AHHHHH THIS STUFF IS SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!! So at Lonely Mountain Farm, Amy always made tomato jam and I was sooo curious so I decided to make some here! I used sun gold tomatoes (because they’re like candy crack) and the recipe was super simple! I’ll leave the recipe that I believe is/would be perfect after making it today!

Time: 2 hours? I don’t really know!

Ingredients:

- 2-3 lbs sun gold tomatoes, halved

- 1/4 cup lemon juice, or however much you deem fit to your amount of tomatoes

- a (large) pinch of red pepper flakes (THIS IS ONLY IF YOU WANT SOME HEAT IN YOUR JAM)

- 2ish tablespoons of basil

- IF YOU WANT 1 cup of sugar (helps add sweetness and thickness)

Directions:

1. Wash tomatoes (if you got them from the market, if you got them from the garden like I did a little dirt never hurt nobody) and slice them in half

2. Put the pot on low heat to let the juices out (the recipe I used over a cup of sugar which, I think, made the jam a HINT too sweet) and bring it to a low boil for 1 hour

3. Add red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and basil and continue boiling down until the mixture feels and is visibly thick

And that’s basically it! I don’t want to put a time on this because I feel like this is such a simple recipe that it depends on the person making it! One addition that I think would be DELICIOUS and I’ll definitely be adding to my next batch is ~JALEPENOS~ because the sweetness of the sungolds is so bright it would be perfectly balanced with some spice!

I also canned the majority of the jam, which was way easier than I’d anticipated! I got all the directions here, just make sure you’ve got all the stuff you need for the canning process! If you do it properly the canned good will last around a year in the can which is DOPE! 

This recipe could likely be used with all types of tomatoes, just make sure to look into how much moisture to keep in the recipe or it’ll take way longer to boil down!

Stay curious and happy- cooking?