The zucchini harvest was a success, you don't know where to put them? Already canned, and frozen, and marinated, and dried …. Then I propose to cook delicious sweet jam.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Zucchini jam is a preparation for an amateur, although every year there are more and more such lovers, so more and more housewives annually cook it for the winter. Such jam is prepared in the same way as any other. Therefore, if this is the first time you are making such a blank, then this process will not be particularly difficult. You just need to have a sufficient amount of fruits, sugar and utensils for cooking jam.
As a rule, squash jam is always prepared with some additional ingredient. Usually these are citrus fruits: lemon or orange. You can use zucchini as zucchini. It is an Italian vegetable with a dark green skin. Although some chefs believe that to get a delicate jam, you need to take a young vegetable with a thin skin.
If you do not know what the jam is made of, then it may seem that the delicacy is made from pineapple. Plus, you can actually add this exotic fruit to enhance the flavor. There are also recipes for squash jam that use lingonberry, physalis, carrot juice, apple and other ingredients. I will share with you a simple recipe for zucchini jam with orange.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 196 kcal.
- Servings - 1 can 0.5 ml
- Cooking time - 10 hours
Ingredients:
- Zucchini - 2 pcs. medium size
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Making zucchini jam
1. Wash the squash and pat dry with a paper towel. Peel and remove seeds. Cut the pulp into 1-1.5 cm cubes. If the fruits are young, it is also recommended to remove the peel with seeds from them. Although this is a matter of taste. For some, crispy zucchini seeds in jam are a special piquancy.
Wash the orange well and scrape off the peel. gardeners treat it with harmful chemicals. Then dry the fruit and cut into half rings. Lemon can be used instead of orange. Also, some housewives use grapefruit or lime.
2. Place the sliced courgettes in a cooking pot. If the jam is cooked in large quantities, then instead of a saucepan, take a wide basin so that the products undergo the same heat treatment.
3. Place the sliced orange slices on top. Also, if orange peel remains, cut it into strips and add to the pan. The orange can be twisted to make gruel. Then its pieces will not be felt in the jam. Although this is a matter of taste.
4. Fill the food with sugar.
5. Stir the food well and place the pot on the stove. Boil, simmer for 10 minutes and remove from heat.
6. Leave the jam to infuse until completely cooled. Then repeat the same procedure two more times. That is, heat, boil for 10 minutes and refrigerate. When cooling the jam, cover it with gauze to keep out midges.
7. When the jam is boiled for the third time, place it in sterilized jars and seal with lids. Store the jam at room temperature.
See also a video recipe on how to make zucchini jam.
