This is my recipe for jam with strawberries, chili, ginger, mint, vanilla, lemon, lime, pepper, cloves and star anise.
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Boil the berries for 5 minutes, add the vanilla sugar, stevia (or sugar) and pectin. Put the tea thingy with spices in there too. You can also add the vanilla stem and cinnamon stick for extra flavor, but you’ll have to remove these afterwards. Let it boil for a couple of minutes with all the ingredients added.
Ingredients:
- 2 kilograms of berries.
- 300 grams of stevia, alternatively 500 grams of sugar (choose the amount of stevia/sugar after your own taste).
- 1 red chili (with or without seeds)
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
- 1 vanilla pod
- 1 star anise
- 70 grams of pectin (I use one bag, 70 grams, plus a bit more so that the jam turns a bit firm – easier for kids to handle. Also the pectin that you buy in Norway isn’t 100% pectin, but contains sugar, pectin, citric acids etc.)
- a lump of ginger
- some pepper corns
- some cloves
- a cup of water
- a cup of sugar
- a handful of freshly chopped mint
- clean jars