Homemade Strawberry Jam Recipe / How to Make Strawberry Jam

I adore strawberries and i love jam..So when they are put together it is a win win situation. Strawberry jams are so versatile, because you can make them and have them handy. They can be added to milkshakes, tarts or even when you bake pies or jam bars. I love homemade jam a lot because you know what goes into it, plus it is preservatives free.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you..

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Resting Time : 2 hours or overnight

Cooking Time : 30 mins
Makes : 3 cups of jam

Ingredients:

Strawberries - 30 or 3 cups of chopped strawberries
Sugar - 1 cup
Lemon Juice - 1 tblspn

Method:

Wash strawberries well in water. Remove the stalk and chop them roughly.

Now measure the plums and add it to a sauce pan.

Add in sugar and mix well. Cover with a plate and leave it sit for 2 hours, you can put this in fridge overnight too.

Lots of water will come from strawberry this way.

Put a stainless steel plate in the freezer.

Now put the sauce pan on heat and keep mixing. Bring this to a boil and simmer for 10 mins.

The jam will be thick now.

Now take the plate out and drop a spoonful of juice in it. It will get thick and be like jam consistency. If it is still watery you can put it back on stove and cook for few more mins.

At this point you can turn off the heat and let the jam cool a little, add lemon juice and mix well. As the jam cools it will get thick.

Now put this in canning jar or regular sterlized jar and put in fridge.

Notes:

1)You can puree strawberries if you want too and make this preserve.

Pictorial:

Take some ripe juicy berries..

Remove the stalks and wash well

Chop them roughly and take it in a pan

Add in sugar

mix well

cover and leave it for 2 hours or put it in fridge overnight

Meanwhile put a plate in the freezer

Use a stainless plate if you can

Look at the water that the strawberries leached out

Now put it on heat and boil it for 10 mins or so

You will see it getting thicker

look how thick and jammy it is

Take the plate out of freezer, spoon some of the juices over the plate

leave it for 30 sec or so

you will be able to see the jam consistency

Now let the jam cool a little, as it cools it will
get even more thicker

squeeze in some lemon juice

I love the chunky jam a lot

enjoy

Comments

meera kabadi

January 10, 2015 at 12:51 pm

Aarthi I wanted to know which oven do you use for baking

ria

January 10, 2015 at 1:04 pm

Wonderful aarthi.....I have become your fangirl <3
Btw what is the shell life of this jam?

Catherine

January 10, 2015 at 7:26 pm

Strawberry jam certainly is a welcome treat. xo Catherine

Aarthi

January 11, 2015 at 4:22 am

@riaU can keep it for more than 2 months in fridge.

Aarthi

January 11, 2015 at 4:22 am

@meera kabadicheck this out
https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2014/03/meet-my-ovens-ovens-which-i-use-best.html

Deepika Chandar

March 14, 2015 at 9:24 pm

Can this be made sugar-free? My husband is diabetic and I would love to make this jam at home sans the sugar!

Aarthi

March 16, 2015 at 9:39 am

@Deepika Chandaru can use the sugar free which u use to make this

Ambika

July 24, 2015 at 10:57 am

Hi arthi
I love to give this home made jam to my 1year kid.. But what alternative I can use for sugar

Aarthi

July 25, 2015 at 4:12 am

@AmbikaIt is best to add sugar, you can add kalkandu too

Unknown

February 04, 2017 at 4:33 pm

hi Aarthi...lovely jam...waiting to make it...but if i need to store in aglass jar how do i sterilise the jars please...could you guide me on it. thanks

Divyajaikumar

March 11, 2018 at 6:34 pm

Lovely recipe made it today and it was a great hit.

Ruchi

February 22, 2020 at 8:23 am

This turned out delicious. Thank you Aarthi

Jim

April 22, 2021 at 9:39 pm

Nice and healthy strawberry jam recipe. wow!

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