18 simple recipes for making cherry jam for the winter

Jam made from cherries has long stood apart from other types of similar desserts. Seedless jam is especially popular for its special aroma, juicy color and amazing taste. And how many new options have appeared in recent years - with nuts, chocolate, mint, raspberries. So many delicious dishes can be prepared with cherries - pies, compotes, dumplings. Even meat is baked with it. Cherry is very healthy: it contains a lot of vitamins, acids and microelements.

Features of making cherry jam for the winter

To make jam, you need to select strong berries. It is better to take a variety with almost black fruits. But if the fruits are unripe or small, it is better to leave them for marmalade or jam.

Different recipes require different amounts of sugar. Accordingly, in the end the jam is more liquid or, on the contrary, thicker. The proportions are different.

Although preparing seedless delicacies is more labor-intensive, the dessert is more delicious and of higher quality. It must be cooked in two or three steps, keeping the berries in sweet syrup.

How to quickly remove pits from cherries?

This can be done using ordinary household items - a garlic press, a teaspoon, a paper clip, tweezers, a cocktail straw, a fork, a pin.

How long to cook cherry jam

The jam is cooked over low heat in several batches for 5-15 minutes with breaks for cooling. In total, the process takes 3-5 hours.

How to choose and prepare products correctly?

The berries should be firm and not spoiled. During preparation, the cherries must be washed and the stems removed.

When it is intended to use seedless fruits, these seeds must be removed from the berries. If with them, then each berry must be pierced, for example, with a toothpick.

Preparing the dishes

The jars into which the jam is then poured must be well washed and sterilized, as well as the metal lids.

Why does cherry jam turn out liquid?

It always turns out this way because of the juiciness of the berries. If you need to make it thicker, you can add Zhelfix, according to the Agar recipe. You can pour the juice into a separate saucepan, boil the jam a little and roll it up. It will be thicker.

How to make cherry jam at home?

It's not as difficult as it may seem to beginners. You just need to choose a bowl where it will be cooked, quality fruits and a wooden spoon for stirring. The process itself may vary depending on the recipe. The berries themselves and sugar remain the constant ingredients.

Thick and tasty seedless jam

The products for four half-liter jars are as follows:

• main ingredients in a ratio of 1:1.2;
• 1 glass of water.

Prepare like this:

1. Wash the berries, remove the seeds.
2. Throw into a bowl, sprinkle with granulated sugar. Set aside.
3. Bring, stirring, to a boil.
4. Remove foam.
5. Leave to cool in a bowl.

The dessert is poured into jars, you can roll it up.

Five Minute Recipe

From these ingredients you can prepare seven half-liter jars of a delicious delicacy.

You will need constant ingredients in a ratio of 2:1.5. Prepare in this order:

1. Place the berries in a saucepan and sprinkle layers of sweet sand, wait about six hours for the juice to appear.
2. From the moment of boiling, cook for seven minutes.
3. Pour into jars and close.

Without water

To make this delicacy, you will need a kilogram of basic products.

Process:

1. Prepare the berries, remove the seeds.
2. Place some berries in a saucepan, cover with sweet sand and mash.
3. Over low heat, wait for the sugar to dissolve, add some more of the main ingredients, and stir from time to time.
4. Add 2 handfuls of main ingredients. Wait until the sweet sand dissolves, then add handfuls of berries and sugar.
5. When the volume of juice increases, turn up the heat and keep the delicacy on the stove for ten minutes.
6. Drop onto the nail. Once cooked, it won’t spread.
7. When cool, place into containers.

With gelatin

To make this jam you need:

• main products in a ratio of 3:1;
• 70 g gelatin;
• 0.5 liters of water.

You need to prepare it this way:

1. Fruits need to be without bones. They should be covered with granulated sugar.
2. Wait for the gelatin to swell (this is 40 minutes). The berry will have time to give more juice.
3. After the specified time, mix everything and put on fire until the mass becomes liquid. Everything should boil.
4. Stir the gelatin and wait until it becomes liquid.
5. It only takes 5 minutes to boil, without stopping stirring the treat.
6. Pour gelatin into the bowl, stirring. When it boils, turn it off.
7. Place hot into containers and close.

With seeds and Zhelfix

Zhelfix will allow you to make the jam thicker without unnecessary boiling.

You need to take 800 g of basic products, a packet of Zhelfix.

Preparation:

1. Cover the fruits with sugar until they release juice.
2. Bring to a boil, boil for 5 minutes, remove from heat. Repeat the procedure 2 times.
3. For the 3rd time, add Zhelfix and boil for 5 minutes. Cool, pour into containers, roll up.

With pectin

Take a kilogram of sugar and berries, 1 bag of pectin.

Remove the seeds and cover with sugar. Heat this mixture to a boil, add pectin and simmer for a minute. Distribute into jars, sterilize and roll up.

With mint and black tea

You can make thick and tasty jam according to the following recipe.

Required:

• a kilogram of the main ingredients (remove the seeds);
• a tablespoon of lemon juice;
• 10 tablespoons of bergamot tea;
• 3-4 mint leaves.

Our actions:

1. The cherries are sprinkled with granulated sugar.
2. Brew the tea stronger and let it brew for a quarter of an hour.
3. Pour tea and juice into a saucepan. Stir and cook.
4. Heat the delicacy over low heat. From the moment of boiling, cook for about half an hour, stirring.
5. Five minutes before turning off, throw in mint leaves.
6. When everything is cooked, remove the mint, place the delicacy in containers and close.

In Kiev style

Required:

• ten glasses of basic products;
• cherry juice

Process:

1. Prepare the fruits and remove the seeds. Some of the berries are used for squeezing juice with gauze.
2. Place a glass of the main ingredients in a saucepan, add juice, stir, and boil for about five minutes.
3. Then do this: again add a glass of the main products. Wait until it boils and cook as before. Repeat several times.
4. After the last portion has been cooked, everything is poured into containers, and they need to be sealed.

With strawberry

You will need 0.5 kg of berries and one and a half granulated sugar. Vanilla and cinnamon can also be used.

Prepare the berries, sprinkle with sweet sand, cinnamon and vanilla. Let it sit for a third of an hour. Boil and leave. Cook three times, once it boils, keep on fire for seven minutes. Before each boil, the delicacy must cool. Place in containers and close.

With coffee, cocoa and liqueur

You will need:

• main ingredients in a ratio of 1:0.5 (boneless);
• cherry liqueur - 50 ml;
• cocoa - 4 tablespoons;
• instant coffee - 4 tablespoons;
• gelatin - 10 g;
• lemon - 1/3 teaspoon.

You need to prepare it like this:

1. Cover the berries with sweet sand and let them sit for four hours.
2. Pour in coffee and cocoa and heat. Mix.
3. Set aside after boiling. Grind everything with a blender.
4. Boil again. Leave on the stove for three minutes.
5. Add liqueur and stir. When it boils, place in containers and roll up.

With chocolate

You will need:

• pitted cherries - 500 gr.;
• chocolate - 100 gr. (tile);
• granulated sugar - 150 gr.;
• vanilla sugar - 10 g;
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• water - 100 ml.

Place the berries in a saucepan. There is also sweet sand, water, vanilla sugar, lemon juice. Transfer the saucepan to the stove. When it boils, cook for about half an hour.

Dissolve chocolate. Leave from boiling for a minute. You can roll it up.

With raspberries

You will need:

• a kilogram of berries;
• two kg of granulated sugar;
• 400 ml water.

Prepare firm berries. Pour two glasses of water into a saucepan and add granulated sugar. We are preparing syrup.

Once it boils, add the cherries. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. After half an hour, put it back on the burner and bring to a boil. Do this four times.

Five minutes before the boil starts, add the raspberries again, once it boils, remove. You can roll it up.

With nuts

For four half-liter jars:

• main products in a ratio of 1:0.8;
• 1/2 glass of water;
• 200 g of nuts - walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios.

The delicacy is prepared as follows:

1. Prepare the nuts in advance by chopping them so that the pieces can be inserted into the berries.
2. The cherries should be large and ripe so that the pit can be easily separated. The berries need to be sorted and washed.
3. Remove the seeds and replace them with nuts.
4. Place the berries in a saucepan and add half of the sweet sand. Leave for 6 hours.
5. Pour the juice into a cooking basin. Fill in the second part of the sand, pour in water.Now you can cook the syrup.
6. Place the berries in hot syrup and cook, removing the foam. Instead of stirring, tilt the bowl slightly from side to side.
7. When the syrup thickens, remove the treat from the stove and cool. Place into jars when cooled.

With orange

You can feel the unusual combination of the sweetness of cherries and the subtle sourness of orange.

Ingredients:

• main products in a ratio of 1:0.75;
• 1 orange.

Sequencing:

1. Prepare the berries. Scald the fruit with boiling water and wipe it. Using a grater, remove the zest.
2. Cut the orange in half and squeeze out the juice - there should be 50 ml. Place the juice in a cool place.
3. Place the berries in a bowl. Grind using an immersion blender. Pour in granulated sugar.
4. Turn on the heat under the bowl and bring the mixture to a boil.
5. After boiling, cook for 5 minutes. Turn off and cool the jam for about four hours. Then boil again, turn off the heat, and cool the jam.
6. Add the zest and juice to the treat. Mix everything. Boil again. After five minutes, turn off the heat. Now you can roll up the jam.

In a slow cooker

You will need a kilogram of the main ingredients, as well as a glass of water. Pour water into the multicooker bowl and add sweet sand. Stir. Set the “Warming” mode for 25 minutes. Switch to “Soup” for 20 minutes. Place the berries with the seeds removed. Stir constantly. Remove foam. Roll up.

On a frying pan

You need 0.5 kg of berries, 0.4 kg of sugar.

Pour sugar into a heated frying pan and add cherries. Cook over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Reduce heat and cook for another quarter of an hour. Pour into jars and roll up.

White cherries with lemon and nuts

Required:

• two kilograms of white cherries (already pitted);
• 750 ml water;
• one and a half to two kilograms of sugar;
• lemon;
• walnuts;
• vanillin.

The actions are:

1. Wash the cherries and remove the pits.
2. Cut the nuts into small pieces to stuff the berries with.
3. Pour water into a basin, mix it with sweet sand and cook the syrup over low heat, stirring.
4. Once the sugar has dissolved, add the cherries, stir and remove from heat. Leave for a day.
5. Cut the lemon with the peel, put it in a basin and boil from boiling for about seven minutes. Leave for seven hours, then boil again for a quarter of an hour, add vanillin, stir and pour into jars. You can roll it up.

From frozen cherries

Take a kilogram of the main ingredients. Place the berries in a bowl, crushing them with sugar from time to time. Place on the stove. After boiling, cook for a quarter of an hour and remove to cool completely. Blend in a blender, pour into the same pan and boil for about 30 minutes. Pour the hot delicacy into jars and roll up.

Further storage of treats

The jam can be stored in a cooler place - a pantry or basement. In jars it will last perfectly until the next harvest.