A simple recipe for making chokeberry jam for the winter
The fruits of black chokeberry have a specific tart taste and a high content of useful elements. Many people today mistakenly believe that the product is not suitable as a raw material for making desserts. Chokeberry jam has an unusual taste, but for proper preparation, you need to know a number of important subtleties.
Rules for making chokeberry jam
To get a tasty treat from black berries, it is important to follow the technology of its preparation. For recipes, only ripe fruits are selected, unripe and spoiled ones are removed. Rowan fruits have a rather strong thick skin, so you cannot get a tasty treat without preliminary processing.
To give the proper softness property, the following methods are used:
- boiling water treatment;
- aging in boiling water;
- blanching.
After softening the skin, the berries will acquire the ability to soak in syrup, and the jam will turn out to be soft in consistency. Many people note the bitter taste of chokeberry. A large amount of sugar allows you to get rid of this deficiency. On average, the amount of sand when making jam should be 2 times the weight of the berries.
Rowan preparation
After picking chokeberry berries, the first step is to select them. To do this, choose ripe fruits without signs of rot and damage. Excess debris and leaves are removed. Next, it is important to rinse the berries well, which can be done under a stream of ordinary warm water, since the berries are resistant to external influences.
Next, a method of processing the fruit is selected to soften the peel. With a small amount of fruit, you can pour boiling water over them several times. With a large amount, they are placed in a large container, poured with boiling water and kept on fire for 5 minutes. Next, the berries must be transferred to a colander and wait for the water to drain completely.
Methods for making blackberry jam
Rowan berries go well with other berries and fruits. Apples and oranges are considered to be the best companions.
Simple recipe
In order to cook the jam, you will need 250 ml of water, berries in the amount of 1 kg, sugar 1.5 kg.
Jam making process:
- boil a glass of water and, adding sugar, achieve the consistency of a thick syrup;
- add mountain ash to the container with syrup and, stirring constantly, cook the mixture for 12 minutes;
- remove the pan and leave for 3 hours;
- bring the jam to a boil and leave again for 3 hours.
Next, the jam is heated with constant stirring for 15 minutes.Without allowing strong cooling, it is laid out in sterilized jars and rolled up with lids. The average yield of jam with this amount of ingredients will be 2.5 liters.
With apples
For jam take:
- 1 kg of mountain ash;
- 0.4 kg of apples;
- 0.5 l of ordinary water;
- 1.5 kg of granulated sugar;
- 5 g citric acid;
- 5 g ground cinnamon.
Syrup is prepared from half a liter of water and granulated sugar, berries are placed in it and kept on fire for 5 minutes. After boiling, the container is removed from the heat and removed to infuse for 6 hours. After that, add the rest of granulated sugar and boil the mixture for 30 minutes.
The apples, peeled from the skin and core, are cut into small slices and placed in boiling water, boiled until a soft structure is obtained.
The fruit is placed in a colander to drain the water. After that, boiled apples are mixed with chokeberry soaked in syrup and boiled for 5 minutes. Add seasoning and citric acid, mix and place in jars. The average yield of jam with this amount of ingredients will be 3 liters.
With oranges
Main ingredients:
- 1 kg of mountain ash;
- 0.5 kg of oranges;
- 0.3 kg of lemons;
- 2 kg of granulated sugar;
- 200 g of walnuts.
The berries are scrolled using a meat grinder. Fruits are dipped into water brought to a boil and boiled for 10 minutes. They take out lemons and oranges, cut them in half and remove the seeds, after which they pass through a meat grinder together with walnuts. The twisted ingredients are combined, mixed, covered with sugar and put on low heat. After boiling, it is kept on the stove for 7 minutes, after which it is laid out in jars, and covered with lids. Next, you need to make a shelter for cans from a warm blanket.
The recipe "Five minutes"
For cooking, you will need 2 kg of rowan berries and 2 kg of granulated sugar. The fruits are boiled in water for 5 minutes, taken out and, after drying on a flat surface, grind in any convenient way. For these purposes, you can use a meat grinder or blender.
The berry mixture is placed in a container, covered with sugar and put on fire for 5 minutes, while stirring constantly
... Next, the jam is laid out in jars and sterilized in water. For liter cans, the time is 30 minutes. After that, the containers are rolled up with lids.
Storage features
After making blackberry jam, it must be laid out in jars. To do this, they are pre-sterilized and only then used. On top of the containers are closed with metal lids to prevent air ingress and ensure long-term storage. For consumption in the near future, you can close the jar with a regular lid and put it in the refrigerator. Jars rolled up for the winter can be stored at normal temperatures.
