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Plum and Dark Chocolate Jam
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Ingredients
- 2 kilograms of ripe halved plums (you can chop them up finely if you don't like chunky jam)
- Half of a vanilla bean
- 300 grams of sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 150 grams of dark chocolate (she uses Lindt Excellence 85% cocoa dark chocolate)
- 1 tablespoon rum
- 1 tablespoon good quality cocoa powder
Steps
- Preheat your oven to 390F / 200 Celsius. Put your washed and dried plums into a dutch oven (or any larger oven safe deep dish), sprinkle it with cinnamon, half the sugar, add in the ½ of a vanilla bean and rum. Mix it and bake uncovered for 50 minutes. Stir it every 10 to 15 minutes. After it's baked, if you used a dutch oven just transfer it to the stove, if not, then transfer everything to a big enough pot. Take the vanilla bean out (tip: let it dry out and reuse it to make vanilla sugar, just put in in a container with plain sugar and let it rest closed for a few days. Voilà, you have delicious vanilla sugar for baking).
- Turn the heat on to medium high heat, add in the rest of the sugar and the cocoa powder. Let it simmer and reduce for an hour, hour and a half. You can do the freezer trick to check if it's done. Put a bit of jam onto a plate, stick it in a freezer for 2 minutes and if it develops a film/crust on top, it's done. Once you've reached that stage, finely chop up the chocolate and stir it into the hot jam. Store hot in sterilized jars and let it cool, it's best eaten after resting for 12 hours.
- Once a jar is opened, keep it in the fridge until eaten and we recommend using smaller jars to store it. Can be stored for months in darker, cool places (or the fridge) if properly canned in glass jars!