8 easy recipes for delicious red gooseberry jam for the winter
Red gooseberry jam is a simple yet delicious treat. The berries contain natural gelling agents. Thanks to them, the jam is thick. It looks more like jelly. It takes a little over an hour to prepare the sweets. The jam has a pleasant color and aroma. Red varieties go well with various spices and additives.
Features of cooking red gooseberry jam for the winter
Red gooseberry varieties are distinguished by the absence of a pronounced acid. There is only a hint of sourness in their delicate taste. Thanks to this quality, red varieties are well combined with various additives.
There are many ways to make red gooseberry jam. Each housewife chooses the most suitable for herself.
Fruit preparation
Sometimes the preparation of the fruit takes longer than the cooking process itself. The problem is sorting the berries. To cook delicious red gooseberry jam, the berries must be carefully sorted out. This work has two goals:
- It is necessary to select only ripe whole berries. Fruits that are dented and rotted should be removed immediately.
- You should choose berries of about the same size. Berries of different sizes will absorb sugar syrup differently. This will have a bad effect on the taste. If the sizes of the fruits vary greatly, then it is better to separately cook jam from large and small gooseberries.
Before cooking, the stalks are removed from the berries. It is a laborious process, but necessary.
How to prepare containers
In the question of how to properly cook red gooseberry jam, the preparation of containers is not the last place. Small glass jars are used to store berry sweets. A capacity of 0.5-1 liters is quite enough. Before use, the container is carefully examined.
Banks must be intact without cracks and chips. Having selected the necessary jars, they are thoroughly washed in hot water with baking soda. The washed cans are placed on a clean towel with the necks down to dry. Then the container is sterilized. Lids are prepared together with the cans.
How to cook delicious red gooseberry jam properly
Everyone has their own favorite recipes. But love for tradition does not prevent you from trying an old delicacy in a new version.
Cooking in whole berry syrup
This simple jam takes a long time to make. The problem is that each berry needs to be pierced with a needle or a toothpick. Punctures need to be done 3-5.For cooking you will need:
- 1 kg of ripe red gooseberries;
- 900 grams of sugar;
- 500 ml of water.
Pre-prepared berries are pierced. Water is poured into sugar and, while stirring, brought to a boil. The berries are placed in hot syrup for 5-6 hours so that they are soaked. The syrup mixed with berry juice is drained. Boil to a boil and again place berries in it for 5-6 hours. This process is repeated three times.
Ultimately, the berries, drenched in hot syrup, are boiled in it for 10 minutes. Hot dessert is laid out in banks. Banks are closed with lids.
With chopped red gooseberries
A very interesting recipe for delicious jam made from chopped berries. For the preparation of dessert, take 1 kg of ripe berries and pass them through a meat grinder. Add 1 kg of granulated sugar to the resulting puree and mix, leave for 1 hour in a warm place. The sugar must dissolve. An hour later, 200 ml of water is poured into the puree and placed on the burner.
The mixture is brewed for 10 minutes. It is constantly stirred. Then let it cool completely and proceed to the final cooking. They put the jam on gas, wait until it boils. Cook the boiling puree for 15 minutes.
Sugar can burn quickly - the jam must be constantly mixed. Burnt jam is a spoiled product.
After 15 minutes, the sweetness is packaged in jars.
The recipe "Five minutes"
The Pyatiminutka red gooseberry jam is a great recipe for a quick treat for the winter. Required:
- 600 grams of ripe red gooseberries;
- 500 grams of sugar;
- 100 grams of water.
The washed and dried berries are placed in a wide saucepan. Pour 300 grams of sugar there. The mixture is kept on low heat and wait until the sugar dissolves. Then add water and continue heating. When the jam boils, add the rest of the sugar and keep it on fire for another 5 minutes. They put it in jars while hot.
With cherry leaves
Red gooseberry jam with cherry leaves is not difficult to prepare, but it has a specific taste.
The recipe is as follows:
- Put 1 kilogram of sorted and washed berries in a flat-bottomed dish. Add 3 cleaned cherry leaves to these.
- Pour everything with half a liter of clean water and leave for 5-6 hours.
- When the water is saturated, the berry-leafy infusion is poured into a separate bowl. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
- The berries are poured with the prepared syrup and left for 3 hours. Then the syrup is drained and brought to a boil again.
- The process is repeated 4 times.
- Ultimately, the berries drenched in hot syrup are packaged in prepared jars and closed.
This dessert is not really a jam. The berries are not boiled. It is hot canned in sugar syrup.
With gooseberry leaves
According to this principle, jam is made from ripe red berries with gooseberry leaves. Leaves can be used as a flavoring agent:
- currants;
- raspberries;
- blackberries;
- rose petals.
In each version, a simple red gooseberry jam will have new flavor notes.
With oranges
This gourmet sweetness requires:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 1 kg of sugar;
- 1 orange.
The preparation process begins with processing the orange. It needs to be washed and kept in boiling water for a minute. Then cut into slices and remove the seeds. Pre-prepared gooseberries and orange slices with peel are passed through a meat grinder.
Pour the resulting puree with sugar, place in a saucepan with a wide bottom and put on low heat. While stirring constantly, heat to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes. Put the finished jam in pre-prepared jars.
Microwave recipe
Ripe red gooseberry jam can be made in the microwave.The peculiarity of preparing dessert in the microwave is that it will have to be cooked in small portions in special dishes. Have to take:
- 250 grams of gooseberries;
- 150 grams of granulated sugar;
- 200 milliliters of clean water.
Place the prepared berries in a microwave container. We put sugar there and pour water. We put everything in the microwave for 15-20 minutes.
The longer the container is in the microwave, the thicker the jam will be.
After about 10 minutes, we take out the container with berries from the oven, grind the mixture with a blender and put it back to bring it to readiness. The finished product is packaged in cans.
Frozen gooseberry
The peculiarity of the recipe for frozen gooseberry jam is that sugar is taken in half with berries, and water is 5 times less. So, 1 kg of raw berry will require 1 kg of sugar and 200 ml of water. First, prepare the syrup. Frozen berries are poured with hot syrup. They are kept in it for 2 hours.
When the syrup has cooled and the berries are thawed, the whole mass is put on a weak gas. Heat to a boil and boil for half an hour. This is enough time for a simple frozen red gooseberry jam to cook.
Further storage
Jam has long been kept in the cellar. There is a constant air temperature. But not everyone has this wonderful repository. In city apartments, the best place to store jars of gooseberry jam is a pantry or a loggia. The pantry should not have heating pipes. Only in their absence is this utility room suitable for storing blanks.
