If the traditional apple jam has already become boring, try to treat yourself and your family with a delicious, fragrant, extremely healthy amber delicacy.
Amber apple jam has an original sweet-sour taste and a pleasant smell. And what about his amazing amber color! A special fruit cutting technique allows the sugar syrup to evenly penetrate into the structure of the apple, due to which the slices become pink-transparent with noble amber tint. After cooking, the product turns golden and sunny. I don’t even want to call it ordinary jam, because this is a real culinary masterpiece.
In addition to excellent aesthetic qualities, jam is very useful, it retains almost all valuable elements and vitamins, has a healing effect on many systems of the human body. It allows:
- improve blood clotting;
- normalize the work of the digestive organs;
- reduce bad cholesterol;
- improve metabolism;
- increase the protective functions of the body, strengthen the immune system;
- rejuvenate and rejuvenate the body.
The substances contained in the dessert minimize the risk of developing diseases of an oncological nature, contribute to the strengthening of the nervous system. Since apples are considered hypoallergenic fruit, dishes made from them, including jam, can be used by people who are prone to allergic reactions.
Did you know? Some Slavic peoples believed that for the health of the whole family at the beginning of the year it was necessary to wash with water, in which there was an apple.
Amber apple jam slices
There are various methods of cooking apples. However, cooking is considered one of the most common, simple and affordable. To make the dainty not to boil soft and the slices turn out to be whole, you should use whole, dense fruits without dents and damages.
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Ingredients Required
To prepare an amber dessert, you should stock up on such a set of ingredients:
- unpeeled apples - 800 g;
- sugar - 300 g;
- water - 250 ml;
- citric acid - 1/4 tsp.
Kitchenware and appliances
Amber jam is extremely simple to prepare and does not require the use of special kitchen utensils or equipment. In the process of cooking will need only:
- casserole or stew-pan for cooking fruit;
- wooden or silicone spatula (spoon) for mixing ingredients;
- 0,5 l glass jars for preparation.
Important! It is not recommended to mix the apples with a spoon or a steel cook, because the device will oxidize upon contact with fruit, giving the treat a dark, gray tint.
Step by Step Cooking Process
The basic recipe for making amber jam consists of the following steps:
- Rinse apples well under running water, dry a little with a towel, peel the skin.
- Cut the core, cut the fruit into slices 5-6 mm thick. So that they do not darken in the air, before cooking they can be kept (up to 1 hour) in slightly salted or acidified water.
- Put sugar in a saucepan, pour water over it, bring to a boil.
- Add sliced apples to the boiling syrup.
- Boil the fruit, stirring occasionally and removing the foam, until the slices become transparent and the syrup boils away.
- A few minutes before being ready to add citric acid.
- Readiness of jam is checked by consistency: you should put a little syrup on a saucer, if it does not spread out - the dish is ready.
- Put the jam in a sterilized jar, close the lid, lay it upside down, cover with a towel.
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How to diversify the taste
To diversify the classic taste of apple jam, various ingredients are added to it, for example, orange, lemon, cinnamon, etc. All tastes will be clearly felt in the dessert, while not interrupting each other, but harmoniously complementing.
Orange jam
A boiled delicacy with orange is a bright cocktail of unusual taste and excellent aroma with pleasant notes of citrus. For cooking you will need the following products:
- apples - 1 kg;
- oranges - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg.
Step-by-step recipe:
- Rinse apples, peel, cut the core, cut into equal segments.
- Wash oranges well, cut into quarters, remove bones.
- Slice the slices of citrus along with the peel through a meat grinder.
- Apples, oatmeal gruel folded into a saucepan, add sugar and water.
- Boil the mixture on low heat for about 50 minutes, stirring the ingredients periodically.
- When the apple slices become transparent and the syrup becomes thick like honey, the jam must be removed from the fire.
- The finished delicacy spread on glass jars, close the lids.
Lemon Jam
Since apples are a universal product, they are perfectly combined with other fruits, spices. The combination of apples and lemon will allow you to get not only delicious jam with a delicate shade of freshness, but also a remedy that perfectly copes with colds.
Did you know? Previously, it was forbidden to consume apples up to the Apple Savior, because the fruits and blessings of the new crop have not yet been sanctified.
To make a dessert with lemon, you need to take:
- apples - 1.5 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc. medium size;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- water - 250 ml.
Cooking sequence:
- Add sugar to the pot, add water, boil over low heat until the sand is completely dissolved.
- Wash the fruit, cut the core, cut into small slices.
- Rinse lemon well, remove the bones, cut into slices with the peel.
- Lemon slices fall asleep in boiling syrup, boil for 5-7 minutes.
- Add apple slices to lemon, boil for another 5 minutes.
- Turn off the resulting mass, set aside until cool.
- Boil the jam a second time 30 minutes, until thick.
You can eat apples by preparing them in various ways. Learn how to boil apple jam, dry, cook roasted apples, baked apples and freeze.
With the addition of cinnamon
A very successful symbiosis of apples and cinnamon is often used in cooking for the preparation of delicious desserts. Amber apple jam is not an exception, because it has a rich sun tint and a warm, slightly tart taste of oriental spice.
To prepare the dessert will need:
- apples - 1 kg;
- sugar - 730 g;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- water - 120 ml.
To cook a dessert, you need:
- Wash apples, cut the seed box, cut along with the peel into thin slices.
- Fill fruit with sugar, set aside for 2-3 hours.
- Boil the apple slices over low heat, stirring gently for 5-7 minutes.
- Remove weight from heat, set aside for 2 hours.
- Boil like apples two more times, without stirring.
- Boil a third time, add cinnamon, mix the mass. When you add cinnamon powder to the jam, it gets a cloudy hue. In order to preserve the “amberness” of the color, one should lower the cinnamon stick into the mass in the middle of the cooking process.
- Arrange the dessert in banks.
Important! If during the specified time of the hour the apples have badly “given away” the juice, then the amount of water indicated in the recipe should be added. Fruit mix well.
Features storage billet
Homemade jam in the "open" form should be stored in the refrigerator, no more than 3-4 months. Do not use the product if a film of mold has formed on its surface.
Preservation of fruit is recommended to keep in a cool, dark and dry place. The term of its suitability is 1-2 years.
Take a closer look at how to cook apples for the winter and how to keep the apples fresh until spring.
What to serve with jam on the table
There is hardly a person who would not like apple jam. This is a wonderful delicacy that will be relevant at any time of the year. It is recommended to serve as an independent dessert or as an addition to pancakes, muffins, buns. 
A moderately sweet and fragrant treat is an excellent option for making cakes, charlottes, bagels, and cakes. It is suitable as a filler for cottage cheese pancakes or chandeliers. It will be perfectly combined with a cup of freshly made herbal or black tea.
Agree, apple juice is not only delicious, but also very useful drink. Read about how to make delicious apple juice for the winter, about the composition and beneficial properties of apple juice.Aromatic, tasty and very useful amber apple jam will be a good complement to tea and coffee, or serve as a beautiful filling for pies and pastries. Both adults and children will taste it with the same pleasure. Therefore, this dessert will not be superfluous on your table, especially since the process of cooking delicacy is quite simple, not requiring special culinary skills or knowledge.
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And girls who do not love citrus fruit Pts: I add them because there is more bed sugar for children, and sourness (own apple or from an orange / tangerine) is needed to make the apples "amber" faster. Do not want an orange; do not pour a lot of sugar
