Would you like to make an original, sweet, hearty jam with a wonderful aroma? We bring to your attention recipes for pumpkin jam with dried apricots, which will take pride of place in your cookbook. Drinking tea with this amber and exquisite delicacy is a pleasure.

Classic pumpkin jam with dried apricots

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg of pumpkin;
  • 300 g dried apricots;
  • 650 g of sugar.

 

Step-by-step cooking instructions:

  1. Peel the vegetable from seeds, peel and soft part near the seeds. Cut into cubes about a centimeter wide. Put in a pan where the dessert will be prepared, and sprinkle with granulated sugar. It is advisable to pour sugar gradually: a little pumpkin, then a layer of sugar, and so gradually pour the right amount.
  2. Leave for about 3 hours. During this time, the pumpkin will give its juice, and the sugar will dissolve.
  3. Soak dried apricots in cool water for half an hour.
  4. Then cut it into small pieces or strips.
  5. Put the pumpkin with sugar on the stove. When the water boils, detect 10 minutes and cook all this time. If a foam forms, it must be removed.
  6. After add dried apricots. Boil another 20 minutes and cool. If the resulting consistency is not thick enough, then you need to boil the jam for about 10 minutes.
  7. Put the finished dessert in prepared jars.

Orange and Lemon Recipe

  • 2.5 kg of peeled pumpkin;
  • 1.5 kg of sugar;
  • 300 g dried apricots;
  • 1 lemon;
  • 2 oranges.
  1. Prepare the pumpkin in the same way as described above, chop and put in the pan. Pour granulated sugar there. Leave for one night.
  2. After the pumpkin is infused, cut the citrus fruits into cubes.
  3. Put the pumpkin with sugar on the fire. When it boils, put citrus fruits there. Bring to a boil and cook for about 7 minutes.Leave to cool for 5 hours.
  4. Put jam on the fire again. Grind the washed dried apricots and add to the jam when it boils. Cook for about half an hour over medium heat, not forgetting to stir.
  5. If the pieces of pumpkin become soft - the delicacy is ready.

Tasty jam with dried apricots and walnuts

  • 2 kg of pumpkin;
  • 900 g of sugar;
  • 300 g dried apricots;
  • 200 ml of water;
  • 1 lemon;
  • 200 g of walnuts;
  • cinnamon, nutmeg to taste.
  1. Cut the peeled pumpkin into small cubes. Cut dried apricots into quarters and soak for half an hour in warm water. Wash the lemon thoroughly and cut into thin slices without peeling.
  2. Grind nuts with a knife or with a meat grinder.
  3. Pour water into a pan, add sugar and walnuts. Heat the resulting mixture over low heat.
  4. When the sugar has dissolved, put lemon and pumpkin there. Add nutmeg, cinnamon and dried apricots when the pumpkin softens. Cook until thickened.
  5. Arrange the finished jam in jars. In a week it will be completely ready and will become very fragrant.

Spice Jam Recipe with Ginger

  • 2 kg of pumpkin;
  • 1 lemon;
  • a slice of ginger;
  • 1 kg of sugar;
  • 800 g of dried apricots;
  • cinnamon to taste.
  1. Rinse and peel the pumpkin. Cut into small cubes.
  2. Cut washed and dried dried apricots into quarters.
  3. Put the pumpkin in a saucepan, pour sugar and let it brew for 5 hours.
  4. Boil the pumpkin for about a quarter of an hour.
  5. Then put grated ginger, lemon juice, dried apricots and cinnamon into the pan. Boil for half an hour.
  6. Boil the jars and put the jam in them.

Cooking in a slow cooker

  • 500 g dried apricots;
  • 400 g of sugar;
  • 20 pieces of dried apricots;
  • some citric acid.
  1. Dice the pumpkin washed with dried apricots in small pieces. In a container for a multicooker, mix dried apricots, sugar and pumpkin. Put citric acid as the last ingredient. Mix all.
  2. Place the container in the multicooker, select the “baking” mode, time - 1 hour.
  3. Cook for 40 minutes under a closed lid, and for the remaining time open the lid so that the treat is thickened enough.
  4. After cooking, jam can be eaten right away or put in jars.

Pumpkin jam with dried apricots "through a meat grinder"

  • 1 kg of pumpkin;
  • 1.5 kg of sugar;
  • 1 kg of apples;
  • 300 g dried apricots;
  • some cinnamon.
  1. Prepare apples, dried apricots and pumpkin: rinse, remove the peel and seeds, and remove the core from apples. Cut into small pieces, then pass through a meat grinder.
  2. Put all the products in the pan and cook over low heat for 2 hours, removing the resulting foam.
  3. When the jam gets the desired consistency, put it in boiled jars.

Cooking without cooking

  • 1 kg of pumpkin;
  • 1 kg of sugar;
  • 1 orange and lemon;
  • a teaspoon of cinnamon.
  1. Peel the pumpkin and cut into medium sized pieces. Rinse the orange and lemon and cut into large slices.
  2. Grind it all with a blender.
  3. Pour sugar and cinnamon into the resulting mass. To mix. Put overnight in the cold.
  4. The next morning, lay out the jam in jars. Keep refrigerated.

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The secrets of making delicious pumpkin jam

    1. If you want a thicker jam, then you need to chop the pumpkin as small as possible or grate it on a grater.
    2. To make the jam delicious and fragrant, it must be supplemented with other ingredients. Citrus fruits, almonds and walnuts, apples, plums, dried fruits, sea buckthorn and even zucchini are great.
    3. A variety of spices will add a twist to the finished dish. You can use allspice, cloves, vanilla, cinnamon. For example, a delicious dessert is obtained from pumpkins with dried apricots, orange and lemon.
    4. We advise you to choose young fruits of small sizes, because it is from them that you will get tender jam with the desired consistency, and it will not turn into pumpkin puree.
  1. The zest of orange or lemon will give the dessert a piquancy and bright taste.
  2. The addition of citric acid will extend the shelf life of the finished dish.
  3. For cooking, it is better not to use enameled dishes, as jam sticks to it very much.
  4. Cooking time varies greatly. It depends on the products used and the consistency you want.
  5. The perfect 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, invent your own recipes, be guided by these tips, and you will succeed. I wish you success in culinary creativity.

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