Cooking apricot jam from simple products

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Probably many people know about the healing qualities of apricots. It is even recommended for patients with diabetes and digestive disorders. This tasty, juicy fruit is the leader in the content of such an indispensable trace element as iron. It saturates the body with vitamins, in a word, one can talk about the healing properties of apricot for a long time.

If you regularly eat these fruits, then you will not be afraid of heart disease. But where, you ask, do apricots come from in the winter? Today we will prepare a very he althy apricot jam, which you will enjoy eating both in winter and summer. In an epidemic of colds, healing jam will help strengthen the immune system and get rid of beriberi.

Even after heat treatment, vitamins remain in the jam. There is especially a lot of carotene in it, and this most valuable element is responsible for cleansing the body of free radicals. Apricot jam does not cause an allergic reaction and has no contraindications. Finally, this is a real dessert that will delight you with excellent taste. Let's start the cooking process.

We will need: a kilogram of fresh apricots, a little citric acid (a teaspoon) and, of course, granulated sugar - 1 kg.

Remove the pits from the washed apricots (dividing into two parts), put them in a deep bowl, fill to the top with water and put on fire. It is necessary to cook fruits for about half an hour, constantly observing and stirring, but not letting them boil. After that, they must be rubbed through a sieve, you can twist them in a meat grinder.

We don’t pour out the water from the fruit, we pour citric acid, sugar into it and spread the mashed apricots. We set the fire to the slowest mode and leave the mass to languish for 1.5 hours. It is necessary to observe the jam and stir it periodically to obtain a homogeneous consistency. Roll cooled apricot jam into jars. The recipe is very simple and useful. Try making your own jam and see for yourself.

Second recipe

To make apricot jam, take two cups of sugar, apricot fruit (500g), lemon juice (50g).

Rinse the fruits well, cut into two parts (remove the seeds), cover them with sugar, pour over lemon juice and add a little boiled water (20 g). Place the cup of fruit in the refrigerator for at least six hours. After a certain time, pull out and put on fire to boil for 15 minutes.

To give a piquant taste, you can put cloves, vanilla pod or cinnamon in the jam at your discretion. After the fruits are ready, they can be rolled into jars. If youIf you want to get a homogeneous mass, then scroll the fruit in a meat grinder before cooking. Bake an apricot jam pie and your family will be happy.

Third pepper recipe

Products: a glass of apricots, sugar (1/2 cup), cinnamon (5 g), apricot juice (150 ml), crushed red pepper (5 g).

Remove the seeds from the fruits, move the halves into a cup, pour sugar into it, add cinnamon and red pepper. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Such an unusual apricot jam can be transferred to plastic bags or containers and frozen, or rolled up. Unusual bittersweet taste goes well with meat dishes and flour products.