How to make tangerine jam?
Tangerine jam tastes the same as fresh tangerines, so you will get the same pleasure of eating a sweet delicacy. You can cook a delicious treat not only from tangerines alone, they are combined with gooseberries, lemon and other products. They even make jam from the peels of tangerines.
About the beneficial properties of mandarin
Mandarin jam contains a lot of vitamins, and all because they are very useful in themselves. The synephrine contained inside the citrus fruit helps relieve swelling of the body, clear mucus from the lungs. Fresh and canned tangerines are useful for the disturbed action of the gastrointestinal tract. Even tangerine peel has many benefits. It is used to make decoctions and jam from tangerines with peel. Fresh citrus juice fights against fungal diseases such as microsporia and trichophytosis.
Some recipes for tangerine jam
Mandarins can be processed as desired. Cooking will find a place for this citrus in any sweet dish as an additional element and as the main one. Tangerine jam, the recipe for which will accurately describe how to make this sweet, should definitely appear on the shelf in the pantry. To bring such a culinary masterpiece to life, an ordinary cooking pot is taken, but modern technology can also play a leading role. The multicooker perfectly copes with such a task as making jam.
Tangerine jam from slices
Preparation:
- Wash citruses, peel and divide into slices.
- Take an enamel pan and put the tangerine portions there, pour water over it. Cook for 15 minutes. Then drain the water, cool the shares. Pour the boiled parts with cold water and leave in this state for a day.
- Make sugar syrup.
- Place the tangerines in it and again wait 12 hours.
- The next day, boil the mixture for 40 minutes.
- Pour into jars and roll up.
When boiling tangerines, foam will appear, which must be removed. Its presence can affect the storage of the jam.
Whole Citrus Tangerine Jam
Those who want to eat jam in the form of whole tangerines need not suffer, and immediately close them without dividing them into parts. You will get a very tasty tangerine jam with peel. For such a dish, you should take 1 kilogram of fruit. Additional ingredients include the same amount of sugar, 1 medium lemon, and a glass (150 grams) of water.
Preparation:
- Wash the fruit and pierce it with a toothpick.
- Put prepared tangerines in a saucepan, add water and simmer for 10 minutes.
- In another container, prepare the sugar syrup, in which the boiled tangerines should then be placed. Turn on the fire and simmer the tangerines in the syrup for another 10 minutes. Then wait 2 hours until the drug has completely cooled down.
- Repeat step 4 two or more times, until the syrup acquires a rich amber color.
- Pour in lemon juice before turning off.
- Distribute the jam in jars or immediately put on the table.
When preserving whole fruit, it is advisable to pierce them with a needle or a toothpick.This procedure is necessary for the rational exchange of fruit juice with sugar syrup, so that the jam is stored for a long time and is saturated with sugar.
Mandarin jam in a slow cooker
For those who want to shorten the time in the kitchen, it is better to make tangerine jam in a slow cooker. For such a recipe, in addition to 0.5 kilograms of tangerine, you will need 1 more lemon, as well as 4 glasses of sugar and 1 glass of water.
Preparation:
- Put the whole tangerines in a multicooker bowl. Put out 5 minutes. You can add spices to taste.
- Open the lid to remove the tangerines, get rid of the water. Rinse the bowl.
- Next, prepare the syrup. Stir sugar with water and place in a deep plexiglass plate. Pour plain water into the multicooker bowl up to the lower mark and immerse the dish with water there. Turn on the "Soup" mode for 4 hours.
- At this time, the tangerines should be cut into halves, open the lid of the multicooker after half an hour and put in the citrus parts. And then wait for the remaining 3.5 hours.
- At the end of cooking, the tangerine mixture should be set aside for 8 hours. The jam is ready.
Mandarin Peel Jam
Tangerine peels are very healthy. They contain organic, citric and ascorbic acid, mineral salts, pectin, essential oil, vitamins. It is rational to preserve these positive substances by making jam from tangerine peels. To do this, you need 2 kilograms of crusts, which will take 2 kilograms of sugar. 1 lemon will help to dilute the tangerine flavor and preserve the food.
Preparation:
- Clear tangerines from the peel. The resulting raw material can be wrapped in spirals, securing with toothpicks or thread.
- Submerge the peel in water for three days. It should be changed three times a day.
- Pour water into a saucepan, add 0.5 teaspoon of salt, throw in the crusts and boil for 1 hour.
- Make a syrup (2 glasses of water for 2 kg of sugar) and add boiled spirals to it. Cook for 10 minutes, cool. Repeat the same procedure three times.
- Add lemon juice just before cooking.
The readiness of the tangerine peels is determined by the color - it must be transparent.
Tangerine Gooseberry Jam
Gooseberry pulp goes well with mandarin pulp. The taste of this mix is no less pleasant than the taste alone. To make tangerine and gooseberry jam, you need to take 2 tangerines and 2 glasses of gooseberries. These ingredients will require 4 cups of sugar.
Preparation:
- Rinse and select quality berries. Remove ponytails.
- Remove the zest from the tangerines with a grater. You should get tangerines in a white shell. Then you just need to get rid of this white rind.
- Grind the tangerines in a blender.
- Place in a saucepan gooseberry and fill it with 2 glasses of sugar. Cover ingredients lightly with water. Boil.
- Pour tangerine puree and its zest into boiling syrup. Boil for 15 minutes.
- Pour into jars and seal. Gooseberry tangerine jam is ready!