Strawberry jam is an unusually tasty and healthy dessert. With a roll, milk ice cream , curd cheese cake - just a dish just a delusion! In addition, strawberries contain antioxidants, magnesium, potassium, iodine and others, useful for our health, microelements.
How to cook strawberry jam?
Jams and jams can be made from any berries and fruits. The main thing is to select the freshest and unfertilized fruits. A kilogram of berries is taken at least a kilogram of sugar, this gives the jam a great resistance to storage. You can cook jam not only with sugar, but also with honey. It should be taken in the same ratio as sugar. To determine the availability of jam, you need to drop a drop of syrup on a saucer. If the droplet does not spread, but keeps the shape, then the jam is ready.
Jams are usually easier to prepare than jams, since there is no need to preserve the integrity of berries. Let's see how to make strawberry jam? First, you need certain dishes: you can not cook jam in a copper or aluminum container, otherwise the useful properties of berries will not be preserved. It is better to use a container made of stainless steel or an enamelled saucepan.
We need to carefully wash and sterilize the lids and jars, in which we will store jam. Strawberries are cleaned of sepals and also well washed. By the way, there are a lot of strawberries in the sepals! After we carefully separated them, the sepals can be dried at room temperature and stored in a glass jar, and then added to the tea.
The first variant of the recipe
Ingredients:
- Strawberry - 1 kg;
- lemon - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation
Prepared strawberries to begin with you need to grind in any convenient way for you: you can blender, you can just cut with a knife. Add to the berries a zest of two lemons and juice from the same lemons, mix and cook for about five minutes. Then add sugar to our mixture, bring to a boil and cook for 25 minutes. Gem should be stirred periodically and constantly remove the foam. Prepared thick strawberry jam should be left for 10-15 minutes and then poured over prepared warm jars.
The second variant of the recipe
Ingredients:
- Strawberry - 1 kg. ;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation
In prepared strawberries you need to pour half a serving of sugar and leave the berries in the refrigerator for the night to give them juice. The next day we fall asleep the rest of the sugar and cook on high heat until ready. Do not forget to constantly stir and remove the formed foam. Ready jam is poured over jars, for longer storage jars can be pasteurized.
The third variant of the recipe
Ingredients:
- Strawberries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 2 cups;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation
Gem from strawberries can be cooked in a microwave, the only thing: we cook in small portions. Prepared berries are placed in a suitable bowl for a microwave, add the lemon juice and heat it at full power for about five minutes (it is necessary that the berries become soft). Then we put the sugar, mix and reheat it in the microwave at full power for 12-14 minutes until it is completely ready. We spread the ready jam into jars and roll them up.
Calorie content of strawberry jam
Caloric content of strawberry jam depends on the amount of sugar contained in it. On average, this is 250-280 calories per 100 g of product. Useful tips for making strawberry jam.
Ready jam from strawberries is better pasteurized, then it will be stored longer. For starters, we put hot jam in warm dry jars, cover them loosely with lids and put them in a saucepan of boiling water. Boil cans need from 15-25 minutes, depending on their volume. The water should not reach the edges of the can for 3-4 cm. After the end of the process, the jars are tightly closed and allowed to cool at room temperature.