It happens that under the New Year celebration, we bought tangerines much more than was necessary. To prevent the fruit from spoiling, we cook jam from them. Although, of course, with thermal processing, vitamin C is destroyed, but still, tangerine jam - it's very tasty, you can cook and lobules and crusts (together or separately).
Mandarin jam slices - recipe
Ingredients:
- mandarins peeled - 1 kg;
- sugar - 600-800 g (depends on the sweetness of the fruits themselves);
- water 400-700 ml;
- rum light - 50 ml;
- cinnamon - 2 pinch (optional).
Preparation
We clear the tangerines from the peel and disassemble the fruits into natural slices, the seeds need to be carefully removed, trying not to violate the integrity of the lobule too much.
How to cook jam from tangerines?
There are different ways of preparing tangerine jam, but to make whole lobes, we will act as follows.
Weld a thick sugar syrup : dissolve the sugar in boiling water on low fire and cook, stirring for 5 minutes until complete dissolution. Let's rum (it will help to preserve the natural shape of the lobules), if you like, we will add cinnamon. We dip the tangerine slices into the boiling syrup, after a general boil, cook on the lowest heat for 5 minutes, gently stirring with a spoon. We remove the foam. Jam can be placed in clean glass jars or ceramic pots. Keep this jam after cooling can be on the cool veranda, on the balcony, on the shelf of the refrigerator. We serve mandarin jam for tea, you can use it to make confectionery.
Jam from whole mandarins with peel - recipe
Ingredients:
- mandarins - 1 kg (medium-sized dense fruits, preferably with a small number of seeds);
- sugar - 1 kg;
- water - 200-500 ml;
- rum light or quality vodka - 80 ml;
- inflorescence of a carnation - by the number of fruits.
Preparation
Remove the mandarins stems, carefully and gently wash them and put in a container of cold water for 8 hours, so that the bitterness is gone.
In several places, puncture the skin of each fetus with a toothpick. We stick on 1 inflorescence of a carnation. Fill the mandarins with boiling water for 10-15 minutes, then drain the water.
Cook in a saucepan sugar syrup (sugar + water, boil for 5 minutes) and shift the mandarins into it. We pour in rum or vodka. Cook after boiling for 5 minutes on low heat, after which we cool. Repeat the cycle up to 5 times. We put the prepared jam in glass jars and cork them. Mandarin jam with peel have special healing properties, it can be stored for a long time in cool at plus temperature (glazed loggia, veranda, pantry).
Mandarin jam slices with skin
Ingredients:
- tangerines - 1 kg (small-scale dense fruits);
- sugar - 1 kg;
- water - 200-500 ml;
- rum light or quality vodka - 80 ml;
- inflorescence of a carnation, cinnamon - (optional).
Preparation
The washed mandarins are cut across with round slices of medium thickness, the seeds and stems are removed. Blanching slices, that is, pour them with boiling water for 5 minutes, then drain the water. We fall asleep with sugar and leave for 4 hours, then pour in water, rum or vodka and boil 5 minutes after boiling gently stirring. Cool it down. Repeat the cycle up to 5 times, it is important not to digest. We seal in clean glass jars, which we store in coolness. This jam is also very suitable for decorating cakes and pastries.