Golden apple jam. How to make dry apple jam at home

If traditional jam You've already had enough of apples, try pampering yourself and your family with a tasty, aromatic, extremely healthy amber delicacy.

Amber apple jam has an original sweet and sour taste and a pleasant smell. And what can we say about its amazing amber color! A special fruit cutting technique allows the sugar syrup to evenly penetrate the structure of the apple, due to which the slices become pink-transparent in color with a noble amber tint. After cooking, the product turns out golden and sunny. I don’t even want to call it ordinary jam, because it is a real culinary masterpiece.

In addition to its excellent aesthetic qualities, the jam is very healthy, retains almost all valuable elements and vitamins, and has a therapeutic effect on many systems human body. It allows:

• improve blood clotting;
• normalize the functioning of the digestive organs;
• reduce bad cholesterol levels;
• improve metabolism;
• increase the body's protective functions, strengthen the immune system;
• restore strength and rejuvenate the body.

Did you know? Some Slavic peoples They believed that for the health of the whole family it was necessary to wash oneself with water containing an apple at the beginning of the year.

Amber jam from apples in slices

There are various methods for preparing apples. However, one of the most common, simple and accessible is cooking. To ensure that the delicacy does not become overcooked and the slices are intact, you should use whole, dense fruit without dents or damage.

Required Ingredients

To prepare an amber dessert, you should stock up on the following set of ingredients:

• unpeeled apples - 800 g;
• sugar - 300 g;
• water - 250 ml;
• citric acid - 1/4 tsp.

Kitchen utensils and appliances

Amber jam is extremely easy to prepare and does not require the use of special kitchen utensils or technology. During the cooking process you will only need:

• a saucepan or stewpan for boiling fruit;
• wooden or silicone spatula (spoon) for mixing ingredients;
• 0.5-liter glass jars for preparation.

Step-by-step cooking process

Basic cooking recipe amber jam consists of the following steps:

1. Rinse the apples well under running water, dry them a little with a towel, and peel them.
   
2. Cut out the core, cut the fruit into slices 5-6 mm thick. To prevent them from darkening in the air, before cooking you can soak them (up to 1 hour) in slightly salted or acidified water.
   
3. Place sugar in a saucepan, add water, and bring to a boil.
   
4. Carefully add chopped apples to the boiling syrup.
   
5. Cook the fruit, stirring occasionally and skimming off the foam, until the slices become transparent and the syrup has evaporated.
   
6. A few minutes before it is ready, add citric acid.
   
7. The readiness of the jam is checked by consistency: you should drop a little syrup on the saucer, if it does not spread, the dish is ready.
   
8. Transfer the jam into a sterilized jar, close the lid, place it upside down, and cover with a towel.
   

How to diversify your taste

To diversify classic taste apple jam, add to it various ingredients, for example, orange, lemon, cinnamon, etc. All flavors will be clearly felt in the dessert, without interrupting each other, but harmoniously complementing each other.

Orange jam

Boiled delicacy with orange - a bright cocktail unusual taste and excellent aroma with pleasant notes of citrus. For cooking you will need the following products:

• apples - 1 kg;
• oranges - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.5 kg.

Step by step recipe:

Jam with lemon

Because apples are universal product, they go well with other fruits and spices. The combination of apples and lemon will allow you to get not only delicious jam with a gentle touch of freshness, but also remedy, which copes well with colds.

Did you know? Previously, it was forbidden to eat apples until the Apple Savior, since the fruits had not yet been consecrated and the new harvest was blessed.

To make dessert with lemon, you need to take:

• apples - 1.5 kg;
• lemon - 1 pc. medium size;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• water - 250 ml.

Cooking sequence:

With added cinnamon

A very successful symbiosis of apples and cinnamon is often used in cooking for cooking delicious desserts. Amber apple jam is no exception, because it has a rich sunny hue and a warm, slightly tart taste of oriental spice.

To prepare the dessert you will need:

• apples - 1 kg;
• sugar - 730 g;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• water - 120 ml.

To make dessert, you need:

Important! If within the specified hour the apples have not released their juice well, then you should add the amount of water specified in the recipe. Mix the fruits well.

Features of workpiece storage

Homemade jam “opened” should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 3-4 months. Do not consume the product if a film of mold has formed on its surface.

What to serve jam with

There is hardly a person who does not like apple jam. This is a wonderful delicacy that will be relevant at any time of the year. It is recommended to serve it as a stand-alone dessert or as an addition to pancakes, pancakes, and buns.

Moderately sweet and aromatic treat - great option for making pies, charlotte, bagels, cakes. It is suitable as a filler for cottage cheese pancakes or nalistniki. It will go perfectly with a cup of freshly brewed herbal or black tea.

Video: apple jam

Hello dear housewives and readers of our site. If you are the happy owner of a personal plot on which apple trees grow, then during the harvest season, the topic of processing them is relevant to you. You can make a lot of apples different blanks, in this article I share jam recipes.

This sweet treat will be useful to you as a filling for pies or as cake decorations, and in general, such jam can be added to absolutely any baked goods. It will bring even more pleasure and pleasure in addition to a fragrant cup of hot tea. Whoever likes it more, the taste and color, as they say.

The variety of apples for jam does not matter. It’s just that if you have fruits with a pronounced sourness, then most likely you will need to add a little more sugar than indicated in the recipe. Feel free to try and edit the recipe to suit your needs. Let's finally start creating!

1. Apple jam for the winter

Beautiful amber the treats will be mesmerizing, and the aroma will be simply unique. Citric acid diluted in water will help preserve the color of sliced ​​apples and prevent them from darkening.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 1 kg
• Sugar – 800 g
• Water – 300 ml
• Citric acid – 1 teaspoon

Cooking steps:

1. Wash the apples and sort them. Cut into large pieces, removing the core and seeds. Place in a bowl and fill with water mixed with citric acid, per liter you need a teaspoon. Let it sit for a quarter of an hour, no more.

3. After this, place the dishes on the stove, bring the future jam to a boil over medium heat, boil for 10 minutes, then set aside to cool.

4. The second time after the jam boils, cook for 15 minutes. The procedure will need to be repeated a third time.

5. Place the finished treat in pre-washed and sterilized jars for further storage and close tightly with lids.

Good luck with your preparation and great results!

2. Transparent apple jam in slices

Amazing taste and appearance sweet apple dessert. The jam is perfect both for serving with tea and for adding to various pastries. A little strength, patience and a miracle delicacy will delight the whole family.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 1 kg
• Sugar – 1.2 kg
• Soda – 2 teaspoons
• Salt – 1 tsp. Spoon

Cooking steps:

1. Wash the apples thoroughly under running water, then cut them into thin slices, removing the core and seeds. Place the chopped fruits in a bowl, then fill them with salted water. Add a teaspoon of salt per liter of water. You need to keep the apples in the solution for about 10 minutes.

The saline solution will prevent the sliced ​​fruits from changing color.

2. Then mix soda with water at the rate of a couple of teaspoons per liter of water. Rinse the apple slices and soak in the baking soda solution for 5 minutes.

The soda solution will prevent overcooking and keep the slices intact.

3. Rinse the fruit in clean water, transfer to a saucepan or other container for making jam, pour sugar on top. Wait until the juice comes out.

4. Place the dishes on the stove, bring the mixture to a boil over moderate heat and remove from the heat.

5. Wait 6 hours for the jam to cool completely, repeat the procedure 2 more times. During the cooking process, apple slices will swell slightly and become transparent.

6. Prepare the jars, wash, sterilize in a way convenient for you. And then fill them with ready-made, fragrant and still hot jam.

Enjoy your tea and Have a good day!

3. Fragrant apple jam in syrup

On cold winter days it's nice to warm up with a cup of hot tea and fragrant jam in a bite. To make the jam also beautiful, boil it in sugar syrup. Difficulties are reduced to zero, and you will certainly like the result.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 1 kg
• Sugar – 1 kg
• Water - glass

Cooking steps:

1. Dry the apples, washed to remove any dirt, and cut into thin slices. Remove the cores with seeds.

2. To prevent the cut slices from changing their color, lightly sprinkle them with lemon juice.

3. Take a saucepan, preferably one with a thick bottom. Pour a glass of water into it and add most of the required amount of sugar.

4. Place the pan on the stove, do not turn on high heat. On the stove at moderate heat, stirring until all the sugar has dissolved, then the syrup should boil.

5. After this, immediately transfer the apple slices into the pan.

6. Cook, stirring gently so as not to damage the slices; it is most convenient to use a wooden spatula for this.

7. Sprinkle more sugar on top and bring the contents of the pan to a boil.

8. Next, leave the jam to cool, preferably overnight. And the next day, bring it to a boil again. It’s not difficult to check the readiness of the treat; drop a drop on a flat plate; if it doesn’t spread, then sweet dessert ready.

9. You can treat your family to hot jam right away. To prepare for the winter, pour the treat into clean jars and roll up the lids.

Enjoy your tea!

4. Apple jam with cranberries and mint

This sweet dessert is not suitable for long-term storage for the winter. But I couldn’t help but share this amazing recipe for simply magical jam. This delicacy is suitable in addition to pancakes or pancakes for breakfast, for example. If you don't like cranberries, replace them with lemon.

Ingredients:

• Apples - 3 pcs
• Cranberries - a handful
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Maple syrup - 3 tbsp. spoons
• Sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons
• Cider - glass
• Mint - 2 sprigs

Cooking steps:

1. Wash the apples, cut two of them into medium-sized cubes.

2. Place the pieces in a saucepan and add cranberries. Pour in olive oil And maple syrup. By the way, the syrup can be replaced with any other, or you can not add it at all.

3. Add sugar, pour cider into the fruit and berry mixture.

4. Mint sprigs need to be chopped as finely as possible and placed in a saucepan.

5. Place the saucepan on the fire, which should be moderate. Stirring gently, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat on the stove to minimum.

6. The apple pieces should become very soft, the liquid from the dish should evaporate to a reasonable extent. Cut the remaining apple into thin slices, add to the jam, and mix. Cover the saucepan with a lid, keep on the stove for 5-7 minutes, so that the slices fresh apple softened slightly.

That's all, like this beautiful dessert with apples of different textures in the composition, it will not leave you indifferent. And the aroma is simply amazing, I advise you to try it too.

Have a great day and good mood to you!

5. A simple recipe for apple jam in the microwave

It is, of course, difficult to prepare such a dessert in large quantities. But, like the previous recipe, it is ideal as a quick sweet filling for baking or in addition to it. Cinnamon is added as desired; you can do without it.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 300 g
• Sugar - 50 g
• Lemon - 1/2 pcs
• Cinnamon - to taste

Cooking steps:

1. Peel the washed apples and cut into cubes. Size doesn't really matter here, make it to your taste.

2. Sprinkle fruit pieces with sugar.

3. Sprinkle juice from half a lemon on top and stir.

4. The apple pieces should release their juice; this won’t take much time.

5. Then you can immediately put the bowl in the microwave for 5 minutes at maximum power.

6. As soon as the microwave beeps, take out the bowl, add a pinch of cinnamon and send it back for another minute, stirring the contents.

Enjoy the taste and aroma of a sweet dessert!

6. Apple and pear jam with lemon slices for the winter

Sweet jam with amazing taste, the highlight will be lemon. It will give the delicacy a slight sourness. Preparing a treat for the winter is easy, you can easily cope with this task, the main thing is to start.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 2 kg
• Pears - 1 kg
• Sugar – 1 kg
• Lemon - 1 pc.

Cooking steps:

1. Pre-washed and dried apples, cut into arbitrary small pieces. Place them in the pan in which you will cook the jam.

2. Add to apple slices, sliced ​​pear fruits.

3. Pour sugar over the fruits, mix gently, leave on the table for half an hour. We need juice from them.

4. Then place the pan on the stove, cook the sweet dessert on low heat for about half an hour or a little longer. Watch the consistency; the fruit should become much softer.

5. A few minutes before readiness, add lemon cut into small cubes and stir.

6. Fill sterilized, clean jars with the resulting apple and pear jam with lemon, close the lids. After the jars have cooled down room temperature, they can be moved to cool place for further storage.

Eat with pleasure and treat your friends!

7. Video - Amber jam from apples in slices

Enjoy your tea and have a good day!

Simple, easy, and in most cases, making apple jam at home will not take much of your time. Don't be afraid to try something new, this is a very good opportunity to diversify your jam preparations that you prepare from year to year. Thus, you will please yourself and your loved ones by opening and trying a sweet treat according to a new recipe.

The recipe for apple jam has certain subtleties, without observing which we will end up with ordinary jam with pieces boiled in puree (well, okay, not jam, but something jam-like). It’s delicious, of course, but for a change I want a different result. I want real, transparent, glass-like, amber apple jam - it has its own charm: the taste of apples is richer and the color is more intense.

It is not difficult to cook transparent apple jam in slices, but the process takes quite a lot of time. The fact is that the jam is prepared in three steps at intervals of 6-10 hours. This is the only way to get amber syrup and transparent apple slices. In addition, it is important to choose the “right” apples. Suitable late varieties with hard (strong) fruits, whose slices will not fall apart, but will only be saturated with syrup. And pay attention: the harder and greener apples, the more transparent the slices will be!

Cooking time: approximately 30 hours. Yield: 1 l.

Ingredients

• For 1 kg of apples you will need 0.7-1 kg of sugar, depending on how sweet you like your preparations.

How to make apple jam in slices

Wash the apples, cut into 4 parts, remove the core, cut the resulting parts into slices 0.5-1 cm thick, each can be cut into two more parts if the apple is large.

You also need to choose the right pan for cooking. For jam, many people use aluminum dishes, because in them the fruits quickly warm up and do not burn. But this is only in the case of “five-minute” cooking. It is impossible to keep jam in such a pan for a long time, because the aluminum will react with sour apples, which will lead to the formation of harmful substances unnecessary in the workpiece. Therefore, we exclude an aluminum pan.

Place apple slices in layers in a saucepan of suitable volume, sprinkling each layer generously with sugar.

Cover the pan with a lid and leave for 8-10 hours. During this time they will give apples required quantity juice to start cooking.

Place the pan on medium heat, bring the syrup to a boil, let it cook for 5 minutes. Do not mix the apples! Even if the syrup does not completely cover them, you can just press them lightly with a spoon so that they are in the syrup. It is important that the apples are not stirred even once during the entire cooking of the jam, so that the slices do not become deformed.
Remove the pan from the heat, cover and leave to cool completely, this will take at least 6 hours. This is what the slices will look like after the first cooking and cooling.

Bring the jam to a boil again, cook for 5 minutes, cool (again at least 6 hours). After the second cooking, the slices will become even more saturated with sweet syrup.

It remains to boil the apples for the third time. And now the jam is ready. You can put it in clean, sterilized jars and roll it up or cover it with lids. The jars are prepared taking into account that 1 kilogram of apples yields approximately liter jar jam.

Often a little is added to this apple jam. ground cinnamon or boiled with vanilla, which makes the taste even brighter.

Like most preparations, apple jam is stored in slices in a dark, cool room.

I had adventures with this apple jam. I cooked it twice. But thanks to my mistakes, I finally understood what needs to be done in order to cook an excellent clear jam apple slices. And the secret here is very simple - apples. It's all about the apples! They should be strong and juicy. If you buy strong, but not juicy apples of unknown varieties, you risk repeating my unsuccessful experience, because the first time I got an incomprehensible dark brown substance with dry and completely incomplete transparent slices. If you take soft and tender apples, they will boil over and you won’t get any slices. So there is only one way out - to take the Antonovka or Semerenka, which has been proven for centuries. They will help the magic happen - they will give you enough juice and retain their shape.

Clear apple jam is cooked in slices as a series of “five minutes”. And the principle of preparation is similar to that of any other “five-minute exercise.” That is, the apples are covered with sugar, given juice and then boiled, not just once, but four or five times, until all the slices become transparent amber. Actually, that's all you need to know. But if you are used to following a recipe step by step (and I usually do), then everything is described below in great detail.

Ingredients:

• Apples (ideally Antonovka) - 1 kg,
• Sugar – 600 g.

Method for making clear apple jam in slices

So let's get started. Wash the apples, cut them into quarters, remove the core and seeds and then cut them into slices no more than 5 mm thick.

Close the pan with a lid and set for 8 hours. I don’t recommend it for longer - the top layer of apples may wilt and these dried slices will no longer be filled with syrup - boil them for at least a year (I checked, so take my word for it).

After 8 hours, the apples will give so much juice that it will cover them almost entirely. For some reason this really surprised me. But it is clear that the berries give a lot of juice, but the apples, which look so dense. Some kind of miracle!

Put the pan on the fire, bring to a boil, reduce the heat so that there is no intense gurgling and note the time - after exactly 5 minutes the jam will need to be turned off. I don’t recommend stirring the apples, otherwise the still soft slices may become wrinkled or torn. You can shake the pan slightly (lightly so as not to get burned!), You can heat the slices with a silicone spatula. In general, handle jam with care.

Leave the jam for 8 hours. Then put it on the fire again, bring it to a boil again, reduce the heat again and cook again for 5 minutes.

We leave for another 8 hours (although the third and fourth cooking can be delayed - apples well cooked in syrup will not spoil, so I cooked it after about 12-14 hours and everything worked out). Cook again in the mode already familiar to us.

And after an eight-hour period we cook it a fourth time. I last time I cooked it not for 5, but for 7 minutes, thanks to which the jam turned amber. The apple slices were already completely transparent. And, most importantly, quite dense. That is, they kept their shape perfectly, like candied fruits in syrup. This is exactly what I needed! The jam tastes sweet and sour. Delicious! Definitely worth your time. I don’t recommend experimenting with “fast” recipes. Either they are for some mega-advanced cooks, or they are far from plausible. Old, proven over the years reliable recipe gave the expected result. I absolutely adore this jam. Nothing else compares to it.

Bon appetit!

Recipes for apple jam for the winter

Easy to prepare, transparent apple jam in slices will become not only a table decoration, but also a beautiful filling for an open sweet pie...

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What is needed for amber jam from apple slices

How to make delicious apple jam in transparent slices for the winter? So, what do we need:

That's it! As it should be in any jam, the ingredients need to be measured by kilograms in a 1:1 ratio. We wash the apples well and dry them from drops of water. If desired, you can peel them. Then we cut the fruits into slices or pieces, depending on the size of the apples and what candied fruits you want to see in your masterpiece.

Recipe for amber apple jam in slices

Now that we've got everything cut, place the pieces/slices in layers for future cooking which we sprinkle with sugar. Then leave for a while so that the juice comes out of the apples and mixes with sugar. So as not to wait long, preliminary preparation You can do it in the evening and start making jam in the morning.

When we had applesauce syrup, boil the resulting mixture for 5 to 10 minutes, then leave for several hours until it cools completely. Then we repeat the cooking procedure, after which we cool again to the maximum. And finally, for the third and last time we boil our jam, which will already acquire pleasant smell and amber color. During this stage, you can boil it longer if you want to make the sweetness darker or closer to jam with candied fruits.

• If you are not sure that your apple slices will remain intact, try boiling one apple in water, after cutting it into pieces. If you see what happens applesauce- this variety will not work. Try to look for Antonovka or white filling if you want clear golden jam. And red varieties will give the same reddish tint.
• It is best to make jam in a stainless or aluminum pan, because the syrup may burn in an enamel pan.
• If you immediately want to make the jam thicker, pour the apple slices into containers with a wide bottom. This will give some of the moisture time to evaporate, and the syrup will become less liquid.

How to store amber jam

After everything is cooked and cooled, our sweetness overflows into sterilized jars and sealed with lids. Fortunately, it is not picky, so you can either roll it up or use a jar with screw cap. Very convenient if there is a shortage of rubber covers.