Courgette jam

Almost everyone who had the first chance to try unusually tasty courgette jam with lemon claims that this treat is made from pineapples. And in Sami, in fact, just an amazing taste with pleasant honey notes perfectly emphasizes the light sourness that is obtained by adding lemon.

Not everyone can allow themselves to buy or cook pineapple jam due to the relative high cost of overseas fruits, but almost any cook is able to make jam from courgettes. In addition, in the season, this vegetable crop simply amazes with its harvest, so the hostesses strive to use courgettes with benefit, harvesting them for future use.

Several methods of making courgette jam are known, but most often it is boiled with the addition of citrus fruits - lemon or orange. In addition, sugar sand is a necessary ingredient, without which it is almost unrealistic to cook this aromatic treat. By the way, the calorie content of courgette jam is directly curled from the amount of the latter, which averages about 19

6. 19 kcal, which are contained in one hundred grams of the product.

Ready-made courgette jam can be not only a pleasant sweet dessert, which is not ashamed to serve even at the arrival of guests, accompanied by a cup of fragrant freshly cooked tea. Courgette jam is widely used by culinary experts when preparing many dishes - it is added to desserts, put as a filling in homemade pastries, and paste cakes and cakes with them. In addition, amber sugar wedges can be a good decoration of ready-made sweet meals.

The benefits of courgette jam

Courgette jam is famous not only for its pleasant taste, but for its benefits for the human body. Moreover, interestingly, it does not depend at all on the variety of this vegetable crop - all of them are characterized by the presence of many useful qualities.

Thus, the benefit of courgette jam lies primarily in the composition of a fresh vegetable, which, with low nutritional value, is rich in such important trace elements as salts of magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus and potassium. These substances contribute to the normalization of kidney and liver function, and are also necessary for good functioning of the heart and vascular system.

In addition, if the composition of this sweet treat includes citrus fruits - in particular, lemon or orange - the benefits of courgette jam as an effective antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent become obvious. As you know, lemons are rightfully considered an excellent prevention of colds, so courgette jam with this citrus fruit will be very useful in winter.