Recipes · inspired by Fruit Jam in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 8
Microwave Strawberry Jam
Fresh strawberry jam made in a bowl in the microwave in about ten minutes. No canning, no pectin.
- Ready in
- 11 min
- Then
- Thickens as it cools; keep in the fridge up to a week
- Ingredients
- 3
- Makes
- about 1/2 cup
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Small-batch jam is a great first jam: no jars to sterilize and done in minutes. It’s lovely on toast, scones or yogurt.
Make it a learning moment: fruit has a natural thickener called pectin. Lemon juice helps the pectin set, which is why jam turns thick when it cools.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids Mash the strawberries in a large microwave-safe bowl (big, because it bubbles up).
- Kids Stir in the sugar and lemon juice.
- Grown-up Microwave 2 minutes at a time, stirring between, for 6 to 8 minutes total, until thick and syrupy. It is very hot.
- Grown-up Let it cool. It thickens a lot as it cools. Spoon into a clean jar and keep it in the fridge.
