Home Canning Recipes for Beginners

This homemade raspberry puree is a delicious sauce spooned over desserts or a stack of breakfast pancakes. Use it right away, freeze it, or process in a water bath canner for a shelf stable product.

This spiced pear butter captures the flavor of autumn in a jar. Process the jars in a boiling water bath to make them shelf stable, or simply refrigerate the fruit spread and use it up - or give it as a gift - within a couple of weeks.

This homemade strawberry puree is a perfect sauce for spooning over desserts or a stack of breakfast pancakes. Use it right away or process in a water bath canner for a shelf stable product.

This fruit-forward nectarine jam is an excellent addition to your pantry! Tasting the flavor of summertime in mid-winter? Winning!

This easy recipe is a fun way to save the summertime flavor of juicy blueberries. Use it for pie, scoop some onto yogurt, or spoon some over brie cheese for an easy but elegant appetizer.

Pickling banana peppers maintains their crispness and adds the tangy bite of vinegar, making them a great condiment to have on hand for a variety of recipes and meals.

This lightly spiced rhubarb jam has a hint of ginger and cardamom for a little something different on your morning toast!

If you've got an abundance of late summer grapes, consider canning them! It's an easy way to preserve them for adding to fruit or chicken salads all year long.

This sunny and bright orange jelly is a great addition to the pantry. Serve it on toast or use it to baste grilled chicken for a pop of flavor.

This homemade raspberry jam has a lower sugar content than some recipes. The addition of fresh apricots gives the finished product a fresh, sunny flavor.

These easy pickled peppers are a great addition to a well-stocked pantry. They're sweet and tangy and delicious!

This easy marmalade recipe can be used like any of your favorite jam recipes as a topping for toast. But this delicious recipe is also great as a glaze for grilled meats or stirred into marinades.

This recipe for candied jalapeno peppers calls for water bath canning to make a shelf stable product. Alternatively, you can just pop them in the fridge for adding to recipes.

It's not likely you'll find this delicious jam at grocery stores! Making loquat jam at home allows you to turn this unique fruit into a flavorful fruit spread.

This easy jam recipe turns persimmons into a delicious spiced spread with the flavors of fall. This lower sugar recipe means the flavor of the fruit will shine through!

Delicious homemade peach preserves is easy to make for the pantry and it's much less expensive than store-bought jam or preserves.

Making ginger pear preserves is a delicious way to capture the flavor of fall in a jar. Keep some in your pantry and wrap some jars for gift giving.

This homemade applesauce recipe doesn't require any measuring at all. Eat it fresh or try canning applesauce to stock your pantry. It's like pie in a jar!

The flavor of this easy strawberry rhubarb jam far exceeds what you can pick up in grocery stores. In fact, this particular flavor is hard to find commercially! Consider making a few batches so you can give jars of jam as gifts.

The old-fashioned flavor of plum jam is one that is hard to find in stores. Making your own is EASY and a great way to preserve the harvest!

These pickled green beans are a great way to preserve a summer harvest for the winter pantry. They’re crisp, delicious, and perfect for snacking.

This salsa recipe for canning is a great way for me to preserve not only the tomatoes, but peppers and onions from the garden, too. I use canned salsa to cap off taco night and as a homegrown ingredient for my chili.

Even if you don’t have ripe grapes on hand, you can whip up a batch of jelly. This grape jelly recipe can be made even in the winter with this little trick.

This homemade strawberry jam recipe is easy for beginners, sweetened with honey, and you'll be able to savor the goodness of garden fresh berries all year long! 

If you're lucky enough to have an abundance of fresh peaches, set some aside to make a batch of peach butter. You can opt to preserve this for the pantry, or simply store in the fridge for topping your breakfast toast, pancakes, or ice cream.

This zucchini relish recipe is a favorite around here. It's good on burgers, but excellent for mixing into potato salad or egg salad, too.

Making this apple butter recipe in the slow cooker is an easy shortcut. Assemble the ingredients and let it cook overnight, and you’ll be ready to start canning first thing in the morning.

This is a fairly new addition to my canning recipes repertoire, but it’s become a must! Tomatoes, peppers, and spices blend to make a zingy topping.

Save those end-of-season green tomatoes to make chow chow. Yes, it's a funny name, but it's delicious and gives a tangy zip to sandwiches and is great for stirring into egg salad.

Mangoes are something I can forage for here. No mangoes? No reason you can’t substitute peaches.

This watermelon rind relish recipe is a great way to use watermelon rinds for a knock-off old fashioned hamburger relish! A no-waste recipe for good food!

Otherwise known as passion fruit, liliko‘i is Mother Nature’s answer to a SweeTart. The first sour bite of a liliko‘i will jangle all the way back to your jawbone.

Preserve the flavors of summer with this recipe for canned peaches; the addition of chai spices makes these a little extra special.

Canning nectarines with fresh ginger and blueberries gives them a flavorful pop! It's an easy way to preserve the flavor of summertime nectarines.

This ketchup recipe for canning starts with tamarillos (aka tree tomatoes), which are often abundant in warmer regions, but you can also use tomatoes.