Aronia is also popularly called aronia, which is one of the most useful fruit plants. Aronia contains almost twice as much vitamin C as lemon and other citrus fruits.
It also contains four times more iodine than raspberries or gooseberries.
Since ancient times, it has been advised to take black chokeberry both fresh and processed for the prevention and treatment of many diseases. You can make jam from it, freeze it fresh, and also cook compotes.
Stewed Compote Recipe
Black-fruited compote can be prepared both in summer and in winter. In the summer, there is nothing better and more useful than brewing a fresh drink from this wonderful berry. In order to keep all the vitamins and useful properties in the compote, you must follow the following recipe: boil one liter of water and add fresh black chokeberry berries to boiling water. Next, turn off the gas after 20-30 seconds and add sugar to taste. Usually 3 tablespoons of sugar are put per liter. After the stewed compote has cooled and infused, you can drink this healthy drink.
Winter blanks
To delight yourself with your favorite drink in the winter, you need to stock up with frozen berries of chokeberry. You can also dry them and then cook according to the same recipe as in the summer. So that the frozen fruits of Chokeberry do not turn out to clump together, it is necessary to rinse them well with running water in advance, and then dry them thoroughly. Do not wipe or soak them with a towel. It is enough to let them dry in the fresh air (you can on the balcony or in the country), periodically gently mixing.
Frozen berries can be consumed whole and, during colds, be treated with fresh vitamins.
Sterilization of cans
In order for the efforts of the hostesses to not be in vain and the compote from the chokeberry does not deteriorate, you need to know some tricks. Since there are millions of different microorganisms that can harm home-made preparations for the winter, banks should be properly sterilized.
Banks need to choose whole, without chips and cracks, and the lids should ideally fit the neck of the container. Usually, metal caps are used to preserve stewed fruit. Naturally, they must be new and free from rust, damage or scratches.
After everything is ready for sterilization, pour water into a large pan and install a special device on which the jar will be placed. If such a device is not available, then you can use a regular sieve. On it you need to set the banks upside down and turn on the water.
In order for the cans not to burst due to the temperature difference, it is necessary to heat them together, and not put the container on a sieve with already boiling water. The can sterilization procedure should be carried out for 15 minutes until the steam condensate begins to drain back into the pan.
After the banks are ready, you can immediately start making compote from chokeberry.
How to blanch berries
There are several ways to blanch berries. In order for the stewed compote for the winter to turn out to be the most delicious and useful, it is necessary to prepare aronia in a special way.
Ripe berry must be thoroughly washed, put in a deep pot and pour cold water for two to three hours. During this time, hard berries under the influence of water will swell and become softer. After three hours, the water should be drained and scalded with aronia chokeberry. Boiling water, of course, needs to be prepared in advance. You can do without preliminary processing of berries, but usually those who know how to cook stewed compote from chamomile are blanched normally.
Make canned food
To make canned stewed compote for winter, you need to collect a crop of fresh and ripe berries. Then put them in a bowl and blanch. The black chokeberry is also blanched so that the hard berries become softer and the peel passes the sugar syrup inside.
For preliminary preparation of the cans in which the stewed compote will be preserved, it is necessary to allocate time in advance until the berry is blanched. To sterilize cans, you can use boiling water, a water bath, or leave them in a preheated oven for several minutes.
In sterilized jars, it is necessary to decompose portionwise scalded berries of aronia and pour them with boiling pour.
Filling for compote is done according to the following recipe:
500 g of sugar is required per liter of boiling water.
Then dissolve sugar in water and boil. Depending on the number of berries, you can change the proportion of sugar.
Assorted chives and ranetki
Stewed fruit from ranetki and aronia can be easily prepared as a healthy drink for the winter season, like a storehouse of vitamins and other useful substances. Banks need to be sterilized, and the berries are pre-blanched. Next, put well-washed ranetki in cans, and then black chokeberry. After this, pour berries and ranetki with boiling water and let it brew for ten minutes. Fruits instantly give water their amazing color.
After ten minutes have passed, the water must be drained into a saucepan and boiled with sugar. Based on one three-liter jar, you can take 2-2.5 cups of sugar. Then pour the finished syrup over the berries and roll up the key.
Useful properties of compote
Chokeberry has many useful properties and vitamins, so from ancient times people tried to eat it not only during the harvest season, but also stock up on it with blanks all year round. The easiest ways to preserve all the beneficial properties of this berry are:
- freezing;
- drying fruits;
- jam and, of course, stewed compote.
The benefits of this drink are undeniable.
Drinking compote from this wonderful berry, you can strengthen your immune system, charge up with a charge of energy and energy and, of course, get vitamins such as P, C, E, K, B1, B2, B6, beta-carotene and trace elements (boron, iron, manganese, copper, molybdenum, fluorine).
Thanks to the use of only one compote from aronia, you can get rid of diseases of the thyroid gland, gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular diseases, as well as kidneys and liver.
For people suffering from low acidity, it will be useful to drink a glass of compote before meals. Due to this, heaviness in the stomach will disappear, a feeling of appetite will appear and food will be better absorbed.
Due to the pectin content in chokeberry, this berry is able to remove heavy metals and radioactive substances from the body .
Aronia also has antiallergenic and antioxidant effects, which makes it even more popular among allergy sufferers.
Contraindications
Although chokeberry has many useful properties, some people should use it with caution, or even completely refuse.
For example, people with increased blood coagulation should be from eating this berry. Patients who have increased acidity or have an ulcer, should also pay attention to a more suitable berry.
Since black chokeberry perfectly relieves high blood pressure, people with low blood pressure need to take the berry with caution, or also refuse it.