Do you want to surprise the relatives tasty, fragrant, and, above all – a useful dessert? Make for them pumpkin jam. Self-made delicacy will subdue you in beautiful color and unique taste.
It is required to you
- 1 kg of pumpkin;
- 500 g of sugar;
- 300 g of dried apricots.
Instruction
1. To make pumpkin jam, take not too firm fruit. Wash up vegetable, remove a peel, clean seeds.
2. Grate the prepared pumpkin.
3. Carefully wash out dried apricots, wet in boiled water for 5-7 minutes, pull out from water and cut on 4 parts. You don't crush, сухофрукт it has to be felt well in pumpkin jam.
4. Put dried apricots and pumpkin in a pan for which you plan to cook jam. Powder products with sugar, and leave delicacy to infuse a quarter of hour. During this time dried apricots and pumpkin will give juice.
5. When the put time leaves, place a pan on gas and bring jam to the boil, constantly stirring slowly. Remove a dessert from fire.
6. Repeat the manipulations described above 3-4 times with an interval at 5 o'clock. After such cookings, pumpkin has to become soft.
7. Spread out ready pumpkin jam on the sterilized banks and roll up a cover.
8. If you don't plan to store a dessert in the winter, then you can just lay out jam in clean banks, close densely a cover and keep in the fridge.