In short, it is called blackberry, and the mountain ash is called only because of the external similarity of the shape of the berries and seedlings. It is more correct to call this plant chokeberry. Its fruits are a natural storehouse of all sorts of benefits for the body, which, in the absence of contraindications to their use, become a very necessary and tasty ingredient in the diet of adults and children. We are in a hurry to share the most interesting recipes with you.
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Chokeberry is a direct competitor to blueberries in maintaining eye 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, waterlogged and rocky soils. Fruits rich in nutrients appear already in the third sometimes fourth year. The best quality berries acquire after the first frost, when it is recommended to pick them. Although for harvesting for the winter, ripe fruits can be removed already in early and mid-autumn.
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How you can save berries: harvesting options
If you carefully cut the chokeberry bunches together with the stalks, and then hang them in a room where there is no access to sunlight, and the temperature does not rise above + 5 ° C (cellar, basement, attic or cabinet on the balcony), then the berries will remain fresh for a long time.
The berries do not lose most of their advantages in frozen, dried and dried form, 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 harvesting blackberry, but only when the heating in the apparatus is below 50 ° C, otherwise some of the vitamins will still be lost.
Chokeberry fruit is best dried 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 turned up.The finished product is stored in paper bags or cloth bags.
How to freeze
Freezing will be more juicy than drying, but dried berries are more flavorful
In a roomy fridge freezer or a special freezer, chokeberry can be quickly frozen. To do this, separate the berries from the stalks, rinse 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 to prepare various dishes.
Sparing preservation
You can add apples, cherries and even orange zest to the jam!
Preparing home preservation for the winter, housewives strive to preserve the usefulness of fruits and vegetables as much as possible. To achieve this when preserving chokeberry, you should avoid boiling the product for a long time or heating it for a long time at a high temperature.
What is made from chokeberry
The short answer to this question is: "They prepare everything from other berries, and even a little more." Briefly list, then:
- drinks: compotes, tea, fruit drink, jelly;
- grated berries with sugar;
- jam only from chokeberry and with the addition of other fruits;
- jams and preserves;
- marmalade, marshmallow, candied fruit;
- jam and jam;
- pastries: pies, pies, muffins, biscuits, charlottes;
- sauces and seasonings, vinegar;
- alcoholic beverages: wine, liqueur, tincture, liqueur, moonshine and mash.
Chokeberry recipes
A surprisingly many of the most varied dishes and excellent preparations for the future can be made from this healthy berry. Some recipes are given below.
Aronia 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.
- Carefully sort the berries, removing unripe and spoiled ones. Diligently sterilize and dry the container where the wine will be prepared. Aronia is not washed to ensure natural fermentation.
- Each berry is crushed with clean hands and placed in a glass, enamel or plastic wide vessel with a capacity of 10 liters. Pour 0.5 kg of sugar there. A handful of unwashed raisins poured into the 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. Mix the whole mass 3-4 times daily.
- During this period, they monitor the ascent of berries to the surface. Once they collect in the top layer, pick them up by hand and squeeze the juice out of them. The squeezed berries are not thrown away, and all the juice (both remaining in the vessel and obtained during pressing) is filtered through cheesecloth or a colander and poured into a vessel, where it will ferment, filling less than half of it. A water seal is installed on the container, or a rubber glove is put on with one pierced finger, the fermentation container is placed in a dark place with room temperature.
- 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 immersed in it so that mold does not appear. After the expiration of the fermentation period, 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 put back on.
- Young wine is 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 off and will not rise again. By this time, a 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 tube, 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%.
- The wine will ripen 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 a month and a half, the wine must be filtered if a sediment appears at the bottom. If sugar was added to young wine to improve the taste, then for the first time (up to 10 days) the shutter should be put back on the container.
- The finished wine is stored in hermetically sealed bottles. In a refrigerator or cellar, it will retain its qualities for 3-5 years. Its strength is 10-12%, if there was no addition of vodka or alcohol.
Classic chokeberry tincture
Classic chokeberry tincture in some cases will help lower blood pressure
The most delicious tincture is obtained from large berries tacked with frost, but you can also use dried chokeberry, taking it half as much as according to the recipe. The basis 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).
- The berries are carefully sorted out, small and spoiled ones are removed, the raw materials are placed in a jar, the alcohol base is poured in, sugar is added, stirred. The liquid should cover the chokeberry by 2-3 cm.
- The container is closed with a lid and kept at room temperature.
- The infusion period is 2–2.5 months. Shake the jar every 4–5 days.
- The finished product is bottled and hermetically sealed. At room temperature, the tincture can be stored indefinitely.
Black chokeberry liqueur
Blackberry pouring is easier to prepare and does not require alcohol
So that the chokeberry liqueur does not taste bitter, for its preparation you should take fresh large healthy berries tacked by frost. Remove all trifles and spoiled fruits.
Ingredients:
- blackberry berries - 3 kg,
- sugar - 1 kg.
- Berries should not be washed. Grind them until smooth with your hands, a blender or a wooden pestle.
- The mass is poured into a glass jar, add sugar, mix.
- The vessel is covered with gauze and placed in a dark place at room temperature. Stir the mass daily with a wooden stick.
- After 3-4 days, a water seal is placed or a rubber glove with a punctured finger is put on. At the end of fermentation in a month and a half (there will be no bubbles in the water seal or the glove will fall off), the drink is cleaned through a gauze-cotton filter.
- The filling is bottled, tightly corked and kept for 2-3 months in a cool room with a temperature of 10 ° C to 16 ° C. After that, it is ready for use within a year or two.
Soft drinks
This bluish-black berry is not only healthy, but also delicious. Drinks made from it have a delicious aroma, rich bright color and many useful and healing properties.
Compote for the winter
Chokeberry compote - your vitamin charge for the winter
To prepare canned compote, chokeberry berries are sorted out, all unnecessary is removed, washed and dried. One-third of sterilized jars are filled with berries, poured with boiling water and left to warm up for three minutes. Then the water is drained and brought to a boil again to prepare a syrup at the rate of 0.5 kg of sugar per liter of water. After pouring sugar, the solution is boiled for 5-10 minutes, stirring, pouring berries into it and closing the jars. They are turned upside down, wrapped and left to cool completely. Store the compote in a cool place. It will be ready to eat one month after preparation.
Aronium tea
Chokeberry tea will help support immunity
A tasty and healthy drink is usually prepared from dry fruits or leaves of chokeberry. Several tablespoons of raw materials 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 adding dried fruits and leaves of raspberries, currants, cherries to chokeberry.
Chokeberry and cranberry juice
Blackberry and cranberry juice - a sour vitamin bomb on your table
Ingredients:
- water - 1.5 l,
- chokeberry - 0.3 kg,
- cranberries - 0.1 kg,
- sugar - 5 tablespoons.
- To prepare fruit drink in any convenient way, make mashed potatoes from chokeberry and cranberries, rub it through a sieve and strain the juice.
- The remaining cake is poured with water and brought to a boil, the foam is removed, sugar is added. Cook for about 15 minutes and set aside for half an hour to infuse and cool.
- Strain or carefully drain the broth, add the juice of fresh berries to it. The drink tastes good both hot and cold.
Chokeberry Kissel
Chokeberry kissel will help normalize stool
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 100 g,
- lemon - 1/2 pc.,
- sugar - to taste
- starch - 40-80 g,
- water - 1 l.
- The preparation of the jelly begins with diluting the starch with a small amount of cooled boiled water. The more starch is used, the thicker the drink will be.
- The berries are washed and mashed. Strain the chokeberry juice through a sieve and squeeze the lemon juice.
- The dense part of the berries remaining in the sieve is poured with water and boiled for 10 minutes.
- Then strain the broth, pour sugar into it and boil again.
- Stirring the sweet broth, pour the diluted starch into it, bring to a boil and remove from the stove.
- Fresh chokeberry and lemon juice is added to the jelly, mixed, poured into glasses or cups. Serve hot or cold.
Recipes for preparations for the winter: what can you cook
Every housewife knows how important it is to stock up on all the gifts of nature for the winter, which will help to overcome the cold, and weakened immunity, and illness. More and more often, preparations from chokeberry are included in the list of stocks for the winter - this invaluable storehouse of everything that the body needs.
Chokeberry, ground with sugar (five minutes without cooking)
Raw chokeberry, ground with sugar, healthier than jam
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1.2 kg,
- granulated sugar - 800 g
- Carefully sorted out and thoroughly washed, chokeberry is dried on a large piece of cloth or towel.
- First, half the berries and half the sugar are crushed with a blender until smooth. A separate vessel is poured over with boiling water and the resulting mass is placed in it.
- Then the same operation is carried out with the second part of the berries and sugar.
- Combined together, both parts of the resulting puree are mixed for a while to quickly dissolve the sugar, and then left for a quarter of an hour, covered with a lid.
- This uncooked jam is placed in small sterilized jars and closed with sterile lids. Store the workpiece at the bottom of the refrigerator.
Chokeberry jam
Chokeberry jam will become a real decoration of the winter table
Ingredients:
- chokeberry berries - 1 kg,
- sugar - 1 kg,
- water - from a glass.
- A pre-well-washed chokeberry is poured with cold water for a day.
- For tomorrow, cooking begins with cooking syrup from water and sugar according to the recipe. The water is drained from the berries and poured with hot syrup, left until it cools completely.
- After the syrup is drained, brought to a boil and cooked for 20 minutes.
- Then pour berries into it and cook for another 30 minutes.
- Ready jam is poured into sterilized jars and tightly closed with lids. You can store the workpiece in the refrigerator, cellar or other cool place.
Chokeberry with apples
If there are not many blackberries for curling, mix it with apples
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1 kg,
- apples - 400 g,
- sugar - 1.3 kg,
- water - 2 glasses
- cinnamon to taste.
- Chokeberry berries are washed by removing the stalks, then immersed in boiling water for five minutes and rinsed with cold.
- Syrup is prepared separately from two glasses of water and 0.5 kg of sugar. It is stirred until completely dissolved, then berries are added.
- After boiling, simmer for 5-7 minutes and leave to infuse for at least three hours, you can leave it overnight.
- Then the jam is again heated to a boil and the remaining sugar and washed apples, peeled from seeds and skin, 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.
- Boil the mass for another 15 minutes. During this time, all the fruits will reach readiness.
- The finished jam is laid out in clean jars, stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
Jam, jam
Chokeberry jam has a beautiful ruby color and is loved by children
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1 kg,
- sugar - 1.2 kg,
- water - 1.5 cups.
- Sorted and washed berries are poured with water and boiled under a lid for about half an hour so that the berries become soft.
- Then, after draining them, they are crushed with a blender or rubbed through a sieve.
- Sugar is added to the resulting puree, mixed.
- The mass is boiled down until it is reduced in volume by about one third. Then they roll it up into jars.
Candied blackberry
Chokeberry candied fruits are a healthy treat if their use is reasonable
This well-stored preparation, which is also very easy to prepare, can become not only a healthy and tasty treat, but also a home "medicine" for people suffering from hypertension.
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1.5 kg,
- sugar - 1 kg,
- water - 200 ml,
- powdered sugar - to taste.
- The berries are carefully sorted out, substandard ones are removed, washed in cold running water or replaced several times, dried on a cloth.
- Syrup is made from water and sugar. It is heated to a boil, after the crystals are completely dissolved, a berry is poured into it. You can boil the berries immediately until tender, or let the syrup boil, set it aside for a couple of hours, then cook it over low heat for about 20 minutes, without covering the pan or bowl with a lid. Citric acid is added five minutes before the end of cooking.
- The boiled berries are carefully strained through a colander, as they are easy to damage while they are hot. When the berries have reached room temperature, they are transferred to a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Heat the oven to 50 ° C and place the baking sheet in it for 2 hours. After the time has elapsed, the oven is turned off, but the trays with berries are not removed, but the berries are allowed to cool completely again.
- After all the procedures, the chokeberry is generously sprinkled with powdered sugar and folded for storage in containers that can be sealed.
homemade baking
With this healthy and tasty berry, open, closed and grated pies, charlotte, gingerbreads, pies with yeast, puff or unleavened dough, muffins, muffins, biscuits, rolls, and even cakes are baked. The following are recipes for some of these products.
Chokeberry pie
Chokeberry pie - a bright accent on the table during breakfast or a snack
Ingredients:
- berries - about 400 g,
- eggs - 3 pcs.,
- kefir - 1 glass,
- sugar - 1 glass
- flour - 2 cups,
- soda - 1 teaspoon,
- vinegar to quench the soda,
- butter or margarine for greasing a baking dish,
- semolina or flour for sprinkling the mold.
- Chokeberry berries are separated from the stalks, carefully sorted out and washed well, dried on a towel. They are then mixed with a little flour to distribute them evenly in the dough.
- To prepare the dough, beat eggs with 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.
- Choose a form in which the dough will be placed in a layer 2-3 cm thick. Grease it and sprinkle it with flour or semolina. Spread the dough into it and level its surface.
- Bake for up to half an hour in an oven preheated to 200 ° C, until the crust is browned.
Yeast dough pies with blackberry
Chokeberry pies will remind you of warm autumn
For the filling of pies, you can use fresh or defrosted chokeberry berries, adding sugar to taste. Thawed berries are less tart. Many housewives prefer to mix blackberry berries, for example, with currants, for filling pies, supplementing them with pieces of peeled apple.The sweet filling corresponds to the rich yeast dough, which is prepared according to any recipe. You can use this:
Ingredients:
- milk - 0.5 l,
- sugar - 100 g
- salt - 0.5 teaspoon,
- yeast - 1 small sachet
- flour - 900 g,
- butter - 100 g vegetable or 80 g melted butter,
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- The milk is heated to 40 ° C, sugar and yeast are added, and allowed to stand for 20 minutes in a warm place.
- Add a third of flour, salt, leave to ferment warm for 40 minutes.
- Pour in butter, eggs slightly beaten with a fork, sifted flour, knead well and put in a warm place for 2 hours. After crushed and again placed in a warm hour and a half.
- Put the blinded pies on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, bake at 180 ° C for up to half an hour. The baking time depends on the specific oven.
Black chokeberry muffin
Black chokeberry cupcake looks very elegant
Ingredients:
- blackberry - 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.
- All dry ingredients are mixed in a separate bowl, except for powdered sugar.
- Beat apple juice, eggs and butter with a mixer until smooth. A dry mixture of ingredients is added to it, mixed. Pour in the berries and mix again.
- The dough is transferred to a baking dish, previously oiled and dusted with flour, and leveled.
- Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. The cake is baked for about 20 minutes. The readiness is checked with a wooden stick or a toothpick. The product is ready when, stuck in the center of the cake, it is taken out completely dry.
- The finished cake is left to cool in the mold for 5 minutes, then removed and cooled. When serving the product on the table, lightly sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
Aronia desserts
Chokeberry berries can be prepared in such a way that they will not only become a source of many substances useful and useful to 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
It is possible to prepare marmalade from chokeberry berries without adding additional thickeners, since the fruits themselves contain a sufficient amount of pectins.
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1 kg,
- water - 1 glass,
- granulated sugar - 500 g,
- vanilla sugar - 5 g.
- 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.
- The baking sheet is covered with parchment greased with a thin layer of refined vegetable oil. Preheat the oven to 160–170 ° C. The cooked 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.
- Dry the marmalade until a thin crust appears on top. Then the baking sheet is taken out of the oven and left to cool completely.
- 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 liters.
- The washed berries are kneaded with hands in a deep saucepan and the juice is drained.
- The remaining pomace is poured with boiling water, boiled for a quarter of an hour and filtered through a sieve covered with gauze.
- Add sugar to the broth, stir, boil for 7 minutes after boiling.
- Pour about a glass of broth, dissolve gelatin in it and return to the total volume. The previously squeezed berry juice is poured there and continue to cook for about five minutes.
- The finished jelly is poured into prepared jars and rolled up with lids.
Forgotten delicacy - rowan marshmallow
Aronium marshmallow is a healthy treat for children
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 10 glasses,
- sugar - 5 glasses
- egg white - 2 pieces.
- The berries are separated from the stalks and carefully washed, placed in a saucepan and crushed with a wooden spoon.
- Pour sugar into the resulting mass, cover with a lid, put in an oven preheated to 160 ° C.
- After extracting a sufficient amount of juice, the mass is stirred to better dissolve the sugar, rub through a sieve and allow to cool. Proteins are added to the warm mass and everything is whipped until whitening.
- To dry the future marshmallow, use a heat-resistant glass dish. A third of the whipped berry and protein mass is spread on it and placed in the oven at 80 ° C.
- When the mass becomes dense enough, spread the second third of the mixture on top.
- Drying is then repeated with the third part. After that, the dish is covered with clean white paper and a lid. Store the pastille in a cool and dry place.
Classic chokeberry syrup
Sometimes, when preparing black chokeberry syrup, hawthorn berries are added to it.
Ingredients:
- black chokeberry - 2.5 kg
- water - 4 l
- citric acid - 25 g
- sugar - by volume of juice: 1 kg per liter
- The berries are poured with freshly boiled water and citric acid is added, mixed, covered with a lid, wrapped warmly and left for a day.
- The next day, drain the liquid through several layers of tissue. To keep the juice clear, it is better not to squeeze the berries, but to cook jam from them.
- 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 a sterile container and covered with lids. You can store the workpiece at room temperature, since the high sugar content acts as a preservative.
Chokeberry sauce for meat, poultry, fish
Aronia - a berry with excellent unique taste and aroma, can be used not only for the preparation of sweets and drinks, but also become the basis for the preparation of sauces and seasonings for meat, fish, 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 glass,
- salt - 2 tablespoons
- seasoning "khmeli suneli" - 1 tablespoon,
- black and red ground peppers - to taste,
- vinegar 9% - 3 tablespoons.
- Thoroughly washed and dried chokeberry berries, peeled garlic and hot peppers (if you remove the seeds from it, the sauce will be less spicy) are passed through a meat grinder.
- After stirring the resulting mass, add all the other ingredients and mix again until the sugar and salt dissolve.
- The finished sauce is placed in sterile jars and sealed with sterilized lids. The product is stored in the refrigerator, since it has not undergone heat treatment. Its shelf life is approximately six months.
We are very conservative in our culinary affections and passions. Chokeberry dishes, prepared according to the recipes described in the article, will help to add more variety to the diet, replenishing it with healthy and tasty products.
