Chokeberry fruits are very rich in healthy vitamins, micro- and macronutrients. Aronia berries have healing properties. To stock up on vitamins that are contained in the fruits of chokeberry for a whole year, you must take care of harvesting berries. Gather berries in the middle of September. One of the options for harvesting fruit is jam and chokeberries and apples.
To make jam, you need the following ingredients:
- chokeberry in the amount of 350 g .;
- apple;
- water;
- sugar in the amount of 200 g;
- cinnamon - 10 g.
The process of making jam
1. The fruits of mountain ash must be picked and rinsed thoroughly (preferably under running water).
2. After that, boil water in a saucepan.
3. Aronia berries pour in boiling water. Cook the fruit for 15 minutes. In this case, the berries should not be boiled soft and do not lose their beneficial properties.
4. Then the berries must be poured into a colander, thereby separated from the water. After that, the berries are cooled under running water.
5. Next, you need to prepare a syrup. To make it, sugar must be poured into hot water.
6. Periodically mix the syrup, it should get homogeneous.
7. Then pour the berries into the syrup. Cook the berries in syrup for 10 minutes. Leave chokeberry in syrup for 8 hours. During this time, the syrup is saturated with aroma and juice of rowan fruit.
8. Aronia has a cloying taste, so an apple must be added to the jam. It will give the jam a delicate aroma and sourness. To do this, clean the apple from the peel and core. Then cut the apple into small pieces.
9. For an apple to be soft, boil it slightly, but do not allow it to boil soft.
10. Then pour the finished apple into the container with black chokeberry.
11. Gently mix all the ingredients of the jam.
12. At the end cinnamon must be added to the jam. Then boil the jam.
13. Hot jam roll up. Jam can be stored in the cellar or in the refrigerator.
Chokeberry jam has a sweet-sour taste and a pleasant spicy aroma. This jam can elevate mood and even cure certain diseases. Therefore, jam from chokeberry and apples better stock up on store!