Pea jelly: recipe, cooking secret

Kissel, cooked from peas, is a traditional Ukrainian dish. It is a dish, not a drink, as is commonly believed in Russia. Pea jelly is boiled, cut into cubes, as it resembles jelly, and served for afternoon tea or dinner. A variety of gravy is served to the dish, or simply watered with oil. Amazing food that is original in its presentation and unusual appearance.

Pea jelly: some secrets of cooking

Modern man is not used to such a dish. But a few decades ago it was ordinary food, which was often served in fasting. It was at this time that the traders took to the streets with trays on which was laid kissel, poured with vegetable oil.

For the recipe for pea jelly, dried peas or ready-made pea flour are used. So leave fresh legumes for another dish. Here are some important recommendations that will allow you to properly prepare a traditional Ukrainian dish:

1. For cooking, it is better to take chopped peas.
2. Kissel needs to be cooked over low heat, stirring constantly, so that it does not stick to the walls of the pot.
3. Often when removing jelly from the molds, he hardly leaves his "settled" place. The result is breaking. To make the process go smoothly, before turning the mold with jelly for several seconds, lower it into hot water.

Classic jelly recipe

Surprise your loved ones, cook pea jelly. For the dish you will need:

• 200 grams of half peas;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• 3 onions;
• 500 ml of purified drinking water;
• vegetable oil.

How to cook a dish so unusual for the present?

1. Peas are spread in a blender bowl or coffee grinder. Beans are crushed to a state of flour.
2. Combine the flour with a small amount of water, stir so that there are no lumps.
3. 500 ml of water is boiled on a stove. As soon as bubbles appear on the surface, the diluted flour is poured into the water.
4. Cook the contents of the saucepan for 20 minutes, stirring frequently. To salt.
5. As time passes, still hot peas are poured into deep forms. Leave the dish to cool and solidify.
6. Onions are cleaned, cut into thin rings.
7. Lean oil is poured onto a hot pan. After that, onion rings are laid out on it. Fry the vegetable, stirring constantly, until golden brown.
8. As soon as the pea jelly hardens, the form with it is turned on a flat dish, carefully removing the jelly.
9. On top of each formed dish spread the fried onions.

A quick recipe for a multicooker

The recipe for pea jelly for a slow cooker was created for those who do not like to spend time near the stove. The dish is prepared quickly, but it turns out very tasty.

For jelly in a slow cooker you will need:

• drinking water - 0.5 liters;
• pea flour - 200 grams;
• sesame oil - 50 ml;
• sea ​​salt - half a teaspoon;
• a pinch of sugar;
• onion - 1 pc.

Recipe for pea jelly (with photo):

1. A bowl of multicookers is smeared with sesame oil, not forgetting about the bottom and its walls.
2. Pour flour.
3. The specified amount of water is poured into a flour in a thin stream, stirring. Then mix the flour with a plastic whisk or a special spoon for a multicooker so that there are no lumps. Salt.
4. Leave the mass to stand for 5 minutes.
5. After 5 minutes, close the slow cooker. Set the mode "Buckwheat / Rice / Porridge / Stew", depending on the model of the device.
6. As soon as the microwave signals the end of the process, the finished jelly is poured over the molds and left to cool.
7. And while the jelly cools and hardens, peel the onion and cut into rings.
8. Sesame seed oil is heated in a pan. Fry onion rings on it, adding a pinch of sugar and salt. As soon as the onion softens and becomes golden, it is removed from the heat.
9. The frozen jelly is carefully removed from the molds by placing it on a flat dish. And on top of the put onion rings.

Pea jelly recipe made from pea flour with unusual gravy

Ingredients for Kissel:

• pea flour - 100 grams;
• butter - 20 grams;
• water - 300 ml;
• Flavourless vegetable oil and spices.

For gravy:

• jerky moose (another type of meat is possible) - 100 grams;
• dry white wine - 30 ml;
• 2 onions;
• vegetable oil - 100 ml.

The dish is prepared like this:

1. Combine the flour with a small amount of water to make a liquid slurry.
2. The remaining water is boiled with butter and salt. Once it boils, add diluted flour and boil until thick.
3. Hot jelly is poured into the mold and left to harden.
4. Peel onions, fry in oil.
5. The meat is cut into thin strips and sent to the onion in a pan.
6. They add wine and let the alcohol evaporate.
7. Remove the frozen jelly from the mold, pour over hot gravy.

Kissel with a piquant note

Lovers sharpen this recipe for pea jelly.

List of ingredients:

• chopped peas - 400 grams;
• liter of drinking water;
• refined vegetable oil - 30 ml;
• ground pepper mixture - 3 grams;
• garlic cloves - 4 pcs.;
• 2 onions;
• salt - a teaspoon.

Culinary process:

1. Peas are washed until clean water flows from it.
2. Then it is dried by laying on a paper towel.
3. Prepared peas are ground into flour, a blender or a coffee grinder.
4. Pour the finished flour into a pan with a thick bottom. Water is poured into it in a thin stream. Salt and mix until smooth, no lumps should be.
5. Put a saucepan with the future jelly on the fire and bring to a boil. As soon as it boils, reduce the heat a little and cook for 40 minutes, stirring constantly.
6. Sliced ​​garlic is fried in vegetable oil. As soon as it is covered with a golden brown crust, they take it out of the pan, and instead put onion into the butter, cut into rings. Fry until golden brown.
7. As soon as the pea jelly is cooked, it is transferred to a bowl, fried onions with garlic oil are added to it.

With mushrooms

What you need:

• chopped peas - 300 grams;
• water - 600 ml;
• champignons or oyster mushrooms - 200 grams;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• salt to taste;
• 2 onions.

How to cook:

1. Peas are ground into flour in any convenient way. Additionally, it is sifted so that large particles are eliminated.
2. Pour flour into the pan. Add water. Salt. Thoroughly alter.
3. Put the mass on fire. As soon as it boils, reduce the heat and cook for another 10 minutes. Constantly stir.
4. Hot jelly is poured into a greased form. Leave to cool and solidify.
5. Mushrooms are washed and cut into thin slices.
6. The onions are peeled, cut in half rings and combined with mushrooms for frying in oil in a pan.
7. The frozen jelly is carefully removed from the mold, watered with onion and mushroom gravy on top.

Pea jelly is a dish that can surprise almost everyone. Especially relevant are the recipes for preparing it on the eve of posts.