Making red gooseberry jam

Berries of a red gooseberry possess pronounced sweet taste with a small note of sourness. They can be consumed fresh, and you can make delicious blanks that will delight even in winter. You will learn about the most delicious recipes of red gooseberry jam from this article.

First of all, the gooseberry is a rich source of serotonin, zinc, copper, magnesium, calcium, carotenes, pectins, folic acid, molybdenum and phosphorus. The content of such an impressive vitamin complex makes gooseberry one of the most useful berries. Regularly eating fresh berries or in the composition of any dishes, the human body undergoes positive changes.

• Normalized water-lipid balance.
• The removal of heavy metal ions and other toxic substances and slags.
• Blood formation improves, hemoglobin starts to increase actively.
• From the gooseberry are extremely tasty and healthy jam, which is able to provide an anti-inflammatory effect for colds.
• The aging of cells in the human body slows down.
• Blood vessels become strong.
• Gooseberry helps to reduce the pain of postmenstrual syndrome and alleviate menstrual symptoms.

• It has a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract. It is often recommended by doctors as a prophylactic agent for problems with the stomach and intestines.
• Gooseberry is used as a means to help remove bile from the body. This berry is extremely effective even with large amounts of bile.
• The composition of many drugs used to treat diseases of organs such as the kidneys and the gall bladder, includes gooseberries.
• Regular consumption of gooseberries helps reduce swelling of the face.
• It protects against the development of cancer.
• With significant blood loss, the gooseberry helps to start the blood formation process, thereby helping the body in a short time to fill the need for essential vitamins and beneficial microelements.
• Gooseberry is one of the essential elements in the treatment of diseases such as anemia.

There are no strict restrictions or contraindications for the use of gooseberries. The berry is permissible to use both in fresh and in canned form. Of course, this berry is forbidden to use in the presence of individual intolerance or with frequent food allergic reactions. Reducing the amount of consumed gooseberry is recommended for diabetes mellitus, a simultaneous inflammatory process in both small and large intestine, gastric or duodenal ulcer.

You can cook the jam of ripe red gooseberries in a slow cooker with cherry leaves, black currant, with lemon, vanilla or walnut. You can make this jam from whole small or large gooseberries.

Before making tasty and tasty jam from gooseberries, it is necessary to prepare the berries correctly. Acquired in the supermarket or collected from its site fruits are carefully moved to the subject of rot. Dark specks indicate that the berry has had some infectious disease, and its use (even in canned form) is best abandoned. Mealy dew is a problem in many gardeners when it comes to growing berries. Gooseberry, prone to this disease, has a kind of over-ripe berries with a dark brown shade in the region of the stem. Removal of the rotten area is permissible, but many experienced gardeners still recommend to abandon the use of such berries.

Next, the gooseberry is thoroughly cleaned from small tailsgrowing on both sides with sharp scissors for manicure or tweezers.The final stage of preparing berries for making jam is rinsing in cool water and drying on neatly laid gauze. Jam can be obtained from frozen berries. However, in this case, you must first defrost them at room temperature.

To date, there are many recipes that allow you to cook delicious and fragrant gooseberry jam. Consider the most widely used of them. To make jam from large berries of gooseberry, you will need to acquire: a kilogram of gooseberry, two glasses of water and a kilogram of granulated sugar. First you need to make sugar syrup. The above amount of granulated sugar is poured into a small volume pot and filled with clean water. While stirring regularly, hold the syrup on the stove for the next five minutes. After the time, add the previously washed gooseberries. After boiling the mixture for another five minutes, remove the pan from the heat and remove to insist in a warm place. To make the jam better infused, it is recommended to wrap it with a warm blanket for the next eight to ten hours. After that, the jam must be boiled again, this time about twenty minutes.

If you want to get a more uniform consistency, the gooseberry must be chopped beforehand. To do this, gooseberry is placed in a mixer or meat grinder and brought to a state of mashed potatoes. Crushed berry is transferred to the pan, where a kilogram of granulated sugar is added. The resulting mixture is thoroughly mixed and left to insist for thirty minutes. In this short period of time, the berries will begin to give away their nectar, which will allow the sugar sand to melt almost completely.

If you have turned out rather dense and thick mass, it is recommended to add a cup of clean water. Next, the mixture is placed on medium heat and cooked for ten minutes. Do not forget to constantly mix the contents of the pan so that the jam boils evenly. After the time, the jam should be put in a cool place until it is completely cooled. Then again boil for the past fifteen minutes.

Using a microwave oven involves the observance of certain rules and correctly selected dishes. Prefer heat-resistant dishes that have high walls. This will not allow the jam to "run away" and stain the inner surface of the microwave oven. So, add two hundred grams of fresh gooseberry and two hundred fifty grams of granulated sugar to your chosen capacity. Four glasses of liquid are added to the mixture, in this case pure or filtered water. The contents of the container is gently mixed and covered with a special lid. It is recommended to select a cover with small openings so that steam can escape.

Then the container with the workpiece is placed in a microwave and set the timer for twenty minutes. Power should be average. In the process of cooking two or three times the container with jam is taken out and mixed intensively in order to avoid burning. The resulting product is decomposed into pre-sterilized glass jars.

This preparation has an interesting taste and unique aroma. In addition, the presence of oranges in the composition of the product adds vitamin C necessary for human health. Consider a step-by-step recipe.

To get this jam, take three medium-sized citrus. Using a brush, rinse the skin thoroughly. Then take one orange, peel it off. Peel the remaining oranges and divide them into slices. In the presence of seeds or dense fibers - remove them. Gooseberry and orange slices should be minced as much as possible and brought to a state of mashed potatoes. To do this, you can use a meat grinder or a mixer. Berry-orange mixture is mixed with previously harvested zest and add a pound of sugar. The resulting mixture is placed in a warm place and covered with a towel for the next thirty minutes.

The process of making this blank is carried out in three stages. At the first stage, the prepared mixture should be boiled until it starts to boil. Do not forget to periodically stir the jam to prevent burning. Next, you need to wait until the orange-berry mixture is completely cooled. As a rule, it does not take more than five to six hours. After which it is again subjected to heating. The jam boils, and the saucepan is removed again from the heat. After five to six hours, the cooled jam is heated on the stove for the final third time. After all stages have been completed, the pan with the contents is placed in a warm place for an hour. Wrap the pot with a warm towel, so the contents will infuse better and the taste will become more saturated. An hour later, while the jam is still not sufficiently cooled, it is recommended to pour it into previously sterilized glass jars. Delicious and healthy gooseberry jam is ready, and a pronounced citrus aroma will fill you with energy and invigorate.

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