Cherry jelly: cooking recipes

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

In Russia, jelly was prepared more than a thousand years ago. True, then for this they used mainly grain or flour. Only a few centuries later, this drink became the way it is used to seeing today. The product began to be prepared from berries and fruits, which made it even more tasty and fragrant. Cherry jelly is still very popular to this day. There are many recipes for its preparation. For example, consider some of them.

Easy option

The easiest way to make cherry jelly is based on juice. This greatly simplifies the process and makes it less labor intensive. To work, you will need the following ingredients: per liter of concentrated cherry juice 100-120 grams of sugar and a couple of tablespoons of potato starch.

The process is carried out in three stages:

1. First, pour the juice into a saucepan and bring to a boil over the fire.
2. Separately, in a regular glass, dilute starch with warm water. The mixture should not have lumps, as subsequently they will no longer be able to dissolve.
3. Gently in a thin stream, add the composition to the boiling juice and, continuing to stir for 3-4 minutes, waitproduct thickening. No more cooking. Otherwise, it will, on the contrary, become liquid.

You can use such cherry jelly both cold and hot. In both cases, the taste of the drink will be equally pleasant: a combination of unique aroma and light natural sourness. Such a product is sure to please anyone who wants to try it.

Healing decoction

Many housewives do not even suspect that cherry jelly is not just a pleasant soft drink. Along with this, it has properties that are extremely beneficial for the human body:

1. The viscous consistency of the product gently envelops the walls of the stomach from the inside. This helps people who have an ulcer or gastritis to extinguish inflammation and cope with unpleasant pain.
2. It helps maintain beneficial microflora in the stomach, which prevents dysbacteriosis.
3. With its help, vitamins and minerals contained in berries easily get inside and have their beneficial effect. Such a drink is very good to drink in winter or spring, when there is a clear lack of these elements.
4. Kissel cleanses the body, removing toxins and harmful heavy metals from it.
5. It promotes good stomach function. If you drink a glass of this drink with a meal, you can avoid unwanted overeating.

Knowing all these tricks, you can save yourself from many he alth problems with the help of the most common product.

From dried raw materials

There is one morean option with which you can cook jelly from cherries. The recipe differs only in the main ingredient. In this case, dried berries are used. For a drink of the usual consistency, you will need: for 1 liter of water, 3 tablespoons of starch and a glass of sugar.

In this case, you must do the following:

1. Pour the washed berries with cold water and cook until they soften properly.
2. Wipe the mixture by squeezing it through gauze.
3. Dilute potato starch in 200 milliliters of water, and then pour it into a boiling mixture in a thin stream.

Now the product should only be poured into glasses and put on the table to cool. To make cherry jelly based on berries in your own juice, the recipe does not need to be completely changed. It just needs to be sugar free. Sweet filling will be enough. In principle, this can already be determined at the very first stage and, if necessary, bring the concentration to the desired value.

Product ratio

According to technology, it is supposed to cook jelly from cherries with starch. This component is no less important than the berries themselves. After all, it is with its help that you can achieve the desired consistency of the finished product. A good housewife must know the generally accepted ratios so as not to spoil the prepared drink.

In this case, the amount of starch is taken per 1 liter of water or other liquid:

• for drinking product– 1 tablespoon (possible with a slide);
• for liquid jelly of medium consistency - 2 tablespoons;
• for a semi-thick drink - 3 tablespoons;
• for a very thick product - 4 spoons;
• for jelly, which is more like jelly, - 5 spoons.

Knowing these proportions, you can determine in advance how much fruit broth is needed and how much water you need to take just to dissolve the starch. In addition, it must be remembered that after combining the two solutions, the color of the finished product itself also changes. It becomes more juicy and pronounced.

For the little ones

Frozen cherry jelly turns out pretty good. It can even be prepared for small children in the second year of life. To prepare the drink, you will need the following components: 0.5 l of water per glass of frozen cherry berries, as well as a tablespoon of sugar and starch.

Here the cooking process should be carried out a little differently:

1. First you need to boil water, and then pour berries and sugar into it, then wait literally 5 minutes.
2. Starch shake well with water. After that, it must be slowly poured into the boiling mass.
3. Stirring continuously, wait until the product thickens completely.
4. Cold the drink.

Now you can pour it into a cup and give it to your child.

Perfect

But it's best to cook jelly from fresh cherries. Moreover, the berries from the drink can not be removed. Everything is done very simply. For workyou will need: for a glass of ripe cherries, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 0.5 liters of water and 1.5 tablespoons of starch.

Sequence of actions:

1. First of all, the berries must be washed, and then the seeds removed from them. If this is not done, then the product will have a peculiar aftertaste.
2. Pour cold water into a saucepan and put it on the stove.
3. Starch diluted with water until smooth (no lumps).
4. Pour sugar into boiling water and put prepared berries.
5. Let the food cook for literally 3 minutes.
6. Constantly stirring the food, slowly introduce the dissolved starch.
7. Wait until the jelly thickens normally and turn off the fire.

After cooling, the drink can be poured into cups or glasses and drunk with pleasure. Such a product will have a pleasant enveloping taste, and the addition of berries will turn it into a real dessert.