Dishes from dandelions are varied, healthy and tasty. These are the first vitamin salads, various liquors and tinctures, useful medicines derived from leaf and root juice, and even wine with healing properties. But the most popular of the dishes is dandelion jam, the recipe for its preparation will be described in this article.
The benefit for our bodies from such jam is quite large. It has a positive effect on liver cells, heals some diseases of the urinary tract. It contains antioxidants that remove toxins and toxins from the body.
Dandelion jam, the recipe of which is passed from mouth to mouth, allows you to fight overweight, it helps to normalize blood pressure, is useful for people with diabetes, jaundice, anemia, and also serves as a preventive measure against cancer.
How to cook dandelion jam , which has no contraindications and does not have side effects?
Dandelions need to be collected on a sunny day when all the flowers are open. Of particular value are the flowers collected far from the "benefits of civilization."
Dandelion jam. First recipe
We have to:
400 dandelion flowers
7 cups granulated sugar
2 glasses of water.
Rinse the flowers, add water and put on fire. Keep on fire no more than 2 minutes after boiling. Then you need to throw them into a colander covered with gauze, and squeeze. Pour sugar into the resulting broth and put on fire. Let it boil and cook for 7-10 minutes. Pour the jam into the jars and close the lids.
Dandelion jam. Second recipe
We have to:
400 dandelion flowers
0.5 liters of water
lemon,
a kilo of granulated sugar.
Pre-soak the flowers in cold water, squeeze, add water and boil for 15 minutes. Before cooking, add lemon, sliced into slices with zest. The broth should be removed from the heat and insisted for a day. Then strain, squeeze, add sugar and begin to boil in several stages until the viscosity of honey.
How to cook dandelion jam? Recipe three
We have to:
fill a 3 liter jar with dandelion flowers,
2.5 kilograms of granulated sugar,
2 lemons
2 liters of water.
We’ll wash the flowers, sort them out, put them in a pan and pour boiling water over. Cover the pan with a lid and leave for a day. Strain, add lemons, diced, granulated sugar and put on fire. We will cook, constantly stirring, over low heat.
Recipe fourth
We have to:
500 flowers
2 lemons
10 cherry leaves
1.5 liters of water
1.5 kilograms of granulated sugar.
The flowers should be washed quickly with cold water, dried, add grated lemons and cherry leaves along with the zest . Pour water and set to cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, give a day to insist. We strain the infusion in a colander through cheesecloth, add sugar and cook until tender.
Recipe Five
We have to:
400 dandelions, a liter of water and a kilogram of granulated sugar.
The dandelion heads should be sorted out without washing, put in a saucepan and pour water. We cover the pan with a lid and let the infusion cool. Strain, pour sugar in and cook for 20 minutes, removing white foam.
Similar dandelion dishes can be cooked without lemon using citric acid.
For such a recipe, you must:
300 flowers
kilogram of granulated sugar,
0.5 liters of water
½ tsp lim. acids.
Boil the syrup and dip in it the flowers, cleaned of greens, mix and let it boil. Cooking time - 20 minutes. A few minutes before the end of cooking, add citric acid and remove from heat. Leave for a day. Only after that we will squeeze out the mass and put it again to cook for 20 minutes. The consistency of the jam should be thick and viscous.
This jam can be cooked with oranges or with pectin. Often it is called flower honey. Tasty and healthy honey for you!