Cooking delicious and healthy carrot jam

Carrots are one of the most affordable and healthy vegetables loved by everyone since childhood. It grows well even in the harsh Siberian conditions. You can make a lot of various tasty and nutritious dishes and even jam from this vegetable.The correct way to prepare such a delicacy will allow you to save all the beneficial properties of carrots and diversify the daily diet.

It's no secret that carrots are the king of vegetables for vitamin A. Therefore, regular consumption of such vegetables helps to significantly improve vision. Carrots contain a lot of fiber, useful for normal functioning of the stomach. Also, carrots are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals that help strengthen the body's immune system, as well as get rid of toxins and toxins. Vegetable is useful to use for women during pregnancy and during breastfeeding.

There are many old and new carrot jam recipes. Presented for you as a classic cooking options for this dessert, and very unusual.

If you have never tasted carrot jam, then you should start your acquaintance with this dish with this recipe. For it you need to prepare a kilogram of ripe carrots, 1.2 kg of sugar, a couple of sachets of vanillin and a half cup of water. In some cases, to add a more interesting flavor to the jam, add a little acid or lemon juice.

Cooking process: The first step is to mix the sugar and water in a metal dish, put it on the fire and hold until the syrup begins to boil. After that, do not remove the mass from the stove for about 5 minutes. While preparing the syrup, you can do vegetables. Young ripe carrots should be well washed, peeled, if necessary, and cut into thin slices or plates. Add chopped vegetables to sugar syrup and cook them together for no more than 10 minutes. Then remove the container from the stove, cool and insist about 9 hours, you can even a little longer.

The cooking process does not end there. After the carrot in the syrup is infused, it is necessary to put it on fire again, add granulated sugar and cook the mass until it becomes thick, and the vegetable does not become translucent. At the end of the process, pour vanilla and, if you wish, lemon acid into jam. The resulting composition can be poured into prepared banks and left stored for the winter.

There is no doubt that this delicious, fragrant and healthy jam will appeal to all without exception. Even skeptics who believe that a vegetable cannot make a good dessert. Here is a list of required products:

• 1 lemon,
• 2 oranges,
• grated ginger - 80 grams,
• carrots - 0.5 kg,
• sugar sand - 0.5 kg
• some cinnamon.

First peel off all the fruits, vegetables and ginger. Make mashed carrots using a food processor or grate it on a fine grater. The same procedure must be done with citrus peel and ginger. The pulp of orange and lemon cut into small cubes. Now put the chopped fruits and vegetables in a saucepan, put it on the stove with minimal power and simmer the future delicacy to a boil.

All this time it is important not to forget to interfere with the jam in order to prevent its burning. As soon as the mass begins to boil, detect 40 minutes and cook it during this time. Then add a little ground cinnamon to the jam, mix everything well and stew for another 10 minutes.

Unlike jam, jam is thicker and more uniform. That is, it should not contain individual pieces of vegetables or fruits. Cooking carrot jam according to the classic recipe is quite simple. To do this, take 1 kg of fresh vegetable and granulated sugar, as well as some lemon acid and 300 ml of water.Peel vegetables, cut into thin round plates, dip them in hot water to make them a little softer. Then you need to chop the carrots in a blender, food processor, or mince. If the vegetables are very soft, you can make mashed potatoes even with a regular fork.

Now you need to make a syrup from sugar and water, then add carrot mass to it. To simmer on the fire to full readiness and pour a little lemon acid into the jam. Jam is ready! If you wish, you can diversify the dessert by adding grated lemon or orange zest, a little cinnamon or vanilla.

Carrots and apples are perfectly combined with each other. Therefore, you can use a fairly simple, but a good recipe for jam with these ingredients. Approximately 300 grams of ripe apples should be washed, seeds and stalks should be removed, but not peeled. Best for this recipe fit red apples. Cut them into small cubes and mix together with the same amount of grated fresh carrots. Then pour to the resulting mass of about 400 grams of sugar and once again mix everything well until smooth. Put the pot with the billet on the stove and simmer for about 3 hours until the sugar is completely dissolved.

In his spare time, you can do lemon. It must be crushed in a food processor with skin. When the apples are cooked with carrots and sugar, mix them with lemon gruel. Stir until homogeneous and put on fire. Keep the dishes on the stove until the first bubbles appear, and then simmer for about an hour. After that, the carrot-apple jam is fully prepared. It can be poured into cans and cleaned in the cellar for the winter, or simply put into plastic containers and put into the refrigerator.

If you have not tried carrot jam with calendula, then be sure to do it! Such a delicacy is distinguished by a mass of useful properties, and it also looks very beautiful. Therefore, it can even be made for sale or presented as a gift to loved ones. You need to cook 2 medium-sized lemons with thin skin, about 12 calendula flowers, 1 kg of vegetables and granulated sugar, half a liter of water. Peeled and washed carrots must be crushed in any way. You can even figure it cut, so the dessert will turn out even more refined. Add the vegetable to the saucepan with water, put on the stove and keep to boil. Then cook for about 3 minutes.

At this time, chop the lemons together with the zest and mix them with the flowers in a separate bowl. Boil the mixture for about 5 minutes, then combine the carrots, sugar and citrus fruits. Boil the contents on low heat until the jam thickens.

It is important to know the following.

• In order for carrot jam to acquire a bright and beautiful color, choose exclusively ripe fruits of sweet varieties for its preparation, then you will get not only a rich tint of dessert, but also great taste.
• Always wash and clean the vegetables thoroughly before heat treatment. This will achieve the most delicate and pleasant taste, without bitterness.
• If you want to keep the maximum amount of beneficial vitamins in carrot jam, do not cook vegetables for too long. To do this, simply chop the carrots as small as possible, then the heat treatment will be minimal.
• Do not be afraid to experiment. Add to the carrot any berries, vegetables, fruits or even herbs. Then you can create a unique delicacy that will delight the family and guests.
• In any recipe, you can replace white sugar with honey, stevia, brown cane sugar or fructose. So carrot jam will turn out even more useful, and its caloric content will significantly decrease.

In the next video you will find a recipe for fragrant and healthy jam from carrots, oranges and lemon.