Recipe for jam from a pumpkin with orange and lemon, as well as pumpkin with ginger, apricots, walnuts
Pumpkin jam with orange and lemon has an amazing taste. It has long been believed that pumpkin is the most vitaminized vegetable. Correctly cooked, this jam will help you not only to save all the vitamins and trace elements of the pumpkin, but also to saturate it with an important vitamin C, which is abundant in citrus fruits.
Useful properties of pumpkin
Before you prepare a pumpkin-citrus jam for the winter, let's see what the pumpkin can help us. It is rich in vitamins, proteins, fats and carbohydrates, glucose, cellulose, microelements and minerals, carotene.
Pumpkin juice has a laxative and diuretic effect. Doctors recommend to introduce it into the diet to prevent kidney disease.
Has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular and nervous system. Pumpkin is one of the few fruits that have in the composition of vitamin K and T, which are involved in the formation of bone tissue and in the clotting of blood. Accelerates metabolic processes in the body.
Together with the added citrus is a powerful weapon in the fight against viruses that the body is exposed to in the winter.
Pumpkin and citrus jam
Ingredients:
Pumpkin: 1 kg;
Lemons: 1 kg;
Oranges: 1 kg;
Sugar: 1 kg.
Preparation of jam
Clean lemons and oranges. Cut along with the skin on 4 parts along, then on the slices so that the triangles turn out. Pumpkin too, wash, peel and seed, cut into plates. Put all this in one container and fill it with sugar. Leave it overnight to separate the juice.
In the morning, when a sufficient amount of juice has turned out, put it in a saucepan. After boiling, simmer for 30 minutes. Then let the mixture cool down. The second time put on a fire and cook until done.
Pour over the sterilized jars and close the covers. Looks pumpkin jam very nicely, as the pumpkin boils to a creamy state, and the citrus slices remain intact.
Options, how to make pumpkin-citrus jam at home, a lot, you can add seasoning( cloves, cinnamon, etc.), in order to make the taste varied.
Pumpkin jam with orange and walnut
Ingredients:
pumpkin - 500 g;
sugar - 30 g;
walnuts - 1/2 st;
orange - 3 pcs.
Preparation
Rub the orange peel and squeeze the juice. On the basis of sugar and juice, we prepare the syrup, into which we put the cubes of the purified pumpkin. Add a little water and cook until thickened with the addition of nuts. As soon as the pieces of pumpkin become soft, the orange jam with pumpkin can be bottled.
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