Amazing delicacy of amber color, with a stunning scent dips you from winter to summer. Just a couple of spoons of orange jam for breakfast - and you wake up. And in fact to prepare orange jam you can both in the summer, and in the winter when the season on citrus in the heat. Therefore, without waiting for the summer fruit, let's study the recipe and start cooking.
How to cook orange jam?
Jam differs from ordinary jam, including jam from orange crusts , with its thick consistency. Boil it should be 1,5-2 times to get a mass, which you can easily spread on morning toast. Adding a lemon, you will give jam sourness and dilute the sweetness of the orange.
Ingredients:
- oranges - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- lemon - 2 pieces;
- water - 1 liter.
Preparation
Thinly remove the zest from the oranges, then cut them into 8 pieces, add them to a saucepan and cover with sugar. When the juice is released, add the juice of two lemons. Water in a separate saucepan boil with lemon peel until soft, then pour into oranges. To the lemon syrup with oranges, add the cinnamon and set to cook for several hours, until the jam is reduced in volume by half. Then remove from heat, grind the mass in a blender and put 4-5 pinch of thinly sliced orange peel. The rest of the peel you can dry and use later for other purposes. We give the orange jam still boil for about 10 minutes and remove it from the fire. The consistency of delicacies should be thick, if the mass is not thickened, then boil it for another 15-20 minutes. Cooked jam you can put on cans or stored in a refrigerator, your household will eat it very quickly.
To orange jam, except cinnamon, you can add ginger. This spice gives the delicacy a delicious taste. Add ginger at the end of cooking, after that the mass should boil for another couple of minutes and you can remove the saucepan from the fire. How much it to put is a matter of your taste: we advise to take a little spices on the tip of the knife first, then you can increase its quantity. Orange jam with ginger can be served for tea, and also used in a wonderful way when preparing different bakes.
How to make orange jam in a multivark?
Of course, if your kitchen has a wonderful assistant - a multivarker, then you can make orange jam in it. This recipe we suggest you try on the weekend, in order to surprise the family on Monday, starting the morning and the whole working week with an "orange" mood.
Ingredients:
- oranges - 8 pieces;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sugar.
Preparation
With oranges and lemon carefully peel. If you have a potato peeler, then you can use it. Half cut into small straws (we will take it for jam), and the rest can be used later. Oranges and lemon cut into cubes, mix with zest, pour cold water and leave for a day. Take the citrus from the water, weigh and add as much sugar as weighed fruit. If you do not like strongly sweet jam, you can take a little less sugar. The indicated amount of citrus will take approximately 700-750 grams. Oranges, lemon and sugar are laid in the multivark, we set the "Baking" mode and wait for the mass to boil. Then we set the timer for 30 minutes - this is how much orange jam will be prepared in the multivark. Fruits should be well boiled. Then we scribe the whole mass in a blender and can spread it over the banks. If you have not only a multivarker, we advise you to see how to make orange jam in a bread maker .