apples and chokeberry together will wonderfully complement each other: excess astringency goes away, the sourness becomes less pronounced, but the incomparable aroma and taste of rowan remains. And due to short heat treatment, the compote will retain most of the vitamins.

Chokeberry jelly

To make a thick, rich and healthy jelly for the stomach, you almost don’t have to change the classic recipe. Prepare:

• 500 g chokeberry berries;
• 200 g of any fruits and berries to slightly muffle the strong taste of chokeberry;
• 300 g sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. starch;
• 2 liters of water.

Bring water with berries and sugar to a boil. In a thin stream, with constant stirring, pour 3 tbsp into the compote. l. potato starch. Wait until it boils again, without stopping stirring. And remove the finished jelly from the heat.

Pie with chokeberry

Recipes with chokeberry are not limited to drinks. If you have the desire, a glass of rowan and 40 minutes of free time, it won’t cost you anything to make a quick, airy pie. Required:

• 200 g kefir;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 g sugar;
• 150 g flour;
• a glass of chokeberry;
• half a teaspoon of soda;
• lemon or apple cider vinegar;
• butter.

Mix kefir, eggs and sugar using a mixer. Add flour to mixture. Quench the baking soda with lemon juice or vinegar and add to the dough. Add the washed and towel-dried rowan berries there and mix everything thoroughly again. If the mixture seems runny, add a little flour. Grease the pan with oil, lay out the dough, level it and send the pie to bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees. After 20 minutes, the appetizing smell of a delicacy with a slightly unusual but pleasant taste of chokeberry will spread through the kitchen. The recipe will not require any culinary skills or special diligence from you. Even the most inexperienced housewife can cope with this task effortlessly!

A pleasant moment: remember that the dough for this pie is based on the lightest product - kefir. And if it helps many women lose weight, then with kefir pie you have every chance of not gaining weight. Just try not to eat it all in one sitting!

Chokeberry tinctures

The big plus of chokeberries is that they tolerate freezing well and can patiently wait in the freezer or even on the balcony all winter. However, there is one subtlety. If you are preparing a drink from frozen chokeberry, try to drink it within 2 days, otherwise compotes and fruit drinks will lose most of their vitamins. However, rowan delicacies are unlikely to stagnate in your kitchen.

But this rule does not apply to preservatives, much less to liqueurs and tinctures. Sweet, “spiritual”, with a unique subtle bitterness, they will be stored indefinitely, saving you from colds, viruses and simply decorating the table during the holidays.

You will need:

• chokeberry;
• vodka.

Fill the bottle in which you are going to make the tincture with strong, never crushed berries, having sorted them out first. Fill the rowan with vodka, close the bottle tightly and put it in a cool, dark place for a month. Keep in mind that during the first week the berries will absorb the alcohol and the amount in the bottle may decrease slightly. In this case, be sure to add vodka to the top. After a month, strain the infusion, squeeze out the berries and pour the drink into a suitable container. All you have to do is wait for a reason to surprise your guests with chokeberry liqueur.

If you were unable to stock up on fresh berries on time, this is not a problem. They can easily be replaced by dried fruits, and such a substitution will not affect the quality of the final product. So, to prepare a tincture of dried chokeberry berries with vodka, wash, dry and mince the prepared dry chokeberry fruits. Fill the bottle 2/3 full with crushed berries, add vodka and leave to steep for 4-5 months. The tincture will be strong and aromatic.

You can prepare a more noble drink by spending a little more time. You will need:

• 1 kg of chokeberry berries;
• 1 kg sugar;
• 500 ml vodka;
• a handful of cherry and currant leaves.

Wash and mix the berries and leaves. Fill with water, bring to a boil and leave on the fire for a quarter of an hour. Rub the cooled broth through cheesecloth to squeeze the juice out of the berries. Return the pan to the heat again, adding sugar, boil the liquid and continue cooking for another 20-25 minutes, remembering to stir the thickening syrup. Remove the pan from the heat and cool. Mix the syrup with vodka, pour into a bottle and place in a cool, dark place to infuse. In a month, the sweet chokeberry liqueur will be ready for consumption.

There is also a variant of this drink: replace sugar with 500 g of honey, dissolving it in a cooled decoction of berries and combining with vodka. Wait at least a month and you will get a liqueur with a honey-berry flavor and smell.

Chokeberry: Juicing

Boil water in a saucepan. Gradually add sugar, stirring well after each addition. Wait for the sugar to completely dissolve and the syrup to boil.

Place the berries in a saucepan and, stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat slightly and cook for another 4 minutes. Cover with a lid and cool.

Place the saucepan with the jam over high heat and, stirring, bring to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes and cool again. Then repeat cooking for 10 minutes.

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Ingredients

• 220 g sugar;
• 100 ml water;
• 200 g chokeberry;
• 2 apples;
• a pinch of cinnamon.

Preparation

Pour sugar into a saucepan and pour in water. Stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. The sugar should dissolve.

Place the berries in the syrup and bring to a boil over medium heat. Meanwhile, cut the apples into small pieces and throw them into the syrup when it boils.

Bring the mixture to a boil again. Add cinnamon and, stirring, simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.

Ingredients

• 200 g;
• 100 g sugar;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g sifted flour;
• 10 g baking powder;
• 200 g chokeberry;
• a little vegetable oil.

Preparation

Mash the cottage cheese and sugar with a fork. Add eggs and beat with a mixer. Add flour combined with baking powder and mix until smooth.

Add berries to the dough and mix again. Grease a baking dish with oil, place the dough there and smooth it out. Bake the pie at 180°C for about 30 minutes.

Leave the cake to cool for an hour before removing from the pan and cutting.

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Ingredients

• 150 g chokeberry;
• 140 ml;
• 1 tablespoon honey;
• 3 eggs;
• 140 ml vegetable oil;
• 110 g sugar;
• 240 g sifted flour;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder;
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon;
• 1-2 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Preparation

Pour milk over the berries, add honey and puree with a blender.

In a separate container, beat eggs, butter and sugar. Mix flour, baking powder and cinnamon. Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and combine well.

Pour the berry puree into the dough and mix thoroughly again. Divide the mixture into molds - you will need about 12 of them.

Bake the cupcakes in an oven preheated to 180°C for 25–30 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

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Ingredients

• 400 g flour;
• 2–4 tablespoons sugar;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 200 g butter;
• 240 ml milk;
• 1 egg yolk;
• 200 g chokeberry;
• 2-3 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Preparation

Combine flour, sugar and salt. While stirring, gradually pour the melted butter and milk into the flour mixture. Knead the dough, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Then divide the dough into 6-7 equal parts. Roll them out into long strips and roll them into rolls.

Place the buns on a baking sheet lined with parchment and brush with beaten egg yolk. Place the berries on the buns and bake for about 35 minutes at 200°C. Sprinkle with powder before serving.

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Ingredients

• 2 apples;
• 1 banana;
• 50 g chokeberry;
• 120–140 ml water;
• 1 tablespoon honey;
• a pinch of cinnamon.

Preparation

Peel the apples and banana and cut them into small pieces. Place all ingredients in a bowl and whisk until smooth.

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Ingredients

• 5 kg chokeberry;
• 800 g sugar;
• 1 liter of water.

Preparation

Place the unwashed berries in a saucepan and crush them with your hands or chop them with an immersion blender. Add 600 g of sugar and stir.

Cover the pan with gauze folded in several layers and leave in a warm, dark place for a week. Stir the contents of the pan daily to prevent mold from forming.

Strain the future wine, squeeze out the grounds thoroughly. The squeezes will also come in handy: add 200 g of sugar and water to them and leave under gauze for a week.

Pour the strained liquid into a bottle and close with a water seal. You can buy it on AliExpress or make it yourself. Close the bottle with a lid, make a hole in it and insert a thin tube without touching the wine. To prevent air from getting into the bottle, cover the place where the tube goes with plasticine. Place the other end of the tube in a container of water.

Leave in a warm, dark place for 2 months. A week after fermentation begins, strain the pomace and add the liquid to the bottle.

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Ingredients

• 300 g chokeberry;
• 3 peas of allspice;
• 3 black peppercorns;
• 3 buds of dried cloves;
• 250 g sugar;
• 800 ml vodka.

Preparation

Grind the washed chokeberry with a blender. Transfer the berry puree into a three-liter jar. Add pepper, cloves and sugar, cover and shake well.

Leave the jar in a dark place for a week. Shake the berry mixture daily. Then pour in vodka, close the lid, shake and leave for another 2 weeks.

Fold the gauze in several layers. Strain the rowan tincture through it, pour into bottles and close tightly. The tincture is already ready for use, but you can keep it for a couple more weeks.

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Ingredients

• 3 large apples;
• 300 g chokeberry;
• 2½–3 liters of water;
• 300 g sugar;
• ¼ teaspoon citric acid.

Preparation

Cut the apples into large pieces without seeds. Place berries and apples in a sterilized 3 liter jar.

Fill the jar with boiling water to the very top. Cover with a lid and leave for about 20 minutes.

Pour sugar and citric acid into the pan. Drain the infused water from the jar there. Stirring, bring to a boil and cook for another 1-2 minutes.

Pour the boiling liquid into a jar and roll up. Turn the jar over, wrap it in something warm and cool completely.

Ingredients

• 5 heads of garlic;
• 2–3 chili peppers;
• ½ bunch of cilantro or parsley;
• 1 kg chokeberry;
• 2 tablespoons salt;
• 150 g sugar;
• 75 ml vinegar 9%;
• ½ teaspoon pepper mixture;
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander.

Preparation

Peel the garlic and separate into cloves. Remove the seeds from the chiles. Pass through a meat grinder or grind the garlic, chili, herbs and chokeberry in a blender.

Add salt, sugar, vinegar, pepper mixture and coriander and stir. Leave for an hour for the seasonings to dissolve. Place the adjika into sterilized jars and close with nylon lids. Store the sauce in the refrigerator.