Remember that time of childhood, when in a kindergarten or at school they gave a tasty gelatinous drink called kissel. And it was also more delicious prepared by my mother or my beloved grandmother. But, unfortunately, over time this wonderful dessert began to be forgotten. Many children do not even know about the existence of jelly, as not every mother pleases her baby with such a wonderful treat. We suggest correcting the current situation and immediately prepare for your family a delicious kissel of berries with the addition of starch, and we will show you how to make it right.
The recipe for jelly from fresh berries and starch
Ingredients:
- berries of cranberries - 250 g;
- berries of black currant - 250 g;
- granulated sugar - 320 g;
- potato starch - 1/2 st;
- water - 2 liters.
Preparation
From the extra twigs and tails we release the washed berries. In order for our jelly to turn out to be really tasty, rich and useful, we take a crush and crush her berries a little, so that their protective shell bursts and they let the juice. We move it all into a pan, pour it with clean, drinking water and put it on the included cooking plate. When the water with the berries reach the boiling point, let them puff for five minutes. Then through a strainer strain the brewed berry compote, pour it into the same (already washed) pan and send it back to the stove again.
In order to know how to make sure that your kissel from berries was good and tasty, you need to correctly enter starch. Therefore, we fill it with a glass of warm water and, stirring, dissolve the starch in it.
In the boiling berry water we pour out the sugar, stir and begin to slowly infuse the diluted potato starch. After two minutes of boiling kissel, remove it from the fire.
The recipe for jelly with starch from frozen berries
Ingredients:
- berries frozen blackberries - 300 g;
- berries of frozen raspberries - 300 g;
- fine sugar - 220 g;
- water - 2.5 liters;
- starch (potato) - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Berries of blackberries and raspberries at room temperature it is better not to defrost, as they do not have a dense protective shell, but it is better to do it in a microwave oven on the "Defrost" mode. Then put them in a saucepan, previously draining the defrosted water and pour them cold, drinking water. We put everything on the stove and cook berries as a regular compote. We cover the colander with gauze folded in two layers and pour into it a ready berry compote. The edges of the gauze are picked up, we collect them with a bag and squeeze the liquid from the brewed blackberry and raspberries to the total strained volume. The resulting compote of a rich, bright color is placed on the burning burner. From the volume of the boiling liquid, we cast 2/3 of the glass and dissolve all the starch. When boiling, add sugar and mix it well until dissolved. Next, without stopping to interfere with compote neatly, slowly infuse dissolved starch and get a kissel.
Kissel from berries and dried fruits with starch
Ingredients:
- potato starch 4.5 tbsp. spoons;
- fresh berries (cherry) - 350 g;
- dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes) - each of 100 g;
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
- water - 2.8 liters.
Preparation
Dried apricots and prunes with steep boiling water and let them stand for about 20 minutes. Then merge the liquid from them and transfer the dried fruits to the pot with fresh cherries. Fill the contents of saucepan 2,5
Spilling this kind of kissel, we put on the bottom of a glass of berries and dried fruits, and the rest of the space is filled with a gelatinous mass.