10 best recipes for emerald gooseberry jam for the winter
Gooseberry is one of the most common berry crops. Both children and adults use delicious fruits with pleasure. And emerald gooseberry jam is prepared for the winter using various additional components. And here the culinary fantasies are endless.
Features of cooking emerald gooseberries for the winter
Emerald, greenish-yellow jam is obtained only from the corresponding varieties of gooseberries. It is possible to get such a royal dessert only from unripe, but normal-sized berries. Suitable for cooking gooseberry delicacies English green, Malachite, Russian yellow, Ural emerald. The fruits of the plants have a dense green skin and a transparent flesh of the same color.
It is necessary to make berry jam by first boiling sugar syrup. Then the berries will not boil over, but will remain whole, filled with amber sweetness. It is better to prepare the dessert in several steps, cooling and bringing to a boil again.
Additives to the dessert will make it even tastier. Gooseberries are often boiled along with cherry leaves, citrus fruits, walnuts.
How to prepare raw materials
Before cooking the royal delicacy for the winter, the elastic fruits are pierced with needles, toothpicks, hairpins. Dry stalks and tails should be cut off from berries. If fruits are boiled without seeds, then they are removed by making an incision on the side. And the seeds are carefully removed with a hairpin. Then put the gooseberries in cold water for half an hour.
Container preparation
To store gooseberry jam, you need to take half-liter jars. If the dessert is loved by all household members, then you can place the blank in liter containers. The container goes through the process:
- washing with cold water;
- rinsing with warm water and dishwashing liquid, baking soda, or dry mustard;
- rinsing under the tap;
- steaming in the oven or over steam for 15 minutes.
Covers are prepared either polyethylene, well washed, or metal, treated with boiling water.
The best recipes for emerald gooseberry jam
You can cook a sweet gooseberry blank for the winter in various ways. It all depends on the patience, the desire of the hostess. Gooseberries are very tasty with lemon and kiwi. And a truly royal dish will turn out with a walnut, which is placed in each berry.
Classic recipe
The easiest way requires buying 1.5 berries per kilogram - sugar.Prepared fruits must be properly cooked in sugar syrup. It is made from a kilogram of granulated sugar and 3 glasses of water.
The berries are poured with hot syrup, using half the sugar to cook it. There are gooseberries in it for 3-4 hours. In this case, the mass must be constantly mixed in a circular motion.
The syrup should be drained into a saucepan, boiled for 5-7 minutes, add the remaining sugar. After complete dissolution, it is placed in a container of berries and boiled until tender.
With orange and lemon
A pleasant citrus flavor, their aroma will make the jam a favorite in any family. Take in order to prepare a dessert, the same amount of gooseberries and sugar. You need 3 oranges for 3 kilograms of berries, and one lemon is enough.
Gooseberries are covered with sugar and left for an hour, shaking occasionally. Then they put the container on the fire and boil with a little water.
Citrus fruits are cleaned, leaving only the pulp without seeds, veins. Cut it into cubes and add to the gooseberry. You need to cook the mass until fully cooked.
Frozen gooseberry
If the gooseberries were frozen for the winter and decided to cook them, then the berries do not need to be thawed. They are poured into a basin. Syrup is boiled from sugar taken in a 1: 1 ratio in relation to berries. The fruits pulled from the freezer are poured hot, leaving for 2 hours.
Then put the container on fire and boil after boiling for 30 minutes. You can close jars of jam with plastic lids.
With cherry leaves
For this recipe, gooseberry seeds are harvested. Then the berries are poured with cold water, leaving for 3-4 hours. The water is then drained. Cook the workpiece in the following sequence:
- 100 grams of cherry leaves are poured with 5 cups of water.
- Put a container with leaves on the fire, adding a teaspoon of citric acid.
- Boil for 5 minutes, pour into water through a colander into a saucepan.
- Now it is the turn of sugar syrup, which is boiled on the basis of cherry broth (200 ml of broth per kilogram of sugar).
- The berries are poured hot, adding 50 ml of vodka and a little vanilla powder.
Cook until the jam is ready.
With orange
Gooseberry and orange jam is emerald with a shade of red. A kilogram of berries is twisted together with the pulp of 1 orange. A kilogram of sugar is poured into a mass, crushed zest is added there. Keep on fire and after boiling leave on the stove for 15-20 minutes.
With walnuts
This recipe will take time and patience:
- It is necessary to squeeze seeds from each berry with a small amount of pulp.
- Place the walnut kernel inside.
- Pour the fruit stuffed with nuts with hot syrup.
- Leave it overnight.
- Cook the next day by boiling the berry mass for 15-20 minutes.
They put the royal treats on the banks and roll them up.
With currants
The ratio of gooseberries and currants can be arbitrary. Sugar is taken 1.5 times more. It is better to grind the berries in a blender or pass through a meat grinder. The puree is mixed with sugar, left for 2 hours. Then, after stirring, put on fire and bring to a boil. Remove the pan and leave for 5-6 hours. The operation is repeated. 5 minutes before cooking add a few mint leaves.
With kiwi
Exotic fruits of kiwi will add originality to the taste of the fruit of the garden. Take for jam on:
- a kilogram of kiwi and gooseberries;
- 1.5 kilograms of sugar;
- 1 lemon.
Remove the skin from the kiwi and cut the pulp into small cubes. The berries are passed through a meat grinder. Combine both components and sprinkle with sugar. Cook over low heat after the mixture boils. Juice is squeezed out of lemon and added to jam. The finished dish is transferred to jars.
A simple recipe without cooking
Gooseberries are stored without boiling. You just need to pass the berry through a meat grinder, grind it in a blender. An orange pulp without seeds and veins is also scrolled into the pan. After pouring sugar, they begin to stir the mass. The jam is considered ready when the sugar is completely dissolved..
Meat Grinder Recipe
Unripe green fruits are freed from the tails, washed. As soon as the water drains, the berries are passed through a meat grinder. You need a bag of gelatin, which is mixed with 2 tablespoons of sugar. This is enough for 500 grams of berry mass. Add the prepared mixture to the gooseberry puree. Now it is necessary to cook so that the sugar and jaundice are dispersed. Pour the remaining sugar - 200 grams. Boil after boiling for another 5 minutes.
Storage rules for the finished product
Jars of gooseberry emerald jam are stored in a cool place. It is better to put it in the refrigerator under plastic covers. Tightly rolled containers will be stored in the cellar and basement at a temperature of + 3-5 degrees.
