Usually, in order to prepare delicious jelly, use various juices or decoctions and infusions of fruits. But few people know that this simple dessert can also be made from jam. To get jelly from jam, you can use any of its varieties, for example, apple, cherry, strawberry. The only thing you need to do is to dissolve the desired jam in a small amount of water, strain from berries and fruits (optional), add gelatin, heat and pour into the mold. Below are some simple recipes for making jam jellies .
Simple jelly with liquid pectin
Components:
- jam (any);
- liquid pectin in the amount of one hundred grams.
Properly cooked jam in itself is thick and sticky, sticky. But in order to make jelly from jam, it alone is not enough. To get a tasty and strong enough jelly, you need to choose the right jam. Depending on what consistency it is, the amount of liquid pectin is selected. Filter the jam from berries and fruits (you can leave them if you wish), add a little water, literally a couple of spoons, heat in a water bath to a temperature of forty degrees and wait until the jam becomes a little liquid. Then remove from heat and add liquid pectin, mix thoroughly. Then we pour the base into molds and set it to cool in the refrigerator for several hours. You can serve such a dessert by decorating with various creams or curd mass. Especially, this dessert will appeal to children.
Jelly Jelly with Gelatin
Components:
- a bag of gelatin 20 grams;
- five spoons of your favorite jam;
- water - two glasses.
Soak gelatin in warm water. We wait until the amount of gelatin increases several times. Then mix the gelatin with jam, previously diluted with a glass of water and filtered through a sieve. We heat in a water bath until the gelatin is completely dissolved, make sure that the mixture does not boil, otherwise the gelatin will lose its gelling properties and dishes will not work. Then we pour the resulting jelly into forms and put it in the refrigerator to solidify for about 4-5 hours.
Multi-layer jelly from several types of jam
Components:
- cherry and orange jam two glasses;
- four glasses of water;
- one glass of sugar;
- gelatin fifty grams.
Pour gelatin with two glasses of water and let it swell. Pour cherry jam into a glass of water and heat, strain. Do the same with the second jam. Pour half a glass of sugar into a saucepan and pour cherry jam, add half a glass of gelatin. We heat until the gelatin is completely dissolved, do not boil! We do the same manipulations with the second portion of jam. When both honor jellies are prepared, we proceed to the preparation of the layers. Pour a little jelly into any shape, about two centimeters. We put in the refrigerator and wait until it hardens, then just pour the next portion, alternate the colors. Thus, we fill out the entire form. When the jelly has completely hardened, it is cut into portions and served.
Options jelly - a huge ocean! You can even make a cake or pie out of it, for example, homemade shortcrust pastry cake will be very tasty, and cherry pie jelly is topped with such a cake . It is done like this:
- first, prepare the dough based on flour, butter and sugar;
- then bake a cake in the oven in a special form or pan;
- on the cooled cake we spread the cherry berries;
- the rest of the jam is mixed with swollen gelatin, heat and pour the cake on top (it should be in shape);
- We put it in the refrigerator and in a few hours the cake is ready!
I hope in this article you got the answer how to make jelly from jam. Dare, experiment and cook dishes with a varied taste!