Light currant jam and ginger recipe

In preparing it I used little sugar to be a real light jam or light, with the peace of mind given it a fact for ourselves product , to which I added a little more flavor with a few pieces of fresh ginger that have flavored so my amazing breakfast every morning.

Ingredients for two jars of jam

• 400 gr of fresh currants
• 125 g sugar
• 50 ml of water
• 20 grams of fresh ginger

How to make a light currant jam and ginger

1. Carefully wash currants and twigs desgranamos they come.
2.  We weighed the berries and put them in the pan in which to cook the jam go. 
3. Add a little less than one third the weight of currants in sugar.
4. Add the water and put the saucepan. We give a circular to integrate the ingredients well and we start movements peel the ginger . It's easy to do it with the edge of a spoon. If you do not find ginger you can use fresh dry ginger powder to find in the supermarket.
5. Chop the peeled ginger and incorporate into cooking with gooseberries and let the whole simmer for fifteen or twenty minutes . I grind in the blender and we put in glass jars that we sterilized.
6. If you are going to use the jam immediately, you can store them in the fridge and wont spend before they go bad.
7.  If you want to save for later jam, it is better that you be close to empty , baking closed jars in a pressure cooker for ten minutes.

Tasting

Both breakfast time as if you use for baking recipes for snack time, this ligea currant jam and ginger will let you enjoy as quirky as this red fruit flavor without remorse caused by excess calories.

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How to make home made apple jam

Indeed, preparing homemade jam is pretty easy , and even apple pectin it contains enough not to need any thickening and it is a fruit that practically melts alone, so with very little effort will get a rich homemade apple jam.

Ingredients

• 750 g (about three pieces) tart apples (Granny Smith or Pippin)
• 250g sugar
• 1/2 lemon
• 25g butter
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• optionally vanilla or vanilla sugar .

How to make homemade apple jam

1. We started by washing, peeling and slicing apples . 
2. The flesh place it in a large pot with the juice of half a lemon, while the skins and hearts of apples put them to cook with a little water in another saucepan. 
3. After five minutes, drain them and, with the help of a spoon or a set of two sieves, we get them juice.
4. This will help thicken the jam easily.
5. The next step is to put the pan with the juice from the skins into the fire, and incorporate the sugar. 
6. The amount of sugar is between about 45% and 65% of the weight of the already sliced ​​apples. In my case, the three apples out about 500g of chopped and peeled apple.
7. Now turn up the heat and, stirring constantly, c'mon roasting until sugar caramelizes . At that point, remove from heat, add the butter and, stirring constantly, pour caramel over our apples, which were waiting in the pot with the lemon game. 
8. All this is important to do it quickly, otherwise the caramel will harden.
9.  The last step is to cook the apples with candy until the jam . 
10. The first five minutes should have high heat and stir frequently, to then gradually lowering it until just over half an hour we jam our list (time depends on the desired texture).
11.  Do not worry about the apple pieces as you go baking they will go undone, and if we do not help stirring vigorously.

Tasting

The homemade apple jam is, how could it be otherwise delicious. Remember a little plum jam, although slightly more acidic. My advice is that you will keep in a pot and selléis water bath, so will last longer.

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