How to cook jam from dried apricots. Dried apricot jam with almonds
If you want something tasty and original - cook dried apricot jam. In addition to dried fruits, lemons, almonds, apples, dark rum, etc. can be included in its composition. Let's look at a few options.
Dried apricot jam: recipes.
Ingredients:
Water - one liter
Dried apricots, sugar - 1 kilogram each
Almonds - 220 g
Lemons - 2 pieces
Cooking:
1. Wash the dried apricots, put them in a saucepan, add sugar, water, boil, boil, stir, let it brew for three hours, bring to a boil, let it brew again for three hours.
2. Cut the lemons together with the peel into cubes, pull out the seeds.
3. Put the almonds in boiling water (for a short while), and then remove the peel.
4. Put the jam on the fire, boil, add lemons and almonds, boil for five minutes.
5. Pour hot jam into jars, cork, store in a cool place.
Dried apricots can also be included in the recipe.
Dried apricot jam.
Ingredients:
Dried apricots, water - 500 g each
Sugar - 420 g
Almonds - 120 g
Cooking:
1. Boil the washed dried apricots until softened in water.
2. Scald nuts boiled water, remove the skin.
3. Coarsely chop the almonds.
4. Finely chop the lemons without removing the peel.
5. Add lemon, sugar, nuts to boiled dried apricots, boil for 15 minutes, close in jars.
Prepare from the remaining dried fruits.
Pumpkin jam with dried apricots.
Ingredients:
Pumpkin - one kilogram
Dried apricots - 320 g
Sugar - 500 g
Cooking:
1. Peel the pumpkin, grate it.
2. Rinse dried apricots, dry, cut into small pieces.
3. Put dried apricots with pumpkin in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar, leave for 20 minutes, bring to a boil with constant stirring, remove from heat, repeat 3 times. The interval should be 5 hours.
4. The pumpkin should soften during this time.
5. Put the jam in a sterile container, close.
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Dried apricot jam with rum and lemon juice.
Ingredients:
Dried apricots - 520 g
Lemon juice - 80 ml
Dark rum - 2 tablespoons
Cooking:
1. Boil dried apricots with water and lemon juice, bring to a boil, boil for half an hour over low heat.
2. Add sugar, boil until dissolved, stir (about 15 minutes), pour in the rum.
3. Roll hot jam into jars.
Jam from dried apricots and tangerine zest.
Ingredients:
Sugar, dried apricots - one kilogram each
Water - 4 glasses
tangerine zest
Cooking:
1. Pour dried apricots with water for a quarter of an hour, rinse several times, soak again for 6 hours in cool water, and then cut into slices.
2. Use water for syrup - add sugar to it, boil for seven minutes.
3. Put dried apricots, grated zest, boil for a quarter of an hour, pour into jars.
Dried apricots contain many useful substances. You can make jam from dried fruit - it has pleasant taste and aroma. It won't be hard to weld it. How to make jam from dried apricots in a slow cooker?
Dried apricot jam recipe
Ingredients
Dried apricots 500 grams Lemon juice 2 tbsp
- Servings: 2
- Cooking time: 4 minutes
How to cook dried apricot jam at home - a classic version
The jam has unusual taste properties.
To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients:
- dried fruit - 500 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- water - 3.5 tbsp.;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.
To make the aroma richer, you can add a little oregano.
Cooking
Knife (can be used food processor) chop dried apricots and put it in a slow cooker. Top with water, sprinkle with sugar - mix. Cover with a lid and cook for about 2 hours. Mix it well twice.
After that, add oregano and lemon juice, stir. Send to cook for another 2 hours. During this time, the jam will become thicker.
Pour into jars, roll up and let cool. Can be stored in the refrigerator for open form over the course of 3 weeks.
Jam with dried apricots and spices
You can make jam with the addition of various spices. So the aroma will become even richer.
Components:
- dried apricot - 230 g;
- water - 700 ml;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.;
- sugar - 100 g; in
- vanilla seeds - 1 tsp;
- chili - 1 pc.
Pepper should be finely chopped. Can be used instead of vanilla seeds vanilla sugar(2 tablespoons).
Cooking
Dried apricots must be filled with water, left overnight. Pour dried fruit along with water into a saucepan and cook until completely softened - no more than 10 minutes. Add sugar and wait for it to dissolve. It is better to take a pan with a thick bottom, so the jam will not burn.
Boil the mass for about an hour, stirring constantly. The syrup should thicken. After that, pour into sterilized jars and roll up. Put in the cold.
Jam with pumpkin
It turns out delicious jam with the addition of pumpkin. To prepare it you will need:
- pumpkin - 1 kg;
- dried apricots - 300 g;
- sugar - 500 g.
From the pumpkin, you must first remove the bones.
Cooking
Grate the pumpkin with a fine grater, cut the dried fruit into small pieces. Combine, cover with sugar and leave for 20 minutes until the products release the juice. After that, boil the composition and remove from heat. Repeat the procedure 5 times. Pumpkin should be soft.
Pour the mass into jars, rolling up the lids.
The recipe for dried apricot jam attracts with its simplicity. Dried fruit has no contraindications, so jam can be consumed even by children.
Dried apricots are one of the types of dried fruits, which is highly valued for its useful properties. And dried apricot jam not only has a wide range of useful qualities, but also very unusual and has unusual taste properties. Its advantage is the ease of preparation.
Dried dried apricot jam with orange peel
Ingredients:
dry dried apricots - 0.5 kg,
sugar sand - 0.5 kg,
water - 800 ml,
orange peel - 1 pc.
How to cook jam from dried apricots and orange peel:
1) First, pour dried fruits with slightly cool water and let it brew for no more than 30 minutes. Then rinse a couple of times under running water.
2) After - you need to pour water again and leave for about 6 hours.
3) After this time, well-soaked dried apricots must be cut into small slices.
4) The water in which dried apricots were soaked should be filtered, sugar added to it and syrup boiled.
5) After it boils, you need to add dried apricots to it and boil for another 10-15 minutes.
6) While our jam is cooking, you can cook the zest. We take a pre-washed orange and with the help special device take it off upper layer peel - zest.
7) Then add it to the prepared jam and mix thoroughly. Cook for another 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
6) Transfer the finished, still hot jam into sterile jars and carefully close with tight lids. It is recommended to store in a cool place, preferably in the refrigerator.
Dried apricot almond jam
Ingredients:
dry dried apricots - 1 kg,
granulated sugar - 1 kg,
water - 1 l,
lemon - 2 pcs,
almond - 0.2 kg.
How to make jam from dried apricots with almonds:
1) The cooking process begins with the preparation of a container (pot) in which jam will be cooked, and directly dried apricots. Dried fruits should be washed thoroughly.
2) Then put the dried fruits in the prepared container, pour cool water and add sugar. Mix thoroughly and put on fire. Bring the syrup to a boil, stirring constantly. After the mixture boils, cook for no longer than 2 minutes. Remove the container with the future jam from the fire and cool. After a couple of hours, the whole procedure should be repeated again.
3) Prepare lemons. To do this, they need to be washed well and cut into medium-sized cubes. The bones should be removed.
4) Now you can work on the almond. It is recommended to prepare two containers. One container with boiling water, the second - with cold water. First, dip the almonds in a container of boiling water, then in cold water. Next, you need to remove the peel from all the nuts and rinse them. Put clean, peeled nuts on a plate.
5) Then you need to boil the jam for the third time. After bringing it to a boil, add chopped lemon to it and almond nuts. Thoroughly mix the entire mixture and cook for no more than 5 minutes.
6) Transfer the finished jam to sterile jars and close with tight lids. Should be stored in the refrigerator.
Lemon-rum dried apricot jam
Ingredients:
dry dried apricots - 0.5 kg,
granulated sugar - 1 kg,
water - 1 l,
lemon juice - 80 ml,
dark rum - 40 ml.
How to cook dried apricot jam with lemon and rum:
1) Take dried fruits, rinse them thoroughly and soak for about a day (or less) in cool water.
2) Then it must be cut into slices (strips) of medium size. If your dried fruits are small, then you can cut them into two parts or not chop them at all.
3) The water in which the dried apricots were soaked must be carefully filtered.
4) Pour chopped dried apricots with strained water and put on fire. Bring the mixture to a boil and add sugar. Boil over low heat for no more than 30 minutes. Remove from stove and cool.
5) While the jam is cooling, you can cook lemon juice. To do this, take a lemon and rinse it. Then, using a special tool, squeeze the juice out of it. You should get approximately 80 ml.
6) After 1.5 - 2 hours, take a bowl with jam, put on fire and bring to a boil again. Then mix the rum with the lemon juice and pour the mixture into the container with the jam. Mix thoroughly with the total mass and boil for no more than 25 minutes.
Pumpkin and dried apricot jam
Ingredients:
dried apricots - 0.3 kg,
pumpkin - 1 kg,
sugar sand - 0.5 kg,
How to cook jam from dried apricots and pumpkin:
1) Cut the pumpkin in half and remove the seeds. Then you need to rub it on the very fine grater. In cases where you have a large pumpkin, i.e. weighing more than 1 kg, you should not rub all the existing pumpkin. Since, if you put more of its pulp in the jam than indicated in the recipe, then the taste of the finished product may change.
2) Next, take dried apricots, wash and dry it well. You can also pre-soak dried apricots in cool water for 2 hours for softness. Then dried fruits should be cut into medium-sized cubes, depending on the size of the dried apricots.
3) Now you need to put the prepared products in a container in which the jam will be cooked. We spread dry dried apricots, pumpkin pulp and mix. Then we fall asleep with sugar and let stand for up to 20 minutes, so that the mixture can give juice. You can take less granulated sugar than indicated in the recipe, depending on the sweetness of dried apricots and on your individual taste preferences.
4) Next, the container with the products should be put on a small fire, gradually bringing to a boil. During the entire cooking process, be sure to mix the future jam thoroughly. After bringing to a boil, it is recommended to remove from heat and let stand for 5 hours (or a little less).
5) After this time, put the container with pumpkin and dried apricots back on the fire and bring to a boil, while stirring regularly. Next, you need to leave again for three hours. Then repeat this procedure again until the pumpkin is completely softened.
Ranetok and dried apricot jam
Ingredients:
dried apricots - 1 kg,
apples (ranetki) - 10 kg,
granulated sugar - 5 kg,
How to make jam from ranetki and dried apricots:
1) Take the apples and wash them thoroughly. Then we clean each of them from bones and cores. Fruits should be cut into fairly small slices.
2) Then you should carefully rinse the dried apricots, pour it well hot water and let stand to soften. After the dried fruits have become soft, they should be passed through a meat grinder.
3) Take a large container and put chopped dried apricots with apples into it. Then you should fall asleep granulated sugar and put to boil over low heat, constantly stirring the fruit. Boil. After 2 - 3 hours, you should again put on a small light and constantly stir the jam.
4) After the mass has reached transparency, it can be removed from the fire and cooled.
5) finished product transfer to sterile containers and tightly close the lid. It is recommended to store this jam in the refrigerator. Can be served at the table as individual product. It can also be used as a filling for pies and pancakes.
Jam from dried apricots and other dried fruits
Ingredients:
dried apricots - 1 kg,
prunes (pitted) - 1 kg,
dried figs - 1 kg,
sugar sand - 0.3 kg,
rum or cognac - 40 ml,
spice (cloves) - 15 pcs.
How to make jam from dried apricots and other dried fruits:
1) First you need to prepare dried fruits. If they have been stored for a long time and have become harder to the touch, then it is recommended to soak them for about an hour in enough warm water. Then carefully squeeze them out. If you have fresh soft dried fruits, then soaking is not necessary, you just need to rinse and squeeze them thoroughly.
2) After we take the washed fruits and cut them. It is recommended to do this large enough (to save all healing properties), approximately 4 parts, depending on the size of the fruits themselves.
3) Then, you need to prepare the spice - cloves. We take a small square of gauze, fold it in several layers and put the spice in the middle. Then we roll a kind of bag out of it and tie it with a thread. This is done in order to ready jam did not have to take out this spice.
4) Put dried fruits in a container in which you will later prepare jam, cover them with sugar, put a bag of cloves on top and pour water so that the fruit looks out of it a little. A bag of spice must first be tied to the handle of the container, using a long thread for this purpose. This is done in order not to catch this bag in the finished product for a long time.
6) After boiling, it is necessary to reduce the heat and continue to cook until the liquid has completely evaporated.
7) When all the liquid has evaporated, add alcohol (rum or cognac), mix and boil for another 15 minutes.
8) For smell and giving unusual taste you can add 2 - 3 tablespoons of fragrant honey at the very end of cooking.
9) The finished product should be placed in pre-sterilized containers and closed tightly with a lid. It is recommended to store in the refrigerator. It can be served at the table as an independent product or on top of croutons, or as a sauce for any “autumn” meat.
How to cook jam from dried apricots, Olga Konopleva told
