Feijoa with honey – recipes for the winter

Feijoa with honey is the strongest cure for many diseases, a great way to strengthen the immune system and just a delicious treat. A few years ago, almost no one in Our Country knew about this berry, which looks like a walnut and tastes like pineapple. Today, feijoa can be found in any market or on a supermarket counter. Recipes for preparing an exotic fruit are so diverse that it is easy to get lost in them. It is better to start your acquaintance with feijoa through jam, because everyone loves sweets.

Why you need to combine feijoa with honey, what other jam recipes can be used to strengthen the body – about this in this article.

The benefits of honey and feijoa

Feijoa is an evergreen shrub, a variety of myrtle. The plant has large shiny leaves, blooms very beautifully from June to July, gives a rich harvest of valuable fruits. The shrub begins to bear fruit in mid-autumn and continues to produce berries until mid-winter.

It is difficult to overestimate the benefits of feijoa fruits, because they contain the maximum amount of iodine, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, pectin, fruit acids, enzymes and flavonoids.

And everyone knows about the benefits of honey: it also contains a lot of vitamins and minerals. In addition, honey contributes to the rapid absorption of the substances that make up the feijoa. Therefore, feijoa and honey jam is doubly useful, because this product:

• • prevents beriberi;

• adjusts the work of the digestive system;
• increases immunity;
• beneficial effect on the human nervous system;
• promotes good sleep;
• removes toxins from the body;
• has a tonic effect on blood vessels;
• replenishes iodine deficiency;
• increases hemoglobin in the blood;
• speeds up the metabolism;
• fights viruses and prevents bacteria from multiplying.

That is why feijoa jam recipes often contain honey. Lemons, oranges, ginger and nuts can further increase the “usefulness” of such a medicine, so they are also often added to exotic berry jam.

Feijoa with lemon and honey

The recipes for such jams are extremely simple, because most often the ingredients do not even lend themselves to heat treatment – this way it turns out to save more vitamins in the finished product.

To prepare a vitamin mixture for the winter, you need to take:

• 1 kg of berries;
• a glass of honey;
• 1 large lemon

Making raw jam is very simple:

1. Peel the lemon, cut it in half and remove the seeds from it. If this is not done, unnecessary bitterness will appear.
2. Feijoa wash, remove the tips and cut into small pieces.
3. Now you need to load both the berries and the lemon into a blender or grind with a meat grinder until a homogeneous puree.
4. Honey is poured into the resulting slurry, everything is thoroughly mixed until smooth.
5. Raw jam is laid out in sterile jars and put in the refrigerator. You can eat the product in a few hours, when the berry releases juice. But you can also store the workpiece in the refrigerator all winter, making up for the lack of vitamins as needed.

If you eat a few tablespoons of such vitamin jam every day in the autumn period, you can not be afraid of colds and respiratory diseases. To extend the shelf life of raw jam, you can cover it with a small amount of sugar, filling the jar to the brim.

Feijoa with honey and walnuts

Recipes for jams with nuts are very popular, because both adults and children will like such a delicacy. To make this jam, you need to take:

• 1 kg of feijoa fruit;
• 1 a glass of honey;
• 1 cup shelled walnuts.

Cooking feijoa with honey according to this recipe should be as follows:

1. Fry the nut kernels in a dry frying pan or dry in the oven (about 10 minutes).
2. Now the cooled nuts need to be crushed; for this purpose, you can use a mortar or rolling pin for dough. The pieces should turn out to be small, but you should not achieve a gruel state – nuts should be felt in the jam.
3. Feijoa fruits are cut into several pieces and ground in a blender.
4. After that, you can add nuts and honey to the resulting puree, mix everything well.

It remains to decompose the product into jars and send it to the refrigerator for storage.

Feijoa with lemon, honey and ginger

Feijoa with honey is a strong immune stimulant in itself, and if you add lemon and ginger, you can get a real health cocktail.

For cooking you will need:

• 0,6 kg of feijoa;
• Xnumx ml of honey;
• 1 lemon;
• 3 spoons of grated ginger.

Prepare a vitamin mixture for the winter as follows:

1. Wash the fruits and cut off their tips on both sides.
2. Cut the feijoa into several pieces and chop with a blender or meat grinder.
3. Remove the peel from the lemon, extract the seeds and squeeze out the juice. Finely chop the zest.
4. Grate the ginger on a fine grater.
5. In a blender bowl, combine chopped berries, lemon pulp, juice and zest, grated ginger. Blend everything thoroughly to a smooth puree.
6. Now you need to add honey and mix well.

The finished mixture is laid out in jars and closed with clean lids. Keep the jam in the refrigerator.

After that, roll up with metal lids. Honey can be replaced with sugar, but the benefits of such jam will be reduced.

The combination of sour feijoa and sweet honey is very advantageous. Therefore, raw jams from these products are tasty both as a separate dish and as a filling for pies or impregnation for cakes. The product can be added to ice cream and mousses, simply smeared on bread or eaten with a spoon. In any case, the body will receive valuable vitamins and will be able to fight back against insidious viruses.