Chokeberry jam - 12 simple recipes at home

If you think you're done with jams, you're not. After all, it’s time to close the delicacy of watermelon rinds and pumpkin. And chokeberry is also on the way. And here is a selection of easy and simple chokeberry jam recipes.

This type of berry is highly valued by healers and people who care about their health. But you won’t be able to eat a lot of it; it has a specific taste with tartness. What to do with the rest of the fruits? That's right, recycle it for the winter. With slight heat treatment, some vitamins are still retained. And for greater benefits, you can freeze it. I’ll also talk about this in more detail below.

So, in order for the berry to remain intact during cooking and become softer in taste, I advise you to blanch it for five minutes in boiling water. And only after this procedure make jam.

How to do it? Just pour the fruits into a bowl and pour boiling water, for example, from a kettle. Leave it like this for 5-7 minutes. Then immediately drain the liquid and rinse the rowan under cold running water.

With this everything became clear. But the question is often asked: how much sugar to take. Here the answer is simple: we keep the proportion 1:1. This is quite enough.

Classic chokeberry jam

The classic recipe for jam from this berry has a cherry flavor, which gives a combination of the taste of rowan and vanilla.

List of ingredients used and their ratio:

• 1000 g chokeberry berries;
• 1200 g sugar;
• 250 ml water;
• 3-5 g vanilla powder.

Classic jam recipe step by step:

1. Carefully remove the berries from the bunches, selecting dry specimens, leaves and stalks. Rinse the rowan and place in a colander to drain all the water.
2. Meanwhile, boil water in a wide-bottomed saucepan, transfer the prepared berries and carefully stir them with a spatula for five to seven minutes until each one is submerged in boiling water.
3. Next, add sugar to the berries, stir and cook for 15 minutes after boiling, cool. Return the jam to the heat again, add vanilla and simmer for another quarter of an hour. After this, the jam is ready for subsequent sealing and storage in prepared containers.

Simple jam recipe

Many housewives refuse to make jam because they believe that they will have to tinker with it a lot. However, this is a fairly common misconception. In fact, it won't take you much time to prepare. After all, the main ingredients of chokeberry jam are berries, sugar and water. This is the so-called classic recipe that most people use. And, as you can see, you don’t need many products to create a healthy and tasty sweet.

For 1 kg of berries you should take 1.5 kg of sugar and 3 glasses of water. Before you start cooking, you should thoroughly clean the berries of any contaminants. To do this, rinse them with water and leave them soaked for a day. When the berries stand, the sand will come off from them - and you can start preparing the syrup. To do this, you need to put a pan of water on the fire and gradually add sugar to it. The mixture should only be cooked over low heat to avoid burning. As soon as the syrup thickens enough, remove it from the heat and pour it over the rowan.

After this, wait until the syrup has cooled completely and pour it back into the pan to boil. Simmer it over low heat for about 20 minutes. After the specified time has passed, add chokeberry berries to the boiling mixture and cook for exactly 30 minutes. Next, prepare clean jars suitable for the volume and pour the jam. Cover it tightly with a lid and store in a cool place. It is permissible to store jam even in the refrigerator.

There is another very popular and simple recipe, which housewives call five-minute jam. Even a person who has never done anything like this before can cope with its preparation without any problems. To prepare it, you only need berries and sugar. The proportions of sugar relative to the number of berries are 1 to 2. As soon as you clean the berries from dirt, pour them into a large saucepan and pour boiling water over them. Chokeberry fruits should be blanched for no longer than 5 minutes.

After that, add sugar to them and put them on the stove to cook. Please note that the fire must be quite strong when cooking. To prevent the mixture from burning, you should stir it constantly using a comfortable wooden spoon, avoiding boiling. You need to cook it for about 40 minutes and then pour it into dry and clean jars. You can store it in any cool place.

How to cook with lemon and orange

Adding citrus fruits to chokeberry jam almost completely deprives the finished product of the astringency that many people dislike.

For one serving of an invigorating delicacy made from rowan, orange and lemon you will need:

• 1000 g chokeberry berries;
• 1 large orange;
• 1 lemon;
• 1000 g sugar.

Work algorithm:

1. Sort the rowan, rinse under running water and dry. Wash the lemon and orange thoroughly, pour boiling water over them, cut into small slices and remove the seeds.
2. Grind the berries and citrus fruits together with the peel through a meat grinder, add sugar, stir and cook the jam for 40-45 minutes after boiling. Then seal it hot into jars.

Dessert “Five Minute”

Products:

• chokeberry - 1.5 kg;
• granulated sugar - 1.7 kg;
• filtered water - 600 ml.

Further like this:

1. Sort out the berries. Remove all unusable parts and rotten berries. Place in a colander and rinse under running water.
2. Pour some boiling water into an enamel pan, add rowan berries and heat on the stove for 5 minutes. Drain the boiling water and immediately pour cold water over the berries. Place in a colander and wait for excess moisture to drain.
3. Pour the required amount of water into another container and add granulated sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly, and cook for 4 minutes.
4. Place the berries in a large container and pour in the hot syrup. Cook for 5 minutes, remembering to stir. Cover and leave for 2-3 hours. Then, boil the mixture until thickened. Pack into clean, sterile containers, close and store in a cool place.

With apples

Aronia jam with apples is prepared from the following list of ingredients:

• 1000 g chokeberry;
• 700 g apples;
• 1200 g granulated sugar;
• 400 ml of drinking water;
• ¼ lemon (juice);
• 1-2 cinnamon sticks.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Blanch the prepared rowan berries in boiling water for five minutes, then immediately cool under running cold water.
2. Boil syrup from water and half a kilogram of sugar, dip the rowan berries into it, and after five minutes of active boiling of the berries, turn off the heat and forget about the chokeberry in the syrup for at least 8 hours, or better yet, overnight.
3. Pour the remaining sugar into the chokeberry syrup, stir and put on fire. Meanwhile, peel and seed the apples, cut them into slices, blanch them for 6-8 minutes in boiling acidified water and also cool under running cold water.
4. Add the prepared apples to the boiled rowan, add cinnamon and lemon juice to taste. Boil the jam twice for 10 minutes, cooling completely in between. Roll the finished product into sterile jars.

Calorie content of chokeberry jam, depending on the composition

Chokeberry contains as much vitamin C as gooseberries and raspberries. To improve the taste and piquancy of the aroma, citrus fruits, nuts and many other fruits are added to the recipe.

The calorie content of the finished product is quite high due to the sugar used in the composition, so the delicacy should be consumed in doses:

Quick recipe - “Five Minutes”

For three liters of ready-made rowan jam you need to take:

• 1000 g chokeberry;
• 2000 g sugar.

How to cook:

1. Blanch the sorted and washed chokeberries for five minutes in boiling water. Then dry the berries on paper towels. Chokeberry berries are covered with a thick skin, which can be made softer by briefly blanching in boiling water or keeping it in the freezer for half an hour.
2. Grind the chokeberry using a meat grinder or blender, combine with sugar. Bring the jam to a boil over low heat, then increase the heat and simmer for five minutes.
3. Distribute the jam into half-liter jars, cover with lids and sterilize in a pan of boiling water for 20 minutes. Then roll up the jars with lids.

Five minutes: grandma's recipe

Delicious thick jam according to a proven recipe from old times. Yes, this is how our grandmothers cooked it. And I am happy to share with you.

Required:

• sugar – 1000 g;
• chokeberry – 1000 g;
• water – 500 ml.

Preparation:

We sort the berries, remove the stalks. Wash the fruits thoroughly, then pour boiling water over them and then cold water.

Let the water drain - a colander will help. Cook the syrup. Add rowan into the syrup.

After boiling, cook for 2-3 minutes, then leave to cool overnight with the lid closed. The next morning, boil the mixture again for 2-3 minutes.

We repeat the procedure - cool, put on fire.

At the end of the 3rd cooking, pour the jam into sterilized jars.

The preparation is called quick because it takes a couple of minutes to boil. The only thing is that you have to infuse the mass for a long time. This does not involve much effort - you only need to stir the jam three times for no more than 3 minutes.

Cooking with apples and nuts

To prepare chokeberry with apples and nuts you will need:

• 1000 g chokeberry;
• 400 g prepared apples;
• 100 g walnuts or other nuts;
• 1000 g sugar;
• 200 ml water.

We cook the preparation as follows:

1. Blanch the rowan berries, removed from the brushes and sorted, in boiling water for two minutes. Let the water drain thoroughly. Finely chop the nut kernels. Peel the apples, remove the seeds and cut into cubes.
2. Bring sugar and water over heat until the grains dissolve and boil, remove from heat. Place rowan berries, apples and nuts into hot syrup. Soak the ingredients in the syrup until cooled, about 6 hours.
3. Put the jam on the fire and cook until done. Pour hot into prepared glass containers and seal tightly with tin or nylon lids.

Recipe for frozen berries in syrup

Rowan can get rid of its astringency by first freezing the fruit. Frozen moisture from the inside ruptures the cells, so rowan is easier to process. After this, the syrup will be able to penetrate into the formed microcracks much more easily.

For cooking you need:

• 2 kg chokeberry;
• 5 kg sugar;
• 700 ml of drinking clean water.

The process of preparing a delicious treat:

1. The frozen berries are poured into a thick-bottomed pan.
2. The fruits are covered with syrup made from sugar and water.
3. The jam is boiled for 15 minutes, cooled and left to soak for 8-9 hours.
4. The mass is reheated and poured into sterile jars.
5. The container is tightly sealed, cooled in the room and placed in the cellar.

A thick, aromatic and healthy delicacy served on toasted bread, baguette or simply in a tea socket.

Original recipe with zucchini

Zucchini has a neutral taste, so the vegetable is often used not only for vegetable dishes, but also for berry and fruit preparations.

The original chokeberry jam with zucchini contains:

• 2000 g chokeberry;
• 2000 g of young zucchini;
• 2000 g sugar;
• 1 cinnamon stick.

Cooking technology:

1. Place washed and dried rowan berries in an even layer on the bottom of a container for making jam, and top them with ½ of the amount of sugar specified in the recipe.
2. Wash the zucchini and chop into small cubes. Place the zucchini on a layer of sugar on top of the rowan berries and cover with the remaining sweet sand.
3. Leave the berries and vegetables for three hours. During this time, the zucchini will release a sufficient amount of juice, and the rowan will have time to soak.
4. Put the jam on the fire, after boiling, put a cinnamon stick in it and cook over medium heat for half an hour. During cooking, the jam must be stirred so that the sugar does not burn to the bottom of the container.

Rowan jam with cherry leaves

Without knowing what the jam is made from, it is difficult to guess what became the raw material for its production. The cherry aroma is so strong. The more cherry leaves there are in the broth for the syrup, the tastier the preparation will be.

Proportions of ingredients for cherry flavored jam:

• 2000 g chokeberry berries;
• 1600 g granulated sugar;
• 200 g cherry leaves;
• 1000 ml water.

Cooking method:

1. Place the rowan berries removed from the stalks into a sieve or colander, rinse under running water, and then let the water drain thoroughly.
2. Meanwhile, pour the washed cherry leaves with water until it completely covers them, boil for 20 minutes after boiling and strain through several layers of gauze.
3. Pour sugar into a saucepan with a filtered decoction of cherry leaves, stir well and boil the syrup.
4. Place the berries in a boiling sweet liquid, boil them for five minutes and cool the jam completely. We repeat all steps three more times. Boil for the last time and pour into jars, seal with lids.

Option with currant berries “Moscow style”

For chokeberry and black currant jam you will need:

• 500 g chokeberry berries;
• 500 g black currants;
• 1000 g sugar.

How to make jam “Moscow style”:

1. Sort both types of berries from the stalks and tails, wash and dry. Excess moisture can completely ruin the taste of the product.
2. Place the currants and rowan berries in glass jars, generously sprinkling them with layers of sugar. We close the jars with lids and leave until the berries are completely covered with the released juice.
3. Then pour the berries in their own juice into a fireproof container and cook until tender. Seal the hot jam into the prepared container.

How to prepare a treat with cranberries

For chokeberry jam with cranberries and apples you will need to prepare:

• 500 g chokeberry;
• 100 g cranberries;
• 100 g apple pulp, diced;
• 100 ml apple juice;
• 20 ml lemon juice;
• 600 g sugar.

Sequencing:

1. We sort the rowan berries and place them in a container of boiling water for 3-5 minutes, then let the moisture drain and dry with paper towels.
2. In a container for making jam, combine lemon and apple juice, granulated sugar. Heat the syrup until the sweet crystals dissolve.
3. Place prepared rowan berries, washed cranberries and cubes of apple pulp into a homogeneous sweet solution. Let the berry-fruit mixture simmer for a quarter of an hour, then cool completely under the lid.
4. We repeat the process twice more. After the third boiling, do not cool the jam, but put it in prepared jars and store it.

Features of making jam

For jam you will need the following components:

• sugar – 1.2 kg;
• water – 1.5 cup;
• berries – 1 kg.

The berries are placed in a saucepan. Fill with water and put on fire. Under the lid, the rowan must be steamed until softened. Then the fruits are rubbed through a sieve. The puree is turned out into a cooking container, where sugar is added. The product is brought to readiness over low heat.

Advice! To preserve the smell, color and taste of the preparations, add citric acid five minutes before the end of cooking.

Berry jam will be very useful on cold winter evenings

Chokeberry and pear jam

A little tart and autumnally aromatic jam is made from chokeberry and pears.

The delicacy is prepared from:

• 1000 g chokeberry berries;
• 300 g sweet honey pears;
• 1500 g sugar;
• cinnamon, vanillin and cloves to taste and desire.

Progress:

1. Sort the rowan berries from the stalks and debris that might have gotten in during picking, wash and dry.
2. Place the berries in a cooking pan, sprinkle half the sugar on top, and put on fire. When they are heated to a boil, boil for a quarter of an hour and then soak in the syrup for 6-8 hours. There is no need to stir the berries with sugar before cooking, as the sweetener may begin to caramelize and crystallize before the juice releases from the berries.
3. Wash the pears, peel them, cut them in half, cut out the seed nest, and then cut into thin slices. Place the pears in a colander and plunge into boiling water for 10 minutes. Then remove with a colander and let the liquid drain.
4. Add the other half of the sugar to the infused rowan and boil again for 20 minutes over medium heat after boiling. Next, lay out the pear slices and spices, boil for another 10 minutes and pack into heated glass jars.

Chokeberry, pureed with sugar

The absence of any heat treatment will make the preparation as useful as possible, but in order to preserve the jam until winter, you should pay special attention to the container in which it will be stored. You should take small glass jars, which should be carefully washed and sterilized.

Ratio of berries and sugar:

• 1200 g chokeberry;
• 800 g granulated sugar.

Preparation:

1. Carefully remove rowan berries from the bunches and wash thoroughly. Let them drain a little, placing them in a colander, and then dry them, spreading them in a thin layer on a waffle towel.
2. Place half of the prepared berries and ½ of the recipe amount of sugar into a blender bowl and blend everything into a homogeneous mass.
3. Place the remaining whole berries and sugar into the resulting puree. Next, mix everything thoroughly but gently with a spatula until the sweet grains are completely dissolved.
4. Place the jam in small sterile glass jars, close with sterile lids and store until winter on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Jam in a slow cooker

Uniform and slow simmering of the jam in the multicooker bowl allows the skin to soften greatly, preserving the maximum benefits and vitamins in the pulp. Prolonged heat treatment neutralizes the viscosity in the chokeberry flavor, so less sugar can be used.

Required list of products:

• 1 kg of washed rowan fruits;
• 5 kg granulated sugar;
• 5 liters of filtered water.

Preparing thick and aromatic jam in a slow cooker:

1. The washed and dried berries are placed in a multicooker bowl, poured with boiling water and blanched for 10 minutes.
2. After cooling, the water is drained, leaving only 500 ml for cooking.
3. In a bowl, water is mixed with sugar and pure rowan fruits.
4. The lid closes hermetically. The “Extinguishing” position and a timer for 40 minutes are set on the program display.
5. When ready, the bowl is removed, the mass is poured into small jars and screwed tightly.

The dessert does not spoil for years, and the moderate sweetness prevents the delicacy from becoming sugary.