Enjoy this family favorite blend of green tomatoes and blueberries! This will blow up flavor in your mouth!
Great Aunt Thelma’s Blueberry & Green Tomato Jam
Enjoy this family recipe submitted by Linda C. from Kings Mountain and is part of the 2013 Our State’s Blueberry Recipe Collection sponsored by the North Carolina Blueberry Council. This recipe along with 44 others are available for on this page!
- 5 cups fresh blueberries
- 4 large green tomatoes
- 5 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 3 packages fruit pectin (1.75 ounce (i.e. Sure-Jell®))
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspn lemon zest
- 2 teaspn cinammon
- 1/2 teaspn nutmeg
- Pulse the blueberries and chopped tomato in a blender or food processor until mixture is mostly smooth.
- Cook blueberry mixture, sugar, and 1½ cups water in a Dutch oven over medium heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved.
- Stir in fruit pectin.
- Add the remaining ingredients.
- Bring to a boil; cook, stirring constantly, 5 minutes or until mixture is thickened.
- Pour hot mixture into hot pint jars, filling to ¼ inch from top. Remove any air bubbles and wipe any jam from the jar
rims. - Cover immediately with metal lids, and screw on the jar bands.
- Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes.