Recipe: Home Made Strawberry Jam (No Refined Sugar, No Pectin)
Although far gone are the pre-school days where I’d have a blackberry jam sandwich for lunch every day, every now and again I do love some strawberry jam, particularly on protein pancakes. The one thing that always bugged me about it was refined sugar being the main ingredient, and it generally only containing 40% strawberries! 1 tbsp usually gives you a whopping 9.9g of mostly processed sugar.
Strawberries are already sweet enough, so I decided to have a few goes at whipping up a batch of jam. This is the recipe I have decided I liked the best so I wanted to share it. The natural sugar provides more than a bunch of sweetness, and only has 1.45g of sugar per table spoon, plus it stores in the fridge just perfectly. Next time I’m making a much larger batch to create 2-3 jars to store in the fridge.
The goal after that is to make them with strawberries I’ve grown myself with the plants I just bought haha.
Home Made Strawberry Jam (No Refined Sugar, No Pectin)
Ingredients
Instructions
- Loosely chop strawberries (removing tops) to accurately measure in a measuring cup
- Place all ingredients into a saucepan and heat on a very low temperature until the strawberries are soft (this should only take 2-3mins)
- Place the entire mixture into a blender or food processor and blend (or just pulse). I made mine smooth, but in another attempt I made a ‘thicker’ batch, either works well
- Pour mixture back into the saucepan on the lowest heat possible
- Allow the mixture to simmer, and then keep an eye on the stove and stir the mix regularly
- It will start to thicken, and if you don’t stir it every 5 or so minutes it will stick to the bottom of the saucepan
- It will need to cook for around an hour on the lowest heat with occasional stirring
- You’ll know it’s ready when the mixture stays separated for 2 seconds when you run a wooden spoon or a spatula through it
- Once this happens remove and allow to cool before placing in a jar of choice - the mixture will continue to thicken in the fridge
- Store in the fridge (serve after it has cooled for approximately 2 hours. I photographed mine before it was fully cooled)
Nutrition Facts
Calories
10Fat (grams)
0.1 gCarbs (grams)
2.4 gProtein (grams)
0.2 g
