Gooseberries with orange, or how to turn a simple jam into an exquisite!

Collecting the fragrant fruits of gooseberries in summer, we imagine how we will prepare from them amazing desserts. Jams, jams, marmalades - all these delicacies are incredibly tasty, especially on winter evenings, when the whole family gathers at the table and drinks their favorite tea. But I always want to cook something unusual, because the main thing for us is the happy faces of our relatives. Therefore, today our article will be devoted to popular in recent years, blanks in which surprisingly incredibly harmoniously blended gooseberries with orange. There will be several options for cooking, so you are guaranteed to be able to replenish your culinary treasury with new recipes.

Recipes

All recipes that will be presented below are very convenient in one - there is no need to select any particularly large variety of gooseberries, since we will grind the berries in a blender. Also important is that we will cook gooseberries with orange without cooking, and this will save time. In addition, you can easily use green, yellow or red fruit - here rely only on your taste and on what result you want to get. So, we begin!

Gooseberry and orange

In the first recipe, we suggest that you prepare an amazing jam of gooseberries with orange without cooking. This dish still carries the name - raw jam. This dessert is noteworthy in that it completely preserves the aroma and taste of fresh fruits. On its preparation, there is no need to take away the whole day - just connect the ingredients, rub them and put them in sterile jars.

Gooseberry with orange mashed with sugar will be stored for a long time, however, for this you should observe the proportions of the ingredients specified in the recipe and store the finished product in a cool place where the air temperature will be maintained at the same level.

Products:

• soft gooseberries - 900 g;
• large ripe orange - 3 pieces;
• sugar - 1,2 kg.

Take note! If in desserts you prefer to use cane sugar, its amount will be somewhat smaller - no more than 900 grams! Otherwise, the jam will turn out to be too sweet, despite the presence of an orange!

How to cook?

1. We sort out the berries and discard rotten ones. With the help of a nail scissors or a small sharp knife, we cut the tails and leaves.
2. Oranges are milled - free of peel and white films.
   

   Tip! In order to quickly detach the fillets of an orange, you should remove the upper peel from it with a very sharp thin knife, "grabbing" the white subcortical layer along with it. After that, gradually cut each slice, directing the knife into the middle of the fruit, sliding with a blade near the side white film!

3. Prepared berries and orange fillets are sent to the bowl of the blender and grind to a homogeneous mass. To do this, you can use a meat grinder, setting the smallest grate.
4. In a fruit-fruit mixture, pour sugar, stir and leave everything at room temperature for the night( ≈9 hours).
5. After, shift the gooseberry with orange and sugar into clean jars and seal it tightly.

Gooseberries, orange and lemon

In this recipe, we added one more citrus fruit - lemon - to the grinded gooseberries with orange. Let's find out how to properly prepare such a combination.

Products:

• ripe gooseberry fruit - 1.3-1.5 kg;
• large lemon - 1 piece;
• large orange - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 2.3 kg.

How to cook?

1. We clear the fruits of gooseberries from all tails and leaves, wash in large quantities of water.
2. Citrus fruits carefully washing, cut into slices and remove all the bones. We do not touch the zest of oranges, we remove the lemons.
   

   Note! Lemon peel will be a little bitter, so it's better to take it off!

3. We prepare the prepared products in a blender or let it pass through a meat grinder.
4. We pour the berry-fruit mixture into a large pan or basin, add sugar and leave for a day, periodically mixing with a wooden spatula.
5. After the specified time, gooseberry with orange and lemon is spread over sterilized jars and tightly closed with lids.

Orange and banana

But jam from gooseberry with banana and orange will require heat treatment. At the output is a delicacy with a magical note of the mysterious East, and the fault is spices and spices.

Products:

• ripe gooseberries - 900 g;
• ripe orange - 2 pieces;
• large ripe banana - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 900 g;
• carnation - 6-7 buds;
• cinnamon - 1 stick.

How to cook?

1. Berries are sorted, mine, we clean from pedicels and grind in a blender.
2. Orange carefully washing, peel, remove pits and also grind.
3. In a saucepan, where jam is brewed, we combine berry and fruit weights.
4. Bananas are peeled, cut into small pieces and sent to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Add sugar, stir and leave everything at room temperature for 1.5-2 hours. During this time must be allocated juice.
6. Turn on the gas supply and bring the contents of the pan to a boil. When the first bubbles appear on the surface, we lower the cloves and the cinnamon stick into the mass. We cook all about 5 minutes.
7. From the finished dessert we extract cinnamon and, if possible, cloves, pour it on clean jars and cork for future use.

Recently, unusual blanks for the winter are gaining increasing popularity. Here came the turn of the jam. Add citrus, bananas and spices to it and enjoy the new taste of this usual and unremarkable dish. Bon Appetit!