Cherry jam with chocolate and almonds

This cherry jam should be made from the ripest burgundy berries; the riper the berries, the tastier the winter dessert. My step-by-step recipe with photos will tell you step by step how to make such an unusual jam.

Products for procurement:

• cherry – 1 kg;
• sugar – 1 kg;
• almonds – 80 gr;
• water – 100 ml;
• dark chocolate (70%) – 100 gr.

How to make cherry jam with chocolate and almonds

Prepare ingredients for winter dessert. Wash the cherries and remove the pits.

This is the most labor-intensive process in making jam. Then everything will be much faster and easier. If there is no special device for removing seeds, then they can be removed with a pin or hairpin by making an incision near the green “tail”.

Prepare sugar syrup. Add water to granulated sugar and cook the syrup until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Cool the syrup for 3 hours. Place seedless berries in it.

Boil the cherries in the syrup, but make sure they are not overcooked; 30 minutes will be enough.

During the cooking process of cherry jam, it is necessary to skim off the foam.

At the end of cooking, add almonds.

Boil for another 10 minutes, then add the chocolate broken into pieces.

Stir until the chocolate pieces are completely dissolved. Let simmer for about five minutes.

Spread the finished jam over prepared Before the jars: first arrange the cherries, and then pour the syrup into the jars.

The ratio of cherries to syrup in the jar should be adjusted to taste.

Chocolate perfectly complements the taste of cherries; unusual cherry jam with chocolate and almonds turns out very tasty and unusual, bon appetit!