Unusual jam for the winter: top 10 recipes

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

What can you make unusual jam from? Recipes inherited from mothers and grandmothers are not always the most original, but you want something unexpected. Well, in fact, you won’t surprise anyone with a jar of currant or strawberry jam, and you can’t proudly put such a treat on the table.

And then what to prepare for the winter, so that it would be interesting to cook it yourself, and it’s not a shame to show guests? In this article, we have collected the most amazing recipes. To be honest, not all types of unusual jam are listed here: after some thought, I had to abandon the famous onion confiture - after all, it is better not to prepare this delicacy in the winter, but to cook in small portions, the famous sweet dish from unripe walnuts was not included in the top yet - it is difficult to cook due to the lack of the necessary ingredients in most regions of Russia. Assorted fruit jams were also removed from the list - unusual and surprisingly tasty, but inaccessible to most people due to the high cost of the necessary components even in season.

Oh jam

"Jam" - an old Russian term for a boiled dish of berries, nuts, fruits or flowers based on honey and molasses - sugarthen it wasn't. Our ancestors were very good at stocking up for the winter, including sweets. In the absence of honey or molasses, the berries were simply boiled down heavily, and then used as a filling for pancakes and pies, or they prepared drinks - fruit drinks, broths and compotes. And when sugar appeared in Russia, they began to make jam from everything - carrots, radishes, pumpkins, green tomatoes, dandelions, etc. Candied fruits were served at the table only in rich houses, such products were not available to ordinary people. Although noble gentlemen often used unusual jam - from cucumbers, nuts or hot red pepper. So those types of jam that seem original to us were actually well known to our ancestors.

What to roll in jars in spring

It is generally accepted that harvesting in the winter should be done in the fall, when stores and on their own plots are full of berries, fruits and vegetables. But in fact, you can cook a sweet delicacy in early spring, for example, from sorrel, mint or dandelions.

Unusual jam from mint and lemon

List of ingredients:

- 500g fresh mint leaves without stems;

- 1 kg of sugar;

- 1.5 lemons;

- 1 liter of water.

Recipe. Chop the mint, cut the lemons along with the peel. Add water and boil for 10-15 minutes over low heat to avoid reducing the volume of the broth. Then cool, filter and add sugar. The resulting syrup should be simmered for about two hours.

This delicacy will taste like mint-lemon, while without sugary sweetness, since this recipe used half the recommended amount of sugar. The color will also be pale, so you can add a drop of food coloring - green or yellow.

Jam assorted unusual

When housewives think about original preparations for the winter, they most often come up with the idea of making a platter. And not just an ordinary mixture, but something absolutely incredible. There are actually a lot of options: cherries stuffed with pine nuts, eggplants with walnuts and cinnamon, a mixture of peaches, apples and lemon, blackcurrant with rhubarb, etc. But the most original of all this is not a small list is currant jam with almonds and hot pepper.

List of ingredients:

- 3 kg ripe red currants;

- 400g almonds;

- 1 kg of sugar;

- 2 large or 3-4 medium hot peppers.

Recipe. We sort out and wash the berry. Grind through a sieve to get a homogeneous mass. Mix the berries and sugar and set to cook over low heat. Add peeled unroasted almonds and chopped dry or fresh hot peppers. Cook for 1.5 hours, after which the delicacy is ready.

This jam is unusual, sweet and sour, with a slight aftertaste of hot pepper and a delicate aroma of almonds. The recipe specifies the minimum amount of sugar, so lovers of sweeter dishes need to take 2-2.5 times more.

Vegetable Jam

In fact, you can make unusual jam from any vegetable. Recipes where the mainthe component is carrots, zucchini, cucumbers or beets can be found in any cookbook. The most memorable of them was green tomato jam.

List of ingredients:

- 1/2 kg green tomatoes;

- 650g sugar;

- 200ml water;

- 2-3 carnation flowers;

- 1-2 cardamom seed;

- 3-4g cinnamon.

Recipe. Rinse small green tomatoes and boil for 12-15 minutes, then drain the water. Prepare sugar syrup and dip vegetables into it, let it brew for at least 3 hours - the tomatoes should be saturated with sugar. Then cook on low heat for 20 minutes, cool and let it brew for another 2-3 hours. These steps must be repeated 3 more times: soaking, boiling, cooling, soaking again, etc. At the last stage, cook until cooked, and lower the bag of spices into the syrup (it is thrown out later).

How to surprise with regular strawberries

It seems that there is nothing more banal than strawberry jam. But with this berry you can cook a lot of original dishes with interesting flavor combinations. For example, you can cook sweet strawberries with vanilla and black pepper.

List of ingredients:

- 0.5 kg strawberries;

- 0.5 kg of sugar;

- 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice;

- 1.5 g vanillin (fresh vanilla is better, but it is quite expensive, so we use a substitute);

- 1/8 tsp ground black pepper.

Recipe. Sort the berries, wash and sprinkle with sugarvanillin. Let it brew until the strawberries begin to release juice. Add the rest of the ingredients, while it is better to grind the pepper yourself from the peas or take it from a new pack (fragrant, not exhausted). Then cook as usual: either “five minutes” for those who like liquid jam, or about an hour for those who prefer a thick mass.

Unusual currant jam

Currant is the best berry for making “raw” jam, that is, the product turns out to be as natural, fortified and very fragrant as possible. But this recipe is too simple and obvious, so we will tell you how to make blackcurrant ginger jam. And it is unusual because an unusually large amount of ginger is used here, about 1/5 of the weight of the berries.

List of ingredients:

- 500 g blackcurrant;

- 100g ginger;

- 300g sugar.

Recipe. Boil like regular jam, but add thin slices of ginger at the beginning of the process. This is a very unusual jam for the winter - sweet and tart, not for everybody. But such a treat is a wonderful tool for preventing colds and flu.

Flower Jam

From flowers you can make an unusual tasty jam. Here, no one limits the imagination: in the East, a sweet delicacy is prepared from rose petals, in Asian countries - from lotus and chrysanthemums, and in Russia - from spring dandelions. But in this list, we left room for interesting and unusual, but at the same time affordable recipes. So let's get acquainted with the original jam from lilac flowers and grapefruit.

List of ingredients:

- 300 ml lilac flowers;

- 350 ml lilac for infusion;

- 250 ml boiling water;

- 1 cup sugar;

- 1 tbsp. l. pectin;

- juice of one grapefruit.

Recipe. Collect lilac flowers - only buds, without green parts. Divide into two parts, pour one with boiling water and let it brew for at least 7-10 hours. Then separate the liquid from the petals and, based on it, prepare a syrup with the addition of pectin. The syrup should boil for 15 minutes, after which grapefruit juice and the remaining lilac flowers are added to it.

It turns out amazingly fragrant pink jam, sweet and sour and very tasty. This unusual jam for the winter will remind you of summer even in the most severe frosts.

Delicious plum

According to most housewives, plums are very good on their own - in jams, compotes, salads, and adjika. In general, hundreds of tasty and he althy preparations for the winter are made from this wonderful berry. But you can also make unusual plum jam.

List of ingredients:

- 0.5 kg plums;

- 5g pectin;

- 1 tbsp. sugar;

- 1 tbsp. l. Roma;

- 10g fresh ginger;

- ½ bar of dark chocolate;

- 30 ml of water.

Recipe. Cook as usual plum jam, but when the mass boils, you need to add rum and grated ginger, and then stir in the melted dark chocolate. Boil over low heat until thickened.

This is unusualplum jam with a chocolate flavor and a hint of ginger will cheer up the whole family on long winter evenings. Fans of chocolate and fruit combinations will be delighted with such a filling for pancakes or pancakes.

Amazing apples

Unusual apple jam is very easy to make. It's just that these fruits are versatile and can be combined with anything, like kiwi.

List of ingredients:

- 4 pcs. kiwi;

- 5 pcs. medium apples;

- 600g sugar;

- juice of one lemon;

- 15 ml of water.

Recipe. We clean the apples, cut them into cubes and pour over the lemon juice so that they do not darken. We remove the skin from the kiwi and cut the fruit into cubes, add to the apples. Add water and sugar and let it brew for 2 hours. Then bring to a boil and cook for another 40 minutes.

The finished product smells great and tastes delicious!

Original pears

Unusual pear jam with ginger is becoming more and more popular - the delicacy has a sweet and spicy taste and goes well with both meat and desserts.

List of ingredients:

- 4 pcs. firm pears;

- 0.5 kg of dense grapes;

- juice of one lemon;

- ½ tbsp. l. fresh ginger;

- 1 star anise;

- 3-4 carnation flowers;

- 250ml water.

Recipe. Pears wash, peel, cut into halves or 4 parts. Seeds and tails can not be removed - with them the jam will lookmore interesting. Drizzle half of the lemon juice over the pears. Grapes and pears put in a container with thick walls, pour water and put on medium heat. After boiling, boil for 20 minutes, then remove the fruit from the water, and strain the liquid so that there are no seeds, loose tails, etc.

On the basis of pure fruit water, make a syrup with the addition of all seasonings, pour fruit into it and add the second half of lemon juice. Cook on the lowest heat for 20 minutes, then put to rest for 6-7 hours. Repeat these procedures 3-4 times: it takes 2-3 days to prepare an unusual pear jam, then the pears will become glassy, and the syrup will acquire a rich, beautiful color.

Pine cone jam

Although this is a healing delicacy, we still included it in the top of the most original recipes.

List of ingredients:

- 200 g young pine cone (harvest in May);

- 1 liter of water;

- 0.5 kg of sugar.

Recipe. We boil the cones for 15-20 minutes. We prepare sugar syrup and dip the boiled cones into it. Then cook on low heat for half an hour, and the jam is ready. Sometimes this dish is prepared without cones, on the basis of one coniferous decoction.

The resulting delicacy is used to prevent colds, treat asthma, fatigue syndrome and a number of other diseases.

The most unusual jam

Who could have come up with the idea of making garlic jam? After all, this vegetable has such a specific aroma and taste that it can not be imagined as a dessert! But still thisjam exists, moreover, there are many recipes for its preparation and recommendations on what exactly to eat it with. Here we will not write about medicinal garlic jam, which you need to eat a spoonful a day to prevent colds, but we will talk about a real sweet delicacy with an original taste that can be used as a sauce for meat dishes or as a regular jam for sandwiches.

List of ingredients:

- 300g roasted garlic;

- ¾ cup sugar;

- 300ml water;

- ground nutmeg;

- cinnamon.

Recipe. Peel and cut the garlic in half, and then bake in the oven at 180-200 ° C. Cooking time - 18-20 minutes. Then make syrup from water and sugar, add spices to it and lower the baked pieces. Cook until the syrup begins to thicken, but not until it caramelizes.

Harm and benefit

Is it good to eat jam? Everything is not so clear here. On the one hand, in jam, even boiled many times, some vitamins (groups B and E) are preserved, there is fiber, so such food is useful for the body as a whole and for the stomach in particular. But on the other hand - extra calories, damage to teeth and, in some cases, increased acidity. So you can and should eat, but not in liters.

But the jam improves mood - this is noted by all doctors. Raspberry is the most useful: it treats colds, contains useful folic acid, cleanses the circulatory system, normalizes blood pressure, has a beneficial effect on the stomach and intestines after stormy feasts, improves complexion andhelps maintain skin elasticity. And so it happened that raspberry jam is unusual, although it seems that it cannot be simpler.