Recipes gooseberry jam rubbed through a meat grinder for the winter

It is no secret that the fruits grown on his native land are most useful for humans. To enjoy the rich harvest and taste of your favorite berries, not only in the summer season, it is necessary to make stocks for the winter.We offer some simple and delicious recipes for such delicacies as gooseberry jam through a meat grinder.

Gooseberry is famous for its high content of vitamins (C, vitamins B, A), microelements (fluorine, zinc, iron, iodine, potassium, magnesium) antioxidants necessary for the normal functioning of human internal organs. It is noticed that people who consume a handful of these berries a day are less exposed to obesity, anemia, vitamin deficiency, constipation, and myopia. Increases immunity and body resistance. Fruit acids in the berry form several ascorbic acids, which is why gooseberries are also called northern kiwi.

Knowing about such benefits, Gooseberries need to be consumed year-round and prepare delicacies for the winter. Of course, heat treatment loses some of the vitamins, but most of the trace elements, nevertheless, remain in products prepared from gooseberry. Due to the high content of pectic substances in the gooseberry, this berry is suitable for making jam.

To gooseberry jam even turned out for beginners, you should know a few rules.

• For jam, the presence of slightly unripe berries is allowed, some jam recipes require exactly unripe gooseberries.
• Berries need to be washed in several waters, remove the pop-up branches and mote, rinse again in a bowl-colander.
• After washing the gooseberry is better to dry, putting the berries on a towel on the table.
• Do not allow mashed, damaged, or rotten berries to enter the jam! Green stems and dry tails with berries are better to cut with nail scissors.
• Do not digest the jam, otherwise the pectin destroyed during cooking will not create a gelatinous texture!
• Do not cook the product in an aluminum pot! When oxidized under the influence of fruit acids, aluminum releases substances hazardous to health.
• Jam storage containers should be sterilized.

Classic recipes are not in vain, the popularity of them brings ease of preparation and great taste. For the classic gooseberry jam, you need to twist a half a kilogram of dried and peeled berries through a meat grinder, move this gooseberry mass to the pan, add as much sugar. Observing the proportion of one to one, you can take more or less sugar and berries. On a slow fire should often mix the sugar mixture.

You should not be surprised at the liquid consistency, after boiling the mass will begin to thicken and boil down. Avoid sticking, stirring often, make jam for 18-20 minutes. The readiness of the product is checked as follows: you need to drop the jam on a saucer, and hold it with a small spoon. The divided edges of the sweet mass should not be joined, this indicates ready-made jam.

Pour the mixture into sterile containers, cork. Turn the jars upside down and wrap a blanket until they cool.

Add an additional flavor and unique taste of gooseberry jam can supplements, perfectly combined with this berry - citrus and mint.

Peel two oranges from white peel, white layer, film and stones. For this amount of oranges, take 700 or 800 g of gooseberry and 1000 g of sugar. Through the meat grinder skip the berries with the pulp of oranges. If desired, the mass can optionally be rubbed through a sieve. So, most seeds are removed from berries and coarse particles.

Put the contents of the pan on the stove, wait for it to boil, stir constantly and add all the sugar. Boil the jam until the desired viscosity takes 20-30 minutes. A drop of ready-made jam will keep the shape, not spread. Put the jam in a sterile bowl, roll up.

So that such a product is not too sour, the sugar rate in the recipe is increased. Per kilogram of berries to take two large lemons and a half kg. Sahara. Scalded lemons in boiling water for better cleaning.One citrus fruit is completely peeled from the peel and seeds, and the second cut with a peel, grind citrus and clean berries through a meat grinder.

Pour citrus and berry puree all sugar, leave overnight. In the morning, bring to a boil over low heat, removing the formed foam and stirring. Boil for 15 to 20 minutes, cork jam in hot sterile dishes.

3 or 4 large fruits of kiwi, a little less than a kilogram (700 g) of gooseberry, 1000 g of sugar, 8-10 leaflets of mint. Prepare all the ingredients: wash and then clean the berries, peeled kiwi peel from slices, wash the mint leaves.

Punch kiwi with gooseberry through a meat grinder, add sugar, wait (for 20-25 minutes) when mashed potatoes absorb sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, not forgetting to stir. At the end of cooking, add crushed mint for 5-10 minutes.

By combining two types of berries, you can achieve an unusual berry combination. Jam is prepared not only from one gooseberry, but also with currants or raspberries.

Take a pound of pure berries of currant and gooseberry red varieties, 100 g of sugar, 3 cups of boiled water. Put sugar and water in the bowl of the multicooker, bring to the boil in the “Cooking” mode. Pour berries minced and cook for about 30-35 minutes.

Take equally pink or red gooseberries and raspberries, 1 kg each, 1800 g of sugar. Punch berries with sugar using a blender or meat grinder. The number of seeds is better to reduce by passing the mass through a sieve. Pour the sugar and boil the mixture until the desired thickening of 15-25 minutes.

• Not all young housewives have such a kitchen assistant as a meat grinder. It may well be replaced by a modern device - a blender. It is more convenient to grind berries to them, and to wash is easier.
• If the volume of berries is not too large, you can cook jam in a slow cooker. It does not burn the jam. It is better to prepare jam on the “Quenching” mode - about an hour, or on the “Cooking” mode - 30-40 minutes.
• If the jam is stored in the refrigerator, then it is quite possible to do without cooking. It is prepared in the same way, they only increase the rate of sugar: for a kilogram of berries, they take 1.5 kg of sugar, mix it with milled berries, cover it in sterile containers and store it in the refrigerator. Enjoy your meal!

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