Blackcurrant billets for winter are loved in every home, but combinations of this berry with other fruits, including citrus, are especially tasty and unusual. The hostess will surely have to mention currant jam recipes with banana or orange - they are sweeter than classic jams and jams and at the same time contain a record amount of vitamins.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For jam, you need to take a ripe, recently picked ripe currants. Ideally, if the berry is stored in an unwashed form, it will not start letting the juice in, it will not become slippery and sour. This excess acid will then be very difficult to remove, especially if the workpiece is raw, without boiling over.
In addition, it can ferment if the berries were stored in poor conditions. Choose whole fruits, without rot or other defects. Immediately before starting to cook the jam, rinse the currants, preferably several times, remove the stalks (the remains of the bunch), and then dry the fruits.
There are two ways to dry:
- shaking in a colander until the rest of the water finally drains;
- laid out on a clean, dry cloth that is not afraid to get dirty with currant juice.
Important! Be sure to rinse the currants before cooking. This will increase the shelf life of the finished jam.
Recipes for making blackcurrant with banana for the winter
To store such jam, you can use ordinary glass jars, as well as plastic containers, if we are talking about mashed fruit mass. Such a workpiece is stored either in the refrigerator or in the freezer, it all depends on how quickly it is planned to eat it.
Rubbed for the winter
2 cans of 1 liter45 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pass the fruits prepared for processing through a meat grinder once.
- Beat bananas in a blender.
- Add banana puree to the currant and stir with a spatula or spoon.
- Pour all the sugar, gently stir the jam and beat again with a blender.
- Pour the finished product into clean and dry glass jars with screwed lids or plastic non-transparent vessels with tight lids. Store jam in the refrigerator (temperature + 4 ° С) or the cellar (at a temperature not exceeding + 10 ° С).
Did you know? From currants, by drying the mashed mass, a delicious natural marshmallow is prepared. Thanks to the pectins in the composition of the berry, it is highly gelled without the addition of gelatin or other thickeners.
Currant Jam with Banana
2 cans of 1 liter each 90 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Put the fruits in an enamel pan, cover with sugar.
- Wait until the berries start juice (on average from 4 to 6 hours).
- Stir the berries and semi-dissolved sugar.
- Put the container on a small fire so that the sugar begins to melt slowly.
- Wait until the mass becomes homogeneous and bubbles begin to appear, this will mean that there is a boiling process.
- Wait 10 minutes, turn off, let the jam cool completely.
- Grind the bananas in a blender, add to the currant, mix, put the mass on a slow fire again and let it boil.
- After 10 minutes of boiling, turn off and allow to cool completely.
- Then boil for the third time and pour the jam hot into jars, close with seaming lids using a machine or ordinary lids with a twist.
Important! Bananas for harvesting are recommended to choose only yellow, not green. The latter are bitter and do not have such a strong aroma as yellow.
Currant with banana and orange
2 cans of 1 liter each 90 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Scroll the fruits in a meat grinder, pour into an enameled pan or basin.
- Beat the peeled bananas with a blender, add to the pan with the berry.
- Wash the orange thoroughly, cut together with the peel and pass twice through a meat grinder, then add the mass to the two previous ingredients.
- Put the jam on a small fire, let the mass warm up and pour sugar.
- Stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Then let it boil, turn it off, cool completely. Repeat twice and after the third boiling hot jam immediately pour into banks, roll up the lid.
Storage Features
Currant blanks with sugar and citruses are perfectly stored! Cans can be stored in a refrigerator or cellar at a temperature of + 4 ° C to + 10 ° C. Mashed fruit purees do not lose their vitamin qualities even when frozen.
Did you know? When heated, the berries lose part of their vitamin C reserves, which is a natural process for any fruit and fruit. If the task is to preserve the vitamin value of the product as much as possible, it is necessary to prepare pureed raw confiture and jams.
Having prepared the jam according to an unusual recipe, in winter you can enjoy the rich taste and energy boost from such a homemade preparation! Sweet and aromatic jam or jam will appeal to both children and adults.
