Homemade Lemon Jam
Zesty, refreshing and fragrant lemon jam with three simple ingredients.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 1 small jar (200g) 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 lemons (3 of them for their zest, 1 of them to be chopped)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups extra water to boil lemons zest
Instructions
- Grate zest of 3 lemons into a small bowl. Make sure to grate only the yellow skin, not the white part underneath.
- Take one of those lemons and squeeze it to have 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- Chop one whole lemon (with the skin on) or slice it thinly into strips or rings.
- Put the zest and chopped lemon pieces in a pot.
- Pour 1 cup water over them. Bring it to boil over medium high heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- Strain and repeat this step one more time. The bitterness of lemon zest will be removed this way.
- Add sugar, lemon juice and 2 cups water over strained lemon zest in pot.
- Bring it to boil over medium low heat and let it simmer for about 30 minutes. It will be runny at this step but gets thicker as it cools down.
- Keep it in a jar.
Notes
These ingredients make about 200 g jam, so double or triple the ingredients if you want a larger amount.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 jar (200g)
- Calories: 620
- Sugar: 154 g
- Sodium: 22.7 mg
- Fat: 0.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 162.4 g
- Protein: 0.7 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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