Strawberry jam recipes

Strawberry jam is one of those blanks that you definitely need to make in the summer.A fragrant sweet berry will not only please with its taste, but will also have a beneficial effect on health, for example, strengthen the immune system. In addition, it is believed that strawberries contain pectic substances that remove radiation from the body. You can make this jam according to various recipes using various techniques.

Strawberries for harvesting must be fresh. Selected berries are carefully viewed and cleaned from damaged, immature and overripe specimens. It is imperative to remove the fruits spoiled by gray mold, they will irrevocably spoil the taste of the dessert. The optimal size is medium, because the small berries under the heat treatment will shrivel, and the big berries will absorb the sweetener for too long.

Forest strawberries will make very tasty jam, but if you decide to cook a thicker product - jam, then it is better to use garden strawberries, that is, strawberries. For example, from remontant Victoria will make a wonderful jam. The classic and quite simple recipe, which will be able to cook strawberry jam, will require kilogram of apples, 1.7 kilograms of granulated sugar, 300 milliliters of water and 2 grams of citric acid.

• Berries need to be collected on the day when it is sunny and there is no rain, and then used for one day. Before the expiration of this period strawberries should be stored in a container without a lid at room temperature.
• Immediately before cooking, the fruits must be sorted out, removing those that did not burn, burned, or spoiled. After that, strawberries are washed under running water.
• At the next stage, syrup will be made from water and sugar. Ingredients are put on the stove, brought to a boil and cooked for fifteen or twenty minutes. The process should be accompanied by stirring and cleaning the foam. As soon as the color becomes transparent, and the foam stops forming, the liquid can be removed from the stove. The berries are filled with syrup, the substance is boiled again, after which it cools for about fifteen minutes.

• This procedure should be repeated four times, and each time the strawberry jam should rest for a quarter of an hour. At the last entry in the pot add citric acid. The finished product is poured into sterilized glass cans and rolled.
• As in the case of any billets, sealed containers are turned upside down, wrapped with a thick towel or blanket, then left at rest until completely cooled, after which they are carried away for long-term storage.

In five minutes, by the way, it will be possible to make quick, tasty jam for the winter.

• Step-by-step recipe involves the use of 0.5 kilograms of berries and 0.5 kilograms of granulated sugar. However, it would be more correct to say that in this case you need to add sugar to taste. The berries are sifted, released from the green tails and washed under running water.
• Strawberries are laid out in a suitable container and covered with sugar. Everything is mixed with a wooden spoon and set aside for several hours before the juice appears. Then the container is placed on the stove. After boiling, you will need to extinguish the fire and allow the dessert to cool. By the time this process will last about three and a half hours.
• Then the substance is boiled again and cooked for about five minutes. The finished dish is sorted into jars and rolled.

Strawberry jam with mint is made from a kilogram of berries, a kilogram of sugar, two tablespoons of finely chopped fresh grass and two tablespoons of pure water.

• After the berries are properly processed, they are laid out in a container and covered with sugar. The mass is removed in the cold for about ten hours, so that juice appears. In the next step, the liquid is placed in a large pot with a thick bottom.It is put on the fire and brought to a boil.
• The berries are poured into a boiling liquid and heat treated for about five minutes. After removing the foam and turning off the heat, the berries should be allowed to cool. After that, this procedure is repeated two more times. Mint is added to the dessert, it is mixed and boiled for about a minute. Then the product cools and unfolds in containers.

The original solution is to make strawberry jam with paprika and vanilla.

• In addition to 500 grams of berries, 500 grams of brown sugar, a little smoked paprika, a vanilla pod and a tablespoon of agar-agar, which is a healthy substitute for gelatin, are prepared. Prepared berries for half an hour fall asleep sugar until a sufficient amount of juice. The mass is placed on the stove, brought to a boil, and then boils for about five minutes. This sequence of actions is repeated three times.
• At the last entry into the jam, vanilla and paprika are laid, after boiling the pod is discarded. A portion of the syrup is taken from the pan to dissolve the agar-agar, after which the substance is injected back. Ready jam unfolds in prepared containers.

It is worth mentioning about berry jam, which is prepared with the use of special sugar - gelling.

• Using this ingredient can significantly reduce the time spent on heat treatment. In this case, it will be only about seven minutes. Ingredients require 400 grams of fresh berries and the same amount of gelling sugar. The output should get 750 milliliters of jam.
• As a rule, the same amount of sugar and berries is taken for this jam, but these proportions can be changed. For example, take three kilograms of berries and a kilogram of sugar or two kilograms of strawberries and one kilogram of sweetener. In this case, the taste of the resulting jam will be less sweet, and the texture will be more watery.
• Berries are laid out in a container and poured half a glass of gelling sugar. Everything is slightly shaken so that the crystals mix with the berries, after which it is set aside for five minutes until the juice appears. Banks and covers are pre-sterilized. The berry mass is placed on the stove and brought to a boil, after which sand is introduced into it. After the second boil, you can boil the jam for another couple of minutes, and then remove it from the heat and pour it over the jars.

Rich jam with whole berries requires classic ingredients, whose proportions are slightly different from the usual.

• Per kilogram of strawberries takes from 1.3 to 1.5 kg of granulated sugar and 2 grams of citric acid. Berries and sugar are placed in a prepared container layer by layer. In this state, the ingredients have to be until the juice goes.
• At the next stage, the berry mass is placed on the stove and heated until the sugar is dissolved. Then the fire increases, and the jam is cooked for twenty to twenty-five minutes.
• Upon completion of cooking, you must add citric acid, which will help to preserve color, and warns of sugar.

Liquid strawberry jam to cook correctly from a kilogram of berries and 1.2 kg of granulated sugar.

• Washed strawberries are filled with sugar and cleaned overnight in the cold, so that juice appears. In the morning the container is placed on the stove, and its contents are brought to a boil.
• After that, it is necessary to cook the jam for five minutes, periodically pressing it down with a wooden spoon and removing the foam. The finished product is decomposed in containers.

Cooking in a slow cooker is the best way for those who value their time.

• The berries are washed, and then poured into the multicooker bowl. Then everything is sprinkled with sugar or another sweetener and poured over with water. In the slow cooker, the program “Quenching” is selected and the time is thirty-five minutes.
• The resulting product is collapsible in containers and tightly closed with lids.

To create a strawberry-blueberry mixture you need to prepare 500 grams of strawberries, kilograms of blueberries, from 1.5 to 2 kilograms of sugar and 400 milliliters of water.

• Berries are traditionally prepared and washed. In a separate container, water with sugar is brought to a boil to produce a syrup. In a boiling liquid, berries are thrown, which have to be boiled on a small fire for about ten minutes.
• The resulting jam is packaged in sterilized containers.

The combination of raspberries and strawberries is also often used to make jam.

• In addition to a kilogram of raspberry and 200 grams of strawberries, 1.3 kilograms of granulated sugar and 3 grams of citric acid are prepared. Prepared berries are laid out in a container and poured about 550 grams of sugar. Postavshis for six or seven hours in the cold, put the pan on a small fire. The remaining sugar is introduced into the berry mass, and everything is brought to a boil.
• Jam is removed from the stove, gently stirred and left alone for four hours. At the final stage, the dessert is cooked for about a quarter of an hour, and after that it is decomposed in containers.

• The cooking pot must be made of heat-resistant material, and the jars for blanks should be heated in a water bath for several minutes until the walls become warm. Before that, they are gently washed and dried.
• In the jam, by the way, you can add not only other berries, but also spices, such as cinnamon or ginger.
• The exact time during which the jam is brewed depends on the thickness of the product required. If, according to the recipe, the cooking time has elapsed, but the jam is still liquid, it should be left on the stove for a while.
• Jam can be easily transformed into jam, if you pass it through a sieve, and then again subjected to heat treatment.

Strawberry jam is usually consumed purely with a cup of tea or spread on toast with butter. Often it is used as the main or additional sweetener for cereals, cheesecakes, pancakes, yogurt and other breakfasts.

To learn how to make strawberry jam, see below.