Many people who try jam from zucchini for the first time, take it for jam from pineapple. Squash jam has an amazing taste. Not every house you can find such a dessert, so jam from the courgettes, by right, can be considered a real delicacy. Preparing such a jam is very simple. We offer several recipes for cooking jam from courgettes.
Squash jam with orange
For the preparation of jam, you need: 1 kilogram of large zucchini, 4 cups of sugar, 3 oranges.
Zucchini should be washed, removed from the skin, cleaned of seeds, grated on a large grater and put in enameled dishes. Grated zucchini should be covered with sugar and put in a cold place for 4-6 hours.
Then zucchini with sugar put on the fire, bring to a boil and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring constantly with a spoon. After that, the jam should be removed from the fire, cooled and put in a cool place for 4 hours. Then again bring the jam to a boil, add to it a crushed, peeled orange and cook for another 15 minutes. After the jam has cooled, it stays for 4 hours and boils for the third time, it can be poured over sterilized jars and twisted.
Jam from zucchini with orange looks like pieces of pineapple in syrup, because as a result of three-fold cooking zucchini becomes light yellow and almost transparent.
The recipe for zucchini jam with lemon
Ingredients: 1 kilogram of zucchini, 800 grams of sugar, 1 lemon.
Squash should be washed, cut into small cubes, covered with sugar and leave for 10-12 hours, so they let the juice. Remove lemon peel and seeds and finely chop.
Squash put on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. After that, add lemon and boil for another 15 minutes. The prepared jam is removed from the fire, spread on sterile jars, rolled up and turned upside down until completely cooled.
In jam from zucchini you can add an orange with lemon, then its taste will be more saturated. Many housewives prepare jam from courgettes with dried apricots - for this 1 kg of zucchini should take 150 grams of dried apricots. Jam from zucchini with pineapple taste is the dessert that can surprise any guest at any time of the year.
Zucchini gives not only the joy of taste, they are also unusually useful.
Than useful zucchini?
There are many varieties of courgettes and they all have many useful properties. The zucchini contains vitally important trace elements: iron, calcium and magnesium. These substances are necessary for normal functioning of the kidneys, liver, and cardiovascular system.
Useful properties of courgettes:
- the use of zucchini contributes to the normalization of the exchange of salts and liquid in the human body. These properties of courgettes are based on the fact that they contain pectins;
- zucchini are involved in the process of normalizing the level of cholesterol in our body;
- zucchini benefit people suffering from diabetes, because it is low in fat and carbohydrates;
- zucchini contain a mass of vitamins: C, B1, B2, PP, folic acid.
Zucchini is an excellent dietary product and is included in the menu of many diets. There are a lot of recipes - a cake of courgettes, mashed potatoes, boiled or fried zucchini. All these dishes are recommended to people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and from excess weight. Zucchini is low in calories, but it is extraordinarily satisfying, so it helps to lose weight.
The zucchini plant is not only a delicious product, from which it is possible to cook a wide variety of dishes, but also an important component in the system of a person's healthy life.