Strawberry Jam Recipes

Strawberry jam is one of those preparations that must be made in the summer. A fragrant sweet berry will not only please with its taste, but also have a beneficial effect on health, for example, strengthen the immune system. In addition, it is believed that strawberries contain pectin substances that remove radiation from the body. You can make such jam according to various recipes using various techniques.

Strawberries for harvesting must be fresh. Selected berries are carefully examined and cleaned of spoiled, unripe and overripe specimens. It is imperative to remove the fruits spoiled by gray rot, they will irrevocably spoil the taste of the dessert. The optimal size is medium, because small berries will wrinkle under heat treatment, and large ones will absorb the sweetener for too long.

Wild strawberries will make a very tasty jam, but if you decide to cook a thicker product - jam, then it is better to use garden strawberries, that is, strawberries. For example, a remontant Victoria will make a wonderful jam. A classic and rather simple recipe for making strawberry jam will require a kilogram of apples, 1.7 kilograms of granulated sugar, 300 milliliters of water and 2 grams of citric acid.

• The berries should be picked on a day when it is sunny and not raining outside, and then used within one day. Until the expiration of this period, strawberries should be stored in a container without a lid at room temperature.
• Immediately before cooking, the fruits must be sorted out, removing those that have not ripened, overripe or deteriorated. After that, the strawberries are washed under running water.
• At the next stage, syrup is to be prepared from water and sugar. The ingredients are put on the stove, brought to a boil and boiled for fifteen or twenty minutes. The process should be accompanied by stirring and removing the foam. As soon as the color becomes transparent and the foam stops forming, the liquid can be removed from the stove. The berries are poured with syrup, the substance is again brought to a boil, after which everything cools down for about fifteen minutes.

• This procedure should be repeated four times, and each time the strawberry jam should rest for a quarter of an hour. At the last entry into the pan, add citric acid. The finished product is poured into sterilized glass jars and rolled up.
• As in the case of any blanks, sealed containers are turned upside down, wrapped in a thick towel or blanket, then left alone until completely cooled, after which they are taken away for long-term storage.

In five minutes, by the way, it will be possible to make a quick, tasty jam for the winter.

• A step-by-step recipe involves the use of 0.5 kilograms of berries and 0.5 kilograms of granulated sugar. However, it would be more correct to say that in this case you need to add sugar to taste. The berries are sorted out, freed from green tails and washed under running water.
• Strawberries are laid out in a suitable container and covered with sugar. Everything is mixed with a wooden spoon and set aside for several hours until the juice appears. Then the container is placed on the stove. After boiling, you will need to put out the fire and let the dessert cool. In time, this process will last about three and a half hours.
• Then the substance is again brought to a boil and boiled for about five minutes. The finished dish is sorted into jars and rolled up.

Strawberry jam with mint is prepared from a kilogram of berries, a kilogram of sugar, two tablespoons of finely chopped fresh herbs and two tablespoons of pure water.

• After the berries are properly processed, they are laid out in a container and covered with sugar. The mass is removed in the cold for about ten hours, so that the juice appears. At the next stage, the liquid is placed in a large saucepan with a thick bottom. It is put on fire and brought to a boil.
• The berries are poured into a boiling liquid and subjected to about five minutes of heat treatment. After removing the foam and turning off the fire, the berries must be allowed to cool. After that, this procedure is repeated two more times. Mint is added to the dessert, it is mixed and cooked for about a minute. Then the product cools down and is laid out in containers.

An original solution would be to make strawberry jam with paprika and vanilla.

• In addition to 500 grams of berries, prepare 500 grams of brown sugar, a little smoked paprika, a vanilla pod and a tablespoon of agar-agar, which is a healthy substitute for gelatin. Prepared berries are covered with sugar for an hour and a half until a sufficient amount of juice appears. The mass is put on the stove, brought to a boil, after which it boils for about five minutes.This sequence of actions is repeated three times.
• At the last entry, vanilla and paprika are laid in the jam, after boiling the pod is thrown out. Part of the syrup is taken from the saucepan to dissolve the agar-agar, after which the substance is introduced back. The finished jam is laid out in prepared containers.

It is worth mentioning about the berry jam, which is prepared with the use of special sugar - gelling.

• The use of this ingredient can significantly reduce the time spent on heat treatment. In this case, it will only be about seven minutes. Of the ingredients, 400 grams of fresh berries and the same amount of gelling sugar are required. The output should be 750 milliliters of jam.
• As a rule, the same amount of sugar and berries is taken for this jam, but these proportions can be changed. For example, take three kilograms of berries and a kilogram of sugar, or two kilograms of strawberries and one kilogram of sweetener. In this case, the taste of the resulting jam will be less sweet, and the texture will be more watery.
• The berries are laid out in a container and covered with half a glass of gelling sugar. Everything is shaken a little so that the crystals mix with the berries, after which it is set aside for five minutes until the juice appears. Jars and lids are pre-sterilized. The berry mass is placed on the stove and brought to a boil, after which sand is introduced into it. After the second boil, the jam can be boiled for a couple more minutes, and then removed from the heat and poured into jars.

A rich jam with whole berries requires classic ingredients, the proportions of which are slightly different from the usual.

• From 1.3 to 1.5 kg of granulated sugar and 2 grams of citric acid are taken per kilogram of strawberries.Berries and sugar are placed in the prepared container layer by layer. In this state, the ingredients will have to be until the juice comes out.
• At the next stage, the berry mass is placed on the stove and heated until the sugar dissolves. Then the fire is increased, and the jam is cooked for twenty to twenty-five minutes.
• At the end of cooking, you need to add citric acid, which will help preserve the color and prevent sugaring.

Liquid strawberry jam is properly cooked from a kilogram of berries and 1.2 kg of granulated sugar.

• Washed strawberries are covered with sugar and put away for the night in the cold so that the juice appears. In the morning, the container is placed on the stove, and its contents are brought to a boil.
• After that, the jam will have to be cooked for five minutes, periodically pressing down with a wooden spoon and removing the foam. The finished product is laid out in containers.

Cooking in a slow cooker is the best way for those who value their time.

• The berries are washed, after which they are poured into the multicooker bowl. Then everything is sprinkled with sugar or other sweetener and watered. In the slow cooker, the “Extinguishing” program is selected and the time is thirty-five minutes.
• The resulting product is laid out in containers and tightly closed with lids.

To create a strawberry-blueberry mixture, you need to prepare 500 grams of strawberries, a kilogram of blueberries, 1.5 to 2 kilograms of sugar and 400 milliliters of water.

• Berries are traditionally prepared and washed. In a separate container, water with sugar is brought to a boil to obtain a syrup. Berries are thrown into the boiling liquid, which will have to be boiled over low heat for about ten minutes.
• The resulting jam is packaged in sterilized containers.

The combination of raspberries and strawberries is also often used to make jam.

• In addition to a kilogram of raspberries and 200 grams of strawberries, 1.3 kilograms of granulated sugar and 3 grams of citric acid are prepared. Prepared berries are laid out in a container and filled with about 550 grams of sugar. After brewing for six or seven hours in the cold, the pan is placed on a small fire. The remaining sugar is introduced into the berry mass, and everything is brought to a boil.
• The jam is removed from the stove, gently stirred and left alone for four hours. At the final stage, the dessert is cooked for about a quarter of an hour, and after that it is laid out in containers.

• The cooking pot must be made of heat-resistant material, and it is better to heat the jars for blanks in a water bath for several minutes until the walls become warm. Before that, they are carefully washed and dried.
• In jam, by the way, you can add not only other berries, but also spices, such as cinnamon or ginger.
• The exact time during which the jam is cooked depends on the desired thickness of the product. If, according to the recipe, the cooking time has expired, but the jam is still liquid, it must be left on the stove for some more time.
• Jam can be easily transformed into jam if passed through a sieve and then heat-treated again.

It is customary to use strawberry jam in its pure form with tea or spread on toast with butter. Often it is used as a main or additional sweetener for cereals, cheesecakes, pancakes, yogurts and other breakfasts.

See below for how to make strawberry jam.