Excellent recipe to make Orange Jam at home , it is undoubtedly one of the most chosen fruits when preparing these sweets. It is also ideal to make a certain quantity and thus have it packaged for the winter, they are delicious for breakfast and snacks as well as to use in desserts.

Maybe we have already tried it on a few occasions and maybe we find it a bit difficult to prepare jam, or maybe it hasn’t turned out well at all. Below we will see some tips or advice to keep in mind:

Tips or Advice

• Make sure that the oranges that we are going to use should not be too green or too ripe . If it is very ripe it will lack Pectin, which will result in jams that are not very thick and difficult to use. Furthermore, if we can get very juicy oranges, the results will be optimal.
• Sugar is the other fundamental ingredient because it acts as a preservative. Therefore, we should not excessively lower the proportion to be used in accordance with the amount of oranges . Otherwise, it will result in a jam that is too liquid and has little body.
• The exact cooking point that will indicate that the jam is ready is when a thick drop falls from the spatula and slides heavily.

Below we will see a simple and easy recipe to prepare homemade jam, with its two fundamental basic ingredients and the entire procedure to follow to obtain exquisite sweets:

Ingredients

• 5kg of oranges
• 1 kg. of sugar

Let us remember that the amount of orange is reduced by removing the peels and the white part inside the skin, in the end we will obtain 3 kg. of jam approximately.