What to do in the winter, when all the fruit and berry splendor ends? Mistresses get out of the situation, harvesting summer gifts for the winter. So, for example, there are many ways to make jam. A cooked strawberry jam in a slow cooker is a delicious thing!
A slow cooker is a great invention to help cooks. This electric appliance is capable of many things: stew meat and vegetables, cook soups and cereals, make fish steamed, bake a biscuit and cook jam from berries. It takes a little longer to prepare dishes than in a conventional saucepan, but this fact does not bother you at all, because in the process of cooking the housewives do not need to stand above the stove, watching over the dish.
A good slow cooker is equipped with several containers and a bowl for steamed dishes. The lid of the device must be made of good plastic, hermetically sealed, with a valve for the release of moisture. Some dishes are prepared in their own juice, so the valve function is not needed. This feature is more about desserts. So, when preparing strawberry jam in a slow cooker, the valve should be kept closed.
Of course, you can preserve for the winter in the old manner. In cooking, there are many types of jam making: both complex and costly, and quick and simple. In order to make
Strawberry Jam
"Five Minute", the recipe is very easy. It is necessary to fill in the washed and peeled berries with sugar, wait about five hours, until the fruit starts juice. Place the berries in their own juice in an enameled bowl - a bowl or saucepan, put on fire, stirring occasionally. As soon as the sweet foam begins to boil, wait 5 minutes and turn off the heat. Ready jam is placed in sterilized jars and rolled up with processed lids.
What if there is no time to wait for the fruit to start juice, but I want to prepare the berries as quickly as possible and do other things? Such a quick strawberry jam can be safely “entrusted” to modern technology. There is no need to fill the berries with sugar in advance.
A simple recipe for making strawberry jam :
- 1 kg of strawberries (double boiler capacity 4 l, if less, it is necessary to monitor the ratio of volumes 1: 4);
- 1 kg of granulated sugar (if strawberries are very sweet, you can reduce the amount of sugar);
- 40 ml of water.
We put peeled and washed fruits in the capacity of the multicooker, fill it with sugar, add water so that there is no burning. If the strawberries are juicy enough, you can not add water. We close the lid, close the steam valve and leave it in the "Extinguishing" mode for one hour. Do not forget to remove the foam - a favorite treat of children.
After waiting 60 minutes, turn off the appliance. Delicious strawberry jam in the slow cooker is cooked!
If it seems that the jam is quite liquid, then two minutes before the end of cooking, you can throw a bag of thickener (gelatin), stir and turn it off. The finished dessert, as in the case of cooking in enameled dishes, is poured into sterilized jars and rolled up. By the way, sterilize glass containers can also be in a slow cooker.
To cook berry jam according to the grandmother's recipe or strawberry jam in a slow cooker is a matter of choice for each housewife. In any case, in winter, a sweet vitamin dish will delight all households. The most tasteless porridge for children will seem like a great delicacy, and tea with a berry dessert will appeal to parents and their guests.