How to cook strawberry jam in a multivariate?

What to do in winter, when all the fruit and berry magnificence ends? Mistresses come out of the situation, preparing for the winter gifts of the summer. So, for example, there are many ways to prepare jam. And the cooked strawberry jam in the multivarquet is the most delicious thing!

Multivarka - a great invention to help culinary experts. This electric appliance is capable of much: to put out meat and vegetables, cook soups and cereals, make fish for a couple, bake a biscuit and cook jam from berries. The preparation of food takes a little longer than in a conventional saucepan, but this fact does not bother, because during cooking, the housewives do not have to stand over the stove, looking after the dish.

A good multivarker is equipped with several vessels and a bowl for steaming dishes. The cover of the device must be of good plastic, hermetically sealed, with a valve for moisture outlet. Some dishes are prepared in their own juice, so the valve function is not needed. This feature is more about desserts. So, when preparing strawberry jam in a multivarquet, the valve should be kept closed.

Of course, you can preserve the old way for the winter. In cooking, many types of cooking jam: both complex and expensive, and fast and simple. In order to make jam from strawberry "Pyatiminutka", the recipe is very light. It is necessary to fall asleep washed and peeled berries with sugar, wait for about five hours, until the fruit is allowed to juice. Place berries in their own juice in enameled dishes - a bowl or a saucepan, put on fire, stirring. As soon as the boil and will appear a sweet foam, wait 5 minutes and turn off the fire. Ready jam is superimposed in sterilized jars and rolled up with treated lids.

What if there is no time to wait until the fruit is allowed to juice, but I want to harvest berries as quickly as possible and do other things? Such a rapid jam from strawberries can be safely "entrusted" to modern technology. There is no need to fill the berries with sugar beforehand.

A simple recipe for making strawberry jam :

• 1 kg of strawberries (the capacity of the steamer 4 l, if less, you need to monitor the ratio of volumes 1: 4);
• 1 kg of granulated sugar (if the strawberry is very sweet, you can reduce the amount of sugar);
• 40 ml of water.

We put the purified and washed fruits in the capacity of the multivark, fill it with sugar, add water, so that there is no burning. If the strawberry is juicy enough, you can not add water. Close the lid, close the steam valve and leave it in "Quenching" mode for one hour. Do not forget to remove the foam - favorite delicacy kids.

After waiting 60 minutes, turn off the appliance. Delicious jam from strawberries in the multivark prepared!

If it seems that the jam is liquid enough, then two minutes before the end of cooking, you can throw a bag of thickener (gelatin), stop and turn it off. The finished dessert, just as in the case of cooking in enameled dishes, is dispensed over sterilized jars and rolled up. By the way, you can also sterilize glass containers in a multivark.

Prepare a berry jam on a grandmother's recipe or jam from strawberries in a multivarquet - it's up to each housewife to decide. In any case, in the winter, a sweet vitamin dish will please all household members. The most tasteless porridge for children will seem like a great treat, and tea with berry desserts will please parents and their guests.