11 best recipes for making pumpkin jam with apples for the winter

Everyone knows that large orange pumpkin fruits are a real storehouse of vitamins and microelements. Pumpkin boosts immunity, improves digestion and even helps with insomnia. Housewives use it to prepare various low-calorie delicious dishes: soups, cereals, pies. Pumpkin jam with the addition of apples for the winter is original and tasty.

General cooking principles

The best quality fruits and vegetables are used to make jam. It is boiled with sugar (you can use honey) in special cooking basins with low walls. It is not recommended to use more than 2 kg of raw materials at a time. Only then will the jam be of better quality and more flavorful. You need to cook it over low heat.

To prevent the sweet preparation from spoiling, the amount of sugar must be coordinated with the recipe.

How to choose and prepare the main ingredients?

Orange pumpkin fruits for jam must be ripe. Ripeness can be determined by the seeds. Mature seeds are convex, not skinny. For jam, you need to choose varieties with a sweet honey taste. Apples and pears must also be ripe to add.

Fruits intended for cooking are washed with warm water, then dried, cored, and cut into pieces.

Preparing containers

You need to prepare glass containers for the jam: jars or bottles, or containers made of polymer materials. Well-washed containers for packaging jam are sterilized in the oven or over steam. The lids are also sterilized.

Advice! If the jam is not being prepared for long-term storage, you can get by by scalding the container with boiling water.

How to make pumpkin-apple jam for the winter?

Housewives have quite a lot of recipes for making pumpkin jam.

Simple recipe

To make pumpkin jam, you need to take sweet, honey-flavored or nutmeg varieties of the orange fruit.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 500 g sweet apples;
• 700-800 g sugar.

The insides of the fruit are removed, the peel is peeled with a vegetable peeler, then cut into small cubes.The apples are cut into several parts and the core is removed. Pieces of vegetables and fruits are passed through a meat grinder.

The mass is placed in a bowl, sugar is poured into the resulting puree and mixed. Cook over low heat for about half an hour.

While the jam is cooking, you need to prepare containers with lids.

To obtain a puree-like mass, you need to process it using an immersion blender, then cook for about 10 minutes.

The finished sweet puree is poured hot into containers and rolled up.

Option with lemon

Grind 1 kg of pumpkin and 1 large lemon. To obtain a jam-like mass, the pieces must be small. Before starting cooking, you need to wait 2-3 hours for the sugar to dissolve and the juice to release.

Cook the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly. After half an hour, remove from the heat, leave to cool for 8 - 9 hours, then cook again for a quarter of an hour.

The cooling and cooking procedure is repeated three times.

With pears and nuts

This delicacy has an original taste.

You will need:

• 500 g each of pumpkin, sweet apples and ripe pears;
• 1 lemon;
• 2-3 pieces of walnuts;
• 1.2 kg sugar.

The peeled and chopped fruit pulp is sprinkled with a glass of sugar. The released liquid is drained. Prepare syrup from the remaining sugar. Pieces of pumpkin, apples, pears, and walnuts are boiled in boiling syrup in four stages. That is, after cooking for 10–15 minutes, remove from the stove and cool, then cook again. During the third time, add grated lemon.

With citruses

Pumpkin jam with the addition of citrus fruits has an original piquant taste.

Per kilo of pumpkin you will need one tangerine, lemon, and orange.
Peeled and chopped citrus fruits and pumpkin should be mixed, covered with a kilogram of sugar, and allowed to infuse to dissolve the sugar.

Cook the mixture until the pumpkin softens for about 20-30 minutes.

Important! You can add gelfix to the mixture and then cook as recommended on the package.

With oranges

We need to stock up:

• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 1 medium orange;
• 0.5 pcs. lemon;
• a glass of water;
• 600 g sugar.

Pieces of orange vegetables and orange are passed through a meat grinder. First, syrup is prepared from 200 g of sugar, squeezed lemon juice is added, and mixed with pumpkin and orange puree.

Cook for 25 minutes.

With cocoa

For this unusual jam you take:

• for 500 g pumpkin 500 g sugar;
• 50 g cocoa powder;
• 2 tsp. dry peppermint;
• a drop of peppermint oil;
• a pinch of ground red pepper;
• 2 tablespoons of rum or aromatic liqueur.

Alcohol and sugar are added to the peeled pumpkin pieces. The resulting mass is boiled for just one minute. Cool and boil again.

Remove with a slotted spoon, mix with cocoa powder, ground pepper and peppermint, beat with a blender and cook for about 20 minutes.

At the end of cooking, add a drop of pepper oil to obtain a special aroma.

With almonds

In this recipe, for 1 kg of pumpkin you will need 1 lemon, 350 g cane sugar, 150 g almonds, 2-3 clove buds, 300 ml water.
Vegetables cut into small cubes are covered with sugar, grated lemon is added. The ingredients are left to infuse for 2-3 hours.
Almonds are poured with boiling water, kept for 15 minutes, then added to the pumpkin with lemon.

Boil the jam over medium heat, then cover with a lid and leave for 25-30 minutes.

Continue the cooking process until an amber-colored consistency is obtained.
5 minutes before the end of cooking, add a few clove buds. Then the aroma of the spice is revealed.

With carrots and cinnamon

Pumpkin jam with apples with the addition of cinnamon and carrots has an incredibly aromatic taste.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg each of apples and pumpkins;
• 500 g carrots;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• 1 kg sugar.

Peeled pieces of pumpkin without fibers, seeds, chopped apples and carrots into pieces should be passed through a meat grinder, then add sugar.

This unusual jam is cooked for about 30-40 minutes over low heat. Add spicy cinnamon powder 5 minutes before cooking.

With ginger

For jam, take 1 kg of pumpkin, 1 lemon, 1 kg of sugar, ginger root 5-7 cm long.

Pumpkin pieces with sugar are left for several hours to separate the liquid, which is then poured out. Lemon without seeds should be crushed in a blender along with the peel. Cook the ingredients together with chopped ginger over low heat for half an hour.

Multicooker recipe

It’s convenient to cook pumpkin delicacy with apples in a slow cooker.

Ingredients:

• 800 g vegetables;
• 1 ripe medium-sized apple;
• 500 g sugar;
• ¾ tsp. Ginger;
• a pinch of citric acid;
• 1 tbsp. l water.

Peeled pumpkin and apple are cut into pieces. You can use frozen pumpkin instead of fresh.

Place all ingredients in the slow cooker strictly according to the recipe. Leave to release the juice under a closed lid for about 1 hour. Then set the “Quenching” mode for 1 hour.

In the bread machine

For half a kilo of pumpkin you need to take 200 g of peeled apples of autumn varieties, 100 g of fructose.

Place chopped apple slices and pieces of pumpkin into the bread machine container, add sugar (fructose is possible), set the “Jam” mode. After an hour and a half, the dessert jam is ready.

How and for how long can you store it?

Store pumpkin jam in a cool place in hermetically sealed containers: bottles, jars.

You can use this tasty preparation until the next harvest.