Winter is here and so are delicious, juicy strawberries that make most of us in Mumbai drool. While strawberries are great with ice-cream or fresh cream and in exotic desserts and tarts, they can also make a yummy and nutritious jam which can brighten up any breakfast table.
Here's my simple, quick recipe for totally natural home-made strawberries jam.
I am sharing the proportions. You can decide the quantities that you want to try out with.
Wash strawberries and remove the top green crown, slit each strawberry into two vertically. Measure the strawberries as number of cups / bowls. For every two cups / bowl of strawberries measure 1 cup of sugar.
In a thick-bottomed pan, add the cut strawberries and the measured sugar and cook on slow flame. Keep stirring every couple of minutes. The strawberries will initially give out their juice and after a while the mixture will start to thicken. Let it thicken till it is of tomato-sauce-like consistency, put off the flame and allow to cool. Please note that jam will become thicker when cooled.
When completely cool fill in jar and refrigerate. Since this jam has no preservative added, it needs to be refrigerated.
The home-made strawberry jam tastes great on hot buttered toast, chappatti, hot puris, pancakes etc.
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