Grape Vine & Red Onion Jelly 🍇

Name: Grape Vine & Red Onion Jelly 🍇
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1.5 kg tart green seeded grapes; 1 large red onion; 1/2 cup sugar; 6 crab apples or 1 dessert apple chopped with skin and seeds

Sonia @sonia

Bristol, UK

This is a very soft set jelly, almost a relish really, because I used just some natural pectins (in the grape seeds and crab apples). My grapes are sour (not eating grapes at all) so this jelly is pretty tart/sharp which I like, I’m keeping it to serve on Boxing Day at Christmas with the cold cooked meats. You need seeded grapes here as the seeds a little bit of pectin to the juice which we add to with the use of apples. You also need a muslin cloth for this recipe. #wonkyautumn

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Ingredients

Stage 1
1.5 kgtart green seeded grapes
Stage 2
1large red onion
1/2 cupsugar
6crab apples or 1 dessert apple chopped with skin and seeds

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Steps

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I used grapes and crab apples from my garden for this recipe. Homegrown and beautiful ❤️
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In a large saucepan add your grapes and start to heat them up. My grapes were frozen so I cooked them until they were nice and soft (about 15 mins).
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Use a masher to release the juices from the grapes. Then pass the grapes through either a Muslim cloth or a fine sieve.
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Discard the grape seeds and skins after you’ve got all the juice from them. Rinse the saucepan and add the juice back into it.
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Add the sugar and heat the juice until the sugar dissolves. Then add the onions.
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Now add your apples to the muslin cloth. If you have crab apples then chop into quarters. Crab apples have more pectin than regular apples. Make a parcel and dip the muslin into the simmering hot grape juice and sugar. We want the pectin to infuse while the grape juice bubbles away, this will help the jelly to set.
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Allow the mixture to bubble away, stir it occasionally and use a wooden spoon to mash the crab apples inside the muslin.
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Eventually the mix will start to thicken as the water evaporates off. Keep going until the mix coats the back of a spoon in thick syrup. Skim off any scum and transfer into a sterile jar. You should have enough for one jar.

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Sonia @sonia

on September 15, 2020 14:28

Bristol, UK

I'm a busy, working mum of two young children and I love to cook! I particularly love cooking with fresh, natural produce. My recipes are usually simple and healthy; using minimal ingredients and minimal time!You can also follow me on Instagram here - https://www.instagram.com/sonianicholas_cookpaduk/