A recipe for melon jam, as well as a variety of jams and video advice on how to make a pickled melon

Melon jam, the recipe of which we will tell you today, is very unusual and tasty. After all, in order to diversify your table and pamper the kids with delicacies of your own preparation, you have to resort to recipes that have been tested and created by other people. Each recipe of jam is unique in its own way and has its fans.

Melon jam is one of the few sweets most safe for children to use. Firstly, they get sweets, and secondly, you are calm, because you are sure that you put it there.

If you are thinking about how to make this jam at home, let's see what a melon is and what vitamins it has to offer.

Useful properties of melon

Melon came to us from Central Asia, is a fruit of cylindrical or spherical form of brown, white, green colors with green stripes. Most often it is eaten raw, but from it you can make sweets.

It contains: vitamins A, P, C, mineral salts of potassium, iron, sodium, fiber, ascorbic and folic acid, fats, sugar, carotene. Melon is considered a heavy product, so do not get addicted to its use.

Ingredients for jam:

Melon: 1 kg;

Sugar: 1.2 kg;

Water: 1.5 cups;

Vanillin: 5 g;

Citric acid: 3 g.

The process of preparing

To make melon slices and not completely boil them out, use not overripe fruits, but slightly under-served.

Before cooking, thoroughly wash the melon, clean it from the core( seeds).Cut into small pieces about 2 x 2 cm. You can use curly knives to give the slices a shape.

First, the melon is blanched in water for 5-7 minutes, after which it is cooled in a cold and allowed to drain.

After this, pour in hot syrup( from sugar and water).Allow to brew for 5-6 hours. Then boil for 2-3 minutes and again remove from heat. They let it brew for 5-6 hours, then put on fire, they boil and take off for a few minutes. The third time already put in 10-12 hours and cook until ready. At the end add citric acid and vanillin. Hot jam is poured over clean jars and rolled up.

Options, how to cook this jam at home, a lot. It can be jam and with the addition of various fruits, for example, apples, pears, lemon, etc.

Melon jam

A more thick jam or jam can be obtained by sugaring melon slices. For this method of cooking, you need a melon pulp - 800 grams, 1 kilogram of sugar and 200 grams of almonds.

How to make:

Cut the melon into thin slices, prostorilize the jars and lay layers of almonds, melons, pour the layers with sugar. Separately boil the syrup - 3 cups of water for three cups of sugar. Fill the cans with hot syrup.

Close the covers for the winter and put the jars in a dark room, for example, in the cellar. It should last for three months. After that, the jam is ready for use.

Video recipes

One of the ways to prepare jam:

Pickled melon:

Smoked apple jam:

Melon and banana jam: