Lingonberry jam is a tasty and healthy delicacy rich in the vitamin composition of the northern berries. You can make homemade cooking in the old fashioned way in a copper basin, an enameled pan or in a slow cooker. Below are the most delicious recipes of lingonberry preservation: “Five Minute”, with apples, pears, oranges, spices and others.

Classic recipe

Classic lingonberry jam contains berries without additives in the form of spices, nuts, citrus fruits and other fruits. It is applicable for medicinal purposes in case of anemia, colds and some other diseases. The ratio of ingredients in the workpiece:

  • 200 ml of drinking water;
  • 3000 g lingonberries;
  • 1400 g of sugar.

The recipe for the steps:

  1. Sort out lingonberries from garbage and damaged specimens, rinse, dry and put in an enameled container. Then pour water and bring the liquid to a boil.
  2. A quarter of an hour or a little more boil the berries on moderate heat, then add sugar and, stirring, heat again to a boil.
  3. After that, pour the prepared jam into a sterile glass container and roll it up.

Lingonberries are distinguished by a tart astringent taste, which not everyone likes. But here is the pattern - the longer the jam is stored, the less its astringency.

Cooking without cooking

Raw lingonberry jam can be kept in the refrigerator or even in the kitchen cabinet, subject to corking in sterile jars. And if you place this piece in the freezer, you get a home-made analogue of fruit and berry ice cream. Essential Ingredients:

  • 700 g of red cranberries;
  • 700 g of white crystalline sugar.

Cooking Algorithm:

  1. Grind the prepared clean and dry berries in a meat grinder with a fine wire rack or beat in a bowl with an immersion blender.
  2. Pour a little sugar into the resulting puree and stir the jam until the bulk product is completely dissolved.Only then add a new portion of the sweetener. When all the sugar is mixed, the jam is ready.

Raw lingonberry jam can be used for making fruit drinks, added to tea or served with pancakes or pancakes.

Harvesting with the addition of apples

This cowberry billet is very aromatic and slightly tart due to the taste of ruby ​​berries. Slices of apples in the jam remain whole, not boiled, more reminiscent of candied fruits. For sweets from lingonberries and apples you will need:

  • 2000 g lingonberries;
  • 1000 g of apples;
  • 1500 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of cinnamon;
  • 3 buds of cloves.


The sequence of actions:

  1. Wash and peeled apples with a cut out seed box to chop slices. Sort the lingonberries, removing the spoiled berries, wash and dry.
  2. In the dishes in which the jam will be prepared, lay the apples and lingonberries in layers, pouring each row with sugar. After that, wait until the juice is released.
  3. After about a day, you can proceed to the next stage. Put the fruit and berries on a fire, heat the composition until the boil begins, then remove from the stove and let the preparation stand for 12-16 hours.
  4. Season the jam with spices, bring to a boil, boil for five minutes, pour into sterile jars and cork. Turn over preservation cylinders upside down, cover with a blanket and wait for them to cool completely.

Such a short heat treatment of lingonberries and apples helps to preserve a greater amount of vitamins, the integrity of slices and berries.

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Lingonberry jam "Five-minute"

Many housewives give preference to blanks “five minutes”. The reason for this is not only the speed of preparation, but also the preservation of a large amount of vitamins. The composition of lingonberry "Five-minute" includes:

  • 1000 g of lingonberry berries;
  • 1000 g of sugar.


Blank technology:

  1. Prepared berries are placed in a pan with a thick or double bottom, cover them with half the amount of sugar specified in the recipe, and then gently mix with a wooden spoon without damaging the integrity of the berries.
  2. Bring the composition to a boil, cook for exactly five minutes, not forgetting to remove the foam with a slotted spoon. Then add the rest of the sugar and stir everything so that the sweet crystals dissolve.
  3. After that, distribute the mass in sterile hot jars of small displacement, roll up with iron lids and leave to cool, turning upside down.

If desired, any spices can be added to this blank: cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and zest of citrus fruits.

To get rid of the astringent qualities of lingonberries, the berries need to be scalded with boiling water and held a little closed. Then even freshly made jam will not be tart.

With oranges

Lingonberry jam with oranges is a treat not only tasty, but also healthy. Just a couple of his tea spoons will bring immunity to full “combat” readiness, giving him the strength to withstand seasonal colds. To get such a vitamin bomb, you must prepare:

  • 500-600 g of lingonberry;
  • 2 juicy oranges;
  • 1000 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of cinnamon powder.


Cooking method:

  1. Rinse lingonberries thoroughly under running water and dry on a spread towel. Remove the zest from pure oranges and squeeze the juice.
  2. Pour orange juice into a basin or pan of a suitable volume, add lingonberry berries and sugar. Stir everything well and insist for at least three hours.
  3. Then add cinnamon, cook over moderate heat. Cook the berries, periodically mixing and removing the emerging foam. Pour hot jam into clean glass jars and cover with lids.

To get more juice from oranges for jam, you first need to put them in the water for a while, and then roll, slightly pressing your hand against the table.

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Cooking technology with pear

Lingonberry jam with pears has a beautiful ruby ​​color, which candied pear slices also acquire, and everything is balanced in its taste: both sweetness and light acidity. To prepare a dessert you will need:

  • 600 g of lingonberry berries;
  • 600 g of prepared pear pulp;
  • 1200 g of sugar;
  • 50 ml of water;
  • cinnamon to taste.

Working process:

  1. Thinly cut the skin from pure pear fruits, cut them into small slices, and, with sugar, set aside so that the fruit gives off juice.
  2. Add water to a pan with pears and sugar, put the container on moderate heat. Boil the slices in syrup a quarter of an hour after boiling.
  3. Then pour the washed lingonberries and cinnamon, cook to a consistency in which a drop of jam will not spread on a chilled plate. This will take approximately 45 minutes.

After tasting a jam made from pears and lingonberries in a 1: 1 ratio, the next time you can change the proportions to get a sweeter pear or berry taste with sourness.

Lingonberry jam multicooker

It is easy to adapt any of the jam recipes suggested above for a slow cooker using the appropriate options “Jam”, “Jam” or “Stewing”. But the use of this gadget is more justified if the raw materials are frozen. All that is needed in this case is:

  • 500 g of frozen lingonberry;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 30 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice.

How to cook jam from frozen berries in a slow cooker:

  1. Pour lemon juice into the bottom of the unit, then send lingonberry berries, pouring them with sugar.
  2. Cook the jam in the "Extinguishing" mode for 60-70 minutes, removing the valve for steam release, so that the consistency of the workpiece is thicker. At the end of the program, keep the workpiece for another two hours on heating.

Such a delicacy is stored in pre-sterilized jars rolled up with metal lids.

Finally, it is worth noting that lingonberry berries contain a lot of organic acids, so it is strongly recommended not to use aluminum dishes for cooking lingonberry jam. The ideal capacity is a thick-bottomed stainless steel pan.

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