Exotic jam from green walnuts: recipe

Who has ever tried jam from green walnuts, the recipe of which has come down to us from ancient times, says that this delicacy is just a fairy tale! And doctors say that there is no more dessert that is more useful in the amount of iodine. Let's try to cook this delicious dish. Do not be scared by the time it takes to complete the cooking process. This jam does not require much labor, as it seems at first glance. Just to fully prepare, nuts need a lot of time.

Jam from green walnuts: recipe classic
The ratio of products: green nuts - 100 pieces, sugar - 2 kg. Also cloves - about 20 buds, lemon. Cooking process:

1. Peel the nuts from the upper skin.
2. Place in cold water, which will need to be changed about 4 times a day. To sustain nuts in water two days.
3. Make lime water: slaked lime (pound) pour water (5 liters). Stir and insist for 4 hours. Through the cheesecloth strain this solution. Nuts get their clean water and put in the lime mortar. Periodically mix nuts. To sustain their day in the calcareous water.
4. Rinse the nuts. To make a delicious jam, you need to pierce each nut several times with a sharp object. After that, again soak them in cold water for two days.
5. Now take the nuts out of the water and put in boiling water for 10 minutes. Then discard it in a colander.
6. Prepare syrup, which will be cooked jam from green walnuts. Recipe for sugar syrup: combine sugar with two glasses of water, bring to a boil and remove the foam.
7. Put in a syrup a clove, a peel and juice of a lemon. Combine with nuts and boil. Repeat this cycle three times: bring the jam to a boil and remove from heat. Then cook until cooked until the nut becomes soft.
8. Pack ready jam from green walnuts in sterile jars.

Recipe without using a lime mortar

The very word "lime" causes some perplexity when it occurs in culinary recipes. If you have a desire to cook this jam, the recipe for an easier way of cooking will be to your liking:

1. Nuts in the stage of milk maturity (around June) are peeled to a white layer.
2. Soak in water (cold) 48-72 hours. The nuts will lighten slightly. Water should be changed frequently. For working women, you can offer this scheme: a couple of times in the morning and 3-4 times in the evening.
3. The recipe for jam from green walnuts requires this proportion: for a syrup take 1 glass of water and 600 g of sugar (based on 1 kg of already peeled nuts). Cook the syrup.
4. Nuts are immersed in boiling sugar syrup and are brought to the boiling point. Then we cool the jam. The recipe assumes that this process will be repeated until the jam is ready: that is, until the syrup turns into a drop of a fixed shape.

There are many ways to prepare jam from walnuts: Armenian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Bulgarian. But the taste of this delicacy is always excellent.