How to cook apple jelly

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

It's summer now, it's time for various berries and fruits. At this time, it is highly recommended to stock up on vitamins, as their quantity is limited in winter. One of these fruits are apples. In almost every area you can find at least one apple tree. Apples have medicinal properties, they improve brain performance, normalize digestion and maintain blood cholesterol levels. Well, as without it, they increase immunity! In the summer, apples get bored, their sweet and sour taste begins to dream, and until winter, a person does not even come close to apples. But apples do not disappear, because this is a universal fruit! You can make jams, compotes and even jelly out of them! Apple jelly is a very gentle drink that is loved by both children and adults. Especially during the hot period, no one is averse to enjoying cool jelly. Consider one of the many recipes for apple jelly. It's actually very easy to make!

Ingredients

To make apple jelly we need:

• Apples. Depends on how many servings you want to cook and whatdrink concentration.
• Drinking water - 1 liter.
• Corn starch. Considering that you will prepare jelly from 0.5 kg of apples, then you need 50 grams of starch.
• Sugar - 100-150 grams depending on taste preferences.
• Any jam (optional).

Which apples to choose

For apple jelly, you can take, in principle, any fruit. The main thing is that they are not too sour. If we take, for example, the Antonovka apple variety, then they ripen only by autumn, until the end of summer they are sour and it is simply impossible to use them, unless, of course, you are a lover of sour. If there are no apples, then you can buy them in the market. In general, there are more vitamins in homemade fruits, everything is natural there. In the summer, you can often meet grandmothers in the market selling apples from their gardens, so it's better to take them.

Preparation of fruits

To make jelly, you must first prepare the apples. First of all, to clean them from dirt, they need to be washed with hot water, and then dried. The next step is to chop the apples. People have different preferences and tastes, so you need to rely only on them. It is better to remove the core, not everyone will like it if such a rough element comes across when using a tender jelly. If you want to take apples out of jelly with a spoon and eat them, enjoying the excellent taste, then you can cut the fruits into small cubes. You can also cut into large slices if you like to feel pieces of fruit in jelly.

Cooking jelly

Put the water on the fire, then wait until it boils. After boiling water, add apples. After 5 minutes, add sugar or jam and sugar. The fact is that jelly from apples without adding jam turns out to be white. This does not affect the taste in any way, but children may not like it. You can use dyes, of course, but it would be better if you add jam! Firstly, it will give a beautiful color, and secondly, a combination of flavors! It is best to use strawberry or blackberry jam, they go well with a fruit like an apple. After 10 minutes of boiling, you can remove the fruit from the resulting compote and rub it through a sieve. It is not necessary to do this, but it is this apple jelly that has a rich taste, and also looks more uniform and harmonious.

After rubbing the apples through a sieve, add them back to the compote. To make our jelly finally turn out, you should add a thickener to it, usually starch. The amount of starch used depends on your preference. If you like thicker jelly, then you need to use more. In order to add it to jelly, you first need to prepare the starch. It is required to take some kind of vessel where you need to quickly mix our starch with a small amount of cold water. After that, the already prepared solution can be added to apple jelly. You need to add in small portions with constant stirring. Now all that's left is to wait! We wait 5 minutes and turn off the fire. Stir thoroughly and let cool. By no meanslet it boil.

Hot or cold jelly?

You can drink jelly both hot and cold. In hot summer weather, a cold drink will save you from the heat with its unique and exquisite taste, and in a cold winter, a hot drink will warm you.

What can be added

In jelly you can add powdered sugar or whipped cream. It will look very beautiful, and the taste will be unique. You can also add marshmallow-type marshmallows, an excellent combination with jelly!

So let's summarize. We learned how to cook jelly from jam and starch, in fact, very few ingredients are required to prepare this forgotten, but very tasty drink. In front of such a jelly, no one can resist! The drink is a good source of vitamins, and it takes only 15-20 minutes to prepare! If you prepare apples in the summer, then you can pamper yourself and your family with jelly all year round!