Quite often, when cooking jam, some housewives and cooks mix different fruits to get a completely new taste and spice up the dish. Usually, fruits that have the same geographical origin are used for this. However, with a combination of local and exotic fruits, you get real culinary masterpieces worthy of recognition in haute cuisine. It is on this principle that pear jam with bananas is based.
Cooking options
There are several varieties of this dish. Some chefs prefer to cook sliced pears in banana syrup, others try to do the opposite, although in both cases it turns out pretty good jam. Recipes with photographs often offer to keep the products intact and at the same time subject them to minimal heat treatment. However, this cooking option involves the conversion of all components into a homogeneous puree that will contain a small amount of sugar.
Ingredients:
- bananas - 1 kg;
- pears - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0.5 kg.
Product selection and preparation
Such pear jam with bananas is very popular with young children and can actually be used to supplement baby food. That is why the choice of products must be treated with great responsibility. They should not be rotten, damaged or unripe.
All products must be thoroughly rinsed before cooking. In order for the fruits to dry quickly, you can use a paper towel.
Cooking
To pear jam with bananas had the desired consistency, all products must be carefully chopped. It is best to use a grater for this. However, you should remove the peel from the bananas before that , and peel the pear and remove seeds from it.
Then the products are placed in a pan and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes with the addition of a small amount of water (100 ml). Then the resulting mixture is passed through a sieve in order to get as close as possible to the required consistency. Next, add sugar to the dish and continue to cook it over low heat with constant stirring. That is why pear jam with bananas is best done in a bread machine, where this process is automated.
The dish is cooked for about twenty minutes, because this is how vitamins are stored in it and you get excellent jam for the winter. The recipes of some housewives recommend increasing this period, but then the natural taste of the fruit and their nutritional value will be lost.
Rolling up
As soon as the dish has been removed from the fire, it must immediately be packaged in previously sterilized jars and closed with tight lids. Then the containers are turned over and put in a warm place, covered with a towel. So the cooling process will occur evenly, which is required for canning. When the jars become room temperature, they can be placed in a dark and cool place for long-term storage. However, do not stand it for more than one year, otherwise the taste will not change for the better.