Delicious watermelon peel jam for the winter 🍉

Kitchen appliances and utensils: electric stove, sharp knife, cutting for vegetables, cutting board, kitchen scales and other measuring accessories, a large pan, a deep bowl, a wooden spoon, a fine grater.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. The crust remaining from the watermelon is cleaned of the remnants of red pulp and freed from the green skin.
   
2. Cut the peeled peels into pieces 1 cm thick and about 2.5-3 cm long.
   
3. Spread the sliced ​​product in a deep bowl and sprinkle 20 g of baking soda.
   
4. Mix the ingredients well, and then fill them with running cold water. The liquid should completely cover the watermelon peels. We leave the watermelon peels in this form at room temperature for 5-6 hours.
   
5. After this time, thoroughly rinse the slices of watermelon under a stream of cold water. Pour 1 liter of bottled water into a suitable pan.
   
6. Pour 1 kg of granulated sugar there. We send the pan with the contents to the fire and bring the liquid to a boil. We boil the syrup until sugar crystals are completely dissolved within 5-7 minutes from the moment of boiling.
   
7. Watermelon crusts are sent to boiling syrup. We are waiting for the boiling of the liquid again, after which we reduce the heat to low and cook the raw materials for 10 minutes.
   
8. Meanwhile, thoroughly wash the lemon and orange, then wipe them dry. Rub the zest of both citrus fruits on a fine grater. Try to avoid getting white pulp, otherwise the jam will be very bitter.
   
9. We send the grated zest to the pan to the crusts and squeeze the juice from half of the lemon there.
   
10. We boil the mass for 10-15 minutes, then turn off the stove and leave the contents of the pan under the lid for a day.
    
11. After a day, bring the mass to a boil, after which it is boiled for 15 minutes and again left at room temperature for another day.
    
12. We do the same on the third and fourth days: boil, boil for 15 minutes and leave for a day.
13. On the fifth day from the beginning of jam preparation, bring the mass to a boil, simmer over low heat for half an hour, and then allow to cool to room temperature.
    
14. We serve refreshments in beautiful glassware, optionally sprinkled with powdered sugar or boil jam again and pour into pre-sterilized jars. We roll the jars with lids and place the jam in a dark place, where we wrap the jars with a warm blanket. The next day, jam can be cleaned in a cool place to store.
    

Video recipe

This video will help you understand the simplest method for making jam based on watermelon peels according to the above recipe.