Kitchen appliances and utensils
- containers for ingredients;
- two deep bowls;
- scapula;
- deep pan with a lid;
- colander;
- knife;
- board;
- embossed knife.
Ingredients
- Pumpkin - 1 kg
- Water - 700 ml
- Sugar - 1 kg
- Lime - 100 g
- Alum - 1 tsp.
- Carnation - 10 pcs.
- Lemon Salt - A Pinch
Step cooking
- We clean the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces. You can use a relief knife.
- Put lime in a bowl.
- Fill it with water to extinguish. Stir with an infusion of water.
- Mix until the lime is completely dissolved.
- We pour lime through a colander into another container and continue to extinguish with water.
- Put the pumpkin in a bowl of lime.
- Leave the pumpkin for 5 hours, periodically stirring every 30 minutes.
- Drain the lime, put the pumpkin in the pan.
- Fill the pumpkin with water and cook for 30 minutes.
- After half an hour, add alum to the water. 15 minutes after adding alum, drain the water.
- In parallel, prepare the syrup. Pour sugar into boiling water. Let’s boil, stirring constantly. Sugar must dissolve.
- Add the pumpkin when the sugar has dissolved. Leave the pumpkin to boil in sugar water.
- Cook under a closed lid, then without it until tender.
- We add cloves and lemon salt when we cook pumpkin without a lid. Done!
Cooking variations
In order for the recipe to succeed, you need to properly study all the materials. This is not the easiest recipe, so you have to work hard to get it right. This jam is a real delicacy. It turns out to be very tasty and unusual. It can be served at the festive table, eat with tea or coffee. You can also use this jam in the preparation of various pastries.
This kind of jam can be grated and added to pies and cakes. Cakes can be decorated with such jam in cubes, as well as chopped or grated. Together with pumpkin in the same way you can cook apples, quinces and other solid foods. You can make a real fruit platter! Be sure to try to make such a jam according to this recipe. You will be satisfied with the result, even though the whole process takes a lot of time.
Video recipe
Watch this video to learn more about this recipe. The author will share his recipe for delicious jam in cubes of pumpkin. Enjoy watching!
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