Pumpkin is a real storehouse of vitamins, which are so lacking in winter. Therefore, making jam from pumpkin will be a great idea if you want to preserve its useful properties and get an unusual taste.

Pumpkin jam with oranges

So, to prepare a healthy dessert for the winter, you will need:

  • pumpkin pulp - 1.5 kg;
  • sugar sand - 500 g;
  • water - 100 ml;
  • orange - 2 pcs.

Let's start with pumpkin jam with oranges, because it is they that best complement the natural taste of the vegetable, make it more saturated.

Choose a pumpkin. It must be necessarily sweet varieties.

  1. Cut the fruit in half or four parts, cut the peel, peel the seeds with pulp, finely chop, for example, cubes, rinse under the tap.
  2. We put the cubes in a pan, pour water at the rate of 100 ml per 1.5 kilograms.
  3. Cook for about 10-15 minutes in boiling water until softened.
  4. Leave the finished pulp on the table to cool, then pass through a blender or meat grinder until a homogeneous gruel is obtained.
  5. The resulting composition is transferred to the pan, add sugar, put on the stove, bring to a boil.
  6. When the jam begins to boil, reduce the heating to a minimum and continue cooking for another 30 minutes, stirring occasionally so that the mass does not sink to the bottom.

While the jam is cooked, it's time to take oranges.

  1. Wash the fruits thoroughly, rinse with boiling water, dry, grate remove the zest. Add it to the jam and do the rest of the oranges.
  2. Cut, get seeds, drain the juice. Juice is added to the jam.
  3. Finely chop the flesh and add about 10 minutes to the end of the cooking process to the bulk.
  4. After 30 minutes, when the mixture thickens and decreases in volume, remove from heat and check readiness.

To do this, drip the composition on a saucer. If the drop does not spread, then the jam has reached the desired density.

Put the finished jam in pre-sterilized jars with hot steam or high-frequency microwaves of an electric furnace, roll up.

With apples

 

Another interesting and useful way to cook pumpkin jam is to add apples to it. The process of making jam from apples and pumpkins is no different from other recipes.

  • pumpkin pulp - 800 g;
  • apples - 1.2 kg;
  • sugar - 1 kg;
  • orange peels - ¼ teaspoon (optional);
  • water - 200 ml.

Cooking method:

  1. Rinse, peel, chop apples and pumpkin. Peel the components, remove the seeds.
  2. Fold the chopped pieces into a saucepan, add water and put on slow heating. Soak until they soften.
  3. Cool.
  4. Grind with a blender and put on fire, after falling asleep half the sugar. Stirring, wait until the sugar has dissolved, bring the mass to a boil.
  5. Cook on slow heating until the end of the process. It takes about 30 minutes. 10 minutes before the end, we fill in the remaining sugar and orange peels, they will make jam more fragrant.
  6. Remove from fire, check readiness.
  7. We put on sterilized banks.

The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the pumpkin. It is recommended to use varieties: Almond, Griboedovskaya winter, Spanish 73, which differ in dense and sweet flesh.

Cooking with zucchini

Pumpkin can be supplemented with a new flavor, for example, combine with zucchini.

To do this, you will need:

  • pumpkin - 400 g;
  • zucchini - 150 g;
  • sugar - 500 g;
  • water - 50 ml;
  • citric acid - 2 pinches;
  • ground nutmeg - ½ teaspoon.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel the squash and pumpkin, remove the seeds with the pulp and set it to boil lightly so that the fruits become softer, and then grind into the pulp with a blender or meat grinder. The composition can be quickly ground in a powerful food processor.
  2. Put the resulting mass into a pan, mix with sugar and cook for about 35 minutes, not forgetting to stir constantly. About 5-7 minutes before the end, add nutmeg and citric acid.
  3. We check the jam for readiness and pack the finished product on the banks.

Zucchini quickly cause a feeling of fullness, recommended for overweight people.

Multicooking

If there is a slow cooker, it can be used to make jam from pumpkin.

This will require the following ingredients:

  • water - 70 ml;
  • ground cinnamon - 0.3 tsp;
  • pumpkin - 500 g;
  • sugar - 270 g.

Cooking method:

  1. Prepare fresh pumpkin for cooking. To do this, as in the other recipes, remove the seeds, cut the peel, cut into pieces with a knife.
  2. Boil a little until soft in the "Porridge" program or grind to a porridge in a food processor.
  3. Sugar and water are added to the prepared pumpkin in the quantities stated in the recipe. We lay in the slow cooker.
  4. Switch to the "Extinguishing" mode. The whole process will take about 30-40 minutes.
  5. 5 minutes before the end add cinnamon.
  6. We check the readiness of the jam and put it in the banks.

Smart pan allows you to save the nutritional value of the product.

Recipe with dried apricots

Another popular recipe is jam with dried apricots. The recipe for cooking is almost the same, but there are some nuances.

For him you will need:

  • pumpkin - 1.5 kg;
  • sugar - 500-700 grams depending on the sweetness of the vegetable;
  • dried apricots - 250 g;
  • lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

  1. Before starting, soak dried apricots in hot water. After that, cut it into small pieces and leave it aside.
  2. Let's take a pumpkin. It is prepared in the same way as in the previous recipe: cut, peel, boil and grind into gruel.
  3. The resulting mass is set to boil on fire.
  4. Add sugar, dried apricots and lemon juice.
  5. After 25-30 minutes, you can remove and check the readiness as described above or make the track in a presumably jam with a spoon. If it does not return to its original position within 10 seconds, the jam can be considered ready.
  6. We spread it over the prepared jars and send it to winter.

The pleasant sweetness of pumpkin in combination with additives will saturate the body with strength and health.

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