Tomato Jam:Healthy Homemade Jam..No color No preservatives!!!

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Tomatoes are red, juicy and tasty. Tomatoes are the major dietary source of the antioxidant lycopene, which has been linked to many health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and cancer. 

Instead of using readymade jam with harmful preservatives and colours Lets make a simple and easy Jam recipe.

Today's recipe yummy tasty Jam using Tomatoes I bet ur kids will love it..😉

TOMATO JAM

Ingredients Required:

Tomatoes-4 nos

Ghee-2tsp

Jaggery/sugar-1cup

Vanilla essence-1tsp

Cardamon powder-1/2 tsp      

Step 1:

Take 4 ripe large tomatoes, wash and mark "x" on the back of the tomato with a knife and boil them in a pan of water for 5 min.

Step 2:

Drain the water and pour chilled water to the tomatoes, peel off the skin and add them to a mixer jar and blend smoothly into a puree.

Step 3:

Heat a pan on stove add 2tsp of ghee and add the tomato puree to it stir it for sometime till the raw smell vanish.

Step 4:

I have used Jaggery instead of sugar(if using sugar add it directly to the tomato puree)Dissolve the jaggery in small quanity of water and boil it and stain to remove impurities.

Step 5:

Add the Jaggery water/sugar into the tomato puree and allow it to boil well in medium flame. The mixture starts to thicken, stir the mixture continuously don't burn.

Step 6:

The mixture becomes thick at this stage add vanilla essence and cardamom powder mix well turn off the flame. Yummy homemade healthy jam is ready..!!

Serve with hot idly, dosa, roti, and chapatis. Jam can be stored in the refrigerator for a week. 😋