Mixed Fruit Sugar Free Jam Recipe – Carrot and Plum Jam Recipe

Carrot and plum jam recipe ingredients:

• 5 kilograms plums
• 1 kilogram carrots
• 2 lemons

Mixed fruit sugar free jam recipe instruction:

Wash and clean plums, carrots and lemons. Mix the fruits with food processor and pour the mixture in large saucepan.

Cook the fruit jam in low heat to become thick as you desire and stir it often. It will become thicker in the jars later, so you don’t need to cook it to much (cool few drops of jam in the plate to test density).

Pour hot mixed jam in warm sterilized jam jars and seal them.

If you want to store the jam for a longer period of time, it will be better to preserve jam the following way:

Pour your plum carrot jam in warm sterilized jam jars and put them (without lids) in the oven to warm up on 100°C for about 10 minutes. This will preserve jam better.

Cover the jars over night to cool gradually.

Homemade Rosehip Jam Recipe

Homemade rosehip jam recipe ingredients:

• 1 liter strained rose hips
• 500 grams sugar
• Water

Healthy gourmet jam recipe:

Cut the ends on ripe rose hips and wash it. Place the rose hips into saucepan, pour water over them just enough to be covered by, and cook it to soften. Remove them from heat and cool them.

When it is cold, mash soften rose hips and strain them through the fine sieve (it will be thick like honey when you strain it).

Measure the strained mass, so you can pour proportionate quantity of sugars in it (in 1 liter of strained rose hip juice, add 500 grams of sugar).

Cook strained juice with a sugar and stir it often. Pour few drops of jam on the plate to cool and if it is thick drop with a thin skin on it, rose hip jam is finished.

Pour hot jam in jam jars previously warmed up and sterilized in the oven (in 120°C for about 30 minutes). Seal the jars and store them in the cool place.

Flower Preserves Cooking – Homemade rose preserves recipe

Homemade rose preserves recipe ingredients:

• 250 grams rose petals
• 2 kg sugar
• 2,5 cups water
• 1 lemon

Flower preserves cooking instruction:

Gently wash the rose petals and pour them in boiling water for 2-3 minutes.

Take petals out from water and combine them with a juice from one squeezed lemon.

Separately, in low heat melt sugar in the water, that you cooked petals in, to become thick sugar syrup and pour it over the petals. Cook all together in low temperature for about 20 minutes, stir it periodically and eliminate foam that will create on surface, while preserves boil, with a spoon.

Pour your gourmet preserves in warm sterilized jars and seal them.

Cover the preserves jars with a blanket, so they could slowly cool off (or they could break).

Gourmet Preserves Recipe – Violet Flower Preserves Recipe

Violet flower preserves recipe ingredients:

• 250 grams violet petals (buy them in the store for edible flowers)
• 750 grams sugar
• 2,1 cups water
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Homemade gourmet preserves recipe instruction:

Chop up violet petals with a sharp knife.

Pour sugar into water to boil. Add violet petals in boiling sugar and lemon juice, to keep beautiful violet color. Stir it all the time and cook it for about 20 minutes on the low heat or cook until thick.

Pour your violet preserves in warm, clean and sterilize jars and seal them.

Diabetic Jelly Recipe – Homemade Black Raspberry Jelly Recipe

Homemade black raspberry jelly recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams black raspberries
• Sweetener for diabetics (substitute for 500 grams of sugar)
• Juice from 1/2 squeezed lemon
• 1 pouch liquid fruit pectin

Diabetic jelly recipe instruction:

Clean and wash black raspberries and squeeze them gently with a hands or with food processor (not strain). Pour fruits in the saucepan, add sweetener and lemon juice in it, and cook it for about 10 minutes to boil (stir it frequently). Remove it from heat and stir pectin in it.

Pour hot black raspberry jelly in the warm, sterilized jars and seal them.

You can replace pectin with 5 grams of agar-agar (stir agar-agar in some water and stir that in finished jelly).

This sugar free jelly recipe you can use to make strawberry, plum, blueberry or apple jelly recipe.

Homemade Gourmet Jam – Sour Cherry Jam Recipe

Homemade sour cherry jam recipe ingredients:

• 1 kilogram sour cherries
• 500 grams sugar

Homemade gourmet jam recipe instruction:

Wash the sour cherries, remove the pits from them and pour sugar on the cherries, in medium saucepan. Cover the saucepan and let it in refrigerator over night.

Next day, put the saucepan on the heat in moderate temperature, stiring it frequently, till it becomes thick (when thick drops falling off the spoon).

Pour the hot sour cherry jam in the warm and sterilized glass canning jars and cover them with a blanket, till the next day.

Paste a canning jar labels on the jars and store them in the cool place.