Dry apple jam - an interesting recipe 🍏

Kitchen appliances and utensils: basin, knife, cutting board, baking sheet, grid (gauze), oven.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Apple preparation

1. I thoroughly wash the apples.
   
2. Cut rotted or beaten parts. Weigh apples to know in what proportion to add sugar. We got 3 kg of apples. Cut apples into slices (we divide each apple into 6 - 8 parts), remove the core, leave the peel. It is advisable that the slices be whole and the same, without cut parts, then the jam will look more beautiful.
   

Sugar Preparation for Syrup

1. Pour 900 g of sugar into a bowl. We take sugar per 1 kg of apples - 300 g of sugar. Pour 2 tsp into sugar. citric acid. Add 1 tsp. ground cinnamon. If you like cinnamon, then you can put more, about 1 tsp. per 1 kg of apples. Mix the dry ingredients well.
   

Making jam

1. Put the finished chopped apples on a baking sheet, preferably in one layer. If all apples do not fit on 1 baking sheet, then it can be divided into several baking sheets. Pour apples with sugar.
   
2. Mix apples and sugar with our hands. Try to keep the sugar evenly distributed. You can fill apples with sugar immediately on a baking sheet, or you can fill it in a separate bowl, mix them, and then put them on a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. We put in a preheated oven a baking sheet with apples for 20 minutes. We take it out of the oven, drain the resulting syrup.
   
3. Let the apples cool.
   
4. We spread it on a grid or on stretched gauze.
   
5. We leave to dry in a warm place (this can be done on the balcony), and preferably in the shade. It will take 2 days to dry the apples. At the same time, apples are reduced in size by 5 times.
   

Dry apple jam is ready. It turned out not only beautiful, but also appetizing and very tasty.

You can serve it as a dessert for tea, or you can use it as a decoration for a pie or cake, or make a filling for baking.

Useful Tips

• Apples, if desired, can be peeled, only then they will have to be cooked very carefully, otherwise they will fall apart and turn into mashed potatoes.
• In order for apple slices to retain their shape, they can be boiled a little in syrup. Alternatively, you can fill the apples with sugar and wait until they let the juice in, it will take at least 12 hours.
• If apples are sweet - sugar can be taken less, if sour - more. It all depends on your preference.
• For flavor and taste, you can add cinnamon or cloves to sugar.
• If you boil apples first in syrup, then you can add lemon or orange juice to it.

Video recipe

In this video you will see how you can make dry apple jam from a large number of apples, in what sequence to cook it, how to dry the slices, what they became after drying.

If you have a big harvest of apples and you don’t know what to do with them, use our recipe for making unusual dry jam. Cooking it at home is simple, and the result is candied candied fruit. At the same time, you do not need to roll it up and worry that it will explode. You can store such jam in a canvas bag, in a paper box, in a glass jar at room temperature. Apples for jam is better to choose hard varieties with a sweet or sweet and sour taste.