Strawberry jam, familiar from childhood, acquires a new flavor if it is prepared with the addition of mint. It gives delicacy delicate fresh notes, making it even more appetizing and tasty. Strawberry jam with mint is suitable for making cocktails, ice cream and other desserts, can be served separately to tea. It is easy to prepare for the winter, and then you can taste it for a year.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced hostess can handle the strawberry jam with mint for the winter. Knowing a few important points will help her in this.
- Strawberry jam with mint is most often made from whole berries. For harvesting the berries are not ripe or overripe, dented and spoiled by insects.
- Strawberries should not be picked on a rainy day - it will turn out to be watery. This will affect both the taste and the preservation of the jam.
- In order to clean the strawberries cleanly without damaging it, the berry is dipped into a basin filled with water and rinsed. Additionally, it is washed in the shower, folded in a colander.
- Dried strawberries are dried. It dries faster if it is scattered on a towel that absorbs moisture well.
- Sepals are twisted off at strawberries or cut off after it has been dried and washed. Otherwise, the water gets inside the berries, ruining their taste.
- Mint when cooking strawberry jam is added with whole sprigs so that it is easier to extract from the dessert after it is prepared. Finely chopped greens, falling into the jam, can spoil its appearance, making it less appetizing.
- Strawberry jam with mint will be even more pleasant to the taste and will not be candied if it is supplemented with lemon or orange.
- Jars of jam must be sterilized, lids boil. Only metal covers are available to ensure tightness.
Strawberry jam can be stored with mint at room temperature.
Strawberry jam with mint “Five minutes”
Composition (2 liters):
- strawberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- mint - 3 sprigs.
Method of preparation:
- Go through the strawberries, selecting only ripe, but not overripe, medium-sized berries.
- Wash the berry. Sprinkle on a towel so that it dries faster.
- Remove sepals.
- Fold the berries in an enamel bowl or pan. Only aluminum dishes will not work.
- Put in a cool place for 6-8 hours, you can overnight. During this time, the strawberry juice.
- Place mint sprigs on strawberries. Put a bowl of berries on the stove.
- On medium heat, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes, removing the froth protruding on the surface.
- Cover, wrap, leave to soak in syrup for 4-6 hours.
- Remove the sprigs of mint.
- Place a container of strawberries on the stove, boil over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Wash with soda and sterilize the jars. Spread the jam over it.
- Roll up the cans, turn them over, cover them with a blanket.
After the banks have cooled in the conditions of a steam bath, they can be removed to the place of usual storage of supplies for the winter.
Strawberry jam with mint and basil
The composition (1, 5 l):
- strawberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0, 6 kg;
- lemon peel - 10 g;
- basil - 4 twigs;
- mint - 6 branches.
Method of preparation:
- Strawberries, having washed and dried, free from sepals, put them in an enamel container, add sugar.
- Leave overnight, covering with gauze so that the berry launches juice.
- Add lemon zest, sprigs of mint and basil.
- Heat on medium heat, reduce the intensity of the flame and cook for 5 minutes, removing the foam.
- Temporarily remove from heat. Wait until the jam has cooled to room temperature.
- Place on the stove again and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the greens. Jam spread on sterilized jars, roll up.
When the jam has cooled, the jars with it can be moved to the pantry. This version of strawberry dessert has a particularly rich and seductive aroma, reminiscent of summer.
Strawberry jam with mint and lemon
The composition (1, 75 l)
- strawberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0, 8 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- mint - 4 sprigs.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the prepared strawberries with sugar. Leave on for how many hours, so that the berry launches juice.
- Add mint, squeeze lemon juice into a container of berries, mix with a spatula, being careful not to damage the berries.
- Put on fire. Cook for 5 minutes over medium heat, removing froth protruding on the surface.
- Remove from heat, cover with a cloth and leave for 2-3 hours.
- Return to the fire, boil for 10 minutes. Spread on prepared banks, removing mint sprigs. Hermetically cork them.
After cooling, the dessert can be stored at room temperature. This version of strawberry jam has a balanced sweet-sour taste with notes of freshness.
Strawberry jam with mint and oranges
Composition (2 liters):
- strawberries - 1 kg;
- oranges - 0, 3 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- mint - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Retract berry, wash, dry. Fold in the pelvis, add sugar. Cover with gauze and leave for several hours until the juice released from the strawberry dissolves almost all the sugar.
- Stir the berry mass with a spatula, bring to a boil over high heat. Cook for 2-3 minutes, removing the foam. Remove from heat, leave to infuse for 3-4 hours.
- Bring the strawberry mass to a boil again, boil for 5 minutes.
- Drain the strawberry syrup, divide into two parts.
- In one part of the syrup, put the chopped mint, boil the syrup for 5 minutes over medium heat, let it stand for half an hour, drain, and pour over the strawberries.
- Wash the oranges thoroughly, pat dry with a napkin. Cut into small pieces, at the same time removing the bones.
- Dip the oranges in the remaining syrup, cook in it for 10 minutes. Along with the syrup shift to strawberries.
- Put the oranges berry on fire. Simmer for 7-8 minutes.
- Spread the jam over sterilized jars, tightly screw them with metal lids.
After cooling, strawberry and oranges jam with mint can be stored in the pantry.
If you are tired of the taste of dessert from strawberries, prepared according to traditional recipes, try to make strawberry jam with mint. Almost certainly this delicacy will not disappoint you.
