Aronia is a shrub with extremely valuable fruit, which is an excellent raw material for all preserves. Chokeberry fruit can be used to make juice, preserves, and even wine or tincture. They are not only tasty but also he althy, as the consumption of chokeberry fruit helps to prevent atherosclerosis and cancer. Here are the best recipes for tasty and he althy chokeberry preserves that anyone can make by themselves.
Aronia preserves
Aronia fruits
Aronia is a shrub with low cultivation requirements, it can grow on any soil.We collect chokeberry fruits at the turn of August and September. Raw chokeberry fruits are tart and sour. They acquire a rich taste only inchokeberry preservesThey are also a great addition to other fruit preserves. They taste great in combination with apples, pears and pumpkin. Interestingly, chokeberry fruits are quite a new guest in our kitchen, so in older cookbooks you will probably not find recipes forchokeberry preserves
Good to know!Frozen chokeberry fruits lose their bitter taste. Therefore, harvesting chokeberry should be carried out only after the first frost. If birds eat them, you can pick the aronia fruits earlier and put them in the freezer.
Aronia juice
Of all thechokeberry preserves , juice is the easiest one to make. Especially if you have a juicer.Aronia juicefrom a juicer takes only a dozen or so minutes of our work (depending on how much fruit we have).Aronia juice can also be obtained by steaming or simmering the fruit. After pouring chokeberry juice, you can add sugar to taste and pour the hot juice into scalded jars. It is also a good way to get juice, howeverchokeberry juicefrom a juicer is faster and easier to make.
Aronia jam
Aronia jamwill surely appeal to those who like dry flavors. It must also be admitted that chokeberry jam is also a delicacy in a cupboard that not everyone has.
Ingredients: 1 kg of aronia fruit, 1.4 kg of sugar, 2 glasses of water.
Immerse the fruit in boiling water, remove it and cool it in cold water. Then drain and put into a pot. Prepare a syrup from 2 glasses of water and 0.5 kg of sugar. Pour the boiling syrup over the chokeberry fruit in a pot. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook for 3-5 minutes and set aside for 8-10 hours. Then add the remaining sugar, stir and simmer until everything is well combined.Hot (!) Put into twist jars. Leave to cool, covered.
Aronia wine
If you want to makearonia wineor any other wine, remember that for this preparation you will need a few specialized ingredients, such as mother yeast or nutrient, and wine making equipment . All these ingredients and equipment are now readily available in specialist winemakers' stores, also online.
We need: chokeberry fruit (as much as half of our gander), boiled water, sugar, mother yeast (preferably Bordeaux), nutrient solution.
Fill the clean gander halfway with washed fruit. Dissolve sugar in boiled water in a portion of 1 liter of water for 25 grams of sugar.Pour over the fruit, add the yeast mother and close it with the tap with the fermentation tube. After about 3-4 weeks, pour the wine from the sediment into a smaller ridge, filling it to the brim and leave it to clarify. After another 3-4 weeks, remove the wine from the sediment and pour it into scalded dark glass bottles. And here it isaronia wineis ready!
Aronia jam
Although the taste ofchokeberry jamis quite specific, you should remember about its he alth benefits. With this jam (as with otherchokeberry preserves ) no viral infection is terrible!
Note! When making chokeberry jam, it is a good idea to use the fruit left over from making chokeberry juice in the juicer.
Ingredients: 1 kg of aronia fruit, 1 kg of sugar, 250 ml of fresh apple juice.
Pour apple juice over the fruit, then add sugar and mix thoroughly so that everything is combined.Put it on the gas and cook it for a few minutes over low heat. Then let it rest for a few hours, preferably overnight. After this time,chokeberry jamboil it again and while still hot, put it into scalded jars. After closing the jar, put it upside down and leave it to cool.
Aronia tincture
Of allchokeberry preserves , the tincture is perhaps the most appreciated. It has a specific taste and is very he althy. If you have a chokeberry bush, you just need to make a tincture of chokeberry!
Pour a kilogram of ripe and thoroughly cleaned aronia berries into the jar. The fruit must be without stalks and stalks and must be thoroughly dried after washing. Pour over the fruit with 1 liter of spirit and 1 liter of vodka. Close the jar tightly and put it in a sunny place for 1 month. After this time, pour the alcohol into a separate jar, and sprinkle the fruit with sugar (the amount at your discretion, about 0.5 kg of sugar will make the tincture mild) and set aside for another 2 weeks for the sugar to merge with the fruit (you can mix it from time to time by moving the jar).After this time, combine the alcohol with the fruit and, filtering it, pour the chokeberry tincture into the bottles.
Katarzyna Matuszak
