Lingonberry is a tasty and healthy berry with a slight bitterness. It contains a large amount of benzoic acid, which allows it to be preserved for a long time. By making lingonberry jam, you will provide your family with an original delicacy rich in vitamins. Lingonberries can be combined with other forest and garden berries to get a more original taste.
Ingredients
Granulated sugar 600 grams
The classic jam recipe consists only of lingonberries. This delicacy will ensure good health for children in winter. Confiture can be used for baking pies as a filling. Fruit drink with lingonberry jam will quench your thirst well.
To make jam, take: 1 kilogram and 300 grams of fresh berries, 900 g of granulated sugar and 1 glass of water.
Lingonberry jam is ready for the winter.
The process of making jam in a slow cooker is simplified, and the preparation time takes much less. Housewives even add lemon to the jam recipe. It helps neutralize the bitterness of lingonberries.
To make jam, take:
Carefully sort the berries, remove all debris, rinse and dry. Do not use unripe lingonberries, they can spoil the taste. After this, put the lingonberries in a slow cooker and add granulated sugar and honey.
Cut the lemon into small pieces without removing the peel. Grind the lemon pieces in a blender or using a meat grinder. Add the resulting mixture to the slow cooker, add cloves.
Cook the jam in the “Stew” mode for 60 minutes. Stir the contents of the multicooker two or three times during cooking. After the confiture is ready, leave it for two hours with the lid closed. If you want the jam to be thicker, turn on the "Warm" mode.
Place the resulting confiture into jars and close.
A great way to preserve healthy berries until the coldest weather. To support the immunity of yourself and your family in winter, or to use a prepared product to treat a cold, use one of our recipes. In this article we offer 4 ways to make lingonberry jam. By the way, you don’t need any special skills or a lot of time for this - usually even a novice housewife can prepare such delicacies. The only thing is that at the market (or in the forest) you need to select the ripest berries, preferably without debris and leaves, because picking lingonberries is quite difficult. And only then you can get down to business.
For it you will need:
Wash and sort the berries, then add sugar and pour in the specified amount of plain water. Stir and put on fire. As soon as the lingonberries are soft, remove the pan from the stove and crush the berries with a masher, or beat the mixture using Now place the bowl over medium heat, bring the jam to a boil, then simmer for three minutes. Done - you can pour it into jars and send it for long-term storage.
Lingonberry jam: recipe with citrus fruits
For 1 kilogram of ripe berries you will need half a kilo of granulated sugar, half a lemon and 1 orange. Wash and sort the berries, cut the citrus fruits into slices, and remove seeds. There is no need to remove the peel. Now blend the lingonberries and citrus fruits in a blender, add granulated sugar and cook over medium heat until boiling. Then you need to reduce the heat and let the mixture simmer for 10-15 minutes. It's ready - you can pour it into jars.
For a kilogram of berries, take:
Wash and peel the apples, boil in water until soft, and then prepare a puree from them. Pour it into a saucepan, add lingonberries and sugar and cook until tender (until the berries are soft) over low heat. You will need 30 to 40 minutes. Afterwards, pour the preparation into sterilized jars, seal and store until the winter cold.
Prepare:
Wash the lingonberries, put them in boiling water and boil for a couple of minutes. Then place in a separate bowl, add sugar and cook for about 10 minutes. Wash the beets, peel and cut into cubes or small slices. Boil in boiling water for 8-10 minutes, and then add to the lingonberries. Stir and bring the jam to readiness. Next, put the workpiece into jars and store it. These preparations will serve as an excellent addition to a cup of hot tea on cold winter evenings, and are also perfect for filling pies or buns. And to prepare a drink that will support your immunity during colds, simply stir a tablespoon of jam in a glass of warm water, add honey to taste and drink with pleasure. Cheers!
The unique taste of lingonberry jam will not leave any sweet tooth indifferent. In addition to its unique taste, dessert has many beneficial properties. Lingonberries themselves are rich in vitamin C. In fresh or dried form, the berries can be consumed to prevent arthritis and diarrhea. To prevent mastitis and inflammatory processes, nursing mothers are recommended to take 2-3 tablespoons of lingonberry jam or jam per day. In the autumn, a thick, delicious dessert is shown as an immuno-enhancing and antipyretic agent.
The recipe for lingonberry jam for the winter is simple. You can see this for yourself in numerous photos and videos published on the Internet. Not many people like fresh berries, because they have a tart taste, but everyone will like jam or jam. Experienced housewives often experiment and make lingonberry jam with the addition of pears or apples. They contain a large amount of pectin, a natural thickener that makes the dessert denser. In addition to fruits, gelatin can be used for this purpose.
As a rule, berry jam recipes involve adding sugar. For people suffering from diabetes, this dessert is contraindicated. However, if you really want lingonberry sweetness, you can eat a few spoons of Swedish jam, which is cooked in an original way with minimal addition of granulated sugar. In addition, the preparation time for this dessert is only 20 minutes.
In order to get high-quality and tasty jam at the end, you need to take a very responsible approach to the choice of lingonberries and their initial preparation.
When selecting the ideal berries for dessert, you should pay attention to ripe, juicy ruby-colored fruits that have an elastic, but not too tight, skin. At the same time, you should avoid overripe lingonberries, as well as berries with cracks and other visible damage - they are quite capable of ruining the future sweetness.
Before cooking, this product should be thoroughly washed under running water, placed in a colander to drain excess liquid and dried on paper or waffle towels. Be especially careful to remove all the leaves, as they add bitterness to the finished dish and your jam will no longer be salvageable.
A quick and easy way to make lingonberry jam should be in every housewife's cookbook. Sour, tart, sweetish dessert goes well with cottage cheese, porridge or homemade cakes.
Ingredients
Servings: – +
Per serving
Calories: 104 kcal
Proteins: 0.7 g
Fats: 0.5 g
Carbohydrates: 28 g
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Like all other preserves for the winter, lingonberry jam should be stored in a cool place away from direct sunlight - this can be in the basement, cellar or main compartment of the refrigerator.
As for the shelf life, they vary quite a bit for jams, marmalades and other fruit and berry delicacies. Jams that have been subjected to heat treatment can easily last for about a year, and “fresh” desserts should be eaten within six months.
Lingonberry jam is an indispensable storehouse of vitamins in autumn and winter. To quickly prepare dessert, you can also use kitchen appliances - a slow cooker or a bread maker. The jam turns out rich and incredibly tasty. It goes perfectly with homemade pancakes or pancakes.
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Lingonberry preparations are not as common as raspberry or strawberry preparations. But this berry makes no less, and sometimes even more delicious, jams and preserves. Lingonberries are also used to make interesting sauces for meat.
You can make jam at home when the berries are actively ripening.
There are several options for making blanks. Interestingly, in each case the taste will be different.
Silt is such a universal jam recipe for absolutely any garden or forest berry and even fruit. It comes from Sweden, where locals have been preparing it for many, many years.
Interestingly, it is slightly different in taste and consistency from what we are used to.
Silt is not so sickly sweet and is more like a jelly-like jam.
Ingredients:
- fresh lingonberries,
- granulated sugar.
Recipe:
It is better to take berries that are sweet and not thick-skinned. Sort through, wash and peel, pour into a cooking pot, and turn the heat to low.
The point is for the berries to give up as much of their liquid as possible. If it doesn’t work out, then we help: take them lightly with a fork.
Let it simmer for 15-20 minutes, then remove from the stove.
Pour sugar into the hot mass at the rate of 600-800 g per 1 kg of lingonberries, stir until dissolved. Pour the jam into sterilized jars and seal.
Swedish lingonberry jam like in IKEA is ready. The beauty of jam is that it is stored at normal temperature and retains all the vitamins of the berry.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of fresh lingonberries;
- 500 g sugar or honey;
- glass of water;
- 3 g cinnamon;
- a quarter of a piece of orange zest.
Recipe:
Pour washed and peeled berries with water, add sugar, zest and cinnamon. Place over low heat and cook until the jam becomes viscous. Pour hot into sterilized jars and roll up.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg each of apples and lingonberries,
- glass of water,
- sugar and cinnamon - to taste.
Recipe:
First prepare the syrup: boil sugar and water in a large container. Then add lingonberries and cook until boiling. Cool and boil again.
Peel the apples, cut into small slices and add to the lingonberries. Add cinnamon if desired. Cook until the apples are done. Pour hot jam into jars and roll up.
This preparation is not very sweet. In addition to adding to desserts, it can be used as a sauce for poultry, meats and grilled cheese. The jam is prepared within 30 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of lingonberries,
- 500 g granulated sugar,
- cinnamon,
- cloves and water.
Recipe:
Peel the berries, rinse, scald with boiling water and discard in a colander. Pour into a saucepan with sugar and add water. Cook over low heat, stirring. In the process, add a cinnamon stick and a bunch of cloves. When it boils, cook for another 5 minutes.
Cool the lingonberry jam, then pour into prepared jars and roll up.
Using these recipes, you will prepare jams of different tastes that will remind you of sunny summer on winter evenings.