Homemade Red Plum Jam [No Pectin]

Homemade Red Plum Jam with No Added Pectin

Homemade Red Plum Jam recipe with no added pectin. This is a small batch that you can use for breakfast or over appetizer like crackers & cheese. Best Jam ever:)

Course Dessert

Cuisine Albanian, Mediterranean

Keyword Homemade Jam, Jam, Red Plum Jam

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 45

Total Time 1 5

Servings tablespoons

Calories 60kcal

Author Sonila

Ingredients

2 lbs red plums
1 cup sugar
2 tbsps lemon juice freshly squeezed
1 tsp lemon zest
1.5 cups water make it 2 cups if you like the jam to be a bit runny and not too thick

Instructions

Wash the plums, remove the seeds and then chop them. Add to the pot.
Add water to chopped plums, turn heat on high. Add sugar and mix slowly until all sugar has dissolved. Once water has started to boil, stop stirring. Add lemon juice and lemon zest.
Lower temperature to medium. A foam might form, but you don't have to remove it. It will get absorbed again into the jam mixture. After about 20 minutes lower temperature to low. Cover and let it simmer for another 25 minutes. By then jam should be thick, still a bit runny and as it chills it should really set.
Let it cool in the pot. Once cool enough to handle, use a ladle to pour over a glass jar (sterilize the glass jar before hand in a pot of boiling water). Cover the jar and store in the refrigerator. Enjoy it over toast or any dessert of choice!

Notes

If using black plums (like in my video), than I suggest adding the sugar over the chopped plums and let the plums absorb the sugar for about 15 minutes or so, then boil.
You can use an orange instead of lemon too.

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