WATERMELON PEELS AND PLUMS JAM
A delicious zero waste recipe to use the watermelon peels! Try it and you'll love it!
Ingredients
- 1 kg of clean watermelon peels only the white part without the green rind,
- 500 g plums without core but with peel,
- 350 g brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Cut the watermelon peel and the plums s into small pieces and pour them into a large saucepan.
- Add sugar, cinnamon and mix well.
- Put on fire and, over a high heat, reach the boil.
- Lower the heat and cook the jam for about 50 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile sterilize the jars and the caps: you can boil both in water and leave them to dry on a clean cloth, or you can boil only the caps and pass the washed and still wet jars for 2 minutes in the microwave oven at maximum power.Take back the jam and make a test to verify that the jam has the desired consistency: with a spoon take the most liquid part of the jam and pour it on a coffee plate.Put it in the freezer for 2 minutes, then tilt it and verify how long the drops takes to go down: if they run down immediately, like water, it means that it’s necessary others 5-10 minutes of cooking, if they run slowly the jam is perfect and ready!
- Pass the jam a little with the immersion blender to make it more homogeneous.
- Immediately pour the hot jam into the jars, close with the caps and turn them upside down for half an hour.
- Then proceed with the double sterilization putting the jars in a large pot and covering them completely with water: bring on fire, reach the boil and cook for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the jars cool in the water.
- Drain them, label and store!
Notes
- Spices: you can use cinnamon, but also vanilla, ginger or tonka beans to flavor jam.
- Before cooking the jam you can cover the casserole with a lid and let it rest for 1 hour: this step is optional, but allows the fruit and spices to mix well and to create a union of flavors and aromas that will be exalted with cooking.
- Double sterilization (step n ° 8) is not mandatory, but guarantees greater safety for homemade food preservation.