Step 1: prepare the pumpkin.
The first step is the hardest part - cutting up the pumpkin. It is necessary to remove the thick skin and remove all the seeds along with the partitions. This is not a tricky task, but it is very labor-intensive and sometimes even dangerous, since the knife every now and then tries to slip off the sides of the pumpkin. Therefore, you need to be careful and attentive in the process. In the end, you will only be left with pumpkin pulp. It will need to be cut into small cubes.
Step 2: start making jam.
Sprinkle the prepared pumpkin pulp with granulated sugar, stir and cook over low heat. Remember to stir the pumpkin pulp so that nothing burns. Cook for 5-10 minutes
. There is no need to add water to this jam, however, you will see for yourself that after a while the pumpkin will begin to release juice, the sugar will dissolve and you will get a thick syrup.
Step 3: prepare dried apricots.
Meanwhile, while the pumpkin is cooking, there is time to prepare the dried apricots. To do this, first rinse the dried fruits with warm water and then dry them slightly. You can cut dried apricots the way you like. Want bigger pieces? Please! Just cut the dried fruits in half. Do you want the dried apricots to be chopped very finely? Cut into cubes or strips. It's all up to you.
Step 4: prepare pumpkin jam with dried apricots.
Now pour the chopped dried apricots into the pan with the pumpkin and sugar. Continue cooking for about 1 hour
, maybe a little more. And don’t forget to stir periodically so that nothing burns. As a result, you will get a thick and quite aromatic jam of a bright sunny color.
Step 5: preserve pumpkin jam with dried apricots.
To preserve pumpkin jam with dried apricots for the winter, place it immediately after preparation, while it is still very hot, in dry, sterilized jars. Close the pieces tightly with lids and leave to cool to room temperature. Store cooled jars filled with pumpkin jam with dried apricots in the same way as other preparations, that is, in a place inaccessible to sunlight, away from heating appliances, such as a stove or radiator. And after you open one jar, immediately move it to the refrigerator.
Step 6: serve pumpkin jam with dried apricots.
Pumpkin jam with dried apricots is a wonderful winter dessert that will delight children and adults with its taste, especially when combined with strong, hot tea.
The jam turns out so thick that you can safely use it for baking. Delight yourself and your family with tasty and healthy food, especially in winter, when we all miss the simple warmth of the sun and vitamins. Bon appetit! This amount of ingredients makes about 3 liters of jam.
Any pumpkin is suitable for making jam, no matter if it is grown in your garden or bought in a store, the main thing is that it is of good quality.
If you love sweets, are not afraid to experiment in the kitchen and make jam from almost everything that grows in the garden, I offer an excellent option - pumpkin jam with dried apricots. The recipe is no more complicated than traditional fruit/berry jam, but it will take a little more time to prepare, since the pumpkin will need to be cut into cubes before cooking. Plus we’ll add lemon to it so that the jam doesn’t turn out too sweet. And dried apricots - to give our dessert a richer taste and brighter color. The delicacy turns out amazingly tasty! Thick amber syrup, in which smooth cubes of pumpkin and soft slices of dried apricots are evenly distributed. Try it!
Ingredients:
- pumpkin (peeled) – 1 kg,
- dried apricots – 300 g,
- sugar – 700 g,
- lemon – 1 pc. (or 0.5 tsp citric acid).
Yield: 1.3-1.5 liters of jam
Pumpkin-orange jam
Young pumpkin contains a lot of sugar and vitamins. When combined with orange, the vegetable becomes an excellent way to boost immunity.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
- Prepare the pumpkin: peel the skin and remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small pieces.
- Cut the orange together with the peel into 4-6 parts and grind through a meat grinder. It is better to remove the seeds from the citrus so that they do not add bitterness.
- Prepare the syrup. Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour 500 ml of water into it.
- Stir the sugar and cook the syrup until it is completely dissolved.
- As soon as this happens, add the pumpkin pulp and the twisted orange. Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
- Cool and put into jars.
Jam with dried apricots
Required ingredients:
- pumpkin - 1 kg;
- sugar - 4 cups;
- lemon juice - 6 tablespoons;
- dried apricots - 400 grams.
Recipe:
- cut the pumpkin pulp into cubes;
- transfer to a saucepan with a thick bottom and cover with sugar;
- let stand for about 4 hours;
- add lemon juice and stir;
- pour boiling water over the dried apricots, drain the water and cut it into small pieces;
- put the pan on the stove, bring to a boil and add dried apricots;
- continue cooking for 15 minutes and leave to cool for 4 hours;
- repeat 1-2 more times;
- transfer to a bowl.
Pumpkin jam with orange and lemon
Lemon can be added to the traditional recipe already mentioned. But with citrus fruits you can prepare an express version of jam. There is no need to cook it - the mass is poured into jars raw. The treat should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 6 months.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 1 lemon;
- 1 cup of sugar.
Preparation:
- Peel the pumpkin from peel and seeds. Cut into large pieces. Grind in a meat grinder.
- Rinse the citrus fruits. Cut it together with the peel into several pieces and also pass through a meat grinder.
- Combine pumpkin and citrus masses, mix thoroughly.
- Add sugar. Leave for half an hour so that the ingredients are saturated with sugar.
- Place into jars.
Amber pumpkin jam with lemon and orange - recipe through a meat grinder for the winter
Friends, I originally wanted to show you one recipe for this culinary masterpiece. And then I finally decided on two. The first one will be without cooking and heat treatment, yeah, impressive? Yes, it's a vitamin shock!
And the other one is also no less interesting, but the citrus fruits will not be twisted in a meat grinder, but cut into slices. I hope that after reading this, you will want to try both options.
We will need:
Stages:
1. Wash oranges and lemons in running water, then peel them and remove the seeds. Using your hands, tear it into pieces, that is, slices.
2. Cut a 1 kg pumpkin in half, remove the seeds, cut off the peel and chop the pulp into arbitrary cubes. And then put them in the bowl of the meat grinder and burn... You will hear a loud noise, but in fact the electrical appliance will cope with this fruit very quickly.
Orange-pumpkin jam with cinnamon
Pumpkin contains carotene, which is good for vision. It contains a lot of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron - the vegetable strengthens muscles and is useful for people with low hemoglobin. Therefore, pumpkin jam with orange is consumed to improve health.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 500 gr. Sahara;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder.
Preparation:
- Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Cut the vegetable into pieces.
- Fill the pumpkin with water. The liquid should not completely cover the pumpkin, otherwise the jam will be very runny. Put it on the stove to boil.
- Peel the fruit, cut into cubes, add to the pumpkin.
- Add sugar and cinnamon. Cook for half an hour over medium heat.
- Cool the jam and pass the mixture through a meat grinder.
- Boil the jam for another quarter of an hour and put it in jars.
Pumpkin jam with dried apricots
Dried apricots make the jam less cloying. Choose fresh dried fruit so that it is easy to chew. Experiment and add your favorite spices during the cooking process - cinnamon, rosemary or cloves; they will not worsen the taste of the delicacy.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 5 kg dried apricots;
- 1 kg sugar.
Preparation:
- Pour hot water over the dried apricots and leave for an hour.
- Peel the pumpkin and cut into small cubes.
- Cut the dried apricots into small pieces.
- Place the dried fruit together with the pumpkin in a saucepan.
- Grind oranges with peel through a meat grinder. Add the mixture to the pumpkin and dried apricots.
- Add sugar. Add a little water if necessary.
- Cook over medium heat until all ingredients are soft.
- Place into jars.
Insanely delicious jam with its bright colors will lift your spirits during the cold season. This delicacy is also very healthy - in combination with lemon it will strengthen the immune system, and with dried apricots it will strengthen muscles.
Ksenia Garastyuk • 09.25.2018
Recipe for pumpkin jam for the winter
The jam prepared in this way not only pleases with its wonderful taste and aroma, but also captivates with its luxurious appearance - each piece of pumpkin is like translucent amber.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 850 g sugar;
- 1 lemon;
- about 5 cm piece of fresh ginger root
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Cooking method:
- cut the pumpkin into small cubes;
- mix the pumpkin with sugar and leave at room temperature for 10-12 hours;
- grate the ginger on a fine grater;
- squeeze the juice out of the lemon;
- add ginger and citrus juice to the pumpkin, mix everything well;
- place the pumpkin in a saucepan on the stove and, remembering to stir, measure 40 minutes to cook the jam;
- Bring the jam to a boil and immediately pour into jars.
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Pumpkin-orange jam
Young pumpkin contains a lot of sugar and vitamins. When combined with orange, the vegetable becomes an excellent way to boost immunity.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
- Prepare the pumpkin: peel the skin and remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small pieces.
- Cut the orange together with the peel into 4-6 parts and grind through a meat grinder. It is better to remove the seeds from the citrus so that they do not add bitterness.
- Prepare the syrup. Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour 500 ml of water into it.
- Stir the sugar and cook the syrup until it is completely dissolved.
- As soon as this happens, add the pumpkin pulp and the twisted orange. Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
- Cool and put into jars.
Pumpkin jam with orange and lemon
Lemon can be added to the traditional recipe already mentioned. But with citrus fruits you can prepare an express version of jam. There is no need to cook it - the mass is poured into jars raw. The treat should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 6 months.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 1 lemon;
- 1 cup of sugar.
Preparation:
- Peel the pumpkin from peel and seeds. Cut into large pieces. Grind in a meat grinder.
- Rinse the citrus fruits. Cut it together with the peel into several pieces and also pass through a meat grinder.
- Combine pumpkin and citrus masses, mix thoroughly.
- Add sugar. Leave for half an hour so that the ingredients are saturated with sugar.
- Place into jars.
How to make pumpkin jam
To make pumpkin jam, you need to choose the right main ingredient. Pumpkins come in a wide variety of varieties. Which one is best for desserts?
To choose a good pumpkin, it is not necessary to know the names and properties of the varieties. Pay attention to size and shape. You should not buy pumpkins that are too large; they look impressive, but mainly forage varieties grow to large sizes, which do not have a pleasant taste. So choose a pumpkin weighing no more than 3 kilograms.
Give preference to varieties with oblong and guitar-shaped fruits, they are sweeter. If there are only spherical pumpkins, then pay attention to the color of the pulp. Pumpkin, which has bright orange flesh, will be sweet and tasty. A pale yellow or greenish tint to the pulp indicates that the fruit will be tasteless. But the color of the peel does not affect the taste.
Once you have chosen a pumpkin, you need to clean it. Peeling a ripe fruit (namely, ripe fruits are sweet and tasty) is not so easy, since its peel is dense. You will have to “arm yourself” with a kitchen hatchet and a large knife.
First of all, you need to wash the pumpkin. Then use a kitchen hatchet to chop the fruit in half and use a spoon to scrape out the seeds along with the fibrous pulp of the center of the fruit. Next, use a hatchet or knife to chop the pumpkin into slices, and then remove the peel from the slices using a knife.
Then the pumpkin pulp will need to be chopped. Carrying out this work will no longer require effort; the pulp is easy to cut. The choice of grinding option depends on the type of workpiece. If you want to make “raw jam,” then pass the pumpkin through a meat grinder. For regular jam, you can cut the pulp into cubes or strips. You can use a curly knife for cutting, the jam will look more impressive. To make jam, you can grate the pumpkin.
Advice! All recipes indicate the weight of already peeled and chopped pumpkin. Keep this in mind when purchasing ingredients.
Pumpkin jam is often prepared with various additives, this improves the taste and adds aroma. Most often, citrus fruits are added - lemons or oranges. In addition, spices are often used - vanilla, cinnamon, ginger.
Interesting facts: the homeland of pumpkin is hot Mexico, but the plant turned out to be extremely unpretentious, so it grows well in other climatic zones, with the exception of the polar regions. To date, more than fifty varieties of pumpkin have been bred.
Orange-pumpkin jam with cinnamon
Pumpkin contains carotene, which is good for vision. It contains a lot of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron - the vegetable strengthens muscles and is useful for people with low hemoglobin. Therefore, pumpkin jam with orange is consumed to improve health.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 500 gr. Sahara;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder.
Preparation:
- Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Cut the vegetable into pieces.
- Fill the pumpkin with water. The liquid should not completely cover the pumpkin, otherwise the jam will be very runny. Put it on the stove to boil.
- Peel the fruit, cut into cubes, add to the pumpkin.
- Add sugar and cinnamon. Cook for half an hour over medium heat.
- Cool the jam and pass the mixture through a meat grinder.
- Boil the jam for another quarter of an hour and put it in jars.
Pumpkin jam with dried apricots
Dried apricots make the jam less cloying. Choose fresh dried fruit so that it is easy to chew. Experiment and add your favorite spices during the cooking process - cinnamon, rosemary or cloves; they will not worsen the taste of the delicacy.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg pumpkin;
- 2 oranges;
- 5 kg dried apricots;
- 1 kg sugar.
Preparation:
- Pour hot water over the dried apricots and leave for an hour.
- Peel the pumpkin and cut into small cubes.
- Cut the dried apricots into small pieces.
- Place the dried fruit together with the pumpkin in a saucepan.
- Grind oranges with peel through a meat grinder. Add the mixture to the pumpkin and dried apricots.
- Add sugar. Add a little water if necessary.
- Cook over medium heat until all ingredients are soft.
- Place into jars.
Insanely delicious jam with its bright colors will lift your spirits during the cold season. This delicacy is also very healthy - in combination with lemon it will strengthen the immune system, and with dried apricots it will strengthen muscles.
Hello my beloved readers! This fall we had a huge pumpkin harvest. I was tormented by the question, what to do with so much? I have already frozen manti with this vegetable in the refrigerator, and every week I prepare a fragrant casserole. I decided to make pumpkin jam with oranges. When we were children, our mother prepared this delicacy for us, so why don’t I try making it for my own children. The beauty of the vegetable lies in the fact that in such twists for the winter its taste is unnoticeable, because it is mixed with other tasty ingredients.
Secrets of making delicious pumpkin jam
- If you want to get a thicker jam, then you need to cut the pumpkin as finely as possible or grate it.
- To make the jam appetizing and aromatic, it must be supplemented with other ingredients. Citrus fruits, almonds and walnuts, apples, plums, dried fruits, sea buckthorn and even zucchini are great.
- A variety of spices will add zest to the finished dish. You can use allspice, cloves, vanillin, cinnamon. For example, a delicious dessert is made from pumpkin with dried apricots, orange and lemon.
- We advise you to choose young fruits of small size, because it is from them that you will get a delicate jam with the right consistency, and it will not turn into pumpkin puree.
- Orange or lemon zest will add piquancy and bright flavor to the dessert.
- Adding citric acid will extend the shelf life of the finished dish.
- It is better not to use enamel dishes for cooking, as the jam sticks to it strongly.
- Cooking times vary significantly. It depends on the products you use and the consistency you want.
- The ideal combination of sugar and pumpkin is 1:1. But you can add more sugar. In this case, the jam will be stored even longer.
Experiment, come up with your own recipes, follow these tips, and you will succeed. Good luck to you in your culinary creativity.
Recipe for jam from pumpkin pieces with oranges
I really love this recipe. It is very simple, citrusy fresh, and requires the most ordinary ingredients for its preparation. Simplicity and quality – that’s what it’s all about!
Required Products:
How to cook:
1. Remove the skin from the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut the pulp into cubes.
2. Place the cubes in a deep saucepan, add sugar and leave to steep overnight.
3. The next day, grate the lemon zest and squeeze all the juice into a separate cup.
4. Peel the orange (do not grate it). Squeeze the juice of ½ orange.
5. Add lemon zest and orange peel to the finished mixture. Pour in the juice. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes. When finished, allow the mixture to cool completely.
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6. Put it back on low heat. After 30 minutes, add lemon juice to the pan, stir and cook for an additional 5 minutes.
7. When finished, remove the pan from the heat. Let the jam cool, it will become thick in consistency.
If the taste seems ordinary citrus to you, add ginger, nutmeg or cardamom when cooking. They will make the taste more spicy.
Pumpkin jam with oranges, lemon and ginger
This recipe is similar to the previous one, but thanks to the cinnamon in the composition, you will get a completely different taste. The combination of ginger and lemon is not only interesting, but also healthy. It will add a hint of spice - you are guaranteed a cool smell throughout the apartment