Gooseberry jam for the winter

Gooseberry jam is a surprisingly delicious and easy-to-make dessert. Many recipes are known, but every season there are new items that amaze with their originality. There are basic rules for preparing a healthy dish.

How to make gooseberry jam

Jam making rules:

• Select dishes. Optimally – a wide capacity, so that the evaporation of moisture occurs actively.
• Do not cook large quantities at one time.
• Minimize the amount of sugar.
• Stir constantly during cooking.
• Monitor the temperature of the stove very carefully.
• Properly determine the degree of readiness.

Nuances:

• Gooseberry jam can be prepared even from slightly unripe fruits.
  Important! You can prepare a delicious dessert from frozen berries.
• Add sugar to taste. There are no specific criteria.
• The preparation of the dish takes place in two stages: softening the fruit, then boiling the mass to the desired state.

Fruit preparation consists of washing with clean water, removing the stalks and stigmas.

You don’t have to add gelatin to the dessert. Due to the small amount of sugar and the short cooking time, it retains all the beneficial properties.

Rules for making gooseberry jam with berries of different colors

Agrus (another name for gooseberries) comes in many varieties with fruits of various colors. Depending on the color, they contain different amounts of vitamins, so the dessert will have the appropriate qualities.

Red gooseberry jam

The red berry is very rich in vitamins of groups B, A, E, C, P. In addition to the rich vitamin composition, they contain potassium, carotene, iron, sodium, pectins and other useful components.

Harvesting of red fruits is recommended for diseases of the digestive tract, cardiovascular and genitourinary systems.

Green gooseberry jam

Green fruits are also rich in vitamins, but are highly valued for their high content of phosphorus, carotene, and iron. Therefore, with a deficiency of these components in the body, it is considered an invaluable product for the diet.

Recommended for people with hypertension and increased fatigue.

Black gooseberry jam

This species is called “black negus”. It differs from the berries of the usual color by a high content of ascorbic acid, the presence of serotonin. The second component is very important for the prevention of tumor formations.

Black fruits are very useful for strengthening blood vessels and the nervous system.

yellow gooseberry jam

The original type of berry. A distinctive feature is the high content of ascorbic acid and at the same time thin skin.

Fruits, as well as preparations from them, are useful for the prevention of viral and catarrhal manifestations, strengthening immunity.

Easy Gooseberry Jam Recipe

It is necessary to prepare 3,5 kg of berries, which are washed under running water and left to drain excess moisture.

Cooking process:

1. Put the berries in a container with a wide bottom, pour 3 cups of water.
2. After boiling, cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
3. Grind the hot mass through a metal sieve. Remove the peel and seeds, add 1,5 kg of sugar.
4. Stir, boil for 20 minutes.
5. During this time, prepare jars (sterilize, dry).
6. Fill the container with hot mass, cork.

Popular “Five Minute”: Gooseberry Jam Recipe

For this option, the fruits are not overripe, but with an elastic hard skin.

To get one jar (0,8 l) of the finished product, you will need:

• 100 ml of water;
• 0,5 kg of sugar;
• 0,6 kg of fruit.

Preparation:

1. Peel the berries, rinse under running water, drain excess moisture.

   

2. Fold in a container, cover with half the dose of sugar and put in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
3. If this is not possible, it is easy to speed up the process – put the pan on a small fire, pour in water.
4. After boiling, add the remaining sugar.
   Important! The mass must be mixed only with a wooden spoon and regularly remove the foam.
5. Boil gooseberry jam for 5 minutes, set aside to cool.
6. For storage in the refrigerator, the hot mixture should be immediately poured into sterile jars.

For the pantry or basement, bring to a boil 2 more times.

Be sure to sterilize the container, then fill it with jam, roll it up. 

Seedless gooseberry jam

• 7 kg of peeled ripe agrus;
• 3 kg of sugar;
• 1,2 l pure water.

Preparation:

1. Rinse the berries, cover with water, cook for 10 minutes.
2. When the berries have cooled, put them on a sieve and rub.
3. Additionally, squeeze the pureed berries.
4. Pour the juice with sugar, cook for 30 minutes.
   Important! Be sure to remove the foam!
5. After half an hour, remove the mixture from heat, let cool, then heat again for 30 minutes.
6. Fill jars, roll up.

The output is 5 liters of fragrant dessert.

Recipe for gooseberry jam without cooking

The most vitamin option. In agrus berries, which are not boiled, the maximum of useful components remains.

The main nuance of the recipe is the increased amount of sugar (1,5 times), compared with other cooking methods.

There are only two ingredients: berries and sugar. Proportions 1:1,5.

1. Tails are removed from the fruit, then washed and dried.
2. Pass through a meat grinder, sprinkle with sugar, mix well.
3. Gooseberry jam is packaged in a sterile container, closed with plastic lids.

Gooseberry jam for the winter (through a meat grinder)

Harvesting through a meat grinder is very popular.

This is explained by the fact that the meat grinder does an excellent job of grinding the skin. Much better quality than a blender.

To diversify the taste, housewives add other ingredients, such as mint or kiwi.

For preparation you need:

• agrus berries – 700 g;
• Kiwi – 2;
• sugar – 0,5 kg;
• fresh mint – 4 sprigs.

Technology:

1. Wash the fruits of the agrus, peel the kiwifruit, pass everything through a meat grinder.
2. Put the crushed mixture on a minimum fire.
3. After boiling, add mint, sugar and cook for 30 minutes.
   Important! You can tie the mint in a bun to make it easier to remove from the mixture.
4. After cooking, take out the sprigs of mint, pour the hot dessert into sterile jars.

Gooseberry jam with whole berries

This cooking method has its own characteristics:

• Prepared berries are pricked with a sharp object: a toothpick, a needle.
• The fruits are not boiled, but insisted in syrup.

And now more.

1. Wash the fruits, remove the tails and stalks, prick with a needle.
2. For syrup, combine 1,5 kg of sugar and 0,5 liters of pure water.
3. Cook until thickened.
4. Continuing to boil the syrup, add the agrus berries.
5. Remove immediately from the stove, cover with a lid, let cool to room temperature.
6. Then throw the berries in a colander, put the syrup on the stove.
7. Bring to a boil, put the gooseberries back in, let cool.
8. Repeat 3-4 times.

When the fruits fall asleep for the last time, they must be boiled with syrup for at least half an hour. Then pack the hot jam and roll up.

Thick gooseberry jam with pectin or gelatin

There are two options for making jam with gelatin:

• with whole berries;
• with chopped in a meat grinder.

For the recipe you will need:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 100 g of gelatin;
• 0,5 kg of sugar;
• 1 a glass of water.

Preparation:

1. Mix granulated sugar with water, heat the syrup to a boil, lay the berry base.
2. Boil whole berries for 20 minutes, chopped – 10 minutes.
3. Soak the gelatin, add to the mixture, heat to a boil, pack in sterile jars.
4. Be sure to wrap for slow cooling.

Gooseberry jam in a slow cooker

This method of cooking gooseberry jam eliminates the need for regular stirring of the mixture against burning.

Main Ingredients:

• red agrus (fruits) – 1 kg;
• water – 4 st. l .;
• sugar – 5 glasses.

Cooking process:

1. In the “Extinguishing” mode, bring the syrup from water and 1 cup of sugar to a boil, pour in the berries.
2. Cook with lid closed for 15 minutes. Proceed to the next step only when all the berries burst.
3. In this state, grind them in a blender, cover with the remaining sugar, cook for 30 minutes with the lid open.
4. Pour hot into prepared jars and roll up.

Gooseberry jam in a bread machine

Take fruits and sugar in a ratio of 1: 1.

Preparation:

1. Peel the berries, wash, cut on the side, remove the seeds.
2. Place the berries in the container of the bread machine, cover with sugar, turn on the appropriate mode – “Jam”.
3. After the end of the program, cork the mass in sterile jars.

Gooseberry jam recipes with oranges and lemons

The addition of citrus or other fruits gives the dessert an original taste and aroma. Therefore, housewives are happy to change the ingredients to diversify the preparations.

Simple gooseberry jam with orange

The orange mix is ​​the most popular.

For 1 kg of agrus berries, 2 ripe oranges and 1,2 kg of sugar are enough.

Preparation:

1. Gooseberries are prepared as usual.
2. Oranges are immersed for 2 minutes in boiling water, then cut into slices, stones are removed.
3. Both ingredients are passed through a meat grinder (you can use a blender), covered with sugar.
4. Boil for 10 minutes, roll up in sterile jars.

How to make gooseberry jam with orange and lemon

The rules and procedure for cooking are similar to the previous recipe. All you have to do is add 2 lemons.

Technology of preparation:

1. Oranges are peeled, lemons are not peeled, and the stones are removed in both fruits.
2. Agrus is twisted together with citrus fruits in a meat grinder, covered with sugar, boiled for 45 minutes.
   Important! Periodically, the mixture is stirred with a wooden spatula.
3. The container is filled with ready-made jam and rolled up.

Recipe for gooseberry jam with orange and raisins

The number of agrus berries, sugar and oranges remains the same. Additionally, you need to prepare a glass of raisins.

Sequencing:

1. Boil the berries with 3 tablespoons of water until soft, rub through a sieve.
2. Peel the oranges, cut the pulp into pieces, rinse the raisins well.
3. Add raisins, orange slices to gooseberry jelly, bring to a boil.
4. Add sugar, cook for 30 minutes until thickened.
5. Pour the finished dessert into jars, cork.

Gooseberry, orange and banana jam

To the list of ingredients for gooseberry jam with orange, add:

• 1 ripe banana;
• 4 cloves;
• 1 tsp dry mustard.

The finished dessert will have a taste with spicy notes.

1. Grind gooseberries, add crushed orange without peel and seeds, banana pieces.
2. Pour sugar, insist the mixture for 2 hours.
3. Then add spices, put the container on the fire.
4. After boiling, cook for 5-7 minutes, roll up in sterile jars.

Gooseberry jam with orange and kiwi

For this recipe, you need to add 4 kiwi.

1. So that the gooseberry dessert does not become bitter, be sure to peel the kiwi with an orange, and also remove the seeds from them.
2. Grind all the fruits, mix, cover with sugar, leave for 3 hours to infuse.
   Important! Readiness is determined by the degree of dissolution of sugar.
3. Put the mass on a slow fire, bring to a boil.
4. Cook for 5 minutes.
5. Then cool and repeat the procedure.
6. Repeat this several times until the mixture thickens.

Jars are filled with slightly cooled jam.

How to make gooseberry lemonade jam

For 2 kg of agrus fruits you need to take:

• 1 lemon;
• 2,5 kg of sugar;
• 3 a glass of water.

Preparation:

1. Wash gooseberries, peel.
2. Remove the seeds from the lemon, cut the citrus into pieces.
3. Grind berries and lemon in a meat grinder.
4. Cover with sugar, leave for 3-4 hours.
5. Boil for 15 minutes, roll up in sterile jars.

Recipes for making gooseberry jam for the winter in combination with other berries

A variety of options allows you to choose a recipe for every taste.

Raspberry and gooseberry jam

For 1 kg of gooseberries, 0,3 kg of raspberries and 0,7 kg of sugar are enough.

1. Grind agrus in a meat grinder, mix with sugar.
2. Prepare raspberry puree with an immersion blender, add to gooseberries.
3. Cook on low heat for 7 minutes.
4. Pour hot and roll up jars.

Gooseberry and currant jam recipe

Take the same amount of agrus, currants and sugar (1 kg each).

1. Grind the currant through a sieve, chop the gooseberries.
2. Mix berries with sugar.
3. Cook on low heat for 40 minutes, then fill the jars, cork.

Cherry and gooseberry jam

• 1 kg of cherries;
• 0,2 kg of gooseberries;
• 150 g of water;
• 1,1 kg of sugar.

Technology:

1. Remove pits from cherries, chop berries, cover with sugar, cook for 30 minutes over low heat.
2. Agrus boil, rub through a sieve, boil the juice for 7 minutes, add to the cherry.
3. Stir, cook for 5 minutes.
4. Fill sterile jars, roll up.

How to make gooseberry and strawberry jam

Ingredients:

• 0,5 kg of strawberries and agrus;
• 60 ml of water;
• 0,7 kg of sugar.

Preparation:

1. Boil gooseberries in water, grind.
2. Add strawberries, cook the mix for 15 minutes, add sugar in parts.
3. Cook for 20 minutes.
4. Pour into jars, let cool slightly, roll up.

Terms and rules for storing gooseberry jam

Gooseberry jam contains a lot of sugar. This allows you to store the dessert for 2 years in a cool place.

Jam without cooking is stored only in the refrigerator for 3-4 months.

Conclusion

Gooseberry jam is a delicious dessert that retains a lot of vitamins. Combining different types of berries, you can vary recipes ad infinitum.