Zucchini is a universal product. They prepare a wide variety of dishes. They are stewed, boiled, fried, marinated and even prepared sweet preparations - compotes and jams.

This jam is delicious served with tea with pancakes or pancakes. They are poured over cereals, puddings and ice cream. I recommend to try.

To prepare zucchini jam with dried apricots, prepare the necessary set of ingredients.

To make dried apricots softer, pour hot water over it and leave for 10-15 minutes. Then drain the water, and squeeze the dried apricots.

Wash the zucchini and, together with dried apricots, pass through a meat grinder or use a food processor.

Add sugar to the buttermilk and stir.

Put the pan on the fire and bring to a boil, reduce the heat and cook, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes.

Add juice and zest of half a lemon.

Boil for another 15 minutes.

Zucchini jam with dried apricots is ready. Pour it into sterilized jars and roll up.

Turn the jars upside down and wrap until completely cool.

This jam is perfectly stored in a city apartment.

Be sure to cook this wonderful delicacy for the winter, and let your winter be delicious. Bon appetit!

Zucchini is native to northern Mexico. For the first time, the Italians began to eat them. They are part of many Mediterranean dishes. This product is low-calorie, rich in potassium and iron. It is used for baby and diet food. Prepare salads, appetizers, caviar, jam. Jam is made from zucchini with various additives, for example, dried apricots or citrus fruits. The recipes are below.

To prepare zucchini jam, you need to take fresh fruits, wash thoroughly, peel.

Seeds are removed from the prepared zucchini and thoroughly washed again.

Requirements for the main ingredients

Ingredients must be fresh, with no signs of rotting. Products are thoroughly washed before cooking. Compliance with these requirements will help achieve the desired result.

Container preparation rules

The jars in which the jam will be laid out are sterilized. You can do this in the oven, putting them upside down on a baking sheet with water, in the microwave or steam, holding them over the spout of a boiling kettle. Covers are also sterilized. They cannot be sterilized in the microwave, only in the oven or steamed.

Methods for making jam from zucchini with dried apricots

There are many ways to cook this jam. Lemons (limes), dried apricots, oranges (tangerines), nuts are used as additional ingredients. The texture of the finished product will vary depending on the cooking time and fillers added.

Easy winter recipe

Simple homemade preparation will require a little food and effort.

Required Ingredients:

• zucchini - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• lemon - 2 pcs.

1. Finely chop the zucchini both ingredients.
2. We combine them and fall asleep with sugar.
3. We wait until they give juice.
4. Put on fire and bring to a boil.
5. We take off the foam.
6. Simmer for about 2 hours over very low heat until the jam looks like a thick jelly.
7. Distribute to banks.
8. Roll up.
9. We clean in a dry dark room.

With lemon

Jam cooked according to this recipe should resemble marmalade in consistency.

Required Ingredients:

• zucchini - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• lemon - 1 pc.

Step by step cooking process:

1. Finely chop the zucchini.
2. Grate the lemon.
3. We mix the ingredients.
4. We cover everything with sugar.
5. We put it in the refrigerator overnight.
6. In the morning we put it on the fire, wait for it to boil, and cook for 15 minutes.
7. We put it aside and do not touch it for 5 hours.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 2 more times.
9. The third brew is the final one. Cook until syrup thickens.
10. Pour into jars and roll up.

A full cooking cycle will take about a day.

with orange

You can also add an orange along with the lemon.

Required Ingredients:

• zucchini - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1 kg;
• lemon - 1 pc;
• orange - 2 pcs.

Step by step cooking process:

1. Finely chop the zucchini.
2. Scroll the lemon through a meat grinder.
3. Thin circles (across) cut the orange. You can even use the peel.
4. We cover everything with sugar.
5. We leave for 8 hours.
6. We put the workpiece on the fire and bring to a boil.
7. As soon as it boils, reduce the fire to a minimum.
8. Simmer, stirring lightly, for about 2 hours.
9. We transfer to banks.
10. Roll up.

A complete cooking cycle takes about 12 hours.

walnut

Required Ingredients:

• zucchini - 1 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• walnuts - 0.5 cups.

Step by step cooking process:

1. Pour all the sugar into the pan and pour one and a half glasses of water there. We put on medium heat and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved, and then another 10-15 minutes. Be sure to stir!
2. Finely chop the zucchini.
3. Put chopped vegetables in a saucepan with syrup.
4. Cook until it boils, and then another 6 minutes.
5. We remove the foam.
6. Now we wait for the vegetables to cool, and prepare the lemon and walnut.
7. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice.
8. We cut nuts.
9. Put the nuts and lemon in a saucepan with zucchini and cook until it thickens.
10. We lay out the banks, roll up.

A complete cooking cycle will take about 4 hours.

Dried apricots will add a honey flavor to squash jam

Required Ingredients:

• dried apricots - 0.5 kg;
• zucchini - 2 kg;
• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• lemon - 1 pc.

Step by step cooking process:

1. Pour 2 cups of granulated sugar into a saucepan and pour it with 2 cups of water. We put on medium heat and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved (do not forget to stir), and then another 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and go to the dried apricots.
2. Cut the dried apricots into pieces and pour into a saucepan with syrup. Now let it stand for a couple of hours and soak in sugar.
3. We scroll the lemon through a meat grinder.
4. Finely chop the vegetables and add a lemon and a kilogram of sugar.
5. The mixture is left for a couple of hours.
6. The mixture must be stirred periodically.
7. We put a saucepan with dried apricots on one burner, a saucepan with zucchini on the other. Bring to a boil. Turn off and wait for the mixture to cool completely.
8. Repeat step 7 2 more times.
9. We combine the ingredients and cook already together. But it is not necessary to bring the matter to a complete boil-off of the syrup.
10. Pour into jars, roll up, turn over and clean.

A full cooking cycle will take about 9 hours.

How to store the finished product correctly and for how long?

The finished product is stored in a dark dry room. Jam can stand for a year if it is properly closed.

If the jar of jam has already been opened, then it can only be stored in the refrigerator.

Young zucchini can be used whole. And in old vegetables, you must first remove the skin and seeds. In the second case, the mass indicated in the ingredients will refer to already peeled zucchini.

If you want to store jam for a long time, lay it out and roll it up. Then turn the jars over, wrap them in something warm, wait until they are completely cool, and put them in a dark, cool place.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of zucchini;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• 100 ml of water;
• 1 large .

Cooking

Cut the zucchini into small cubes. Put almost all the sugar in a saucepan and add water. While stirring, bring to a boil over moderate heat.

Throw in the zucchini syrup and the remaining sugar. Cook, stirring, for 10-15 minutes, until the sugar grains dissolve. If the zucchini is old, cook the jam under the lid so that the vegetables soften faster.

Cut the lemon into slices and remove the seeds. Grind the fruit with a blender and add to the zucchini. Stir and cook the jam for another 20 minutes. If you cook it for 10-15 minutes longer, the syrup will become thicker.

And in this article you will find a recipe for incredibly tasty and sweet zucchini in pineapple juice:

Ingredients

• 2 oranges;
• ½ small ginger root;
• 1 kg of zucchini;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• 50–70 ml of water;
• pinch of cinnamon - optional

Cooking

Finely grate orange zest and ginger. Cut zucchini and orange pulp into small cubes.

Place the zucchini, oranges, their zest and ginger in a saucepan. Sprinkle with sugar and stir. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 10-15 minutes. The zucchini should become soft.

Pour in water, bring to a boil and cook for another 20-30 minutes. The longer the jam cooks, the thicker it will be. 5 minutes before readiness, you can add cinnamon to the zucchini.

Ingredients

• 150 g dried apricots;
• 1 kg of zucchini;
• 1 kg of sugar;
• ½ lemon.

Cooking

Soak dried apricots in hot water for 15 minutes to soften them. Then drain the liquid and wring out with your hands.

Grind zucchini and dried apricots with a meat grinder or blender. Transfer the resulting mass to a saucepan, add sugar and mix.

Bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce it and cook the jam, stirring, 40 minutes.

Grate the lemon zest on a fine grater and squeeze the juice out of the fruit. Add the zest and juice to the pot and cook for another 15 minutes.

Ingredients

• 1 200 g zucchini;
• 700 g of powdered sugar;
• 2 sweet and sour apples;
• 200 g raisins;
• a pinch of vanilla.

Cooking

Cut the zucchini into small cubes and place in a bowl. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar and place over medium heat. Bring to a boil while stirring and simmer for 20 minutes.

Grate peeled apples or cut into small pieces. Add apples, raisins and vanilla to the pan and cook for another 10-15 minutes.;

Cooking

Cut the zucchini and bananas into equal cubes and place in a saucepan. Sprinkle with sugar, mix and leave for an hour. During this time, the zucchini will give juice.

Place the pot over moderate heat and simmer for 30-40 minutes. If the zucchini is old, you can cook the jam for 5-10 minutes longer.

It is customary to make jam from various berries and fruits. But some housewives come up with new ways of processing not only sweet fruits, but also vegetables. For example, they make jam from zucchini, carrots and even green tomatoes. And, surprisingly, if you try new dishes from these ingredients, it is even impossible to guess what an unusual delicacy is made of - the tastes and specific smells of the products used change so much. This article tells you how to make zucchini jam in combination with dried apricots. Each recipe is distinguished by a special touch of taste and aroma, despite the use of the same components.

with dried apricots: recipe one

Homemade preparation prepared according to this method is obtained in the form of a thick jam. It can be used as a filling when baking confectionery or simply served with hot tea. To make such zucchini jam for the winter, follow the description below.

Ingredients of the dish:

One kilogram of young peeled zucchini;

Two hundred grams of dried apricots;

One fresh large lemon;

Eight hundred grams of sugar.

Cooking:

Zucchini jam with dried apricots: second recipe

Following another method, you can get a transparent treat consisting of individual pieces. To prepare such jam from zucchini with dried apricots, you need to cook it in several stages, changing the ratio of products.

Stage 1. Pour half a kilo of chopped dried apricots with hot syrup, boiled from two glasses of water and two glasses of sugar, and leave the mass for two to three hours.

Stage 2. Zucchini (two kilograms), chopped into strips or thin slices, together with one lemon twisted through a meat grinder, pour a kilogram of sugar. The mixture must also be infused for two to three hours. Zucchini will release juice, so stir the mass from time to time.

Stage 3. Boil each of the containers separately without mixing. Repeat the step two more times after complete cooling.

Stage 4. Drain the jam into a common large saucepan and cook until medium thick so that a sufficient amount of syrup remains.

Stage 5 Arrange the fragrant mass in jars and roll up. Turn over until cool.

A delicious treat is ready!

To prepare zucchini jam, we need:

• zucchini - 600 g;
• dried apricots - 100 g;
• granulated sugar - 600 g;
• one small lemon.

Preparation of ingredients will take 30 minutes. The jam is cooked in total for 50-60 minutes. The total cooking time is 1.5 hours.

Zucchini is a healthy and dietary vegetable that contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals. But, unfortunately, this useful product does not have a pronounced taste. Therefore, many housewives, when preparing zucchini jam, supplement them with a variety of additives: lemon, dried apricots, oranges and even pineapple. Such homemade preparations always turn out tender, fragrant and tasty.

Combining the tender pulp of zucchini and the benefits and amber color of dried apricots, you can get a delicate fragrant and bright jam.

First stage. Zucchini is better to choose young, milky ripeness. The color of the peel and the variety of vegetables is not critical. If you choose a zucchini with a dark skin, then it is better to cut off more of it. Wash the fruit thoroughly and dry. We clean the zucchini from the peel, if there are seeds, then they must be removed. Cut vegetables into small pieces of arbitrary shape.

Second phase. Pieces of zucchini are passed through a large mesh meat grinder or chopped in a blender.

Third stage. While zucchini give juice, you can do dried apricots. It must be washed and poured with boiling water for a few minutes. We drain the swollen dried apricots and dry them on a napkin. We divide dried fruits into two parts. We pass one through a meat grinder or grind it in a blender, and cut the second into thin strips.

Fourth stage. Drain excess liquid from the squash mass, transfer to an enameled container, add granulated sugar and place on fire.

Fifth stage. Stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil. Add all dried apricots and cook for 30-35 minutes.

Sixth stage. Wash the lemon, pour boiling water over it and squeeze the juice directly into the jam. Next, you need to grind the zest. This can be done in a blender, grated lemon or passed through a meat grinder.

Seventh stage. We also mix lemon gruel with jam and, stirring constantly, cook over low heat for about 20 minutes. The burnt mass acquires an unpleasant aftertaste and loses its golden color.

Eighth stage. Pour the hot jam into sterile jars and close the lids. Zucchini delicacy should gradually cool at room temperature. After complete cooling, the jam can be moved to storage in a cool place.

Fragrant amber jam can be served with tea, pancakes, pancakes or used as a filling for homemade cakes.