Having eaten plenty of ripe cherries, preparing pies and dumplings, you can close these juicy fragrant berries for the winter. Cherry jam is a bright color, excellent taste and mass of vitamins. How to prepare such a treat in a slow cooker, our article will tell.

A few words about the benefits of cherries

Cherry is a valuable vitamin source. In addition to them, there are many acids in the berries: citric, amber, folic, apple, ant. In this product you will find trace elements and sugar, pectins and fiber, as well as tannins.

The berry, especially in fresh form, can become an excellent preventive and even therapeutic agent with many ailments: liver diseases and respiratory systems, kidneys and bone apparatus, with anemia, constipation and other problems. Juicy bright fruits soothe nerves well, so cherries are attributed to people with epilepsy and various mental illnesses.

These berries are very widely and varied in cooking. Baking, dumplings, sauces and marinades, alcohol, compotes, tinctures and filing, as well as delicious sweet jam - not a complete list of dishes that include cherries.

For all its benefits, cherries and certain disadvantages have. Its bones contain a substance that can turn into synical acid. That is why many culinary specialists advise closing cherry jam without bones, because such a treat, although it will have a more rich taste and smell, in case of long storage can simply become dangerous to health.

It is best to cook cherry jam from large fruits of saturated red or burgundy. Small berries can be used in marmalads and jams. To clean the cherries from the seeds, it is most convenient to stock up on a special device. It can also replace it with a simple pin.

If you are preparing to jam from whole fruits and do not want them to wrinkle very much during cooking or even spread into a shapeless mass, make a treat into several visits. After boiling, boil the berries for no longer than 5 minutes, then cool for several hours and repeat the procedure.

Cherry jam with apricots in a slow cooker

Jam is a treat with which you can experiment endlessly. For example, many varieties of cherries and apricots bear fruit at about the same time. So why, instead of simple berry jam, do not prepare something more interesting, combining several types of fruits. Here is an example of such a dish - jam and apricots in a slow cooker. For him we will need:

• cherries - 1 kg;
• apricots - 600 g;
• sugar - 600 g;
• water - 300 ml.

Let's try to cook cherries and apricots in a slow cooker:

1. We wash the cherries in a colander under the tap and a pin we take out the bones. My apricots, cut in half, remove the seeds. Cut the fruits with quarters or even smaller pieces.
2. Pour water into the multicier vessel and pour sugar.
3. We turn on the option "Cooking" and boil the syrup. Cook until sugar melts.
4. Gently pour berries and fruits into the bowl, in the same program we are waiting for their boiling, remove the foam. Cook jam from cherries and apricots in a slow cooker for 5 minutes. Turn off the device, let the treat cool and stand in the syrup for 3-4 hours.
5. Then again we turn on the same program and repeat everything again. In this way we weld cherries with apricots 3-4 times.
6. Before final cooking, sterilize jars with lids. With this volume of products, about 3 cans of 0.5 liters should be obtained.
7. Pour hot jam and roll up for the winter.

Cherry jam with nuts in a slow cooker

Cherries are perfectly combined with any nuts, which cooks are known and very often combine these types of products in many dishes. So in jams made in a slow cooker, nuts will be useful. The most pleasant thing is that you can use everything at hand: walnut or almond nuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, cashews or something else. That's what we will cook such a treat:

• cherry - 1 kg;
• sugar - 7 glasses;
• water - 0.5 cups;
• nuts - 2 glasses.

Let's make cherry jam in a slow cooker according to the following instructions:

1. We will fill our berries with nuts, so you need to prepare them in advance. If you are too lazy to waste time, just mix the products, but if you want not just a tasty, but aesthetically beautiful dish, then remove the seeds from the berries, and put the nuts in their place. Of course, at first the nuclei will have to be chopped into pieces of the corresponding size.
2. Fold all the products in a multicier shape and fill it with half the sugar rate. Report the bowl in the cold and wait until the juice is released from the fruits, and you will have to wait 6 hours.
3. After a while, take out the cherry of the refrigerator and remove the cherries with a slotted spoon, leaving only juice in the container. Add the rest of sugar and water to it. In the program "Varka" prepare the syrup.
4. Now return the berries in boiling syrup and cook for 5-7 minutes after boiling. Cool, let the cherry jam brew in a slow cooker for several hours, repeat the process. Cook the dish in 3 gunshot.
5. Pour jam on sterilized dishes, close the lids and hide for storage.

Cherry jam, apples and almonds in a slow cooker

And here is another example of how you can combine products in jam. We will prepare it from an equal number of cherries and apples, adding a few almond nuts. Zheliting sugar will help us to achieve an unusual consistency. So, let's make jam and apples in a slow cooker, preparing the following products:

• cherries - 0.5 kg;
• apples - 0.5 kg;
• zheling sugar - 1 kg;
• lemon - 1 pc.;
• almonds - 100 g.

We will analyze the instructions for making jam from cherries and apples in a slow cooker:

1. We wash the cherries in a colander and take out the seeds from them. We shift the berries into the slow cooker, cover with a layer of geling sugar and leave for a day. At this time, we hide the bowl in the refrigerator so that the cherries do not dry.
2. After a day, add apples to the future jam. To begin with, clean them from the peel and seeds, three on a coarse grater and put in a bowl with cherries. Squeeze lemon juice.
3. In the program "Varka" we wait for the syrup to boil, remove the foam and cook jam from cherries and apples in a slow cooker for 5 minutes.
4. Then we leave it for 3-4 hours. The jam that has insisted in syrup can be heated again in the same mode and cook for another 5 minutes. A similar procedure must be repeated 3 times.
5. In the last cooking, we add to the treat, the almonds fried in a dry pan. Pour jam into clean jars, twist and hide it for storage until winter.

Cherry jam with cocoa and cinnamon in a slow cooker

We will add cherry-chocolate jam with a delicate and such “home” cinnamon aroma. To get a thick consistency, we will also add gelatin to the dish. We will prepare cherries from cherries in a slow cooker from the following products:

• cherry berries - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• gelatin - 25 g;
• cinnamon sticks - 2 pcs.;
• cocoa Power-3 tbsp.

Now let's start cooking:

1. Cherry berries are well sorted out, throwing rotten and removing the tails. Good fruits suitable for jam are freed from the seeds. Pour the berries into multicier dishes and fall asleep with sugar. So that the cherries do not skid and the jam is possible, we rearrange the bowl in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
2. In the berries that have launched juice, add a cocoa powder and put the cinnamon sticks.
3. Turning on the “cook” or “extinguishing” mode on the panel, bring the cherry jam in the slow cooker to a boil, remove the foam, cook for 5 minutes, turn off and cool 2-3 hours. We repeat the actions 2 more times.
4. Having turned off the device after the third cooking, we pour gelatin into jam and stir. You can heat the treat again so that grains dissolve, but in no case should you boil.
5. We distribute the finished jam on sterilized containers and roll up with lids.

Cherry jam with chocolate and rum in a slow cooker

We would like to introduce you to another unusual and non -standard recipe for goodies - cherry jam with rum and chocolate in a slow cooker. Here is a list of ingredients for its preparation:

• cherry - 1.2 kg;
• sugar - 2 cups;
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp;
• black chocolate - 2 tiles;
• dark rum - 1 cup;
• water - 100 ml.

We will prepare cherry jam in a slow cooker in this way:

1. The washed cherries will be free from the seeds and transfer to the multicier shape. We will have water and lemon juice there, drove sugar, leave for 5-6 hours.
2. During this time, sugar will partially or completely dissolve in cherry juice. Now you can return the bowl to its place and cook jam.
3. We turn on the program “Cooking” or “Extinguishing”, bring the juice to a boil, remove the foam and cook the cherry jam in a slow cooker for 25 minutes. Add dark rum, mix and cook for another 5 minutes.
4. Turn off the device and crush chocolate tiles into the bowl. We are waiting for them to dissolve. The cooled jam is ready for use. You can store it in the refrigerator in a clean jar.

Cherry and raspberry jam in a slow cooker

The cherry-raspberry jam rich in useful components will be useful to you in the case in the case of colds or simply as a prevention of acute respiratory infections. Yes, and open a jar for tea without any reason will be very pleasant. We will prepare this jam from cherries and raspberries in a slow cooker using such ingredients:

• cherry berries - 1 kg;
• raspberries - 400 g;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• water - 1 cup.

And here is a detailed description of the stages of cooking of cherries and raspberries in a slow cooker:

1. At first, my cherries and choose bones from them. Do not forget to throw off rotten specimens. We pour raspberries into a colander and also slightly wash with running water.
2. Pour the water into a slow cooker and pour sugar into it. In the "cook" mode we prepare syrup for the future jam.
3. We throw the berries into the boiling syrup, and when they boil, remove the foam and cook for 5 minutes. Turn off the slow cooker and cool the jam and raspberries for 5-6 hours.
4. Then again we bring the treat to a boil and cook for another 25-30 minutes.
5. Pour jam into banks, be sure to sterilize them before. Close for the winter, and after cooling we hide in a cool place.

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