This Fresh Strawberry Jam is delicious on just about everything. It is really easy to make homemade strawberry jam sugar-free. It takes about ten minutes and four ingredients. When strawberries are in season and abundant it is worth it to make your own jam.
Fresh Strawberry Jam Sugar-Free, Low Carb, Keto, THM
I have enjoyed this jam with cottage cheese, waffles, coffee cake, and directly from the jar with a spoon. I still need to try it on top of vanilla ice cream and with shortbread cookies.
For a really special treat put a little on top of this no-bake strawberry cheesecake.
How to Make Strawberry Jam
The hardest part of this recipe is hulling the strawberries. I use a tiny paring knife, insert it a bit off center near the stem, and then turn the berry. The stem and hull come off all as one. The reason I suggest removing the hulls is that they are normally firm and flavorless.
How to Prep the Berries for Keto Jam
After hulling the berries give them a couple of good smashings with a potato masher. Just to get the juices flowing. After cooking and before chilling the jam will look like this:
Do I need to cook the jam?
Cook over medium heat until they are softened. Smash until no large pieces remain. Add the sweetener, lemon juice, and thickener. Transfer into jars. Store in the fridge and enjoy. Serve with toast, waffles, yogurt, cottage cheese, muffins, ice cream, just about anything.
I hope you enjoy this sugar-free strawberry jam! It’s great on my Classic Vanilla Waffles! Or on this Paleo And Keto Angel Food Cake.
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Ingredients
- 2 pounds fresh strawberries stems and hulls removed
- 1/4 cup Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet or my sweetener
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp glucomannan
Instructions
- Add strawberries to a small stockpot. Smash a bit with a potato masher to get the juices flowing.
- Cook strawberries over medium-low heat for 10 minutes or until softened. Smash until juicy with small pieces of strawberries.
- Add the other ingredients. Stir well and chill. This will thicken as it cools.
Notes
- Glucomannan is a thickening agent. If you prefer to sub in another thickening agent you may. Just add it according to its own directions.
- This jam freezes really well!
- This recipe makes about 1 1/2 pints of jam.
Nutrition
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Kenneth Cassell says
I gave a one-star rating since i have not tried it yet. I have two questions regarding the sweetener and the thickening agent:
1) Can i use a monk fruit sweetener as the sugar replacement?
2) Can i use a different thickening agent as long as it does the same job?
I look forward to your response and i also look forward to making the recipe and posting a new review.
Taryn says
1. Yes. You may need a little more. This is easy to just taste and sweeten as you go especially since the sweetness of the berries can vary.
2. Yes, whichever thickening agent you like would be fine.
P.S. One-star ratings really hurt a blogger. It is better to just leave the stars blank when you haven’t tried it yet. Hope you like it!
Kim says
Would this recipe work with wild plum juice?
Thank you!
Kim
Taryn says
I’m not sure, sorry!
Kanwal says
May I use xanthan gum instead of glucomannan?
Taryn says
Yes
Brenda says
I made this with half blue berries and half strawberries. Tasted delicious except I used regular Sure Jell didn’t thicken very well we ate it anyway. Then bought Sure Jell for less sugar or sugar free jams and jellies that worked great. Best recipe I have tried. Thank you again
Brenda says
I am making this now using 1 lb. strawberries and 1 lb. blueberries mixed. Can’t wait for the out come. Thank you for the recipe.
Emily says
Love this recipe, I added more lemon and it turned out great. Question though, how is there only 2g of sugar? Is that counting the natural sugars in strawberries? Thanks!
Taryn says
That is for one serving which equals 2 oz of strawberries before cooking. Strawberries have one gram of natural sugar per ounce.
Cindy says
If you want a very intense strawberry taste and naturally sweeter but also include sweetner is roasting your strawberries on parchment paper on a cookie tray…at about 400F till they soften then transfer to a pot using other ingredients to finish….i learned this ages ago what a difference…great for making strawberry icecream to
brenda s crum says
Trying this now thank you
Peg says
Oh my gosh!!! So good, so easy. This on top of your cheesecakes is heavenly.
Kim says
This is an S or E either one, right? Or, is it a fuel pull?
Taryn says
Fuel pull. So you can enjoy it with S or E recipes 🙂
Deborah G Jones says
Great
Deborah G Jones says
It is a very easy recipe ,it is low carb & it is gluten free. It is DELICIOUS
Christina says
Can I use trivia and how much? Thank You
Taryn says
Yes, Truvia should work. You would use the same amount.
Teresa says
How many pints of strawberries does it take to make the 2 pounds?
Taryn says
It would be 4 pints (blueberries are normally in this size) but strawberries are more commonly sold in 1 pound containers.
Laura says
Can you use pectin instead as a thickener?
Taryn says
I have not tried but don’t why it wouldn’t work.
Janica says
Is there an alternative for the glucomannan? I’m not sure what it is or where to get it.
Taryn says
Hi Janica,
It is a thickening agent. You can easily find it online. I order from Amazon. You can sub in another thickener of your choice.
Leslie says
I may have missed it, but how many jars did this make?
Taryn says
Hi Leslie, this makes about 3 small half-pint jars of jam.
Sharon says
I make this a lot! I freeze it in pint jars, and when my youngest son comes to visit he takes a cooler back filled with this strawberry jam! He puts it on sugar free cheesecake! I like to eat it from the jar!
Heather says
Hi, I was going to try raspberry jam with your sugar mix and sure gel, is that what the glucomman is a thickener?
Taryn says
Yes, the glucomannan is the thickener.
Patti says
Will this recipe work for blackberries too? How long will it last in the fridge?
Taryn says
Yes. It lasts 2-3 weeks and you can freeze it.
Bonnie says
A trick for hulling the berries….use a straw. You can use the form plastic ones that come with cups or just basic ones. You just cut the tops off and plow the straw through. It comes out the other end and you just slip the hull out the end of he straw. Sooo much faster! 🙂
Lisa Reade says
Do you know if this recipe can be frozen only? I’m looking for a jam that can be canned. Thanks!
Taryn says
I have not canned jam before but I don’t see why this couldn’t work.
Cara says
I just made a batch of this and it is very yummy! I did have to add extra homemade gentle sweet blend as our berries are a bit sour this year. I look forward to trying it out in the morning! Thank you for sharing!
Betty Whitmer says
Have you ever made this with Blueberries instead. I’m a blueberry person or peach. I like to eat Strawberries but don’t like them in a jam or jelly. 🙁
Taryn says
Not yet. Any berry should work 🙂
Betty Whitmer says
Would you please let me know if you try the blueberries. THANKS
Corrie says
any thoughts/success on freezing?
Taryn says
This freezes well 🙂
Karen says
Do you think you could freeze this? Just wondering how the consistency would be when it thaws out.
Taryn says
Yes, I have frozen it. The consistency is fine when thawed.
Tracy says
Could you make this with frozen strawberries?
Taryn says
Yes, just make sure they are ripe and sweet. 🙂