Home made strawberry jam
Strawberry jam recipe to make at home.
Ingredients
- 500 g Strawberry
- 300 g Sugar
- 1 Lemon
Instructions
- Clean and remove stems in strawberries
- Chop the strawberry into small pieces. If you want paste like jam, then chop the strawberries finely.
- In a kadai, add chopped strawberry and sugar and start cooking.
- Cook in high flame until the sugar melts. Then, keep medium flame.
- Add lemon juice.
- After the mix started boiling, keep low flame till end.
- Keep stirring often to avoid burning.
- Mash the strawberry with ladle or potato masher.
- Cook until the jam mix is not sticky to the plate but smoothly flowing out from spoon.
- Turn off the heat and let it cool down.
- Transfer to airtight container and store.
- You can spread on breads or chapati and enjoy.
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Notes
- Size of strawberry pieces should be as per your choice. If you like chunks in jam, cut a fruit into 4 pieces. If you like paste-like jam, cut the fruit finely and mash it well while cooking.
- Adding lemon juice is must to preserve the jam.
- This jam stays good at room temperature in airtight container.
- If you like pink colored jam, use white sugar. Adding brown sugar alters the jam color.
- You can try variations using palm jaggery or sugar cane jaggery too.