5 delicious recipes for making frozen berry jam for the winter
Often housewives do not have time to cook the jam in time, the reasons may be different. This is a lack of time, effort, ingredients, and often desire. But there are recipes that allow you to easily prepare jam from different frozen fresh berries at any time of the year. Moreover, it has the same taste as harvested from freshly harvested fruits.
Can I make frozen berry jam?
Such jam is not only possible, but also necessary to cook! This process will not cause any difficulty even for young, inexperienced housewives. A big plus of such a jam is that it does not bind specifically to a certain period - the berry season. Not everyone succeeds, due to various circumstances, having collected or bought enough berries, set aside time for sterilizing cans and making jam.
Moreover, it is better to purchase berries at the very moment when the price for them does not bite and is quite acceptable. Therefore, many simply freeze them for the winter, and then at any time they take out and cook the same tasty and aromatic jam, as if from fresh fruits.
Preparation of containers and ingredients
Before cooking, the berries (strawberries, cherries, currants, raspberries and others) are defrosted. They are taken out of the freezer in the evening and left until morning, so it's more convenient. But if you are too impatient or due to circumstances you need to quickly prepare the jam, then the fruits are thawed by immersing the bag in warm water.
An effective technique would be to use the Defrosting mode of the microwave. Jars are sterilized using high temperatures before rolling the jam. This is both steaming and roasting in the oven or microwave.
How to make frozen berry jam?
Adding spices, such as cardamom or cinnamon, will add zest to the taste of the jam. But they are not the main ingredients.
The basic components, which you cannot do without, are, of course, the berries and sugar themselves. It is possible to add both citrus and other fruits.
In terms of time, cooking usually takes from half an hour to an hour, depending on the type of berries, the recipe and the density of the product that you want to achieve.
Raspberry recipe
This jam does not differ in taste or aroma from that made from seasonal, summer and autumn berries. But it has a big plus - at any time of the year, by opening the freezer and taking out the frozen fruits, you can easily prepare rich, tasty, fresh jam.
Ingredients:
- frozen raspberries - 1 kilogram;
- sugar - 1.4 kilograms.
Cooking process: first, the raspberries are defrosted - in the evening they are taken out of the freezer and left until the morning at room temperature. Then the berries are sprinkled with sugar and mixed well, and then left to infuse for another 1 hour. Then put the bowl with the workpiece on the stove, turn on low heat and bring to a boil.
Now, for 20 minutes, while the jam is cooking, it is constantly stirring and skimming. Moreover, the density is regulated by extending the cooking time to 30 minutes or by adding gelatin. Then the jam will turn out to be especially unusual and will surprise everyone who tries it.
Strawberry
Despite the fact that frozen strawberries are used, the jam is tasty and very aromatic. The addition of lemon juice enhances the flavor, brightens the color and also prolongs the shelf life. For cooking, you need the following ingredients:
- strawberries - 1 kilogram;
- sugar - 600 grams;
- half a medium sized lemon.
From forest berries
Conveniently, such a frozen assortment is easy to buy in any large store, if it is not possible to pick wild berries yourself. After defrosting, they are scrolled in a meat grinder, using a blender or sieve. Such a delicacy is prepared for 30-40 minutes. To do this, take 1 kilogram of wild berries and 1 kilogram of sugar.
Frozen cherries
As a result of cooking, according to this recipe, frozen cherry jam comes out fragrant, with a pleasant sweet taste and piquant sourness, without astringency.
It is used as an independent dessert, added to tea or used as a filling for baking.
For 1 kilogram of frozen cherries, take 1 kilogram of sugar, as well as 1/3 teaspoon of cinnamon and vanilla. Interestingly, according to this recipe, jam is prepared both with whole cherries, with seeds, and without them.
Currant
An excellent option for lovers of delicious, aromatic jam, which retains most of the vitamins and nutrients contained in fresh currant fruits. Cooking time is 40-50 minutes. Take 1 kilogram of frozen berries and 1 kilogram of sugar. If desired, add citrus fruits - zest and juice of oranges or lemons. According to the recipe, other berries are also put in to obtain a rich flavor range.
Storage rules for workpieces
The jam is stored at temperatures up to +10 C degrees up to 2 years. Cellars, cellars or refrigerators are suitable. In a home pantry, at room temperature, they are stored for no more than a year. When storing jam made from seeds with seeds, the shelf life is 7-8 months.
Thanks for the recipes. It was very useful because there are a lot of berries, there is little time, and you need a lot of time for the weekend at the dacha. Now I freeze part of it for a year and in my free time I make jam according to your recipes.
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