Cook vegetable preserves

Jam can be cooked not only from berries and fruits - vegetables are also great for making this dessert preparations for the winter. Read about the most interesting recipes vegetable preserves in this article.

Let's say that you can cook the jam of green tomatoes, squash and zucchini, you've heard more than once. What if we tell you that you can make jam and potato, and carrot, and even eggplant and onions? This unusual jam finds its admirers, and cook it once, resist the urge to do it again is simply impossible!

We will tell you how to make jam of the most common vegetables and harvest it in the winter or not, let each chef decide.

Recipes jam unusual vegetables

Potatoes, carrots, zucchini, green and red tomatoes, pumpkin, squash and many other vegetables - an excellent basis for the preparation of delicious and unusual jams. At the same time, some of the vegetables cooked jam can be supplied as well as classical, tea, ice cream, etc., and jam from other vegetables can be fed to meat and fish dishes as an excellent sauce.

To get started, tell you about a simple recipe for jam, which as a main ingredient is used only one vegetable.

Recipe jam patissons

Need: 1kg squash and 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook the jam of squash. Cut the squash, remove the seeds, peel, cut into large pieces of pulp, fill it with cold water and leave at 5:00. Obsushennye squash twist in a meat grinder. Combining sugar with 500ml of water, boil syrup, into the boiling syrup omit the squash, stir and cook until cooked jam.

When the recipe is not specified the exact cooking time, and says that you need to make jam until ready, then you can check this willingness old-fashioned way - on a droplet (drip it on the saucer, let dry and tilt the dish, if a drop does not spread, so the jam is ready ).

Recipe for making green tomato jam

Need: 60-70 green tomatoes on 1 liter of water and 1 kg of sugar.

How to make green tomato jam. Washed tomatoes cut in half, remove seeds and cook for 5-7 minutes in three waters (three-time cooking removes the bitterness of the tomatoes). After each wash the tomatoes cook well with cold water. Clearing or cleansing tomatoes from the skin, which comes off easily after cooking, put the tomatoes into the boiling sugar syrup made from sugar and water and cook until thick jam, then leave for the night, covered to cool down and jam in the morning pour it into sterile banks, cork.

Recipe for making jam zucchini

You will need: 1 kg zucchini and sugar, 1 lemon.

How to cook zucchini jam. Courgettes cleaned, cored, diced 3-4 mm slice pulp, pour the sugar and leave it until you stand out juice, then put on a slow fire and boil for 20 minutes. Lemon finely chopped, put lemon in a jam, boil 20 minutes, then pour into banks and cork.

For all fans of carrots will be finding this recipe.

Recipe carrot jam

You will need: 800g carrots, syrup - 400 grams of sugar and? glasses of water.

How to cook the jam of carrots. Boil until tender carrots in the usual way, then give it a little cool, and using molds to cut her flowers or stars. From water and sugar syrup prepared, dipped in a carrot jam up until carrots becomes transparent.

This jam is obtained not only delicious, but also very beautiful.

Recipe Pumpkin jam with dried apricots

You will need: 1 kg pumpkin, 500g sugar, 300g of dried apricots.

How to cook pumpkin jam. Clear pumpkin from the peel, remove seeds, on a coarse grater grate the flesh. Dried apricots wash (if too hard - boil), cut into thin slices. Put dried apricots, pumpkin and sugar into a saucepan, stir - you should see the juice, stirring constantly over low heat bring to a boil, allow to cool down - repeat 2 more times or more, if desired, to seethe pumpkin. Arrange the jam into sterile banks, cork.

Recipe jam cherry tomatoes

You will need: 2 kg of cherry tomatoes, 850g sugar, 1 lemon and Dittany,? lemon - juice.

How to cook the jam of cherry tomatoes. Washed tomatoes top notched crosswise, dipped in boiling water for a few seconds, remove the peel. Polukruzhkami cut lemon. In a saucepan, combine the tomatoes with lemon, sugar and Dittany, bring everything to simmer to boil, to make medium heat, boil for an hour with constant stirring. Remove jam from heat, leave for a day at room temperature, then pour the lemon juice, jam bring to a boil, boil for another hour. Pour jam into sterile banks, remove to a cool place after cooling.

Serve a jam with cheese or meat dishes, it also showed himself as a regular snacks - just smear it on bread.

The following three recipes will help cook the jam of potato, eggplant and onions. This blank you completely surprised everyone who tries this unusual jam.

Potato recipe with cherry jam

Need: 500 g sugar 400 g cherries, 200 g of potatoes.

How to cook potato jam and cherries. Clear cherries from seed, rub it and prepared potatoes on a fine grater, fill with sugar, stir and put on the stove and simmer while stirring boil for 15-20 minutes. Arrange the jam into hot sterile jars and on cork lids.

To prepare the eggplant jam will need a little more training, but generally cook it just as easily.

Recipe eggplant jam

Need: 24 eggplant, 2,4kg sugar, 14 cups of water, 2 tsp baking soda 1 / 2ch.l. vanillin.

How to cook the aubergine jam. Peel eggplant, remove the stalk, but leave the sepals, cut each eggplant along with the sepals. In several places with a fork prick half, all prepared eggplant immediately put in a pot of cold water and kept under cover. In 1stakane hot water to dissolve soda, then mixed with water cooled 7 cups. Pour soda solution eggplant, cover and leave to 5-6ch. 5-6 times after conditioning rinse eggplant cold running water. In a large saucepan pour half the sugar, add 6 cups of water, boil for 10-15 minutes on low heat, put the sliced eggplant in boiling syrup, boil for 15 minutes over medium heat, remove from heat and leave for 12 hours jam. Absorb remaining sugar, jam again bring to a boil, boil for a minimum fire jam for about 3 hours, add the vanilla for 2-3 minutes before the end of cooking. Slightly chilled jam pour into sterilized jars, cork.

Recipe of the onion jam

You will need: 6-7 bulbs, 2.5 cups brown sugar? cup white wine vinegar (or half white wine vinegar and 5%), vegetable oil for frying onions.

How to cook the onion jam. Peel and chop the onion half-rings, in a frying pan fry in butter, add sugar, wait until it is completely melted, then boil, reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until onions caramelize about 20-30 minutes, pour the vinegar, boil for another 15 minutes. Cool jam and spread out on