Red currant jam with agar, recipe. How to cook a red currant jam, step by step instruction.
Very fragrant, bright and tasty jam from redcurrants - an excellent variant of vitamin preparation for the winter. There are a lot of recipes for making jam from this useful berry, including raw uncooked jam and quick jam in the multivarquet. But we want to invite you to try a more traditional version of the simplest ingredients, which as a result give an incredibly tasty and useful treat.
Redcurrant Gem - step by step recipe at home
Thanks to the fact that the composition of this currantjam enters agar, it turns out rich and thick. Such a natural thickener is very useful for the human body, so jam with agar can be eaten even by vegetarians and small children. By the same principle, you can weld a thick jam of black or white currant. But in this case, the amount of sugar must be adjusted at its discretion or if desired, replace the refined liquid molasses.
On a note! Make an incredibly tasty jam out of redcurrant according to this recipe is very simple. If you prefer berry mixes, then recommend to add to the recipe strawberries or raspberries. The ratio of berries should be 1: 1, and the amount of sugar should be increased to 400 grams.
Necessary ingredients:
red currant - 500 gr.
agar - 2 tsp.
water 100 ml.
refined sugar - 300 gr.
Step-by-step instruction:
We clear the berries from twigs, put them into the bowl of the food processor and crush them to the state of thick mashed potatoes.
We introduce the required amount of sugar into the resulting mass.
Thoroughly mix. Leave for 30-50 minutes, so that in the mass completely dissolved sugar. Send the currant billet in a deep saucepan and cook for 23-26 minutes over low heat.
In a deep kremanka mix agar and clean cold water, leave the mass for 30-40 minutes.
Pour the resulting jelly mass into a saucepan and bring to a boil, constantly stirring it with a whisk.
Add the liquid mass with the agar to the crushed currant, prepare another 3-5 minutes, constantly mixing the workpiece. We make sure that the mass does not start to boil.
We pour out the prepared jam with red currants and agar on warmed containers, carefully cork. Inverted packaging wrapped in a rug. We wait 4-5 hours and send it to the proper place for storage.
