Tincture of chokeberry

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a tincture of chokeberry? Prepare the ingredients. Chernoplodka is suitable both fresh and frozen. Remove fresh leaves and twigs, wash and dry. Defrost frozen at room temperature. Take a proven vodka. Remove the zest (yellow peel) from the lemon by rubbing the washed lemon on a grater with small holes.

2. Step 2:

   

   I recommend piercing each berry with a toothpick. You can also slightly press down the berries with a pusher (a press for puree), but do not get carried away so that the berries do not turn into puree: then it will be more difficult to filter the drink. Be careful with the juice of aronia! He has an extremely persistent blue-violet pigment. If the juice gets on the work surface, immediately wipe it with a damp cloth.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the berries in a clean and dry glass jar. I have a volume of 500 ml.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the specified amount of vodka into the jar.

6. Step 5:

   

   And add lemon zest. It will make the drink even more interesting to taste. You can replace it with the zest of orange, lime or any citrus that you like. Each time the drink will be a little different.

7. Step 6:

   

   Mix the tincture thoroughly. At this stage, you can add sugar to the jar at the rate of 2 tbsp.l. and more, depending on how much you like sweet tinctures. This recipe is sugar-free.

8. Step 7:

   

   Cover the tincture with a paper napkin and tighten with an elastic band. Put the jar in the pantry for 2 weeks. Stir its contents every 2-3 days. Before use, filter the tincture through several layers of gauze or through a special purchased filter.