8 simple recipes for delicious red gooseberry jam for the winter

Jam made from red gooseberries is a simple but tasty delicacy. The berries contain natural gelling agents. Thanks to them, the jam turns out thick. It looks more like jelly. It takes a little over an hour to prepare the sweets. The jam has a pleasant color and aroma. Red varieties go well with various spices and additives.

Features of making red gooseberry jam for the winter

Red gooseberry varieties are distinguished by the absence of pronounced acidity. Their delicate taste has only a slight hint of sourness. Thanks to this quality, red varieties can be combined well with various additives.

There are many ways to make red gooseberry jam. Each housewife chooses the most suitable one for herself.

Fruit preparation

Sometimes preparing the fruit takes longer than the cooking process itself. The problem lies in sorting the berries. To make delicious red gooseberry jam, you need to carefully sort the berries. This work has two goals:

1. It is necessary to select only ripe whole berries. Brushed and rotten fruits must be removed immediately.
2. You should choose berries of approximately the same size. Berries of different sizes will absorb sugar syrup differently. This will have a bad effect on the taste. If the sizes of the fruits vary greatly, then it is better to cook jam from large and small gooseberries separately.

Before cooking, the stems of the berries are removed. This is a labor-intensive process, but it is necessary.

How to prepare containers

When it comes to the question of how to properly prepare red gooseberry jam, the preparation of the container is not the least important. Small glass jars are used to store berry sweets. A capacity of 0.5-1 liters is quite enough. Before use, the container is carefully inspected.

The jars must be intact without cracks or chips. Having selected the necessary jars, they are thoroughly washed in hot water and baking soda. The washed jars are placed on a clean towel with their necks down to dry. Then the container is sterilized. The lids are prepared along with the jars.

How to make delicious red gooseberry jam

Everyone has their own favorite recipes. But love for traditions does not prevent you from trying an old delicacy in a new version.

Cooking in syrup from whole berries

This simple jam takes a long time to make. The problem is that each berry needs to be pierced with a needle or toothpick. You need to make 3-5 punctures. For preparation you will need:

• 1 kg of ripe red gooseberries;
• 900 grams of sugar;
• 500 ml water.

Pre-prepared berries are pierced. Water is poured into sugar and, stirring, brought to a boil. Place the berries in hot syrup for 5-6 hours to soak them. The syrup mixed with berry juice is drained. Boil until boiling and again place the berries in it for 5-6 hours. This process is repeated three times.

Ultimately, the berries, drenched in hot syrup, are boiled in it for 10 minutes. The hot dessert is placed in jars. The jars are closed with lids.

With crushed red gooseberries

A very interesting recipe for delicious jam made from crushed berries. To prepare the dessert, take 1 kg of ripe berries and pass them through a meat grinder. Add 1 kg of granulated sugar to the resulting puree and mix, leave for 1 hour in a warm place. The sugar should dissolve. After an hour, 200 ml of water is poured into the puree and placed on the burner.

Cook the mixture for 10 minutes. It is constantly stirred. Then allow to cool completely and proceed to final cooking. Put the jam on the gas and wait until it boils. Cook the boiling puree for 15 minutes.

Sugar can burn quickly - the jam needs to be stirred constantly. Burnt jam is a spoiled product.

After 15 minutes, the sweets are packed into jars.

Five Minute Recipe

“Pyatiminutka” red gooseberry jam is a great recipe for a quick treat for the winter. Required:

• 600 grams of ripe red gooseberries;
• 500 grams of sugar;
• 100 grams of water.

The washed and dried berries are placed in a wide saucepan. 300 grams of sugar are poured there. Keep the mixture over low heat and wait until the sugar dissolves. Then add water and continue heating. When the jam boils, add the rest of the sugar and keep on fire for another 5 minutes. Place it in jars while hot.

With cherry leaves

Red gooseberry jam with cherry leaves is easy to prepare, but has a specific taste.

The recipe is as follows:

1. Place 1 kilogram of sorted and washed berries in a bowl with a flat bottom. Add 3 cleanly washed cherry leaves to them.
2. Fill everything with half a liter of clean water and leave for 5-6 hours.
3. When the water is saturated, the berry-leaf infusion is poured into a separate container. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. Pour the finished syrup over the berries and leave for 3 hours. Then the syrup is drained and brought to a boil again.
5. The process is repeated 4 times.
6. Ultimately, the berries filled with hot syrup are packaged in prepared jars and closed.

This dessert is not exactly jam. The berries are not cooked. This is hot canning in sugar syrup.

With gooseberry leaves

Using this principle, jam is made from ripe red berries with gooseberry leaves. Leaves can be used as an aromatic additive:

• currants;
• raspberries;
• blackberries;
• rose petals.

In each version, simple red gooseberry jam will have new flavor notes.

With oranges

For this delicious sweet you will need:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 1 kg sugar;
• 1 orange.

The cooking process begins with processing the orange. It needs to be washed and kept in boiling water for a minute. After this, cut into slices and remove the seeds. Pre-prepared gooseberries and orange slices with peel are passed through a meat grinder.

Sprinkle the resulting puree with sugar, place in a saucepan with a wide bottom and place on low heat. Stirring constantly, heat to a boil. Cook for 10 minutes. Place the finished jam into prepared jars.

Microwave recipe

Red ripe gooseberry jam can be prepared in the microwave. The peculiarity of preparing dessert in the microwave is that it will have to be prepared in small portions in a special container. Have to take:

• 250 grams of gooseberries;
• 150 grams of granulated sugar;
• 200 milliliters of clean water.

Place the prepared berries in a microwave-safe container. Put sugar there and pour water. We put everything in the microwave for 15-20 minutes.

The longer the container sits in the microwave oven, the thicker the jam will be.

After about 10 minutes, remove the container with berries from the oven, grind the mixture with a blender and put it back until ready. The finished product is packaged in jars.

From frozen gooseberries

The peculiarity of the recipe for frozen gooseberry jam is that sugar is taken in half with berries, and water is 5 times less. So, for 1 kg of berry raw materials you will need 1 kg of sugar and 200 ml of water. First prepare the syrup. Hot syrup is poured over frozen berries. They are kept in it for 2 hours.

When the syrup has cooled and the berries have defrosted, the whole mass is put on low gas. Heat to a boil and boil for half an hour. This time is enough to prepare simple frozen red gooseberry jam.

Further storage

Since ancient times, jam has been stored in the cellar. There is a constant air temperature there. But not everyone has this wonderful storage. In city apartments, the best place to store jars of gooseberry jam is a pantry or loggia. There should be no heating pipes in the storage room. Only in their absence is this utility room suitable for storing workpieces.