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Preparation
30 minutes
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Processing
50 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Preserved fruit is one of the delicious dishes that cannot be missed during the Tet holiday. Let’s cook with Điện máy XANH to enrich your Tet preserved fruit menu with the delicious, chewy, and fragrant sweet and sour starfruit preserve!
Ingredients for Starfruit Preserve Serves 4 people
Sour starfruit 500 gr Granulated sugar 150 gr Lemon 1 piece Ginger 1 piece Salt 50 gr
How to choose fresh, delicious, high-quality starfruit
- Prioritize selecting starfruits that are just ripe with a uniform greenish-yellow color, attractive, meaning they are not too green or too ripe. Additionally, choose fruits that feel firm and heavy in hand.
- When buying, you can taste the starfruit and choose those with a gently sweet flavor accompanied by a distinctive aroma.
- Avoid purchasing starfruits that are soft, bruised, or have strange odors.
How to make Starfruit Preserve
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Prepare the starfruit
Cut off the ends and the edges of the starfruit. Next, slice the starfruit into medium-thick pieces so that they do not get mushy when cooked, then remove all the seeds.
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Soak and blanch the starfruit
Dilute 50g of coarse salt with lime juice, then add the cut starfruit and soak for 1 – 2 hours. After the soaking time is sufficient, take the starfruit out and rinse it well with water several times and let it drain.
Boil a pot of water and blanch the starfruit for about 30 seconds. After that, take the starfruit out and rinse it again with cold water and let it drain.
Tip: After blanching the starfruit, if it is still sour, place it on a cutting board and gently press to let the sour juice out.
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Cooked starfruit jam
After the starfruit has drained, you put the starfruit into a pot and mix evenly with 150g of granulated sugar, then let the starfruit marinate for 3 – 5 hours for the sugar to dissolve.
You place the starfruit pot on the stove and cook the jam on low heat for 25 – 30 minutes. While cooking the jam, you use a spoon to stir gently so that the jam does not break.
You cook the jam until the sugar water is almost gone, then add 1 chopped ginger root to the jam pot and stir well so that the ginger infuses into the starfruit, then continue to cook for another 10 – 15 minutes, until the jam turns a brownish color and the sugar is completely gone, then turn off the heat, let it cool, and store it in the refrigerator refrigerator.
Tip: Depending on your preference, you can cook the jam for an additional 5 – 10 minutes if you want to eat it a bit drier.
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Final product
The starfruit jam has an eye-catching brown color, appealing, with a perfectly balanced sweet and sour taste, and it is fragrant and easy to eat. Enjoy this starfruit jam with your family during Tet, and your whole family will surely love it!
Above is how to make starfruit jam that is sweet and sour, chewy and fragrant, sent to you by Dien May XANH. Hope you will successfully make starfruit jam to treat your family during Tet!
