Mistresses prepare delicious jam from almost any fruit, berries and even vegetables. In winter, this sweet treat helps make up for the deficiency of many vitamins. It can also be served with tea or used in the preparation of pies. In our article we will talk about how to cook delicious in a pomegranate arena. We offer several recipes for this unusual treat.
The benefits of pomegranate jam
With the beginning of the autumn-winter period, it is time for oranges, tangerines, persimmons and pomegranate. Fruit or berry? What is this fruit? According to botanists, pomegranate is a berry enclosed in a dense shell, which becomes dark red as it ripens.
Pomegranate fruits have unique beneficial properties:
- contribute to the improvement of the cardiovascular system, normalize blood pressure;
- reduce the amount of sugar in the blood;
- increase hemoglobin;
- are effective prevention of atherosclerosis and the formation of malignant tumors;
- restore hormonal balance in the body;
- are a source of vitamins and amino acids important for the body (there are 15 in total).
Pomegranate is recommended to be consumed regularly. The juice of this berry and the grains are also useful, from which the housewives prepare delicious jam.
How to cook pomegranate jam?
Introducing one of the simplest recipes for a sweet treat. It is prepared from sweet and juicy pomegranate. Fruit or berry - debate has been going on about this for many years. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that pomegranate is a berry, under the skin of which there are many juicy sweet and sour grains with seeds inside.
Jam should be prepared from ripe fruits of dark red color. The sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Pour 3 cups of pomegranate juice into an enameled pan. Pour it with the same amount of sugar.
- Put the pot on medium heat. Boil the juice with sugar with constant stirring for 30 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and cool the jam.
- Repeat the same process two more times. Each time you need to cool the jam well, then it will turn out more thick.
- Lastly, add a glass of pomegranate seeds and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Cook the jam for another 20 minutes, then put it in glass jars. In total, 1250 ml of sweet treats should turn out.
Seedless Jam Recipe
For people who donβt like whole pomegranate seeds in jam, the next option is to make it. The sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Pour 650 g of grains, 100 g of sugar into a saucepan, pour 100 ml of pomegranate juice. Add whole lemon juice.
- Put the pot on the stove and cook the berries over medium heat for 20 minutes.
- Grate soft grains through a sieve, substituting a clean pan from below. The bones can be folded into a separate plate, and then squeeze them again through several layers of gauze. Add another 100 g of sugar and continue cooking pomegranate jam for 15 minutes.
- Arrange the finished treat in sterilized jars and cover with lids. Store jam in the refrigerator until spring. This jam can be served with toast, pancakes or cheesecakes for breakfast.
Tasty jam with walnuts and pomegranate
This healthy treat has an original taste and is distinguished by a high content of vitamins. Prepare pomegranate jam with walnuts in the following order:
- Take 3 ripe pomegranate berries. To clean them and to sort them into grains. The amount of finished mass will depend on the size of the fruit.
- Put the fifth part of the grains aside, and squeeze the juice out of the rest with the help of a juicer.
- Cook sugar syrup. To do this, take 500 ml of pomegranate juice and 750 g of sugar. In an enameled pan, the syrup is brought to a boil and cooked without a lid for another 25 minutes.
- In the finished syrup is added a glass of crushed (not flour) walnuts, set aside for pomegranate, vanillin.
- The jam is once again well mixed and poured into sterilized jars.
Pomegranate and Apple Jam
Jam can be prepared not only in summer but also in winter. Jams from orange, pumpkin, tangerines, lemon turn out to be no less tasty and healthy than from berries and seasonal fruits.
Pomegranate and apple jam is prepared in the following order:
- Peel the apples (0.8 kg) and cut into small cubes directly with the peel.
- Using a juicer, squeeze the juice from 1 pomegranate.
- Put apples in an enamel pan and cover with sugar (450 g).
- Add the dry jelly mixture (2 tbsp.).
- Pour pomegranate juice and water (150 ml) into an apple pan.
- Add vanillin if desired.
- Put the pan on medium heat, bring to a boil and continue cooking for 5 minutes.
- Remove pan from stove. Using a dip blender, turn apples into mashed potatoes.
- Put the pan on the fire again, bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes.
- Arrange the thick apple-pomegranate jam in sterilized jars, roll up the lids and cool. Keep refrigerated.