Proven sugar-free jam recipes will help you recycle crops and make healthy preparations for the winter at no additional cost. But the most, perhaps, the biggest advantage of such a jam is the minimum of calories.
Sweet cherries for the winter without sugar - a recipe with step by step photos
For those who follow the figure and do not like to stand at the stove for a long time. Sweet cherries can be replaced with ripe cherries.
Ingredients:
500 grams of ripe cherries
How to make sweet cherry or cherry jam without sugar:
Boil water in a saucepan. You will need water to put the bowl of berries in a water bath.
Sort out cherries or cherries, rinse and discard in a colander. Let all the water drain. Place the cherries in a deep bowl and place in a water bath.
Let the berries simmer in a water bath until they drown in their own juice. Then remove the bowl from heat, cover with plastic and wait for the jam to cool slightly.
Place in sterile jars and cool completely. The jam is ready for use immediately after cooling.
Plum jam with sweetener
For making plum jam, choose plums that are overripe, but without signs of decay. Sorbitol is used as a sweetener, which can be replaced with xylitol.
Ingredients:
- 4 kg ripe plums (pitted weight);
- 600 ml of purified water;
- A kilogram of sorbitol (or 800 grams of xylitol);
- A pinch of ground cinnamon;
- A pinch of vanillin.
Preparation:
Rinse the plums thoroughly in cold water, remove the leaves and twigs, cut into halves and remove the seeds. Weigh it. The weight of the finished raw material should be 4 kilograms.
Bring the water to a boil in a large saucepan suitable for making jam and add the plums. Cook over a little less than medium heat for an hour, stirring occasionally.
Then add the sweetener and cinnamon vanillin. Stir and cook for another 10 minutes.
Spread the hot jam in sterile jars, roll up the lids and cool. Then put away for storage.
Strawberry jam with pectin for the winter
An excellent option for type 2 diabetes.
Ingredients:
- 2 kilograms of strawberries;
- A glass of freshly squeezed apple juice;
- The juice of half a lemon;
- 7 grams of pectin.
Preparation:
Peel, rinse and dry the strawberries. Place in a saucepan, top with lemon and apple juice. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes. Remove foam if it appears. Dilute pectin or agar agar with water according to package directions and add to the jam, stirring vigorously. After that, bring the jam to a boil and turn it off.
Then pour hot into sterile dry hot jars and seal with lids. Turn it upside down, and leave it under the covers for an hour. Then turn back over and cool to room temperature.
The simplest sugar-free apricot jam
This jam is more like jam. It takes only 15 minutes to cook, but at the same time, the product is stored for 6 months.
Ingredients:
Ripe apricots - 1 kilogram
Preparation:
Rinse the apricots thoroughly, place them on a paper towel and pat dry.
Use a knife to make an incision along the groove and remove the bones.
Puree the apricots with a blender. Pour the puree into a saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Then pour immediately into dry sterile jars. Close with airtight lids and turn over. Cool slowly.
Pitted apricot jam in its own juice
This is a halved apricot jam. It takes a little longer to cook, but the apricot halves can be used to decorate various homemade desserts. You can also prepare a peach in the same way.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of pitted apricots;
- 125 ml of pure water.
Step-by-step recipe for making apricots in halves without sugar:
Rinse the apricots, cut into halves and remove the seeds. Boil 125 ml water in a saucepan and lower the apricot halves. Wait until it boils, reduce heat and cover the pan with a lid. Cook for 30 minutes, then place the jam in sterilized jars. Seal and cool.
Sea buckthorn jam with honey and nuts
If you have the opportunity to make sugar-free jam with honey, be sure to use this old recipe. Adding nuts is optional. This ingredient is up to you.
Ingredients:
- 1, 3 kg of sea buckthorn;
- 1.5 kg of honey;
- 300 grams of walnuts.
Sea buckthorn with honey for the winter:
This jam is just a storehouse of vitamins. The value of all ingredients is not lost during cooking.
Rinse the sea buckthorn, discard it in a colander so that all the liquid is glass. Squeeze the juice out of the berries. You can do this with a juicer, you can put the sea buckthorn in a fine sieve and crush it with a spoon. By weight, you should get a kilogram of juice.
Sort the walnuts, clean them of debris and fry them a little in a dry frying pan. Chop with a knife. Pour the sea buckthorn juice into a saucepan, add the nuts and bring to a boil. Cool, mix with honey and leave for half an hour. Stir, pour into sterile dry jars.
Close with sterile nylon caps, turn over. Refrigerate. After cooling completely, turn the jars to the bottom and store the jam for a year.
Sugar-free raspberry jam for the winter
Raspberry jam can be cooked without sugar. And it will stand perfectly all winter. It keeps well in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight for 24 months.
Ingredients:
Ripe raspberries
How to make sugar-free raspberry jam delicious:
Pick raspberries with clean hands in dry, sunny weather. Before cooking the jam, you do not need to wash the raspberries. Most importantly, rinse and sterilize the jars well. Sort out the berries. It is important that there are no leaves, debris, rotten and wormy berries.
Place a cotton towel on the bottom of a wide saucepan, place sterile jars on it and fill them with raspberries to the very top.
Pour water into a saucepan so that it reaches the middle of the cans. Banks with a volume of no more than 0.7 liters.
Wait for the water to boil, turn the gas a little less than average and wait for the raspberries to release the juice and free space appears in the jar.
Add the berries so that they are drowned in the juice.
Time 50 minutes for 0.7 liter cans, 40 minutes for 0.5 liter cans, or 30 minutes for 0.33 liter cans. and less.
Cover the jars with sterile dry lids and simmer for another 7 minutes. Then seal tightly and turn over. Cool the raspberry jam slowly. Cover the overturned cans with a warm blanket, remove it only after 12 hours.
Raspberry jam without sugar in the oven
If you absolutely do not have time to monitor the water level and report the berries to the jar, we offer you a recipe for raspberry jam for the winter, cooked in the oven. It has a thicker texture like jam and a slightly different color. And so, the recipe is very simple. At the same time, the calorie content of this healthy delicacy, due to the absence of sugar, is much lower. But to abuse it, in order to avoid allergic reactions, is still not worth it.
Ingredients:
Raspberries - 2.5 kg
How to make homemade raspberry jam without sugar:
Sort out the berries. If you didn't collect them yourself, you can rinse them in a colander under cold running water. Then leave the water for half an hour to glass.
Put the dried berries in a saucepan or jar. A glass saucepan, a stainless steel saucepan, or 2 three-liter jars are best. The aluminum pan will oxidize, the enamel pan will stain. Cast iron should also not be used for cooking raspberries in the oven.
Place the containers with raspberries in the oven, set the temperature to 180 degrees and mark 40 minutes after the oven has warmed up.
Spread the jam on dry sterile hot jars, seal tightly and cool. Then send it to storage.
Blueberries for the winter without sugar
This recipe is very simple. The ingredients are only blueberries. Jam is prepared directly in jars, so there will be no washing of blueberries from pots.
Ingredients:
Fresh blueberries
How to cook sugar-free blueberries step by step:
Put the blueberries in a colander and rinse with cold water. This should be done no later than 6 hours after picking the berries. The most important thing is that there are no crumpled and rotten berries. Otherwise, the jam for the winter, cooked without sugar, will not last long.
Place a cotton towel on the bottom of a wide saucepan.
Place sterilized hot jars. Arrange the berries in jars, crush them a little with a spoon. Leave a third of the volume in a colander.
Pour water into a saucepan so that it reaches the middle of the cans and turn on the gas. After boiling water, reduce the gas. When blueberries begin to actively release juice, free space will appear in the jars. Spoon the jars up to the neck. Cover the jars with lids.
From this moment, mark 40 minutes, you do not need to stir the berries. If the water boils out of the pan, add boiling water.
After 40 minutes, take out the jars of blueberries in their own juice, tighten with sealed lids, turn over and cover with a blanket. Cool for 12 hours, then transfer to pantry. Shelf life - 12 months, subject to the absence of light and temperatures up to +12.
If you have closed the jam under nylon lids, store them at a temperature of +2 to +10 degrees for 3 months.
Sugar Free Cranberry Jam
A very useful preparation for the winter for making pies and compotes.
Ingredients:
2 kilograms of cranberries
Preparation:
Sort out the cranberries and rinse with cold water. Leave in a colander to glass the water.
Put a cotton napkin in a saucepan, put sterilized dry jars on it. Fill them with berries to the very top and pour cold water into a saucepan so that it reaches about the middle of the jars.
Simmer over medium heat until the berries are drowned in the juice. Top up the cranberries so that the jars are full, cover with sterile lids and cook for 35 minutes, adding boiling water to the pan if necessary. Cork the jam immediately after cooking.
How to sterilize sugar-free jam jars
- You do not need to use dishwashing detergents to clean the cans. Use regular laundry soap, baking soda, or mustard. These products are environmentally friendly and do an excellent job of removing dirt.
- Take a new foam sponge for washing lids and cans, as the old ones contain a sufficient number of microbes.
- After washing, rinse the jars thoroughly with plenty of running water.
- Place the washed jars in the oven with the neck up. Set the temperature sensor to 120 degrees. After heating, timed 15 minutes. This time will be enough for 0.7 liter cans.
- Only lids that do not have rubber bands can be sterilized in the oven.
- Sterilize lids with rubber bands in boiling water for 5 minutes, nylon lids for three.
- To make sugar-free jam, take jars with a volume of no more than 0.7 liters, since open jam is stored in the refrigerator for no more than 5 days.
