Red currant jam for the winter - 10 easy recipes

Thick red currant jam is an indispensable treat for a long and cold winter. It is a classic good jam and is healthy and tasty at the same time. To cook it at home, you do not need any special skills and a lot of time. Such a dessert is brewed quickly, and there are a lot of options for its preparation. So even in this collection you can find your own two or three recipes that will become your favorites.

Thick red currant jam with cooking for the winter

Cooking time - 1 hour.

Servings - 1 liter.

The uniqueness of this recipe is that after boiling, the dessert turns out like with syrup, but at the same time, thick. And the red currant berries remain intact. Opening and using such jam in winter is a delight. Be sure to prepare.

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  Sort the collected red currants well and remove the branches and leaves. If you are afraid of insects, then it is better to fill the berries with salt water for a while. After that, just rinse the berries again with plain water.
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  Pour the berries into a container to determine its volume. After that, we also determine how much sugar you need to take. Since the ratio of the main ingredients in this recipe is 1 to 1, we also measure out one half-liter jar of sugar.
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  Pour the red currant berries into a saucepan and fill with water. We try to cook over low heat so that the berries remain intact. As soon as it boils, pour one third of the sugar into the pan. Gently stir the contents of the pot with a spoon and continue cooking until the sugar is completely dissolved.
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  After the mass boils again, fill in half of the remaining granulated sugar. Stir and wait again until it boils. Pour out the rest of the sugar and cook again for another five minutes after boiling.
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  Distribute the finished jam into a sterilized container and seal with a lid. The treat is ready.

Enjoy!

Five minutes for the winter from red currant

In addition to the high content of vitamin C, there is a sufficient amount of pectin in red currants. This advantage allows you to cook thick jam from these berries without any special additives. And according to the five-minute recipe, we will do it in a few simple and quick steps. So let's get started.

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar - 1 kg.
• Peeled currants - 1 kg.
• Water - 200 ml.

Cooking process:

1. We carefully sort out the red currant berries and clean them of debris. We transfer it to a thick-walled aluminum container for cooking jam. Do not take enameled dishes, as in this case granulated sugar will burn.
2. Pour red currants with cold water and put on fire. When the water boils, we begin to introduce sugar. To do this, we fall asleep slowly, stirring gently. It is important not to crush the berries. After adding sugar, a pink syrup will be learned.
3. Bring the berry mass to a boil again. After that, we reduce the heat to medium speed. You will see how foam forms and bubbles begin to form and burst on the surface of the jam.The foam must of course be removed. It is better to do this with a wooden spoon or slotted spoon.
4. Let the jam simmer in this way for 5 minutes. Pour ready-made currant jam into pre-sterilized jars and spin for the winter.

Bon Appetit!

A simple recipe for red currant jam without cooking

The main principle of making red currant jam without cooking is clean, whole berries and sterilized dishes. Therefore, take responsibility for the selection of berries and its processing. As a result, you will get a healthy dessert for the winter, which will preserve most of the beneficial properties of red currants.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 2 kg.
• Sugar - 2.5kg.
• Acetylsalicylic acid - 1 tablet.

Cooking process:

1. We thoroughly rinse and clean the red currant berries from the litter. We immediately remove spoiled and damaged fruits. At low speeds, break with a submersible blender. You can use a regular meat grinder. The main thing is not to turn the berries into a grated mass without seeds.
2. We take the resulting gruel and wipe it with a metal sieve.
3. Now add sugar to the currant mass. Mix our composition thoroughly. Now you need to place the currants and a warm place and stir until the mixture turns into a thick, gelatinous puree with seeds.
4. After that, we take a tablet of acetylsalicylic acid and grind it into powder. We pour it into our jam. Mix well and leave for a couple of hours so that the tablet is thoroughly dissolved.
5. During this time, we sterilize the jars and prepare the lids. They need to be washed and filled with boiling water. Keep in hot water for about 10 minutes.
6. We spread our product into clean and dry jars and close them with lids. Store in a cool place.

Thick red currant jelly for the winter

Despite the fact that red currant jam is always not liquid and it is easy to boil it down to a thick state, some prefer a very dense consistency in such a dessert. To do this, you must resort to the help of a special thickener - gelatin. Let's take a look at such options for making jam.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 3 kg.
• Granulated sugar - 3.5 kg.
• Edible gelatin - 30 g.
• Vanillin - 4 g.

Cooking process:

1. Let's prepare the red currant. We sort it out and wash it under running water in a colander.
2. Beat the berries in a blender. In this recipe, the seeds from the berry will be superfluous. Therefore, if you, for lack of a blender, use a meat grinder, rub the berries additionally through a sieve.
3. Pour all the sugar into the currant gruel.
4. After that, put the berries on medium heat and cook for about 15 minutes, while stirring the mass regularly. In the process, pour vanillin there. By the way, it can be replaced with vanilla sugar (10 grams), or natural vanilla pods (3 pods).
5. After the specified time has elapsed, remove from heat and let cool.
6. When the temperature of the jam reaches 60 degrees, we dilute our thickener with 200 ml of water. After the gelatin swells completely, put it in a water bath. We dissolve it to 45 degrees, then it will become liquid.
7. Pour the resulting gelatin into the jam. Mix and pour into previously prepared, sterile jars. We close the lids for the winter.

Bon Appetit!

Delicious red and black currant jam

An assortment of red and black currants turns out to be both healthy and tasty. The peculiar sweetness of the black berry is set off by the sourness of the red one. The taste and color of the jam is original, so you should prepare it for a change.

Ingredients:

• Water - 1.5 cups.
• Black currant - 2 cups
• Red currants - 3 cups
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Sugar - at the rate of 1.5 cups per glass of currant juice.

Cooking process:

1. We carefully sort out the berries of black and red currants. We remove all the tails and twigs. Small scissors will help you. We rinse with running water and dry on a napkin.
2. Transfer the currants to a large saucepan and use a blender to turn them into puree. Pour in the juice and lemon zest, water, stir.
3. We put the pan on medium heat. After the berries boil, boil for about 10 minutes. Turn off the fire.
4. After the contents of the pan have cooled, rub it through a sieve. Add sugar according to the amount of juice obtained and set to cook again.
5. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat and cook for 5 minutes. The jam is ready.
6. Pour the cooled jam into sterilized jars and tighten with sterile lids. Store in a cool place. Serve with tea and pastries.

Bon Appetit!

How to make red currant jam with orange?

This jam can be a kind of cure for colds in cold weather. The vitamin combination of red currant, coupled with an orange, will not leave a chance for illness. It will be pleasant to taste such jam with a mug of hot tea with your family.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 3 kg
• Sugar - 2.5 kg
• Oranges - 2 pieces
• Water - 400 ml

Cooking process:

1. First, let's prepare the syrup. To do this, pour water into a large enamel bowl.
2. Pour granulated sugar into the water according to the recipe and set on fire.
3. After the sugar has completely dissolved, pour the red currant there. The berries must first be sorted out, cut off the extra branches, leaves, rinsed and dried.
4. Bring the contents of the saucepan to a boil.
5. Rinse the oranges thoroughly with water and a brush. Together with the peel, cut into small pieces and grind with a meat grinder or blender.
6. Add the orange puree to the pan after the currants boil in syrup. We set the fire to the minimum position.
7. Boil for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
8. Pour the finished red currant jam with oranges into sterilized jars and roll up the lids.
9. After they stand covered with a warm blanket for several hours, we place them in a special place for storing preserves.

Step-by-step recipe for making red currant jam with apples

Use a sweet apple variety for this recipe. It is sweet apples that set off the sour taste of red currants. However, if you only have sour varieties on hand, just increase the amount of sugar. Otherwise, follow the step-by-step recipe for making a simple and delicious jam.

Ingredients:

• Sweet apples - 400 gr.
• Red currant - 600 gr.
• Sugar - 600 gr.

Cooking process:

1. We clean the red currants from leaves, twigs, debris. We rinse under running water and let the excess moisture drain.
2. After that, first grind the berries with a blender, and then pass through a sieve. Thus. Separate the juice with the pulp of the berries from the unnecessary cake.
3. Peel and wash sweet apples. Then, using a blender, turn them into puree.
4. Transfer the red currants with the applesauce to a large saucepan and put on the fire. Fall asleep with sugar. Cook for 10 minutes to half an hour. The cooking time depends on your needs. If you need a thick jelly, cook until the last. If you want a thinner jam, then 10 minutes will be enough.
5. In the meantime, we wash and sterilize the jars with lids. We roll up the jam right after we turned off the fire, hot.
6. Turn the jam upside down and cover it with a blanket overnight. Then we put it in the basement for storage.

Enjoy your meal!

Red currant and gooseberry jam

Gooseberry red currant jam is convenient for several reasons. First, these berries ripen at about the same time. Secondly, red currants and gooseberries (especially green ones) contain a large amount of pectin. It is thanks to him that you will get a delicious jelly-like delicacy without any special additives. In principle, which gooseberry to take is up to you. The main thing is that all the berries are fresh.

Ingredients:

• Red gooseberry - 1 kg.
• Red currant - 1 kg.
• Sugar - 1.5 kg.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the gooseberry berries from the tails and rinse. We pour them into the basin.
2. With the help of a crush, knead them slightly.
3. We clean the red currants from debris and branches, rinse. Then we pass through a sieve. We leave only the juice, and discard the skins with seeds.
4. Add sugar to the currant juice and put on fire. Bring to a boil to make a syrup.
5. After that, add the gooseberry berries to the syrup. While stirring, bring to a boil and cook for about 20 minutes.
6. If foam forms on the surface, then remove it with a spoon.
7. After the time has elapsed, remove the jam and pour it into sterile jars and roll up or tighten the lids for the winter. Store in a cool, dark place.

Bon Appetit!

A simple recipe for red currant and raspberry jam

The combination of sweet fragrant raspberries and sour red currants can hardly be called ideal. It is tasty, healthy and beautiful here. And if you want to argue, then first prepare red currant and raspberry jam according to our recipe. The ingredients in the recipe are designed for 900 grams of ready-made jam.

Ingredients:

• Red currant - 300 gr.
• Fresh raspberries - 200 gr.
• Sugar - 500 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Pour freshly picked raspberries into a wide basin. We sort through it from the debris and fill it with slightly salted cold water. This method is effective in getting rid of unnecessary insects that will immediately float to the surface of the water. We drain this water and rinse the berries with clean water. We drain the liquid with a colander.
2. Using a pusher or a wooden pestle, grind raspberries with half granulated sugar in a separate container.
3. Let's take care of currants. We sort out the red berries from the debris and cut off the tails. Then we rinse the berries and discard them in a colander so that the excess water is glass.
4. By analogy with raspberries, grind the red currants with the second half of the sugar.
5. Mix raspberries with red currants in a saucepan and put on fire.
6. Bring the future jam to a boil, stirring constantly. We remove the foam.
7. After that we cook our dessert for about 10 minutes, without forgetting to stir.
8. While hot, pour the jam into pre-prepared jars and close the lids. Covering with a blanket or towel, let the jam cool in jars upside down. Then we send the raspberry-currant delicacy to be stored until winter.

Bon appetit, everyone!

Delicious red currant juice jam

As it is clear from the title, we will prepare this jam immediately from red currant juice. There will be no whole, not crumpled berries here. It turns out a thick currant jam, in which the spoon will stand boldly. Such a treat is pleasant to open and serve. Adjust the amount of berries and sweet sand yourself, according to the amount of jam you need. The main principle is one to one.

Ingredients:

• Red currant juice - 1 glass.
• Sugar - 1 glass.

Cooking process:

1. We thoroughly sort out the red currants and wash the berries under running water. Let the excess liquid drain in a colander. We pass through a meat grinder into a bowl.
2. Strain the juice from the resulting mass using a sieve or gauze. Discard the part in the form of a dry one with bones. The juice itself is obtained with pulp.
3. Mix the squeezed juice with sugar in a 1: 1 ratio. Place in a saucepan on the stove and bring to a boil over low heat. Foam is formed - remove it with a wooden spoon.
4. After boiling, cook our dessert for a couple of minutes. Do not let the jam burn or overcook.
5. Pour the ready-made jam into jars and cover with nylon lids under parchment paper. We put it in the refrigerator.