Simple Tomato Jam Recipe
Simple Tomato Jam Recipe idea. When your garden gives you excess tomatoes, make jam or jelly with ginger and lemon juice and store to use.
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 40 min
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: jam, jelly, condiments
- Method: Stove top No Bake
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 kilogram (2 lbs.)of tomatoes (cherry or other)
- 750 grams (3 3/4 cups)of white or brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of ginger
- 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice.
Instructions
- Obtain the tomato and ginger, wash and clean the tomatoes.
- With a blender blend the whole cherry tomatoes with skin on until fine. (with this way you will not need to peel the tomatoes)
- Crush the ginger finely, or use some ginger liquid. Juice the lemon for some juice to be added to the liquid.
- With a pot on the stove top add the blended tomatoes, sugar and the half teaspoon of crushed ginger (or liquid) and 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice. Stir only to mix the sugar.
- Bring all these ingredients to the boil and do not stir the mixture again as it will cool down the jam liquid and it will take longer to set.
- Leave to boil until the jam has got thicker and gels quickly. Test on a cool plate to see if it sets quickly, then it is ready.
- Sterilize the glass bottles for you to add the cooler jam into. Seal and store on shelf for use.
- The opened tomato jam should be placed in the fridge until finished.
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