Blackberry jam. The benefits of chokeberry jam and potential harm

Chokeberry (or chokeberry) came to Russia from North America at the beginning of the 19th century, where indigenous people actively used its beneficial properties to treat many diseases. This plant was adapted to the Russian climatic realities by the famous breeder Michurin.

Due to its outstanding taste and useful qualities, the berry has now firmly entered the diet of our compatriots and is used in a large number of recipes: from juice that can prevent vitamin deficiency and increase immunity, to marmalade, wine, syrup and tinctures. Especially popular is jam made from chokeberry.

Chokeberry fruits contain about 10% fructose in combination with glucose and sorbitol, carotene, vitamins E, K, C, P, group B, amygdalin, coumarin, a number of pectin and tannin compounds. The composition also includes water, dietary fiber, various organic acids, monosaccharides and disaccharides.

Special attention deserves the high content of vitamin P, which slows down the aging process in the body and has a positive effect on the immune system. Enough to eat 3 tbsp. l. per day to replenish the daily allowance.

Mineral profile of the berry: iron, molybdenum, fluorine, boron, manganese and iodine (in high concentration). Present: calcium, potassium, sodium and magnesium.

The berry itself has a calorie content of 56 kcal, but in jam made from chokeberry, this figure is already 388 kcal. The amount of fat in the product is close to zero, and carbohydrates - 75 g per 100 g.

Beneficial features

Berries have a positive effect in the treatment of such ailments:

• obesity;
• Graves' disease;
• increased intracranial and arterial pressure;
• thyrotoxicosis;
• weakness;
• apathy;
• weakening of the immune system.

As a result of repeated experiments, the benefits of these wonderful fruits for the body have been confirmed. In the middle of the 20th century, chokeberry was officially given the status of a medicinal product.

Keeps up with fresh berries and chokeberry jam, which has a number useful properties and is an indispensable assistant in the treatment and prevention of a large number of diseases.

In aronia berries it is several times higher than in raspberries, currants, gooseberries and blackberries. Therefore, the product is recommended for use in case of general apathy, rapid fatigue of the body, bleeding from the gums and other symptoms of iodine deficiency.

The benefits of pectins found in fresh and candied fruits are also noteworthy. They remove heavy metals and radioactive compounds from the body, normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and act as a mild choleretic agent in the treatment of cholecystitis.

For people suffering from low acidity, chokeberry and jam from it can be a real salvation. Organic compounds present in it facilitate the process of digestion of food.

A small amount of jam, taken after a hearty meal, will benefit the digestive tract. It will relieve the feeling of heaviness in the stomach, bad breath and belching.

Trace elements present in large quantities in the jam normalize the functioning of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, act as an excellent prophylactic against varicose veins, lower cholesterol and strengthen the walls of blood vessels.

Chokeberry jam can be used by hypertensive patients as a means of normalizing blood pressure. To do this, take 35-30 g of jam with water or warm tea, if desired, add a little lemon or other berries rich in vitamin C to it. This recipe can also save you from a headache, and before going to bed it will relieve insomnia.

Regular intake of this sweet product is especially useful in the cold season, as it allows not only to avoid seasonal beriberi, but also significantly increase the body's defenses before impending viral epidemics.

Contraindications and harm

To tasty and useful product did not harm your health, pay attention to contraindications.

Aronia jam is an excellent remedy for high blood pressure, but it is advisable for hypotensive patients to exclude it from the diet. Passion for chokeberry for this group of people is dangerous with a serious drop in pressure.

The use of the product is contraindicated in the following ailments:

• gastritis, accompanied by high acidity;
• stomach ulcer;
• frequent bowel disorders;
• increased blood clotting;
• thrombophlebitis;
• diabetes.

Since the berries have a mild diuretic effect, people with kidney problems are advised to consume them in moderation. Otherwise, you risk causing serious harm to your body.

Recipes

Classic recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of chokeberry berries;
• 1500 g of sugar;
• 700 ml of pure water.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the berries thoroughly and remove the stalks.
2. Place in a deep bowl or other suitable container.
3. Pour washed and peeled fruits cold water- so that it completely covers them.
4. Leave the bowl in this form for exactly one day.
5. In a separate saucepan, combine 700 ml of water and 1.5 kg of sugar.
6. Boil the syrup until it becomes transparent.
7. Drain the berries in a colander and rinse thoroughly with cold water.
8. Fall asleep at enamel pan and top with hot syrup.
9. Leave the resulting mixture to cool completely.
10. Put on low heat for 7-10 minutes, then let cool.
11. Repeat the previous step 3-4 times. This is necessary so that the berries do not boil, but remain intact.
12. Arrange the resulting jam in pre-sterilized jars and cork.

There are a large number of jam recipes with the addition of others. healthy ingredients: apples, currants, cherry leaves, nuts, lemons, plums, etc.

It is necessary to use only ripe berries collected in the first two autumn months.

Some housewives grind berries with a blender or meat grinder. In this case, the jam will acquire a viscous thick consistency, well suited for making sweet pastries.

Jam or syrup?

Chokeberry syrup is prepared much faster, but its shelf life does not exceed a year, unlike jam, which can be stored much longer. Usually used as a dressing for various desserts, or simply diluted with water and drunk. Syrup is especially useful in combination with hawthorn. Such a product is not difficult to find in a pharmacy. It is indicated for use in hypertensive patients and people with reduced immunity.

Jam is considered more useful if the cooking rules are observed, since it contains berry peel. But it is in it that contains up to 1/3 of the useful components of chokeberry. Nevertheless, the syrup also has preventive and therapeutic properties.

In the long winter evenings, we enjoy in our warm homes everything that we managed to prepare in the summer. And we are not only trying to cook something tasty. It is also important for us to take as much as possible the very best from any vegetable, fruit, berry.

In a cohort of the most useful berries, from which you can cook a huge variety winter preparations, hit and chokeberry, chokeberry. The most her useful qualities stored in various forms . There is drying, marinating, etc. It occupies a special place. So today we will practice with this beautiful, modest-looking, but real treasure trove of vitamins, a berry.

How to dry chokeberry?

Very simple. There are several methods. Having removed the stalks from the bushes of ripe berries, we will send them to dry on the grates. After spreading in a layer (2 cm) on parchment, laid out on a tray, and dry on the street or in the oven. If we dry in the oven, then it will take about 30 minutes, at a temperature of 30-40 degrees. When the berries have cooled down and no juice will stand out from them, we will increase the temperature in the cabinet to 55 degrees. But we are watching so that everything useful does not perish, for the sake of which everyone started. The brown color of the berries is a signal of their readiness. Or, tying rowan umbrellas in bunches, hang them in the kitchen, where there is good ventilation. An electric dryer dries quickly and with maximum preservation of vitamins.

Application : pastries, teas, jellies, compotes, etc.

We cook chokeberry jam for the winter

Important! 100 grams of berries will enrich our body with iron, manganese, iodine. Thanks to the use of aronia berries, we can not get atherosclerosis, hypertension, we will sleep soundly, strengthen the immune system, and remove radioactive substances from the body. And vitamin P will strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and this is one of the key advantages of these fruits.

Jam from this original berry with a specific taste is incomparable. As with other berries, it can be cooked in several ways, with the addition of other fruits, grated, simply boiled, etc.

Recipe #1

Ingredients

• Sugar - 1 kilogram
• Water - 1 glass.

Cooking

Let the water drain from the washed berries. We boil the syrup and dip the berries into it. It would be nice to put the jam at night (for 8 hours), then in the morning it would be possible to complete the process without translating the whole day. Bring to a boil and remove from stove. Let it brew for a few more hours. Continue to cook until the chokeberry sinks to the bottom of the pan in which it is cooked. Then the jam can be rolled into jars.

Recipe #2

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
• Sugar - 1 kilogram
• Water - 1 glass
• Apples - 1-2 pcs.
• Cherry leaves - a couple of handfuls

Cooking

From the washed cherry leaves, cook the syrup. Why send them to a bowl, fill with water and bring to a boil over low heat. Strain the infusion, cook the syrup. Let's boil it and put the sorted and clean berries into it. 15 minutes before readiness, put finely chopped apples. You can wipe it, or you can close it anyway.

Application : filling, pastries, desserts, drinks, etc.

Recipe #3

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
• Sugar - 1 kilogram

Cooking

The berries need to be washed, let the water drain, cover with sugar and let the mass boil. Let it cool down, and again on the fire - for 2-3 minutes. Let it cool again, and so - 3-4 times. If it is sweet, you can drop a few drops lemon juice. Then, in a boiling form, we twist it into sterile jars. Berries will be whole!

Cooking delicious chokeberry jam

Important! Yes, berries, inconspicuous in appearance, are also tart in taste. But we are not in a hurry to be indignant, they say, what kind of jam can be obtained from chokeberry!

After all, you will get not just jam, but a product saturated with a unique chemical composition in the form of organic acids, vitamins B2, B9, E, PP and C.

Recipe #1

Ingredients

• Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
• Water - 1.5 cups

Cooking

Berries, ripe and prepared, steam in a saucepan with water under the lid until they soften. Then the fruits are pounded through a sieve, we need to get a puree. After sending it to an enamel bowl, add sugar, mix it so that it completely dissolves. We cook in one go and, spreading it hot in clean jars, pasteurize for 20 minutes.

Recipe number 2, with the addition of apples

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
• Apples - 400 grams
• Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
• Water - 2 glasses

Cooking

Adding a glass of water to the mountain ash, steam the berries. When they become soft, pass through a sieve. Similarly, steam the apples, cut into slices and poured with a second glass of water. We also rub this mass through a sieve. We put sugar in a mixture of both purees, and cook, stirring everything, in one go. In this case, prepared jars filled with hot jam are also pasteurized for 20 minutes.

Recipe number 2, with the addition of quince

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 1 kilogram
• Quince - 400 grams
• Sugar - 1.5 kilograms
• Water - 2 glasses

Cooking

First, soften the quince - it is harder than a mountain ash. Filling the pieces of quince with water, we heat them on gas. We will do the same with prepared rowan berries. Steam them until soft. Pour in sugar, cook for 10 minutes. Putting steamed quince here, cook in one go until cooked. Let's grind the mass through a sieve and spread it hot in sterilized jars. Let's pasteurize the jars for 20 minutes.
Application: baking, desserts, pastries, etc.

What about chokeberry drinks?

This berry is incomparable in drinks. The color is simply unique. The taste is very original. And if you take into account the usefulness of the mountain ash, then you can prepare more drinks, and in different types. Let's start with compotes, they say they quench their thirst well and help with hypertension!

Important! How much vitamin P is in 100 grams of fruit? Let's compare. 4000 mg! While orange and lemon contain 400-500 mg, blackcurrant - up to 1500, cherry and sweet cherry - up to 900, gooseberries and lingonberries - up to 650 mg.

Recipe number 1. Black rowan compote

Ingredients

• Rowan chokeberry - 2 kilograms
• Sugar - half a kilogram (to your taste)

Cooking

Washed and removed from the branches, the mountain ash will be lowered into boiling water, and after a couple of minutes we will send it to the prepared jars, taking one third or half. It all depends on the purpose of the twist. If you immediately drink, then you can fill a quarter of the jar with berries. Add sugar to taste in boiling water, pour over the berries and twist. This carousel of tartness with sour and sweet will bring a lot of fun!

Recipe number 2, with the addition of apples

Important! The presence of a mass of iodine compounds in the pulp of the mountain ash will also please you. In this regard, these fruits are second only to feijoa.

Ingredients

• Rowan chokeberry - 5 tablespoons
• Apples - kilogram
• Water - 4.5 liters
• Sugar - 4.5 cups

Cooking

It is better to choose small apples. If large specimens, then cut them into slices. We put everything in bottles (liter, two- or three-liter) and cook the syrup. Then pour apples and berries with this boiling syrup. Turning the necks down, wrap them well with something warm and leave until the morning. This number of products is designed for two 3-liter jars. An excellent concentration of compote can even be stored at home, and not in the cold. By the way, you can combine mountain ash with other fruits and different berries.

Recipe #3

Ingredients

• Sugar

Cooking

Soak the finished berries for a couple of days, not forgetting to change the water. We will send them to jars and fill them with boiling sugar syrup prepared in the usual way. Sterilize 25 min. - liter, 50 - three-liter.

Recipe #4

Ingredients

• chokeberry
• Sugar

Cooking

Sterilize jars with lids. Boil the berries in boiling water for a few minutes. Salt the broth, put it in jars, covered with lids. After adding sugar (to taste) to the broth, bring to a boil and pour into jars. So let's do it one more time and twist. We put as many berries as we wish - the more of them, the greater the concentration.

Application : for puddings, cereals, for drinking.

Making chokeberry liqueur at home

Unique! Unique! Incredibly delicious! The list of compliments for mountain ash drinks can go on and on. A big plus of liquor is that you can drink it on a holiday, at dinner, and serve it to unexpected guests. By the way, you can’t drink a lot of it, it’s so concentrated!

Recipe #1

Ingredients

• Rowan chokeberry - 1 kilogram
• Sugar - 500 grams
• Vodka - 1 liter
• Carnation - 2-3 pcs.

Cooking

Rinse the berries plucked from the branches, let them dry and grind them in a convenient way. If only the puree came out. We will send everything to a clean jar (3 liters), put sugar and cloves here. By shaking the contents, we will achieve the distribution of sugar. Close the lid and set aside for a couple of days. Pouring vodka here, just close the lid, and forget about the drink for a couple of months. But shake it up a little regularly. Strain, pour into bottles.

Recipe #2

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 500 grams
• Cherry leaf - 100 grams
• Sugar - 800 grams
• Water - 1 liter
• Vodka - 0.5 liters
• Citric acid - 2 tsp.

Cooking

In a bowl, crush the berries with leaves. Pour the mass with water and boil for 10 minutes. Then, pouring sugar here, citric acid, more min. 20 cook on a small fire. When it cools down, strain the drink, pour into bottles and top up with vodka.

We put homemade wine from chokeberry

Important! Mountain ash is very popular not only in summer or winter. She is also loved in the off-season. Berries or products made from them are especially relevant as a multivitamin remedy for fatigue. So, it is enough to pour 30 g of dried berries with boiling water (2 cups) and insist overnight in a thermos. And then drink half a glass three times half an hour before meals. Useful and wine from chokeberry.

Ingredients

• Chokeberry - 1 cup
• Cherry leaf - 50 pieces
• Water - 1 liter
• Sugar - 250 grams
• Citric acid - half a teaspoon
• Vodka - half a liter

Cooking

We put a clean mountain ash in water, pour sugar and cherry leaves. Let it simmer for 10 minutes over low heat. Strain after it cools down, put citric acid and sugar. Stir thoroughly and cook again on a small fire for a quarter of an hour. After cooling down, pour vodka. Let well-corked wine bottles stand for a couple of weeks in a dark place. We always taste while cooking.

A simple recipe for chokeberry tincture with honey

And for a regular meal, and for any holiday, the tincture will be good. In addition to pleasant relaxation, we will be charged with a mass of vitamins and minerals. On cold March days, this will be a good cure for colds!

Ingredients

• Aronia chokeberry - 2.5 cups
• Honey - 3 tablespoons
• Vodka - 1 liter
• Oak bark - 1 pinch

Cooking

Even if the drink is not prepared quickly, it is worth it! We will prepare the berries by sorting, washing, and decomposing into jars. Pour honey melted in a water bath into a bowl, put clean oak bark. After pouring vodka, we will remove the future drink away, for 3-4 months. But sometimes you need to shake it up a little. After the required time and after filtering, we pour into beautiful bottles. Tart and not sweet tincture even with tea - super!

Application : for tea, for a festive table.

Candied chokeberry for the winter

Important! If you make candied fruits from these fruits, people with diabetes will have an ideal product with a sugar substitute, sorbitol. Substances that are in the leaves improve liver function. Candied fruits are incomparable!

Recipe #1

Ingredients

• Chernoplodka - 1 kilogram
• Sugar - 1 kilogram
• Water - 1 glass
• Citric acid - 1 teaspoon
• Vanillin - 1 sachet

Cooking

After the berries stand for two days in water (drain a couple of times a day), boil the syrup and put the mountain ash into it. Cook for an hour, at the end put vanillin with citric acid. Berries should then spend the night in a colander. Then we scatter them on paper, and let them dry for another day. Will keep well in glass jar sprinkled with sugar. Don't throw away the syrup - it's great in tea!

Chokeberry, also called chokeberry or, simply, chokeberry - unusually useful berry. At the same time, many, underestimating the full benefits of the fruits of this perennial shrub, are trying to get rid of the harvest, distributing it to acquaintances and friends. Do not rush to do this! From the aronia, wonderful sweet blanks for the winter are obtained. Jam is especially popular. There are very different recipes for chokeberry jam: with cherry leaf, apples, lemon or orange ... and the best of them are presented in this section of the site. Following the proven step by step instructions with a photo, you can definitely cook chokeberry jam correctly and tasty.

The best recipes with photos

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quick jam from chokeberry cooked for the winter - simple, pleasant and healthy treat. This so-called five-minute jam is light and quick recipe. He, I hope, will be to your liking.

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From garden berries and fruits it turns out very delicious treat for the winter - jam. Chokeberry is not a very popular berry for making jam and in vain! Black rowan jam is much healthier and tastier than that made from the usual strawberries and cherries. How to make chokeberry jam- watch and read on.

Blackberry jam: how to cook

Recipe Aronia jam

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry
• 1.5 kg sugar
• 300 ml water

Cooking method:

1. cook hot sugar syrup.
2. Cut off the rowan berries from the brushes and stalks. Wash and scald with boiling water.
3. Pour the chokeberry berries with boiling syrup, mix quickly and leave for 6-8 hours under a towel.
4. Cook blackberry jam by bringing to a boil and cooling to room temperature in 2-3 doses.
5. Arrange the finished jam in sterilized jars and roll up the lids.
6. Store in a cool place. This jam can be used as a filling for pies, pastries and desserts.

Recipe Aronia jam with apples

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry
• 1 kg sugar
• 1 st. water
• 2 handfuls of cherry leaves
• 2 apples "Antonovka"

Cooking method:

1. From cherry leaves and 1 tbsp. water to boil a decoction.
2. Then strain the broth and prepare a sugar syrup based on it.
3. Wash the apples, remove the skin and seeds.
4. Cut apples into small cubes.
5. Release the chokeberry from the twigs and rinse.
6. Put berries and apples in boiling syrup.
7. Cook the jam at a low boil for 15 minutes. Then cool to room temperature.
8. Put the jam on the fire and bring to a boil.
9. Arrange hot jam in clean and dry jars. Close jars with screw caps.

Recipe Aronia jam, option number 2

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry
• 1 kg sugar
• 1 st. water

Cooking method:

1. Tear off the chokeberry from the brushes and rinse well.
2. Pour the berries with sugar, mix and leave for 8 hours in a cool place under a towel.
3. Then pour water into the berries and put the pan on low heat.
4. Boil the jam for about 30 minutes from the moment of boiling.
5. As soon as a drop of jam stops spreading on a flat plate, remove the jam from the heat and arrange it in sterilized jars and roll up the lids.

Recipe Aronia chokeberry jam, a complicated way

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry
• 1.3 kg sugar
• 2 tbsp. water

Cooking method:

1. In fact, there is nothing difficult in this recipe. For jam, you need to prepare sugar syrup.
2. Wash the berries and blanch in boiling water.
3. Then pour the rowan berries with boiling syrup and leave for 5-6 hours.
4. Drain the syrup, boil and pour over the berries again. Leave to cool.
5. Repeat the procedure 2 more times.
6. Arrange the finished jam in jars and close the lids. Store in a cool place.

Recipe Aronia jam with walnuts and lemon

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chokeberry
• 0.5 kg of Antonovka apples
• 0.5 kg cores walnuts
• 1.5 kg sugar
• 1 lemon

Cooking method:

1. Release the mountain ash from the twigs, wash and pour boiling water over it. Leave the berries in the water for 12 hours. Then drain the water.
2. From 1 st. drained water and sugar to prepare syrup.
3. Peel apples and cut into very small cubes.
4. Chop the nuts with a knife.
5. Lemon cut into thin circles, then straws, and straws into pieces.
6. Put the chokeberry, apples and nuts into the hot syrup.
7. Cook jam in 2-3 doses with boiling for 10-12 minutes and complete cooling of the mass.
8. Lastly, add lemon and bring to a boil.
9. Then remove the pan from the heat and cover with a towel.
10. Place a lid or large bowl on a towel.
11. Let the jam stand under such a bath for about 10 minutes.
12. Arrange hot jam in sterilized jars and close with metal lids.

In addition to blackberry jam, compotes are cooked and juice is prepared. How to make juice from chokeberry, see the video recipe.

Video recipe "How to make juice from chokeberry"

Cook with pleasure and be healthy!

Always your Alena Tereshina.