Homemade apple jam with orange

It has an extraordinary taste and a very pleasant, subtle citrus aroma of orange. It is very tasty to eat with freshly brewed tea or simply spread on bread or a roll. You can make unusual apple and orange jam at home for the winter using my detailed, step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients:

• apples 2 kg;
• sugar 1.5 kg;
• orange 1 pc.

How to make apple jam with orange

We begin preparing the product by washing the apples, peeling them from the core, cutting them into slices of any shape, adding sugar and stirring.

Wash the orange and scald with boiling water. Squeeze the juice, grate the zest on a fine grater and add to the apples.

Leave for 2-3 hours so that the apples release their juice well and make friends with the orange.

Put on fire, cook for 5 minutes after boiling over low heat. Leave to cool. After 10 hours, repeat cooking. For convenience, it is better to boil apples in the morning and evening. Thus, day and night they cool down and reach condition. Do this 6-7 times. When the jam becomes thick, a film forms on the surface, and the apples become translucent, the jam is ready.

Boil the jam for the last time for 15 minutes after boiling, pour into prepared jars, roll up.

Cover with a blanket and leave to cool. After a day, put it away for storage.

Try to make this blank and it will definitely take its rightful place on your table. In winter, when you open a jar of aromatic homemade apple jam with orange, you will feel the light aroma of orange and the delicate taste of apples.