Five-minute strawberry jam is loved by many housewives, because:
- A minimum of ingredients is required: granulated sugar, berries and, if desired, lemon juice;
- Minimum time spent. Five-minute jam is cooked for 5 minutes, which is very important, since women always do not have enough time;
- Due to the short heat exposure, more vitamins and microelements are stored in the berries;
- In a short cooking period, the fruits do not have time to boil, the jam looks aesthetically attractive;
- The use of jam is universal. Many dishes become much tastier and, which is especially important, are more readily eaten by children. Pancakes, cereals, toasts can be safely supplemented with strawberry jam. Skillful housewives will find a lot of options for how to use it: soak a biscuit, decorate pastries, boil jelly or make a drink;
- You can use other ingredients to change the flavor of the jam. For example, you can add banana, mint when cooking;
- You can use different berries: not very beautiful, small, medium, large. These strawberries are cheaper, which is important for those who do not grow them on their own.
Such a wonderful jam is definitely worth making.
Recipes
There are several options for making five-minute strawberry jam for the winter.
Option 1
Required: 1 kg of strawberries, 1 kg of sugar, 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice or 1 tsp. citric acid.
- Sort the berries, wash thoroughly under running water. Allow excess water to drain. Remove the stalks.
- If the berries are different in size, then cut very large so that they are sure to boil.
- Place the strawberries in a container and cover with granulated sugar. To keep the billet at room temperature outside the refrigerator, take strawberries and granulated sugar in a 1: 1 ratio.
- The strawberries should sit for about 2-3 hours to give juice. You can make these manipulations in the evening, then put the container with berries in the refrigerator in order to continue cooking in the morning.
- Ripe berries usually yield a lot of juice. Put the container with the strawberries that released the juice on the fire. Try to stir the jam as little as possible so as not to damage the berries.
- Remove foam with a clean spoon. Add 1 tbsp. l. freshly squeezed lemon juice or 1 tsp. citric acid. Thanks to citric acid, the jam is not sugar-coated and acquires a pleasant sourness.
- Wait for the jam to boil, mark 5 minutes - the required cooking time. Then spread the hot mass into clean, dry jars, which can be sterilized in advance for greater reliability. Tighten the jars with metal lids. Turn the finished jam over and put the lids down. To enhance the sterilization effect, wrap the jars with a blanket.
- After cooling, the workpieces can be stored. It is best to store the jam in a dark, dry, ventilated place.
In winter, use for soaking biscuits or for drinks.
Option 2
This cooking method can also be called a five-minute cooking. The ingredients are the same.
- Prepare the berries. Cover with sugar so that they give juice.
- Put on fire, let it boil and cook for no more than 5 minutes, removing the froth regularly.
- Turn off the heat, leave the jam for 6 hours.
- Then cook again for 5 minutes. And so 3 times with an interval of 6 hours.
- Lay out on clean cans, roll up.
This method, of course, is more time-consuming, but this way the required density of the jam is achieved, and it is stored longer. Not everyone likes liquid jam, as it turns out in option 1. But with this method, more vitamins are lost.
Strawberry jam can be cooked without first adding sugar to the berries. Stir the berries with sugar and put immediately on low heat. The main thing here is not to allow the berries or sand to burn. Therefore, constant stirring is required, which is why the berries crumple.
Option 3
Ingredients: strawberries 1 kg, granulated sugar 1 kg, 150-200 g of water.
Prepare the sugar syrup first. To do this, add water to the sugar. Boil down the mass for a while. Readiness is determined in this way: the syrup flows from the spoon in a viscous wide stream. Don't overcook the syrup. It shouldn't be brown.
Place the prepared berries in the syrup, wait until it boils. Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Place in jars, seal, turn over and let cool.
Now you can buy frozen strawberries in any store. It can also be used to make jam. Just imagine: suddenly, in the middle of winter, the apartment is filled with the aroma of boiling strawberry jam.
There is no point in preparing jam from frozen berries for future use. You can cook it at any time. Therefore, it makes perfect sense if you use less granulated sugar. Enough 400-500 g per 1 kg of frozen strawberries.
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Conclusion
Make sure to cook the strawberry jam for 5 minutes. It retains vitamins, which is especially important in winter during colds, as well as the taste and aroma of fresh berries.
