Strawberry jam is to the liking of adults and children. According to the traditional recipe, the main components are directly the berries themselves and granulated sugar. As a result of prolonged heat treatment, sugar is boiled, which subsequently turns into syrup. The sweet composition soaks the strawberries, making it cloyingly sweet. Experienced housewives, through trial and error, developed their own recipes, we will consider them in order.
It’s easy to cook strawberry jam if you follow the step by step instructions. The consistency of the composition will tell you about the readiness of the goodies. A drop of a properly cooked product does not spread on a flat dish, while the syr has a light rather than caramel hue. Pay attention to the smell, strawberry jam smells like berries, not burnt sugar. The berries of the treat should be completely saturated with syrup, the presence of "raw" areas will lead to an early spoilage of jam.
What could be better than making a strong seagull on a cold winter evening and opening a jar of fragrant strawberry jam, carefully stocked since the summer? Therefore, today it is about how to cook strawberry jam so that the berries in it remain intact.
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In order to keep the berries intact when cooking jam, it is worth knowing a few tricks. Firstly, the crop must be harvested in dry weather and immediately start cooking. Secondly, choose ripe, but not too soft berries. Well, and thirdly, after washing the strawberries should be dried on a paper towel for 10 minutes.
I recommend using a small berry to cook thick strawberry jam. Do not forget that it will actually be cooked without boiling, but only filled with hot syrup. Then it is completely saturated, and your preparations will easily stand all winter.
Ingredients:
How to cook:
1. Sort strawberries, rinse thoroughly in running water and clean from green stalks. Transfer it to enameled or heat-resistant dishes.
2. Mix sugar and water, put on medium heat. Cook the mixture for 3 minutes, no longer needed. This is enough for the sugar to dissolve.
It must be ensured that the syrup does not begin to whiten and turn into caramel.
3. Pour the berry with hot syrup, mix gently with a cooking spatula or spoon. Cover with a towel and allow to cool.
When I cook jam, I never bother it with a spoon. Just gently shake the pelvis so that the berry mixes. And it never falls apart from me - it always turns out to be strong and whole.
4. Once the syrup has completely cooled, it must be drained and boiled for 5 minutes. Pour the strawberries again and let cool again. This item must be repeated 5 times.
Arrange the finished jam on a sterile container and roll up the lids. Turn the cans over, wrap them in a warm blanket and leave to cool. This is an additional sterilization of jam.
Cans should be stored in a cool, dry place so that the sun does not fall on them.
Ingredients:
How to cook:
1. Rinse the strawberries, leave in a colander so that the glass is water;
2. Clear the stalks. They will definitely be superfluous 😀
3. In a deep saucepan or basin, pour the berries with layers of granulated sugar. Allow to stand overnight or day to stand out juice.
4. Put on medium heat. Squeeze lemon juice and pour it into strawberries. When the jam begins to boil, remove the foam from it. Cook for 15 minutes.
5. Carefully remove the berries from the syrup with a slotted spoon and spread them on a flat dish with a thin layer.
6. Boil the syrup without berries for about 40 minutes. Return the strawberries and cook for another 15 minutes.
7. The jam is ready: you can put it in a sterile container and roll it up with lids.
Turn the cans upside down and allow to cool at room temperature.
Depending on which jam you prefer, you can completely chop the berry with a meat grinder, blender or food processor, mash strawberries with a fork or just chop, leaving small pieces.
Ingredients:
How to cook:
1. Clean strawberries from debris, rinse in cold water, tear off all green ponytails.
If necessary, cut off all the bad spots. If this is not done, the jam will not stand idle for a long time.
2. Grind the berry to the desired state, mix with sugar and put on medium heat.
3. Leave to simmer on a gentle fire for about 15-20 minutes, until the jam darkens and becomes thicker.
Foam must be removed!
4. In a separate container, allow agar-agar to dissolve in warm water for 2-3 minutes. Add thickener to boiling jam and stir.
After 5 minutes, the jam will thicken even more and begin to “gurgle” - this is a sign that it is ready.
5. Arrange on sterilized containers and close the lids. Set to cool in a warm, dark place.
Do not even doubt that the jams and jams according to my proven recipes will turn out to be very tasty and fragrant with you. Inspire my experience and enjoy the colors and flavors of summer with your family! Bon appetit and see you soon!
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Such a delicacy is prepared in various ways. The main thing is not to digest the berries. Otherwise, all benefits will be completely lost. Delicious strawberry jam, cooked correctly, will delight you all winter. Five minutes, prepare from ripe, juicy berries. This method of preparation does not allow to lose useful valuable substances during cooking. It is prepared in several ways:
The first way. Berries are peeled from sepals, washed under running water. Lean back on a pre-spread paper towel, dry. Pour into a container, add sugar there, At the rate of 1 kg. strawberries, 600 gr. Sahara. Leave for 6 hours in a cool place so that the berry gives juice.
Then put the dishes on the stove and bring the mass to a boil. As soon as it boils, jam is cooked for exactly 5 minutes, removing the resulting foam. Hot jam is poured into pre-sterilized jars, rolled up with sterile lids. The jars are turned onto the lid, wrapped in a warm blanket, left to cool.
Second way. Preparing five minutes in sugar syrup. In a saucepan of 1 kg. sugar, 375 ml. water prepare syrup. As soon as it boils, the washed, dried fruits are lowered. Bring to a boil and cook exactly 5 minutes in the previous recipe. Pour into sterile jars, cool, clean in a cool place until winter.
Any berry is suitable for five minutes: small, medium. About this, you can say the second grade. After all, the berry is much cheaper, which makes it possible to cook a delicious treat - delicious strawberry jam. Products are taken at the rate of 2 cans of 600 ml.
To cook strawberry jam you will need:
How to cook strawberry jam:
Home-cooked strawberry jam for the winter It surpasses store sweet preparations in many respects. Firstly, in self-cooked jam there are no artificial ingredients (chemical sweeteners and preservatives). And secondly, respectively, and the calorific value of the workpiece will be lower. In general, the recipes for making strawberry jam are very simple; "Leaning" on them with the conservation of strawberries, even a culinary novice can handle. By the way, in the recipes below, garden strawberries can be replaced with wild strawberries or Victoria.
(method 1)
For the preparation of thick traditional strawberry jam for the winter, which during long-term storage does not become sugared and does not deteriorate, you will need only two main ingredients:
- 1 kg of strawberries,
- 1 kg of granulated sugar.
For a start, the berries of freshly ripened strawberries are washed gently, and only extremely dense berries must be selected and their stalks and leaves cleaned. Washed and glassed strawberries are transferred to an enameled pan or basin, pouring layers of granulated sugar (it is imperative to maintain the proportion of strawberries and sugar 1: 1) and left for 2-3 hours at room temperature. But it is best to leave the strawberries infused for a day. The next day, dishes with berries, which will certainly let the juice, should be put on moderate heat, and bring the contents to a boil. After boiling the strawberries for 2-3 minutes, the fire turns off and the jam cools. This manipulation with cooking strawberries and cooling must be repeated 2 more times until the syrup thickens enough. To check the syrup for readiness, it is necessary to drip on a dry saucer and shake; if the drop does not spread, then the strawberry syrup is ready.
The selected strawberries are laid in a colander and dipped several times in a bucket of cold water. Then, giving the berries time to drain from excess moisture, the strawberries are peeled of the stalks and sepals and placed in a basin or pan and filled with sugar syrup. For syrup, 1 cup of water is brought to a boil, and 1 kg of sugar is dissolved in it, the syrup is boiled for 2-3 minutes and poured into strawberries. The berries are aged in syrup for 4 hours, and you can start cooking, which is carried out in 3 sets and is conducted over low heat.
The first cooking lasts 30 minutes. Then, after 2 hours, when the jam has cooled, it is boiled again for half an hour and again cooling for about 2 hours. For the third time, strawberries are cooked until cooked (the method for testing the syrup preparedness is described in the first recipe). The jam is packaged hot in jars, covered with nylon covers and, before putting the jam into the refrigerator for storage, cools.
Thanks to this “Strawberry Jam for the Winter” ideas in strawberries, all the vitamins contained in it are stored; and the berries remain whole, do not boil. Only for cooking "five minutes" of sugar will need 1.5 times more. For 1 cup (200 ml) of water for syrup, 1 kg of sugar is taken. The syrup is cooked over high heat in an enamel bowl. The foam formed on the surface should be removed.
Berries are poured into boiling syrup, and they should be allowed to boil for about 5 minutes, gently mixing jam with a wooden spoon. After removing the dishes from the fire, it must be wrapped up so that it cools down as slowly as possible.
Strawberry jam that has cooled down to room temperature is laid out in jars and covered with nylon covers or covered with wax paper and the necks are tied with thin twine. Jam is stored in the refrigerator.
Any " Strawberry jam for the winter photo. Master Class"Tells you how to check strawberry jam for readiness. The first recipe offered the option with a drop on a plate. And you can do a little different. You can put the plate in the freezer, and then take it out, pour a spoonful of hot jam on it, wait a little while and slide your finger over the surface. If the surface is wrinkled, then the jam is ready.
To reduce the amount of foam on the jam, put a small piece of butter in the workpieces at the very end of the cooking.
Vinegar or lemon juice added to strawberry jam will help it thicken and prevent it from becoming too cloying.
So the strawberry season has come. Probably, strawberries are one of the most beloved berries. Juicy, tasty, aromatic. Every year we look forward to its maturation. Children run a hundred times a day, look under the bushes - when the sides of the berry turn red. And then begins the harvesting and cooking of jam, jam, jam or marmalade. Each hostess has her own time-tested and favorite strawberry jam recipe. I also have several recipes that I will share with pleasure.
According to this recipe, many hostesses prepare strawberry jam. It is simple to execute, but a little long in time. To make the jam thick and keep the berries in shape, it is prepared in several stages.
Attention: in strawberry jam, an equal ratio of berries and sugar is always taken.
1. We sort the strawberries, remove the stalk and thoroughly rinse. We let water drain and put it in a pan with a thick bottom or a large enameled basin (I use a special basin for jam when there are a lot of berries). If large berries come across, then they can be cut in half.
2. Pour the berries with sugar and leave for some time so that the strawberries let the juice go.
3. Now we put the basin or pan on the fire and let the jam boil. Another important point
- Berries must not be disturbed. Otherwise, they will boil. The basin or pan should be shaken a little. The foam that appears on the surface of the jam is removed.
4. As soon as the jam begins to boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook it for another 10-15 minutes. Then remove from heat and leave for 8 hours.
5. After the necessary time, we try jam for sweetness. If necessary, add the desired quantity and cook, as described in paragraphs 3, 4.
6. The last time we put jam on the fire (only three times) and bring it to readiness.
7. Put the jam in prepared jars. Moreover, the jam should fill the jar completely. We cork the lids on top and let the jam cool. You can wrap jam and let it stand for a day in the warmth. Then we send jars of strawberry jam to the cellar or pantry until winter.
Wonderful thick strawberry jam is obtained using a slow cooker.
Jam prepared in this way is very fragrant. We will need the following list of products:
1. Rinse the strawberries well and remove the ponytails. We spread the berries on a sieve or colander to glass the water.
2. Meanwhile, prepare the syrup. Pour sugar into a saucepan and pour it with water. We put the saucepan on the fire and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved in water. Then boil for another 6-7 minutes, until the syrup thickens a little. However, care must be taken that it does not turn white. The readiness of the syrup is checked as follows: drip with a spoon a drop of syrup on a saucer and blow on it. If the syrup does not spread, then it has reached the consistency we need.
3. Pour strawberries with this hot syrup and close the lid.
Cool down. Drain the syrup. Again we put it on the fire and boil for 5-7 minutes.
4. Once again, pour the strawberries into the syrup and let it cool again. Again, pour the syrup and boil it. We do it two more times.
5. For the last time, drain the syrup. Let it boil and pour them strawberries. Banks should be sterilized. We roll up the cans with lids and wrap them in a warm blanket.
6. When the banks have cooled. We remove them in the cellar.
For lovers of very thick jam, which can be spread on bread or put on pancakes, this recipe with gelatin is great. Jam is prepared in almost the same way as in the first embodiment.
1. We sort out the strawberries, free from the tails and rinse.
2. We shift the berries into a bowl or pan, in which we will prepare jam and fill it with sugar. Let the strawberries stand and let the juice go. It is about 8 hours.
3. We put the pot with strawberries on the fire and cook it. Cook should be no more than 15 minutes after boiling. Do not forget to remove the foam. Remove the pan from the heat and let the jam cool completely. We are making another such approach.
4. During the third cooking, add gelatin (pre-prepare it as written on the package). To give a little sourness with jam, you can add the juice of one lemon or a little citric acid. But it is optional.
5. Thick jam will become after complete cooling. Therefore, fill it hot in jars and close the lids. Allow to cool completely and remove to the cellar.
This is a universal recipe for those who want to keep more vitamins in their favorite berry. Moreover, such jam is prepared very quickly. And the color and aroma he gets are simply amazing.
1. We sort out the berries, release them from the tails, wash them and put them on a sieve to make the glass water.
2. We shift the strawberries into a container in which we will cook the jam. If there is a large strawberry, then we cut it so that it has time to cook.
3. Pour strawberry berries with sugar and mix. Add lemon juice and mix again very carefully so as not to mash the berries. We give strawberries to let the juice.
4. We put on a slow fire and let it boil. Boil for 5 minutes.
5. Pour the jam into sterile jars and roll the lids. We turn the banks upside down and wrap them up well.
6. When the jars of jam have cooled, they can be removed to the cellar.
And what interesting recipes for strawberry jam do you have? Share them in the comments.