This ginger jam is a refreshingly sweet and spicy jam. It goes well with slightly savory options, like crackers and cheese, with baked carrots and sweet potato, and pretty much anywhere you need a hint of spicy sweetness. It’s also quick and easy to make with a beautiful golden orange color.
While jam is traditionally made with fruit, sugar, and pectin, this tasty ginger jam is a bit different. With a spicy and sweet flavor profile, the only fruit in this jam is lemon juice for the pectin. If you prefer a more fruity jam, orange marmalade is a great option for winter jam making.
This jam is great stirred into tea, to add a hint of spice and sweetness. It was actually traditional, in Russia, to use jam as a tea sweetener, and this one is perfect for that. It reminds me a bit more of a chutney, and seems to go better when paired with savory sides like cheese, yogurt, or even as a bbq sauce alternative.
Ginger is a great immune boosting herb, and it even helps turmeric’s anti inflammatory affect. This lemon, ginger, turmeric tea is a good tea blend for immune boosting, and anti-inflammatory benefits. It’s a personal go-to after exercise, to help reduce muscle soreness.
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Ginger Jam
- Yield: 4 cups 1x
Description
A sweet and spicy jam that is perfect with savory dishes.
Ingredients
- 2 cups grated ginger
- 2 cups water
- Juice and zest from 2 lemons
- 2 cups sugar
- ¼ teaspoon butter
Instructions
- Wash, peel, and grate ginger into fine threads. Peeling ginger is easiest with the edge of a spoon. Place ginger into a heavy bottomed 2 quart saucepan.
- Add water, lemon juice and zest. Stir in sugar until it is fully dissolved.
- Put pan over medium heat and bring to a rapid boil. Add butter to prevent foaming. Cook till jam reaches 220°F on a candy thermometer.
- Remove from heat and skim off any foam, until the surface of the jam is clear.
- Spoon into sanitized jars. Cover with 2 part lids. Seal jars in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Remove from boiling water bath and allow to cool completely. Label and date.
Ginger Jam
Yield: 4 cups
- 2 cups grated ginger
- 2 cups water
- Juice and zest from 2 lemons
- 2 cups sugar
- ¼ teaspoon butter
Directions:
Wash, peel, and grate ginger into fine threads. Peeling ginger is easiest with the edge of a spoon. Place ginger into a heavy bottomed 2 quart saucepan.
Add water, lemon juice and zest. Stir in sugar until it is fully dissolved.
Put pan over medium heat and bring to a rapid boil. Add butter to prevent foaming. Cook till jam reaches 220°F on a candy thermometer.
Remove from heat and skim off any foam, until the surface of the jam is clear.
Spoon into sanitized jars. Cover with 2 part lids. Seal jars in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Remove from boiling water bath and allow to cool completely. Label and date.
Other Things to Make with Ginger:
Ginger is a versatile cooking and medicinal herb that has a wide range of uses and functions. Gingerale is one of the more well known ginger drinks, that you can make at home. This naturally fermented one is refreshing, and good for brewing in summer or winter.
Another drink that is refreshing with ginger, is this honey ginger switchel for summer enjoyment. Switchel is a drink best served cold, and it’s refershing and beneficial for summer rehdration.
Cookies with ginger are another traditional and fun way to use ginger. These gingerbread pizzelles are a light after dinner option, and are great with tea too. They’d be great rolled up when soft and filled with a spoonful of the ginger jam. This maple ginger cookie is also a great variation on using ginger in cookies. Either of these cookies are so good, you can’t eat just one.
If motion sickness is a concern, this simple candied ginger is great to make. You can carry candied ginger on a plane, in the car with you, or keep it in your first aid kit or herbal cupboard. Unlike ginger jam, candied ginger doesn’t have any restrictions on the fluid ounce size for airline travel!
A hot drink to chase away iffy feeling and colds, this hot ginger toddy is a great winter pick me up. It is one of my personal favorite winter drinks, and one of my go-tos when I start feeling overly run down or even the slightest bit under the weather..
Ginger for Colds and Flu
If you want more ways to use ginger for your health and wellness this little e-book, “Using Ginger for Cold and Flu Relief” is for you. When you feel unwell, ginger might be as close as your kitchen spice cupboard. Ginger is a superb and easy to find herb that can increase circulation, aid digestion, and relieve many symptoms of the common cold or the flu. If you need an herbal remedy for cold and flu season and you need it right now, Ginger, will meet you where you are at.
Grab my FREE ebook, “Using Ginger for Cold and Flu Relief” and get the help you need tonight. Ginger is a broad spectrum herbal friend, and we can always use more of it around. Tonight mix up one of the above easy ginger drinks for quick relief of the aches and pains, sore throat, and the general unwell feelings from the common cold.
Tastes great but I added a box of Pectin to it. Is there a reason that you do not add pectin?
Just wondering.
i thought the ginger will be a little overpowering and then grated 3 red apples with skin on and mix it with the ginger and its a Beautiful taste j