Nightshade berry(Manathakkali in Tamizh) Jelly

We had a super harvest of Nightshade Berry Plant which is super medicinal and primarily its leaves and berries are used.  Green leaves cure mouth ulcer and stomach ailments.  Nightshade berries have quite a distinctive taste and generally green berries are soaked in sour yogurt with salt for 2-3 days and then sun dried.   Some berries ripened on the plant, they taste very good but yet a small taste of pungent remains.   It was end of last summer when we had the bumper crop, all of us These berries sat down to sort the ripened berries which was a laborious task.   I kept it in a freezer for 6 months and then while cleaning I was wondering how to use them up.   

We loved this jelly and definitely at par with blueberry jelly.

What you need?

Nightshade Berry/Manathakkali fruit 2 cups

Turbinado/Natural Sugar 1 cup

Pectin 3 Tbsp

How to make?

• Boil sugar with a cup of water in a medium sized saucepan.  Let the sugar boil and dissolve completely
• Add the berries to the boiled sugar and cook in simmer/low heat for about 25-30 mins
• It will leave out lot of juice, take half cup from the top without any pulp and let it cool, mix pectin until smooth.  Add this to the saucepan.  
• Mash the jelly with a masher, it might be still runny, turn off the stove.  It will come to jelly consistency once cold.