Recipe for jam from mandarins: tangerine jam slices, with cognac, apples, and also with crusts

Very few people prepare tangerine jam, but in vain, because of all citrus fruits, mandarins deserve the most place in the daily diet. Not only are they rich in vitamin C, but they still contain vitamin D and vitamin K. Vitamin D protects children from rickets, and vitamin K prolongs the elasticity of the vessels.

What is convenient for this jam is that it can be cooked as needed, off-season, because the mandarins do not disappear from the shelves of our stores all year round. Therefore, many people are interested in the recipe for jam from tangerines. Today we will tell you how to make citrus jam slices.

Ingredients

For 1 kilogram of tangerines you will need 700 grams of sugar and two glasses of water.

Step-by-step cooking recipe

First, clean the tangerines and divide into slices. With tangerines, it's pretty simple.

Cook the syrup from sugar and water. As soon as the syrup boils, gently lower the mandarin slices into it, let it boil and remove from heat. After an hour, the syrup is poured into another dish, boil it for 10-15 minutes and then pour the mandarin slices again.

After an hour, repeat the entire procedure.

Finely slice a small amount of tangerine peel and scald with boiling water.

For the third time, pour the mandarin slices with syrup and boil for 10-15 minutes, add the zest.

If you do not like a very sweet jam, then you can reduce the amount of sugar.

Very interesting taste is obtained if in this jam add a stick of cinnamon before the last boiling, then a stick of cinnamon is removed and the jam is poured into cans.

Citrus jam with cognac

Another interesting way of making this jam with the addition of cognac: in syrup of sugar and water, add three spoons of cognac, and then do everything according to the recipe.

How to make jam to make it thick, like confiture? For this, in any supermarket, buy a special thickener - fruit pectin, buy it safely and use it according to the instructions.

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