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Sunberry jam with lemon is not the most common dessert in Russia. A large, beautiful berry belonging to the nightshade family is still little known in Russia. Sunberry is very useful, but it tastes unusual, so most often jam is made from it. Boiling with sugar greatly improves the flavor, while adding lemon increases the shelf life. Jam of an unusual dark purple color can be classified as a delicacy in taste, but it is very simple to prepare it.
Health benefits of lemon sunberry jam
Sunberry is a far cry from its inedible wild nightshade predecessors. When ripe, they are sweet, with a slight sourness and a somewhat herbaceous undertone. Nevertheless, a distinct nightshade flavor persists even in fully ripe fruits.
In size, large specimens of Sunberry resemble cherries, are filled with dark purple sap and are completely black on the outside. Spectacular berries have a rich chemical composition. For its medicinal properties, Sunberry received the name - blueberry-forte, and its composition resembles chokeberry.
Useful substances in the composition:
- vitamin C - the main antioxidant, regulator of immune processes
- carotene (provitamin A) - regenerates the retina, is responsible for the condition of the skin, hair, mucous membranes;
- magnesium, potassium - nourish the heart muscle, ensure a healthy metabolism and brain function;
- iron, manganese, copper - participate in hematopoiesis, increase the production of hemoglobin, improve immunity;
- zinc - normalizes the work of the pituitary gland;
- selenium - slows down cell aging;
- silver is an antibacterial agent.
Regular consumption of fresh sunberry, as well as fruit jam, can protect blood vessels, improve the functioning of the heart, liver, and intestines. Sunberry is known to relieve headaches and ease the course of infections. For colds, flu, it is useful to take black berry jam with lemon. A few tablespoons of dessert a day can prevent seasonal infections.
Delicious Sunberry Lemon Jam Recipes
For making jam with lemon, the ripe berries are chosen; they accumulate a large amount of sugars, without requiring excessive sweetening. If the nightshade of the sunberry seems unpleasant, boil over the fruit. Large specimens for jam are pierced in several places before cooking.
Otherwise, the preparation of sunberry fruits is no different from other berries: they should be washed, petioles removed, dried a little. Lemons for jam with zest are peeled especially carefully, the seeds should be removed, not allowing them to get into the dessert.
The classic way
The traditional recipe for a delicious, thick lemon-infused sunberry jam involves several heating cycles with long cooling and soaking steps. The process can be familiar from the classic methods of cooking any fruit or berry blanks.
The recipe uses the classic ratio of sugar to berries 1: 1. 200 g of water is added per kilogram of berries, as well as the juice of several lemons.Most often, 2 medium-sized citrus fruits are enough for a balanced taste of the jam.
Preparation:
- A syrup is prepared from water and sugar, boiling it until slightly thickened.
- Sunberry is immersed in a boiling sweet solution, boiled for no more than 5 minutes.
- The jam is removed from the heat, left to soak the berries for at least 3 hours.
- The cooled jam is again boiled for 5 minutes, then allowed to cool again.
- Lemons are added as juice at the last stage of cooking, just before bottling.
The jam is packaged hot in sterile jars, tightly closed. To soak the berries and preserve the dessert, 3 heating cycles are enough. Heat treatment is continued only to obtain the desired consistency.
If it is decided to use lemons in slices with peels, they are added earlier and boiled together with the sunberry for at least one cycle. Before final heating, you can add 5-6 leaves of fresh mint or lemon balm. After boiling, the twigs should be removed from the jam. This additive works best with the sunberry flavor.
Cold jam
Non-boiled desserts are also very popular. This method reduces the preservation of the jam, but saves most of the vitamins.
Recipe for lemon and sunberry with apples:
- Apples are peeled from the core, leaving only the pulp.
- Sunberry, apples, lemon with peel are passed through a meat grinder or blended with a blender.
- Sugar is added to the mixture (1: 1), left to dissolve the grains and the appearance of juice.
Mix thoroughly after 4 hours. Put the jam in jars, cover with nylon lids and send to the refrigerator.
Sunberry jam
The presence of pectins in black fruits makes it easy to thicken the jam to the state of a jam. Prepared sunberry fruits, peeled lemons are turned through a meat grinder. Fruit mass is mixed with sugar taken in the same amount. With low heat, bring the workpiece to a boil, cook for about 30 minutes. The dessert reaches the consistency of jam when it cools completely.
Using Sunberia Jam with Lemon
Berry desserts made from nightshade culture and lemon are eaten as a separate dish, served with tea, and used as a sauce for pancakes and pancakes. Jams or thick preserves are suitable as filling for sweet pastries. But tasty jam can also serve medicinal purposes.
In order for the jam to be really medicinal, the sugar rate can be reduced to 300 g per 1 kg of berries. It is permissible to boil the composition for 5 minutes, then set aside for 12 hours and, pouring into cans, place in the refrigerator.
With a daily consumption of 100 g of sunberry jam with lemon according to this recipe, you can stabilize blood pressure with hypertension in 30 days. This tasty medicine cleanses the blood, increases the protective functions of the body, removes toxins, heavy metal salts, and poisons.
An overdose of a healthy dessert is possible only at very high doses. However, eating more than a glass of sunberry jam a day may result in stool problems, allergic hives, or headaches instead.
Terms and conditions of storage
Jam, prepared according to different recipes, is stored for different times. The timing is highly dependent on the concentration of sugar, the presence of lemons, the original quality of the berries.
To protect vitamins as much as possible, other active substances from destruction should be placed in the refrigerator. Dessert with lemon and sunberry, boiled, will stand in such conditions for about a year, cold jam - no longer than 4 months.
Subject to the sterility of preparation and packaging, the shelf life of the jam is close to the declared one. Violation of technology or stale ingredients can very quickly lead to spoilage of the finished product. Sunberry and lemon jam is stored for the longest, when cooked with a lot of sugar, without citrus peel, heated to a thick state.
Conclusion
Sunberry jam with lemon is a great way to get a tasty cure for many diseases. The cultivated hybrid of the nightshade is not capricious, it can grow in any areas of the middle lane. Therefore, recipes for various sunberry jams with lemon, apples, mint are more and more in demand and are constantly being supplemented with new ingredients.
