Apricot jam is an amazing harvest with a summer aroma and bright color. Dessert will certainly cheer you up and brighten a winter day. But how to cook it?
Apricot jam for the winter - general principles of preparation
Rinse apricots before use, remove seeds. It is not necessary to dry fruits, as water is often added to them. Sometimes sugar syrup is prepared in which apricots are dipped. Jam is always cooked, and the fruit is boiled or steamed under the lid until soft.
You can grind the mass in mashed potatoes in different ways. The easiest and easiest way to use a blender. You can also take a meat grinder. It can grind the ingredients before cooking or after it. Some housewives prefer to make a gentle jam without skins and wipe the mass through a sieve. The method is good, but reduces the yield of the finished product.
Jam is hot poured into sterile jars. The covers should also be clean. For storage, the workpiece is removed after complete cooling.
Recipe 1: Apricot Jam for the Winter with Lemon and Vanilla
A variant of aromatic apricot jam for the winter, which is prepared with the addition of vanilla. It is better to use a real pod, with it it turns out much tastier.
Ingredients
• kilogram of apricots;
• 0.4 kg of sugar;
• 1 tsp citric acid;
• gram of vanilla.
Cooking
1. Rinse the washed apricots, put them in a saucepan and pour half a glass of water.
2. Put on fire, soar under the lid until soft. Halves should fall apart.
3. Open the pan, turn off the heat and cool the apricots to a warm state.
4. We take a sieve, it is possible not very small. Wipe the steamed apricots to get rid of the skin.
5. Add sugar to the already wiped mass, stir.
6. Put the mass on the fire, add a teaspoon without a hill of citric acid and pour out vanilla.
7. Boil the jam for 20 to 30 minutes. It is very important to stir the mass. Since it can easily burn.
8. We lay out the hot billet in jars, hermetically seal and put in storage.
Recipe 2: Ukrainian apricot jam for the winter with almonds
For this amazing jam from apricots for the winter you will need sweet almonds. He will make the workpiece tasty, aromatic and interesting. Sometimes, instead of almonds, sweet apricot kernels are used. About 6 jars of jam of 0.5 liters are obtained from these ingredients.
Ingredients
• 3.0 kg of apricots (weight without seed);
• 2.3 kg of sugar;
• 300 grams of almonds;
• 0.15 liters of water.
Cooking
1. Put the washed halves of apricots in a large pan, steam under a lid with water for about half an hour. Cooling down.
2. We twist the soft apricots through a meat grinder or interrupt with a blender. If you want, you can wipe through a sieve. The yield of the workpiece in this case will be slightly less, but the mass will turn out to be more tender.
3. Add sugar and almonds, stir.
4. Put the mass on the fire, cook aromatic jam after boiling for about fifteen minutes. Be sure to remove the foam.
5. We lay out in sterile jars, close with scalded lids.
Recipe 3: Jam from apricots for the winter through a meat grinder
A simplified recipe for apricot jam, which is prepared very quickly and does not require rubbing the mass. You will need any meat grinder, preferably with a fine mesh.
Ingredients
• 1.5 kg of apricots;
• kilogram of sugar.
Cooking
1. Free apricots from the seeds. Before this, the fruit must be thoroughly washed.
2. Twist the halves through a meat grinder.
3. Add sugar according to the recipe and stir.
4. Put the workpiece on the stove, make a small fire. Dissolve all the sugar.
5. Add fire, throw a little vanilla and cook until boiling.
6. Remove the white foam and reduce the heat again.
7. Cook jam with a slight boil for about half an hour. If the owl will appear foam, then remove with a spoon.
8. Put the jam in jars, twist with scalded lids.
Recipe 4: Apricot Jam for the Winter with Gelatin
A variant of a thick and rich jam, which can be called jam. A wonderful piece that fits perfectly into any dessert. Gelatin sets the desired consistency for a sweet treat.
Ingredients
• 2 kg of apricots;
• 2 tablespoons of gelatin;
• 100 ml of water;
• 1 lemon;
• 1.2 kg of sugar.
Cooking
1. Grind washed and pitted apricots in any way. You can kill in the combine, a meat grinder is also suitable.
2. Add sugar, stir and put on a small fire to cook. After boiling, we cook the jam for fifteen minutes.
3. Pour gelatin with boiled but chilled water. It is advisable to do this in advance and let the product brew for half an hour.
4. We wash the lemon, survive the juice, send it to the jam.
5. Next, spread the swollen gelatin and stir quickly. Turn off. We don’t give the boil to the mass, otherwise the gelatin after that will not work, the jam will not freeze.
6. We distribute the hot mass into cans, tighten with hermetic and necessarily sterile lids.
Recipe 5: Jam from apricots and apples for the winter
A variant of mixed jam from the outline with the addition of apples. We choose soft and ripe fruits so that the workpiece delights with a summer aroma.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of apricots;
• 0.6 kg of apples;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• 50 ml of water.
Cooking
1. Cut the apples from the stub and twist. You can throw pieces into a combine and grind in this way.
2. Apricots freed from the seeds and also chop.
3. Add prescription sugar to the fruit mass.
4. Send the sweet mass to boil.
5. Stirring regularly, cook the jam for about half an hour. We make sure that the thick mass does not burn.
6. At the same time, sterilize the jars and scald with boiling water the lids.
7. Pour the workpiece, twist. We keep it upside down to cool, then return to its natural position, put it away for storage.
Recipe 6: Apricot Jam for the Winter with Oranges
A variant of the amazing jam, which is prepared from apricots with oranges. Its aroma is difficult to convey in words and it definitely needs to be prepared. Optionally, the number of oranges can be changed up or down, but adhering to the total mass of fruits.
Ingredients
• 2 kg of apricots;
• 3 kg of sugar;
• 1 kg of oranges;
• 0.3 tsp citric acid;
• 1 glass of water.
Cooking
1. Pour boiled water over the washed oranges to remove the chemicals that citruses are processed for preservation.
2. Take a grater and remove the zest. Then we clean the fruits, divide into slices and remove all the seeds from them.
3. From washed apricots also remove the seeds, throw off the oranges.
4. Combine sugar and a glass of water, put on a small fire and prepare concentrated syrup.
5. Add apricots, followed by oranges and grated zest.
6. Cook jam until all fruits are completely soft. Then cool a little.
7. Lower the hand blender and mash.
8. Add the lemon.
9. Before the jam, it boils for another five minutes. Pour the hot mass into jars.
Recipe 7: Chocolate Apricot Jam for Winter
Apricot jam with cocoa - an amazing treat for the sweet tooth. Dessert is very similar to chocolate paste, but much more natural and healthy. To make the jam really tasty and aromatic, we use high-quality cocoa powder.
Ingredients
• 1.2 kg of apricots;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 1 kg of sugar.
Cooking
1. We sort through apricots, wash, throw out the seeds.
2. Put in a saucepan, add a glass of water and turn on the fire.
3. Pour sugar, but not all. Leave the glass.
4. Steam the apricots under the lid for about 15 minutes.
5. Cool the jam, interrupt the blender. You can twist through a meat grinder.
6. Return the sweet mass to the pan, put it on the stove again.
7. Combine the sugar left over with cocoa powder. Rub it with a spoon to break all the grains and get rid of the lumps.
8. Put the sugar in the apricot mass, stir.
9. Boil the jam for about ten minutes and you're done! You can pour, cork.
Recipe 8: Apricot Jam for the Winter with Carrots
A variant of a very bright and healthy jam, which is prepared from carrots with apricots. The blank is thick, can be used to fill sweet cakes and for other pastries.
Ingredients
• 1 kg pitted apricots;
• 0.5 kg of carrots;
• 1 tsp without a hill of citric acid;
• 1 kg of sugar.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled carrots into circles, add 150 ml of water to it and cook until tender in a saucepan. Immediately take a large capacity.
2. While carrots are cooked, we sort the apricots into halves.
3. Add apricots to the finished carrot.
4. Next, pour prescription sugar.
5. Cook the jam until soft apricots and throw citric acid.
6. Cool a little, then grind in any way at hand.
7. Let the jam boil for another five minutes and can be sent to jars. After cooling, the mass will become thicker.
Apricot jam for the winter - useful tips and tricks
• Cooking any jam is complicated by the fact that the mass constantly wants to burn and can not be left unattended for even a minute. So that the sweetness does not stick to the vessel, you can use a pot or saucepan with a non-stick surface.
• The apricot harvest will be more aromatic if you add a cinnamon stick or clove star, vanilla pod during cooking. When casting, flavoring is best removed.
• If there is nothing to grind apricots to a state of mashed potatoes, then you need to boil them longer to a soft skin, and then simply knead with a pestle.
• Citric acid should be added to the jam at the very end of preparation, otherwise the fruit will be hard for a long time, and the cooking time may take a little longer.
