Gooseberry jam with orange: 16 simple recipes

Gooseberries are a tasty and healthy berry. Although not everyone likes fresh fruits, gooseberry jam with orange is simply doomed to success. This preparation exists in many variants, each of which is so tasty that it is sometimes difficult to decide on a particular recipe.

Rules for selecting and preparing berries and fruits

Before you start making gooseberry and orange jam, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with some of the features of the ingredients used. For jam, most often you need to take dense and elastic, even slightly unripe berries. They will perfectly retain their shape and will look very attractive in syrup.

But this type of jam is often prepared without heat treatment, thereby preserving all the beneficial substances and the seductive aroma of the fruit. In this case, it is better to choose fully ripe and sweet berries. They may even be slightly soft - this does not really matter: after all, the berries will still be crushed during the cooking process. It is important that they are free from signs of disease or other damage.

Gooseberry varieties can have different color shades:

• white;
• yellow;
• red;
• light green;
• almost black.

For some varieties of jam, it is necessary to use light green varieties; for others, dark varieties are more suitable, which will give the preparations a beautiful noble shade.

Almost any orange will do. It is only necessary to take into account that whole fruits are processed together with the peel - only seeds and white partitions must be removed, since they can impart a bitter taste to the finished products. Therefore, it is advisable to choose oranges without damage to the peel.

Almost any utensil for making gooseberry and orange jam is suitable: enamel, iron, copper, even food-grade plastic (for raw jams). It is not allowed to use only aluminum containers, since this metal can react with the acids contained in the fruits.

Preparing berries for jam:

• they are sorted through;
• cleaned of twigs and sepals;
• washed in water (or better yet, soaked in it for half an hour);
• dry on a towel.

Preparing oranges:

• scald with boiling water in its entirety;
• cut into 6–8 pieces;
• Carefully remove all the seeds and, if possible, the toughest white partitions.

If you decide to enrich the taste of the future jam with a variety of spices, then it is more convenient to put them in a small cloth bag, tie them and use them in this form when making dessert. Once the process is complete, the bag can be easily removed from the jam.

Gooseberry jam with orange for the winter: a classic recipe

Traditionally, jam is made from whole gooseberries, but in recent years, recipes using fruits minced in a meat grinder have become especially popular, since they are easier and quicker to prepare.

It is necessary to take into account the differences in their preparation:

• Whole berry jam, where sugar syrup is used, becomes thicker with increasing cooking time.
• Jam from pureed fruits and it is better not to cook the berries for a long time, since at a certain point it may lose its jelly structure.

Whole gooseberry jam with orange

• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 2 oranges;
• 1.5 kg sugar;
• 150 ml water.

Preparation:

1. Sugar syrup is prepared from water and the entire amount of sugar. Sugar must be added gradually, in small portions, as the water boils. The sugar should be completely dissolved in the syrup.
2. Gooseberries and oranges are prepared for cooking using the methods described above.Oranges can be cut into arbitrary pieces, but it is better that their size approximately corresponds to the size of gooseberries.
3. Place the berries in the boiling syrup and wait until it boils again. After which the jam must be removed from the stove (if it is electric) or simply turn off the heat and leave it in this form to infuse for several hours.
4. The jam is heated again to a boil, pieces of orange are placed in it, and it is cooked for 5-10 minutes.

    

   ​Attention! Do not forget to carefully remove all foam that forms, since its presence can harm the preservation of the jam in the future.
5. Turn off the heat again and allow the dessert to cool completely.
6. The third time, the jam is brought to a boil and cooked for 10 to 30 minutes until fully cooked. It is determined visually by the transparency of the syrup and gooseberries, as well as by the fact that the foam is concentrated mainly in the center of the container with jam, and not along the edges. You can determine the readiness of the jam by placing a drop on a cold plate. If after cooling it retains its shape, then the jam can be considered ready.
   
7. When hot, the jam is distributed into jars and rolled up for storage for the winter.

Gooseberry jam through a meat grinder

Such recipes have become especially popular in recent decades: the jam prepared using them is quite quick and turns out very tasty, although the appearance of the delicacy is more reminiscent of jam or jelly.

• 2 kg gooseberries;
• 5 fairly large oranges;
• 2.5 kg of sugar.

Preparation:

1. After standard preparation of the fruits, they must be passed through a meat grinder. It is not advisable to use a blender, since it may not cope with uniform grinding of dense peels.
   
2. Place the pureed fruits into a saucepan with a large bottom surface and not too high sides, while adding sugar in small portions. After creating a homogeneous mixture of fruit and sugar, set it aside for an hour or two.
3. After settling, the pan with the future jam is placed on moderate heat, the mixture is brought to a boil and cooked for about 20 minutes. During heating, it is necessary to monitor the jam and stir it periodically, and after boiling, remove the foam.
4. The jam is cooled, packaged in sterile jars and covered with plastic lids.

It is advisable to store it in a cool place.

“Five Minute” jam made from gooseberries and oranges

Instant jam is very popular in our age of fast-paced life and constantly busy people.

• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 3–4 oranges;
• 1.5 kg of sugar.

Preparation:

1. In the morning, the berries soaked in the evening should be strained through a colander and dried on a towel.
2. While the berries are drying, prepare the orange fruits for processing (scald, cut into pieces, remove the seeds and grind with a blender).
   
3. At the same time, prepare sugar syrup on the stove. 1.5 kg of sugar should be gradually dissolved in one glass of water.
4. After boiling and complete dissolution of sugar, carefully place gooseberries and pureed orange puree into the syrup.
5. Stirring carefully, bring to a boil and cook for exactly 5 minutes.

Gooseberries with orange, pureed with sugar

To prepare this dessert, it is advisable to select the ripest and most delicious gooseberries and oranges.

• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 4 oranges;
• 1.2–1.3 kg of sugar.

Preparation:

1. After the usual preparation, all fruits are crushed using a meat grinder or a powerful blender.
2. Add sugar to the puree in small portions and immediately mix everything thoroughly.
3. After obtaining a homogeneous mass, it is set aside to infuse at room temperature for 8–10 hours.
4. Place in sterile jars.

The preparation made according to the recipe for raw gooseberry and orange jam without cooking should be stored in the refrigerator.

Delicious gooseberry jam with lemon and orange

Considering the amazing health benefits of these two most common types of citrus fruits (oranges contain sugars and essential oils, lemons are rich in carotene, phosphorus, calcium salts, vitamins B and PP, and together they are high in vitamin C), jam from these components is often made without cooking . This allows you to enjoy all the rich composition of useful elements contained in three types of fruits.

• 1.5 kg gooseberries;
• 1 lemon;
• 2 oranges;
• 2.5 kg of sugar.

The manufacturing procedure is completely consistent with the previous recipe, with the only difference being that it is advisable to infuse the fruit mixture with sugar for up to 24 hours, stirring it occasionally with a wooden spoon.

If you want to make traditional jam from these ingredients, then you can use a jam recipe through a meat grinder, taking fruits, berries and sugar in the same proportions as for a raw dessert.

How to make gooseberry jam with bananas, oranges and spices

Lovers of spicy aromas will definitely appreciate the jam made according to such an attractive recipe. After all, banana will add an additional sweet note to the taste, and cinnamon and cloves will remind you of the aromas of the East.

Preparation:

1. 1 kg of prepared gooseberries and 2 oranges are passed through a meat grinder, and 2 peeled bananas are cut into pieces.
2. Mix the crushed fruits with 1 kg of sugar and leave for several hours.
   
3. Add 2 incomplete tsp to the fruit mixture. ground cinnamon and 8 buds of cloves.

    

   ​Note! It is better to add the cloves in a fabric bag so that you can easily remove it from the jam later.
4. Having combined all the ingredients, start cooking and after boiling, keep the jam on the fire for 17–20 minutes.
5. Immediately packaged hot into prepared sterile containers and covered with lids.

Gooseberry jam with orange and kiwi: recipe with photo

These fruits combine perfectly and enhance each other's flavor.

• 1 kg gooseberries;
• 4 oranges;
• 4 kiwis;
• 2 kg sugar.

Preparation:

1. Gooseberries are freed from stems, oranges from seeds and partitions, and kiwis from peels.
2. All fruits and berries are crushed using a meat grinder or blender, covered with sugar and set aside for a couple of hours.
   
3. Place the container with fruit puree over low heat, bring to a boil and set aside.
4. The second time it is cooked for 5–10 minutes, and the third time it is cooked until cooked within 15 minutes.

    

   ​Attention! Raw jam can easily be made from these same ingredients without cooking.
5. Distribute the jam into jars when it has cooled down.
   

How to make “Tsarskoe” jam from gooseberries and oranges

Classic Tsar's gooseberry jam is prepared according to a very labor-intensive recipe, where you need to take out the center of each berry and then replace it with a small piece of nut: walnut, hazelnut, pine or some other.

But no less tasty jam, which fully claims to be called royal, can be prepared according to a simplified recipe.

• 2 oranges;
• 1 kg of gooseberries;
• 200 g nuts;
• 1.2 kg sugar.

Preparation:

1. The orange pulp is separated from the seeds. Only the orange zest is separated from the skin and grated.

    

   ​Important! The white part of the orange peel is discarded.
2. Gooseberries, orange zest and pulp are crushed using a blender or meat grinder, covered with sugar and left for several hours.
3. Meanwhile, the nuts are chopped with a knife so that pieces remain and lightly fried in a frying pan without oil.
   
4. The fruit mixture is placed on the fire, brought to a boil, the foam is removed from it, and only then the roasted nuts are added.
5. The mixture with nuts is boiled for another 10–12 minutes, then placed in sterile jars and wrapped upside down for at least a day.

A simple recipe for “Emerald” jam from green gooseberries with orange

Emerald gooseberry jam is no less famous than royal gooseberry jam; moreover, it is believed that these are different names for the same jam. Emerald jam is called emerald jam due to the fact that exclusively unripe light green berries are used for its preparation.In addition, it is customary to add cherry leaves to preserve the emerald hue.

According to this recipe, it is customary to core gooseberries, but many do not do this.

Preparation:

1. About a dozen cherry leaves are mixed with 1 kg of processed gooseberries, poured with 2 glasses of water and left for 5-6 hours.
2. The gooseberries are drained in a colander, and syrup is boiled from the remaining water with leaves with the addition of 1.5 kg of sugar.
3. At the same time, prepare and chop 2 oranges.
4. When the sugar in the syrup is completely dissolved, remove the leaves from it, add gooseberries and chopped oranges.
5. Bring the jam to a boil, heat for 5 minutes and let it cool for about 3-4 hours.
6. Repeat this procedure three times, each time cooling the jam between cooking.
7. The last time, a dozen more fresh cherry and currant leaves are added to the jam and, after boiling for 5 minutes, poured into jars and closed for the winter.

Red gooseberry and orange jam

Due to the dark color of the gooseberries, the jam acquires a beautiful pink tint.

The recipe is very simple:

1. Grind 1 kg of red gooseberries and seedless pulp from two oranges using any method.
2. Mix with 1.2 kg of sugar and a bag of vanillin.
3. The zest is separated from the oranges using a fine grater and set aside for now.
4. Boil the fruit mixture for about 10 minutes, then add the zest and cook for another 10 minutes.

Extraordinary currant and gooseberry jam with orange

Both black and red currants are famous for their healing properties - which is why the most delicious, healthy and beautiful preparation from this assortment of berries and fruits is raw jam, which is not heat-treated.

You will need:

• 0.75 g gooseberries;
• 0.75 g of currants of any color, you can use a mixture of varieties;
• 2 oranges;
• 1.8 kg sugar.

Preparation:

1. Berries and oranges are cleaned of all unnecessary parts, crushed in a convenient way, mixed with sugar and infused at room conditions for about 12 hours.
2. Then the jam is put into jars and stored in a cool place.
   

Thick gooseberry and orange jam with gelatin

1. Pour 250 ml of water into a large saucepan, add 1000 g of sugar, bring to a boil and dissolve the sugar.
2. In the standard way, prepared oranges, cut into small pieces, and gooseberries are added to boiling syrup and boiled for 10 minutes.
3. Allow the jam to cool completely.
4. 100 g of gelatin is soaked in a small amount of water until it swells.
5. Add it to the cooled jam along with a few pinches of vanilla.
6. The mixture with gelatin is heated over low heat almost to a boil, but when the first bubbles appear, remove from the stove, quickly put into jars and cover with plastic or iron lids.

“Ruby dessert”, or cherry jam with gooseberries and orange

This beautiful and tasty jam is prepared simply and quickly.

1. Grind 500 g of gooseberries in a meat grinder, add 1 kg of sugar and bring to a boil.
2. 500 g of cherries are pitted, and 2 oranges are crushed and, after boiling, placed in a pan with gooseberries.
3. Boil for about 10 minutes and leave for a day to infuse.
   
4. The next day, the mixture is brought to a boil again, boiled for 10 minutes, cooled and placed in suitable jars.

Making gooseberry jam with oranges in a slow cooker

Using a multicooker, preparing jam is very quick and easy. Standard ingredients:

• 1 kg gooseberries;
• 2 oranges;
• 1.3 kg sugar.

The preparation of berries and fruits is also standard. Before cooking, they must be ground together with sugar using a blender and it is advisable to leave for several hours to dissolve the sugar.

In the multicooker, set the “baking” mode, place the mixture of fruits and berries in the bowl and turn on the device. The lid must not be closed. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for only 5 minutes. Hot jam is immediately rolled into jars.

Rules and terms for preserving orange gooseberry dessert

Most types of gooseberry and orange jam that have been cooked can be stored without refrigeration, but preferably in a dark and cool place. In such conditions they can survive for up to a year or more.

Raw jams without cooking are stored mainly in the refrigerator. In other cases, double the amount of sugar is added, which acts as a preservative.

Conclusion

Gooseberry and orange jam is a dessert that will appeal to both adults and children due to its harmonious taste and attractive aroma. And the variety of recipes for making it will allow everyone to find their favorite option.

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