On the palate and color: recipes of jam from black and red currants

Do you want to forget about cold and flu forever? Then be sure to learn to make jam from the currant - black or red. This amazing berry is considered the champion in the content of the vitamin among the plants of our latitudes and will be an excellent substitute for sour lemon. True, only very ripe currants differ from sweetness, from which the most delicious jam is obtained. Do not you like jam? Then prepare from the currant tender jam, jelly or confiture. Or just rub the raw berry with the sugar in the blender and roll for the winter. In any of these options, currant will be good, and you can enjoy a useful and delicious treat.

Red currant jam - step by step recipe

Aromatic jam-jelly from red currants is a very beautiful, tasty and simple dessert. If you properly keep the formula and the proportions of the ingredients, then for this jam does not need gelatin. You can make jam from frozen berries, but it is better to use fresh ones - there is more juice in them, namely it is needed for the formation of red currant jelly.

Necessary ingredients:

• red currant - 2-3 kg
• sugar - 2-3 kg

Step-by-step instruction:

1. My berries, we clean of twigs.

   On a note! If the berries are not very dusty and dirty, they do not have to be washed. If you wash, immediately lay the fruit on a dry clean towel so that they dry up. Extra fluid in jam is not needed, otherwise it will not be the correct jelly-like consistency.

2. We grind the berries with a blender or let it through a meat grinder.
3. Squeeze the juice. To do this, we take a piece of gauze, spread the currant puree in the middle, wrap the two edges to the center and twist them into bundles. Now we connect the bundles together - they twist. Continue to twist in the same direction, slightly pressing on the berries in the gauze. With this method of squeezing gauze will not open at the most inopportune moment and the juice will not get skins and seeds.
4. Pour the juice into a saucepan with a thick bottom and add the sugar by stirring. Bring to a boil. If you are cooking currant jam in a high-pressure multivariate, it's enough to boil the syrup for 10 minutes. In a typical saucepan it will take half an hour.
5. After that, jam can be poured over cans and stored for storage.

Attention! Do not worry if the consistency is more fluid than you expected. Jam necessarily thickens in a few days.

Jam "five-minute" made from red frozen currant - step by step recipe

Currant very quickly withers, so it is immediately after harvesting that it is turned into jam. An alternative output is frost. From this recipe you will learn how to make jam from a frozen currant - black or red. But keep in mind that the first is to boil longer, because it has a hard skin.

Necessary ingredients:

• frozen berries - 1,5 kg
• sugar - 1 kg

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Frozen berries fall asleep with sugar and let it melt.
2. We pour into the cooking container and bring it to the boil.
3. Then let the mixture cool slightly and boil again.
4. We put the hot jam into sterilized jars and close.

Red currant jam with mint - step by step recipe at home

Prepare the original currant jam with mint is very easy. In this recipe, the benefits of mint are added to the benefits of mint with its antibacterial and soothing effect. In our case, in the role of "raisins" of the recipe, even the mint will act, and its alcoholic tincture, which can be bought in any pharmacy. Add it to the ready-made jam, depending on taste preferences. For example, the effect of easy presence of wash notes will give 5-6 drops of tincture, and a more pronounced flavor and flavor - 10-15 drops.

Necessary ingredients:

• red currant - 3 kg
• sugar - 5 kg
• water - 3 cups
• spearmint

Step-by-step instruction:

1. First, cook the syrup: combine the water with sugar and bring to a boil.
2. We put the berries in boiling syrup and cook for 5-10 minutes. If you use black fruits, then the cooking time should be increased to 15-20 minutes.
3. When the jam is ready, add the mint tincture based on your taste preferences.

"Royal" black currant jam - step by step recipe

From this recipe you will learn how to make jam from a currant with flavorful and mouth-watering berries. Initially, according to this recipe, jam was made from gooseberry, but in our case it was adapted for black currant. The delicacy turns out very beautiful - in a transparent syrup with a slight pink tinge. Berries are one to one, all are whole. Thanks to the punctures, the syrup penetrates into the currant and it becomes sweet from the inside.

"Royal" jam can be used both in pure form and used for baking. For example, it is ideal for currant cakes or as decor for pancakes.

Necessary ingredients:

• black currant - 1,5 kg
• sugar - 2 kg
• water - 2 cups

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Each berry is pierced with a needle. If the currant is large, then this procedure will take no more than half an hour, but the view of the jam will be stunning - all the currants will remain unharmed.
2. Cook the syrup according to the usual recipe: sugar is diluted with water and brought to a boil.
3. Then cool it to room temperature and only then pour out the berry.
4. Again bring the mixture to a boil and immediately remove the jam from the plate.
5. We pour out the delicacy to the banks and store it in a cool place.

Currant jam with carrots - step by step recipe

Not only from berries and fruit, enterprising housewives manage to make jam, but also from vegetables and herbs too. Jams from courgettes, pumpkins, dandelion "honey" ... All these culinary delights long ago on hearing. But the recipe for currant jam with carrots appeared recently and not all the mistresses had time to try it. Therefore, we suggest you definitely take this recipe for armament and surprise your guests with an unusual combination and bright taste!

Necessary ingredients:

• black currant - 1 kg
• carrots - 0,5 kg
• sugar -1 kg

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Carrots are cleaned and rubbed on a fine grater. If you use a food processor, you can simply grind it. In jam it is absolutely not important what kind of carrot slices will be, the main thing is that it will give a good juice when cooking.
2. Currant washed and dried.
3. Spread into a pan carrots and berries, fall asleep with sugar (do not stir!) And let stand for several hours to allow the ingredients to give juice.
4. Cook the mixture on low heat for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Ready jam bottled in banks and waiting for guests. Be sure, they will never guess what you treat them to so delicious.

Assorted red and black currants - step by step recipe

It happens that the berries from one bush of black currant is very small, not even enough for a jar of jam, and with red in the same way. Neither there nor here! In this case, you can mix the red currant with black. The taste of jam from this will not suffer and you will get an excellent assortment.

Necessary ingredients:

• red and black currants - 1 kg
• sugar - 800 gr.
• water - 1 glass

Step-by-step instruction:

1. My berries are mixed together. Spread into a saucepan and cover with sugar.
2. We add water and put it on the fire. After boiling immediately turn off and let cool. The best option, if you take on the further preparation of jam only the next day, and berries will stand all night. If this is not possible, then let the currant brew at least 4-5 hours.
3. Cool the jam to a boil and cook for 25-30 minutes. Willingness is checked by the "grandmother's" method: drip a little syrup from a spoon on a saucer and if it does not spread, then the jam has reached the desired consistency and it's time to remove it from the plate.
4. Ready-made assorted bottles on cans. You can lightly sprinkle the jam with sugar. Sugar forms a crust, thanks to which the jam will be perfectly preserved, even if you have somewhere receded from the recipe and have not guessed with proportions.

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