Gooseberry jam
Gooseberry jam with banana
This is my own recipe, which is based on standard recipes.[1][2] This is a tasty and handy recipe for when you haven't been able to harvest too many gooseberries and want to supplement them with banana.
Ingredients
- 500g gooseberries
- 350g banana
- 800g jam sugar
- Lemon juice
(adjust the quantities proportionally to the weight of the gooseberries)
Preparation
- Sterilise enough jam jars beforehand in a separate pan.
- Clean the gooseberries, remove the crowns, stalks etc. Bring to the boil in a pan with a little extra water.
- When the gooseberries have burst open, take the pan of the heat and pass the mixture through a sieve (optional, if you do not do this you will get a jam with more chunks).
- Cut the banana into thin slices and add these to the gooseberries, add the jam sugar and lemon juice and slowly bring to the boil. If necessary, you can use a masher or hand blender to get the banana smoother faster.
- Let the mixture boil for 5 to 10 minutes and pour it into the jam jars.