Strawberry jam is very easy to make at home. Not only strawberry jam, any fruit jam is easy to make home, you can make it without any artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Use any of your favourite fruit and make for a week’s use, you have a huge variety of choice and healthier choice as its homemade too. I have never thought its so easy.
Still I was not convinced to try it out at home until a reader insisted to post jam recipes. We never use jam that much in our breakfast, so we buy the mixed fruit jam, never thought of trying at home. I am glad I tried this, now I can confidently try other jam recipes too and post it. This recipe is slightly adapted from Martha Stewart’s recipe.
Strawberry jam recipe
Recipe Cuisine: Continental | Recipe Category: Condiments
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Makes: 3/4 cup
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Makes: 3/4 cup
Ingredients
Method
- Remove the green leafy part from strawberry. I used a straw to remove this easily. Insert a strong straw from the bottom and you will be able to remove the core along with this green top. Chop it roughly. Puree it in a blender, without water. You can add leave some strawberry chunks for a nice texture.
- Heat a non-stick heavy bottomed pan and transfer the puree to it. add sugar, lemon juice and mix well.
- Continue heating, mixing now and then taking care not to let it burnt at the bottom. Once it is not watery,becomes thick and glossy (Takes around 8-10 mins approx), switch off the flame and cool down. It becomes little bit thicker as it cools down.
Notes
- Sugar quantity differs as per the tanginess of the fruit. You can check after sugar dissolves and add more if needed.
- Strawberry puree came about 300 ml for me, so you can use this as guidance.
- You can chop and remove the green part from the strawberry too. Straw trick works only best with bit thick and strong straws.
- You can keep this refrigerated and use it for 2 weeks.
- Cooking time varies as per the fruit, water content, heat, the utensil you use.
Transfer to a clean bottle and use it along with toast or bread. It was tangy for me to taste, but when I had with bread, it was perfect.
Sneha Glaxton
July 22, 2015 at 12:24 pmNice recipe….what can b done to increase shelf life? Like say 1 or 2 months.
Sneha Glaxton
July 22, 2015 at 12:24 pmNice recipe….what can b done to increase shelf life? Like say 1 or 2 months.
Ramya Venkat
July 22, 2015 at 2:06 pmyummy and i will finish this within minutes
Kurinji
July 23, 2015 at 6:17 amyummy…
Neetu Sudarshan
July 25, 2015 at 12:26 pmLooks yumm! Will surely try soon..
Ramya
July 28, 2015 at 4:03 ammade yesterday and came out very well. thanks ya
Bhakti Navin Rajapurkar
December 22, 2015 at 2:59 amSame recipe I have tried with pineapple.. For pineapple jam.. It also turn out very well
sarayu
June 5, 2016 at 1:07 amhi my name is sarayu,i tried it today it came out gud bt when it cools down little hard to sperad what should i do now,any suggestions plz.one more thing is,is it ok if we keep it outside for a week.
Raks anand
June 5, 2016 at 1:11 amI think slightly over cooked… May be add little more puree of strawberry to a pan, cook for sometimes, add this hardened jam to it and heat in low flame again until blends well and glossy
Subashini N
September 22, 2016 at 2:46 pmThanks raji for this easy recipe.tried it today..turned out very well
INDUMATHI
June 29, 2017 at 3:53 pmI tried it, this is quick and easy recipe, everyone in my home liked it, thank you
saranya t
March 14, 2018 at 12:33 pmThank you for the recipe. It came out very well.