Aronia berries are on everyone's lips as a vitamin-rich newcomer to the local fruit selection. The tart, sour taste sparks tempting ideas for preparation. Get inspired by these 2 fruity recipe ideas. This is how you process the aronia berry into jam and compote.
Make aronia berries into jam – simple recipe
Aronia berries can be bought fresh at the weekly market or dried in the supermarket. In the natural garden, hobby gardeners plant the aronia bush as pasture for bees and for the fresh berry harvest. With this recipe you can conjure up a fruity jam from aronia berries:
Ingredients
- 1 kg aronia berries
- 1 kg preserving sugar (1:1)
- 75 ml lemon juice
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 packets of vanilla sugar
Preparation
Please provide kitchen utensils for preparation: 1 cooking pot, 1 hand blender, 4-5 jam jars. How to do it correctly:
- Wash and clean the aronia berries and put them in the pot
- Add preserving sugar, vanilla sugar and lemon juice
- Mix the mixture and puree it
- Add cinnamon stick
- Cook for 25-30 minutes, stirring regularly
- Remove cinnamon stick
- Fill hot jelly jam into the jars
- Close the jars tightly and place them upside down on a kitchen towel
Carry out the gelling test before filling the jam into jars. Using a small spoon, place a sample on a cold plate. The aronia berry jam is ready when the mixture thickens after one or two minutes and no longer runs.
Fruity compote with aronia berries
Give warm dishes a fruity note with aronia berry compote. Served as a delicious snack, young and old can snack on he althy vitamins. The following recipe will make berry fans' mouths water:
Ingredients
- 2 kg aronia berries
- 500 g preserving sugar (1:2 or 1:3)
- 250 ml red grape juice
For a tipsy aronia berry compote in an adult household, swap the grape juice for red wine.
Preparation
As accessories for preparation you need a sieve, saucepan, mixing spoon, preserving jars and 10 minutes of time.
- Select the aronia berries, wash them and let them drain in a sieve
- Bring the grape juice and preserving sugar to the boil in the saucepan
- Add berries
- Cook for 10 minutes
Do you want a compote with an extra fine consistency? Then you can puree the aronia berries or chop them with a potato masher. Pour the hot berry jam into the clean, sterilized mason jars. Ideally, you should stir a teaspoon of sieving aid into the mixture beforehand for a longer shelf life.
Tip
Planting the aronia berry yourself promises the hobby gardener double the enjoyment. With its shapely growth and spectacular autumn color, the fruit tree is a feast for the eyes in beds and containers. In late summer, the fruity culinary delight follows as vitamin-rich berry pearls.
