Apple jam with chokeberry, a quick recipe. Apple jam with chokeberry for the winter: a five-minute recipe

Aronia is a very useful berry. Taste is debatable, of course. Someone does not like the tart taste of berries, some consider them bitter. Our tree has been growing for several years, there is absolutely no bitterness. Maybe that's the kind. It goes great fresh, we process the leftovers. I offer my proven simple recipes chokeberry jam.

Aronia jam for the winter: a simple recipe

Ingredients:

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

This is one of the easiest chokeberry jam recipes for the winter.

How to cook:

1. We take a basin for cooking jam, pour water into it, pour sugar. Stir, heating, until dissolved.
2. We remove twigs and leaves from chokeberry. The berries are, as it were, covered with a matte coating, so they need to be washed very carefully. Boil the prepared fruits for a while, but not more than seven minutes.
3. We cook blanched berries in boiled syrup for 10 minutes at a slow boil. Then we set the pelvis aside, stand for 4 hours. Let it boil again, boil for 15 minutes.
4. Pour the finished tasty jam into well-washed, sterilized jars, roll up with boiled lids, leave for air cooling.

You can store not only in the cold, but also in the pantry on a shelf.

Quick five-minute jam

This recipe is simple, takes even less time, but more vitamins are preserved due to the minimum heat treatment.

Prepare:

• Aronia - 1 kg;
• Sugar - 1 kg;
• Vanillin - 1 tsp optional;
• Water - 300 ml.

How to cook:

1. We sort the berries, wash them well, put them in a colander. As soon as they drain, pour over with boiling water, then pour over cold water.
2. Put the mountain ash into the boiled syrup, stirring, let it boil. We stand at a slight boil for 5 minutes, package the finished product in dry, fried jars.
3. Close tightly with metal lids, leave on the table to cool. We take out the completely cooled workpiece into the cellar.

How to cook chokeberry jam through a meat grinder

Ingredients:

• 2 kg of berries;
• 1 kg of sugar.

Reference! This jam is cooked in the ratio of 2 parts of berries to 1 part of sugar.

Another option is how to cook chokeberry jam, but from chopped berries. I bring to your attention step by step recipe with photo:

1. First of all, we prepare half a liter jars for future harvesting. We wash them with detergent, if necessary with soda. Be sure to rinse well under running water. Fry in the oven, microwave or electric burner, placing the jars neck down.
2. The lids can be boiled or fried along with the jars. The main thing is that the container is dry.
3. Then we sort through, carefully wash the berries. Boil water in a wide, low container. We place chokeberry in a colander, dip in boiling water, blanch for 5 minutes.
4. We put a colander in a bowl, let the liquid drain. We twist the fruits in a meat grinder. Pour sugar into the resulting mass, stir while heating until the sand is completely dissolved.
5. Boil the boiled jam for five minutes. Packed in pre-prepared jars. We install them in a pot of suitable size, filled with water so that it reaches the shoulders of the cans. We sterilize after boiling for a third of an hour.
6. After sterilization, we roll up our workpiece with metal lids. We cool here, without turning over and without covering.
7. The cooled jam is sent for storage in the pantry.

And now I offer recipes for the winter from chokeberry with additives. These are several recipes with the addition of fruits, leaves, nuts. First of all, I will share a recipe for harvesting with the addition of apples at home.

Aronia jam with apple

• Apples - half a kilo;
• Citric acid - a coffee spoon;
• Sugar - one and a half kilograms;
• Cinnamon - a third of a teaspoon;
• Water - 400 milliliters;
• Chokeberry - kilogram.

We sort out the rowan, throw out the crumpled, rotten berries. We select twigs, leaves, other garbage. Wash well several times.

1. In one and a half liters of boiling water, boil the chokeberry for 5 minutes. Boiling during cooking should not be violent.
2. We strain the blanched fruits. We take required amount decoction, add sugar to it, stir until dissolved.
3. We put on the stove, cook the syrup over low heat. After boiling, we shift the chokeberry into sweet water. After boiling, boil for five minutes with slight stirring, stirring slightly. We set aside the berry for insisting for 7-9 hours, it is possible for the night.
4. We cut the washed fruits of apples into pieces, cutting out the seed box. Boil for three minutes. We put it in a sieve, wait until the water drains.
5. Boil the mountain ash soaked in syrup for 20 minutes, stirring over low heat. Then add apple cubes. Cook until tender, about 30 minutes. At the end, pour citric acid.

We lay out the resulting jam in pre-prepared jars. We cork. The air-cooled blank is sent for storage.

Recipe with orange

• A kilogram of aronia berries;
• 3 oranges;
• 2 kilograms of sugar;
• Glass of water.

Cooking:

1. We sort, wash the berries, boil lightly in the amount of water required by the recipe for about five minutes. Leave to stand for a while so that the berries become softer.
2. Then add sugar, stir well, boil for 10 minutes from the moment of boiling. Don't forget to stir.
3. Set aside to cool completely, overnight.
4. Cleanly washed citrus fruits are twisted in a meat grinder unpeeled.
5. Boil the rowan for 10 minutes, add oranges, let it boil.
6. Continuing to keep the jam on low heat, fill the jars with it and roll it up.

Leave to cool, then take out to the basement.

Aronia chokeberry: jam with lemon

We will need:

• 1 lemon;
• 1.5 kilograms of sugar.

We wash the rowan well, let it dry.

1. Put in a saucepan, sprinkle with half the sugar. Our workpiece should stand for two hours.
2. After two hours, the container is placed on the stove. Boil at a light boil for twenty minutes. Don't forget to stir occasionally. If the chokeberry is dryish, it gave little juice during cooking, add a small amount of water. Cook for another ten minutes.
3. My citrus, pour over boiling water, cut the zest into strips. Pulp mode in half rings.
4. We send the prepared parts of the lemon to the jam, pour the second half of the sugar, stir. Boil all the ingredients for fifteen minutes at a low boil.
5. Let the jam cool down. After half an hour, boil the jam for fifteen minutes.
6. We pour our workpiece into jars, twist tightly. After cooling, we descend into the basement.

Using this recipe, be sure to prepare black chokeberry jam with lemon. You can not only strengthen your immunity, but also enjoy delicious jam.

Aronia jam with cherry leaf

It is necessary to prepare:

• 2 kilograms of rowan berries;
• 1.5 kilograms of sugar;
• 200 grams of cherry leaves.

We place the washed leaves in an enameled bucket, pour about one liter of water. We cook 20 minutes. Drain the broth, remove the leaves. We won't need them anymore. Mix the broth with sugar, cook the syrup.

Aronia is freed from twigs, washed in several waters, put in a colander. When the water drains from the berries, they can be sent to the syrup. With a slight boil, boil the chokeberry for five minutes. During cooking, foam will appear, it must be removed. After the jam has boiled, remove it from the stove. Cover with gauze, leave in the kitchen until the morning.

Boil the jam two more times. Then we lay out the jam from chokeberry with a cherry leaf in sterile jars. Let cool, and only then close the nylon lid. This jam can be stored for two years.

Cherry leaf and apple variant

• 1 kilogram of chokeberry;
• 2 apples;
• 1 kilogram of sugar;
• 1 glass of water;
• 200 grams of cherry leaves.

We sort, wash the berries, dry them. Remove the peel from the apples, remove the seeds, cut into small cubes.

My cherry leaves, immerse in water, bring to a boil. Strain the resulting broth, add sugar, put on fire. We put apples and berries in the syrup. Cook until the apples are boiled and the mountain ash sinks to the bottom of the pan.

Pour the cooked jam into prepared jars. Roll up.

With walnuts

We will need:

• 1.5 kilograms of chokeberry;
• 250 grams of walnut;
• 1 kilogram of sugar;
• 500 milliliters of boiling water.

We sort out the berries, remove the twigs, rotten fruits, wash them with running water.

1. We put the peeled chokeberry in a cup of boiling water. We leave until the morning.
2. The next day, we prepare a container for cooking jam. Drain water from chokeberry, pour sugar. Boil over low heat for five minutes.
3. Then add berries and chopped walnuts.
4. After boiling, cook for fifteen minutes. Turn off the gas, insist the mixture for three hours.
5. Then we put it on fire again, boil for fifteen minutes as well. Cool down.
6. After three hours last time boil the berries for 15 minutes. We cover with a lid.
7. After two hours, the jam is laid out in sterilized jars. Roll up with tin lids. We send it to the shelf until winter.

Attention! Cook the jam at a slow boil, stirring occasionally.

If you really want to try it, you can open earlier. The recipe is simple, but the jam is very tasty.

I tried to describe all the simple recipes for chokeberry jam that I prepared for the winter. Choose the one that suits you best and you will be satisfied.

To make sure that chokeberry jam is really not difficult to preserve, I advise you to watch the video recipe:

Chokeberry jam with apples - for real gourmets! Thick, slightly tart, with a bright, rich taste and a slight aroma of cinnamon. I confess that I prepared such a jam for the first time and when I decided to try this recipe, I did not expect to get such an amazing result. The yummy is incredible! Chokeberry berries turn out sweet and juicy, only a slight hint of their original viscous astringency remains. Apple slices are the perfect complement to the berries. They do not boil in mashed potatoes, but on the contrary, they turn out to be dense and, having been soaked in rich sweet syrup, amazingly beautiful! Well, cinnamon. To add it to jam or not to add it is a matter of taste. But in my opinion, it is the delicate aroma of this spice that ultimately gives such a wonderfully harmonious result!

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 700 g,
• sugar - 1 kg,
• apples - 350-400 g,
• water for syrup - 200 ml,
• lemon - 0.5-1 pc.,
• cinnamon (optional) - 0.3-0.5 tsp

How to make blackberry jam with apples

We wash the chokeberry under cool running water, cut off all the tails and put them in a colander or sieve.

Pour water into a saucepan (so that it completely hides the berry), bring it to a boil and lower the blackberry into boiling water. Boil the berries for 5-7 minutes, then take out and let the water drain.

At the same time, prepare the syrup. Pour about 2/3 of sugar into a saucepan, add water to the same place, put the saucepan on the stove and, with constant stirring, bring the syrup to a boil. After boiling, let the syrup gurgle for 3-5 minutes - and the syrup is ready. The sugar must be completely dissolved.

After that, we remove the jam from the stove and, closing the saucepan with a lid, leave it to stand for 8-10 hours. I left it overnight, and in the morning I added apples to the chokeberry.

But first they also need to be prepared. We clean the apples from the skin and seeds, then cut into slices about 2-3 mm thick.

Dip the apple slices in boiling water, let them boil for 7-10 minutes. and, throwing them in a colander, immediately after cooking, cool them with a stream of cold water.

Pour the remaining sugar into the syrup with chokeberry, bring it to a boil and let it boil for literally 2-3 minutes.

Then we introduce cooled apple slices into the jam, lemon juice and cinnamon. Adjust the amount of lemon juice and cinnamon to your taste. I ended up adding the juice of a whole lemon and 0.5 tsp. cinnamon.

We boil the chokeberry with apples for 10 minutes, noticing the time after the jam boils, then remove it from the stove and again leave it to infuse for 7-8 hours. This is what the jam looks like after the second cooking.

After insisting for the third time, boil the jam for 10 minutes, turning on the medium heat of the stove - and it's ready! You can pour it into jars both hot and cooled. It is only important that the jars are sterile and dry.

Hot jam is a little watery, but the syrup will thicken as it cools. You can store it in the room and in the refrigerator.

Bon appetit!

Moreover, there are many recipes for such a delicacy - the addition of one or another component significantly complements the taste. And before moving on to all this diversity, you first need to understand the features of harvesting.

Harvest berries on time, preserving useful properties

Harvesting of chokeberry occurs in the second half of summer, when it is filled with ripeness and ripen together with other shrubs. Depending on the methods of storage, the clusters are separated from the bush with secateurs or, in fact, the berry is collected. Further, the path of the chokeberry goes directly to the canning jars. You can send aronia to freeze. Also, the berries are dried and then they:

• go to decoctions that increase immunity;
• used as a means of lowering blood pressure;
• are a powerful stimulant for the prevention of atherosclerosis.

Experienced gardeners leave the surplus of the crop that did not get into processing and remained on the bushes until spring - this will attract the right birds to the garden and make it possible to feast on a sweet berry right from under the snow. Having such a valuable product at home, you can significantly improve your health and the well-being of your loved ones.

The best recipes from healing berries

The peculiarity of chokeberry is that the berry itself, useful as a medicine, has a specific, astringent taste, which is more likely to be appreciated by an amateur than a mass consumer.

But in jams and jams from aronia, this property is not felt so brightly - just a pleasant astringency. Therefore, I recommend everyone to cook at least a couple of jars for testing, I think that from the list below everyone will be able to choose the right recipe.

Tip: if medicinal qualities are primarily important, choose a cooking method where heat treatment is minimal.

Classic recipe

In cooking, the chokeberry behaves very well, does not fall apart and does not boil soft, keeping the berries whole, saturated with delicious sugar syrup. Taste classic chokeberry jam tart, insanely tasty and healthy. Of course, before cooking, chokeberry berries can be doused with boiling water, which will reduce astringency, but perhaps this is the highlight of the healing delicacy.

I would also like to note that it is best to cook chokeberry jam for no more than 45 minutes. Be sure to prepare a couple of jars of fragrant chokeberry jam and you and your family will not be afraid of any cold with colds.

Recipe Information

• Cuisine:Russian
• Type of dish: preparations
• Cooking method: boiling
• Servings: 1.5 l
• 40-45 min

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg
• sugar -600 g
• water - 40 ml.

Cooking method:

Chokeberries for this recipe are best collected in the middle or at the end of October, trying to be in time before severe frosts. Picked berry Rinse well. Put in a pan of a suitable size.


Sprinkle with sugar and let stand. After a while, chokeberry will give juice.


You can add a little water to the berries with sugar and immediately put them on the stove to cook. We boil the blackberry jam 2 times for 20 minutes.


After the first cooking, let the jam cool completely. Boil the jam a second time after it has cooled completely, and best of all the next day.


Put the finished fragrant delicacy in jars. Seal with lids and store. Aronia jam is perfectly stored at room temperature.

From this fragrant jam in winter you can make delicious sweet pastries, for example, pies or open (closed) pies, small muffins or just serve with tea or as a dessert with ice cream.

Recipe for chokeberry jam with cherry leaf

By adding a cherry leaf to the jam, housewives turn it into a celebration of culinary art. A slight rearrangement of the components - and now you are tasting the sweet poetry of a fragrance that you will never be able to refuse! It takes 3 days to prepare, so be patient.

If you don’t have the patience to make 4 brews, then get by with one from 40 to 50 minutes, however, in this mode of temperature exposure and intensity, they will become soft, lose their elasticity, and the finished product will rather look like jam.

For cooking, you will need a set of a ladle, a wooden spoon, glass jars and nylon lids for preservation, a colander or sieve, thick gauze, and an enamel pan. Before you start making jam, carefully lay out all these items, each should have its own place in order to create a holiday and pleasure process from ordinary cooking.

Products for cooking:

• chokeberry - 2 kg
• sugar - 1.6 kg
• dry cherry leaf - 200 g
• water - 1 l.

Step by step method:

1. Let's start cooking the cherry leaf. Before pouring it with a pre-prepared amount of water, we wash the entire mass several times, sort it out, removing the branches. Then fill the pot with the leaf with water. Turn on the heat, bring to a boil and cook for about 20 minutes.
2. While our raw materials are being cooked, we are preparing the fruits. We carefully sort through everything, remove garbage. Pour into a sieve or colander and delicately, trying not to damage the chokeberry, rinse in warm water. Let it sit for a few minutes to remove any remaining water. We make several smooth movements up and down, getting rid of the last drops.
3. Cooking syrup. To do this, we filter the resulting decoction from the leaf, then discard the latter, and add sugar to the water saturated with aroma. Boil until the sand is completely dissolved.
4. Pour the chokeberry into the finished syrup, set a slow fire, let it come to a boil in this mode. Now, stirring the mass, fragrant with a wonderful aroma, cook and simultaneously remove the foam for exactly 5 minutes. We remove the boiled mass from the burner and leave it to cool and settle overnight. And so that flies or other insects do not spoil our holiday, we cover the pan with prepared multilayer gauze. The temperature in the room is constant, room temperature. The next day, again set the slow fire mode, bring to a boil, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Let cool down for a few hours. Take your time, a good product should have time to settle, then it will become rich and unusually fragrant. The third cooking also lasts for 5 minutes, and then the almost finished jam cools down for several hours.
5. Thoroughly wash jars and lids for subsequent canning. This is followed by the fourth cooking, after which the ready-to-eat mass is laid out in jars. The lids are waiting for their turn while our marvelous jam cools to room temperature. Now it's time to close it and put it away for storage.

Little tricks:

• before cooking, do not forget about the optimal concentration of the "cherry" component. If everything is done correctly and not overdone, then the chokeberry delicacy turns out to be just as rich and fragrant as the cherry analogue adored by many;
• the resulting mass is remarkably "obedient" in storage, and if the jars are not adjacent to heating devices, then it can be enjoyed all winter.

Five-minute jam from chokeberry in a slow cooker

The simplest and fast way to prepare the most useful delicacy at home - cook for five minutes, using such a wonderful device as a slow cooker.

Ingredients:

• chokeberry - 1 kg
• sugar - 1 kg
• vanillin - 1 tsp
• water - 300 ml

Cooking process:

1. We sort out the berries, wash them, throwing them into a colander. Scald with boiling water and immediately placed under ice water.
2. We make syrup from sugar, water and vanillin - just bring it to a boil in the "Frying" mode or set the temperature to 120-140 degrees on your own, not forgetting to stir.
3. Immediately pour the rowan and, interfering, wait for it to boil. Just boiled - turn off the multicooker, cover the lid.
4. After 5 minutes, pour the medicinal fragrant jam on prepared banks. We roll up with metal lids, cool and send for storage in any dark place.

Recipe for Aronia Jam with Lemon and Orange

Another “magic key” that opens the door to the world of heavenly pleasure is citrus. Combining the amazing properties of chokeberry with lemon and orange in one glass jar, we get a pantry full of vitamins and wonderful healing and taste properties. The union of these components will increase immunity in the most problematic winter period, prevent the onset infectious disease, normalizes the metabolism in your body.

It takes one hour to prepare, the ingredients are given at the rate of 4 servings. Indispensable for breakfast, dessert, fasting.

Products you can't do without:

• orange - 1 pc.
• lemon - 1 pc.
• chokeberry - 1 kg
• granulated sugar - 1 kg.

For cooking you will need:

• enameled container;
• meat grinder;
• glass jars and nylon lids;
• ladle;
• wooden spoon.

How to cook:

1. Cut into slices and pitted, citrus products are washed and doused with boiling water. The berry is cleaned of twigs, it is washed with warm water, which is then allowed to drain.
2. All three cooked ingredients are scrolled (including the peel!) Through a meat grinder (you can use a blender-combine, this will further simplify the cooking process).
3. The resulting mass is transferred (and poured) into the prepared container and covered with sugar;
4. The finished raw material is stirred and brought to a boil over medium heat. Then the fire is reduced to a low mode, and the cooking process continues for another 45 minutes.
5. The enameled container is removed from the burner, settled a little and cools slightly, and then the hot jam is rolled into the prepared glass container.

Above, it is not by chance that the intended use is indicated, first of all, breakfast. Jam refreshes and invigorates, is a wonderful remedy for people suffering from high pressure. For everyone else, it is important not to get carried away with this delicacy, since the pressure really drops a lot!

Recipe for chokeberry jam with apples

Another amazing quality of this plant is its organic combination with apples. The usual does not come out so useful and fragrant. Plus brand name - light astringency.

List of ingredients:

• rowan black - 0.5 kg
• apples - 3 kg
• granulated sugar - 2 kg

Step by step method:

1. The apple component is prepared peeled, without a core, chopped using a blender-combine
2. Aronia is sorted and washed, and then crushed in the same way.
3. Both components are mixed and transferred to an enameled container. The resulting raw material is boiled with constant stirring to the desired consistency for about 40 minutes.
4. After that, another grinding takes place with a blender, until a puree is obtained.
5. We fall asleep all granulated sugar and cook until the desired density (to taste) is obtained.
6. When hot, jam is laid out in a container and preserved.

delicious jam recipe

Unlike jam and marmalade, jam has a jelly-like structure, which is formed during the hardening process after cooking. It differs from jam in a simplified form of cooking and longer shelf life.

List of ingredients:

• black rowan, red rowan, viburnum - 1 kg
• sugar - 1 kg
• water - 400 g.

Cooking scheme:

1. We prepare the fruits, clearing them of twigs, sorting out and throwing away the spoiled ones. After rinsing with cold water, place in a sieve to get rid of excess moisture.
2. We blanch the mountain ash, placing a sieve with them in boiling water, and keep it for 10 minutes.
3. If there is a viburnum, then let it go a little and wipe it through a sieve. getting rid of the bones and skin.
4. Grind everything with a blender or meat grinder through a fine grate;
5. Boil, with the addition of sugar, until fragrant jam is obtained. We use an enameled container with a thick bottom. Readiness is determined by the rapid thickening of a sample droplet taken with a teaspoon from the pan.
6. Ready jam is packaged in jars.

A scattering of useful properties ...

Bushes with lush clusters of appetizing black fruits take root well on any garden plot, give a generous harvest, and the berry is famous for its amazing taste when cooked. Compotes, jams, preserves and other products from chokeberry have the right to be proud of every housewife.

This berry combines a whole scattering of properties that are favorable for the body. She is rich:

• vitamins PP, P, E, B1 and B2, A and C;
• carotene, anthocyanates;
• iron, iodine, molybdenum, magnesium, boron, copper and manganese;
• organic acids - cyanine, tocopherols, phylloquinone, riboflavin;
• amygdalin and coumarin;
• pectins and tannins.

There are others, no less valuable qualities, allowing to evaluate the effect of appetizing fruits in a therapeutic and prophylactic context:

• the high content of iodine makes it possible to attribute the beneficial effect of chokeberry to medical indications for various diseases;
• 50 grams of dried chokeberry contain a daily dose of vitamin P;
• fresh juice lowers blood sugar levels.

This berry is especially famous for its astringent taste, which indicates the presence of valuable organic acids in it. It is not only very tasty, it is used to successfully treat diabetes mellitus, diseases of the thyroid gland, heart and blood vessels, it has an excellent diuretic property, and therefore removes heavy metals from the body.

Some useful tips will help you enjoy the healing fruits more often and more fully:

• placing "in the bins" black mountain ash, taken from the bush, you should take it dry and certainly during the day, when the morning dew has evaporated;
• the texture of the fruit leaves a feeling of dryness in the mouth, this drawback is corrected by preliminary softening blanching in boiled water for 3-5 minutes, followed by "hardening" for a couple of moments in cold water;
• two or three cinnamon sticks will add piquancy to the jam;
• to preserve the healing potential, do not pour out the water in which the black ashberry was boiled, add fruits to it, boil them and drink compote.

The largest amount of nutrients can be saved if you make the so-called raw jam, that is, one that does not require cooking. How to do this is described in the video:

Many of us have thick chokeberry bushes growing in our gardens or near our homes. Its other name is aronia. Dark, strong, dense chokeberry berries are known for their special taste - very tart and only vaguely reminiscent of red-fruited mountain ash.

Aronia unpretentious, and therefore, probably, not very respected. But in vain! She impresses with her useful properties.

The word "aronia" itself is translated from Greek as "useful", and this name appeared for a reason: the berries are rich in vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, K, P, PP, E, beta-carotene, organic acids, pectins, tannins, iodine, magnesium, cobalt, manganese, iron, they will help with thyroid diseases, digestive system, heart, blood vessels, respiratory organs. Chokeberry is recommended for allergies, atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and liver disease. special chokeberry property- it is able to remove heavy metals and radioactive isotopes from the body.

Recipes dishes from chokeberries a lot: jams, jams, jelly, very tasty tart wine and natural juice, dried berries resemble raisins - a storehouse of vitamins in winter, especially ascorbic acid.

When all the sugar has dissolved, the syrup will become transparent and boil, put the pieces in it apples and blackberries. Fans can add a little cinnamon, its taste is known to go well with apple.

It remains to bring the chokeberry jam with apples to a boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and stir from time to time.

After 30-40 minutes pieces apples well saturated with thickened from chokeberries syrup and acquire a bluish-red color of mountain ash.

You can turn off the fire and pour the jam into pre-sterilized jars. The jam is well gelled, the apples become transparent, and the berries are soaked in syrup and become a real delicacy. Chokeberry adds a great color and flavor to any dish.

Apple and blackberry jam is liked by both adults and children. Winter evenings it will remind you of golden harvest days Indian summer. We invite you to tea!

Few people love chokeberry, even despite its undeniable health benefits. The taste of this berry is peculiar, bitter and astringent. Most often, chokeberry is used for the preparation of alcoholic tinctures. Let's learn how to make it delicious jam which will be loved by everyone, especially children!

The benefits and features of chokeberry

Valuable qualities of aronia 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 to keep the figure in shape. good condition. But besides this, chokeberry is a source a large number vitamins, minerals and other useful substances necessary for our body.

Table: composition and energy value

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

Chokeberry - a source of vitamins and nutrients

If you regularly eat chokeberry, you will notice that you are getting younger right before your eyes. This applies not only to appearance, but also to the general condition of the body. This wonderful berry is excellent prophylactic from inflammation, bacterial infections, diabetes, nervousness and even cancer! And recent studies have proven that the fruits of chokeberry 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 provides you with all the necessary vitamins during this period of the year. This plant has very interesting feature: it prevents the accumulation of fat, in particular at the level of the abdomen.

How best to prepare for the winter

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

Note! For any blanks, choose beautiful, dense berries with an even color and a clean, shiny surface. Wet fruits covered with spots should be thrown away immediately: most likely, they are spoiled and will become mold spreaders.

From chokeberry you can prepare for the winter:

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

The main components of chokeberry jam

Standard set of products for classic jam is:

• aronia berries;
• granulated sugar;
• water.

Since the fruits of chokeberry have a peculiar bitter, astringent taste, a lot of sugar will be needed - 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 chokeberry. After all, we love to experiment with flavors! So chokeberry perfectly coexists in preparations for the winter with many berries, fruits, spices and other products. You can combine it in jam with:

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

We present to you a few different recipes making this jam. They will become a kind of “reference point” for your further experiments, because chokeberry is so good in tandem with other products that it’s 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 Nuclei walnuts sweet raisins cinnamon sticks fresh apples

Recipes

We will start with the classic cooking option. This jam has a beneficial effect on the state of the whole organism, improves immunity.

Classic variant

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: 40 min.

Classic chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

1. Take a saucepan of a suitable volume, pour water into it and add sugar. Stir until completely dissolved. To do this, the water can be slightly warmed up.
2. Rinse the berries, remove the stalks from them. Put in a saucepan and dip in boiling water for 5-7 minutes to blanch.
3. Boil the syrup and pour the blanched berries into it. Boil for 10-15 minutes over medium heat. After that, remove the pan from the heat and leave the mixture to cool for 3-4 hours to room temperature.
4. Put the pot with the future jam back on the fire, bring to a boil and boil for 15 minutes.
5. Divide the jam immediately into jars, seal with lids and leave to cool at room temperature. Banks must be clean washed and sterilized.

Such jam is equally well stored both in a room and in a dark, cold room, for example, a basement.

Delicious combination: chokeberry, lemon, apples and nuts

There are so many vitamins in this jam that doctors recommend eating it after severe long-term illnesses and surgeries.

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: about 70 minutes.

Apples are a great addition to chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

1. Pour the peeled and washed chokeberry berries with boiling water, leave overnight.
2. In the morning, take 1 cup of the resulting infusion, mix it with 1.5 kg of sugar and boil until completely dissolved to make a syrup. While it is simmering, add the berries, apple slices and pre-crushed nut kernels. Boil for 10 minutes and let cool slightly for 1-2 hours. Then 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, clean it, cut it arbitrarily and be sure to remove the bones - because of them, the jam will be bitter.
4. Cover the pot with ready-made jam with a cotton cloth and cover with another container of the same diameter on top. So you create an air cushion that will significantly soften the rowan fruits.
5. Leave this design overnight, and in the morning spread the real jam in sterilized jars and close the lids. Store the workpiece in a cool place (unless, of course, you eat all the jam in a week!).

Quick five-minute jam

Preparing such a jam will take you the least time.

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

Preparing five-minute jam will not take you much time

Ingredients:

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

For this jam, it is easier to use not the exact number of products in grams, but the proportions: for 2 parts of the 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, put on a slow fire. Heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Make the fire a little bigger, wait until it boils and cook for 5 minutes.
3. Divide the jam into clean, sterilized jars. Set them in a large saucepan, pour water "up to the shoulders" of the cans. After boiling water, sterilize the jam for 20 minutes, then roll up the lids.

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

After the jam has cooled at room temperature, put it in the basement for storage. A refrigerator is also suitable - 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 from the fire.

Dry Kiev jam from mountain ash and plum

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

Difficulty level: difficult. Cooking time: 60 minutes.

very unusual and original recipe chokeberry jam

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the mountain ash, disassemble into small clusters (several berries per branch). Put in the freezer for 30 minutes so that bitterness leaves the rowan and only astringency remains.
2. Divide the plums into halves and remove the seeds from them. It is better to take the fruits of the "Hungarian" variety, not overripe and hard.

   Remove pits from plums and cut in half

3. Put the pan on the fire and prepare the sugar syrup. Add fruits to it, boil for 5 minutes. Do not forget to remove 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, let it brew for 2-3 hours. Boil the boil in two more passes. You can cook plum and rowan separately from each other, but this is optional.
5. You can easily determine the readiness of jam by eye. The pulp of the plum, retaining its shape, will become honey, and the red rowan will take on an amber color.
6. Remove the fruits from the pan with a slotted spoon and put 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). Put on a wire rack and put in the oven for 2.5 hours at a temperature of up to 100 degrees. Make sure the fruits do not dry out.

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

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

Recipe with zucchini

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

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: 80 minutes.

Ingredients:

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

1. Sort the mountain ash, peel it from the stalks and wash. Discuss lightly.

   Thoroughly wash the zucchini and rowan berries

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

   Peel the zucchini and cut into cubes

3. Put the rowan and zucchini in a bowl, sprinkle with 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 so that the mixture is well saturated.

   Mix food with sugar in a bowl and leave for a while

4. Put the dishes on a quiet fire to boil, throw in the cinnamon sticks and squeeze out the lemon juice (make sure that its seeds do not get into the jam). Wait until it boils and cook, stirring constantly, for 30 minutes. This jam almost does not give foam.

   Boil for 30 minutes, adding cinnamon and lemon juice

5. Leave the jam overnight until it cools completely. Boil it again for 30 minutes and place it still hot 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 lower it into the basement.

   Arrange the finished jam in jars until it has cooled down.

Berries in such a jam do not lose their shape, and pieces of zucchini resemble candied fruits.

"Field of Dreams"

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

Difficulty level: easy. Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

Store jam in a cool, dry place.

Quick dry blackberry jam (no cooking)

Here is another recipe for dry jam, which compares favorably with the previous one in 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 can not 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 chokeberry berries in boiling water for 2 minutes

2. Take a clean baking sheet and put the berries from the pan into it with a slotted spoon. Make sure that the water is properly glass. 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 baking sheet from the oven, let the berries cool. After that, put 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 cooked.

Jam without sugar

Except everyone positive qualities, chokeberry is very useful for people with diabetes. They, too, can treat themselves to chokeberry jam, but without the sugar content.

Difficulty: medium. Cooking time: about 60 minutes.

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

First of all, you need to prepare a large pot, wide and with low walls. Lay a rag on the 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. Put the jars of berries in boiling water so that the water reaches them to the coat hanger, but does not pour inside. Reduce the heat under the saucepan to just enough to keep it simmering.

This jam is prepared by sterilizing jars filled with berries.

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 that, 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 be combined with?

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

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

It is very good to eat a hearty sandwich with such a drink: a piece white bread, butter, a slice of cheese and a spoonful of black chokeberry jam. You will surely enjoy the spicy taste.

Needless to say, this jam is great as a filling? If you love pastries, then appreciate the taste of pies, muffins, muffins, seasoned with jam, prepared according to any of these recipes.

Roll with chokeberry jam

You probably know how to bake apples with honey. Be sure to try replacing honey with blackberry jam - the taste will 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 you will 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 kids, 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!