Strawberry Blueberry Jam

I cannot believe that the last time I had posted something here was 2.7 years back. When I started this blog about a decade back, I had thought I will post daily. How life has changed since then. While my last post was when my little one was 2.4 years old, now he is 20 days shy of 5 years, these 5 years passed in the wink of an eye.

I tried this recipe at the request of my almost 5-year-old and it was an instant hit. He wanted to eat a PB&J sandwich with homemade Strawberry Jam, and we were approaching the end of Strawberry season. ‘A’ went to hunt for strawberries and could not find any, so we gave up and thought of making Mango jam instead. I went vegetable shopping the next weekend and to my delight I found some strawberries with the vendor. Little ‘R’ was with me, there were fresh blueberries at the store too, he wanted both strawberries and blueberries. So, I got both and made a Strawberry Blueberry jam and we all loved it.

Ingredients:

Fresh strawberries – 500 gms

Fresh blueberries – 200 gms

Sugar – ¾ th cup

Juice of one Lime

Method:

Powder the Sugar and set aside

Wash the berries clean and chop them up

Add the juice of one lime to the berries

Mix the sugar and the berries, make sure all the berries are coated well in the sugar

Cover and set aside, at least for an hour

Boil water in a deep pan and soak the glass jar where you want to store your jam to sterilize, once you put the glass jar and the lid in the water, lower the heat, you can switch it off as well

Heat a thick bottomed pan

Pour the mixture into the pan and keep stirring on medium flame

It takes about 30 minutes for the jam to come to the right consistency

Do a saucer test, pour a little bit of jam on a saucer, and tilt it, if the jam does not leave a water trail, it is done

Take out the sterilized glass jar from hot water, pour the water out and store the jam in it, use a funnel if possible, it will make sure the jar is clean from the edges. I did not have a funnel hence mine look a little messy around the edges

Put the lid on once the jam has cooled down a bit

Store it in the fridge, it can be stored for 6 months or more if every time a moisture free clean spoon is used to take out the jam

Enjoy!