There are many best recipes for making strawberry jam without boiling the berries. To make the dish truly tasty, you first need to select the ingredients and prepare the container. This aromatic treat is prepared quickly and retains the maximum amount of healthy ingredients. In order for the finished dish to be stored for a long time, a number of rules must be followed.
Cooking features
Making jam without cooking is very easy. Sometimes just two ingredients are enough:
- First you need to wash the berries thoroughly and remove the stalks.
- Be sure to sterilize jars and lids.
- It is important to observe the proportions of all components indicated in the selected recipe.
Benefits of jam without cooking
Strawberry jam, which is prepared without heat treatment, has a number of advantages:
- During heat treatment, berries lose most of their beneficial components. Strawberry jam made without cooking will retain the taste, aroma and benefits of the fresh product. Strawberries contain a lot of organic acids, potassium, magnesium, iron and other minerals, as well as vitamins B, C, E, A.
- It takes little time and effort to prepare the dish.
The finished treat can only be stored in the refrigerator.
Picking and preparing strawberries
Harvesting should be done in dry weather. For jam without cooking, only ripe, elastic specimens of small size are chosen. It is better if the berries are the same size. There should be no damage, stains or signs of rot on the surface.
The selected fruits must first be thoroughly washed. Cold water is poured into a large container, into which the entire crop is dipped. After a couple of minutes, the berries are thrown into a colander.
The stalks are not removed until the berries are completely cleaned. If you do this earlier, the fruits will absorb a lot of water, lose their shape and be tasteless.
How to prepare the container?
To store the finished dish, take any convenient jars of different sizes. The main thing is that there are no chips or cracks on the surface of the container. The selected container is washed with soapy water and sterilized.
The best recipes
An important point is choosing the right, suitable recipe. The composition, in addition to the berries themselves, may contain other components.
Classic raw jam
Ingredients used include:
- fresh berries - 900 g;
- sugar - 720 g;
- water - 165 ml.
The instructions involve performing the following sequential actions:
- pour sugar into a container and fill it with water;
- bring the liquid to a boil, then keep it on the fire for another 5 minutes (be sure to skim off the foam);
- pour the prepared syrup over the strawberries and leave for a couple of hours;
- pour the syrup into a container, bring to a boil and cook for 5.5 minutes;
- pour syrup over the strawberries again and leave for 2.5 hours (the procedure should be repeated two more times);
- strawberries are placed in jars;
- Boiling syrup is poured over the berries and the jars are covered with lids.
Quick recipe
To make jam according to a quick recipe you will need:
- strawberries - 1.1 kg;
- sugar - 1.3 kg.
Step-by-step instruction:
- the fruits are cut into slices and placed in a deep bowl;
- covered with sugar;
- cover the container with a towel and leave overnight;
- The strawberries will give up all their juice overnight; in the morning you need to stir the mixture;
- the jam is ready for distribution into jars;
- Sprinkle a small layer of sugar on top and cover with lids.
From pieces of berries
The berries remain fresh without heat treatment. You first need to cut the prepared specimens into small pieces. Sugar and strawberries are taken in equal proportions.
There will be no problems with preparing the dish:
- strawberries and sugar are placed in layers in containers;
- the berries are left for 9 hours (during this time the berry juice will dissolve the sugar and a syrup will be obtained);
- the finished mixture is laid out in containers;
- A layer of sugar (about 8 mm) is poured on top.
From crushed berries
To prepare the dish you will need to take strawberries and sugar in equal quantities:
- The washed and peeled berries are crushed in a blender.
- Half of the prepared sugar is added to the berry mixture.
- Transfer the mass into jars without reaching the edge.
- The remaining sugar is poured on top and closed with lids.
With ginger and chocolate
An unusual and tasty delicacy is obtained by adding the following components:
- ginger - 38 g;
- white chocolate - 55 g;
- berries and sugar - 900 g each.
The cooking process is as follows:
- selected and processed fruits are covered with sugar overnight;
- in the morning the resulting syrup is poured into a separate container;
- peeled ginger is grated and added to the syrup;
- the syrup is heated, but not brought to a boil;
- pieces of chocolate are thrown into the liquid and stirred until completely dissolved;
- The berries are mixed with syrup and poured into prepared containers.
Treat storage
Jam made without cooking should be stored in the refrigerator. The jars are closed with plastic or metal lids.
In the latter case, the shelf life of the sweet treat increases to 5.5 months.
