Delicious recipes from the gooseberry with orange without cooking

Incredible taste and a lot of useful properties has jam, cooked in a cold way from orange and gooseberry.This delicacy not only gives a feeling of summer freshness and energizes for the whole day, but also can prevent the development of some diseases. Berry fruit jam is usually served with pancakes, unsweetened tea and hot pastries. It can also be used as a filling for homemade pies or rolls.

Preparation of this delicacy takes no more than an hour, and it is permissible to store it for up to twelve months in the freezer. How to prepare the most delicious and fragrant gooseberry and orange jam and what preparatory procedures should be used ingredients, you will learn from this article.

The choice of ingredients is a matter of taste. For jam - berries, in this case, the gooseberry is selected based on your preferences. Variety can be any. It is worth noting that for gooseberry there are certain recipes for making jam, which allow to reveal the characteristics of a particular variety. The only thing worth focusing on is the correctly selected ingredients and their preparation.

In the case of an orange, everything is much more complicated. Regardless of the variety, there are certain recommendations for choosing a sweet and tasty fruit. First of all, pay attention to the appearance of an orange. For the peel of juicy and tasty fruit peculiar uniformity, brightness and smoothness. Small reddish blotches indicate orange ripeness.

Strong porosity indicates a thick peel. However, this is not an indication that the orange will not taste good. The disadvantage of a thick peel is that it makes up the majority of the weight of the fruit, and of the obvious advantages, easy cleaning can be noted.

But the fruits of an unnaturally large size indicate that the cultivation used chemicals that allow to increase the size of the fruit. Eating such oranges is not only not useful, but it can be very dangerous.

Do not forget that the absence of heat treatment involves the use of extremely pure ingredients. Rules of their preparation must always be followed. This will allow you to get not only tasty, but also healthy jam.

• First, pick berries that are ripe or even ripened. This gooseberry is perfect for jam, which is prepared without cooking by grinding or chafing.
• Next, the gooseberry is thoroughly washed in a deep bowl with cool water. If necessary, get rid of spoiled and possessing a brownish bloom berries. Gooseberry-specific tails on both sides of the berry are removed with scissors.
• Large berries should preferably be cleared of seeds. To do this, cut the gooseberries on top and carefully remove the seeds, while not breaking the shape of the berries.

• For orange, added to the jam, it is peculiar to bitter. This is due to the whitish inner layer of the peel. Some fibers remain on the orange, even after peeling has been removed. They also need to get rid of.
• Bitterness can occur when adding peel. There is a way to remove bitterness from citrus. To do this, soak the fruit in cold clear water for twelve hours or fill it with boiling water and leave for fifteen minutes.
• Those citrus fruits that will be used with the peel are washed with a brush several times. Next, the fruits pour boiling water. This will clear the citrus fruits from the chemistry that was used when growing or storing the fruit.
• It is permissible to cook jam from frozen berries.However, freezing the berries must be already processed, that is, washed and peeled.
• After carrying out all the above manipulations, gooseberry and orange can be used to prepare the absolute recipe for any jam.

Cold methods of making jam, that is, without the use of heat treatment, are among the simplest. Thanks to this method, you can easily preserve not only the usefulness of the ingredients used, but also their freshness. The preparation of this delicacy does not take much time. It is only necessary to wait until the sugar completely dissolves in the berry-orange mass. After cooking, it is advisable to put the jam in the refrigerated compartment, as the sweet citrus-berry jam can start to ferment at warm temperatures.

For the preparation of citrus and berry delicacy it is necessary to strictly observe the proportions. On one part of the gooseberry take two parts of sugar. And for one kilogram of berries will need two or three citrus, depending on the desired result. The predominant content of oranges in the jam will give a sweeter taste, on the contrary, a large amount of gooseberry will create sourness.

There are recipes that offer if your oranges are very sweet, replace one of them with a lemon. Allowed to use half a lemon or a whole fruit. Thanks to him, you not only enrich the composition with additional vitamins, but also significantly increase the shelf life of jam.

The cooking procedure should not cause you any difficulties. Since the cold method of getting jam does not involve heat treatment, even a young housewife can handle this product.

• So, first you need to carefully chop the gooseberry, previously processed according to the above rules. Peeled citrus fruits also undergo a shredding procedure using a mixer or meat grinder.
• Then the crushed berries and fruits are thoroughly mixed with granulated sugar and left to stand until all the grains of sugar have dissolved. As a rule, this process can take from fifteen to thirty minutes. After the time, the finished jam is poured into pre-sterilized glass jars.
• Tight closure of the cans with lids is not required, reusable plastic covers are suitable for this product. The resulting jam is placed in the refrigerated compartment for storage and infusion. After a couple of hours, a treat can be served with tea.

Another interesting way to make gooseberry jam and oranges without heat treatment is a recipe with the addition of bananas.

• So, from the ingredients you need to get: one kilogram of fresh gooseberry (of any sort), one orange, two bananas, six hundred grams of granulated sugar. To obtain vitamin jam, process the gooseberries, strictly observing all stages of preparation.
• Citrus fruits will need to be chopped into small pieces, getting rid of the seeds that are in the flesh of the fruit. Peel is removed from the bananas, and they are cut into thin circles.
• Further, all the prepared ingredients are transferred to the mixer and whipped until a uniform consistency. The resulting puree is poured into a clean bowl, and sugar is added in small portions.
• A jam will take several hours to infuse. After that, the jam can be consumed or sent to the refrigerated compartment for storage.
• This recipe allows the use of cane sugar as a more useful alternative to regular sugar.

Berry-citrus jam with the addition of kiwi will help to cheer up even in the winter cold.

• You will need to stock up on: one kilogram of gooseberry, two oranges, three kiwis and one kilogram of granulated sugar. The cold method of cooking this delicacy also does not require much time, as the two previous recipes.
• First of all, carefully process the fruits and berries. In the case of kiwi, you will need to carefully remove the peel and cut it into several small pieces. Citrus fruits are cut with the peel and cleaned of seeds.
• Then all ingredients must be crushed using a meat grinder or mixer. Beat or grind all the ingredients until they get the consistency of mashed potatoes. Transfer the resulting mass to a deep bowl.
• Next, add the required amount of sugar. Since kiwi and gooseberries have a slightly sour taste, it is permissible to add a little more sugar. It all depends on your preferences and the desired result.
• You can enjoy the wonderful taste of the prepared product in five hours. During that time, the grains of sugar will dissolve in the ground berry-fruit mixture.
• Put the rest of the jam in a storage container and send it to the freezer. So you can store jams for up to twelve months.
• It is recommended to put part of the jam in the refrigerated compartment, so you do not have to wait each time for the vitamin mixture to thaw.

Regardless of the recipe of making jam from orange and gooseberry, it will in any case be very tasty and appetizing. This is due to the incredibly harmonious combination of selected ingredients. The tenderness of the gooseberry pulp and amazing citrus aroma form a wonderful tandem. And the highlight of this delicacy is a weak note of sourness, which forms a pleasant aftertaste.

With the combination of these two ingredients, the jam is thick compared to jam made exclusively from oranges or gooseberries. Despite the fact that the jam is prepared quite simply, experienced chefs advise you to adhere to some recommendations.

• Prolonged heating makes the syrup very thick, and the consistency will resemble jelly. A product prepared by pre-grinding or grinding ingredients, gives a more liquid consistency.
• In order for jam not to give up bitterness, it is necessary to get rid of the peel and loose white layer that is on the pulp of oranges. Having done these manipulations, the product is guaranteed not to work bitter.
• Orange peel has such a useful component as pectin. It helps reduce cholesterol, normalizes blood sugar levels and reduces the risk of cancer. Its addition to the jam will increase the viscosity of the consistency.

• Do not forget that the consistency of jelly orange and gooseberry jam acquires after some time spent in banks during storage. Therefore, follow the recommendations of your chosen recipe, even if it seems to you that the consistency of the product does not match the description.
• The combination of orange and gooseberry gives a juicy taste and unique aroma. And making jam from them will make it possible to obtain the necessary vitamins and useful trace elements even in the winter period.

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