Want to surprise your home with the most delicious treat? Then make an unusual jam - watermelon. This interesting dish can be obtained in three different ways. In the first version, watermelon peels will be used. The second recipe describes the steps for working with pulp. And the result of the third method of making jam will surprise you with a honey taste. We turn to the description of the work.
How to cook watermelon jam from peels?
First you need to prepare the hard part of the fetus. To do this, cut the watermelon into slices, remove the ripe red middle, leaving a solid white part. Remove from it a striped peel and chop into pieces about two by two centimeters in size. Following this recipe, you need to prepare a kilogram of crusts in this way. Then blanch them in boiling water for two to three minutes and drop them into a colander. While the slices drain a little, prepare syrup from one and a half kilograms of sugar and three hundred grams of water. Pour them watermelon slices and set cook on medium heat. Let the mass boil for fifteen to twenty minutes, then leave the jam for three hours. After a specified period of time, repeat the cooking step. So you need to do two more times, you can the next day. During the last step, squeeze the juice of one lemon into the jam and pour a bag of vanillin. Pour the hot mass into clean jars and roll up.
How to cook pulp watermelon jam ?
If you use the inside, the taste and appearance will be slightly different. Let's consider in more detail how to cook such a watermelon jam. The recipe with the photo proposed in this article clearly shows how to cut the pulp. Take it about half a kilogram. When slicing into identical pieces, select the bones. Then fill the mass with a glass of water and cook, stirring, for fifteen minutes. At this time, make a syrup for which you need eight hundred grams of sugar, a glass of water and one lemon or one orange. Using a meat grinder, twist the citrus fruits along with the peel. Boil for about five minutes the syrup along with the lemon-orange mass. Drain all the juice from the boiled pulp. Then put it to boil further in syrup. After about an hour, the mass can be poured into cans.
How is “Nardek” made - watermelon jam from juice
There is another method for making goodies. Since watermelon itself is very sugary, you can make jam without adding any other ingredients. In this recipe, only juice obtained from red sweet pulp is used. This watermelon jam is called “Nardek”. In appearance and taste, the delicacy is somewhat reminiscent of real honey. This jam is very healthy. Want to get an amazing and fragrant treat? Then you will need six to seven hours of time and very ripe watermelons (four to five pieces). Cut them and spoon out all the red flesh into a deep aluminum basin. Then crush the mass with a push and rub through a sieve to remove seeds. Put the gruel for boiling, stirring constantly and removing the foam. After ten minutes of boiling, turn off the heat and let it cool. Squeeze the watermelon mass through cheesecloth to obtain juice. Pour it into a thick-walled basin and cook until halved. This will take about five to six hours. Honey jam will thicken and turn brown. Pour into jars and roll up. Enjoy the delicacies on cold winter evenings!