Easy Microwave Fig Jam

Name: Easy Microwave Fig Jam
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters diced fresh figs (6-10 figs, depending on the size of the figs); 118 milliliters seeded, peeled orange, diced; 355 milliliters sugar (reduce if you want, though it wont set as well); 2 teaspoons grated orange peel; 3 Tbsps lemon juice; 0 teaspoons ground ginger; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 0 teaspoons cinnamon; 1 teaspoons butter

Easy Microwave Fig Jam takes about 25 minutes from beginning to end. Watching your figure? This gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 108 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have figs, orange, cinnamon, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Plenty of people really liked this condiment.

Instructions

Macerate fruit in sugar:

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Fruit

Sugar

Place the ingredients in a large ceramic or glass bowl or casserole (we use a 2-quart pyrex measuring cup), stir to combine, let sit for 30 minutes for the fruit to macerate in the sugar.

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Fruit

Sugar

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Bowl

Place in microwave. You will cook the fruit mixture on the high setting for approximately 15 minutes.

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Fruit

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As soon as the mixture starts to boil, after about 6 to 8 minutes, stop the cooking and stir. Continue cooking and stir every few minutes.

At about 13 minutes the mixture should start to get viscous. If you spoon out a bit on to a small plate that has been in the freezer, you can push the mixture around a bit with your finger tip to see how thick it is.

If it is runny, cook it a couple minutes more. You can also check by seeing how the jam runs off of a spoon. If it seems to firm up a bit as it drips, it's done.

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Jam

If you use a large pyrex measuring cup as we have done here, you can see that you start with close to 3 cups of liquid. You want to boil it down to 2 cups.

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Pour into jars:

Pour out the jam into jars, leaving 1/4-inch of headroom from the top of the jars. If you want to keep your jam in a cupboard, then use sterilized jars (heat them in the oven at 200°F for 10 minutes). If you plan to eat up quickly and will keep them in the refrigerator, regular clean jars will do.

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Jam

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