Chokeberry - 200 grams
Cranberries - 200 grams
Honey - to taste
Water - 1 liter
How to cook blackberry and cranberry juice
1. Sort the chokeberry, bad berries, remove twigs, wash the berries.
2. Sort fresh cranberries, clean from bad berries and twigs, do not defrost frozen before cooking.
3. Put chokeberries, cranberries in a saucepan, pour in a liter of water, cover the saucepan with a lid.
4. Place the pan with chokeberry and cranberries over medium heat, bring to a boil.
5. Reduce the heat to low, cook cranberry-chokeberry juice for 10 minutes, if using dried chokeberry, cook longer - until the berries are soft.
6. Remove the sauce pan from the stove.
7. Remove the berries from the juice with a slotted spoon, transfer them to a sieve.
8. Using a spoon, grind the chokeberry and cranberries into a puree.
9. Transfer the berry puree back to the saucepan.
10. Place the saucepan with juice on medium heat, let it boil.
11. Boil juice for 1 minute.
12. Remove fruit drink from the burner, open the lid, let the fruit drink cool to a warm state.
13. Put honey in a saucepan with warm (but not hot) juice, mix or put honey in warm juice already poured into cups.
Chokeberry (chokeberry) is a very useful berry, but, unfortunately, it is not as popular in our country as it deserves. Of course, gardeners grow it on their plots, but they mainly make jam from it or add it to compotes for a beautiful color.
I confess, I myself recently thought about where to attach it when I was presented with a bag of chokeberry! Mors from it I never cooked and, it turned out, in vain! so fragrant and delicious drink I haven't tried in a long time! Chokeberry is a tart berry and I added quite a bit of cranberry for sourness.
A very simple fruit drink recipe chokeberry Russian cuisine step by step with a photo. Easy to cook at home in 50 minutes. Contains only 116 kilocalories.
- Preparation time: 10 min
- Time for preparing: 50 min
- Amount of calories: 116 kilocalories
- Servings: 6 servings
- Occasion: Fasting, Picnic, Dessert
- Complexity: Very simple recipe
- National cuisine: Russian kitchen
- Dish type: The drinks
Ingredients for six servings
- Water 1.5 l
- Cranberries frozen 100 g
- Rowan chokeberry 300 g
- Sugar 5 tbsp. l.
Step by step cooking
- For fruit drink, we need chokeberry, cranberries and sugar. We sort out the berries and wash them.
- With a mixer, puree chokeberry and cranberries.
- Pass the puree through a sieve and strain the juice into a cup. We do not throw out the pulp.
- Fill the berry cake with water. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Collect the foam, add sugar and cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Turn off the fire and let it brew and cool for 0.5 hours.
- Strain through a sieve, although you can just carefully drain, as the cake will settle to the bottom. Add the squeezed juice to the pan to the berry broth. Morse is ready. It can be drunk hot or cold.
Ingredients:
500 g puree
500 g sugar
Cooking method:
Chokeberry juice
Cooking method:
The most time-consuming work comes after 8 days, when the must must be filtered from the berries. Of course, you can use a juicer, but I filter the wort by hand, through cheesecloth. Squeeze the remaining berries of the chokeberry properly (to get about 2-3 more cups of liquid).
After 40 days, fermentation will stop, the wine must be bottled through the same tube from the system using the driver's method, using the principle of communicating vessels. We put a bottle of wine on the table, a bottle on a stool nearby. We lower one end of the tube into the bottle, suck a little wine and lower the other end of the tube into the bottle. If everything was done correctly, then now you will feel that the wine is delicious. But it's not ready yet.
He must be allowed to stand for about 2-3 months right in the bottles.
| Black rowan liqueur
100 berries, Let cool. Strain. Nilivka "100 leaves" Strain. |
Ingredients
- garlic - 2 heads
- salt.
Cooking method
This jam is dark ruby color, pleasant taste. Vitamins in it are very well preserved. Peeled and washed fruits are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then the water is drained, the berries are poured into a basin with boiling syrup, boiled for no more than 5 minutes and the jam is allowed to cool. A day later, the fruits in syrup are boiled until cooked, as evidenced by the lowering of the fruits to the bottom of the dish. The finished jam is poured into dry jars and covered with plastic lids.
Aronia mashed
Compote
1 kg of chokeberry,
0.5 kg of apples,
4 liters of water
1.5 kg of sugar.
Cooking method:
Recipes of traditional medicine.
Apple and chokeberry compote
Chokeberry is a tart berry, but very useful. She is great at helping high blood pressure. Recipes for compotes from apples and chokeberry berries are waiting for you below.
Apple compote with chokeberry for the winter
Ingredients:
- sweet apples - 5 pcs.;
- black chokeberry berries - 170 g;
- sugar - 125 g.
Cooking
We cut the washed apples into slices and place them together with chokeberry in prepared steamed jars. Pour boiling water on top, cover and leave for 10 minutes. After that, carefully pour the water into a saucepan, let it boil, add sugar. Its quantity can be changed based on your own taste preferences. Pour the mountain ash with apples with the resulting hot syrup, roll it up, put it upside down, wrap it well and let it stand for a day. You need to store such compote in a dark place. The more compote is infused, the more saturated the taste will turn out.
Apple and chokeberry compote - recipe
Ingredients:
- ripe apples - 800 g;
- black chokeberry berries - 240 g;
- purified water - 800 ml;
- sugar - 350 g;
Cooking
First, we prepare the syrup: pour water into a saucepan, sugar it, bring the sugar crystals to complete dissolution and boil for about 3 minutes after boiling. We clean apples and mountain ash from the stalks. In apples, cut the core and cut them into slices. We lay out the berries and apples in jars, pour boiling syrup right there and cork. It is better to store such a compote in the cold, then you can be sure that the jars will not explode.
How to cook compote from chokeberry and apples?
Ingredients:
- sweet and sour apples - 400 g;
- drinking water - 4 liters;
- sugar - 120 g;
- black chokeberry berries - 200 g.
Cooking
Pour water into a saucepan. It is better that it be filtered, you should not use tap water so as not to spoil the taste of the compote. So, then we throw in sliced apples and chokeberry. Then add sugar and let it boil. Immediately after that, remove it from the fire. And in order for the compote to acquire a rich color, it is necessary that the berries are properly infused. After about half an hour, compote from fresh apples and chokeberries can be poured into glasses.
Canned apple and chokeberry compote
Ingredients:
- purified water - 900 ml;
- sugar - 250 g;
- chokeberry - 400 g;
- apples, pears, plums - 200 g each.
Cooking
Ripe rowan berries are washed, blanched and discarded in a colander. Cut apples, pears, plums into slices. We remove the core, seed part, stalks. Blanch for about 7 minutes until soft. Place the prepared products in jars, alternating with rowan. Pour in the syrup of water and sugar. We cover with steamed lids and sterilize liter jars for about a quarter of an hour and only then roll them up.
Compote of pears, apples and chokeberry
Ingredients:
- sweet and sour apples - 500 g;
- sweet pears - 500 g;
- black chokeberry berries - 300 g;
- sugar - 300 g.
Cooking
Thoroughly wash apples and pears, cut into quarters, cut out the seed part. Wash the rowan berries and pour boiling water for 5 minutes, and then discard them in a colander. Wash the jars well with mustard or soda, then steam them. We also boil the lids. In prepared jars we place berries and pears with apples.
Morse from chokeberry
Pour boiling water over it all, let it stand for 30-40 minutes, and then pour the liquid into the pan. Pour sugar and wait until the syrup boils. Boil for 5 minutes and fill the contents of the jars with it. Roll up with boiled lids, turn upside down, cover with a warm blanket and let cool. We store such compote in the cold.
Chokeberry or chokeberry, the international Latin name Aronia melanocarpa is a plant of the Rosaceae family, is a shrub up to three meters high, with oblong elliptical leaves. It blooms in June - July, with white or pink flowers, connected in corymbose inflorescences. The fruits are spherical, up to 15 mm in diameter, black in color, sweetish-sour in taste.
This plant is native to North America. long time this plant was decorative, only thanks to Michurin it spread throughout Russia and the countries of the post-Soviet space.
Ripe chokeberry berries are eaten and used for medicinal purposes. The chemical composition of fruits includes: sugars (up to 10%), organic acids (malic, etc.), a whole complex of vitamins (P, C, K, E, A, B1, B2, B6) and trace elements (iodine, fluorine, iron , boron, copper, manganese, molybdenum, cobalt, zinc, nickel, chromium, etc.), as well as pectins, tannins, flavonoids and anthacyanins.
Chokeberry content champion useful substances, vitamin P in it is twice as much as in black currants, and 20 times more than in apples and oranges. 1 g fresh berries covers the daily human need for vitamin P. The content of vitamin C is the same as in lemon, but there is four times more iodine than in strawberries, gooseberries and raspberries.
Chokeberry, in addition to a piquant tart sweet and sour taste, has a wide range of pharmacological properties: radioprotective (removes heavy metals and radionuclides from the body), anti-inflammatory, anti-allergenic, diuretic and choleretic.
The use of chokeberry berries has a positive effect on digestion, the secretory function of the stomach increases, appetite improves, and the berries are also able to normalize blood pressure(high decreases, and normal remains at the level) and affect blood clotting (if clotting is poor, then it improves, and if blood clotting is normal, then mountain ash has no effect). Also, chokeberry is recommended for use in violations of the functioning of the thyroid gland (thyrotoxicosis) and as an immunoenhancing agent. Chokeberry is used externally for allergic skin lesions (eczema, neurodermatitis).
Juices, jelly, jam, jam, marmalade, jelly, liqueurs, wines, tinctures are prepared from chokeberry berries. Also in the food industry, a natural dye obtained from chokeberry berries is used. Dried berries are used to make fruit teas. Mountain ash is perfectly preserved at a temperature of 0 ° C, while all vitamins and nutrients are preserved.
Fresh and dry berries, juices and other dishes from chokeberry are useful for everyone, both children and adults, a number of contraindications exist only for those people who suffer from gastric and duodenal ulcers, as well as gastritis with high acidity.
Chokeberry mashed with sugar
Ingredients:
500 g puree
500 g sugar
Cooking method:
Sort the fruits, rinse well, place in a colander and dip in boiling water for 5 minutes, then rub hot through a stainless steel sieve. Mix the mashed mass with granulated sugar, over low heat with constant stirring, heat to 70-75 ° C; packaged in heated jars. Sterilize at 100 °C: jars with a capacity of 0.5 l - 20 min, 1 l - 25 min, 3 l - 60 min.
Chokeberry juice
Cooking method:
Chop thoroughly washed berries. Heat the pulp for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 60-70 °C. For every kilogram of pulp, add 3/4 cup of water. Press the warm pulp and strain the resulting juice through a flannel or gauze folded in 2-3 layers. Heat the juice to 75-78 ° C to precipitate protein substances and strain again. Bring the juice to a boil, boil for 2-4 minutes and immediately pour into heated jars. If the juice is poured into half-liter or liter jars or bottles, then it is pasteurized at 85 ° C for 15 and 20 minutes, respectively. Beli juice is prepared in a pressure cooker, then it is not pasteurized, but poured hot and immediately corked.
Recipe house wine from chokeberry
The recipe for homemade chokeberry wine is my signature recipe. For several years in a row, every autumn I have been using it to make wine. Wine from chokeberry is stored quite well, it has an excellent taste, a beautiful dark ruby color. Probably, this wine can be called the most delicious of all that I make.
First, we prepare the wine sourdough. Usually I take raspberries for wine sourdough, but if the season has passed and there are almost no raspberries left in the garden, it doesn’t matter. In spite of everything, it is necessary to collect and put into action all the remnants of raspberries and strawberries. And as the main source of wine yeast at this time, I use rose hips. So, we collect berries (about 2 cups) and unwashed! put in the bank. If the berries are washed, then all the natural yeast that is on the surface of the berries will disappear.
We fall asleep with 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, pour 0.5 l cold water, tie the neck with 4-layer gauze and leave for 3 days. Periodically, the mass must be stirred. After 3 days, the wine starter will begin to ferment actively and can be used to make wine.
3 kg of chokeberry (I don’t wash it either) grind into food processor(can be crushed with a crush), pour the mixture into a bucket, add the wine sourdough.
Now you need to add sugar and water.
Water should be taken 3 liters. I always filter the water, let it settle. If possible, it is better to take well water.
We measure out 2 kg of sugar, cook sugar syrup with a small amount of water from an already measured measure. Pour into a bucket with chokeberry only cooled down, so as not to damage the wine yeast! Thus, we have prepared wine must.
We tie the bucket with 4-layer gauze and leave it for 8 days for active fermentation. During this time, you can stir the wort 2-3 times a day, because. the berries float to the surface and form a crust that prevents the access of oxygen.
The most time-consuming work comes after 8 days, when the must must be filtered from the berries.
Of course, you can use a juicer, but I filter the wort by hand, through cheesecloth. Squeeze the remaining berries of the chokeberry properly (to get about 2-3 more cups of liquid).
Pour the strained wort into a 5-liter bottle from under mineral water. Get about 4 liters. We close the lid and arrange a water seal. For this, it is very convenient to use a blood transfusion system, which can be bought at a pharmacy. We stick a thick needle into the lid, lower the second end of the tube into liter jar with water. For tightness, you can close up the edge of the lid and the place where the needle was inserted with plasticine.
We put in a cool (20 degrees) shaded place. I leave in the apartment under the table. After 2 days, slow (quiet) fermentation will begin. Air bubbles will start to come out of the tube. Periodically, the bottle with the wort must be gently shaken.
After 40 days, fermentation will stop, the wine must be bottled through the same tube from the system using the driver's method, using the principle of communicating vessels. We put a bottle of wine on the table, a bottle on a stool nearby. We lower one end of the tube into the bottle, suck a little wine and lower the other end of the tube into the bottle. If everything was done correctly, then now you will feel that the wine is delicious. But it's not ready yet. He must be allowed to stand for about 2-3 months right in the bottles.
Thus, around the New Year, we will have excellent wine from chokeberry ready.
Try it, no hassle, and the result exceeds expectations!
| Black rowan liqueur
100 berries, Let cool. Strain. Nilivka "100 leaves" Ingredients (for 1.5 liters of drink): Wash the leaves and berries, put in a large saucepan, pour 800 ml of water, close the lid and put on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for about 30 minutes. Cool, put the leaves and berries in a colander and squeeze lightly with a tablespoon. After that, the leafy-berry mass can be thrown away, it will no longer be needed. Strain. |
Chokeberry with garlic
Ingredients
- chokeberry - 5 cups
- garlic - 2 heads
- salt.
Cooking method
Sort the chokeberry, rinse thoroughly and pass through a meat grinder along with peeled garlic. Add salt to the missed mass, mix. put in glass jar Close with a tight lid and store in the refrigerator or cellar.
Aronia jam (chokeberry)
This jam is dark ruby color, pleasant taste. Vitamins in it are very well preserved. Peeled and washed fruits are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes.
Morse from chokeberry recipe
Then the water is drained, the berries are poured into a basin with boiling syrup, boiled for no more than 5 minutes and the jam is allowed to cool. A day later, the fruits in syrup are boiled until cooked, as evidenced by the lowering of the fruits to the bottom of the dish. The finished jam is poured into dry jars and covered with plastic lids.
For 1 kg of fruits, 1.5 kg of sugar and 250-300 g of apple juice are taken.
Aronia mashed
Washed fruits are scattered in a thin layer for drying.
They are crushed with a wooden pestle or in a meat grinder, mixed with sugar and ground, in a proportion of 1 kg. berries / 0.5 kg. sugar. The resulting mass is laid out in jars and covered with lids. If after that they are placed in a pot of water and allowed to boil for 10-15 minutes, the mass becomes delicate in taste and is very well stored at room temperature.
One spoonful of this paste completely provides the body's daily need for vitamin R.
It can be used instead of sugar by dissolving in tea or milk.
Compote
1 kg of chokeberry,
0.5 kg of apples,
4 liters of water
1.5 kg of sugar.
Cooking method:
1. We clean the berries from twigs, wash them and soak them in water for 2 days. During this time, the water should be changed two or three times.
2. We shift the berries into jars.
3. My apples, peel and cut into slices. Add to berries.
4. Combine sugar with water, bring to a boil.
5. Pour the berries with boiling syrup.
6. We sterilize jars: liter - 25 minutes, 3-liter - 50 minutes.
Recipes of traditional medicine.
With atherosclerosis, 100 g of pureed berries should be taken 2-3 times a day at the rate of 1 kg of berries per 700 g of sugar.
With asthenia, anemia and hypovitaminosis, it is necessary to eat 2-3 times a day 250 g of fresh fruits daily, along with blackcurrant, rosehip broth or ascorbic acid dragees.
For the treatment of hypertension, berry juice is prescribed - 50 g 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals for 10 days.
In winter, as a general tonic, they drink an infusion of dried fruits. 2-4 st. spoons pour 2 cups of boiling water, drink every other day 3 times a day for half a cup 30 minutes before meals.
Another decoction also has a healing effect: 20 g of dried fruits are brewed in 200 ml of boiling water and drunk half a cup 3-4 times a day for two weeks.
However, in some diseases, chokeberry may be contraindicated. So, it is not recommended for gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastritis, frequent constipation, hypotension, increased blood clotting and thrombophlebitis.
How to use chokeberry
Since chokeberry is a wonderful radioprotector, it can be taken by all residents of large cities, and it also miraculously affects the immune system and the general condition of the human body. You can use chokeberry in any form: fresh berries, berries grated with sugar, boiled (syrups, jelly, jam, jam), dry (to make tea).
Chokeberry grated with sugar (grind 1 kg of berries with a wooden spatula with 700 g of granulated sugar) is useful for everyone, it should be taken twice a day for 75-100 grams.
Those suffering from hypertension are shown drinking chokeberry juice 50 g three times a day, 30 minutes before meals, taken for 10 days. A wonderful general tonic is tea from dried berries (1-2 tablespoons per 1 glass of water).
Chokeberries are also consumed in combination with other berries and fruits, as well as with vitamins (with rose hips, black currants, ascorbic acid). In order for the taste of the jam not to be too cloying, chokeberry is boiled together with other types of fruits (apples, quince, currants, oranges).
Chokeberry juice for the winter can be prepared at home, providing yourself with an excellent vitamin product that will come in handy in winter, and especially in early spring.
What is useful chokeberry
This tree has nothing to do with mountain ash. Botanists call this species Aronia chokeberry from the genus Aronia of the Rose family.
This plant comes from North America, where it grows in the same harsh conditions as its pseudo-relative, mountain ash.
The ability to survive in harsh conditions, as well as tasty and very healthy fruits, made this tree a common fruit crop, which is bred where the winter is long, the frosts are strong, and the snow is deep.
Aronia fruits have a sweet and sour tart astringent taste. Their color ranges from completely black to almost dark red. Useful properties are due to a peculiar chemical composition fruits. They contain:
- proteins - 1.6%;
- fats - 0.3%;
- carbohydrates - 20%;
- carbohydrates are dominated by glucose, fructose and sorbitol (a sugar substitute used by diabetics);
- vitamins - P, C, E, PP, B1, B2, B6, B9, carotene;
- minerals - calcium, potassium, magnesium, lead, iron, sodium, phosphorus, boron, fluorine, molybdenum;
- tannins.
The undoubted benefits of chokeberry for the body are highly valued both in folk and official medicine. Fresh, as well as in infusions, decoctions and tinctures, chokeberry fruits are recommended for use in such pathologies:
- hypertension;
- typhus;
- rheumatism;
- scarlet fever;
- measles;
- liver diseases;
- anemia;
- beriberi.
That is why it is so important to grow a large crop of chokeberries, harvest it and prepare it for the winter with minimal loss of nutritional value.
How to make chokeberry juice
Chokeberry juice, harvested for the winter, should have two properties - to be useful and as sterile as possible. Combining these two properties is difficult, but possible. The benefits of chokeberry from the canning process are reduced, but not by much.
At home, you can get juice from aronia chokeberry using a juicer or juicer. In addition, you will need: a sieve, preferably metal, a large enameled bowl, a saucepan, also enameled and large.
Juice preparation is carried out as follows.
- Preparation of berries for processing. Fruits need to be sorted out, removing unusable specimens. You also need to remove all debris and legs from the berries.
- Extraction of juice. If you have a juicer, then this canning step will be the easiest. Let the juicer work and press the blackberry juice for you. If there is no such device, then you can pass the berries through a meat grinder, and put the gruel on a sieve and rub it. You can also wrap the gruel in gauze, then put this bag on a sieve or in a colander, placing a load on top. Under the pressure, the juice will drain until the excess water in the berry gruel runs out.
- Sugar is added to the resulting juice in the amount of 100 g per 1 liter.
- Juice is poured into sterilized jars. Then these vessels are placed in a saucepan with hot water for pasteurization. This pot should be on low heat. To prevent the jars from bursting, you need to put a grate or a thick layer of fabric on the bottom. Banks should stand in boiling water for at least 20 minutes.
- You need to get the jars hot from hot water. They also need to be sealed with lids while hot. After that, each jar needs to be wrapped in a blanket and left in this form for 10 hours.
With this technology, many beneficial features chokeberry fruits are stored for a long time. Just store juice jars in a dark, cool place. If after some time the lid on the jar is swollen or clots of a different color appear on the surface of the juice, then such juice will have to be thrown away without hesitation. This means that the pasteurization took place in violation of the rules.
If you have a juicer, the process of harvesting juice is greatly simplified. Place the peeled berries on top of the juicer. Place the unit itself in a container for collecting juice.
This whole structure must be put on fire. When the first signs of condensation appear, heat the juicer very carefully so as not to destroy the beneficial properties of the berries. When the juice appears, sugar can be added to it in the proportions indicated above.
The duration of the juice cooker on fire is measured approximately 1 hour. After that, you need to open the tap, ensuring that the juice drains into the bowl. The pasteurization procedure described above is no longer necessary. Just pour the juice into jars, and then seal them tightly. In this case, you can skip the wrapping procedure in a blanket. It is enough to put the jars on the lids, wait for the juice to cool completely, and then transfer the vessels to the place of permanent storage.
How to make fruit drink from chokeberry
This drink is not subject to heat treatment and consumed within 1-2 days. It retains all the properties of the fruits of this wonderful plant.
Morse from chokeberry is a tasty and very healthy drink, berry juice diluted in water.
In order to prepare fruit drink from chokeberry, it is necessary to grind clean and selected berries into gruel. This can be done in a blender or in a meat grinder. Crushing the berries into a homogeneous gruel by hand will be difficult, as the berries quickly stick together like a soufflé. In order for this sticking process not to interfere with the production of the drink, add a little water to the gruel.
In the finished berry puree you need to add clean cold water. The proportions of water and berries are determined by taste. It is best to proceed as follows:
- crush the gruel in a strainer, let all the pure juice drain;
- put the rest of the gruel in a bowl, add water, mix thoroughly;
- drain the water into a bowl with juice, rubbing the gruel through a sieve again.
This procedure can be repeated until the water mixed with the remains of the berries ceases to turn red. Now all the useful properties have been transferred from berries to fruit drinks.
The solid components of the berries can be used as a filling for pies, for adding to porridge, kissels, compotes, etc.
Sugar can be added to fruit juice to taste. It is usually drunk chilled in the heat. Mors can be harvested for the winter in the same way as juice. To do this, it is poured into jars, already slightly sweetened, and then sterilized in a water bath in the manner described above.
What is better to harvest for the winter - juice, fruit drink or the berry itself? Everyone solves this problem of choice for himself.
Advantages and disadvantages of different methods of harvesting chokeberry
The easiest way is to quickly freeze the berries. To do this, they need not only to be sorted out, but also slightly dried. After that, the berries are placed in a plastic bag or container and placed in the freezer. Frozen berries can be used in any form. Then it is very easy to make fruit drink from it, because the thawed berries become soft, and the liquid contents flow out by themselves. You just need to slightly rub the berries on a sieve.
Harvesting juice is a laborious process, but if there is no large freezer, this is the most The best way prepare useful product for the future. Juice is a highly concentrated liquid. Many people can drink it only in a diluted form, so one can of juice will last for a long time.
Harvesting fruit drink makes sense. After all, this is the same juice, only diluted. It can be consumed immediately in the form in which it is prepared. However, such canning requires a lot of jars and space.
So each person can choose the options for blanks according to their capabilities and needs. The main thing is that there are always a lot of chokeberry berries.
