Blueberry jam in a slow cooker

Blueberries - the berry is special, fragrant, tasty and very healthy. From this forest berry you can cook a very tasty workpiece for the winter. Open a jar of blueberry jam on a winter day and remember the summer. We offer several ways to make blueberries in a slow cooker.

About the benefits of the berry

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It is known that blueberries are salvation for people with poor vision. Many believe that if you eat a guest of blueberries, you can gradually establish vision. But this is not so, blueberries, although rich in many useful substances, is not able to return lost vision, but supporting the body is possible.

This berry contains a lot of vitamin C, as well as such micro and macroelements as iron, sodium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus. Also in the berry there are acids, vitamins of group PP and group B. This berry will help strengthen vision and improve the condition of the body as a whole.

You can list the beneficial properties of the forest berries for a long time, the main ones: this is an improvement in the work of the stomach and intestines, improve the condition of the skin, lower blood sugar, cleansing the liver and kidneys, and increase the whole immunity.

You can eat berry for food only in the harvest season, this period lasts about a month. Then the berry leaves and has to wait a whole year to replenish the reserves of vitamins and nutrients in the body. Many housewives, in order to maintain immunity in winter, freeze berries, cook delicious compotes and jelly. And we suggest preparing healthy blueberries in a slow cooker. As you know, an electric saucepan has long become an assistant in the kitchen. Cooking any dishes in a slow cooker is now easier than on a stove. There is no need to control all processes and worry that food can burn or escape. This also applies to workpieces for the winter: in a slow cooker you can cook jam from any berries and fruits, as well as sterilize banks and lids. Even if you are in the country and there is no way to cook jam on a gas stove, a multicooker will also cope with this task. She can be entrusted with any work.

Blueberry jam in a slow cooker, cold method

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There are several ways to cook jam from berries, the most useful is a cold way to cook jam. The workpiece prepared in this way remains useful even after a few months. The only nuance is that you need to store such jam in a cold place, in the refrigerator or in a cold cellar.

What ingredients are needed:

  • blueberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar - 1 kg.

What should be done:

  1. In the slow cooker, it is necessary to sterilize the banks in advance. To make blueberry jam in a slow cooker, it is best to take small jars. Well, if you cook jars with twisting lids. In such a container, it is more convenient to store jam and open a jar of useful jam in winter to enjoy the workpiece without fear that the jam will disappear. Therefore, experienced housewives do not close jam in 3 liter banks.
  2. How to process jars: pour several glasses of ordinary tap water into the multicooker bowl. Put the covered covers on the bottom. Many housewives wipe the lids with vodka or alcohol, wash with soda. But it is better to boil the covers and covers. Moreover, we will not cook jam, it will remain “alive”.
  3. Install a steamed container on top and put pre -washed jars.
  4. Turn on the program “Warm -up”. You can use another program if this mode is not in your slow cooker. Any program with a high temperature regime, for example, “baking”, is suitable. The lid will have to be left open.
  5. Wait for the water to boil and count from this moment for 10 minutes. So much time will be needed to sterilize cans with a volume of 0.5 liters, for liter cans, the time increases by 5 minutes.
  6. If the banks are new, sterilization can be performed within 5 minutes.
  7. Turn the jars upside down and put on the table, which must first be covered with a clean towel. Let the excess fluid are dragging.
  8. And so far you can do the most important - preparing the berries. Blueberries need to be sorted out, removed all the garbage and twigs, put in a colander to rinse the berry under a stream of running water.
  9. By the way, dry berries are better to put aside, as well as crumpled and spoiled. They change the taste of the finished product, and also affect the shelf life.
  10. For 1 kg of berries, you need to prepare the same amount of sugar.
  11. Prepare a convenient container and a bush. Pour the berries into a bowl, pour sugar and change the contents with a bust until the berry lets the juice.
  12. Thus, you need to carefully move all the blueberries, and then put the mass into pre -prepared banks.
  13. Just apply a tortured blueberry with sugar not to the neck, but leave a little space (up to 1.5 cm). Fill this space with ordinary sugar. Usually 1 tbsp is enough.
  14. Twist the lids and remove the jam in the refrigerator or other cold place for storage.

On this preparations for the winter are completed, pleasant appetite!

Blueberry jam in a slow cooker

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The blueberry season does not last long and you need to have time to stock up on this useful berry. It is important not only to freeze the fresh berry in order to then add other favorite dishes to porridge, but also to cook fragrant and very useful jam. We offer to cook inchwalnia in a slow cooker.

What do you need:

  • blueberries - 2 kg;
  • sugar-sand-2 kg.

How to cook blueberries in a slow cooker:

  1. Blueberries need to be sorted out, remove the leaves, all the garbage, choose damaged and crushed berries, as well as unripe and spoiled berries.
  2. Put the berries in a colander and rinse carefully. Leave for a couple of minutes so that the glass is excess fluid.
  3. Sugar needs to be taken as much as berries, that is, proportions 1 to 1. If sugar is smaller, then jam can go bad faster and its taste will be a little more sour than we would like.
  4. Pour the washed berries into the multicooker bowl. If you bought large blueberries, then you can pour a layer of berries, a layer of sugar and so on. If small blueberries got it, then you can first pour the berry in a pot of multicooker, on top - granulated sugar.
  5. The program of cooking from blueberries in a multicooker - “extinguishing”, time within an hour, you can more - it all depends on what end result you want to get. If you like rare jam, then 1 hour is enough, if you like thick, well boiled, you can set the multicooker timer for 1.5 or even 2 hours.
  6. And a little trick, if you want the jam to stand longer, then at the end of cooking, you need to turn on the program “for a couple” and hold the blueberry jam in the slow cooker for a couple of minutes.
  7. After that, the device can be turned off and hot pouring blueberries in a slow cooker according to pre -prepared and sterilized banks.
  8. Roll the jars with lids, turn each jar upside down, wrap it with something warm (old sweater, blanket), leave it overnight.
  9. When the jam has cooled, banks can be put in a basement or in a pantry.

Blueberry jam in a slow cooker, aromatic

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Another way to cook delicious and healthy blueberries in a slow cooker. Simplicity and accessibility are the main advantage of this recipe. You do not need to stand at the stove and constantly stir the jam, it will not burn and will not go anywhere.

What you need to cook for jam:

  • berries of blueberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar-sand-1.5 kg.

How the inkwell jam is cooked in a slow cooker:

  1. You probably noticed that in this recipe you need to put a little more than in a standard recipe. This is necessary so that the jam turns out more thick.
  2. The berry must be carefully sorted out, removed damaged and spoiled blueberries, remove the unripe, remove all the garbage.
  3. Then it is necessary to rinse the berries well. You can do this in a bowl or in a colander. Water is cool.
  4. Pour the washed blueberries (just do not forget to leave it after washing so that the glass is excess fluid) into the multicooker bowl.
  5. Pour half a portion of sugar-sand on top. You do not need to mix.
  6. Leave blueberries in sugar for 6 hours.
  7. From the remaining portion of sugar, you need to cook sugar syrup. This must be done after 6 hours to drain the resulting blueberry juice. Just from the juice and the remainder of sugar, cook the syrup. Since the multicooker is busy, we will do this part of the work on the stove.
  8. Pour the finished syrup into blueberries with sugar, mix.
  9. Turn on the “Extinguishing” mode. Time needs to be set for 50 minutes. As soon as the jam begins to boil, and you will hear a characteristic absorption, you need to try not to miss this moment in order to remove the resulting foam.
  10. Try blueberry jam in a slow cooker. If everything suits, you can pour it into banks. If you like a dense one, then you need to continue preparing the jam from blueberries in a slow cooker so that the total cooking time is 1-1.5 hours.
  11. Lay the finished hot jam into jars, roll up with lids. After cooling, the jars must be put in the cellar or in the pantry.

Blueberry jam in a multicooker with lemon

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I want to improve the taste of blueberry jam? Then we suggest adding only one lemon to the main ingredients when cooking blueberry jam in a slow cooker. You will see how unusual the taste of ready -made jam will be.

Cooking products:

  • berries of blueberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar-sand-1 kg;
  • lemon - 1 pc.;
  • water - 250 ml.

We will prepare inchwater jam in a slow cooker:

  1. To prepare jam according to this recipe, it is advisable to buy blueberries -fort or “Canadian blueberries”. Another name for this berry "Sanberry".
  2. The berries need to be sorted out, remove all the garbage, leaves, damaged berries and crushed, wash in water and give the opportunity to drain excess fluid. This is very important, because for the preparation of blueberries in a slow cooker you will need a dry berry.
  3. Next, we will cook syrup from water and sugar. We do the following: pour sugar into a pot of multicooker, pour a glass of water, mix, turn on the “Extinguishing” program.
  4. As soon as the syrup begins to boil, it is necessary from time to time to stir it with silicone or wooden spatula.
  5. The syrup begins to boil - it's time to lay the berries. Gradually, in small portions, send the berries to the multicooker bowl to the syrup, stir. Blueberry heat treatment is only 5 minutes.
  6. After the time has expired, you need to turn off the device, the lid can be closed and left to the blueberry to infuse in the syrup for 5-6 hours.
  7. After the indicated time, you must again warm up the future jam in the “extinguishing” mode for 5 minutes from the date of boiling, leave the jam again so that it is infused and warm up the blueberries in the syrup again.
  8. After the third time, after 5 hours, you need to give the opportunity to boil in the slow cooker in the slow cooker, and then add to the mass of the juice 1 lemon plus the zest of lemon, mix, warm for 5 minutes and at this final note pour aromatic blueberry jam in the slow cooker according to in advance Prepared by sterilized banks.
  9. Keep in mind that banks should be dry, without fluid drops.

Enjoy your tea party with aromatic blueberry jam!

Blueberry jam in a multicooker with lavender

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We offer to cook an unusual jam at first glance with dry lavender. So the Frenchwoman’s blueberries cook. We can also cook very tasty blueberries in a slow cooker in a French manner. We get down to business.

Prepare products:

  • berries of blueberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar-sand-1 kg;
  • lemon - 1 pc.;
  • dry flowers of lavender - 2 tbsp.

How to cook blueberries in a slow cooker:

  1. Berries need to be sorted and thoroughly rinse.
  2. Then leave in a colander or pour into a sieve and wait for the excess fluid to drain.
  3. It is necessary that the berries are completely dry. You can speed up the process and lay out the berries in 1 layer on a paper towel folded in several layers.
  4. Next, mix blueberries with sugar, you can do this right in the bowl of the multicooker. Add dry lavender flowers, mix and send the multicooker bowl to the cellar or refrigerator for 24 hours.
  5. So that nothing falls into the future jam, cover the bowl with a plate or lid.
  6. After a day, we remove the bowl with the contents from the refrigerator, install in the slow cooker, turn on the “Extinguishing” program.
  7. As soon as the mass begins to boil, remove the foam with a slotted spoon and add the juice of one lemon.
  8. Again, let the mass boil. If you have a multi -car program, then you can set a temperature of 100 about And in this mode, cook blueberries in a slow cooker for another 20-30 minutes.
  9. During the specified time, you need to periodically remove the foam and stir the jam.
  10. After 15 minutes, try the jam - it is ready. You can lay out a hot mass through the jars (dry and previously sterilized) and roll with lids.

Blueberries made in a slow cooker are very tasty, fragrant and healthy. Such a delicious product will help defeat the winter spleen and strengthen your immunity. Enjoy your tea party!

Blueberry jam in a slow cooker with mint

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I want every dish with love to be perfect. It is now easier to achieve this, especially when there is a slow cooker in the house. We reveal the secret to cooking aromatic blueberries in a slow cooker - only a few branches of fresh mint and the taste of jam will be special.

The ingredients are as follows:

  • blueberries - 1 kg;
  • sugar-sand-1.5 kg;
  • lemon - 1 pc.;
  • mint-4-5 twigs.

How the inkwell jam is cooked in a slow cooker:

  1. Berries of blueberries need to be sorted out and washed, dried.
  2. Directly in the cup of multicooker, mix blueberries with sugar.
  3. Lemon - wash, first remove the zest on a fine grater, and squeeze the pulp. The juice must be filtered so that it is without impurities and bones.
  4. Add lemon zest, as well as just squeezed juice directly into the multicooker bowl to berries with sugar, mix.
  5. Now you need to turn on the “Extinguishing” program and wait for the moment of boiling.
  6. As soon as the mass begins to boil, a foam forms on the surface, it must be carefully removed with a slotted spoon and stir the jam from time to time.
  7. From the moment of boiling, blueberry jam in a slow cooker must be boiled for 15 minutes.
  8. Prepare the mint: wash under a stream of running water, dry it to remove excess fluid. You can do this faster if you take paper towels.
  9. Peppermint branches must be torn with your hands on several parts, put in a container with jam, mix.
  10. Heating time - 5 minutes. That is, you need to boil from blueberries in a slow cooker for another 5 minutes, then pour the hot mass into clean and dry jars (sterilized).
  11. Each jar needs to be rolled with a lid, turned upside down and wrapped with an old blanket, a towel or sweater. Leave for the night.
  12. When the jam cools down, it must be taken and stored in the basement or cellar.

How to cook delicious blueberries in a slow cooker

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These tips will help you fix mistakes and prepare delicious blueberry jam:

  • if it so happened that the jam turned out to be liquid, then this can be fixed - add a little gelatin or try to boil the jam more;
  • if you want to cook jam with whole berries, then you need to boil it from the moment of boiling only 5 minutes, then the berries will not have time to burst and remain intact;
  • if the jam was welded according to all the rules, and it is bitter, this means that by mistake when collecting the berries, honeysuckle was collected;
  • do not be lazy to sort out the berries and then the jam will last longer.




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