Lingonberry is an extremely healthy berry. It contains a large number of vitamins, amino acids and other substances that will perfectly help support your immunity in the cold season. You will learn about how to make berry jam so that you always have a natural healing remedy for colds and vitamin deficiency on hand from our article. Surprise your home with delicious and healthy presets.
So, we will tell you how to cook jam from cranberries. We offer several recipes to choose from - you can choose classic and with various additives - with apples or pears, citrus fruits or even carrots! By the way, you can use the supply not only for cooking jelly or fruit drinks, but also for filling open cakes, cookies or rolls.
Lingonberry jam: classic recipe
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kilogram of fresh lingonberry;
- half a glass of water;
- 2 cups of granulated sugar;
- half cinnamon sticks or slightly ground;
- a teaspoon of lemon peel;
- 3 carnation stars.
Wash the berry and sort out the debris, leave to dry on a towel. At this time, you can cook sugar syrup: in a half glass of water, dissolve 2 tbsp. granulated sugar and bring to a boil. Strain if necessary. Pour the berries with the resulting liquid, after the pan put on the fire and cook until tender (until the berries are soft and the jam itself is moderately thick), and when you consider that the cooking is almost complete, add cloves, lemon zest and cinnamon. Of course, spices are added at will, but they will make your workpiece more fragrant. After removing the dishes with jam from the fire, let it cool slightly, and then pack in sterile jars, roll up the lids and send for storage.
Lingonberry jam: pear recipe
Prepare:
- 2 kilograms of fresh berries and soft pears;
- 4 kilograms of granulated sugar;
- a little cinnamon and cloves;
- a glass of plain water.
Wash the pears, peel off the skin and seeds, cut into arbitrary slices. Wash the berry, sort it out. From the indicated amount of water and sugar, cook the sugar syrup (if necessary, add a little more water), let it boil for 5 minutes, and then dip the pears into it. Stir and boil the fruits for a quarter of an hour, add cinnamon (a stick or half a teaspoon of powder) and a couple of clove inflorescences. After the specified time has elapsed, place the lingonberry on the pears, mix and cook until the berries are very soft. How to check the jam readiness? Pour a little of the contents of the pan into a tablespoon and pour it onto a plate. If it does not spread, then the jam is ready. And even then it can be put up in banks and stored until winter. By the way, pears can be replaced with sweet apples - it will be just as tasty.
Lingonberry jam: recipe with oranges
For 1 kilogram of berries you will need 2 oranges and a kilogram of granulated sugar. As usual, wash the lingonberries and sort through, cover with sugar. Squeeze the juice from the fruit and pour in the berries. Let it brew for several hours, and then put the pot or bowl on the stove and simmer until cooked (read how to determine it in the previous recipe). Shortly before this, you can add a little cinnamon to the jam - it will give it a unique flavor. Then pack and send to storage.
Lingonberry jam: recipe with carrots
Prepare:
- 1 kilogram of berries;
- 300 g of fresh carrots;
- 400 g of granulated sugar.
Sort and wash the berry, peel the carrots and cut them into cubes, circles, or you can just grate them on a coarse grater. Blanch the lingonberries in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then remove them with a slotted spoon, add sugar and boil a little - 5 minutes will be enough. Add carrots and make jam. So simple. Harvesting from lingonberries will take its rightful place among your stocks for the winter. Useful and tasty, jam will be especially useful in the cold season, because it is the most natural source of vitamins and other useful substances.