Gooseberry jam is a delicacy with a thousand flavors.
Why not add to the sweet billet!
Berries, fruits, nuts, spices.
You can list endlessly, but is it worth it?
Maybe it's better to cook and try?
Gooseberry jam for the winter - general principles of preparation
Gooseberry berries are washed, thrown into a colander. If the workpiece is without heat treatment, then you need to dry it well on a diaper. Often you need to remove seeds from gooseberries. This is done with a knife, the back of a spoon or a pin.
Jam is always made with sugar. The amount of sand depends on the recipe. If the workpiece is raw, then more sugar is needed. Since gooseberries alone are dry, water or juice may be present in the recipe. A syrup is prepared from them, into which berries are immersed for further cooking. For winter, jam jam in sterile jars.
Gooseberries: winter jam "Emerald" with cherry leaves
The famous jam recipe, for which only green gooseberries are used. It is advisable to take slightly unripe berries. Cherry leaves add flavor to the workpiece.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 1.4 kg of sugar;
• 500 ml of water;
• 15 cherry leaves.
Cooking
1. We wash the berries, then with a sharp knife in each we make an incision and take out the seeds. We will not need them. Put the gooseberries in a clean bowl, let them wait in the wings.
2. Combine water and cherry leaves, boil for five minutes, add half the sugar, keep on fire until the grains dissolve.
3. Pour the hot syrup to the gooseberries, cover. We stand for about five hours. After cooling, you can send it to the refrigerator for the night.
4. We get gooseberries, drain the syrup, throw out the leaves of the cherry. Put the liquid on the stove, add the rest of the sugar and dissolve all the grains again.
5. After boiling the syrup, pour the gooseberries and boil for fifteen minutes.
6. We lay out the hot jam in a sterile container. Hermetically pack and wait for the winter!
Gooseberries: winter jam with orange
An interesting option for preparing gooseberries, winter jam with orange is incredibly aromatic and very interesting in taste. We choose good, juicy and ripe citruses. Gooseberry variety and color do not matter.
Ingredients
• gooseberry 1.4 kg;
• oranges 0.6 kg;
• 1400 grams of sugar;
• one cinnamon stick.
Cooking
1. Tear off the tails of the washed gooseberry and throw it away. Rinse the berries.
2. Take a needle or a toothpick, pierce each berry in two places, drop it into a bowl.
3. Add sugar, insist for five hours. Mix occasionally.
4. Rinse oranges with hot water, it is better to brush the zest with a brush.
5. Take a fine grater and rub the zest in a circle of citrus. You can immediately send to the gooseberry.
6. Oranges are cleaned of films and peels, disassemble into slices. Seeds from citrus need to be removed.
7. Grind the prepared citruses through a meat grinder or just cut with a knife, but not large.
8. Send the oranges to the gooseberries with zest, stir and put the jam to boil.
9. Boil for five minutes, remove the foam, cool.
10. After two hours, boil again for 5 minutes, but add the cinnamon stick to the billet, then cool.
11. The last time we boil, remove the cinnamon, put the jam in dry jars. The safety of delicacies directly depends on this.
Gooseberries: jam for the winter "Royal"
A variant of a truly royal harvest of gooseberries, jam for the winter is prepared with walnuts. But they are added in a special way.
Ingredients
• kilogram of gooseberry;
• half a liter of water;
• nuts half a glass;
• 1.5 kg of sugar.
Cooking
1. Cut the nuts into slices according to the size of the cavity of the berries, lightly fry them in an ordinary frying pan.
2. Rinse gooseberries, remove the seeds from it with a pin or spoon.
3. In each berry we place a piece of nut. We shift into a saucepan.
4. In another pan, cook the syrup from prescription sugar and water. Heat on low heat so that all the grains dissolve before boiling.
5. Pour the boiled berries into the boiling syrup. Stir gently so as not to damage and the nuts do not spill out.
6. Cover and leave for a day.
7. We get the jam, cook for ten minutes, cool.
8. We set to boil again, but this time boil the workpiece for a quarter of an hour. We lay out in containers.
Gooseberries: winter jam with currants
A variant of amazing winter gooseberry jam with red currants. Although, the harvest will be no less tasty with black berries, this recipe will also work for her.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of gooseberries;
• 1400 grams of sugar;
• 700 grams of currant;
• water 450 ml.
Cooking
1. Immediately set to prepare syrup. To do this, simply combine sugar and the prescribed amount of liquid, send it to the stove.
2. Rinse red or black currants, free from twigs, leaves, damaged specimens.
3. Cut the gooseberries in half. If desired, the seeds can be removed, but in this case, you need to increase the number of gooseberries grams by 200.
4. We shift the gooseberries to the currant, fill it with simmering syrup, cover without stirring, we insist for about four hours.
5. Set on fire, cook for twenty minutes. The foam that will form on the surface must be trapped and removed.
6. Pour into jars, seal hermetically, send to a cool place.
Gooseberries: jam for the winter without cooking
A variant of a vitamin preparation that does not undergo heat treatment and retains all vitamins. Keep such a dessert in the refrigerator.
Ingredients
• kilogram of gooseberry;
• one large lemon;
• 1.3 kg of sugar.
Cooking
1. Gooseberries are freed from all unnecessary, washed, sorted out. Then lay the berries on a towel, be sure to let it dry.
2. Wash lemon, pour over boiling water. Remove the yellow peel with a grater. We clean and discard the white skin, cut the flesh, we also get rid of the seeds.
3. Twist all together or interrupt in the combine.
4. Combine with sugar.
5. Three hours later, when a lot of liquid appears in the container, we warm the future jam a little. Leave for a while.
6. It is advisable to repeat the heating procedure a couple more times to better dissolve the sugar.
7. We lay out in jars, you can close the capron lid.
Gooseberries: winter jam with raspberries
A variant of gooseberry jam with raspberries for the winter, which helps to bring down the temperature, cope with a cold and fill the body with vitamin C.
Ingredients
• kilogram of gooseberry;
• 300 grams of raspberries;
• sugar 600 grams.
Cooking
1. We sort, wash raspberries, fall asleep with sugar and while put on a small fire. Let the grains dissolve. If the berry is not very juicy, then you can add half a glass of water.
2. Gooseberries are freed from the tails, washed and sent to raspberries. If large varieties are used, then you can cut the berries in half.
3. Cook after boiling jam for exactly eight minutes.
4. Pour into prepared containers, screw the lids. Store in the pantry or in the basement.
Spicy gooseberries: jam for the winter in 5 minutes
A variant of a very aromatic jam, which is prepared in 5 minutes. Aromatic spices with a warming effect are added to the treat, which will not be superfluous in winter.
Ingredients
• kilogram of gooseberry;
• sugar 800 grams;
• 2 clove stars;
• ginger 0.3 tsp;
• 1 stick of cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Rinse gooseberries, cut in half. Seeds can not be removed.
2. Fold the saucepan, cover with sugar and put on a small fire.
3. As soon as syrup begins to appear, the temperature can be added.
4. Throw cloves, cinnamon into the jam, pour dry ginger. If you use a fresh root, then you can throw just a piece, not chop.
5. After boiling, cook the gooseberries for five minutes.
6. We take sterile jars and pour it. In the process, remove the clove sprockets. Cinnamon can be left.
7. Cork, put in storage.
Gooseberries: winter jam with banana
A variant of gentle jam for the winter, which is prepared with bananas. Bones from the berries will need to be removed. Choose a ripe but not soft banana. He must smell.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of gooseberry;
• 0.5 kg of sugar;
• 1 banana;
• 0.3 cinnamon sticks.
Cooking
1. Cut the washed gooseberry in half, take out the seeds. Halves are immediately thrown into the pan.
2. Add the banana cut into thin circles.
3. Pour 100 ml of water and pour the sugar that goes according to the recipe.
4. Cook all together for about five minutes after boiling.
5. Cut the cinnamon into small pieces and toss in the jam. Keep it on fire for another minute.
6. Pour, send to storage. Or cool and serve.
Gooseberries: twisted jam for the winter
A variant of thick gooseberry jam that is minced through a meat grinder. Seeds can be removed as desired.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 0.7 kg of sugar;
• 1 tsp lemon zest.
Cooking
1. We wash the berries, you can remove the seeds from the inside. Twist through a meat grinder.
2. Add sugar peso and zest.
3. Stir for several minutes, cover and let stand for half an hour to separate the juices.
4. Put on the stove, slowly bring to a boil.
5. Boil a quarter of an hour
6. We send the workpiece into jars, tightly close the lids.
Gooseberries: jam for the winter with nuts "Lazy"
Lazy version of the royal gooseberry jam. For him, you do not need to take out the seeds and fill the nuts with berries. Everything is much simpler, but it turns out no less tasty.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 150 grams of nuts;
• 0.8 kg of sugar;
• 5 cherry leaves;
• 0.35 liters of water.
Cooking
1. Pour water into a saucepan, boil the cherry leaves for several minutes, then remove and discard.
2. Add sugar to the broth, turn on the stove and start heating.
3. Rinse gooseberries, cut in half. You can use whole berries, but in this case, the cooking time will need to be increased by ten minutes.
4. Put the berries in syrup, cook for five minutes.
5. While the gooseberries are cooked, quickly chop the nuts and fry them for a minute in a skillet.
6. We shift to the pan.
7. Cook the jam for about ten more minutes, turn it off, send it to the jars or just use it.
Gooseberry jam for the winter - useful tips and tricks
• Cherry leaflets are frequent companions of gooseberry jam. They give the workpiece a pleasant aroma. But few people know that instead of them you can use the leaves of garden currants, but only black and fragrant.
• No lemons or oranges? Only zest can be added to the jam. It is she who gives the very aroma and zest to a winter treat.
• Often, gooseberries do not want to part with tails, holding them tightly. Preparing berries can take a long time. To avoid this, you can use nail scissors and just cut off all unnecessary.
