From the sour berry with a tart, bitter taste, housewives make not just tasty preparations for the winter, but also healthy ones. For example, fruit drinks, which can hardly be replaced with anything if you have a cold. Sour jam is a sauce for meat. Pies with lingonberries. In particular, lingonberry jam, rich in beneficial properties, is valued. There are many different recipes for this delicacy.
Cooking features
When fresh, the berry is not very tasty, which is called “not for everyone.” But the delicacies from it turn out to be really excellent.To prepare original and healthy lingonberry jam for the winter, it won't take much effort or time. There are only 2 components for its preparation:
- cowberry;
- granulated sugar.
To enhance the taste or give other shades, you can add various products.
How to choose the right berries and prepare them for cooking
It is necessary to take a serious approach to the selection of berries and their preparation for the cooking process.
Bright red berries are suitable, strong, but not tight, and at the same time juicy. Overripe berries can spoil the delicacy, so they are also not suitable. They should be ripe, but not overripe. Whole, without cracks or visible damage. The lingonberries are washed with special care under running water and allowed to drain thoroughly. Clean fruits need to be dried a little on a napkin or paper towel.
Important. Be careful when preparing the berries so that the lingonberry leaves do not get into the jam, otherwise it will be ruined, as the leaves will acquire bitterness.
How to make lingonberry jam
The easiest recipe for lingonberry jam.
Ingredients:
- 2 kg of berries;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg.
Preparation:
- Sprinkle washed and dried lingonberries with granulated sugar and leave overnight.
- Grind the berries using a blender or mixer.
- Place the resulting berry mixture in the form of a slurry into a container and begin to cook over low heat.
- After boiling, cook the jam for no more than a quarter of an hour. After cooling, repeat the cooking procedure at least 2 times.
- Focus on color. When the jam turns a rich, bright red color, it is ready.
- Pour it hot into sterilized jars and seal with sterile lids. Turn over.
- Once the jam has cooled completely, store it in a cool place.
It turned out to be a beautiful pomegranate color, with a sweet and sour taste.
Five minutes
Lingonberry jam according to the “five-minute” recipe is prepared simply and quickly. Moreover, there are 2 cooking options.
Ingredients:
- 2 kg sugar;
- 2 kg of lingonberry fruits;
- water - 1 glass.
Let's start with the first option.
- Pour water into a saucepan, add granulated sugar.
- When the sugar is completely dissolved in the water, add the berries and cook over low heat for 5 minutes after boiling.
- Pour hot into sterilized jars and store in a cool place: cellar or refrigerator.
You can make lingonberry jam for the winter using the five-minute recipe without cooking. This method allows the berries not to be subjected to heat treatment, as a result of which the lingonberry fruits are not destroyed, but the beneficial substances are retained in full. Granulated sugar acts as a preservative, so this preparation requires more of it than when cooking.
Ingredients:
- lingonberries - 1.5 kg;
- 2 kg granulated sugar.
Preparation:
- Crush the prepared berries using a blender or grind in a meat grinder.
- Add sugar. Place in the refrigerator for several days, but no more than 3.
- Stir thoroughly when you are sure the sugar has completely melted.
- Place in sterilized jars and store on the refrigerator shelf.
Attention. Lingonberry jam prepared according to the recipe without cooking can be stored exclusively in the refrigerator for no more than six months.
Without peel
If the housewife does not like skins and drupes of berries in the jam, you can spend a little more time and cook the jam without these troubles.
Ingredients:
- lingonberries - 1.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation:
- Grind the prepared lingonberries in a blender.Pass the resulting berry mixture through a very fine sieve, leaving the peel in it.
- Add granulated sugar to the berry puree obtained after mashing.
- Cook over low heat for a quarter of an hour after boiling.
- Pour hot into sterile jars.
Lingonberry jam without peel is ready.
With cinnamon and orange
Citrus fruits and cinnamon will give the taste of lingonberry jam bright, rich shades, and the aroma will be amazing.
Ingredients:
- berries - 1.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg;
- water - 250 ml;
- cinnamon - 5 grams;
- half a piece of orange zest.
Preparation:
- Mix all ingredients and put on the stove.
- Cook until cooked (until the jam thickens) over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Pour the finished jam hot into sterile jars and seal with sterile lids.
In a slow cooker
It is very convenient to use a “smart” pan when you really don’t have enough time.
Ingredients:
- lingonberry fruits - 2 kg;
- granulated sugar - 2 kg;
- citrus zest - to taste.
How to do:
- Place all prepared ingredients into the multicooker.
- Turn on the “quenching” mode. It is designed for 60 minutes. When the program turns off, leave the pan in the “warm” mode for another 120 minutes.
- Pour lingonberry jam into sterile jars.
With apple
With these fruits, the lingonberry delicacy turns out to be especially tender and tasty.
Ingredients:
- berries - 1.5 kg;
- apples - 1.5 kg;
- 250 ml water;
- granulated sugar - 3 kg.
Preparation:
- First, pour water into the pan and add sugar. Boil the syrup.
- Wash the apples, remove the skins and cut out the core.
- Add fruit to boiling syrup and cook for no more than 10 minutes. Let cool and repeat cooking.
- During the third time of boiling, add lingonberries and cook everything together for another 10 minutes.
- While hot, pour the jam into sterilized jars and roll up. After complete cooling, store in a cool place.
With plum
Recipe for lingonberry jam with plums. These fruits will add a sweet flavor.
Ingredients:
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- plum - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg;
- 0.5 glasses of water.
Preparation:
- Remove the pits from the plums and grind them in a blender or meat grinder.
- Stir with prepared lingonberries, add water and cook over low heat.
- When the berry mass begins to thicken, add granulated sugar and cook for another 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour hot into sterile jars. Store in a cool place.
With carrots
Very healthy lingonberries, rich in vitamins, combined with equally healthy carrots - you get just a rich source of health.
Ingredients:
- berries - 1.5 kg;
- carrots - 750 grams;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg.
Preparation:
- Pour boiling water over the prepared lingonberries and leave for a couple of minutes.
- Pour boiling water over washed and thinly sliced carrots for 10 minutes.
- Place the lingonberries in a saucepan, add sugar and cook for at least 12 minutes after boiling over low heat.
- Add carrots and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
- Pour the jam into jars and sterilize for 20 minutes. Seal with sterile caps.
How to properly store the workpiece
Any preparations for the winter should be stored in a cool and dark place: cellar, basement, refrigerator.
But the shelf life of jams, jellies and other berry delicacies is different.
Cooked desserts can be stored for 12 months, but those delicacies that have not been subjected to heat treatment, that is, not boiled, can only be stored in the refrigerator for no more than six months.
