Kissel from starch is considered the most popular Russian dessert, moreover, it is also very ancient, its history goes back more than a thousand years. Use it in the form of a drink or a sweet dish, it is an excellent firming agent that is useful for children and weak patients. For those who have problems with the LCD tract, doctors recommend this dessert as a soft enveloping agent.
There are a lot of recipes, a huge plus is that all of them preserve vitamins to a greater or lesser extent. Pleasant taste, calorie content, rich composition of the dessert - its most convincing advantages over various drinks and desserts with preservatives and stabilizers.
Cooking starch jelly is not difficult; potato is often used, but you can also take corn or maize. For those who do not know how to make jelly from starch, we tell: for jelly in the form of a drink you need to take 1 st. a spoonful of starch per liter of water, for a dessert of medium density - 2 tablespoons, for a thick - 3.
You can cook jelly at any time of the year. Initially, masters-dairy cooked it for several days, but they used barley, oats, and peas. It turned out to be very thick, since a whole glass of starch was taken for 6 glasses of water. Fruit and berry desserts appeared much later, it became much faster to cook them, you just need to squeeze the juice or make a decoction.
However, such a drink is universal. You can cook it even on the basis of a decoction of crackers, acidified with citric acid. Starch jelly is made from tea, a citrus broth (after the juice is squeezed out of them), milk, cream, jam or coffee with milk. Rhubarb, rosehip, oatmeal or any dried fruit are involved. Fans often prepare a dessert of vegetable juice.
The choice of ingredients depends on tastes and preferences, but, undoubtedly, berry jelly is considered the most favorite for everyone. It is especially good from wild berries, tender, fragrant, melting in the mouth. To preserve the taste and aroma of the gifts of the forest or garden, you need to wash them, squeeze the juice through a gauze, boil the remaining mass with water, drain the broth through a sieve, sugar, boil again. Thoroughly dilute starch in fresh juice so that there are no lumps, pour the mixture into a boiling broth with a thin stream, stir and turn it off. The resulting starch jelly should be poured into glasses immediately. Hint: you can’t boil the dish, you can boil a little only a very thick dessert, which is then eaten with a spoon, pouring it with syrup. If you cool such a drink, then it will just perfectly quench your thirst in the summer heat.
Starch jelly recipe can be any, many are worth trying to cook at home to choose your favorite. Children really like a creamy dessert: 2 large tablespoons of starch are taken for 3 cups of cream. First, dilute the starch in a small amount of cream, add regular and vanilla sugar to the others to taste, boil. Pour the mixture into boiling cream, stir it constantly, reduce heat, hold on the stove for about 5 minutes until thickened. Dessert spread in vases or bowls, cool. When serving, put ice cream on top and pour over fruit syrup. But it is worth remembering that such a dessert is not recommended until the baby reaches the age of three.
Many adults and children will appreciate the starch chocolate jelly. It is prepared from 4 glasses of milk, first in a small amount it is necessary to dilute 3 small tablespoons of starch, the rest put on fire. In hot milk, melt a half of the chocolate bar and pour half a glass of sugar into it, boil. Pour diluted starch into a stream, let it boil, add vanilla sugar, stir and cool.