Experienced housewives can cook jam from almost any fruit that has grown in the garden. Zucchini jam is considered a very interesting delicacy that not all women know how to cook. People who have tried a vegetable dessert for the first time are surprised and do not believe that the base of the jam is zucchini. If you still don't know how to make zucchini jam, then it's time to find out the proven recipe for this delicacy.
Zucchini jam with lemon
Zucchini itself does not have a pronounced taste; this feature of the vegetable allows you to cook many different dishes. Housewives, who often make zucchini jam, add other ingredients to the vegetable to give the dessert a rich taste and aroma. Lemon will be an excellent companion for the fruit in question. Spicy notes of citrus fruits will give the jam a unique taste. To make lemon squash jam, you will need:
- 1 kg of courgettes. The fruits can be taken broken and unsightly, all the same they will need to be peeled and cut;
- 800 g sugar;
- 1 large lemon.
When you have all the ingredients, you can start making the squash and lemons jam. The sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Wash the zucchini, dry it, remove the peel from them, remove the seeds, cut out the inedible pulp. Grind the prepared vegetable into small cubes;
- Put the sliced zucchini in a saucepan, cover with sugar and let the ingredients stand for 10 hours. This time is enough for the vegetable to start juice;
- When the specified period has passed, place the pan on gas, boil its contents, reduce the gas to a minimum and let the jam sweat for 15 minutes;
- Wash the lemon, dry it, remove the peel from it, cut into cubes. If there are seeds in the lemon, remove them. Send the prepared fruit to the pan for the zucchini, stir the ingredients. Simmer the jam for another 15 minutes over low heat.
- In a quarter of an hour, the dessert will be ready. If you have made zucchini jam with lemon for the winter, you can pour it into sterilized jars and roll up the lid. Further, the jars with dessert are turned upside down and remain standing until the marrow jam with lemon has cooled. After that, the banks can be sent to be stored in the designated place.
As you can see, the recipe for zucchini jam is quite simple. Having made such a delicacy, you will not regret the time spent. Dessert will delight you with a pleasant taste and unique aroma.
