During the summer season, almost every home is filled with the aromas of sweet, pleasant life. Nature provides a variety of healthy fruits, which are used to make excellent jam for the winter. Apricot jam with the addition of orange has a delicate, and at the same time slightly invigorating, pronounced taste, thanks to which the taste becomes original and the vitamin content increases several times.
Cooking features
One of the main advantages of sweets is its unique taste and abundant content of vitamins A, B, C, H, E, P, which is very beneficial for the human body. Apricots also contain malic, citric and tartaric acids in fairly large quantities. There are trace elements of phosphorus, potassium and iodine particles that help treat thyroid diseases. In turn, orange, thanks to its vitamins and microelements, increases appetite, strengthens the cardiovascular system and improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. To preserve all these properties during the process of making jam, you must strictly follow the recipe.
Preparing apricots and oranges for jam
It should be remembered that the wrong choice of products or non-compliance with the cooking process can lead to the loss of the beneficial properties of the delicacy, its taste and even appearance. Each recipe has its own step-by-step instructions not only for preparation, but also for selecting all the ingredients to achieve the desired result.
On the Internet you can find an incredible number of different recipes for making apricot jam with orange. All of them differ in their taste, products (ripeness, hardness, with or without seeds), time, and method of preparation. The most common are only two methods:
- By cooking.
- Without heat treatment (grind and season).
Each option is good in its own way, and the best recipes for each of them are presented below.
Methods for making orange and apricot jam
A simple recipe for the winter
To prepare this amber jam you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of ripe, firm apricots.
- 1 kg sugar.
- 1 glass of water.
- 1 orange.
This recipe is simple, for the desired result you need to follow these steps:
- First, prepare the apricot fruits in slices, namely, wash and separate from the seeds (do not throw away the latter).
- Then try to split the bones that were taken out and remove their soft inner part. It will be used in cooking and will give the dessert a distinct taste.
- After this, mix sugar with water and orange juice.
- The next step is to place the prepared fruits and seeds in a large saucepan and pour syrup over them.
- Place the preparation on the fire and bring to a boil, after which you need to drain the syrup and let the apricots cool (this will help keep the slices intact).
- Repeat the above procedure two more times, but the duration of the last boil should last longer than the previous ones - 10-15 minutes.
- After this, pour the finished product into a sterilized container and roll it up. This completes the preparation of the dessert.
- Orange-apricot jam “Pyatiminutka”
Required ingredients:
- 1 kg of apricot pulp.
- Sugar - 1 kg.
- 350 ml water.
- One medium sized orange.
The preparation of the mentioned treat is divided into 5 stages:
- To begin with, sprinkle the fruit pulp, washed and separated from the seeds, with sugar and leave it in this state for several hours, shaking the fruit from time to time (do not stir).
- Then you need to start preparing the orange. To do this, just wash it thoroughly, cut it into pieces, select the seeds and beat it vigorously with a blender or grind it in a meat grinder (along with the peel).
- When the apricots have released their juice and mixed with sugar, add the previously prepared orange mixture to them.
- Then all this can be poured with water, mixed and cooked over moderately high heat. Bring to a boil and turn off.
- When the treat has cooled down, the procedure must be repeated. After the third cooking, the sweetness is placed in jars and covered with boiled lids.
- Apricot and orange jam without seeds
This cooking option is very simple, as it does not contain any secrets. All steps are the same as in the first recipe above. The only peculiarity is that you don’t need seeds, since in this case the sweetness is prepared without them.
Apricot jam with orange and lemon
To prepare you will need:
- Apricots - 1 kg.
- Half an orange.
- Half a lemon.
- Sugar - 800-1000 grams (to taste).
The apricot dessert is prepared as follows:
- Apricots should be sorted out, poured with cold water and allowed to brew for a while.
- After a couple of hours, the water should be drained, the fruit should be dried on a towel, divided in half, separated from the seeds and the slices placed in a container for cooking.
- Lemon and orange must be scalded in boiling water, then cut into several pieces and remove the seeds.
- Grind the citrus fruits in a meat grinder and add them to the apricots.
- Then add sugar, mix everything carefully and leave for a couple of hours.
- After a time when the sugar has melted and turned into a clear syrup, the workpiece can be put on the fire and boiled, simmer over low heat for 10-20 minutes, regularly removing the film and stirring. Then leave in a quiet place for 8-12 hours.
- For original taste, you will need kernels from the seeds, which should be added to the jam and the cooking procedure repeated, finishing it at the moment when the jam has an acceptable thickness and color.
- The delicious treat is ready, all that remains is to put it in jars and enjoy the taste of lemon.
Storing jam
There is nothing complicated about this. To do this, you need to place the finished jam in the refrigerator or just a cool place, for example, a cellar. The sourness of lemon and orange will prevent fermentation of the dessert, so it will not spoil.
