Jelly from oranges is a very popular delicacy that can become a table decoration at any time of the year. Many simply cannot imagine a New Year's feast without citrus fruits, and such a dessert would be very useful for ordinary tea drinking. In the summer heat, chilled jelly with citrus aroma perfectly refreshes. If you have not prepared such a meal, our tips will help you understand the nuances and suggest some unusual ideas.
Simple: Jelly from a pack
This recipe cannot be called the most delicious and healthy, but in terms of speed of preparation it is simply a record holder. You don’t even have to look in the cookbook to make such an orange jelly. The recipe is indicated on the package. Dilute the contents of the bag in the recommended amount of water and pour into portioned dishes. It remains only to wait until the jelly hardens.
If you want the dessert to look prettier, add slices of orange peeled from films to portioned outlets.
Juice or Fresh Jelly
You can cook a much more delicious and healthy orange jelly. A gelatin recipe is a great idea for anyone who has a citrus juicer.
Squeeze the juice from two fresh oranges. Bring the volume of the resulting liquid to 500 ml by adding water. Soak 25 g of gelatin in a small amount of water and let it swell well. Heat the juice, add gelatin and mix thoroughly. Pour the resulting jelly from oranges into a beautiful bowl.
For this dessert, 4-5 hours will be enough to freeze. Before serving, jelly can be decorated with slices of citrus fruits, mint leaves, whipped cream or berries.
Dessert "Jelly slices"
This design option has recently gained immense popularity. If you want to impress and please the guests, be sure to prepare such jelly from oranges for the next holiday. Its recipe does not differ from the classic, but the amount of liquid should be reduced.
This dish looks especially impressive if you cook it from citrus fruits of different colors, for example, combine the usual orange and bright red Sicilian oranges.
Rinse 4 large oranges thoroughly, dry. Cut in half and using a tablespoon, remove the pulp, being careful not to damage the peel. Set aside the resulting bowls and start making jelly from oranges. Juice can be squeezed out using a juicer, or simply thoroughly mash the pulp with a fork and squeeze through cheesecloth. Measure the liquid obtained - the amount of gelatin depends on this. We will need 30 grams of gelatin powder per half liter of juice. If necessary, you can dilute the juice with water.
Prepare jelly in the same way. Soak gelatin, heat liquid, dissolve and mix. It remains to pour into halves of an orange. To work more conveniently, you can use the mold for baking muffins. Fold in it the bowls of the halves of the orange and they will not turn over during the setting of the jelly.
Put the mold in the refrigerator. When the jelly hardens completely, cut each hemisphere into 2-3 parts.
Original theme party ideas
Having tried to make jelly from oranges at least once, you will see that there is nothing complicated in this matter. Why not experiment with forms?
For a party, making an orange jelly in the form of Fanta bottles can be a great idea. You will need an empty plastic container from this drink with a capacity of 0.5 liters along with labels. Pour the prepared juice with gelatin in bottles to the top. Remove labels and set aside for now. Put in the refrigerator and let it freeze. Using a clerical knife, make a vertical incision on the bottle and several horizontal ones. Carefully remove the plastic. Stick labels on gelatin blanks, and decorate the tops with original caps. After serving, jelly "bottles" can simply be cut into circles.
And such an idea is suitable for Halloween or any other horror party. Here again, you can beat the contrast using ordinary and Sicilian oranges.
Make jelly in a separate bowl, cut into cubes and serve in bowls made of peel. Funny scary faces can first be drawn with a regular pen, and then cut with a sharp blade or a clerical knife.