Due to the fact that apples are not plunged into prolonged heat treatment, they retain a maximum of nutrients and vitamins.
In addition, you can control the necessary degree of softness of the fruit.
Five minutes of apples for the winter - the basic principles of cooking
Any kind of apple is suitable for this jam. Fruits should be ripe, or even slightly overripe. The sweetness of the jam can be adjusted by adding more or less sugar than the recipe provides.
Apples are thoroughly washed. To peel off or not, each housewife decides for herself. Some believe that without skin the jam will turn out more gently, while others hold the opinion that there is just the most of vitamins in the skin, so it must be left. Washed apples are cut in half and cut out the core with seeds. Crushed fruit slices, small pieces, or rub on a medium grater. It should be noted that the harder the fruit, the finer and thinner it is desirable to cut it.
Five minutes of apples for the winter is prepared not only with sugar, but also spices, berries or other fruits are added to it.
The jam is quite thick, so it is served not only as a dessert, but also used as a filling for baking or pancakes.
Cook for five minutes in an enamelled wide saucepan or basin. While the dishes with apples are on the stove, the contents should be continuously stirred so that the jam is not burnt.
The finished jam is laid out in sterile glassware, sealed and cooled under a blanket.
Recipe 1. Classic “five minutes” of apples for the winter
Ingredients
- 300 g of sugar;
- a kilo of apples.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse the apples under a tap, wipe with a towel and peel. Coarsely grate the prepared fruit or cut into thin strips. Apples put in a wide enamel bowl and sprinkle with sugar. Stir and leave for two hours until the apples give out the juice. 2. Put the dishes on a slow fire and cook for five minutes from the moment of boiling. At the same time continuously stir, so that the mass is not burnt.
3. Wash jars with soda, rinse well and sterilize in the oven. Boil lids. Spread hot jam over the jars and roll up hermetically. Turn over, wrap and leave to cool.
Recipe 2. Five minutes of apples for the winter pieces
Ingredients
- two kilograms of apples of any variety;
- 300 g of white sugar;
- cinnamon.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the apples and cut them in half. Using a knife, remove the core with the seeds and cut the pulp into small cubes. Fold the apples in a wide enamel bowl and sprinkle with sugar.
2. Dishes with apples, send in the refrigerator overnight, so that the fruit donated juice.
3. The next morning, put the bowl on the fire, add the cinnamon at the rate of three grams per kilogram of apple weight.
4. Prepare the jars. Wash and sterilize them. Boil lids.
5. Cook the jam, constantly stirring, from the moment of boiling up, exactly five minutes. Spread hot jam in prepared glass containers and seal tightly.
Recipe 3. Five minutes of apples for the winter with slices of vanilla and cinnamon
Ingredients
- apples of any variety - two kilograms;
- cinnamon;
- sugar - 300 g;
- baking soda - 10 g;
- purified water - 300 ml;
- vanilla.
Method of preparation
1. For this recipe, small apples are better suited. Fruits are washed, peeled and removed from the core. The flesh of apples cut into neat slices. Soda is dissolved in purified water. Apples are soaked in soda solution for four hours. This is done so that the slices are not boiled soft during the cooking process.
2. While the apples are soaked, prepare the jars. They are well washed and sterilized.
3. Water is mixed with sugar, add vanilla and cinnamon. Put on the fire and bring to a boil.
4. Slices of apples are removed from the soda solution and washed under a tap. Spread in a wide saucepan and pour the fruit in hot syrup. Apple mass is put on the fire and cooked, constantly stirring and removing the foam, five minutes. 5. Hot jam is laid out in a glass container, rolled up and cooled tightly, wrapped in an old jacket.
Recipe 4. Five minutes of apples for the winter with nuts and cinnamon
Ingredients
- two kilograms of “Antonovka” variety apples;
- butter;
- 300 g of sugar;
- walnuts and cinnamon.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the apples thoroughly and cut them in half. Remove the seed boxes. Coarse grate the pulp. Put the apples in a wide saucepan and sprinkle with sugar. Stir and leave for three hours to let the fruit juice.
2. Put the pan with apples on the stove. Add cinnamon per kilogram of weight to half a teaspoon. Oil put 50 g per liter jar. Add nuts to your taste.
3. When the contents of the pan boil, reduce heat and set aside for five minutes. At the same time continuously mix so that the mass does not burn.
4. Spread the finished jam in a sterile glass container and cork hermetically. Turn it over and cover it with an old jacket. Leave it to cool completely.
Recipe 5. Five minutes of apples for the winter with lemon
Ingredients
- lemon;
- 300 g of sugar;
- apples - two kilograms.
Method of preparation
1. Wash fruit well, cut it in half and remove seed boxes. Cut the apples into slices and place in a wide bowl. Pour with sugar and leave for two hours. Stir the apples periodically so that they are better soaked with sugar.
2. Place the pelvis on the stove. Rinse lemon, wipe off. Cut half into thin slices and add to apple mass. Boil, from the moment of boiling, five minutes. Then cool. Repeat the procedure twice more.
3. Spread hot jam over sterile dry jars and seal tightly. Cool completely, wrapped in an old jacket.
Recipe 6. Five minutes of apples for the winter with blackberries
Ingredients
- one and a half kilograms of sugar;
- kilogram of sweet and sour apples;
- half a kilo of blackberry.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the washed apples in half. Using a sharp knife, remove the seed core. Pulp chop up slices. Put in a wide dish, pour 300 g of sugar and mix.
2. Wash blackberries, peel them, pour them with a glass of sugar and mix gently so that the berries do not choke. Leave to stand out juice.
3. Dissolve the remaining sugar in half a liter of purified water. Send the mixture over the fire and boil the syrup until the sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Flip the blackberry on a sieve and add the berries to the syrup. Reduce heat to low and blanch the berries for a couple of minutes. Then pour the juice left over from the berries. Cook for another five minutes. Add the syrup with berries in the apple mixture, mix and cook, from the moment of boiling for five minutes. Stir constantly during cooking.
5. Spread the jam in a sterile dry glass container and cork tightly with boiled lids. Turn and cool completely, wrapped in a blanket.
Recipe 7. Five minutes of apples for the winter with raisins
Ingredients
- 3 g of citric acid;
- two kilograms of apples;
- half a pound of sugar;
- 250 g of raisins.
Method of preparation
1. Wash apples, wipe them with a napkin, remove the core with the seeds. Cut the fruit into small slices. Put the apples in a thick-walled cauldron, pouring sugar. Leave until juice stands out. Sugar should start to melt.
2. Put the cauldron on a slow fire. As soon as the contents begin to boil, remove the foam and strip five minutes. Stir constantly. Then turn off the heat and completely cool the jam. Repeat the procedure two more times.
3. Rinse the raisins and cover with hot water. Steam it for ten minutes. A couple of minutes before the end of the third boil, add the raisins to the jam and mix.
4. Prepack a delicacy in a dry sterile container and hermetically cork with boiled caps.
Recipe 8. Five minutes of apples for the winter with almonds and ginger
Ingredients
- 500 ml of purified water;
- 2 kg of sugar;
- ginger root;
- two kilograms of apples;
- peel of three lemons;
- peeled almonds.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse apples under a tap, peel, cut in half and remove the core with stones. Cut apple pulp into thin slices. Remove the rind from the ginger root and coarsely rub it. Stir apples with ginger.
2. Put the apple mass in the cauldron, pouring sugar on each layer. Cover and leave for seven hours.
3. After the allotted time, pour water into the cauldron and put it on fire. When the contents boil, boil for five minutes, stirring continuously. Then cool completely.
4. Rinse the lemons, dry and remove the zest from them using the finest grater. Put the cauldron again on the fire and add zest and almonds. Boil five minutes from the moment of boiling. Cool it down. Boil again for five minutes.
5. Spread hot jam over sterile dry jars and cool wrapped.
Five-minutes of apples for the winter - tips and tricks
- It is advisable to add as much sugar to the jam as indicated in the recipe. Lack of sugar can lead to fermentation, and an excessive amount will clog the taste of the fruit.
- Add jam citric acid to jam.
- Remove the foam in time.
- The best apple jam is obtained from the varieties “Grushovka”, “Antonovka”, “Anis”.
- Cook the jam on low heat. Stir constantly so that the mass does not burn.
