Zucchini jam with lemon and orange

Delicious, tender and fragrant treat for winter! The taste of zucchini jam is personally familiar to me since childhood. Mom rolled up several jars of this delicacy for the winter every summer. This delicate citrus-scented jam tastes more like canned pineapple.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 0 % 0 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 100 % 30 g
124 kcal
GI: 10 / 0 / 90

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 5 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make zucchini jam with lemon and orange? Prepare the ingredients for the jam. Zucchini for such a dish should be used of milk maturity, with tender skin and pulp and with seeds that have not yet formed, necessarily fresh and juicy.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the zucchini, peel and remove the core. Cut the pulp into small cubes. There are recipes for zucchini jam, where the zucchini is rubbed on a grater, such jam will turn out to be more homogeneous in texture. Put the zucchini in a saucepan or cup made of non-oxidizing material.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash the orange and lemon, peel the fruit. Divide the orange into slices, remove the film from them, divide the pulp into fibers. Squeeze the necessary amount of juice from the lemon using a juicer or with your hands. Add orange pulp, lemon juice, sugar to a saucepan with zucchini.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour in the water. Put a saucepan with zucchini and fruit on the fire. Bring to a boil, turn off the heat. Let the jam preparation cool down.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the zucchini jam on the fire again, after boiling, boil the jam over medium heat for about 5 minutes. The foam formed on the surface is removed.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cool the jam again and cook again, now for 10 minutes from the moment it boils over medium heat.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Put the hot jam in pre-sterilized jars and immediately roll up the lids. Let the jam in jars cool at room temperature and store it in a cool pantry or refrigerator until winter.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    In winter, such jam can be served to the table with tea or used for baking and cooking other desserts. Enjoy your meal!

Zucchini is a versatile vegetable with a neutral taste, from which you can cook not only soups, vegetable stew and other hot dishes, but also desserts. For example, zucchini jam with orange and lemon. Due to its properties of accepting the taste of other products, zucchini easily turns into a wonderful and fragrant delicacy – jam, in which ignorant people will never determine the presence of zucchini.

How to calculate the number of cans, why banks explode and how to avoid it, as well as secrets and life hacks, read the article about preparations for the winter.

How to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lemon - 16   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Oranges - 36   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Young zucchini - 24   kcal/100g

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