Not only tasty, but also useful sweetness is honeysuckle jam. A five-minute recipe allows you to cook it as quickly and simply as possible. In winter, such a treat will be a storehouse of vitamins and protect against colds, as well as other ailments.

Five Minute: A Simple Honeysuckle Recipe

Honeysuckle is a delicate berry that does not like prolonged cooking. A five-minute recipe will save it in a whole jam. Berries and sugar for the preparation of the dessert in question are taken in the same amount - 1 liter each.

  1. The honeysuckle is removed from the garbage and washed with a weak pressure of water. Handle it carefully so as not to mash the berries and not to stain everything around. Pure fruits are reclined in a colander and left for 10 minutes to glass water. To speed up the process, you can constantly shake them.
  2. The berries are transferred to a pan in which jam will be prepared, and then covered with sugar.
  3. The most responsible recipe is mixing the ingredients. In order not to crush honeysuckle and not turn it into porridge, do not use a spoon or spatula. Simply shake the pan with the lid closed several times.
  4. Next, the container is sent to medium heat until the sugar begins to melt, and the berries start to juice. As soon as these processes began and the first bubbles began to appear on the surface of the mass, it was possible to increase the heating to the maximum.
  5. 5 minutes after the start of an active boil, the pan is removed from the stove. The main thing is not to forget to remove foam from its surface.

Further actions depend on how long it is planned to store the finished jam. If it is soon eaten, then you can immediately pour hot liquid into jars. If the sweet is prepared for the winter, then first the mass must be left at room temperature until completely cooled.

Classic recipe with citric acid

 

If you want to add sourness with jam, then you can add “lemons” (3 g) to the recipe. It will only slightly change the taste of the dish. In addition to citric acid, you need to take: 1 kg. honeysuckle and sugar, 1 tbsp. water.

  1. The simplest sugar syrup is made from water and sugar.
  2. Carefully washed berries are immersed in a sweet boiling liquid. The mixture should cook for at least 6-7 minutes, after which it is removed from the fire.
  3. The cooled mass will be infused for 7-8 hours, after which the pan with it is brought to a boil on fire and again left at room temperature for several hours. The procedure is repeated until all the berries are at the bottom.
  4. Only at the very last cooking is citric acid added to the mixture. After cooling, the mass can be poured into cans for further storage.

Citric acid protects sweetness from sugaring. With it, the jam will retain its original appearance for a very long time.

Jam recipe without boiling

Interestingly, you can make delicious jam from the discussed berries even without prior boiling. For it, you will again need to use citric acid (2 g), and the following ingredients: 1 kg. berries, 1.5 kg. Sahara.

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  1. Pre-washed with water, honeysuckle is mixed with sugar and crushed with a blender. The resulting mass should be homogeneous. If this cannot be achieved with a blender, then you can knead the ingredients with a wooden spoon until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved.
  2. At the end of the process, citric acid is sent to the mixture.
  3. Jam is stored in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Since the sweetness prepared according to this recipe is not exposed to heat, all vitamins and other useful substances in it are completely preserved. It can become part of the effective prevention of colds and flu.

The method of preparation for the winter with the addition of liquor

 

The taste of the honeysuckle jam, in which the liquor is added, is very unusual. No need to be afraid that the sweetness will turn out to be alcoholic. All alcohol evaporates during the cooking process, only an interesting aftertaste will remain. For this option of treats you need to take: 1 kg. washed and dried berries, 700 g. sugar, 0.5 lemon, 50 ml. any liquor (Amaretto is perfect), 1 tbsp. cinnamon. The following details how to make jam from honeysuckle.

  1. Prepared berries are laid out in a pan, sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice are added to them. The mass is slightly mixed and left for a couple of hours, so that the honeysuckle gives juice. If it turned out to be too little, you can add water.
  2. At the end of the specified period, the pan is put on medium heat and cooked for about half an hour. You do not need to mix the ingredients. Enough - shake.
  3. A couple of minutes before readiness, liquor is poured into the mass, after which it is mixed and removed from the fire.
  4. The jam is immediately bottled in hot jars (sterilized). Tanks are turned over and wrapped in a warm blanket.

When the sweets in the jars have cooled, they need to be rearranged in the refrigerator or cellar for further storage. You can immediately take samples from the resulting jam.

How to cook honeysuckle jam in a slow cooker

For making jam, any multicooker is suitable. The main thing is that the device has a "Extinguishing" mode. It will greatly facilitate the cooking process for the chef. For such a sweetness, you need to take 800 g of berries and sugar.

  1. Washed and dried berries are filled with sugar and left overnight.
  2. After the specified time, the ingredients are thoroughly mixed with a wide wooden spoon and poured into the multicooker bowl.
  3. Cooking refreshments will allow the mode "Extinguishing". It should be turned on for 60 minutes.

Hot sweets are poured into carefully washed and sterilized jars. Best in liter or half liter.

Five-minute honeysuckle jam or cooked according to any other recipe is great for making various desserts.

It can be added to the filling for pies and donuts, in creams for cake and other sweets.

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