A simple recipe for "five-minute" strawberry jam for the winter
Since the end of June, summer residents and owners of suburban areas have a hot season. Currants, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries ripen. From berries you need to have time to prepare juices, jams, compotes. Strawberries saturate the body with trace elements and vitamins, normalize metabolism, reduce blood pressure, have a beneficial effect on the work of the heart, and cope with depression. If you prepare for the winter "five-minute" - strawberry jam, all the beneficial properties of the berries are preserved at least until next spring. Using such a delicacy, a person is charged with positive energy, colds less often, and restores strength.
Features of cooking strawberry jam
Having collected fragrant berries, you can make jam, jam from them. Housewives, who are not the first time to do this kind of work, know that you need to monitor how the jam boils. Prepare a delicacy on low heat, insist for 2 hours. The strawberries will retain their beautiful color and have a pleasant taste.
Responsibly it is necessary to approach the choice of dishes. Do not cook berries in enamel bowls, aluminum or copper bowls. You need to stock up:
- a saucepan or other stainless steel container;
- a seaming key;
- lids;
- wooden spoon.
The fragrant delicacy is placed in well sterilized jars. For its preparation, there is no need for a large number of different ingredients.
Product selection
The most delicious and healthy jam is obtained from wild strawberries. This berry contains a lot of vitamins, pectin, phenolic substances, flavonoids. When using it:
- Toxins leave the body.
- The percentage of cholesterol decreases.
- The work of the intestines and adrenal glands improves.
Harvesting strawberries is difficult because they are very small and stand out in bright red against the background of grass. The collection begins in June or July. Summer residents are engaged in the cultivation of garden strawberries, which have large berries, but cannot boast of forest aromas, contain several times fewer useful components than the one that grows in meadows and forest edges.
Beautiful bouquets are made from meadow strawberries. The round, dense berries are harvested with stems and sepals. They are stored for a long time, differ in smell and taste from forest and garden strawberries.
To make jam, take:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 1.5 sugar;
- glass of water.
The syrup is made first. They put strawberries in it and leave for 5 hours. Three times the delicacy is brought to a boil. The last time they keep on fire for 5 minutes. If it is cooked, a drop of the product does not spread over the surface of the saucer. In the room, the treat is stored in sterilized jars with lids.
How to make five-minute strawberry jam
If you managed to collect wild berries in order to get a sweet and tasty product, to preserve all the useful components, you need to choose a quick cooking recipe. Experienced housewives call the best option a "five-minute".
Preparation of berries
Wild strawberries must be freed from stalks, leaves, needles or grass. If it is dry and clean, it is not necessary to wash it. Dirty berries must be placed in a colander and sent under running water.
Mixing with sugar
A fragrant and tasty product will turn out if the strawberries are juiced before cooking. Not everyone knows what needs to be done for this. The berries, peeled from the stalks and leaves, should be put in a bowl or saucepan and sugar is sprinkled in them in layers.
Brewing process
A few hours later, when liquid appears in the strawberries, the dishes are put on fire. When the mixture boils, you need to completely remove the foam and add a pinch of citric acid or the juice of this citrus fruit so that the delicacy does not become sugared and does not lose color. You need to cook it for exactly 5 minutes, after cooling 2 more times the same amount of time. This helps remove some of the bitterness present in fresh strawberries.
Housewives who have prepared jam or jams from wild berries more than once advise:
- Don't harvest along roads.
- Do not use strawberries that have stood for 24 hours after picking.
- You can add almonds or nuts for a variety of flavors.
- Red currant helps to eliminate bitterness.
Beginners should use the simplest recipe for making jam, in which you need to take 1 kg of berries, from 500 g to 1000 g of sugar:
- Rinse the strawberries and drain.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of water into an empty bowl or saucepan.
- Pour all ingredients into a container.
- Turn on high heat on the stove and bring the berries to a boil.
- You need to cook strawberries for 5 minutes, collecting the foam.
- Pour the hot treat into sterilized glass jars and wrap it in a blanket or a few towels.
You can put a handful of lavender flowers, lemon juice in a ready-made jam from garden strawberries or strawberries and boil for a couple of minutes. The berries will have a bright shade, and the jam will acquire a unique aroma.
Storage
Tin lids, with which cans are screwed, do not swell in a cellar or basement, and strawberries do not lose vitamins and microelements for a long time. However, if you open the jam, you can eat the treat for only a week.
Berries with nuts are stored under nylon lids and only in the refrigerator. Closing the jars of boiling jam, they are turned over and placed upside down, wrapped overnight.
Strawberry delicacy helps to cure colds, get rid of a cold, gives energy and good mood.
