Cooking black gooseberry jam

Jam is one of the most favorite desserts of not only children, but also adults. Nothing could be better than a cup of tea with fragrant, sweet fruit jam, reminiscent of warm summer days, on a cold winter evening.Such types of jam as raspberry, strawberry, currant, peach or blueberry jam are widely known. But you can cook and more original delicacies. For example, black gooseberry jam. This berry has many useful properties and will be an excellent basis for jam.

Gooseberry is a perennial shrub reaching 2 meters in height. There is a wide variety of varieties of this plant:

• dessert;
• red;
• Moscow;
• honey and many others.

The fruits of the shrub, which are dense round berries, contain a large amount of vitamin C, also here there are vitamins A and B.

Of particular value is the dark gooseberry, as it contains vitamin P and pectins, which promote the removal of heavy and harmful metals from the human body.

Per 100 grams of fresh berries account for 0.7 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, 9.1 grams of carbohydrates. Calorie berries - 43 kilocalories per 100 grams.

In order to prepare a tasty and healthy delicacy for the winter you will need:

• gooseberry berries (1000 grams);
• granulated sugar (1000 grams);
• purified water (half a liter);
• green leaves of mint or melissa (optional).

From this amount of products you get one half-liter jar of finished product.

The first step is to make sugar syrup. To do this, you need to dissolve the sugar in water and put this liquid on the fire. It is important that the sugar is completely dissolved in water - then it will be visible to the naked eye that the syrup thickens. If you decide to use green leaves, then right now you need to add them. The use of leaves is not an obligatory step, but it will give the jam a special, unique aroma and unusual flavors.

Now you should go to the preparation of berries. Gooseberries should be thoroughly washed and cleaned of tails. It is also necessary to select only whole fresh berries - spoiled food should be thrown out. After that, all the berries need to pour in sugar syrup. Leave this mass should be for several hours.

Then the berries should be boiled in syrup. Cooking time is about 10 minutes. Now delicious and healthy dessert is ready. The jam will have a rather thick consistency and dark color. If desired, you can add nuts or blueberries to such jam.

To learn how to make black gooseberry jam, see the next video.