This amazing and useful product helps improve visual function, normalize digestion, prevent infection with viral diseases, and strengthen the nerves and cardiovascular system.
Making “Five Minute” blueberry jam won’t seem too difficult. You just need to choose a recipe, purchase the ingredients and strictly follow the recommendations.
Features of preparing blueberry jam
Dessert is prepared in different ways.If desired, other types of berries, herbs, honey, and citruses are added. Many more housewives make preparations in jelly form or with the preservation of whole fruits.
The main advantage is that there are no seeds inside the berry and it is easy to clean, because you do not need to remove even small branches.
Most recipes are based on using only sugar in addition to the berries themselves. But some authors advise adding a little water, lemon juice or acid. First, prepare a sweet syrup, and later pour it over the berries. It is important to use cookware coated with enamel, as it will not oxidize.
How to choose the right blueberries for jam
In order for the tasty preparation to be stored for a long time, you need to select only ripe and undamaged berries. They are prepared as follows:
- All material is sorted, and those that do not meet the requirements are rejected.
- Leaves, stems and other debris are removed from berries that have passed the inspection.
- Blueberries are washed under running water, then soaked for a short time.
- The berries are dried and poured into a saucepan.
Fresh blueberries are purchased at markets. Before purchasing, it is better to ask where it was collected. An undoubted advantage will be the environmentally friendly area where the berries grow. The frozen product can be obtained at any time of the year in stores.
A simple five-minute recipe for the winter
It is well known that blueberries have a beneficial effect on poor eyesight. “Five-minute” does not take long to cook, and therefore the delicacy comes with whole berries. Consequently, all vitamins do not lose their properties.
This jam is considered tastier than traditional jam; anyone can make it.Clean berries are sprinkled with sugar and set aside for a while. After 4 hours, when a sufficient amount of juice appears, place the pan on low heat and bring to a boil. After which it cooks for only 5 minutes. The foam, of course, is removed.
Hot jam is poured into sterilized jars, screwed on with lids and stored in a cool, dark place.
“Five-minute jelly” from blueberries
The step-by-step recipe for this amazing preparation looks like this:
- Prepare the necessary ingredients, namely 3 kg of fresh blueberries and 2.5 kg of granulated sugar.
- Place the berries in an enamel container, sprinkle 1.25 kg of sugar on top. Don't interfere. Let stand for 3 hours.
- Move the pan to the stove. Turn on low heat.
- After the blueberries have settled, add the rest of the granulated sugar, remembering to stir gently with a wooden spoon.
- Once it boils, cook for no more than 5 minutes. Then sprinkle with gelatin and mix well.
- Bring the jam to a boil again and immediately move the pan away from the heat.
- Pour the product into jars.
“Five-minute” blueberry with lemon flavor
It often happens that you purchase berries that are too sweet due to obvious overripeness. If you use such material, the jam will turn out very sweet. Experienced housewives, in order to get rid of excess sweetness, reduce the amount of sugar and add lemon juice or lemon zest.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg blueberries;
- 800 g granulated sugar;
- 1 large lemon;
- 100 ml water.
Water and sugar are combined in an enamel pan. Place the syrup over medium heat until it boils.
The lemon zest is grated and all the juice is squeezed out.
Blueberries are pre-prepared.After all the manipulations, it is loaded into syrup, brought to a boil.
Without stopping stirring, add lemon zest. Continue cooking the contents of the pan for another 5 minutes. Then squeezed lemon juice is poured into it, the jam is thoroughly stirred and removed from the stove.
The finished delicacy is poured into prepared containers or served with tea immediately after cooling.
“Five-minute” without cooking berries - frozen in glasses
You will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg blueberries.
- 500-700 g sugar.
The berries are pre-sorted, peeled, washed and dried. Then they are placed in a bowl and pureed using a blender.
Add sugar to the container with blueberries and mix the contents thoroughly.
Take plastic glasses and place the resulting delicious mixture of berries and sugar in them. They are covered with lids and sent to freeze in the refrigerator.
If a product is frozen and thawed many times, then not only the beneficial substances will be lost, but also the wonderful taste.
Also, instead of glasses, some housewives use special containers for preparing ice in cubes.
All the recipes proposed above will not seem complicated to anyone. After all, blueberries are considered a self-sufficient berry with many useful microelements, which is best cooked for no more than 5 minutes. Therefore, it is recommended not to hesitate, but rather to purchase a fresh harvest of blueberries and prepare delicious jam according to the recipe you like most. You can be one hundred percent sure that everyone will like the delicacy.
