Blueberry is an amazing berry.
Combines great benefits and accessibility.
It grows in nature, but you can grow in your garden or in the country. H
this is what many gardeners do.
After all, blueberries in fresh is a source of vitamins and trace elements needed by the body.
It fills a person with strength, improves digestion, helps to fight the harmful effects of the environment.
Plus a wonderful soft, sweet, sour taste.
However, the berry season is not very durable, but I want blueberries in the winter, and in the early spring, and in the late autumn.
Therefore, the berry harvested for the future.
To keep the maximum taste and, most importantly, the benefits will help the five-minute jam of blueberries. It is called so because it prepares quickly.
Basic principles of cooking five minutes of blueberries
Blueberries for five-minute jams suitable fresh, ripe, recently harvested.
First of all, the berry needs to be prepared. This is a simple matter - you need to remove the leaves from the blueberry and accidentally hit the garbage, rinse.
Further there are several options. In some, blueberries are poured with sugar and slowly heated. The sugar melts, after boiling the jam is boiled for a few minutes. In other cases, syrup is first prepared from water and sugar. Blueberries are already placed in it and they are also brewed for a short time.
There are options when the five-minute cool and boil again. In any case, the cooking time does not exceed five minutes.
Ready-made jam can be hot poured into cans and covered with metal lids. You can cool in banks and only then cover with capron caps. It depends on where it will be stored - under iron lids you can leave it without a refrigerator and for a longer period.
Bilberry five-minute can be cooked by adding other berries - most often it is wild strawberries, strawberries, black currants.
A simple recipe for making a five-minute blueberry
This is a basic recipe that tells how fast, simple and easy to make five-minute jam from blueberries. The result is wonderful - it tastes good, the consistency is thick, but not too much. Can be used with tea or used as baking toppings. Having mastered the basic recipe, you can already try to make your additions and changes. Ingredients
- Blueberries and sugar should be taken equally by weight, nothing else is needed
Method of preparation
- Rinse the blueberries thoroughly, weigh them, pour them into the cooking container.
- Weigh the same portion of sugar there.
- Stir and put on a small fire.
- Stir periodically, observe that the sugar melts, not burning in any way.
- When all the sugar has dissolved, you can add a little fire, if the jam is not boiling.
- As soon as the first good ghosts appear, notice the time.
- Boil no more than five minutes with active, but not excessive boiling.
- Stir. After time, remove the jam from the heat and pour into prepared jars.
Five minutes from blueberries with lemon flavor
Often blueberries get to the hostess in too sweet form. This happens when the berry is overwhelmed. Jam from it turns out too cloying. Therefore, it is recommended to reduce the amount of sugar and add lemon juice. And if you enrich the mixture with lemon zest, the dessert will come out with a pleasant additional shade of taste and aroma.
Ingredients
- Very ripe blueberries - about a kilogram
- Sugar is taken a little less - about 800 grams, but a sweet tooth can take a whole kilogram
- Large lemon or two small
- 100 ml of water
Method of preparation
- Water and sugar should be combined in a container for jam and put on a small fire for cooking syrup. Heat, stirring, until boiling.
- Grate the lemon zest, the more the better.
- After that, squeeze out the juice, also the maximum amount.
- Rinse blueberries, let them drain and load into boiling syrup.
- Stir, add lemon zest and cook for no more than five minutes.
- Pour the lemon juice into the jam, mix thoroughly and remove the container from the heat.
- Can be poured into cans or, after cooling, served on the table.
Five-Minute Blueberry Jelly
To get blueberry jelly, you need to boil the berries for about forty minutes. Of course, many vitamins with this method is lost. However, there is a recipe for cooking blueberry jelly-five minutes. There can not do without helpers - gelling additives. This may be agar-agar, gelatin, pectin, zhelfiks. Use them according to the recommendations on the package. Ingredients
- About a kilogram of ripe blueberries
- 1 pound of granulated sugar
- Gelfix 1: 2 packet
Method of preparation
- Blueberries should be picked, washed, held in a colander to let the water flow.
- Zhelfiks mix with sugar.
- Combine sugar and blueberry, put on fire.
- When heated, the sugar in the mixture will melt, and the blueberries will release the juice. It is necessary to ensure that the sugar is soaked with juice and does not burn.
- When, while stirring, the jam begins to boil, note the time.
- Four minutes later, remove from heat. Let stand a quarter of an hour or less.
- Blender is good to walk on blueberry jam. He will grind berries in mashed potatoes. If desired, you can pure the whole mixture or leave some of the berries intact.
- Put the mixture back on the fire and bring to a good boil.
- Remove, pour on banks. If you plan not to store the dessert, and use in the near future, you can not boil the mixture a second time.
Thicker riches: five-minute bilberries of triple “quenching”
Traditional five-minute turns out not too thick, from it you can choose the berries, and put the syrup on the juice. However, many people love jam thicker. Especially if you plan to use it on the filling for baking. How to cook a thick jam without a long boil?
Ingredients
- Kilogram of Blueberry
- Kilogram of sugar - can be more or less, depending on the sweetness of the berries and the desired result
Method of preparation
- Wash the blueberries, remove excess water, pour it into a pot for cooking jam.
- Pour sugar, mix well, slightly pressing down with a spoon.
- Let stand for a couple of hours so that more juice stands out. Stir periodically.
- Put on medium heat, make sure not to burn.
- Bring to a boil and let simmer for a couple of minutes.
- Remove from heat, allow to cool completely. Jam should stand at least 12 hours.
- Then put again on medium heat, let it boil for a couple of minutes, remove for 12 hours.
- After the third such “hardening” jam will be thick, stingy. Pour into banks and remove after cooling for storage.
Blueberry Five Minute “Aromatic”
Fill the wild blueberry jam with the aromas of the forest, nature, and the weed - an original idea! Anyone who likes herbal teas and various mixes is worth a try. The main thing is to find suitable plants. However, there is no solid recipe, the composition of additives can be varied. If you can not break them, you can buy at the pharmacy!
Ingredients
- Approximately two kilograms of blueberries
- Sugar is needed in one and a half to two times less, such jam should not be too cloying
- For a small bunch or bunch of currant leaves, strawberries, mint sprigs, lemon balm, thyme, oregano and other herbs if desired.
- Half a cup of water
Method of preparation
- Prepare the berries in the usual way - choose garbage, rinse well.
- Combine water and sugar in boiling pans, put on fire, let it boil a little.
- Herbs - dry or fresh - folded together and tied up in gauze, you can wrap a piece of bandage well, the main thing is that the threads do not separate and the herbs are well secured.
- In the syrup, lay the berries and boil for five minutes.
- If the herbs are dried, immerse them in jam immediately at the beginning of the boil. If the plants are picked fresh, they are more tender and boiling will kill the odors. A bunch of fresh herbs should be added to the last-minute jam, before being removed from the heat.
- The peculiarity of such a jam is that it should cool down in a large capacity - in which it is boiled or poured into another one, but always with herbs. When completely cool, herbs can be pulled out.
Five minutes of blueberries and strawberries
Combine several wild berries together, add sugar and boil a little bit - wonderful jam full of vitamins, flavors and smells will come out. It is better not to take garden strawberries for this jam. Perfect fragrant wild strawberries, as well as field strawberries that grow in the meadows and in the steppe.
Ingredients
- 1 pound blueberries
- Half a kilo of strawberries - you can choose other proportions
- Kilogram of sugar - the amount varies depending on the sweetness of the berries and their tastes
- A bunch of strawberry leaves
Method of preparation
- Rinse the berries. At strawberries to tear off “tails” - sepals.
- Put the berries together and cover them with sugar. After about an hour juice will appear.
- Put the container with berries and sugar on the fire and stir, so that the sugar is well dissolved.
- When the jam begins to boil, reduce the heat and allow to boil for five minutes.
- Before shutting down, put a tightly bound bunch of leaves for more flavor.
- Let stand for five minutes after removing from the fire and pour it over the cans, remove the leaves or put them in one of the cans - it will be the most zapashisty.
- If the jam is very thin, cool and boil again. Leaves add to the last boil.
Tricks and tips on cooking a five-minute blueberry
- You need to make jam in an enamel pot.
- It is best to mix a five-minute with a wooden spoon or spatula.
- The amount of sugar in a five-minute is not important, especially if it is rolled up. Safety depends on tightness and sterility. And sugar in jam is put to taste.
- In order for berries with sugar to give out more juice, they can be put in a warm place.
- Blueberries will lose less nutrients if they are cooked with a slight boil, and not with a strong boiling. To do this, the fire must be average.
- If the berries are slightly underripe, it is better to cook the five-minute in several stages. The same is achieved and a thicker consistency of jam.
