A variety of goodies can be prepared from summer strawberries.
For example, strawberry jelly. This is a very light and fantastically delicious dessert that can be enjoyed in both summer and winter.
It will take a minimum of time to cook, and even a beginner will cope with recipes. Ready strawberry jelly can be served with tea or used as a component of sweet pastries.
Strawberry jelly - general principles of preparation
The main component of the dessert is ripe strawberries. You can even use mashed and not very beautiful berries. Jelly assumes a homogeneous consistency, in which taste and aroma come first, rather than preserving the shape of the berries.
Strawberries need to be freed from green tails, washed with cold water and dried on a dry paper or cloth towel. Depending on the recipe, the berry is cut into slices, squeezed juice or used whole.
The essence of the recipe is extremely simple: mix the berry mass and juice with swollen gelatin. It is this component that gives the delicacy a characteristic consistency. Some recipes allow you to cook jelly without any gelatin. In this case, for thickening the mass, for example, natural apple pectin or agar agar is used.
Additional components of jelly are sugar, water. If jelly is prepared for the winter, sterile jars will be required. For sterilization, steam from boiling water or oven heat is used. You need to cool the sealed jars in the same way as any hot workpiece: turn down the lid, cover with a thick old blanket, blanket, fur coat, etc.
Strawberry Jelly "Pleasure"
The simplest traditional version of strawberry jelly does not require a large number of ingredients. The taste is amazing, the texture is tender with the inclusion of pieces of berry. And the aroma just drives crazy strawberry lovers!
Ingredients:
• three glasses of strawberries;
• a tablespoon of gelatin powder;
• half a glass of sugar;
• one and a half glasses of hot water;
• half a glass of cold boiling water.
Cooking method:
Pour gelatin powder with cold water and leave to swell for half an hour.
Wash, dry and split the strawberries in two.
Arrange half the whole berries in portioned bowls. Very large specimens can be cut into 2-4 parts.
Cut the other half of the strawberries into small pieces and squeeze the juice out of them.
Put the remaining pulp into a small saucepan.
Pour in hot water.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat and boil for about five minutes.
Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
Pour juice into it, add swollen gelatin and sugar.
Heat over low heat, avoiding boiling and stirring.
When the gelatin has dissolved, remove the solution from the heat and let it cool.
Pour the cooled juice over prepared portioned containers and refrigerate until the jelly solidifies.
When serving, remove the jelly from the bowl, turning it on a plate.
Garnish with mint leaves.
Strawberry Jelly "Winter's Tale"
It’s very easy to make strawberry jelly for the winter. It will take only three ingredients and a few cans.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of granulated sugar;
• kilogram of berries;
• twenty grams of gelatin.
Cooking method:
Put prepared berries in a glass or enamel bowl.
To fill up with sand.
Mash the strawberries and sugar with a crush.
Transfer to a saucepan and put on a slow fire.
When the strawberry juice boils, turn off the fire, remove the pan.
Wait for the mass to cool.
Repeat heating again and after the jam has boiled, remove it from the heat.
Soak gelatin with water according to instructions.
Heat the cooled berry mass a third time, put the swollen gelatin, mix everything and turn off the heat.
Without letting the jelly cool, put it in jars, seal and cool.
Strawberry Jelly "Love"
Fantastically gentle whipped strawberry jelly is one of the options for winter preparations. It is very easy to cook. In winter, such a jar can be brought as a small but very tasty presentation.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of strawberries;
• a glass of sugar;
• twenty grams of gelatin powder.
Cooking method:
Make mashed potatoes from berries.
Put the strawberry mass into the pan.
Fall asleep with sugar.
Add gelatin, mix.
Turn on a small fire.
Heat the mass, constantly stirring with a spoon to dissolve sugar and gelatin.
If foam forms on the surface, it must be removed.
After boiling, boil the jelly for about five minutes, stirring constantly.
Turn off the fire.
Pour jelly hot in jars.
In addition, hold in a water bath, cork and cool.
Store in the cold.
Winter strawberry jelly with apples
This variant of strawberry jelly is prepared without gelatin. To make the mass of the desired consistency, quite a lot of apples are added to it.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of strawberries;
• a pound of apples;
• kilogram of white sugar.
Cooking method:
Prepare strawberries in the usual way.
Wash apples, peel and core.
Puree berries and apples separately.
Mix berry and fruit puree, put in a pan.
Cover everything with sugar and heat over medium heat while stirring.
When the mixture boils, boil it over low heat until the jelly thickens. Stir constantly, so as not to burn.
Arrange the hot mass in jars, seal, cool.
Strawberry Jelly "Gourmand"
Not only fresh strawberries can become the basis of jelly. You can also prepare a treat from strawberry jam, if in winter you really want to treat yourself or your child with a wonderful treat.
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of strawberry jam;
• one hundred grams of sugar;
• three glasses of water;
• 25 grams of gelatin powder.
Cooking method:
Pour a portion of cold water into gelatin grains according to the instructions and leave alone for an hour.
Dilute a portion of jam with hot water, strain the resulting fruit juice.
Remove the berries on a plate.
Add sugar to the syrup, put on fire and wait for it to boil.
As soon as the syrup boils, remove it from the heat and cool a little.
Dissolve the swollen grains of gelatin on a fire, but do not allow to boil. Stir constantly so that the gelatin blooms better and does not burn.
Pour the gelatin solution into the syrup which has cooled down to 50 ° С, mix.
At the bottom of the molds put the strawberries from the jam and pour the gelatin mixture.
Put for several hours in the cold so that the gelatin freezes.
Put on serving plates, decorate and serve.
Strawberry Jelly "A Little Romance"
A pleasant romantic date is an occasion to prepare a special treat for your lover. You can, of course, serve fresh strawberries for champagne. But it is much more interesting to demonstrate not only your romance, but also a hint of culinary talent. In the end, all wise women know what the path to a man’s heart goes through.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of strawberries;
• slice of lemon;
• two tablespoons of sugar;
• a tablespoon of gelatin;
• a glass of brutus or semi-sweet champagne.
Cooking method:
Cut the washed and dried berries into large pieces, halves or quarters.
Sprinkle slices of berry juice with lemon wedges.
Fall asleep with sugar, leave for half an hour alone.
Soak gelatin in cold water and also leave for half an hour.
Mix the juice released from strawberries with gelatin in a saucepan, pour champagne and heat over low heat until the gelatin blooms.
Pour a little gelatin base onto the bottom of the pan or bowl and cool to solidification.
Spread strawberry slices over frozen jelly and pour over the remaining solution.
Put in the refrigerator for freezing.
Strawberry Jelly with agar agar
Gentle and very easy to make strawberry jelly - a gift for vegetarians. Instead of gelatin, a beautiful plant thickener agar-agar is used here. Sugar is not indicated in the recipe, but if it is not comfortable without it or the strawberries are acidic, you can add it to taste.
Ingredients:
• three hundred grams of strawberries;
• a teaspoon of agar-agar.
Cooking method:
Prepare strawberries, and then mashed with a conventional or submersible blender.
Pour agar-agar powder with water for half an hour, then dissolve on fire and boil for about ten minutes.
Pour agar-agar into the strawberry mass, mix.
If the jelly seems thick, you can add a little water to it.
Remove the jelly from the strawberries for half an hour in the refrigerator.
Serve the finished jelly, decorating it as desired.
Jelly from strawberries and raspberries "Summer duet"
It is very tasty to combine strawberries with other berries. A wonderful couple will be her garden girlfriend - raspberries.
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of strawberries;
• two hundred grams of raspberries;
• three tablespoons of white sugar;
• a generous tablespoon of gelatin (instant);
• two glasses of water.
Cooking method:
Bring the water to a boil, put clean berries in it and boil the compote for ten minutes.
Strain, leave the whole berries to set aside.
Add sugar to the broth, you can pour a spoonful of lemon juice for taste.
While stirring, dissolve the sugar.
Add gelatin immediately and dissolve it.
Seize the solution, pour into molds, adding whole berries.
Refrigerate for 3 hours.
Strawberry Jelly - Tips and Tricks
A wonderful, but modest-looking strawberry jelly requires a mandatory decor. You can decorate it not only with fresh mint leaves, but also with whipped cream, powdered sugar, slices of strawberries. Very tasty and unusual serving - put transparent slices of the most delicate cream cheese on top of the jelly.
Strawberry jelly prepared for the winter is a great idea for sweet sandwiches, toppings for cakes and pies. It is very tasty to add jelly to the cottage cheese, porridge or serve it with pancakes and pancakes.
To easily remove the jelly from the molds, the container needs to be immersed in hot water for just a few seconds, and then quickly turn it over to a serving plate.
