One of the most popular low-alcohol drinks in Russia is home-made liquors.
Experienced housewives easily cook from different seasonal berries and ripe fruits, but the aroma of chokeberry is considered traditional.
This is not only very tasty, but also very useful (in moderate doses), a drink that will decorate any feast.
The drink is characterized by a dark woody color and a wonderful aroma that cannot be confused with other alcoholic drinks. Mountain ash is a great aperitif, good with sweet desserts. Drinking homemade rowan juice is a pleasure! Tasty, fragrant, moderately sweet, pleasing to the soul and lightening the heart, it is considered the perfect "female" drink. Cooking it in your home kitchen is easy.
Pouring chokeberry at home - general principles of preparation
You can prepare the liquor from fresh or dried ripe berries chokeberry. She is considered the champion in the content of specific substances of organic origin, which are called tannins. That is why rowan juice is very tart in taste.
To make a berry suitable for consumption without a lot of sugar, you need it remove from the bushes a little frostbitten, after the first light frosts. If the black chokeberry is harvested earlier, then the berry needs to be frozen artificially before preparing the beverage. For example, hold in the refrigerator for two to three days. After such a “frosty conclusion”, the character of the berry becomes softer: it loses a fair amount of natural astringency.
It is very important to choose and prepare the raw materials correctly. Pouring from aronia at home is preparing successfully only from selected, ripe, large berries. After sorting the mountain ash, you need to free it from the "legs" and leaves, and quickly rinse with cool water. Rowan does not tolerate long-term exposure to water, so you need to wash the berry through a metal colander or a rare sieve.
The technology is very simple and consists in separating juice, fermenting and mixing with fairly strong alcohol and sugar. You can dilute the juice with high-quality vodka, correctly diluted with pure alcohol, cognac or good moonshine.
An elementary way is to simply knead the berries, put them in the prepared dishes, add sugar, various additional ingredients to taste and add alcohol to two-thirds of the entire height. It is necessary to stand the cord for at least a month (and ideally six months) in an ordinary living room, periodically shaking vigorously. Carefully strain the ripened beverage through a gauze or cotton filter, pour into bottles.
You can add to the brandy spices, leaves of fruit bushes, zest of citrus fruits. Instead of sugar, you can take honey. If you want to increase the degree of the drink after filtering, you can "strengthen" it with a small amount of high-quality vodka.
The second method of preparing the liquor is quite controversial, since it involves blanching berries at a temperature of no higher than 70 degrees. However, the advantage of this method is significant: you can try a dark brown noble drink quickly.
In order to guarantee a tasty drink from aronia at home, you must choose the right dishes. A ceramic bowl or glass bottle is ideal. These materials are resistant to acid and alcohol.
Chokeberry filling at home "Classical"
A wonderful liquor from aronia at home turns into a fabulous drink. A pleasant light drink will warm you up after a hard day.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of black rowan berries;
• three hundred grams of sugar;
• liter of quality vodka.
Cooking method:
Pour the prepared berries into a glass jar.
Pour vodka over the mountain ash so that it covers the berries a little.
Pour sugar - only if desired.
Cover the container, put in a dark room for two months.
Shake the berries from time to time.
Strain the filling, pour into clean containers, seal and send for storage.
You can store liquor as much as you like. Time will only benefit her.
Pouring of chokeberry at home "Spicy"
Cloves add a warm, spicy aroma to a homemade chokeberry juice. Drinks will appeal to lovers of oriental cuisine.
Ingredients:
• one and a half kilograms of chokeberry berries;
• liter of high-quality vodka;
• a pound of sugar;
• three clove inflorescences.
Cooking method:
Gently mash the prepared berries with the end of a rolling pin or a wooden crush.
Pour sugar into prepared raw materials, add clove buds.
Transfer the raw materials to a jar, cover with a gauze cloth, remove for two days in a dark, warm room.
Pour the berries with high-quality vodka, seal with a regular capron cap.
Infuse for at least three months in a warm room.
Strain the drink through a gauze or cotton filter, pour into a container for storage.
The drink will not run out for at least three years.
Pouring from chokeberry at home "Honey"
A magnificent, soft, light and healthy drink will delight honey lovers. If you put the chokeberry liquor at home not on vodka, but on cognac, you can get additional shades of taste.
Ingredients:
• a pound of mountain ash;
• a pound of cognac;
• two large spoons of honey with a slide
Cooking method:
Pour the prepared berries into a glass container.
Melt honey in a water bath and pour into a jar in a liquid state.
Seal the container with an ordinary lid, insist for two to three months.
Store unlimited time.
Pouring from aronia at home "Lemon fast"
The original recipe for filling from chokeberry at home can be prepared in just two weeks. A delicious drink will bring true pleasure.
Ingredients:
• one and a half kilograms of berries;
• liter of vodka;
• three hundred grams of sugar;
• lemon peel.
Cooking method:
Fill a wide, but low heat-resistant container with berries to the neck.
Pour with high-quality vodka.
Add spices, lemon zest and sugar if desired.
Mix half a glass of water with two tablespoons of water, knead a dense "dough".
Cover tightly with a quick dough.
Put the container in the oven, warmed up to seventy degrees (not higher), simmer for exactly an hour.
Reduce the temperature to sixty degrees, withstand the raw materials for another hour and a half.
Again, reduce the temperature to fifty degrees and warm the cord for an hour and a half.
Brandy should be infused for at least four hours in total.
Turn off the oven, wait for the drink to cool completely without taking it out.
Soak the container with liqueur in a dark room for four days.
Strain the drink by squeezing the pulp.
Add sugar to taste, pour into bottles and cork.
You can try the liquor after a few days.
Pouring from chokeberry at home "Rowan-cherry"
The magical aroma of ripe cherries gives summer bliss to this version of the liquor. Fresh cherry leaf and citric acid complement the ingredients of the classic recipe. If the amount of mountain ash does not seem enough, you should proportionally increase the number of ingredients.
Ingredients:
• a glass of chokeberry;
• a full plate of cherry leaves;
• liter of clean water;
• three hundred grams of sugar;
• a spoon without a slide of citric acid for transparency;
• half a liter of vodka.
Cooking method:
Mix berries with cherry leaves in a wide saucepan.
Pour raw materials with water, bring to the first bubbles of boiling.
Simmer for half an hour.
Leave to insist for a day.
Strain, add sugar, warm again.
As soon as the first bubbles of boiling appear, turn off the stove, cool the broth.
Pour in good vodka, throw citric acid, cover with a clean lid and remove the container into a dark room for a week.
Strain, bottle and put into storage.
Chokeberry filling at home is quick and easy. You can taste it!
Filling from aronia at home "Summer Garden"
It is very simple to prepare this version of chokeberry ash filling at home. A delicious bouquet of aromas of raspberries, cherries, currants dizzy. Citric acid allows you to achieve transparency of the drink.
Ingredients:
• a glass of mountain ash;
• a bunch of cherry leaves;
• bunch of currant leaves;
• a bunch of raspberry leaves;
• litere of water;
• a teaspoon of citric acid;
• half a liter of high-quality vodka.
Cooking method:
Mix the leaves of fruit bushes and berries of chokeberry.
Pour in water.
Bring the raw materials to a boil and boil for half an hour. Cool.
Pour sugar, citric acid, vodka into the billet.
Remove for insisting at least two months.
Strain, pour into bottles, remove for storage.
Pouring from chokeberry at home "Orange-Vanilla"
A festive, jubilant aroma, a bottle of chokeberry, prepared at home according to this recipe, makes this drink indispensable on the festive table.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of chokeberry berries;
• five liters of purified vodka;
• a glass of sugar;
• natural stick or a bag of powdered vanilla;
• a crust from one lemon;
• three buds of cloves;
• half a glass of fresh liquid or melted honey;
• half a bottle of vodka.
Cooking method:
Mash the berries with a rolling pin in a glass jar.
Add sugar. Add your favorite spices and cloves if desired.
Pour vodka into two-thirds of the capacity.
Put the blank in a dark warm room for a month.
Strain the filling.
Optionally add another half bottle of vodka or diluted alcohol.
Full ripening will end in three months. The filling will become transparent, will acquire a rich ruby color.
Filling from chokeberry at home "Frosty"
Frozen berries with natural frost make it possible to make a fantastic drink. Pouring from chokeberry at home can be prepared not only in a modern way - in bottles. An interesting traditional recipe will please supporters of originality, although it will take a very long time to wait for the first test.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of mountain ash;
• half a glass of molasses;
• pure water;
• vodka.
Cooking method:
Pour the berries into the ceramic barrel.
Heat the flask to a liquid state and add to rowan raw materials.
Completely fill the mountain ash with water, cover tightly with a lid, put in a dark warm room.
When the raw materials ferment, pour a glass of high-quality vodka into it, shake, mixing the contents of the barrel, and cover lightly.
Repeat the procedure after the second fermentation, and then pour in a glass of vodka and shake the barrel until fermentation is complete.
Cork the barrel tightly and put it into the cellar.
With the onset of summer, put containers with liqueur under direct sunlight. Fermentation will begin anew and the keg will begin to roll on its own.
Put it in the cold and wait for cooling.
Repeat the procedure again.
After secondary cooling of the container heated in the sun, pour the bottle into the bottles and tightly seal.
Insist on filling further. The longer the liqueur is infused, the tastier it is.
Pouring chokeberry at home - tricks and tips
- To get the most saturated taste of the filling, you need to make punctures in the berries with a thick needle or a toothpick.
- Pouring on chokeberry is not only tasty, but also a healing drink that preserves the properties of fresh berries. It strengthens the immune system, reduces "bad" cholesterol, normalizes digestion, lowers blood pressure, strengthens blood vessels, and returns elasticity to them.
- Cherry leaves can be added as desired in any version of the liquor. You can make a great drink with apples or lingonberries.
- To prepare the right alcohol solution, you need to mix 400 grams of water (preferably boiled) and 600 ml of medical alcohol. You can add it to recipes instead of vodka.
- You can get a more interesting taste if the berries of the chokeberry in the oven are dried. The temperature should not be higher than seventy degrees. It is important not to dry the berries - they should only slightly tighten.
