How to make mandarin jam?

Sometimes you want so much to feast on some unusual and tasty fruit delicacy.Tangerine jam is perfect for this! The process of its preparation does not take much time, and the dessert itself will fill up the vitamin reserve in the body, will give energy and great mood!

For the preparation of an unmatched tangerine dessert, it is worth making a choice in favor of varieties, originally from Spain. The best option will be the fruits of Morocco. They are the sweetest (this will allow you to use less sugar), and also do not contain seeds. If you can not find this variety, you can choose another, you need to have a sour smell and a thin, light orange skin.

The fruits themselves should be of moderate degree of softness. If they have a sour taste - do not worry, this misstep can be corrected with sugar. Here a matter of taste already plays a role: someone likes sourness, and someone loves rich sweetness. Our recommendations will help you to make tangerine jam at home, for example, from Yulia Vysotskaya.

If the recipe involves the use of peel, then the fruit must be thoroughly washed and cleaned. You can use a hard sponge or brush, you need not to overdo it and not to damage the peel, as it contains a lot of useful substances and oils that are beneficial to the functioning of the body.

There are so many recipes for mandarin delicacies that you cannot list them all. The most popular, useful and tasty of them are described in detail below.

Ingredients you need:

• Sugar - kilogram.
• Mandarins - a kilogram.

Cooking method: pre-washed and dried fruits are peeled and peeled (if any). The flesh is divided into segments and placed in a large bowl. Sugar is poured over the top, in an even layer, and the mass is placed in a place protected from sunlight for ten hours. During this period of time, the pulp will be soaked with sugar and make juice.

The resulting composition should be gently mixed and put cooked on medium heat. As soon as the mixture boils, the gas should be reduced and cooking will continue for about twenty minutes. The composition must be regularly stirred to avoid its burning and to monitor the appearance of the foam. After the time, the resulting sweetness must be removed from the heat and let it brew for at least two hours. Traditional tangerine jam is ready! It remains only to decompose it into containers.

Required Products:

• Mandarins - one kilogram.
• Water - 250 milliliters.
• Sugar - one kilogram.
• Carnation - the ratio of fruits and buds 1/1.
• Lemon juice.

First of all, it is necessary to clean the fruit from dirt and stalks. All prepared fruits are placed in deep dishes and poured with liquid to the very top. In order to completely get rid of the bitterness in the zest, the fruit must be infused for at least ten hours. After, the fruits are pierced - three times each. In one, the resulting puncture is inserted into a bud of carnations. All this is transferred to the pan, boiled until boiling, and five minutes after boiling.

After the mandarins are completely softened, they can be laid out on a plate and cooled. While they are cooling, you can proceed to the preparation of the syrup. In a deep bowl, mix the sugar and water and place the mixture on the stove. Thoroughly mixed, it is brought to a boil and cooked for about two minutes. Fruits are laid out in the hot syrup, and infused for two hours, during which they need to be mixed three times.

This dessert is cooked in five stages. It is brought to a boil and removed from the stove to cool. On the fifth brew, lemon juice is added to it. Medium-sized fruit is best suited for this recipe.If it is possible to use only large fruits, then they need to be cut into halves.

Such jam perfectly fights with cold and flu, and also becomes an excellent delicacy at any feast. The taste of cognac is almost not felt because of the sweetness, therefore, due to this ingredient, the dessert turns out to be fragrant and specific. Ingredients you need:

• Tangerines (preferably small) - half a kilo.
• Sugar - a pound.
• Cognac - three tablespoons.

Cooking process: fruits are peeled and divided into slices. Then they are mixed with sugar and brandy, and the resulting composition is infused for about eight hours. After that, he goes to the stove, and, not reaching the boil, cooked over a very slow fire, about forty minutes. After completion of cooking, the resulting sweetness should cool and you can start to use it!

This dessert is distinguished by its light texture and spicy exotic taste, due to which it will be difficult to find a person who remains indifferent.

For this delicacy you will need:

• Mandarins - a kilogram.
• One big orange.
• Sugar - one kilogram.
• Ground ginger - two teaspoons.
• Vanillin - 300 grams.

Cooking sequence: all fruits should be peeled and divided into slices. Dust them with a pound of sugar and leave for ten hours to infuse. After the time has elapsed, place the lobules in the sugar on the stove, add the ginger to them and cook until boiling over medium heat. After boiling, the composition should be boiled for another hour, while the fire should be moderate. After that, the resulting gruel should be cooled and again put cooked. The remaining sugar and vanillin are poured into it. The mass is again brought to a boil and cooked for about an hour, after which it is completely cooled. Tasty and aromatic jam is ready!

This delicious delicacy has an exotic flavor and aroma. It will be especially appreciated by lovers of savory, but at the same time very light acid. By the way, when preparing the components you should not rush to throw away the zest, as it plays one of the most important roles.

For this useful and unusual dessert you will need:

• Mandarins - a kilogram.
• Lime.
• Kiwi - 250 grams.
• Sugar - kilogram.
• Water - 350 milliliters.

Cooking sequence: a pound of mandarins must be peeled and divided into slices, and the remaining fruits cut into four parts each, without removing the peel. The lime is also peeled off the lime (the white part is not affected) and cut into thin strips. Sugar is poured into a deep cooking bowl, diluted with water and boiled until boiling. After the liquid boils, shredded peel pours into it and cooks for about two minutes on low heat. Then mandarin slices are placed in the same container and cooked for exactly one minute, after which the composition is removed from the fire.

As soon as the resulting gruel is completely cooled, it should again be boiled, and cook for two minutes. While the composition will cool, the fruits are cleaned and cut into thin circles. After the dessert boils for the third time, it adds kiwi fruit and squeezed lime juice. Sweetness should boil for at least three minutes, after which it can be considered absolutely ready.

For the preparation of a delicious dessert, tangerine peel will suit no worse than the fruits themselves.

If you are going to use this recipe, you should make sure that the skin is completely clean of dirt and damage. In the zest of citrus crops bitterness is increased, so you should soak it in cool water. The process itself should take at least ten hours. It is recommended to change the fluid at least three times.

Ingredients:

• Tangerine peel - 400 grams.
• Sugar - a pound.
• Clear water - one and a half liters.
• Citric acid - one teaspoon.
• Fresh tangerine juice - 100 milliliters.

Cooking process: Water should be boiled, add sugar and mix the liquid thoroughly until it is completely dissolved. After the syrup boils, a tangerine peel, pre-cut into small pieces, is added to it. After the composition with the zest boils, the fire should be reduced and the jam should be cooked until it thickens completely and the crusts become transparent. Do not forget about regular stirring.

As soon as the sweetness turns into a thick slurry, the fire must be turned off and the mass cooled. When it cools completely, you need to put it on the stove, on a slow fire. Then add to her tangerine juice, mix thoroughly and boil for about fifteen minutes. Then add citric acid to the composition and simmer for another fifteen minutes over low heat.

After a period of time, the sweetness should be removed from the stove and cooled. Jam can be considered ready! It remains to decompose it in banks or immediately submit to tea. You can give the delicacy an original appearance by twisting the crusts into curls. To do this, chop the peel in long strips, one centimeter wide. Roll each of them with a thick roll, thread a thread using a disinfected needle and pull it very tightly.

Peel rolls are soaked in water and then boiled in sugar syrup. When the dessert is completely ready and cooled, the threads are carefully pulled out. This jam can surprise guests or use it as a sweet gift to anyone. By the way, in order to get rid of the bitter taste as much as possible, you can use the following method. Chopped zest is placed in clean cool water for ten minutes. Ten grams of salt is poured into it. All this is boiled on low heat for an hour. After that, the peel must be cooled, and you can begin to implement the culinary masterpiece!

The process of cooking this sweet will take a minimum of time. This will give the opportunity to feast on dessert at any time (you can drink tea with it). This portion is designed for one time.

Ingredients that are needed for cooking:

• One small banana.
• Granulated sugar - 100 grams.
• One large mandarin.

To get started is to clear the banana and cut it into circles. Mandarin is also cleared, and divided into slices, which, in turn, are cut into small cubes and poured into a saucepan. Following are laid out banana circles and granulated sugar. The jam is brewed for about fifteen minutes, then cooled and served with tea.

Products you need:

• Tangerines (pitted) - one kilogram.
• Water - one liter.
• A few twigs of vanilla.
• Granulated sugar - 950 grams.
• Lemon.

First of all, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the citrus fruits under cold water. Then they are peeled and divided into slices, which are placed in a deep bowl. Purified vanilla twig is added, and the composition is filled with water. It should be cooked on medium heat, until boiling. After that, the fire diminishes and the boiling continues for another five minutes at slow fire. The mixture at this time requires abundant agitation.

The next stage is putting the composition in a multi-cooker bowl and turning on the “soup” mode for three hours.After the set time, the delicacy is ready for human consumption ..

Ingredients needed:

• Cinnamon - 15 grams.
• Mandarins - one and a half kilograms.
• Pine nuts - 70 grams.
• Sugar - 180 grams.
• Cardamom.
• Vanilla sugar - 30 grams.

Step by step preparation: pounds of fruit must be peeled and cut into pulp into small cubes. Put them in a bowl and pour surviving tangerine juice from the rest of the fruit. The mixture is put on the fire and cooked to a boil, after which cardamom, cinnamon and two types of sugar are poured into it.

The resulting gruel is simmered for about half an hour. When seven minutes are left until the end of cooking, pine nuts (pre-peeled) are added to the bowl. The resulting dessert can be decomposed into cans or put in the refrigerator and enjoy it whenever you want.

Thanks to such an unusual fruit and vegetable combination, a pleasant taste and a very rich bright color are learned.

Components:

• Sugar - half a kilo.
• Pre-peeled tangerines - half a kilo.
• Pumpkin - 800 grams.

Cooking process: pumpkin is required to peel and seed. The remaining flesh is chopped into medium sized pieces. They are laid out in a saucepan and poured 200 ml of liquid. You need to cook the pumpkin until it is completely softened.

At this time, the fruit is required to grind as best as possible using a blender. Pumpkin gruel must be removed from the stove and allowed to cool completely. Then it is transferred to the blender and mixed to a puree state. After, fruit and pumpkin compositions are placed in a bowl, and cooked until boiling. As soon as the mixture boils, sugar is poured into it, cooking continues for another twenty minutes.

These tips will help make jam even tastier, more fragrant and more beautiful:

• If the recipe requires the fruit to be divided into segments, it is necessary to remove all the veins and film from them;
• When choosing fruits, one should give preference to ripe, but strong ones. Soft fruits can be boiled soft during cooking, and the elastic ones will not lose their original shape;

How to make fragrant tangerine jam, see the next video.