Quick Chia Strawberry Jam Recipe (Paleo & Vegan)

This speedy and easy 3 constituent chia strawberry jam look is packed pinch fruity goodness…all without sweetener aliases pectin! It’s healthy, easy and truthful delicious dispersed connected toast successful nan greeting pinch a cup of beverage aliases coffee.

I distinctly retrieve a clip arsenic a very young girl, erstwhile I ate an half a jar of my grandmother’s homemade jam each to myself. With a spoon. Berry jam recipes person ever been a favourite dainty of excavation and successful immoderate ways my eventual comfortableness food.

Of course, I don’t find each nan elemental carbohydrates successful jam recipes very comforting. In fact, eating jam connected toast tin incorporate arsenic overmuch sweetener arsenic a portion of pie! Plus, without immoderate patient fats aliases macromolecule it’s basically a humor sweetener disaster waiting to happen.

Thankfully I recovered a measurement to bask caller jam without getting statement for nan humor sweetener roller coaster. It’s stacked pinch patient fats. It has zero added sweetener (not moreover earthy sweeteners). Enter: my chia seed jam recipe.

Why I emotion this recipe:

• This chia strawberry jam look uses chia seeds to thicken nan consequence puree to create a texture truthful akin to jelly without pectin and without sugar.
• It doesn’t person immoderate added sweetener and nan chia seeds adhd successful patient fats to mitigate humor sweetener spikes from nan fruit!
• This look is ace speedy and easy to make. Regular jams tin return a while and beryllium analyzable pinch each nan different steps. The chia seeds make thickening this jam ace accelerated and simple!
• This jam tin beryllium utilized successful truthful galore nosy ways! Enjoy it connected gluten-free toast, connected apical of paleo oatmeal or drizzle connected dairy-free crystal cream for a treat!

Chia Strawberry Jam Recipe Tips:

• When you navigator down and mash nan berries it’s up to you really heavy aliases pureed you want your jam. If you want much heavy chunks of berry conscionable usage a fork to mash it roughly. If you for illustration a soft puree, you a instrumentality blender to puree it.
• The chia seeds are a important portion of this recipe and cannot beryllium substituted.
• You tin substitute immoderate different berries successful spot of strawberries for this recipe. I for illustration to usage stiff fruit for illustration blueberries, strawberries and raspberries for this recipe, because freezing causes nan compartment walls to rupture starring to a overmuch softer fruit. However, you tin usage caller fruit, conscionable navigator it down well.
• This jam will past astir a week successful nan refrigerator. The citrus juice helps to sphere it longer, but since it’s each earthy and doesn’t person added preservatives it won’t past arsenic agelong arsenic shop bought jams.

How to Make this Chia Strawberry Jam Recipe:

First stitchery your 3 ingredients including berries, chia seeds and lemon.

Add nan berries to a saucepan and cover.

Cook connected mean power stirring occasionally for astir 14 minutes.

Use a fork to mash into a heavy puree past region from heat.

Add nan chia seeds to nan consequence puree and stir.

Then adhd successful nan citrus juice and stir.

Let it beryllium for astir 15 minutes for it to thicken and gel.

Let cool and shop successful nan refrigerator.

This look was primitively published successful February of 2017 but has beryllium republished successful March of 2019 to see updated photos. Recipe by Ashley Sauve, photography by Hannah Healy. 

Ashley Sauvé

Ashley Sauvé is nan Toronto-based Certified Nutritionist and Wellness Chef down AshleySauvé Health. Her areas of expertise include: women's wellness and hormone balancing diets, eating for autoimmunity, anti-inflammatory diets, gluten-free living, elimination/hypoallergenic diets, weight nonaccomplishment and metabolic balance, eating for power and immunity and ancestral nutrition.