Healthy Homemade Plum Marmalade

A simple, healthy and delicious sweet for the whole family. Plum marmalade will please everyone. It is moderately sweet with a very pleasant sourness. This marmalade can be safely given to children, since it contains only natural products.
cook time: 4h 45 min
Zoe Kendrick
Healthy Homemade Plum Marmalade

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

129
Calories
32g
Carbs

Ingredients (15 portions)

Basic:

Sugar (400 g — for marmalade, 70 g — for rolling) 470 g
Water (250 ml — for cooking plums, 70 ml — for pouring agar-agar) 320 ml
Plums 1 kg
Lemon acid 2.5 g
Agar-agar 10 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make marmalade from plums? To begin, prepare all the necessary ingredients. Choose ripe plums, without spoiled or rotten areas. Be careful when choosing agar-agar. Always check its composition. The composition should contain only agar-agar, without any additives, otherwise there is a high probability that the marmalade will not work. It is best to buy agar-agar in specialized confectionery stores.

Step 2

Step 2
Rinse the plums. Cut the plums in half and remove the pits.

Step 3

Step 3
Place the plums in a thick-bottomed saucepan or wok and pour 250 ml of water over them. Cook the plums over low heat until the fruits are completely softened for 20-30 minutes.

Step 4

Step 4
Once the fruits are soft, remove the pan from the heat, drain the water, and rub the plums through a sieve to make a puree.

Step 5

Step 5
Place the plum puree back into the pan, add 400 grams of sugar, citric acid and cook over low heat for another 30 minutes.

Step 6

Step 6
Pour agar-agar into a bowl or bowl and fill it with 100 ml of water at room temperature. Leave the agar-agar for 15 minutes to swell.

Step 7

Step 7
Cover the form in which you will make marmalade with parchment or cling film.

Step 8

Step 8
Pour the swollen agar-agar into the hot plum puree in a thin stream, while stirring it with a boat and cook for 3 minutes, without ceasing to stir.

Step 9

Step 9
The plum puree will bubble a lot.

Step 10

Step 10
Pour hot plum puree with agar-agar into a mold lined with parchment or cling film and leave it to cool at room temperature.

Step 11

Step 11
When the future marmalade has cooled completely, cover the mold with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for two hours. Cling film is needed to prevent the marmalade from absorbing refrigerator odors.

Step 12

Step 12
After two hours, remove the frozen marmalade from the refrigerator. All that remains is to roll the marmalade in sugar (can be replaced with powdered sugar). To do this, sprinkle the table, cutting board or other work surface with sugar. Place a layer of marmalade on the sugar, then turn it over to the other side.

Step 13

Step 13
Cut the marmalade into portions and roll each in sugar.

Step 14

Step 14
Marmalade can be served. Enjoy your tea!

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