Apricot jam with coffee beans

Fruit jam with a very unusual taste. This apricot jam is prepared together with coffee beans. Coffee gives the dessert a slightly tart taste, but does not affect its color in any way. The jam remains a beautiful amber color. Many people are surprised by the unusual taste during tasting.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 3 % 1 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 97 % 36 g
151 kcal
GI: 17 / 0 / 83

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 10 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To make apricot jam with coffee beans, you will need: apricots, sugar, lemon, coffee beans.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the apricots, dry them, remove the seeds, and weigh them. Puree half of the apricots in a blender.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Chop the remaining apricots lightly.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash the lemon, dry it, squeeze out the juice.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Grind the coffee beans so that they reveal their flavor to a greater extent. A coffee grinder is not needed in this case, we do not need ground coffee. It is better to use an ordinary mortar to preserve small pieces of grains. Such grinding is necessary so that the jam does not acquire a brown coffee color during cooking.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Pour the crushed coffee onto a clean gauze folded in several layers. Make a pouch and tie a knot.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    In an enameled bowl where the jam will be cooked, combine the chopped apricots, apricot puree, sugar, lemon juice.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Mix everything well.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Place the coffee bag in the resulting fruit mass and leave on the table for 1.5 hours.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Put the fruit mass on the fire, bring to a boil. Simmer for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Drop the jam on a saucer, if the drop does not spread and holds its shape, the jam is ready.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Remove the jam from the fire, take out the bag of coffee.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    To preserve the jam until winter, it is necessary to sterilize a suitable jar and lid, lay out the jam and seal it tightly or roll it up. Store apricot jam in the refrigerator or in the cellar. If the dessert is planned to be consumed immediately, you can put it in a clean jar and close the usual lid. Store also in the refrigerator. Enjoy your meal!

The recipe for this jam at first caused me some doubt. Will you like the combination of apricots and coffee? But I decided to try. More than once I have been convinced by experience that often an unusual combination of ingredients gives an unusual, but delicious result. And in the case of this jam, too, I was not mistaken.
Dessert has a very delicate texture, light sourness and tartness.
To enhance the coffee taste and aroma, you can increase the amount of coffee to 4-5 tablespoons .
In my opinion, 3 tablespoons is quite enough.
If you don't like sourness, you can increase the weight of sugar to your liking.
Relatives and friends, whom I treated with jam, were surprised by the "mysterious" taste. Some did not even immediately determine that the dessert was prepared with coffee). But everyone definitely liked it.
Jam can be used as a filling for sweet pastries.
With the specified amount of ingredients, I got about 800 ml of jam.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lemon - 16   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Apricots - 46   kcal/100g
  • Canned apricots - 50   kcal/100g
  • Natural coffee, ground - 201   kcal/100g
  • Coffee - 94   kcal/100g

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