Cooking strawberry confiture: a classic and assorted recipe

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

There are harmful sweets (these are all kinds of sweets, milk chocolate, cakes, etc.) and useful ones. The latter include desserts and preparations from various fruits and berries. For example, confiture. From French, this word is translated as "jam" or "jam", but, unlike the delicacies we are used to, it has a denser, jelly-like texture. A particularly valuable characteristic of this berry / fruit dish is that the fruits in it retain their shape better and lose less nutrients than traditional jam cooking. One of the most delicious can be called strawberry confiture. We will describe the recipe for its preparation. Optionally, you can use not only strawberries, but also other berries. For example, combine it with strawberries, cherries, currants or raspberries. But let's start with the classic version.

How to cookstrawberry jam? Its recipe differs from ordinary jam in that in this case gelling agents are added, more precisely gelatin. Thus, we will need the following components:

• kg of selected strawberries;
• half a kilo of sugar;
• dry gelatin (3 tablespoons);
• liquor (4 tbsp) - to give a slight hint of sweet taste.

Cooking like this: choose solid whole berries, wash them and peel them from the stalks. Next, cut the large strawberries in half, leaving the small ones whole. We put the berries in a saucepan and fall asleep with dry ingredients - gelatin and sugar. Put in the fridge for a day (or overnight), stir from time to time.

How to cook strawberry confiture? This must be done quickly. We put the dishes with berries on the fire and cook, bringing to a boil, no more than 4 minutes. Then add some liqueur and mix well. While still hot, pour the confiture into jars and roll up. It is stored in the refrigerator. This berry delicacy is very tasty to eat with a croissant and a cup of coffee. There is no better breakfast.

And how to make confiture from strawberries with other berries? The process is practically the same as the previous recipe. Take the following set:

• 100 grams each of raspberries, cherries or cherries and red currants;
• 200 grams of strawberries;
• gelling sugar - 500 grams.

All my berries, strawberries are separated from the tails and cut in half, currantswe clean from the twigs, pull out the bones from the cherries. We put the berries in one large bowl and cover with sugar. We leave for 3-4 hours so that juice stands out from them. We put the bowl on a slow fire and cook until it boils, and then another 5 minutes, stirring constantly. We lay out in sterilized jars, close the lids and cool. So the strawberry jam is ready. Its recipe will not be difficult to bring to life even for novice cooks.

Children will probably enjoy this berry treat more than jam because of its interesting jelly-like texture. Strawberry and strawberry-berry confiture is very tasty to spread on a bun with butter or on a traditional morning toast. But it can also be used for other purposes, such as adding it to the filling for sweet pies and pies, muffins, layering a cake with it in combination with butter cream, preparing desserts based on it, and more. Strawberry confiture has at least three advantages over traditional strawberry jam. Its recipe is simpler, faster, the product is he althier (since the cooking time is less, more vitamins are preserved). Therefore, maybe you should reconsider your preferences in harvesting berries for the winter?