2 ways to make delicious tomato jam, beautifully colored to treat guests on New Year’s Day

Every New Year to spring, every home has a tray of Tet jam with all kinds of jam, both to sip, to treat guests and to bring its own meaning to Tet. Let’s take a look at how to make delicious, simple tomato jam to start making right at your home!

Tomato jam is red

Tomato jam is red – which is a favorite color for many people because it brings a lot of luck, fortune and wealth in the new year . In addition, the beautiful red tomato jam also makes the family’s Tet jam tray more beautiful and eye-catching, but also brings wealth and fortune, so everyone loves this jam.

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Not only that, tomatoes also contain a lot of vitamin A, which is good for people with rickets, malnutrition, it helps to quench thirst, clear heat, and lycopene in tomato skin will be an effective anti-cancer agent.

With good health benefits and special meaning for Tet, why don’t we start making tomato jam right away!

How to make cherry tomato jam

Ingredient

Doing

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

After buying cherry tomatoes, you wash them several times under water to remove dirt and pesticides, then put them on a basket to drain.

Take a toothpick, you prick all over the tomato to help infuse the spices faster and more evenly . Then, mix in 1 tablespoon of salt in 1.5 liters of filtered water, you put all the tomatoes that have been soaked for 1 hour, then take them out and let them drain.

Step 2: Soak tomatoes with clear lime water

You put 1 tablespoon of lime in 1.5 liters of filtered water and stir until the lime dissolves into the water. You wait 15 minutes for the lime to settle to the bottom , only the water in the top, you filter out the residue.

Put cherry tomatoes in the clear lime water, soak for 6 hours to make the tomatoes crispy. Then take it out and let it dry.

Step 3: Cherry tomato slug

You mix the tomatoes with 300g of white granulated sugar and wait for 4-5 hours for the sugar to dissolve and penetrate the tomatoes.

Take the melted sugar water into the pan along with the tomatoes to conduct slugs. When you see the sugar water boiling, add 10ml of lemon juice to create more sour taste for the jam. Slug in low heat until you see the sugar and candied juice, turn off the stove, turn off the heat , turn off the heat and turn off the heat when you see the inside.

Step 4: Dry the tomatoes

Tomato jam after slug, although already delicious and edible, is still quite wet and sticky due to the sugar water. Therefore, to make jam more perfect you need to dry the jam. There are 3 simple ways to dry jam, that is to put it in the refrigerator until it dries, to dry it in an oven at 100 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes and finally to dry it in the sun.

After drying, put it in a jar and enjoy!

Finished product

Cherry tomato jam is clear, and has a beautiful red color. When eaten, the sweetness will quickly reach the tip of the tongue, making you satisfied. The jam is flexible, sour and mild, and you won’t feel bored when you eat it all the time. Guaranteed cherry tomato jam will contribute to making your Tet jam tray more beautiful and attractive.

How to make regular tomato jam

Ingredients for making regular tomato jam

• 1kg ripe red tomatoes
• 1kg sugar
• Lime powder

How to make regular tomato jam

Step 1: Prepare tomatoes

After buying tomatoes, you wash them and then use a knife to slit 6-8 grooves around the tomatoes without notching at the top and bottom of the tomato. Next, you put the tomatoes in the palm of your hand and then use force to squeeze the tomatoes out of the water and the seeds come out.

Step 2: Soak tomatoes with clear lime water

You put 1 tablespoon of lime in 1.5 liters of filtered water and stir until the lime dissolves into the water. You wait 15 minutes for the lime to settle to the bottom , only the water in the top, you filter out the residue. You put the sliced tomatoes soaked in clear lime water and then soak overnight to make the tomatoes more crispy.

Step 3: Tomato jam slug

1kg of tomatoes, you use 1kg of sugar . You put sugar in a pan or pot and soak the tomatoes with sugar until the sugar dissolves, then remove the slugs.

Put the above mixture in a pan over high heat until the mixture boils, then gently stir the jam. You slug until you see the candy sugar water again , then turn off the stove.

Then you let the tomatoes dry (about 1 time in the sun), then put them in a jar to preserve.

Finished product

Tomato jam has an extremely beautiful red color. When you try it, you will feel the natural sweet and sour taste, the jam is still very flexible. Always very flavorful and delicious. At the beginning of the year, just eat a piece of sweet jam, drink a cup of hot tea, nothing is more complete.

How to choose delicious tomatoes to make jam

Based on color : Delicious tomatoes are naturally ripe tomatoes, without using stimulants. Natural ripe tomatoes have a plump skin and a beautiful red color .

Choose tomatoes to hold firmly, not mushy : Ripe tomatoes when touching you will feel it a bit soft. When you cut the tomatoes out, you will see a ripe red, slightly powdery slide. The tomatoes soaked in medicine are very hard on the outside, when you peel them off, you can see the green seeds and hard intestines. You should also not choose tomatoes that are too mushy and soft.

Should choose tomatoes with fresh green stalks : When you use your hand to pull lightly, but the stalk is still attached to the fruit, it means that the tomato is delicious, the tomato is ripe.

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In addition, you can also tell if tomatoes are safe through the cooking process. The tomatoes that are ripe will quickly become soft, fragrant and have an extremely beautiful red berry color . Tomatoes soaked in medicine will be soft, odorless and pale in color.

Lime juice used to make jam will make the jam more supple and chewy. However, when handling lime water is not careful, it will make jam smelly, strong lime smell. So you should pay attention to wash thoroughly and thoroughly !

Tomato slugs should be kept on low heat so that the sugar can penetrate deeply into the jam, blend and taste better .

You should store tomato jam in the refrigerator or in a glass container to avoid spoilage .

Hopefully with the two delicious tomato jam recipes above will help you have a Tet jam tray with a beautiful tomato jam, everyone must admire and praise. Homemade jam will ensure safety, and also taste good. Good luck!

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