Blueberry has a unique composition, which owes its useful properties. However, part of the valuable elements contained in this berry does not tolerate heat treatment. Preparing it for the winter, it can not be cooked for more than five minutes. Otherwise, you will get a tasty, but not too healthy dessert. Thrifty housewives choose jam from “Five minutes” blueberries from a variety of types of wild berries harvesting. Under this name, recipes are combined, according to which you can cook a dessert, exposing blueberries to intensive heat treatment for no longer than five minutes.
Cooking Features
Cooking five minute blueberry jam is not a difficult task, even for an inexperienced cook. If you do it right, the dessert will stay well all winter in a cool place. Its taste and appearance will not disappoint you either.
- After collection, bilberries must be carefully picked, cleaned of litter and washed. This berry is fragile, so for washing it is put in a colander and dipped several times in a container with clean water. This is quite enough, because in the forest nobody handles the berry with harmful chemicals.
- Clean blueberries need to be dried. The easiest way to do this is to pour the berry on a towel that absorbs moisture well.
- Often blueberry jam is prepared without adding water. So that the berry does not stick during cooking, it is filled with sugar and left for a few hours to let the juice run. Sugar is dissolved in this juice, the result is quite a liquid mass, which is not terrible to put on fire.
- Banks for blueberry jam must be sterilized. You can do this for a couple, in the oven, microwave - the method does not matter. Metal lids suitable for prepared jars are also sterilized, usually by boiling.
- After cooking, the five-minute jars of blueberry jam are turned over and wrapped in a blanket. Cooling in the conditions of a steam bath, the jam undergoes additional sterilization, this increases its safety.
Store blueberry jam in a cool place. An unheated storeroom, cellar, basement will do. The shelf life of useful delicacy leaves 12 months. Once opened, the jar can only be stored in the refrigerator. Eat dessert need for 7 days.
Classic Five Minute Blueberry Jam Recipe
Composition (for 1, 25 l):
- blueberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0, 7 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Sort out the blueberries, peeling them from the stuck leaves and other litter.
- Rinse the berry, let it dry.
- Pour blueberries into a bowl, add sugar.
- Shake the basin so that the sugar mixes with the berry.
- Cover the blueberry container with gauze and put in a cool place for 4-5 hours.
- Sterilize the jars and their lids.
- Place the container with the berry mass on the stove.
- Heat over low heat until the jam boils.
- Increase the intensity of the flame. Boil 5 minutes, removing the foam. If it is not removed, the jam will quickly sour. Do not throw away the removed foam - it will be a good addition to tea.
- Pour the hot jam over the prepared jars, roll them up with sterilized lids.
- Cover the jars with a blanket, leave to cool in this form.
The jam for this recipe is fragrant and appetizing. Its taste will not disappoint you either.
“Five minutes” blueberry jam in syrup
Composition (for 1, 25 l):
- blueberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0, 8 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Enumerate, washed, and dried blueberries pour into the basin.
- Pour sugar into the berry. Shake the basin several times so that the sugar covers each berry.
- Store the blueberry container for 8-12 hours in the refrigerator. You can put on the night.
- Catch the juice that has come out of the berries along with the sugar that has dissolved in it.
- Put the syrup on medium heat, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes, removing the foam.
- Pour blueberries with hot syrup.
- When the syrup has cooled, put a bowl of blueberries on the stove. Over low heat bring the blueberry mass to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
- Spread the jam in pre-sterilized jars, hermetically seal them.
- Leave to cool under something warm.
This recipe for blueberry jam “Five minutes” is good because the dessert made from it can be stored even at room temperature.
Five Minute Blueberry Jam with Honey and Cognac
Composition (for 0, 75 l):
- blueberries - 1 kg;
- honey - 0, 25 l;
- cognac - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Put the prepared blueberries in a large bowl, mash with a fork or masher.
- Melt honey to a liquid state, pour berry purée with it, mix.
- Cover the bowl with blueberries and honey with a napkin, leave for 2-3 hours at room temperature.
- Put the sweet mixture on the stove, heat it over low heat, stirring occasionally.
- After boiling, boil for 4 minutes, then pour the brandy and continue cooking for another minute.
- Spread the jam into jars of the same size. Before this, the container must be sterilized.
- Put a towel in the pan, put jars of jam on it.
- Pour warm water into the pot; its level should reach the hangers of the cans.
- Put on a slow fire. Sterilize jars of jam for 15-20 minutes depending on their size.
- Remove the jars from the pan, roll them up.
It is necessary to store the dessert made according to this recipe in a cool place, ideally in the refrigerator.
“Five minute” blueberry jam is not only tasty, but also healthy. Short duration of heat treatment allows preserving the taste and aroma of berries, as well as the vitamins contained in them.
