step by step recipe with photo

To preserve all the beneficial vitamins and minerals in berries chokeberry- cook from them fragrant fruit drink, which children will drink with great pleasure, especially if you add a spoonful of May honey to it. This drink turns out to be very colorful, with a pleasant tart aftertaste, reminiscent of prunes. Fruit drink is prepared in two ways: the first of them involves grinding the berries through a sieve, adding water and heating berry puree with water almost to a boil, the second - pouring mashed berries with slightly cooled boiling water. In this recipe, we will prepare fruit drinks, guided by the second method.

Ingredients

• 150 g black chokeberry berries
• 50 g granulated sugar
• 200 g boiling water
• 1-2 lemon slices

Preparation

1. Wash blackberry berries several times in water. We will pour them into cups or glasses, in which we will prepare fruit drinks, filling a third of the container. By the way, it is best to pick or buy berries after frost so that the drink does not turn out to be bitter. So that you can create this fragrant drink for yourself at any time, freeze part of the crop in the freezer.

2. Add granulated sugar. You can add a pinch of cinnamon or vanilla sugar to enhance the aroma of fruit drink.

3. Grind the berries with granulated sugar with a fork or spoon so that they release their juice. Of course, this can be done with a blender in a deep container, and then pour the black chokeberry puree into cups.

Ingredients:
500 g puree
500 g sugar

Cooking method:

Chokeberry juice

Cooking method:

The most laborious work begins after 8 days, when the wort must be filtered from the berries. You can of course use a juicer, but I filter the wort by hand through cheesecloth. We squeeze out the remaining blackberry berries (you get about 2-3 more glasses of liquid).

After 40 days, fermentation will stop, the wine must be bottled through the same tube from the system by the driver's method, using the principle of communicating vessels. We put the bottle of wine on the table, the bottle on the stool next to it. We lower one end of the tube into the bottle, suck the wine a little and lower the other end of the tube into the bottle. If everything was done correctly, then already now you will feel that the wine is delicious. But it's not ready yet.

He should be allowed to stand for about 2-3 months right in the bottles.

Pouring from black rowan 100 berries, 100 cherry leaves, Let cool. Strain. Nilivka "100 leaves" 33 cherry leaves; 33 black currant leaves; 33 single raspberry leaves; 1 cup granulated sugar; Strain.

Ingredients
- garlic - 2 heads
- salt.

Cooking method

This jam is dark ruby ​​in color and has a pleasant taste. Vitamins are very well preserved in it. Peeled and washed fruits are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then the water is drained, the berries are poured into a bowl with boiling syrup, boiled for no more than 5 minutes and the jam is allowed to cool. After a day, the fruits are boiled in syrup until tender, as evidenced by the lowering of the fruits to the bottom of the dish. Ready jam poured into dry jars and closed with plastic lids.

Aronia rubbed

Compote

1 kg of chokeberry,
0.5 kg of apples,
4 l of water,
1.5 kg of sugar.

Cooking method:

Traditional medicine recipes.

Apple and chokeberry compote

Chokeberry is a tart berry, but very useful. It is great for high blood pressure. Recipes for preparing compotes from apples and chokeberry berries are waiting for you below.

Apple compote with chokeberry for the winter

Ingredients:

• sweet apples - 5 pcs.;
• chokeberry berries - 170 g;
• sugar - 125 g

Preparation

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 amount can be changed based on your own taste preferences. Pour rowan with apples with the resulting hot syrup, roll it up, set it upside down, wrap it up well and let it stand for a day. You need to store such compote in a dark place. The more the compote is infused, the more intense the taste will be.

Apple and chokeberry compote - recipe

Ingredients:

• ripe apples - 800 g;
• chokeberry berries - 240 g;
• purified water - 800 ml;
• sugar - 350 g;

Preparation

First, prepare the syrup: pour water into a saucepan, sugar it, bring it until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved and boil it for about 3 minutes after boiling. We clean the apples and mountain ash from the stalks. Cut out the core in the apples and cut them into slices. We lay out the berries and apples in jars, pour boiling syrup right there and then seal. It is better to store such compote in the cold, then you can be sure that the jars will not explode.

How to cook chokeberry and apple compote?

Ingredients:

• sweet and sour apples - 400 g;
• drinking water - 4 liters;
• sugar - 120 g;
• chokeberry berries - 200 g.

Preparation

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 the 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 chokeberry can already 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

Preparation

Wash ripe rowan berries, blanch and discard in a colander. Cut apples, pears, plums into slices. We remove the core, seed part, stalks. Blanch for about 7 minutes until soft. We place the prepared products in jars, alternating with rowan. Fill with water and sugar syrup. Cover with steamed lids and sterilize liter cans for about a quarter of an hour and only then roll up.

Pear, apple and chokeberry compote

Ingredients:

• sweet and sour apples - 500 g;
• sweet pears - 500 g;
• chokeberry berries - 300 g;
• sugar - 300 g

Preparation

Carefully wash the apples and pears, cut into quarters, cut out the seed part. Wash rowan berries and pour boiling water for 5 minutes, and then discard them in a colander. Wash the cans well with mustard or soda, then steam them. We also boil the lids. Place berries and pears with apples in prepared jars.

Chokeberry fruit drink

Fill all this with boiling water, let it stand for 30-40 minutes, and then pour the liquid into a saucepan. Add sugar and wait for the syrup to boil. We boil for 5 minutes and pour the contents of the jars with it. Roll them up with boiled lids, turn them upside down, cover them with a warm blanket and let them cool. We store such compote in the cold.

Chokeberry or chokeberry, the international Latin name Aronia melanocarpa is a plant of the Rosaceae family, it is a shrub up to three meters high, with oblong elliptical leaves. It blooms in June - July, with white or pink flowers, connecting in corymbose inflorescences. Fruits are spherical, up to 15 mm in diameter, black in color, sweetish - sour in taste.

The homeland of this plant is North America, for a long time this plant was decorative, only thanks to Michurin it spread throughout Russia and the countries of the post-Soviet space.

Ripe black chokeberry berries are eaten and used for medicinal purposes. V chemical composition fruits include: sugar (up to 10%), organic acids(apple, etc.), a whole complex of vitamins (P, C, K, E, A, B1, B2, B6) and microelements (iodine, fluorine, iron, boron, copper, manganese, molybdenum, cobalt, zinc, nickel, chromium, etc.), as well as pectins, tannins, flavonoids and antacyanins.

Chokeberry content champion nutrients, vitamin P in it is twice more than in black currant, and 20 times more than in apples and oranges. 1 g of fresh berries covers the daily human need for vitamin R. The content of vitamin C is the same as in lemon, but iodine is four times more than in strawberries, gooseberries and raspberries.

Chokeberry, in addition to a spicy tart sweet-sour taste, has a wide range of pharmacological properties: radioprotective (removes heavy metals and radionucleides from the body), anti-inflammatory, anti-allergenic, diuretic and choleretic.

The use of black chokeberry berries has a beneficial effect on digestion, increases the secretory function of the stomach, improves appetite, and berries are also able to normalize arterial pressure(high decreases, but normal remains at the level) and affect blood coagulability (if coagulability is poor, then it improves, and if blood clotting is normal, then mountain ash has no effect). Also, black chokeberry is recommended to be used for disorders of the thyroid gland (thyrotoxicosis) and as an immunostimulating agent. Chokeberry is used externally for allergic skin lesions (eczema, neurodermatitis).

Aronia berries are used to prepare juices, jelly, preserves, jam, marmalade, jellies, liqueurs, wines, and tinctures. also in Food Industry used by natural dye, obtained from the berries of the chokeberry. Dry berries are used to make fruit teas. Rowan 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 persons who suffer from gastric ulcer and duodenum, 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 immerse them in boiling water for 5 minutes, then rub them hot through a stainless steel sieve. Mix the mashed mass with granulated sugar, heat to 70-75 ° C over low heat with constant stirring; 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 the washed berries thoroughly. Heat the pulp for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 60-70 ° C. For each kilogram of pulp, add 3/4 cup of water. Press the warm pulp and strain the resulting juice through flannel or cheesecloth 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 pasteurized at 85 ° C for 15 and 20 minutes, respectively. If the juice is prepared in a pressure cooker, then it is not pasteurized, but poured hot and immediately sealed.

Recipe homemade wine chokeberry

Homemade chokeberry wine recipe is my signature recipe. For several years in a row, every autumn I have been using it to make wine. Chokeberry wine is stored well enough, has an excellent taste, beautiful dark ruby ​​color. Probably, this wine can be called the most delicious of all that I make.

To begin with, we prepare a wine sourdough. Usually I take raspberries for wine sourdough, but if the season has passed and there are almost no raspberries in the garden, it doesn't matter. In spite of everything, you need to collect and use 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 the berries (about 2 glasses) and unwashed! put in the jar. If the berries are washed, then all natural yeast that is on the surface of the berries will disappear.

Fill in 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, pour 0.5 liters of cold water, tie the neck with 4-layer gauze and leave for 3 days. Stir occasionally. After 3 days, the wine leaven will begin to ferment actively and can be used to make wine.

Grind 3 kg of black chokeberry (I don't wash it either) in a food processor (you can crush it with a crush), pour the mixture into a bucket, add wine sourdough.

Now you need to add sugar and water.

You need to take 3 liters of water. I always filter the water, let it settle. If possible, it is better to take well water.

We measure 2 kg of sugar, cook sugar syrup with a little water from the already measured measure. Pour into a bucket of chokeberry only cooled down, so as not to damage wine yeast! Thus, we have prepared a wine must.

We tie the bucket with 4-layer gauze and leave for 8 days for active fermentation. During this time, you can stir the wort 2-3 times a day. the berries float to the surface and form a crust that prevents oxygen from reaching the surface.

The most laborious work begins after 8 days, when the wort must be filtered from the berries.

You can of course use a juicer, but I filter the wort by hand through cheesecloth. We squeeze out the remaining blackberry berries (you get about 2-3 more glasses 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. To do this, it is very convenient to use a blood transfusion system that 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 is injected with plasticine.

We put it 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 begin to come out of the tube. From time to time, 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 by the driver's method, using the principle of communicating vessels. We put the bottle of wine on the table, the bottle on the stool next to it. We lower one end of the tube into the bottle, suck the wine a little and lower the other end of the tube into the bottle. If everything was done correctly, then already now you will feel that the wine is delicious. But it's not ready yet. He should be allowed to stand for about 2-3 months right in the bottles.

Thus, around the New Year, we will have an excellent chokeberry wine.

Try it, not a lot of hassle, and the result exceeds expectations!

Pouring from black rowan 100 berries, 100 cherry leaves, Boil 1 liter of water for 15 minutes. Then add 0.5 kg of granulated sugar. Let cool. After cooling down, add 0.5 l of vodka. Keep covered for 10 days in a dark place. Can add lemon juice taste. Strain. Nilivka "100 leaves" Ingredients (for 1.5 liters of drink): 33 cherry leaves; 33 black currant leaves; 33 single raspberry leaves; 1 glass of chokeberry berries; 0.5 l of vodka (or diluted alcohol); 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon citric acid (or lemon juice to taste). Wash the leaves and berries, fold in a large pot, pour 800 ml of water, close the lid and put on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for about 30 minutes. Cool, discard the leaves and berries in a colander and squeeze lightly with a tablespoon. After that, the deciduous-berry mass can be thrown away, it will no longer be needed. Add sugar to the remaining ruby ​​liquid that smells like cherries and citric acid, slightly heat to dissolve. Pour 0.5 liters of vodka into a non-hot broth, or 200 mg of alcohol + 300 mg of water. Strain.

Chokeberry with garlic

Ingredients
- chokeberry - 5 glasses
- garlic - 2 heads
- salt.

Cooking method
Sort out chokeberry, rinse thoroughly and mince together with peeled garlic. Add salt to the skipped mass, mix. put in glass jar, close with a tight lid and store in the refrigerator or cellar.

Chokeberry jam (chokeberry)

This jam is dark ruby ​​in color and has a pleasant taste. Vitamins are very well preserved in it. Peeled and washed fruits are blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes.

Chokeberry fruit drink recipe

Then the water is drained, the berries are poured into a bowl with boiling syrup, boiled for no more than 5 minutes and the jam is allowed to cool. After a day, the fruits are boiled in syrup until tender, as evidenced by the lowering of the fruits to the bottom of the dish. Ready jam is poured into dry jars and closed with plastic lids.

For 1 kg of fruit, take 1.5 kg of sugar and 250-300 g of apple juice.

Aronia rubbed

The washed fruits are scattered in a thin layer to dry.
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 saucepan 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 spoon of such a paste fully provides the body's daily requirement 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 l 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 must be changed two or three times.
2. Transfer the berries to jars.
3. Wash apples, peel and cut into slices. Add to the berries.
4. Combine sugar with water, bring to a boil.
5. Pour the berries with boiling syrup.
6. We sterilize cans: liter - 25 min., 3-liter - 50 min.

Traditional medicine recipes.

With atherosclerosis, 100 g of mashed berries should be taken 2-3 times a day at the rate of 1 kg of berries per 700 g of sugar.
In case of asthenia, anemia and hypovitaminosis, it is necessary to eat daily 2-3 times a day 250 g of fresh fruits together with black currant, rosehip decoction or ascorbic acid dragee.
For the treatment of hypertension, berry juice is prescribed - 50 g 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals for 10 days.
In winter, an infusion of dry fruits is drunk as a general tonic. 2-4 st. spoons are poured with 2 cups of boiling water, drunk every other day 3 times a day, half a glass 30 minutes before meals.
Another decoction has a healing effect: 20 g of dry fruits are brewed in 200 ml of boiling water and half a glass is drunk 3-4 times a day for two weeks.

However, in some diseases, chokeberry may be contraindicated. So, it is not recommended for peptic ulcer stomach and duodenum, with gastritis, frequent constipation, hypotension, increased blood clotting and thrombophlebitis.

How to eat chokeberry

Since chokeberry is a wonderful radioprotector, it can be taken by all residents of large cities, it also has a miraculous effect on immunity and general state the human body. You can eat chokeberry in any form: berries in fresh, berries, grated with sugar, boiled (syrups, jelly, preserves, jam), dry (brew 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, 75-100 grams.

Suffering from hypertension is shown the use of chokeberry juice, 50 g three times a day, 30 minutes before meals, take within 10 days. A wonderful general tonic is tea made from dry berries (1-2 tablespoons per 1 glass of water).

Chokeberry is also used in combination with other berries and fruits, as well as vitamins (with rose hips, black currants, ascorbic acid). So that the taste of the jam is not too cloying, chokeberry is cooked together with other types of fruits (apples, quince, currants, oranges).

Chokeberry is famous for its mass useful properties, due to which it is often harvested for the winter. From these berries it turns out unusually delicious jam with a pleasant, rich aroma. Aronia compote is no less tasty, which can be easily prepared even at simple home conditions. Such a drink will prove to be the best assistant in the fight against respiratory diseases.

Chokeberry is famous for its many beneficial properties.

The aromatic blackberry drink is the easiest to prepare using the classic recipe. Compote acquires a pleasant taste and incredibly rich color shade. This is precisely what attracts special attention to himself.

Products:

• 0.45 kg of chokeberry;
• 0.85 l of water;
• 0.45 kg of sugar.

Preparation:

1. Wash the berries well and sort out thoroughly, immediately fill with water and insist for a couple of days, periodically changing the water.
2. Put the soaked fruits in jars.
3. Pour water into an enamel pot and add sugar.
4. Boil the syrup for a couple of minutes and pour it into the jars.
5. Sterilize the container for a quarter of an hour and tighten the lids.

Tip: To add freshness to the drink, you can add a few mint leaves to it.

Chokeberry compote for the winter (video)

How to cook chokeberry compote with black currant

Combining in one piece so healthy berries, it turns out to keep the maximum amount of vitamins for the winter. The drink has an amazing sweet and sour taste, pleasant aroma, and it looks very attractive.

Products:

• 0.2 kg of black currant;
• 0.85 kg of sugar;
• 1.25 kg of black mountain ash;
• 2.2 liters of water.

The drink has an amazing sweet and sour taste, pleasant aroma, and it looks very attractive.

Preparation:

1. Sort out the chokeberry fruits and rinse well, put on the bottom of the jars.
2. Wash the currants and chop with a blender.
3. Put the resulting berry mass in an enamel pan and pour water.
4. Cover with sugar and boil for a few minutes.
5. Pour the prepared syrup into jars, cover them with loose lids.

Sterilize the container for about ten minutes and tighten the lids.

How to make fruit drink from black chokeberry for the winter

You can cook fruit drink from any berries, but it is more useful and original it is obtained from chokeberry. Such a drink can be drunk immediately after preparation, and, if desired, can be poured into cans and stored until winter. Such a fortified fruit drink will be indispensable in winter.

Products:

• 0.45 kg blackberry;
• 0.2 kg of sugar;
• 0.85 l of water;
• 0.15 kg of lemons;
• 0.1 l of honey.

You can cook fruit drink from any berries, but it is more useful and original it is obtained from chokeberry

Products:

1. Sort out the berries, separate them from the branches and rinse.
2. After that, you need to grind them and mix with sugar, insist for a couple of hours.
3. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice.
4. Put the berries in a sieve and squeeze the juice out of them.
5. Place the remaining pomace in a saucepan and add water, add there lemon zest and boil, boil for only five minutes.
6. Remove the mass from heat and leave for twenty minutes.
7. Mix it with strained rowan juice and freshly squeezed lemon, add honey.
8. Boil fruit drink and pour into jars.
9. Tighten them with lids.

Advice: despite the fact that mountain ash ripens at the beginning of autumn, it is necessary to pick berries only after the first frost. The frozen fruits are no longer bitter.

Chokeberry compote: a recipe for children

All loving and caring mothers make delicious juices and compotes for their children. Naturally, such drinks should be enriched with vitamins, but at the same time have the most attractive appearance. Only then will the kids be happy to drink them. This is exactly what this compote based on chokeberry and apples is.

Products:

• 0.35 kg of chokeberry;
• 0.85 kg of apples;
• 1.4 kg of sugar;
• 2.3 liters of water.

All loving and caring mothers make delicious juices and compotes for their children

Preparation:

1. Wash and cut apples, remove seeds.
2. Wash and clean the aronia.
3. Boil water in a saucepan and put apples in it for a couple of minutes, then transfer them to jars.
4. Put in jars and chokeberry fruits.
5. Pour sugar into the water and boil for three minutes.

Fill the jars with syrup and tighten the lids.

Frozen chokeberry compote: a step-by-step recipe

In order to do delicious drink, it is not at all necessary to use fresh berries. Frozen chokeberry is also great. If you take care in advance, collect and store the required amount of these fruits in the freezer, then in winter you can pamper your loved ones with refreshing and fragrant compote... According to their taste it will be in no way inferior to that which was prepared from fresh fruits.

Products:

• 0.55 kg of frozen berries;
• 2 sprigs of mint;
• 0.55 kg of sugar;
• 0.1 kg of lemons;
• 3.85 liters of water.

Preparation:

1. Put the frozen berries in a saucepan.
2. Wash the lemon, cut into slices and put in a saucepan too.
3. Pour water over the food and bring to a boil.
4. Add sugar, add mint.

Cook for only five minutes and then cool.

How to make blackberry and plum compote

Plum is excellently combined with chokeberry. The drink turns out to be bright and contrasting, rich and incredibly tasty. It is worth spending a little time on this blank so that whole year then get great pleasure. Moreover, the compote is not only tasty, but also very healthy.

Products:

• 0.3 kg of chokeberry;
• 0.3 kg of plums;
• 0.3 kg of sugar;
• 2.6 water.

Plum goes well with chokeberry

Preparation:

1. Sort the rowan, discard the overripe fruits, remove all branches without exception.
2. Wash the plums, cut in half and remove the seeds.
3. Put berries and fruits in jars and pour boiling water over them.
4. Cover the container with lids and leave it alone for ten minutes.
5. Pour the water into an enamel saucepan and boil.
6. Pour sugar into it and boil the liquid for about five minutes.
7. Pour the sweet syrup into the jars and tighten the lids.

Wrap up the inverted container, and after cooling down, rearrange it in the cellar.

Black rowan and citrus compote

An amazing drink is obtained from assorted fruits and berries. At the same time, the astringent taste of blackberry becomes barely noticeable. The aroma of oranges and the pleasant acidity of lemons make this compote rich, tasty and even more useful.

Products:

• 0.3 kg of chokeberry;
• 0.25 kg of oranges;
• 0.2 kg of lemons;
• 0.35 kg of sugar;
• 2.7 liters of water.

Preparation:

1. Fill the jars with washed berries.
2. Wash citrus fruits and cut into slices, remove seeds and put in jars.
3. Boil water in a saucepan and fill a container with it, stand for only five minutes.
4. Drain the liquid into a saucepan, cover with sugar and boil for a few minutes.
5. Fill all the jars with syrup and tighten the lids at once.

Wrap the container and turn it over, after cooling down, put it in the cellar.

Chokeberry compote (video)

Recipes that allow you to prepare delicious and healthy drink from black chokeberry, there are many. Berries, fruits and even spices are added to such compotes. Each piece is perfect, bright and tasty. Even those who previously believed that nothing could be prepared from these fruits will drink such compotes with great pleasure. After all, their taste is unusual, multifaceted and memorable. In winter, with the help of such simple and inexpensive blanks, it will be possible to strengthen the immune system and enrich the body with the necessary vitamins.

Scandinavian legend says that the first woman was created from mountain ash. These healthy berries are shrouded in many legends, which will take more than one day to read. It is enough for us to know that mountain ash is useful for colds, respiratory diseases, as the prevention of cancer and much more.

There is no particular difference between chokeberry and red mountain ash, except that chokeberry is considered a more cultivated variety. It is no less useful than red, but for the preparation of juices, compotes and fruit drinks, chokeberry is more convenient. It is not as hard as its red cousin, and gives much more juice.

Red and black chokeberry can be mixed, and prepared rowan fruit juice for the winter according to the same recipe. Rowan ripens by the beginning of autumn, but it is better to wait for the first frost. After that, rowan acquires greater sweetness, astringency, and becomes more intense.

To prepare fruit drink you need:

• 0.5 kg of mountain ash;
• 2 liters of water;
• 100 grams of sugar, or honey.

In fact, this is an approximate dosage, and you need to select the amount of one or another ingredient individually.

Wash the berries and pick them off the twigs. If there are a lot of rowan berries, pass the berries through a meat grinder, or pound them with a blender if there are few berries.

Put the mountain ash puree in a sieve, let the juice drain and squeeze out some cake. The cake can be grated with sugar and get "live jam", or made. If you do not like jam, fill in the cake cold water, add sugar and put it on low heat.

Bring the water to a boil and boil for 3-5 minutes, then cover the pan and let the cake brew for 5-6 hours.

Strain the broth, mix it with the juice, and the fruit drink is ready, you can drink it warm, or with ice cubes. In order to preserve the rowan fruit juice for the winter, it should be additionally pasteurized.

Put a saucepan with rowan fruit juice on the fire, bring it to the stage "is about to boil", but do not let it boil for 3 minutes. After that, turn off the heat very quickly, pour the rowan juice into bottles, and seal them with corks.

It is not worth pasteurizing the rowan fruit drink for more than three minutes, otherwise, most of the vitamins contained in the rowan will die.

If you are not sure that such pasteurized fruit drink is healthy, freeze fresh rowan berries in the freezer and prepare fruit drinks as needed.

How to cook red rowan fruit drink, watch the video:

Products
Chokeberry - 200 grams
Cranberries - 200 grams
Honey - to taste
Water - 1 liter

How to cook blackberry and cranberry juice
1. Sort out blackberries, bad berries, remove the twigs, wash the berries.
2. Sort fresh cranberries, peel from bad berries and twigs, do not defrost frozen before cooking.
3. Put blackberry, cranberries in a saucepan, pour a liter of water, cover the pan with a lid.
4. Place the chokeberry and cranberry saucepan on medium fire, let it boil.
5. Reduce heat to low, cook the cranberry-black fruit juice for 10 minutes, when using dried blackberry, cook longer - until the berries are soft.
6. Remove the pot of fruit drink from the stove.
7. Remove the berries from the fruit drink with a slotted spoon, transfer them to a sieve.
8. Using a spoon, grind the black chops and cranberries into mashed potatoes.
9. Transfer the puree from the berries back to the saucepan.
10. Place a saucepan with fruit drink over medium heat, let it boil.
11. Boil fruit drink for 1 minute.
12. Remove the 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) fruit drink, mix or put honey in a warm fruit drink already poured into cups.