Cranberry jam

Despite the peculiar and rather sour taste, cranberry berries are highly valued for their gastronomic qualities and a huge number of useful properties. Most often, cranberries are used for food not in fresh, but processed form - in the form of compote, fruit drinks, juice, jelly, as well as very tasty jam.

The recipe for making classic cranberry jam allows you to enjoy this healthy berry even for those who cannot afford to eat sour food. However, due to the transience of the cranberry season, it is the preparation of jam from this berry that is an excellent option for preserving the taste and benefits of fruits.

Ready-made cranberry jam has an attractive appearance - it is bright, rich and very appetizing. It can not only be eaten as a healthy sour-sweet supplement to tea or coffee, but also use cranberry jam to layer cakes and cakes, as well as filling for homemade baking.

Relatively high calorie content of cranberry jam (average 24

4. 3 kcal per 100 grams) is due to the high nutritional value of granulated sugar, which is a mandatory component of this treat. However, if desired, this indicator can be varied, reducing or increasing due to the different amount of sugar used.

As a rule, when preparing cranberry jam for one kilogram of fresh berry, about two glasses of granulated sugar are taken, which fill the pre-prepared fruits. The preparation stage provides for the removal of natural debris from berries and their subsequent washing. In addition, to speed up the formation of juice, cranberries are recommended to soften - blow boiling water or flash for several minutes in boiling water. After that, you can scroll the berries through a meat grinder or grind with a blender.

In the future, you can act in different ways. First of all, some recipes for making cranberry jam involve welding the mass until thickened over low heat, but the finished product loses most of the nutrients. When preserving the treat without prolonged heat treatment, the beneficial properties of cranberry jam are preserved almost to the full extent. In addition, grated cranberries with sugar result in a beautiful red color.

The benefits of cranberry jam

The unconditional benefits of cranberry jam make this product so popular, because it retains a lot of vitamins and minerals. In particular, this natural dessert contains vitamins of group B, PP, E, A, K along with calcium, potassium, copper, sodium and many other valuable substances.

The benefits of cranberry jam are due to its tonic and antipyretic actions. Thanks to the content of vitamin C, it helps to fight infectious and colds. That is why you must have at least one jar of cranberry jam in the house.