Five-minute plum jam is easy to make. The jam has a unique taste. It owes its special notes to the seeds. The taste of the dessert depends on the type of plum and additives. Seedless jam has a more delicate taste. It can be used as a filling for pies; it is ideal for this purpose. So, let’s prepare quick plum jam for the winter.
Features of preparing plum jam “Five Minutes” for the winter
Five-minute plum jam has its own characteristics. It takes 12 hours for the plums to soak in sugar. It is better to start cooking in the evening. If you need to make jam with whole plums, choose elastic, slightly unripe fruits. To get thick jam, take fully ripened or slightly overripe plums.
Product selection and preparation
The plums need to be sorted, damaged fruits removed, and the stalks torn off. Rinse the berries with boiled water. Allow the moisture to drain. If you plan to make a seedless dessert, then cut each berry in a circle and take out the hard core. Then they put it in a basin, cover it with sugar and leave it for 8-12 hours.
During this time, the filling must be stirred so that all halves are evenly immersed in the syrup.
If you plan to cook a delicacy with seeds, then after the berries have been washed, they are blanched. To do this, put the cream in a colander and immerse it in hot, but not boiling, water. The water temperature should not exceed 80 degrees Celsius.
Attention! If you blanch plums longer or in hotter water, the skin will crack and the fruit will fall apart.
After processing, each cream is pierced with a fork. You can make cuts with a knife. This will help the fruits become saturated with sugar and protect the berries from cracking during cooking.
How to prepare containers
The jam is cooked in enamel or aluminum containers. For cooking you need to prepare a basin or wide pan. The finished dessert is placed in glass jars. They are pre-sterilized by keeping them in hot steam. The duration of sterilization depends on the container:
- half-liter jars are steamed for 5 minutes;
- liter jars need 10 minutes for the same procedure.
The jars are closed with metal lids. They must be free of signs of rust and other damage. If the shape of the lid has been changed, it cannot be used. You should pay attention to the gaskets. They must have a uniform color and structure. Sometimes the jam is covered with plastic lids. You can store blanks sealed with plastic lids only in the refrigerator.
How to make 5-minute jam from plums?
There are many recipes for five-minute plum jam. Each cooking recipe is good in its own way. Personal preferences will help you choose the best for yourself.
Classic seedless recipe
To prepare, you will need a kilogram of plums and one and a half kilograms of sugar. Wash the berries, dry them, remove the stems. Cut the cream in half and remove the pits. If the berries are large, then cut them into 4 parts. Then place in a bowl or pan and cover with sugar.
Let it brew for 12 hours. After the specified time has passed, put the basin on gas and heat to a boil, stirring constantly and removing the foam. When the delicacy boils, boil it for 5 minutes, remove from heat and leave to cool.
The cooled dessert is put back on the fire and waited until it boils. But this time there is no need to boil it. Immediately remove from heat and leave to cool. The cooled delicacy is again sent to the burner, but this time it is brought to a boil and boiled for 5 minutes, after which it is put into jars.
With bones
Plum jam with pits for the winter is prepared a little differently. Late varieties of plums are suitable for this delicacy:
- Mirabel.
- Cherry plum.
- Hungarian.
Take one and a half kilograms of berries and the same amount of granulated sugar. Dense, undamaged fruits are selected.The plums are washed, blanched and left to dry. At this time, sugar is poured into 400 ml of water and the syrup is boiled.
Bring the water to a boil and wait until the sugar dissolves, stirring. Dried berries are placed in the finished syrup and left to cool.
The cooled workpiece is placed on gas and heated to boiling point. In the process, stir and skim off the foam. The boiled delicacy is left to cool. The process is repeated twice more. After this, the dessert is packaged in jars.
With nuts
Not everyone knows how to cook five-minute plum jam with nuts. 2 kg of plums are washed. The seeds are removed from the berries. The cream is cut into 4 parts. 200 grams of any nuts are peeled and soaked. You can grind them. The berries are placed in a saucepan.
100 g of water is also added there. This is necessary so that the fruits do not burn. The berry mass is heated to a boil. As soon as it boils, add 1.8 kg of sugar. Everything is mixed and boiled for 40 minutes. Then the soaked nuts are added. The jam is cooked for another 15 minutes. After that it is ready.
In a slow cooker
Five-minute plum jam can be cooked in a slow cooker. A kilogram of plums should be washed, dried and pitted. They are placed in a multicooker bowl and filled with half a kilogram of sugar.
Let stand for 15 minutes. Then turn on the “Quenching” mode for 40 minutes. In the middle of the process, open the lid and stir the jam. After 40 minutes the jam is ready.
With lemon
To prepare five-minute plum jam for the winter, you will need one large lemon. It should be washed and chopped in a blender along with the peel. Rinse and remove seeds from a kilogram of plums.
Place the plums in a bowl, sprinkle evenly with lemon shavings.
Add one and a half kilograms of sugar. Leave the mixture for 3 hours.After 3 hours, the basin will be filled with plum juice. Put it on gas, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. This jam does not require long cooking - lemon has preservative qualities.
From yellow plums
The color and taste of jam made from yellow plums is an extraordinary pleasure. For this delicacy, take 2 kg of yellow berries. They are washed. The bones are separated. The plums are cut into slices and placed in a pan. 1200 g of sugar is also poured there.
Everything is left overnight. The jam is cooked in two steps. The first time it is put on low gas and boiled for 20 minutes. During cooking, the plum skin becomes completely invisible. The jam is allowed to cool and boiled again. Let it boil and boil for 5 minutes. Then they are removed and placed in jars.
Storage conditions and periods
The ideal place to store any jam is the cellar. In city apartments it is stored well on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Properly cooked and packaged plum jam can be stored for up to 3 years. But this applies to seedless dessert.
Five-minute plum jam with seeds should not be stored for more than a year. From the moment they are cooked, the bones release carcinogenic substances. The longer the dessert sits, the more there are. Delicacies with seeds stored for a long time can lead to poisoning.
