Preparation of red currant jam for the winter

A beautiful red berry is found in almost every summer cottage. From it, as from other berries, you can make any dessert. Red currant differs from black not only in color, but also in taste. It is more acidic and has the ability to gel. You can experiment with red currants, there are many recipes for various preparations for the winter: fresh berries are prepared with and without sugar, with heat treatment and without cooking.

Without cooking

Make delicious preparations of red currants for the winter and not lose a single vitamin will help recipes without cooking:

1. Products for raw preserves: 2 kg of sugar and 1 kg of currants. Berries need to sort, wash, dry, mash with a blender or meat grinder and rub through a sieve. Then you need to pour the sugar and stir with a wooden spoon so that it is completely dissolved. Is done.
2. The same amount of food is prepared using a different technology. In the berries poured 1/2 sugar and fray. Softening the berry mass, gradually add the second half of sugar, leaving a little aside.The finished puree is distributed in banks, and sprinkled on top with a thin layer of sugar.
3. Jelly. Currants and sugar take 1 kg. Cooked berries are ground with a blender and rubbed through a sieve. Then stir well with sugar and put in the fridge for three hours. Cold mass is whipped in a blender again.
4. Jelly from juice. Juice preparation: puree the berries with a wooden spoon and squeeze through a multi-layered gauze or sieve. In 4/5 cup of fresh juice dissolve a full glass with a pile of sugar. To quickly dissolve the sugar mass is heated to a warm state (but not hot), stirring continuously. This is a tasty diet jelly therapeutic for colds. Raw blanks are stored under capron lids in the refrigerator.

Five minutes

It is useful and Five minute jamas the currant undergoes minimal heat treatment. Another plus of the five-minute blanks - they are very quickly prepared:

1. Necessary products: berries (1 kg), sugar (1.8 kg) and water (1.5 cups). Currants are poured into syrup from water and sugar and boiled for 5 minutes.Immediately pour the jam in the prepared container for seaming.
2. Ingredients: 1 kg of red currant, 1.8 kg of sugar and 900 ml of water. Boil syrup out of water and 1/2 sugar, add cooked berries and cook for 5 minutes. Then skip the hot jam through a sieve, add the remaining sugar and 2 tablespoons of lemon zest (optional). Bring it to a boil, boil for 5 minutes, pour it into containers and immediately roll it up.
3. Red currant (1 kg) is prepared, as in previous recipes. Mix the sugar (1.5 kg) and water (300 ml), bring to the boil, pour the berries. When boils, cook 5 minutes. Removing from the stove, jam gently stirred, if you want to keep the berries whole. And if the berries are tolku pudding for potatoes, you get jelly. The resulting mixture is again brought to a boil and cook for another 5 minutes. Roll up the jam hot.
4. From the red currant you can make preparations for the winter, even without sugar, if you replace it with honey: 800 g per 800 g of berries and 2 cups of water. Currant is poured into boiling syrup of honey and water, when it boils, boil for 5 minutes. You should not interfere, but you should remove the foam. "Five minutes" is poured into the banks not to the edge. You can close and nylon, and iron lids.

In the multicooker

In many kitchens the multicooker replaced the gas stove. It cooks absolutely everything, including jam. From the red currant, you can also easily prepare sweet blanks for the winter in a slow cooker:

1. Sugarless. The berries are poured into a multicooker container and extinguish the mode of "quenching". It is necessary to stir and remove foam regularly. The duration of cooking depends on the number of berries, but not less than an hour. To guarantee seals, seals are disinfected with vodka.
2. Ingredients: 2 kg of currants and 1.5 kg of sugar. First, the berries are cooked in the "Quenching" mode until the juice is released, and then boiled, without adding sugar, for 20 minutes. Then pour sugar, mix and leave in the mode "Heated" while preparing the seaming jars.
3. Components: currants and sugar (1 kg). The berries are covered with sugar right in a slow cooker and left for an hour. In the Quenching mode, jam is prepared in its own juice for 50-60 minutes.
4. Jelly. Ingredients: juice and sugar in a 1: 1 ratio. Juice can be obtained using a juicer, sieve or multi-cooker: berries are cooked in the Quenching mode for about 20 minutes, the juice is released and boils. Then the currant is squeezed and filtered through cheesecloth.Juice together with sugar in the same mode comes to a boil. Jelly is ready. If the juice was previously prepared not in a slow cooker, then after boiling it should be boiled for about 30 minutes. Hot jelly roll up.

With cooking

1. The composition is simple jam includes red berry and sugar (1 l each). Sugar is poured onto the berries to get the juice. On a small fire, it will turn out faster. When the juice is enough, over medium heat, it boils and boils for 2 minutes, the sugar should be completely dissolved. Ready jam need to filter.
2. Ingredients jelly: red currant and sugar (1 kg), water (1 cup). Berries with water should boil, boil for 1-2 minutes and become a homogeneous gruel using a sieve. After adding the sugar, the mass should boil again and boil for 30 minutes over medium heat.
3. Ingredients for jam: 1 kg of currants and the same amount of sugar. Pure berries crush and rub through a sieve.Add sugar in the puree, stir it, cook on low heat until the mass thickens. Thick jam rolled in a sterilized container.

With red and black currants

If you combine the red and black currants, you get the original assorted with interesting taste and beautiful color:

1. Ingredients: red and black currant 500 g, sugar 1 kg and 300 ml of water. The berries are crushed in a mashed potatoes, which should boil together with the water. Add sugar and boil, do not forget to mix. Another 5-10 minutes on the fire and jam is ready.
2. Ingredients: black and red currant 200 g each, sugar 2 cups and water 1 glass. In a syrup of sugar and water, boil the black currant over low heat. When the berries burst, pour red currants, mix and boil, not forgetting the crema. When the jam thickens, it is poured into jars.

With bananas

The composition of this unusual jam: 1 l of currant juice, 600 g of sugar and 5 bananas. First, prepare the currant juice, as indicated above, mashed bananas. All the ingredients are combined, they should boil and boil for 40 minutes on a screwed fire. Jam is ready.

With oranges

The currant-orange platter is a vitamin C bomb that will help defeat the common cold when the first symptoms appear.

Necessary products: 1 kg of red currant, 1 kg of orange and 1-1.5 kg of sugar. Prepared berries are mashed with a blender. The washed oranges with the peel are twisted through a meat grinder. The currant-orange mixture is combined with the sugar and given for half an hour to dissolve the sugar. Now the whole mass is again brought in a blender to a uniform state, put it on a small fire, allowed to boil and cook for 5 minutes. Jam is ready for rolling. If you do not cook, then it should be stored under the capron caps in the refrigerator.

With strawberries

This jam can surprise with its delicate taste and bright berry aroma. It is also a five minute:

1. Products: 1.5 cups of red currants and strawberries, 1 cup of sugar. Pure berries are covered with sugar and give them time to make juice, then put on the fire. After boiling the jam is boiled for 5 minutes, all the while stirring and removing the foam.
2. The same ingredients take 1 kg.Juice is prepared from currants: a colander with berries is dipped in boiling water for 2 minutes, then the skin and bones are removed with a sieve. From the juice and sugar, boil the syrup, put strawberries in it, let it boil and boil for 30 minutes. Is done.

With honey and nuts

The composition of the recipe: 1 kg of honey, 1.5 cups of walnuts, 500 g of red and black currants, apples and sugar. Prepared berries with water put on the stove. When they become soft, they are thrown into a colander and rid of the meal.

Small slices of apples and crushed nuts are poured into a syrup boiled from sugar and honey, allowed to boil. Along with the berry mass, boil another hour on moderate heat. Red currant jam for the winter is ready.

With apples

The peculiarity of this recipe is that sugar is much less. It consists of: 1.5 kg of currants, 3 kg of sweet apples and 1.1 kg of sugar. Pure berries are covered with sugar and left. When there is enough juice, put on the fire and allow to boil.

It is better to make a syrup of pre-cooked berry juice. Juice, along with sugar, bring to a boil, add apples, peeled and cut into thin slices, boil and set aside. Jam is cooked in three sets of 5-7 minutes.It must be gently stirred so that the apples do not fall apart. Roll hot. Of the many ways to cook red currants, everyone can choose their own recipe for the winter: with sugar, without cooking, five minutes or in a slow cooker.