4 best recipes for making cranberry jam for the winter

Cranberries are one of the healthiest berries with record amounts of ascorbic acid. It also contains B vitamins. This berry has a beneficial effect on health - it strengthens the immune system, slows down aging, cleanses the body of toxins and toxins. Fresh cranberries are not always available, moreover, because of its inherent sour taste, you cannot eat many berries. The best solution is to make cranberry jam, which can be saved for the winter.

Features of making cranberry jam for the winter

Cooked according to all the rules, cranberry jam contains all the valuable substances characteristic of fresh berries.

This healing delicacy is capable of:

• protect body cells from the damaging effects of free radicals due to the high content of natural antioxidants;
• improve the condition of blood vessels;
• resist viruses;
• regulate blood clotting;
• cleanse the body of toxic substances;
• improve the condition of nails, skin and hair;
• reduce the level of bad cholesterol;
• normalize blood pressure.

All these properties of the berry are an excellent reason to make jam from it, which can be enjoyed at any time of the year. To do this, you need to carefully select the fruits and properly prepare the container for spinning.

Selection and preparation of berries for harvesting

To prepare high-quality and tasty jam, you need to select the most beautiful and fully ripe, undamaged berries grown in an ecologically safe area. They should have a deep purple or bright red color.

Cannot be used for jam:

• green berries, since they have not gained enough useful properties and do not have a characteristic expressive taste;
• berries with a yellow tint - this indicates the beginning of the fermentation process and, consequently, the loss of all nutrients.

Cranberries do not require any special preparation. It is enough to rinse the berries and dry them on a towel or soft paper towel.

Alternatively, you can make frozen cranberry jam. It must be crumbly.

If the cranberries are stuck together, this means that the storage rules were violated, and the raw materials were repeatedly frozen and thawed.

How to prepare containers for the start of the process

Glass jars are used to make cranberry jam for the winter. They must first be washed with a warm water-soda solution, and then sterilized in a large saucepan with boiling water or in the oven using dry steam.

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The screw caps also need to be sterilized.

How to make cranberry jam

There are many known options for making cranberry jam. They suggest both the independent use of this berry, and with the addition of other ingredients - for example, apples and citrus juice - this increases the useful and taste properties of the product.

Simple recipe

Every housewife can easily cope with the first recipe, spending a minimum of time. It only requires two ingredients:

• 1 kg of cranberries;
• 1 kg of sugar or powdered sugar.

Step by step cooking process:

1. Put the washed and dried berries in a cooking container. You can use a roomy thick-walled and thick-bottomed saucepan or cauldron.
2. Pour in all the prepared amount of granulated sugar or powdered sugar (at your own discretion).
3. Using a mixer or hand blender, grind the berries with sugar until smooth.
4. Set the burner to a medium level and cook the berry mass until it boils - about 10 minutes. During this time, you need to periodically stir the mass to completely dissolve the sugar.
5. Remove the pan from heat, transfer the cranberry mass to a sieve and grind to get rid of small bones and skin.
6. Return the processed mass to the saucepan, bring to a boil and continue to boil for 10 minutes.
7. In a boiling state, pour the jam into sterilized glass containers and close with sealed lids.

With apples

Complemented with juicy apples, cranberry jam will turn out to be more tender and reminiscent of jelly in consistency.

For this recipe you need:

• 1 kg of cranberries;
• 2 kg of ripe juicy apples;
• 2 kg of granulated sugar;
• 2 g ground cinnamon;
• 250 ml of boiled water.

You need to prepare a treat as follows:

1. Rinse the apples, peel them of seeds and core, and then, if desired, cut into small slices or grate.
2. Pour water into a saucepan and place apples. Bring to a boil and then simmer for about 15 minutes to soften the fruit.
3. Add the prepared cranberries to the apple mass, cover with sugar and chop with a hand blender.
4. Place a saucepan of the apple-cranberry mixture on low heat and wait until it boils.
5. Set the flame to medium and cook for half an hour, stirring occasionally.
6. Towards the end of the cooking process, add cinnamon and mix thoroughly.
7. While hot, pour the jam into jars and hermetically close the lids.

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Without cooking

The following recipe will save time. Jam without heat treatment retains a maximum of useful substances. It will require:

• 300 g of cranberries and sugar;
• 1 medium orange.

Cooking process:

1. Scald the orange with boiling water and carefully remove the fragrant zest with a grater - it must be set aside separately.
2. Remove the peel and cut the fruit into wedges.
3. Squeeze the juice from the orange slices with a meat grinder or blender.
4. Add the washed cranberries to the citrus mass and cover with sugar. Send the zest there. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Keep the vitamin mass at room temperature for several hours. During this time, the components will release juice abundantly and soak evenly.
6. Put the finished dessert in sterilized jars, close with tight lids and store in the refrigerator.

With citrus juice

Another recipe based on a combination of citrus and cranberries. Such a twist must be prepared for the winter.

For cooking you will need:

• 2 kg of cranberries;
• 500 g of sweet oranges;
• 2 lemons and 2 limes;
• 2 kg of flower honey (instead of sugar).

The step-by-step process is simple:

1. Rinse and then scald citrus fruits with boiling water, grate the zest, remove the peel and squeeze out the juice.
2. Cut lime and lemon in half and then cut into thinner slices.
3. Extract the pits from citrus fruits for an unpleasant bitterness effect.
4. Cranberries, washed and dried, mix with a blender along with citrus juice and zest.
5. If the honey is thick, melt it a little in a water bath. Use liquid honey in its usual form. Pour the lemon and lime slices with honey, stand for thirty minutes for a full impregnation.
6. Add cranberry and orange pulp. Soak everything together for another hour.
7. Put the fragrant vitamin mass in sterile glass containers and close with tight plastic lids.

Terms and conditions of storage

Heat treated and sterilized jam can be stored for 24 months in a dry and cool place.

Treats prepared without boiling are stored exclusively in the refrigerator for no longer than 12 months.