Cherry Jam: The Recipe for Making It at Home

• Preparation time: 30 minutes
• Cooking time: 60 minutes
• Difficulty: Low

How to make cherry jam

Ideal for filling sponge cakes and tarts and very tasty when eaten with a spoon, cherry jam is the perfect ingredient for a healthy and nutritious breakfast, even better if enjoyed with homemade rusksLet's see together how to prepare it at home, in the traditional way and with the Thermomix.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of cherries
• 300 g of sugar or fructose
• 1 ripe apple or 1 carrot
• The juice and zest of half a lemon
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Preparation

• After washing the cherries and removing the core, place them in a large pot with sugar or fructose.
• Wash the carrot or apple and remove the peel. Cut the carrot or apple into chunks and add them to the pot.
• Also add the cinnamon, the lemon juice and the whole zest which you will then have to remove at the end of cooking.
• Let it boil for a couple of hours and then pour the jam into the washed and sterilized jars.

How to make cherry jam with the Thermomix

The Bimby is a food processor that many people have at home: here, step by step, is the procedure to follow to make cherry jam at home.

Preparation

• Powder the sugar or fructose with lemon zest, 5 sec, speed 10.
• Wash and remove the stones from the cherries and put them in the jug Peel and dice the apple or carrot. Add the cinnamon.
• Cook for 60 minutes speed 2 100° with anticlockwise butterfly if you want to keep the cherries in pieces, otherwise clockwise.
• Place in jars washed and sterilized and close hermetically.

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