Very fragrant, bright and tasty redcurrant jam is an excellent option for vitamin harvesting for the winter. There are many recipes for making jam from this healthy berry, including raw confiture without cooking and quick jam in a slow cooker. But we want to invite you to try a more traditional version of the simplest ingredients, which result in an incredibly tasty and healthy treat.
Redcurrant jam - a step by step recipe at home
Due to the fact that agar is included in this currant jam, it turns out to be rich and thick. Such a natural thickener is very useful for the human body, so jam with agar can be consumed even by vegetarians and small children. By the same principle, you can cook thick jam from black or white currants. But in this case, the amount of sugar must be adjusted at your discretion or, if you wish, replace refined sugar with liquid molasses.
On a note! Making incredibly delicious redcurrant jam according to this recipe is very simple. If you prefer berry mixes, we recommend adding strawberries or raspberries to the recipe. The ratio of berries should be 1:1, and the amount of sugar should be increased to 400 grams.
Required Ingredients:
- red currant - 500 gr.
- agar - 2 tsp
- water - 100 ml.
- refined sugar - 300 gr.
Step-by-step instruction:
- We clean the berries from the branches, put them in the bowl of a food processor and grind them to a thick puree.
- We introduce the required amount of sugar into the resulting mass.
- Mix thoroughly. Leave for 30-50 minutes so that the sugar is completely dissolved in the mass. We send the currant blank into a deep saucepan and cook for 23-26 minutes over low heat.
- In a deep bowl, mix agar and clean cold water, leave the mass for 30-40 minutes.
- Pour the resulting jelly mass into a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly with a whisk.
- Add the liquid mass with agar to the chopped currants, cook for another 3-5 minutes, constantly stirring the workpiece. We make sure that the mass does not start to boil.
- Pour the finished jam with red currant and agar into heated containers, carefully cork. We wrap the inverted container with a blanket. We wait 4-5 hours and send it in storage to the proper place.
