Lingonberry jam with apples is a fragrant sweet and sour delicacy that many loved for its unique taste.
Apples accentuate the taste of the berry and give the jam the necessary density.
Lingonberry jam with apples - the basic principles of preparation
Cooking jam is best in a wide copper or enamel bowl.
Lingonberries sorted out. Pour into a bowl and pour in plenty of water and mix with your hands. So all the rubbish will surface. The procedure is repeated until the water is clear. Then the berries are thrown into a colander or sieve and left until all the water has drained. Lingonberries are transferred to the dishes, where jam will be cooked. Fall asleep with sugar and leave for several hours so that the berries let the juice.
After the allotted time of the berries, it is advisable to slightly push the batter. The dishes are placed on moderate heat and cooked, stirring so that the sugar does not burn.
Meanwhile, the apples are freed from the core. The pulp is cut into small pieces. Fruits are added to a bowl with lingonberries and mixed. As soon as the mass begins to boil, the fire is reduced and boiled, constantly mixing, for about half an hour, be sure to remove the foam.
Hot jam is poured into sterile glass containers and tightly rolled up with tin lids.
Lingonberry jam with apples is cooked with lemons, walnuts, oranges and spices.
Recipe 1. Lingonberry jam with apples
Ingredients
lingonberry - kilogram;
a glass of purified water;
a kilogram of apples Antonovka;
sugar - two and a half kilograms.
Cooking method
1. Pour some of the lingonberry into a bowl, fill it with cold water and mix with your hands so that all the debris, leaves and twigs will surface. Berries that are drowned must be discarded. We also get rid of crushed, shriveled and brown fruits. The procedure is repeated three times. We discard the moved lingonberry on a sieve and leave it to water glass. We shift the berries into an enameled basin. So do the rest of the berries.
2. Pour sugar over cranberries and leave for several hours. Stir so that all the sugar is in the juice of the berries. Pour a glass of purified water and send the basin to a moderate fire. Warm up, periodically stirring so that the sugar does not burn.
3. While the berries are boiling, we wash the apples and wipe with a towel. Cut out the core. Grind the fruit pulp into small slices.
4. Put the apples in a bowl with lingonberries and mix. When the contents begin to boil, twist the fire and prepare the jam, periodically mixing and removing the foam. Cooking time is approximately half an hour.
5. Pour the hot treat into sterile dry jars, tightly cover with tin lids and cool.
Recipe 2. Lingonberry jam with apples and cinnamon "Christmas Spirit"
Ingredients
cinnamon stick;
a kilogram of lingonberry;
250 g of white sugar;
250 g of apples;
a glass of purified water.
Cooking method
1. Pour sugar into a saucepan and moisten it with water. Pour so much water so that sugar does not float in it, but is only saturated.
2. Place a bowl of sugar on a small fire and cook a thick syrup, stirring continuously.
3. Sort out lingonberries from garbage, remove spoiled fruits. Put the berries in a bowl, fill with water and mix so that all the small debris floats to the surface. Rinse the berries a couple more times and drop them on a sieve to get rid of excess moisture.
4. Dip lingonberries in syrup and bring the berry mass to a boil twice.
5. Wash the apples, wipe, cut in half and cut the core. Cut the fruit pulp into thin slices.
6. Add apples to the berry mass. Stir and place the cinnamon stick. Cook until the fruit slices are soft. Be sure to remove the foam that appears on the surface.
7. Place the hot jam in sterile dry jars and roll hermetically.
Recipe 3. Lingonberry jam with apples and honey
Ingredients
light honey - half a kilogram;
apples - 500 g;
lingonberry - kilogram;
half a glass of purified water.
Cooking method
1. We sort lingonberries, remove dry and spoiled fruits. Then we place the berries in a bowl, fill them with drinking water and mix them with our hands to get rid of small debris. We shift the lingonberries on a colander and leave the glass to water.
2. I wash the apples under the tap, wipe with a napkin and cut in half. Remove the seed boxes and cut the fruit into small pieces.
3. Lingonberries and apples are put in the dishes, in which we will prepare the jam, and mix.
4. Put the honey in a saucepan, pour filtered water and mix until the honey is completely dispersed. We put on fire and warm, but do not bring to a boil.
5. Pour berries and fruits with syrup and mix. We put the dishes on moderate heat, cook, stirring, until the fruits and berries become transparent.
6. We pack hot jam in sterile dry jars and cork hermetically with tin lids.
Recipe 4. Lingonberry jam with apples and oranges
Ingredients
lingonberry - kilogram;
1000 g of sugar;
five apples;
three oranges.
Cooking method
1. Lingonberries are carefully sorted, removing leaves, twigs and spoiled fruits. We spread the berries in a colander and rinse under the tap. Leave the glass to water.
2. Wash and peel the apples. Cut into quarters and remove the core.
3. Peel the oranges and peel off the white film.
4. We twist the apples with oranges in a meat grinder and put them in an enameled basin. Pour half the sugar and cook over low heat for a quarter of an hour, continuously stirring the mass so that it does not burn.
5. Pour lingonberries into a blender bowl and interrupt until puree. We shift the berry mass into the basin and add the rest of the sugar. We continue to cook from the moment of boiling for another five minutes. Remove from heat and cool slightly. We arrange them in jars, close them with nylon covers and store in the refrigerator.
Recipe 5. Lingonberry jam with apples and walnuts
Ingredients
lingonberry - kilogram;
granulated sugar - 800 g;
walnuts - 500 g;
three large apples.
Cooking method
1. Lingonberries sorted out, removing twigs, leaves and spoiled fruits. We place the berries in a deep bowl and pour cold water. Mix with your hands so that all the small debris floats to the surface. We wash lingonberries a couple more times. We shift to a colander, pour over boiling water and leave the liquid to the glass. Put the berries in a wide enameled basin and cover with sugar. We leave the cranberries to let the juice go.
2. Peel the apples, cut in half and cut the middle. Cut the pulp of the fruit into small slices.
3. Put the kernels of walnuts on a kitchen towel, cover with a second and knead a rolling pin.
4. Put walnuts and apples in a bowl with berries. Mix and place the basin on a small fire. Cook for six minutes from the moment of boiling, and remove from heat. Cool completely and place the basin again on fire. Cooking the same amount of time. The nuts in the jam should become transparent. If this does not happen, prepare the jam again.
5. We spread the hot jam in dry sterile jars and hermetically seal the tin lids.
Recipe 6. Lingonberry jam with apples in a slow cooker
Ingredients
350 ml of cold water;
a kilogram of lingonberry;
kg of sugar;
200 g of apples.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the lingonberries thoroughly, removing leaves and other small debris. Put in a colander and rinse under the tap.
2. Wash the apples, cut the fruits into four parts. Remove the stalk and seed boxes. Cut the flesh of the fruit into small pieces.
3. Place berries and fruits in a multi-cooker bowl. Pour in water and add sugar. Stir to distribute the sugar evenly.
4. Close the lid and put the machine into the "quenching" mode. Cook the jam for two hours.
5. Wash jars well with soda, rinse and sterilize in the oven or over steam. Spread the jam over the jars and seal them tightly.
Recipe 7. Lingonberry jam with apples, spices and lemons.
Ingredients
three kilograms of lingonberry;
cloves;
one and a half kilograms of apples;
vanilla;
two lemons;
one and a half kg of sugar;
cinnamon.
Cooking method
1. Sort the lingonberries, rinse in several waters and pat dry.
2. Peel the apples and cut the seed boxes. Slice the fruit pulp into slices.
3. Dip the lemons with boiling water and chop the slices with the peel. Remove the bones.
4. Put lingonberry berries in a bowl in which you will prepare the jam. Pour in sugar and add spices to taste. Shuffle.
5. Put a basin on the fire and cook the berries with spices for ten minutes. Then strain the resulting juice. Put apple slices in it and cook on low heat until half cooked. Add lemon and cook for another five minutes.
6. Remove the jam from the fire, add lingonberries to it, mix and pack the hot treat in dry, sterile jars.
Lingonberry jam with apples - tips and tricks
If the lingonberry berries are slightly ripened, pour boiling water over them before cooking.
For jam, it is better to take apples of sour or sweet and sour varieties.
Make jam only in enameled or copper cookware.
Be sure to remove the foam during cooking. It is better to do this with a wooden spoon.
You can serve lingonberry jam with apples not only for tea, but also prepare desserts and pastries with it.
