Homemade Strawberry Jam

Preparation of strawberry jam at @home is very easy. Using only 4 ingredients you can prepare a fresh and healthy jam. Its always good to have a food which doesn't contain food color and preservatives. Give it a try and get back to me with your comments.

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh strawberries, finely chopped
1 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp unsalted butter

How To Prepare?

• Wash and chop the strawberries into tiny cubes.Mix strawberries and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Cover a plate and place it in the fridge overnight.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

                                                                       

• Next day, heat thick bottomed kadai/pan. Pour strawberries, their juices and any residual sugary thick syrup found at the bottom of the vessel into a hot pan/kadai. Keep the flame in medium and keep stirring so that all the sugar melts.Bring the mixture to a boil.Now add lemon juice and mix it well.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Reduce the flame and let it boil till it reaches setting point.
• How to check setting point?

           method 1: Place a drop of the jam on the cold plate. After few seconds push the jam with your  finger. If the jam surface wrinkles then it has reached a setting point. if it slides as water then it has to be boiled for few more minutes until it reaches a setting point.
           method 2 : touch the jam with your forefinger .Now touch your thumb and forefinger together and pull apart gently. If a string forms and quickly breaks then you have reached setting point. 

• Switch off the flame. Add butter to the jam and mix well.
  

                          
                                       

• Now keep the jam in kadai/pan for 5-10 mins. After it cools down store it in a clean glass container.
  

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