Kiwi Jam - 11 recipes

Kiwi is hardly a seasonal fruit. It can be found on store shelves all year round, only the price of it may vary depending on the season. But even with such accessibility of these juicy green fruits, housewives often prepare kiwi jam, because they harmoniously emphasize and make the taste of other winter and summer seasonal fruits (grapes, gooseberries, persimmons, apricots, tangerines) richer.

Classic Kiwi Jam

The simplest (classic) recipe for this delicacy involves the use of only kiwi fruits and granulated sugar in the following proportions:

• 500 g of kiwi;
• 750 g of sugar.

Recipe step by step:

1. With any available method, remove the peel from the kiwi, chop the pulp into cubes, pour it with sugar and set aside at least an hour before the juice is released.
2. Then put the jam on the fire and boil it after boiling for five minutes. Allow the composition to cool completely. Next, the procedure with five-minute boiling and cooling is repeated three more times.
3. For long-term storage, the jam should be laid out in sterile jars, closed with iron lids and put into the basement or pantry.

How to cook with a banana

To cook winter jam from kiwi and banana, in one small jar of flavorful workpiece you need to take:

• 6 medium sized kiwi fruits
• 1 large or 2 medium bananas;
• 300 g of granulated sugar;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 1 lemon (juice).

Cooking method:

1. Grind the peeled kiwi fruits in small cubes, and mash the banana flesh with a fork in mashed potatoes. Combine the prepared exotic fruits and pour with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Bananas, apples and other fruits rich in iron are prone to darkening due to the oxidation of this trace element as a result of cutting the fruit. To avoid this, lemon juice will help, which will keep the color of the workpiece as beautiful as with fresh fruits.
2. Pour both types of sugar into a container with fruits, mix and set aside for two hours. Then bring everything to a boil, boil for 20 minutes and cork in a sterile glass container.

Simple kiwi jam without cooking

This version of the "emerald" harvesting allows you to maximize save all the nutrients and vitamins of fresh fruit. But it is worth considering that the shelf life of such a sweet is less than that of jam prepared by heat treatment.

Proportions of ingredients for this treat:

• 700 g ripe kiwi fruits;
• 700 g of white crystalline sugar.

How to cook without boiling:

1. Peel the kiwi fruit and grind it in mashed potatoes. This can be done using a meat grinder or blender.
2. Combine fruit puree with the prescribed amount of sugar, mix and place in clean and sterile jars. This jam is only allowed in the refrigerator.

Gelatin Recipe

Kiwi jam with gelatin is more viscous and thick. All this thanks to the gelling component. If you use "Zhelfiks" for jam, then it is laid together with fruit at the very beginning of cooking. When using ordinary gelatin, the sequence of actions changes slightly, since boiling reduces its gelling properties to nothing.

The list of ingredients:

• 500 g of kiwi;
• 500 g of sugar;
• 14 g of gelatin in powder.

Stages of cooking:

1. Kiwi clean and grind. The grinding method depends only on personal preferences: you can twist the fruit in a meat grinder or cut them into cubes with sides of at least 1 cm.
2. Pour fruit slices with sugar and leave for several hours so that a sufficient amount of juice is released. Soak instant gelatin in a separate container in 4 - 5 tablespoons of the released juice.
3. Boil the kiwi with sugar twenty minutes after boiling and turn off the heat. Transfer the swollen gelatin to the pan and mix until it is completely dissolved. Let the jam stand for 5 minutes and can be rolled up in jars.

“Emerald” kiwi jam with gooseberries and grapes

The taste of grapes and gooseberries perfectly complements kiwi. The only moment: you should give preference to grape varieties with a light color of berries, whose dense flesh is seedless.

For one serving of such jam you will need:

• 1000 g of kiwi;
• 500 g gooseberries;
• 500 g of grapes;
• 50 ml of lemon juice;
• 20 g of lemon peel;
• 1250 g of sugar.

Cooking sequence:

1. Sort gooseberries and grapes from the stalks, wash under running water, which is then allowed to drain well. After that, grind the berries in mashed potatoes. Peel the kiwi and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Fold the prepared berries in an enameled container, add lemon juice and sugar to them, mix and bring to a boil.
3. Add the citrus zest to the boiled jam, reduce the heat to medium and cook for no more than 20 minutes. After that, the workpiece can be laid out in jars or cooled and immediately eat.

Cooking with lemon

Despite the fact that both of these fruits are not very sweet, kiwi jam with lemon turns out to be very tasty and unusually aromatic.

The composition of the workpiece includes:

• 1000 g of kiwi;
• 2 lemons (one whole, the other only juice);
• 900 g of sugar;
• 100 ml of water.

Working process:

1. Wash lemons thoroughly with the hard side of a dishcloth or simply with a brush. Pour boiling water over. Cut one citrus fruit into slices, and squeeze the juice from the other.
2. In a saucepan, combine water and 100 g of sugar, bring this syrup to a boil. Then send lemon slices into it and boil for 10 minutes. In the meantime, peel the kiwi, and cut the fruits themselves in the same way as citrus.
3. Transfer the kiwi, the remaining sugar and pour the lemon juice into the pan to the boiled lemons.As soon as the jam boils, turn off the heat and leave the fruit in syrup until it cools completely.
4. The next day, boil the jam, let it simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally and collecting foam.

It remains only to seal the composition in sterile jars and send for storage in a dark and cool place.

Kiwi jam with apples

Apples that are more familiar to our latitudes, rich in pectin and vitamins, also performed well in a duet with exotic kiwi.

The proof of this was a recipe for tasty and thick jam from:

• 2000 g of apples;
• 1000 g of kiwi;
• 1000 g of sugar;
• 1 lemon
• 200 ml of drinking water.

Cooking Algorithm:

1. Wash the apples, finely peel them, cut the core, and cut the flesh into small cubes. Do the same with kiwi pulp.
2. At the bottom of the pan, where the billet will be cooked, pour in water, transfer the fruit there, pouring them with sugar, and squeeze the juice from the lemon on top.
3. Let the fruit stand for half an hour - an hour, then send the jam to the fire and cook for half an hour after boiling. Cool the fruit slices in syrup, then boil again and roll into prepared jars.

Unusual persimmon treat

Even those who do not like the astringent taste of persimmons will like kiwi jam with this orange fruit.

To cook it you will need:

• 1200 g of kiwi;
• 500 g of persimmon;
• 400 g of sugar;
• ½ lemon (juice);
• 10 g vanilla sugar.

Cooking:

1. Wash, peel and beat the fruit with a mashed blender. Then add sugar and lemon juice to the mixture.
2. In a bowl with a thick bottom, bring the mixture of fruit puree and sugar to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and cook for another 5 to 10 minutes. Put the jam in the jars and roll up the lids.

How to do with apricots

The highlight of this recipe is not only a combination of familiar and exotic, but also in light notes of brandy, which can be replaced with rum or cognac. It will turn out equally tasty.

For two half-liter jars of kiwi jam with apricots you need to take:

• 200 g of kiwi;
• 500 g of apricots;
• 750 g of sugar;
• 70 ml brandy;
• 5 g of citric acid or the corresponding amount of lemon juice.

We prepare as follows:

1. Remove seeds from apricots and peel them from kiwi. Next, chop the fruit into cubes.
2. In a deep container with a wide bottom, pour prepared fruit with an alcoholic drink and sprinkle with sugar. Leave to juice for at least an hour.
3. It remains to add citric acid and cook over medium heat for a quarter of an hour after the start of the boil. Store jam, rolled up in sterile jars.

In a slow cooker

The slow cooker has established itself as a device for making jam. The cooking process requires minimal participation from the hostess, and the fruit never burns to the bottom.

To make a small amount of kiwi jam, for example, for tea, you only need:

• 5 kiwi fruits;
• 1 medium apple;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 30 ml of lemon juice.

Cooking Stages:

1. Wash and peel the fruits. An apple will still need to cut the core. Next, cut everything into small pieces.
2. Shredded fruits, sugar and lemon juice are sent to the multicooker bowl, mix and tightly close the lid of the gadget.
3. Cook the jam at maximum temperature for 15 minutes, using the option "Cooking". After cooling, jam can be transferred to a bowl and serve.

Tangerine Citrus Recipe

For another version of kiwi jam with the addition of other citruses (tangerines) you will need:

• 500 g of kiwi;
• 500 g of tangerines (including the zest of one medium tangerine);
• 500 g of sugar;
• ½ lemon juice or ¼ teaspoon of citric acid.

Description of the method of preparation:

1. Peel tangerines, carefully remove all white veins and disassemble into segments. With a sharp knife, very carefully cut each along. Chopped kiwi fruits into cubes.
2. Fill the fruit with sugar and after an hour of insisting send it to the fire. As soon as the mass begins to boil, introduce lemon juice (acid) and grated zest of tangerine on the finest grater.
3. Cook the confiture, stirring and removing the foam from its surface, to such a consistency when its drop slowly spreads over the plate.

A delicious emerald-colored delicacy is not only very tasty and healthy, but also simply unusually beautiful. This is a great winter vitamin cocktail that adults and children alike enjoy.