How to cook strawberry jam
Products
Strawberry - 1 kilogram
Sugar - half a kilo
Water - half a liter
How to cook strawberry jam
Ripe juicy berries are suitable for jam. Wash the strawberries, remove the stalks.
Put the strawberries in a saucepan or jam bowl, add water and cook over low heat for 40 minutes.
Grind boiled strawberries in mashed potatoes, dilute sugar in it and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours.
After cooking, pour the jam into sterilized jars, close, cool and store.
How to cook strawberry jam in a bread maker
1. Remove the strawberries from the stalks, put in a colander and rinse, dipping them several times in a wide saucepan with water.
2. After all the water has drained off, put the berries in the bucket of the bread machine.
3. Add sugar and water.
4. Set the "Jam" mode and cook until the device is turned off.
Pour hot strawberry jam into clean jars and seal tightly with lids.
How to cook strawberry jam in a slow cooker
Sort the strawberries, rinse, cut into slices. Put the berries in a multicooker pan. Add sugar and water, stir.
Set the multicooker to the "Extinguishing" mode for 2 hours. Grind the jam with a blender and roll into jars.
Fusofacts
- If the consistency of strawberry jam is not uniform, which is often the case when cooking unripe berries, use a blender after boiling. You can grind strawberries even before boiling.- Strawberry jam will be thick if you cook it for a long time, evaporating excess moisture, but strawberry jam cannot be digested, otherwise it will acquire an ugly brown color and lose nutrients. The cooking time can be reduced by adding gelling agents. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, pectin or gelatin is added to the strawberry jam, at the rate of 10 grams per kilogram of berries. At the same time, you can take 2 times less sugar for cooking jam. You can also use fruits and berries containing natural pectin in their composition: apples, oranges, cherries, plums.
- You can use frozen strawberries for cooking. It is important to defrost correctly, that is, slowly defrost the berry by placing the bag on the top shelf of the refrigerator. In this case, you do not need to add water.
- The readiness of the product is determined as follows: a teaspoon of strawberry jam is placed on a plate, if the jam retains its shape and does not spread, then it is ready.
- The calorie content of strawberry jam is about 240 kcal / 100 grams. The exact figure depends on the amount of sugar used.
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