Recipe for making apricot jam with oranges for the winter
Apricot jam with the addition of oranges is a healthy and tasty substitute for purchased sweets. Such jam can be used as a preparation or for daily use as a dessert. The best jam is obtained only from fully ripe, but not overripe apricots. If you add oranges during cooking, the jam is filled with a large amount of nutrients and vitamins.
Features of making jam from apricots and orange for the winter
Jam from apricots is prepared in various regions of the world. This mixture has a large number of nutrients, which include:
- vitamins A, B, C, H, E, P;
- wine acid;
- iodine;
- potassium;
- magnesium;
- phosphorus.
Such jam is useful for people with diseases of the thyroid gland, stomach, cardiovascular system, intestines, with a lack of vitamins in the body.
Before making apricot jam, you should remember a few rules:
- The bones store a large amount of a toxic substance that can cause severe poisoning in humans. For this reason, it is better to remove the seeds beforehand or not to heat whole apricots without proper experience.
- For people who are overweight, you should reduce the amount of sugar and not maintain such twists for a long time. It is better to freeze some of the fruit and make jam for the next month.
- To make jam, you need to use fully ripe fruits, but not overripe, because in this case they will give the jam a bitter taste.
How to choose the right fruit
First of all, you need to choose the fruits for making jam. For this, only fully ripe fruits are suitable, which have a rich orange hue with possible redness on the side.
It is important that the fruit is not overripe, because in this case the fruit will saturate the jam with bitterness.
When choosing an apricot, you need to pay attention to its condition. The fruit should not have:
- visual damage;
- dark spots;
- plaque;
- traces of decay.
Container preparation
To make jam, you need to prepare:
- a bowl for washing fruits;
- a cooking pot;
- containers for seaming or storing the product.
Banks should first be sterilized by boiling water treatment or cleaning in the oven.
How to make apricot and orange jam at home
Jam has many variations of preparation, but the most common are the classic (simple) recipe and jam with lemon.
Simple recipe
To make regular jam, you need to take:
- 1 kilogram of apricots;
- 800 grams of oranges;
- 200 grams of sugar.
Cooking process:
- Rinse the apricots thoroughly under running water, remove the pits and cut the fruit into several slices.
- Peel the orange from the skin, seeds and membranes between the slices. The resulting pulp must be added to the apricots.
- Place all ingredients in a saucepan and place over low heat.
- Stir the food constantly so that they do not burn until the juice is released.
- After the moisture has evaporated and the fruit has become a homogeneous mass, pour the contents into the jars and twist.
Lemon option
For a lemon recipe you will need:
- 1.5 kilograms of apricots;
- 200 grams of orange;
- 200 grams of lemon;
- 1 kilogram of sugar.
Jam cooking procedure:
- Wash all fruits thoroughly under running water.
- Remove the pits from the apricots and cut the fruits into several pieces.
- Peel the lemon and orange from the peel, seeds and membranes between the pulp.
- Pass all ingredients through a meat grinder and place in a saucepan over low heat.
- Add sugar and stir constantly until the fruit is smooth.
- Pour the mixture into prepared jars and twist.
Storage conditions and periods
Rolls with jam should be stored in a dark place at cool or room temperature. This will allow the curls to be stored for a longer time and not sugar.
