Currant is an extremely healthy and just tasty berry, its content of vitamin C is greater than in citrus fruits. For the winter, you can prepare it fresh - just freeze it, or boil it with sugar. About how to make
jam from currants, but not from black, but red, we will tell in our article. You just have to choose one of the proposed recipes and get down to business, and in the cold winter you can eat fragrant stock just with tea, and also use it for filling cakes or rolls, cookies, for making fruit drinks or jelly.
Redcurrant jam: classic recipe
For 1 kilogram of fresh, sorted berries you will need:
- 1.2 kilograms of granulated sugar;
- a full glass of clean, filtered water;
- 100 g of fragrant flower honey;
- zest of one lemon.
Go through the berries, wash and let the water drain. Cook the syrup from the indicated amount of granulated sugar and water, when it boils, add the zest to it and leave to cook on the stove for another 10 minutes. After filtering, boil again and add the prepared berry. You will need enough time to make
redcurrant jam
: the recipe involves cooking in several stages. The first time it should boil for 5-7 minutes, then cover the pan with a towel and leave to stand for 6-8 hours. After the specified time, put the jam on the stove again and bring to readiness. It can be checked as follows: take a teaspoon of a little liquid, pour on a plate and see if the droplet spreads, cook a little more, if not, then the dishes can be safely removed from the stove. Jam must be poured into banks and allowed to stand, a film should form on its surface. And after that you can close the workpiece with covers - iron or ordinary polyethylene, and send it to storage until winter.
Redcurrant jam: five-minute recipe
Not every housewife has enough time to make jam according to the previous recipe. Therefore, you can well take as a basis such a method - for 1 kilogram of berries you will need from 600 g to one kilogram of granulated sugar, depending on the currant acid. It needs to be washed and sorted out. Pour a third of the sugar with sugar and put on the stove, as soon as the juice stands out, add the remaining berries and boil for no more than five minutes. After hot, immediately pour into sterilized jars and roll up the lids.
Redcurrant Jam: A Cooking-Free Recipe
You can call this workpiece and jam - its excellent taste will not get any worse. Wash the berry, sort it and chop it with a meat grinder or a blender, pour sugar in a 1: 1 ratio, although someone adds more, someone less — it all depends on taste preferences, mix until the sand is completely dissolved and roll up in jars. Due to the high content of acids, red currants will not deteriorate and will stand until winter.
Currant Jam: Banana Recipe
You definitely haven’t tried this, but if you cook red currants with a banana, you will get a sweet and sour, aromatic dessert, the vase of which can be served on the festive table. Take:
- liter of red currant juice;
- 4 very ripe bananas;
- 600-700 grams of granulated sugar.
You can squeeze the juice from the berries with a juicer or like this: heat the currants in the microwave for 3-4 minutes, or in a steam bath for 10 minutes. After squeezing juice from soft berries through cheesecloth. Peel and mash bananas. Combine all the ingredients for the jam in a cookware, bring to a boil on the stove and cook, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes. Done - pour into jars, roll up the lids and send for storage. Whatever recipe you use, you will get a tasty, slightly sour billet that will become a natural source of vitamins for your family in the cold winter.