How to make delicious raspberry jam: three ways

Which raspberries to choose for making jam

There are cultivated raspberries - garden raspberries, and wild raspberries - forest raspberries. To prepare a delicious dessert, you can use any berries or a mixture of them. Wild raspberries differ from domestic raspberries in that they are smaller in size, but they are more aromatic and tasty.

If you couldn’t stock up on raspberries in time, you can use a frozen product. This option, of course, is not desirable, but it has the right to life.

Before you begin heat treatment, you need to sort out the berries. Remove completely rotten and collapsed fruits, and also inspect dense specimens for the presence of worms and dried areas.You also need to get rid of twigs, stalks and foliage that accidentally fell into the basket.

Three ways to make jam

Option for the lazy: with bones

A kilogram of raw raspberries is ground in a blender or passed through a meat grinder. If you don’t want to bother with equipment, you can simply mash the berries with a potato masher or fork. A homogeneous puree interspersed with small seeds is sprinkled with 600 grams of granulated sugar and mixed. The bowl of food is set aside for 40 minutes. During this time, the berry will give juice and the sugar crystals will partially dissolve. After this, the main process of cooking the jam begins. Place the bowl on the fire and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes, skimming the thick foam from the surface. The boiled sweet mass is poured into small jars and screwed on with a lid.

Homogeneous jam without seeds

A kilogram of sorted berries is measured using a steelyard. Place them in a saucepan and fill with 50 milliliters of water. Cover the container tightly with a lid and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. During this time, the raspberries will become limp and in the future will be easy to grind through a sieve. The berries are thrown onto the wire rack and crushed with a spoon, passing the pulp through the metal structure. As a result, only small seeds remain on the sieve, and a homogeneous raspberry puree ends up in the pan.

The base for the jam is seasoned with sugar in the amount of 500 grams, mixed and put on fire. The dessert is cooked for quite a long time - an hour and a half. It should be taken into account that sweet raspberry preparations thicken greatly after cooling, so you should not boil the puree too much.

The readiness of the jam is determined by a small amount of it placed on a cold saucer.If, after cooling, the mass does not spread in different directions, but holds its shape well, then the cooking process can be completed.

Delicate dessert made from raspberry juice

Another way to make jam is from berry juice. Harvested or purchased raspberries are passed through a juicer press. The resulting drink is measured using a measuring cup or jar with an exact volume. For every liter of liquid take a kilogram of granulated sugar. By stirring with a spoon or wooden spatula, the crystals are dissolved in the juice. Then the food is placed on the fire and begins to warm up. The mass should not boil intensely. As foam forms on the surface, it is promptly removed. After an hour of cooking, check the readiness of the jam in the manner indicated in the recipe above. If the consistency is quite liquid, then continue cooking for another half hour. The finished product is packaged in sterile jars and covered with clean lids.

The India Ayurveda channel shares with you a video in which it talks in detail about the preparation of raspberry jam based on agar-agar

Flavoring additives for raspberry jam

Usually the taste of a raspberry dessert is not overshadowed by other flavors, but using a small amount of fresh mint can enhance the already full flavor of the jam. For a kilogram of berries, take literally a couple of leaves of this refreshing herb. The main condition is that the mint should be fresh, not dried.

The greens are added to the preparation during the main cooking process, and the leaves are removed before packing into jars.

Storage period and conditions

Raspberry jam is perfectly stored for a year in a darkened room at a temperature of +4...+8ºС. Small volumes of preparations can be stored in the refrigerator.