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Sunberry jam with lemon is not the most common dessert in Our Country. Belonging to the nightshade family, a large, beautiful berry is still little known in Our Country. Sunberry is very useful, but unusual in taste, so jam is most often made from it. Boiling with sugar greatly improves the taste, and the addition of lemon increases the shelf life. Jam of an unusual dark purple color to taste can be attributed to delicacies, but it is very easy to prepare.
Health Benefits of Lemon Sunberry Jam
Sunberries are a far cry from their inedible wild nightshade predecessors. When ripe, they are sweet, with a slight sourness and a somewhat grassy tinge. But still, a distinct nightshade flavor persists even in fully ripened fruits.
The size of large specimens of sunberries resemble cherries, filled with dark purple juice and completely black on the outside. Spectacular berries have a rich chemical composition. For its healing properties, the sunberry got its name – blueberry-forte, and in composition it resembles chokeberry.
Useful substances in the composition:
- vitamin C – the main antioxidant, regulator of immune processes
- carotene (provitamin A) – regenerates the retina, is responsible for the condition of the skin, hair, mucous membranes;
- magnesium, potassium – nourish the heart muscle, ensure a healthy metabolism and brain function;
- iron, manganese, copper – are involved in hematopoiesis, increase the production of hemoglobin, improve immunity;
- zinc – normalizes the work of the pituitary gland;
- selenium – slows down cell aging;
- silver is an antibacterial agent.
Regular consumption of fresh sunberries, as well as fruit jam, can protect blood vessels, improve the functioning of the heart, liver, and intestines. The property of sunberry is known to relieve headaches, to facilitate the course of infections. For colds, flu, it is useful to take black berry jam with lemon. A few spoons of dessert a day can prevent infection with seasonal infections.
The most delicious sunberry jam recipes with lemon
For the preparation of jam with lemon, the ripest berries are chosen, they accumulate a large amount of sugars, without requiring excessive sweetening. If the nightshade flavor of the sunberry seems unpleasant, the fruits are doused with boiling water. Large specimens for jam are pierced in several places before cooking.
Otherwise, the preparation of sunberry fruits does not differ from other berries: they should be washed, the petioles removed, and dried a little. Lemons for jam with zest are cleaned especially carefully, the bones should be removed, preventing them from falling into the dessert.
The classic way
The traditional recipe for a delicious, thick lemon-flavoured sunberry jam involves several heating cycles with long cooling and soaking steps. The process may be familiar from the classic methods of cooking any fruit or berry preparations.
The recipe uses the classic 1:1 ratio of sugar to berries. 200 g of water are added per kilogram of berries, as well as the juice of several lemons. Most often, 2 medium-sized citrus fruits are enough for a balanced taste of jam.
Preparation:
- Syrup is prepared from water and sugar, boiling it until it thickens slightly.
- Sunberries are immersed in a boiling sweet solution, boiled for no more than 5 minutes.
- The jam is removed from the fire, left to soak the berries for a period of at least 3 hours.
- The cooled jam is again subjected to 5 minutes of boiling, then again allowed to cool.
- Lemons are added in the form of juice at the last stage of cooking, just before bottling.
The jam is packaged hot in sterile jars, tightly closed. To impregnate the berries and preserve the dessert, 3 heating cycles are enough. Continue heat treatment only to obtain the desired density.
If it is decided to use lemons in pieces with a peel, they are added earlier and boiled together with the sunberry for at least one cycle. Before the final heating, you can add 5-6 leaves of fresh mint or lemon balm. After boiling, the twigs should be removed from the jam. Such an additive is best combined with the taste of sunberry.
cold jam
Desserts without cooking are also very popular. This method reduces the preservation of jam, but saves most of the vitamins.
Recipe for lemon and sunberry with apples:
- Apples are peeled, core, leaving only the pulp.
- Sunberry, apples, lemon with peel are passed through a meat grinder or mixed with a blender.
- Sugar (1:1) is added to the mixture, left to dissolve the grains and the appearance of juice.
Mix thoroughly after 4 hours. Lay the jam in jars, cover with nylon lids and send to the refrigerator.
sunberry jam
The presence of pectins in black fruits makes it easy to thicken the jam to the state of jam. Prepared sunberry fruits, peeled lemons are turned through a meat grinder. The fruit mass is mixed with sugar, taken in the same amount. With low heat, bring the workpiece to a boil, cook for about 30 minutes. The dessert reaches the consistency of jam when completely cooled.
Using Sunbury Lemon Jam
Berry desserts from nightshade culture and lemon are eaten as a separate dish, served with tea, used as a sauce for pancakes, pancakes. Jams or thick jams are suitable as a filling for sweet pastries. But tasty jam can also serve medicinal purposes.
In order for the jam to be truly healing, the sugar rate can be reduced to 300 g per 1 kg of berries. It is permissible to boil the composition for 5 minutes, then set aside for 12 hours and, pouring into jars, place in the refrigerator.
With a daily intake of 100 g of sunberry jam with lemon according to this recipe, you can stabilize the pressure in hypertension in 30 days. Delicious medicine cleanses the blood, increases the protective functions of the body, removes toxins, salts of heavy metals, poisons.
An overdose of a healthy dessert is possible only at very high doses. However, eating more than a glass of sunberry jam a day may result in bowel problems, allergic hives, or a headache instead of benefit.
Terms and conditions of storage
Jam prepared according to different recipes is stored for different times. The timing is highly dependent on the concentration of sugar, the presence of lemons, the initial quality of the berries.
To protect vitamins as much as possible, other active substances from destruction should be placed in the refrigerator. Dessert with lemon and sunberry, subjected to boiling, will stand in such conditions for about a year, cold jam – no longer than 4 months.
Subject to the sterility of preparation and packaging, the shelf life of the jam is close to the declared one. Violation of technology or stale ingredients can very quickly lead to spoilage of the finished product. The longest stored jam is made from sunberry and lemon, when cooked with a lot of sugar, without citrus peel, warmed up to a thick state.
Conclusion
Lemon sunberry jam is a great way to get a delicious cure for many diseases. The cultural hybrid of nightshade is not capricious, it can grow in any areas of the middle lane. Therefore, recipes for various sunberry jams with lemon, apples, mint are more and more in demand and are constantly supplemented with new ingredients.