Strawberry Jam

Ingredients:

Strawberries - 500 gm

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

Lemon (medium) -1

Lemon zest - 1/2 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Strawberries are hulled and chopped in to pieces.
2. Take a wide pan, add sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest (grated outer layer of lemon) together and cook under the low flame till the sugar dissolves.
3. Once the sugar is dissolved, add strawberry pieces and cook them for 10-15 min until the juices are oozed out from strawberries.
4. Continue to cook under low flame, until the strawberry mixture turns thick and jelly when touched.
5. Once the right consistency is attained, switch-off the flame and transfer in to airtight sterile jar and refrigerate immediately.

TIP: Glass jars are preferred to store the jam. Before transferring the contents in to jar, be sure that the container is sterile. Boil the jar and lid in hot water or heat it in oven at 250 degree F for 10 min.