Apricot jam can turn ordinary daily tea drinking into a real holiday, because jam from apricots is loved by both adults and children. And to cook this sweet dessert is easy enough. There are a lot of different recipes for cooking apricot jam, in which besides apricots are used, and other ingredients. In this article you will find the most delicious and simple recipes, how to cook jam from apricots.
- The recipe for classic apricot jam. To prepare the jam you need 2 kilograms of apricots, 1 kilogram of sugar and 1/2 cup of water. Apricots must be washed and dried. For jam, you should choose a little unripened apricots, so they do not get too boiled during cooking. Before cooking apricot jam from the fruit should be removed pits. This is quite a painstaking activity, but jam-free jam is much tastier. After that, the apricots must be put in a large saucepan, pour sugar, pour water and put on medium fire. Jam should be boiled for 20 minutes, stirring with a spoon, so it does not burn. After 20 minutes, the pan should be removed from the heat and cooled. When the jam has cooled, it should be put on fire again and boiled for another 15-20 minutes. This procedure should be repeated 3 times, then the jam will be more dense, and its taste - saturated. After that jam can be rolled up. Banks must be prepared in advance - thoroughly washed and sterilized. Apricot jam should be poured over cans hot, and put the banks upside down for cooling. Keep jam from apricots preferably in a cold place.
- Apricot jam "Pyatiminutka". To prepare jam "Pyatiminutka" from apricots, you need to take only apricots and sugar. As in the previous recipe, the apricots must be washed, separated from them bones and put into a pan. Above the apricots should be covered with sugar and leave until the apricots are not allowed to juice. After this, put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, a hot apricot jam can be rolled.
- Jam from apricots for gourmets. Apricot jam becomes stunningly delicious, if you add kernels from pits to apricots. The extraction of nucleoli from apricot kernels is a long process, as the bones are solid and broken only by very heavy objects. In the apricot you need to make an incision, get a bone through it, pull out the core and put the core back into the apricot. This recipe for apricot jam with cores has another name - Royal. Cook this jam in any convenient way.
Little secrets of cooking delicious apricot jam:
- never be lazy to get out of apricots bones. There are recipes of jam from apricots with bones, but such jam can not be used as a filling for pies. Apricot jam with seeds, also, can not always be put on the table for guests;
- if the kernels of apricot kernels are not tasty, then they can be replaced by another component. For example, apricot jam with walnuts or almonds is very popular among jam lovers. Nut, like a nucleolus, should be placed inside the apricot. Jam from apricots with almonds or walnut kernels is not only unusually tasty, but also useful;
- if the preparation of apricot jam from the fruits remove the skin, the jam will be more soft and homogeneous. If such a jam boil for 30-40 minutes and mix thoroughly, it will resemble the consistency of jam.