Many housewives love to add new ingredients to familiar dishes, thus obtaining a special taste and shade. You can give new qualities to classic pear jam in different ways, we will do this with the help of an orange - a fruit with a wonderful color and aroma. There are several recipes, we offer some of them.
How to Make Pear Jam with Orange
We take products in the following quantities:
a kilogram of pears;
kilogram of sugar sand;
one large juicy orange.
Wash the pears and remove the core. If the skin is too thick and rough, it is better to remove it. Cut the fruit into cubes or slices - as you like. Peel the orange and take out the seeds, then cut into cubes. The processed fruits are put in a container for cooking, covered with sugar and left overnight to let the juice flow. If the pear turns out to be too hard and does not give enough juice by morning, add a glass of water to the bowl with the fruit mixture and place it on the stove. Let it boil, reduce the flame and continue cooking for about an hour or a little more. All this time, remove the foam from the surface and stir. When the pear jam with the orange is ready, put it hot in the banks. It should turn out to be thick, fragrant and very beautiful in appearance.
Tasteful
Let's try to make pear jam with orange in a different way. To get an unusual taste, just add some spices and slightly change the cooking technology.
In addition to the usual ingredients (0.5 kg of pears, the same amount of oranges, 1 kg of sugar), spices will be required - vanillin (a pinch) and cinnamon (a teaspoon).
Washed and unpeeled pears are cut into small cubes. Remove the peel from the orange and cut it in the same way. Processed fruits and sugar are placed in a pan and mixed. Leave until fruit slices give juice. Then add spices and mix. We put on the stove and cook over low heat until it boils. Now remove the foam, cook for another 15 minutes and remove from heat. When it cools down, put it on the stove again and cook until fully cooked for about half an hour.
In a slow cooker
Pear jam with oranges is easiest to cook in a slow cooker. If you have this versatile pan, then you can proceed. To do this, you need to take ½ kg of pears and oranges and a kilogram of sugar.
My oranges, cut into circles, while the peel is not removed. We cut each circle in half. In pears, remove the core and cut into slices. We put the fruits and sugar in the multicooker bowl and turn on the “Stewing” program for an hour and a half. The prepared pear jam with orange has an amber hue and excellent taste.
Cook in several passes
And now we will prepare a beautiful jam with slices with a delicate aroma and impeccable taste. The whole process will take a total of quite a lot of time, although a clean one will have to spend no more than an hour.
List of ingredients:
Thoroughly wash the pears, cut each in half, take out the core, remove the tail and the inflorescence, cut into slices half a centimeter thick, put in a pan with salted water, leave for a few minutes, then drain the water.
Pour water into a container for cooking and put on a stove. After boiling, make the fire minimal and gradually add sugar (100-150 g each), stirring constantly. When all the sugar has been introduced, cook for another 5 minutes, after which we spread the pears in the resulting syrup. After boiling, keep on the fire for another 7 minutes, then remove from the stove, cover with a napkin or towel and leave to infuse for 8 hours.
After that, put the dishes with jam on the fire again, cook for 7 minutes, remove and leave again for 8 hours. Repeat the action three times. At the last approach, add unrefined orange sliced in thin slices and cook for another 25 minutes. We check readiness by dropping syrup into a container of cold water. If the drop did not spread, but the whole sank to the bottom, you can turn off and remove pear jam with oranges from the stove.
A couple of useful tips
Recipes are recipes, but there are other tricks that perhaps not all housewives know about.
Which pears to choose
For jam, it is better to choose fruits of late varieties with dense pulp. In any case, the fruits should not be overripe, without damage, with an elastic skin.
What to cook
So that pear jam with orange does not stick and does not stick to the dishes, you need to boil it in an aluminum or copper basin.