Got leftover wine? Make jam out of it

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the food lovers of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: to make today: make jam from your leftover red wine.

The last meatball from yesterday goes on a sandwich, a leftover piece of fruit goes into a smoothie, and the leftovers from the cheese platter can all go on a pizza. And what can you do with a little leftover wine? Hopsa, also the jam in. Really: this is how you make delicious jam with a little wine from yesterday.

 
INGREDIENTS
1 part wine
2 parts sugar
2 parts fruit

Some readers will now look very surprised at their screen: huh, leftover wine? Does that exist? They always drink the bottle completely empty and that is of course, in the context of food waste and so on, very good. But it can really happen that you still have wine left in the bottle. If that sits on your counter for a few days, it really isn't nice to pour with meals anymore, so what should you do with it? In a stew it is of course always gold, and stewed pears don't just get their color, but there are more possibilities to elegantly get rid of that wine. For example: make jam.

A monkey can do it
Making jam yourself sounds very homely and it is. And easy, because even a monkey could do this. To make jam with wine, you also need red fruit. Red currants, strawberries, plums, blueberries, elderberries or blackberries, it doesn't matter, whatever you have lying around. And if the stock is completely gone, take a box or a bag frozen fruit with you, because that works just fine.

This is how you make jam with red wine

• Mix the sugar and the wine in a pan with a thick bottom. Bring that to a boil and let it reduce to half the volume.
• Add the fruit. Let it boil until the berries burst open and the fruit becomes soft. Let it simmer until your jam starts to thicken. Testing if your jam is ready? Put a drop on a plate and let it cool. If it's thick and jam-like, then you're done.
• Puree the jam if you don't like jam with large pieces of fruit in it.
• Pour your warm jam into perfectly clean jars (let them float in boiling water for a while). Screw the lid on and place the jars upside down to cool.
• This jam is really delicious on a cheese platter or with some charcuterie, but if you want to spread it on your croissant in the morning, we won't say anything about that.