We all love to enjoy delicious jam in winter. For its preparation used a variety of fruits and berries. Our article will present several options for gooseberry jam, according to which everyone will be able to cook this delicious food at home.
Gooseberry Preparation
The beginning of cooking is an important stage - the preparation of the berries themselves. Most often in the recipes you can find a note that you need to choose slightly immature fruits, as they have a more dense skin and elastic berries. This is due to the fact that this gooseberry contains the most pectin, which is necessary for gelling. However, sometimes already ripe gooseberries can be used.
Important! Gooseberry contains a lot of fiber, so people who have been diagnosed with an ulcer or gastritis should not get carried away with this berry.
In general, the preparation of berries includes such stages:
- sorting - it is necessary to sort out the fruits and separate the bad ones from the ones suitable for cooking;
- tail removal;
- washing berries;
- drying of fruits.
Sometimes for cooking use frozen berries. In this case, you should first defrost them. For this you can use 2 ways. The first is to put the berries in the pan, cover them with sugar and leave in the refrigerator overnight. During this time, they defrost. The second method is to prepare a thick sugar syrup, in which you need to pour frozen berries. After a few hours they will be suitable for cooking.Learn more about the beneficial properties and methods of gooseberry harvesting, as well as learn about the best recipes for making gooseberry jam.
Green gooseberry jam: recipe
We offer you a recipe for jam from green gooseberry.
Inventory and kitchen appliances
In order to cook a delicacy, it is worth preparing the following items in advance:
- bowls;
- hairpin;
- knife;
- banks;
- covers;
- spoon;
- colander;
- scoop
Ingredients Required
For cooking you will need the following products:
- unripe green gooseberry - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg;
- cherry leaves - 20-25 pieces;
- water - 1.5 cups.
Step-by-step recipe
We offer you to get acquainted with the stages of making green gooseberry jam:
- Berries need to be washed and free from tails.
- Then remove the seeds from them. To this end, an incision is made on one side and the seed is taken with a pin or pin.
- After that, the enumerated berries are washed - this will help eliminate the remaining seeds.
- Then drain the water. Pure berries pour in a bowl. My cherry leaves. On top of the berries lay out cherry leaves for flavor and preserve the green color. They do this by alternating layers: berries, then leaves, then again berries, leaves, and so on. The last layer should consist of leaves. Leave a bowl with berries and leaves for 5-6 hours.
- Remove the leaves and discard the berries in a colander.
- Pour water into the basin and set it on fire. When the water boils, we pour sugar into it. Bring 2 times to boil.
- Pour out the gooseberry syrup and turn off the gas, stir, leave the berries in the syrup for 3-4 hours.
- We turn on the gas and put a container with fruits and syrup on it, bring to a boil, cook for 5-7 minutes.
Turn off the gas, leave for 5-6 hours. Repeat this 2-3 times. When the foam appears, we remove it. - Cool the pelvis with delicacy in the basin with cold water.
- Sterilize the jars, wipe them dry. Spill cold mass in jars. We twist them with a dry sterile cap.
Turn off the gas, leave for 5-6 hours. Repeat this 2-3 times. When the foam appears, we remove it.
Find out how to sterilize jars at home.
Red gooseberry jam
Consider how to make a red gooseberry delicacy.
Inventory and kitchen appliances
Before starting this interesting process you should prepare:
- bowls;
- toothpick;
- banks;
- covers;
- spoon;
- the pan.
Ingredients Required
You will need:
- red gooseberry - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg.
Step-by-step recipe
In order to prepare a tasty delicacy, it is very important to follow the step-by-step recommendations.
Did you know? According to legend, when Catherine II tried the green gooseberry jam, she was so impressed with his taste and beautiful color that she presented her emerald ring to the cook. Since then, this delicacy is called emerald.
We offer you a detailed recipe.
- Wash and sort out the gooseberries.
- We pierce the berries with a toothpick through and put them in the dish, in which we will cook the fruit.
- Fall asleep gooseberry sugar and leave for a couple of hours.
- Put the tank on the gas stove, bring to a boil.
- Boil for 5 minutes, remove the foam.
- Leave a treat at room temperature to cool (6-8 hours). Boil the jam again.
- Sterilize the jars. We put the jam on the banks, cover with tightly prepared lids.
- We turn over the cans and leave in this position until cool.
Familiarize yourself with recipes for making jam: red and black currant, red currant jelly; cherry jam with stones and white cherry jam; from apples, quince, wild strawberries, strawberries, melons, tomatoes.
Jam with orange and lemon
Consider in detail the recipe for jam with the addition of citrus.
Inventory and kitchen appliances
During the cooking process you will need:
- scissors;
- bowls;
- pan;
- knife;
- meat grinder or blender;
- banks;
- covers;
- scoop
Ingredients Required
To make jam you need the following components:
- gooseberry - 1 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- orange - 1 pc .;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg.
Step-by-step recipe
- We wash the berries and cut the tails with scissors.
- Lemon cut into slices and remove the seeds. Cut the tails off the lemon slices. Spread the slices in a meat grinder.
- Remove peel from orange. Break open the orange into slices and remove the bones.
- We twist a lemon and an orange in a meat grinder. We twist the gooseberry in the meat grinder. Stir the mixture.
- Pour sugar into it. Leave for 30 minutes.
- We put the pan with the jam on the gas, bring to a boil, lower the temperature, remove the foam.
- Boil the mixture, remove the foam.
- Spill the hot mass in sterilized jars. We twist them with sterilized caps.
- We turn over the banks and wait 10-12 hours until they cool down.
Boil for 10 minutes. Turn off the gas and leave for 5 hours.
Spice Jam
If you want to give a special flavor to the jam, you should add unusual ingredients to it.
Important! Dietary jam does not contain sugar, so can not be stored for a long time. Roll it should be exclusively in sterile jars and be sure to put in the refrigerator.
For example, spices with spices are very popular, the recipe of which will be given below.
Inventory and kitchen appliances
During the cooking process you will need:
- pan;
- skimmer;
- needle or toothpick;
- bowls.
Ingredients Required
If you decide to use this recipe, you will need:
- gooseberry - 1 kg;
- water - 1.5 l
- sugar - 1.35 kg
- citric acid - 2 tsp;
- raisins - 200 grams;
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp;
- ground ginger - 0.5 tsp;
- vanilla sugar - 1 tsp.
Step-by-step recipe
We offer you a step-by-step recipe of cooking:
- Pour into a container of 1.5 liters of water, boil. Pour 150 grams of sugar in it.
- Add 2 tsp of citric acid. We interfere, wait until the sugar dissolves.
- Gooseberry pierce with a needle or toothpick. Pour the fruit into boiling syrup and turn off the fire. Leave the fruit for 2 minutes in hot syrup.
- Move with the skimmer berries in a container with cold water.
- The remaining liquid is poured into another container. Then pour 300 ml of this liquid into a clean saucepan.
- Add 1.2 kg of sugar, mix. Turn on a small fire, put the pan on it.
- We are waiting for the sugar to dissolve. Add raisins to boiling syrup, mix.
- Add cinnamon, ground ginger, mix again.
- Add gooseberries to the pan, turn off the fire.
- Leave the mass for 5 hours to cool, do not cover it with a lid, but cover it with parchment or newspaper.
- Then we send the mass to the cold for 5 hours.
- Boil.
- Leave for 5 hours before cooling.
- Add to the mass of vanilla sugar.
- Bring to a boil, cook for 8-10 minutes, turn off.
- Cool the mass.
- Cold spill jam in sterilized jars, close sterilized lids.
What else can you add to taste and flavor
To prepare a delicious gooseberry delicacy, you can add various auxiliary ingredients. The most popular among them are:
- oranges;
- grapefruit;
- lemons;
- mandarins;
- Strawberry;
- walnuts;
- raspberries;
- pears;
- bananas;
- kiwi.
Quite often it is practiced to add cherry leaves to jam. Thanks to them, the dish gets great taste, aroma, beautiful color. 
Where is the best place to store jam
In order for the finished mass to stand as long as possible and not deteriorate, it is necessary to follow the rules of its storage.
Jam, which could not be heat treated, contains much more nutrients and vitamins, but it should be stored in a refrigerator or a cool cellar for no more than 12 months.
If the jam is cooked, it should be stored in a dark cool place, while the shelf life increases slightly - up to 24 months.
We advise you to read about the methods of winterizing currants, yoshty, apples, pears, plums, cherries, cherries, apricots, strawberries, blueberries, chokeberries, sunberry, sea buckthorn.
Useful tips for hostesses
Undoubtedly, each housewife has her own secrets of making jam, which they rarely reveal. If you want the cooked delicacy to be tasty, beautiful and healthy, we offer you a few recommendations:
- To maintain the rich color of the berries, add 10-15 fresh cherry leaves to the water and boil them, only then add the gooseberries to the water;
- in order for the fruit to absorb the syrup, they should be pierced with a needle or toothpick;
- leaving the gooseberry in the syrup to infuse, do not cover it with a lid, then the berries will be well soaked and will not have a wrinkled appearance;
- in the process of cooking be sure to remove the foam - if you do not, the jam can ferment.
Gooseberry is a berry that contains a huge amount of vitamins. During the season, you should try to eat as much of these fruits as possible, and also make preparations for the winter in order to fill the lack of healthy substances during the cold season.
