Healthy Blackberry Jam
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Easy, healthy blackberry jam makes summer produce the star and keeps refined sugar on the sidelines.
Author: Big Sky, Little Kitchen
Makes: Approximately 1.5 pints
Ingredients
- 5 cups fresh blackberries (about 2½ pounds)
- ½ cup honey or 1 cup white sugar
Instructions
- Wash the blackberries well. Add all fruit to a medium-sized sauce pot (about 3 quarts is good). Add the honey (or white sugar if you're using it in place of the honey) to the pot. Stir to combine.
- Place the pot on medium to medium-low heat and simmer covered for about 10 minutes. (Stir to keep any bubbling down.) Remove the lid and allow the fruit to cook for another 20 minutes while you stir from time to time. Make sure the fruit doesn't scorch. If the fruit mixture looks too thin, keep cooking and monitoring regularly until it's a thicker consistency and most of the liquid has boiled off.
- Once the jam is gelling, transfer to a glass container to cool. Once cooled, store in the fridge.
Notes
If your jam isn't coming together at 30 minutes, this likely means you're cooking at too low a temperature. But don't give up! Keep cooking until most of the liquid has cooked off and you're left with a jam consistency to your fruit.
If you'd like, you can squeeze 2-3 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice into your blackberries at the start of your cooking, too.
If you'd like, you can squeeze 2-3 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice into your blackberries at the start of your cooking, too.
Recipe by Big Sky, Little Kitchen at https://www.bigskylittlekitchen.com/healthy-blackberry-jam/