Homemade apple jam with orange zest, cinnamon and cloves

Gardeners will understand me. After all, so often autumn apples fall in the summer while still green. It’s impossible to eat such fruits, but it’s a shame to throw them away. This apple jam with orange zest, cinnamon and cloves is a great way out of this situation. I will only note that apples of any variety are suitable.

We will need:

• 1 kg apples;
• 1 kg sugar;
• 1 cinnamon stick;
• 5-6 sprigs of cloves;
• 100 g orange zest.

How to make apple jam with orange zest, cinnamon and cloves

To begin, thoroughly wash and chop the apples. You can cut the slices any way you like. All the same, the jam will turn out almost homogeneous.

Place the apples in a saucepan and add sugar. It should be taken into account that 1 kilogram of sugar is taken per 1 kilogram not whole, but already chopped apples

Otherwise, apple jam with orange zest will turn out sickly sweet.

Let stand for about 30 minutes. During this time, the apples will release a little juice - put on low heat. We wait until the sugar dissolves, bring to a boil, and turn off.

After 2 hours, put it on the fire again, add orange zest, a cinnamon stick (can be replaced with ground cinnamon, 1 tablespoon) and cloves. Boil, cool and repeat the procedure a third time.

After this, we take out a cinnamon stick, try to select clove buds and pour our jam over banks and close.

On cozy winter evenings it is very pleasant to drink a cup of hot tea with this delicious and aromatic apple jam with orange and cinnamon.

This preparation for the winter is simple to prepare and ideal not only for tea, but also for apple strudel and pancakes.