If you want to please your family with an unusual dessert in winter, make zucchini jam with dried apricots. This homemade delicacy will amaze you with its aroma and unique taste, the main thing is to find a proven recipe for cooking. Those who try zucchini jam with dried apricots for the first time think that the basis of the dessert is not a familiar vegetable, but an exotic fruit - pineapple.
It is necessary
- - 3 kg of zucchini;
- - 3 kg of sugar;
- - 0.5 kg of dried apricots;
- - 1 lemon.
Instructions
Step 1
Wash the zucchini, remove the peel and other inedible parts, clean out the grains and fibers. Some housewives do not clean grains from young fruits, this is a matter of taste. It is better to take young vegetables, but their appearance does not matter.
Step 2
Cut the prepared zucchini into convenient pieces and pass through a meat grinder.
Step 3
Rinse dried apricots under running water, and then pour boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Drain the hot water, dry the berries. Grind the prepared dried apricots with a meat grinder.
Step 4
Take the container in which you plan to cook the jam. Put chopped zucchini and dried apricots in the selected saucepan, cover the food with sugar.
Step 5
Put the pot with the workpiece on gas. Bring the marrow and dried apricot jam to a boil, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
Step 6
When the dessert boils, reduce the gas to low and let the mixture simmer over the fire for 30 minutes.
Step 7
Wash the lemon, pour boiling water over it. This will make the zest less bitter. Grate the fruit on a fine grater along with the peel. Put the resulting mass in a saucepan. If you do not like the peculiar taste of lemon peel, then peel the fruit, and pass the pulp through a meat grinder.
Step 8
Stir the squash jam and simmer the treat over low heat for another 15 minutes.
Step 9
Ready jam can be removed from heat and poured into sterilized jars for further storage.
