Features of cooking gooseberry jam without cooking

“Summer greetings” - seals help to keep the summer mood at any time of the year. However, if you want to save not only the summer taste, but also the benefits, it is not enough to cook the products. It makes sense to get acquainted with the features of cooking jam without cooking on the example of gooseberry.

Gooseberry fruit is filled with a variety of nutrients. Among them are vitamins A, B, C. And it also contains potassium, magnesium, sodium, iron. In addition, fiber, protein, acids are found.

Fresh berries of this plant have a positive effect on the entire human body:

• heart and vessels;
• bones and joints;
• vision;
• lungs;
• intestines:
• kidneys;
• hair and skin;
• immunity.

They cleanse the body of toxins. However, during heat treatment (in the process of cooking) most of the useful properties disappear.

There are many ways to preserve useful properties. However, not all of them involve the preservation of taste and nutritional qualities.

Live, that is, raw green gooseberry jam will help you prepare our recommendations.

To get two liters of the cold version of “royal jam” you need 1 kilogram of gooseberry and 1.5 kilograms of sugar. The recipe is pretty simple.

• Preparatory stage. The first thing fruit should be prepared. To do this, they need to sort, rinse under water and dry thoroughly. If you skip this stage, then the blank will not stop for a long time, spoil. At the same time it is worth preparing jars and lids for sterilization.

• The main stage. Dry berries must be turned into a homogeneous mass. This will help grinder or blender. It is necessary to pour the granulated sugar in advance into the mass, after pouring out about 100 grams for the cork. All this should be mixed with a wooden spoon. It is important to cover the container with the berry mass with a wet gauze and leave for 6 hours to completely dissolve the sugar. Periodically, it should be mixed with a wooden spatula.

• The final stage. Towards the end of this period, it is important to sterilize the prepared jars and lids. They need to decompose the mass. At the end of the product should pour the remaining sugar. Now banks are required to close tightly with lids. They also need to be sent to the refrigerator for storage.

The recipe is like the classic version of cold jam. Lemon gives it a piquant bitterness, sourness, increases shelf life.

If you take 1 kilogram of fruit, 2 lemons and 1.2 kilograms of sugar, you will end up with 2 liters of the finished product.

Cooking begins with lemon. It should be washed with a brush, cut into small pieces and remove the bones. Slices of lemon should be scrolled through the meat grinder.

Now is the time of the main product. It is important to prepare, washing and drying, cutting off all unnecessary. After that, grind with a meat grinder.

Immediately after that, all the ingredients must be mixed and left to dissolve the sugar. After obtaining a homogeneous mass, it must be decomposed into banks and closed. Keep the product in the refrigerator.

An alternative to lemon can be an orange. For the recipe, you need to prepare 1 kilogram of the main ingredient, as many oranges, 1.5 kilograms of granulated sugar. The result will be about 2.5 kilograms of the finished product.

• Training. First of all, the oranges should be thoroughly washed and dried using a napkin. Immediately, orange peel should be rubbed into a separate container. Orange pulp should be cut into slices, cleaned of films. Gooseberry is prepared in the usual way.

• The main stage. The prepared elements at this stage should be passed through a meat grinder or blender.In the resulting mass add the remaining ingredients. All this for 8 hours or overnight is removed in the refrigerator.
• Completion. After complete dissolution of sugar, the resulting product is decomposed in sterilized cans, rolled. It must be kept cold.

There is the option of making gooseberries with two fruits at the same time. To do this, you will need 3 kilograms of the main element, 3 oranges, 2 lemons and 5 kilograms of granulated sugar.

The first step is to prepare fruits and berries. To do this, they should be thoroughly washed and dried, cut off all the twigs, tails. After that, you can go to the main stage.

Oranges are cut with zest into pieces. Lemon cut without peel and pits. The main ingredients are passed through a meat grinder. Sugar is added to the finished mass and mixed.

All this should be left for a day, covered with gauze. All this time, the mass must be periodically mixed with a wooden spoon. It is necessary to dissolve the sweet element.

An exotic option for a cold dessert is the harvesting of gooseberries and kiwi. For this you need to cook 2 kiwi, 1 kilogram of berries.

• Preparatory stage. The collected gifts of nature must be prepared: wash, dry and bust. Kiwi should be washed and peeled.
• The main stage. Kiwi should be cut into slices, and the berry ingredient - grind to a state of gruel. The main ingredients need to be mixed in deep dishes. In the mass it is necessary to pour the cooked sugar, mix and cover all with gauze. In this state, the product should be left in the cold for 4 hours. All this time it is necessary to periodically get it out of the fridge and stir.

• The final stage. Before the end is required to prepare the glass jars. They should put a few leaves of scalded and washed mint. There you need to pour the cooked mass, close all the plastic covers. Now dessert can be sent to storage in a cold place. There should be no higher than 10 degrees Celsius.

To obtain a product with an unusual taste, you can use cherries. For this you need to take both berries in equal shares. They need to buy sugar: 2 kilograms per kilogram of berry mass.

The main ingredients are washed and dried. Cherry is pitted.

Everything is ground and mixed, sugar is added. The mixture should be left for half an hour to dissolve it. At the same time, one should not forget about mixing with wooden cutlery.

Upon completion, the sweet mass must be poured into the prepared glass container, close them tightly with polyethylene covers. At the very end you need to send them to the refrigerator.

Another unusual recipe - a cold dessert with a banana. It is necessary to prepare 1 kilogram of gooseberries, the same amount of granulated sugar and 3 bananas.

The main ingredients are prepared in the usual way. Bananas are peeled. Berries should be crushed with a wooden crush, banana should be ground. The sweet ingredient is added to the mixture. Everything is mixed up.

After complete dissolution of the last addition, the resulting product is required to be packaged in glass containers with lids of polyethylene.

Surprise gourmet can unusual, at first glance, a combination: the fruits of currant, gooseberry bushes in the form of jelly. For the preparation of a number of useful ingredients:

• gooseberry - 1 kilogram;
• currant berries - 500 grams;
• food gelatin - 2 tablespoons;
• lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;
• granulated sugar - 1.5 kilograms.

Instead of currants, you can use the fruits of raspberry.

Preparation consists of several operations:

1. preparation of the main ingredients - sorting, washing, drying;
2. half an hour soaking gelatin in two glasses of warm water;
3. chopping berries, removing seeds using a fine sieve;
4. mixing of berry masses;
5. compound sugar and gelatinous mass, bringing to a state of syrup;
6. adding lemon juice to the syrup;
7. mixing syrup with the main product, mixing;
8. packing in glass containers.

The jelly is stored under the same conditions as the storage of cold jam.

Analogue of "royal jam" without the need to cook anything is easy. However, only knowledge of certain subtleties will help to ensure its safety until winter and longer. They can be called the secrets of cooking cold dishes.

1. It is worth choosing a little unripe fruit.
2. In the process of their preparation, it is necessary to remove all extraneous elements: "tails" and "stigma". Make it help nail scissors.
3. It is also necessary to rinse the fruit well under running water, dry it on a towel. If you skip this stage, the finished product will quickly deteriorate.
4. Do not use aluminum cookware during cooking.
5. Packed dessert should be packed in cans only after complete dissolution of the sugars in the mass.
6. To extend the shelf life of the finished product can be sprinkled with sugar. It forms a "sugar cork", which protects against souring.
7. Banks must first be sterilized, and lids - boiled.
8. Adding citrus fruits will also help prolong shelf life.
9. The resulting delicacy can only be stored in the refrigerator.

See the following video for the recipe for making live gooseberry jam without cooking.