Red currant jam - 9 easy recipes for the winter

For the winter, currant jams can be prepared in a variety of ways. The most popular is red currant jam, which can be an independent delicacy, and an ingredient in sweet sandwiches, and an excellent addition to ice cream and any other desserts. It will be appropriate in any sweet dish and will certainly delight you with an amazing taste.

Recipe for thick pitted red currant jam

According to this recipe, you can make a thick rich currant jam with a pleasant sour taste of this wonderful berry. Redcurrant jam is the best way to eat this delicious and healthy berry every day. In this recipe, we take sugar in relation to berry puree 1: 1. Cooking with a short boil.

Cooking time - 40 minutes.

Servings - 1.5 L

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  Separate the currant berries from the twigs, rinse well with running water and grind with an immersion blender. Grind the berry mass on a thick sieve to remove seeds and peels and measure its volume. From the amount of berries specified in the recipe, 1.5-1.6 liters of juice is obtained.
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  Now let's start making jam. This jam should be cooked in small portions. Pour part of the juice (half or 1/3) into a saucepan for cooking jam, add part of the sugar and place on a small fire. Stir the juice with a wooden spoon until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then pour in the next part of the juice, add sugar and mix. Cook the jam over low heat for 20 minutes.
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  In the process of cooking, we constantly remove the foam from the surface, otherwise the jam will "run away".
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  Pour the finished jam hot into sterile jars and close the lids. You can roll up the jam, or you can clog it with plastic lids. We transfer the cooled currant jam to storage in a cool place.

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Red currant jam

The recipe for harvesting currant jam for the winter using the "five-minute" method allows you to maximally preserve all the taste and vitamins in it, therefore it is the most useful way. Although it takes a little longer than five minutes to cook, the recipe is quick and easy.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 1 kg.
• Sugar - 1 kg.

Cooking process:

1. Sort out the currant berries, removing twigs, leaves and small debris. Place them in a deep bowl and cover with warm water to remove fine debris better, then rinse them in a colander under running water.
2. Dry the washed berries in any way.
3. Pour the prepared currants into a saucepan for cooking jam, add the required amount of sugar to them and stir by hand, trying to crush the berries.
4. Put the saucepan on low heat and cook the berry mass for 5 minutes, stirring it constantly with a wooden spoon.
5. Grind the hot mass thoroughly on a thick sieve to separate the peel and seeds, from which you can then make fruit drink or compote.
6. Pour the berry puree into the same saucepan.
7. Cook the jam over low heat for no more than 5 minutes, stirring it constantly and removing the froth from the surface.
8. Pour hot jam into pre-sterilized jars and roll up with sterile lids.
9. Cover the jars with a warm blanket and, after complete cooling, transfer to storage.

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A simple recipe for red currant jam without cooking

According to this recipe, you can prepare currant jam for future use without heat treatment. For good storage of this dessert, a 1: 1 ratio of berries and sugar is taken. You can only store it in the refrigerator. Red currants do not cause allergies, so this jam can also be given to young children. Jam from raw currants goes well with cottage cheese dishes.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 1.5 kg.
• Sugar - 1.5 kg.

Cooking process:

1. For this jam, choose well-ripened and high-quality berries. Prepare them carefully: remove twigs and debris, rinse and be sure to dry.
2. Grind the prepared berries with a blender or food processor.
3. Pour the resulting berry puree into a deep bowl.
4. Pour the calculated amount of sugar to it and mix the mass with a wooden spoon until the sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Cover the dishes with a towel and leave for 4 hours at home temperature. During this time, the jam should acquire a uniform texture.
6. After this time, pour the jam into dry sterile jars and seal tightly. Store the jars in the refrigerator.

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Thick red currant jam with gelatin

In this recipe, you are invited to add gelatin to the currant jam. Thanks to this, your dessert will be thick enough, and the cooking time will be short, which will allow you to preserve all the useful properties of this berry in the preparation.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 2 kg.
• Sugar - 1.5 kg.
• Gelatin - 25 g.

Cooking process:

1. Carefully prepare the red currant berries for making the jam.
2. To do this, separate them from the branches, rinse several times with water and dry with a kitchen towel.
3. Chop the prepared berries with a food processor or twist in a meat grinder.
4. Pour the resulting berry puree into a saucepan for making jam.
5. In a separate bowl, mix the amount of sugar indicated in the recipe with the gelatin.
6. Pour the resulting mixture into the berry puree and mix well.
7. Cover the dishes with a napkin and leave for 2-3 hours, preferably in a cool place.
8. After this time, mix the puree well again and let it stand for 3 hours.
9. Then place the dishes with berries on a small fire and bring the berry mass to a boil, just do not cook. If the sugar is not completely dissolved, then repeat this step again.
10. Pour the prepared jam hot into sterile jars, roll up the lids and store in a cold place.

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Delicious red and black currant jam

Jam from these two varieties of currants has long occupied an honorable place in the row of winter preparations. These berries perfectly complement each other and create a unique taste. You can choose the proportions of berries to your liking.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 1 kg.
• Black currant - 250 g.
• Sugar - 800 g.
• Water - 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. First, prepare the berries, separate them from the brushes, rinse and dry.
2. In a saucepan, boil the syrup with the required amount of water and sugar.
3. Put red and black currants in the prepared hot syrup, mix everything well and bring the berry mass to a boil over low heat. Turn off the fire.
4. Leave the saucepan with the berries in the syrup overnight so that the currants are well saturated with the sugar syrup.
5. In the morning, cook the jam over low heat for half an hour and pour it into sterile jars.
6. Roll up the jars with boiled lids, cover with a warm blanket and leave to cool completely.
7. Store this blank in a cool place.

Eat to your health!

Red currant and apple jam

This is a recipe for lovers of unusual winter preparations. The combination of red currants and apples will give your dessert a firm texture, balanced sweet and sour taste and beautiful color, unlike brown apple jam.We take frozen currants, since the ripening time of these fruits is different. We will prepare such a jam from fruit and berry puree and in several stages.

Ingredients:

• Apples - 1.5 kg.
• Red currant - 300 g.
• Water - ½ tbsp.
• Sugar - from 700 g (to taste).

Cooking process:

1. Wash the apples, remove the seeds from them and cut into medium slices.
2. Put the prepared berries in a bowl for making jam and add half a glass of water to them. If your apples are not very juicy, then add more water.
3. Rinse the red currants, without separating the berries from the brushes, with cold water (you do not need to defrost frozen berries) and put it on the apples.
4. Put the dishes on a low heat and simmer everything for 20 minutes so that the apples boil well. Stir the mass periodically with a wooden spoon.
5. Then grind the apples and currants in portions on a thick sieve to remove the skins and currant seeds.
6. Transfer the resulting thick fruit puree to the same bowl and add the required amount of sugar to it. The sugar makes the jam immediately thick and viscous.
7. Cook the jam over low heat for no more than 15 minutes, otherwise it will turn brown. Stir the jam constantly while cooking so as not to burn.
8. Put hot jam in sterile jars and seal tightly.
9. Store this jam in a cool dark place, however, you can store it just in the apartment.

Bon appetit and good preparations!

Step-by-step recipe for red currant juice

This is a recipe for making currant jam for those who do not like the bones in the dessert. Currant juice can be prepared either hot or using a juicer. It is advisable to add pectin to this jam, because we throw away the peel and seeds.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 2 kg.
• Sugar - 1.5 kg.
• Pectin - 2 tsp

Cooking process:

1. We carefully sort out the red currant berries, removing brushes and small debris.
2. Then we rinse them with cold water and place them in a colander to remove excess liquid.
3. Using a juicer, prepare currant juice. From this amount of currants, you get 1 liter of juice. The remaining cake can be used to make fruit drinks or compote.
4. Pour the juice into a bowl for making jam, add the required amount of sugar to it and stir.
5. Cook the jam over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring it regularly and skimming it off.
6. Then pour the pectin into the jam, mix and cook for a few more minutes.
7. Pour the prepared jam into sterile jars and seal it tightly.
8. We transfer the cooled jam to storage in a dark, cool place.

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How to make red currant jam in a slow cooker?

In this recipe, you are invited to make currant jam using a slow cooker. In it, jam is obtained with a special delicate taste and delicate texture.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 1.5 kg.
• Sugar - 1.5 kg.
• Water - 200 ml.

Cooking process:

1. Separate the currant berries from the twigs, put in a colander and rinse with running water.
2. Transfer the clean berries to the bowl of the appliance and pour the required amount of water into them.
3. Set the "Cooking" program on the multicooker and boil the berries for 5 minutes without closing the lid.
4. When the berries begin to crack, drain the water through a sieve and grind the berries well with a spoon to remove the peel with seeds as much as possible.
5. Pour the resulting berry puree back into the bowl.
6. Add sugar to the puree and stir to dissolve completely.
7. Switch on the "Extinguishing" program. Simmer the jam on this program for 10 minutes with the lid open.
8. Put the hot jam in sterile jars and roll up.
9. Store this jam in a cool, dark place.

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A simple recipe for red currant and raspberry jam

You are provided with a recipe for making currant jam with raspberries. These berries combine very well in taste, besides, raspberries do not change the thickness of the dessert, since currants themselves contain a lot of pectin.And one more thing: first cook the currants, and then grind them on a sieve, because pectin is contained in the peel of the berries.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 2 tbsp.
• Raspberries - 1 tbsp.
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse and dry the currants well without separating the berries from the brushes.
2. Place it in a jam pot.
3. Do not wash the raspberries, but only peel them of the stalks. For this jam, overripe raspberries are better suited, since the integrity of its berries does not matter.
4. Transfer the raspberries to the currants and add the required amount of sugar to the berries.
5. Using a wooden spoon, mix the berries with sugar, crushing the currants a little.
6. Leave the berries on for one hour to give them enough juice.
7. Then put the dishes with berries on high heat and bring to a boil, while removing the foam from the surface.
8. Boil the berries for 7-10 minutes from the start of the boil.
9. Then quickly grind the berry mass on a sieve (it is convenient to do this in portions) and immediately put it in dry sterile jars. You do not need to reboot this jam.
10. Close the jars tightly with lids, you can use plastic ones.
11. Jam from currants with raspberries will become a thick consistency not earlier than in a month.
12. You can store it both in the refrigerator and in a regular pantry.

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