Cherry or sour cherries jam: delicious recipe easy to make

Do you like cherry jam? Discover how to make a wonderful, sweet and delicate cherry jam easily at home.

We are in full season for cherries, sour cherries or picotas, it is therefore the best time to taste them, either as fresh fruit or also to prepare an exquisite homemade jam with them, preserve them and thus enjoy them at any time of the year.

The presence of these fruits fill our markets and fields, it is a summer fruit and this season also brings us a great variety of delicious fruits, rich in water, vitamins, minerals and beneficial nutritional properties for our body.

Cherries belong to the group of red fruits or berries are rich in antioxidants, vitamins of group A, B, C, minerals such as potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, sulfur, and phosphorus.

The benefits of cherries for our body

Being rich in water and fiber, they act as a light laxative, they are diuretic, and they help us to have a good functioning of the intestinal transit and to release toxins from the body.

Being antioxidants, they prevent us from aging or oxidation of cells.

In addition to jam, with this small fruit we can also prepare other recipes such as shakes, ice creams, juices, cherry syrup, cherry liqueur, and cherries in syrup or also include them in pastry recipes in cakes or tarts.

As we have said before, taking advantage of the fact that they are in full season, we provide below the recipe to prepare a delicious and homemade recipe to make a cherry jam.

It is very easy to do, although what will be more entertaining for us is to bone them, remove the pipe, for this purpose we will need a corer or bone remover.

How to make cherry jam:

When buying them, we must choose those that are ripe, but firm, and that are not bruised or beaten. We wish them well, we remove the tail and the pipes.

Ingredients:

• One and a quarter kilos of cherries, 1,250 grams.
• One lemon’s juice.
• 750 grams of white sugar.

Elaboration:

1. We wash the cherries well; we remove the tail and the pips. We put all the cherries in a cauldron. Add the sugar on top and the lemon juice.
2. We put the lid on the cauldron and let the cherries rest for an hour in the refrigerator.
3. Then we put the cauldron with the cherries on the fire and cook the jam over low heat without stopping stirring until it begins to boil.
4. When it boils we continue cooking with low heat and without stopping stirring for half an hour or until we notice that it thickens, that it takes on the point of jam.
5. Turn off the heat and let the jam rest for about 10 minutes.
6. Then we are depositing the jam in glass jars with hermetic closure and that we have previously sterilized so that the jam is kept in optimal conditions.
7. By preserving the jam well, we can keep it in the pantry to enjoy it at any time of the year.
8. Cherry jam is ideal for breakfast, snacks, spread on toast, bread, on soft cheese, accompanying yogurt, to fill cakes, make tarts, in short, an exquisite delicacy.

Do you dare to prepare it and taste it? In case you did not like the jam with the pieces of cherries, you can crush them with the blender and then keep it as we have said before.