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    Home » Wild Fruit

    Aronia or Chokeberry Recipes

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    Chokeberries, also known as Aronia melanocarpa and others, are an edible wild fruit often planted in landscaping in Urban areas, although they also grow wild and are cultivated.

    They're a valuable fruit, and cold-pressed aronia juice will cost you about $2 an ounce.

    a bowl of aronia berries or chokeberries.

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    Aronia berries have a strong astringent taste that some people won't like, and it's important to know the ins and outs of cooking with them to make sure your food tastes good.

    Cooking them can concentrate their astringency, so cold-methods of cooking to make sauces and drinks are often used.

    Chokeberry or Aronia Berry Vinaigrette on a plate.

    Aronia vinaigrette looks like finger paint.

    If you're new to cooking with this fruit, try my aronia preserves or chokeberry vinaigrette first.

    The fruit can also be cooked with apples as you would rowan berry jelly, which is one of the best ways to use the fruit cooked. Fruit leather made with a mix of fruit is a good idea too.

    • Apples Poached in Wild Grape Juice
    • Wild Berry Wóžapi Sauce
    • Homemade Blueberry Leather
    • Burdock Yamagobo
    • Sweet and Sour Wild Cherry, Berry or Grape Syrup
    • Fruit Scrap Vinegar
    • Simple Chokeberry / Aronia Preserves or Jam
    • Sweet and Sour Chokeberry or Elderberry Syrup
    • Aronia Berry Vinaigrette
    • How to Make Foraged Berry Infused Vinegar

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