Unusual, very healthy green walnut jam! Try to make jam from nuts, surprise your family and friends with an unusual taste.
Despite all the difficulties of preparation, the jam turns out to be unusual, tasty and healthy!
COMPOSITION / INGREDIENTS
portion -10
Walnuts (green) – 2lb.
Water – 2l.
Sugar – 2lb.
Cooking time: 14 days
STEP 1:
You will need green walnuts. Very young milk nuts are ideal for jam.
STEP 2:
On the cut, they are white, it is clearly seen that the peel of the nut itself has not yet been formed.
STEP 3:
To make jam, we need a very simple set of products: nuts, sugar and water.
STEP 4:
Prepare nuts, this process takes quite a long time. Important! Wear gloves when handling nuts, otherwise there is a risk that your nails and hands will turn dark and take a long time to wash off. So, from each nut, cut off the tails on both sides.
STEP 5:
Take an awl, a knitting needle or a large needle and make many punctures in the nut. If the nut is pierced with difficulty, then this means that the peel has begun to form inside and such a fruit is not suitable for jam.
STEP 6:
Pierce all the nuts in this way (there may be splashes of juice, which will also darken in the future, so be careful).
STEP 7:
Soak the walnut in cold water. Now you need to soak it for 8-10 days, changing the water periodically. I soaked for 10 days, changed the water 3 times (morning, afternoon and evening).
STEP 8:
Every time after a few hours the water turns dark, this indicates that bitterness is coming out of the nuts. The nuts themselves, meanwhile, also gradually darken, as it should be.
STEP 9:
This is what the nuts look like on the ninth and tenth day of soaking. They became almost black. Drain the water from the nuts.
STEP 10:
Place the nuts in a small saucepan, cover with clean water and place over high heat. Wait for the moment of boiling, then reduce the fire to a minimum, cover the pan with a lid and cook the walnut for 3 hours. After an hour and a half, look under the lid and see if there is enough water or if it has partially boiled away. If there is little liquid, then add boiling water to the pan so that it covers all the fruits.
STEP 11:
When the nuts are cooked, they will become a solid black color, check with a toothpick for their readiness. The nut should easily pierce and even slide off the toothpick. Drain the rest of the water.
STEP 12:
Boil the syrup. Pour 1 liter of water into a clean saucepan, add sugar and send to the stove. After boiling, send the nuts to the syrup, lower the heat slightly and cook for 5 minutes. Next, remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool completely. It is best if the nuts stand for about 12 hours (so they are as nourished as possible with sweet syrup).
STEP 13:
Then bring the contents of the pan to a boil again and boil the jam for another 5 minutes. And then the same thing: cool, let it brew and repeat everything again 3-4 times. Each time the syrup will become thicker and the nuts sweeter. I boiled the jam 5 times.
STEP 14:
Ready! You can pour boiling jam into sterile jars and roll up for the winter.
Green walnuts contain a large amount of a substance such as juglone. This is a persistent natural dye, on the basis of which hair dyes are created. It is juglone that stains your hands dark brown and makes your nails dirty yellow after processing nuts.
It is almost impossible to track when the dye got on your hands, since it appears only after a couple of hours. Therefore, if possible, pierce the nuts with gloves. Be aware that there may be splashes and drops of juglone on your face or kitchen countertop.
Be healthy!
RECIPE PROVIDED BY Zhemchuzhina
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