Peach and orange jam will allow you to delight yourself with the taste of citrus fruits and delicate peaches at any time of the year. It is not cloyingly sweet, so the taste is revealed in its entirety. You can use jam in baking or as a snack for tea, and jam as a filling for sandwiches.
Cooking features
You can prepare it not only from chopped pieces of fruit, but also from whole peaches. You just need to choose the smallest and ripest fruits. Blanching will help soften hard fruits and hard-to-remove peels. This simple procedure involves immersing the fruit in boiling water for a few minutes and then cooling it with cold water.
You can preserve the color of peaches by first soaking them in a solution with citric acid (1 teaspoon per glass of water). Jam is great for experimenting with ingredients. And peaches go well with all kinds of fruits, resulting in interesting flavor combinations.
However, the amount of sugar must be carefully measured in each case.
A universal way to check the readiness of jam
You need to scoop a little mass from the boiling pan with a spoon and put it on a tea saucer. If the drop does not change shape, stays even and does not spread, then the jam is ready.
Selection of peaches for jam
Any fruit that can be found on supermarket shelves will do. If the fruits are still hard and unripe, they can be used in classic jam. And for jam it is better to take overripe and soft fruits.
At the initial stage, it is recommended to sort the fruits: put all the ripe and fairly hard ones in one container, and the rest in another, for jam.
Methods for making peach and orange jam
Usually citric acid is added to peach jam so that it lasts longer and does not become sugary, but oranges also cope with this task. Both the pulp of citrus fruits and only the zest are used. The strength of bitterness depends on this - it is felt more in the peels of oranges.Therefore, those with a sweet tooth are recommended to use the pulp for jam, but in general, both options give a similar result.
When foam appears, it must be removed with a slotted spoon.
This jam can be made either in the traditional way - on the stove, or in a slow cooker, microwave, or without cooking at all.
A simple recipe for the winter
Ingredients:
- Peaches - 600 g.
- Large orange - 1 piece.
- Sugar - 600 g.
Algorithm of actions:
- First you need to wash and peel the peaches and remove the seeds. Then cut them into small cubes.
- It is necessary to remove the zest from a washed and dry orange. This can be done using a grater. Cut the peel into small pieces and remove the seeds from inside the fruit.
- Place the orange pulp and zest, peaches and sugar in an enamel pan, stir and leave for 1 hour. The juice should separate from the mixture.
- Place on high heat and boil. Then cook the mixture on low power for another 40 minutes.
- Pour the jam into sterilized containers and roll up.
Peach jam with orange without cooking
Freshly prepared and fresh jam according to this recipe is in no way inferior in taste to the classic recipe. And it’s much easier to prepare and, most importantly, faster. All you need for preparation is fruit and storage jars, which must be sterilized. The treat should only be kept in the refrigerator.
Ingredients:
- Peaches - 1 kg.
- Small orange - 1 piece.
- Granulated sugar - 800 g.
Preparation procedure:
- Wash the fruits, remove peels, seeds and seeds.
- Place the citrus pulp and peaches in a blender and grind.
- Take a deep bowl with thick walls and add the resulting mass there. Add sugar and stir with a wooden spatula.You need to stir a few more times until the granulated sugar is completely dissolved.
- The jam is ready. Now you can put it in glass jars and put it in the refrigerator for storage.
Peach and orange jam
This slightly bitter snack is perfect for morning toast. It is important that the fruits are ripe or overripe; even slightly spoiled ones will do. The main thing is to cut out all the brownish areas before cooking.
Ingredients:
- Orange - 1 piece.
- Peaches - 1 kg.
- Sugar - 700 grams.
Step by step recipe:
- First you need to wash the peaches and get rid of their fuzz. This can be done with a sponge or by soaking the fruit for an hour in water and soda.
- Rinse the oranges thoroughly, as they are added to the jam along with the peel.
- Next, you should cut the fruit into pieces so that they can be conveniently placed in a meat grinder. Citrus fruits need to be pitted.
- Grind the fruits in a meat grinder until they reach a liquid consistency.
- Place the resulting mass in a saucepan, mix with sugar and cook over medium heat until it boils.
- Then reduce the heat and cook for another 5 minutes. Turn off and cool. Repeat the same cooking for 5 minutes until the desired thickness is achieved.
- Distribute the jam among the jars.
How to store jam
Experienced housewives recommend storing finished jam in dry and cool places. When the treat is already opened, it is best to move it to the refrigerator - this way the nutrients will last longer.
