Dessert - a dish that is served at the end of the meal. This is a kind of final point. The very concept of "dessert" appeared in Europe. With the use of sugar, they began to make sweet dishes. Only rich people could afford goodies. The poor desserts appeared on the tables only on holidays.
The very first sweet dish is candied fruit. And modern desserts are far from their ancestors in nutrition, taste and vitamins. Today's goodies are the main suppliers of glucose in our body.
For a long time, sugar was considered beneficial for the nervous and cardiovascular systems and digestion. But over time, researchers, doctors and doctors came to the conclusion that this sweetness increases the level and concentration of glucose in the blood. The result is obesity, atherosclerosis, and diabetes.
Refuse from sweets, even to the detriment of their health, no one in a hurry. Therefore, cooks come up with and develop delicious and healthy desserts based on which foods benefit the body.
Berries are one of the most important representatives of healthy writing. They contain antioxidants, a number of useful minerals, a variety of vitamins and valuable fiber. Berries are recommended for people who drink little water during the day. And the high liquid content in this juice helps eliminate hunger. Accordingly, less hungry, fewer calories enter the body. Berry treats were the first to name and recommend as healthy desserts. The most indisputable advantage is the ease of preparation.
Berry soup
For such a dish, any available gifts of nature, regardless of the season, are suitable. The berries are washed (raspberries, strawberries, cherries, blackberries, etc.). Juice is squeezed out of two oranges. After it is filtered. Berries (100 or 200 grams) are beaten in a blender, gradually adding orange juice. Pour the soup into plates or bowls. Decorate with two balls of ice cream, the remaining berries and a pair of mint leaves.
Raspberry panacotta
Panakota - this dessert is very healthy, made from cream, with gelatin. Berries (three glasses) are sorted, washed and laid out on a paper towel. As soon as they dry slightly, grind in a blender. Gelatin is soaked in milk (2/5 tbsp.spoons). Beat cream cheese (200-250 grams), gradually adding powdered sugar (2 tbsp. Tablespoons). The cheese mass is carefully mixed with berry puree, add vanillin on the tip of a knife or a bag of vanilla sugar. Cream of medium fat content (1/4 cup) is heated over low heat, gradually pouring milk with dissolved gelatin. Once the gelatin has dissolved, remove the composition from the heat.
Raspberry-cheese mass is mixed with cream and poured into molds. They put in the refrigerator for an average of two hours. While the dessert is setting, prepare the sauce. 2 tbsp. tablespoons of cane sugar are mixed with ¼ cup of white dry wine. Warm up on fire until the sweet component dissolves. The frozen dessert is turned onto plates and sprinkled with sauce.
Blackberry and Redcurrant Smoothie
If you are interested in simple healthy desserts, then pay attention to smoothies. This is a thick drink made from berries or fruits with the addition of juice. Bananas (two pieces) are peeled and knead with a fork. Pour half the juice with juice and put it in the freezer. Squeeze the juice from one orange. Berries are mixed and ground in a blender. In the process of grinding, orange juice, yogurt (250 g) is poured and banana puree is added . Crushed ice is poured into the glasses on ¼ and the finished mass is poured. Garnished with berries and a mint leaf.
Cottage cheese is the most popular and healthy product. It has no age restrictions in terms of use. Over the centuries, the method of preparation of this product has not changed. The environmental friendliness of such products has long been proven. A healthy curd dessert is recommended for nursing mothers, as well as for young children.
Orange and fig curd dessert
Low-fat cottage cheese (500 g) is wiped through a sieve. Oranges are peeled and cut into small pieces. Figs are washed and cut into pieces. A cup mixes cottage cheese, slices of figs and orange. Carefully added honey, preheated to a liquid state. Everything is thoroughly mixed until evenly distributed in the mass of pieces of fruit. Balls are formed, laid out on a dish and put away in the freezer for about five to ten minutes. Then treat is served to the table.
Curd and pineapple blanmange
Healthy desserts are goodies to treat children to. Gelatin is poured with milk (100 g) and left to swell for 20 minutes. Then it is heated over a fire until it is completely dissolved. In a deep bowl, cottage cheese (250-300 g), sour cream (100 g) and pieces of pineapple are mixed. You can use canned (100 g). Gelatin is poured into the curd mass and mixed thoroughly. The mass is laid out in molds. Then it goes to the refrigerator for 4 hours. You can serve refreshments in molds or by turning them on plates.
Curdless cakes without baking are healthy desserts that can surprise you. In this case, you do not need to spend much time at the stove.
Cottage Cheese Cake with Tangerine Confiture
For the base, any shortbread cookie is selected. The original taste will come out if you use strawberry cookies. Milled with his hands or with a rolling pin to a state of medium crumb. A split mold or the top of the plastic packaging from the purchased cake is used. 2/3 of the mass is evenly distributed along the bottom, 1/3 of the sides are formed. Milk (150 ml) with soaked gelatin is heated over a fire with continuous stirring until completely dissolved.
The mixer beats softened butter (50 g), sugar (100 grams), sour cream (200 g) and cottage cheese (500 g). At a low speed of the mixer, milk and gelatin are poured into the whipped mass. The sand base to the top of the form is filled with a curd cream mass. The whole structure is cleaned in the refrigerator for the night.
For tangerine confiture 6 small tangerines are required. Juice is squeezed from one, and the rest are cut into not very thin circles along with the peel. Thick syrup is made from juice and sugar (100 g). In it, circles of mandarins fall, boil for five minutes. The mass is completely cooled.
On the finished cake, tangerine confiture is applied evenly . Try to arrange fruit circles evenly and nicely on the surface. Another hour in the refrigerator - and the work of culinary art is ready.
Tender pumpkin casserole
Many do not imagine their life without delicious and fragrant pastries. Now let's look at some more useful desserts. Baking pumpkin casserole takes first place. Now we will tell how it is prepared.
Beat 4 egg whites with sugar (100 g) until a stable foam. Separately, beat 4 egg yolks with sugar (100 g). Grate pumpkin (700-800 grams). Then squeeze and drain the liquid. Mix grated pumpkin with beaten egg yolks. Add flour (two tablespoons) and semolina (five tablespoons) in small portions. Add the zest of one lemon, a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of salt at the end. Whipped egg whites are gradually added to the mass. We try to mix the mass from the bottom up. Fill the greased form with dough and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. The versatility of such baking is that it can be eaten hot and cold.
For those who try not to consume sugar, you can pick up sweets without it. You can make a healthy dessert using exclusively natural products.
Pears in honey caramel
Pears (three to four pieces), it is advisable to choose hard varieties. We stick cloves in them. It is advisable to choose small buds and not overdo the quantity. We mix dessert wine (150 g), 100 grams of honey (flower, lime or May) and the zest of one lemon. Add a whisper of cinnamon and the same amount of vanilla.
We put pears in baking dishes, pouring each honey-wine mixture. 1/3 of the composition is left. Cover the form with foil and put in a preheated oven for thirty minutes. After we remove the foil and pour each pear with the remaining mixture. We send to the oven until a golden caramel crust appears.
Melon Marmalade
If you are interested in the most wholesome desserts, pay attention to melon marmalade. In apple juice (150 ml), we pour gelatin (one pack). Leave for thirty minutes to swell the mass. Melon (400 grams) is cut into pieces. Mash with a fork or blender.
Heat the juice on the stove until the gelatin dissolves. Pour into melon mass. Mix gently and evenly. Pour into the form. We put in the refrigerator until completely solidified. We cut the frozen dessert into arbitrary figures. After serving to the table and calling the kids.
Purchased Healthy Goodies
Choosing something special, taking care of your health and the health of your family, is not very difficult. Cooking a variety of goodies is easy and fun. But there are moments in life when a person is limited in time. And there’s just no time to cook. But there is a way.
On the shelves of supermarkets you can find ready-made goodies. Marshmallows or marshmallows contain very few calories (300 kcal per one hundred grams of product). It is possible to choose diet sugarless marmalade. Dark chocolate contains far fewer calories than milk chocolate. In addition, it is useful for cerebral vessels. And the wonderful property of dark chocolate to activate the production of hormones of joy - this is not news for a long time.
Dried fruits - healthy, natural sweetness
If you do not trust or doubt the manufacturer, then sweets from absolutely natural raw materials are on sale.
- Dates contain all substances useful to the body. In the East, it is believed that eating only them and water, you can live for many years.
- Dried apricots are rich in vitamin A and C. The phosphorus content in a dried fruit is much higher than its content in a fresh fruit.
- Prunes contain glucose, fructose and sucrose. The composition also contains B vitamins and an almost complete list of organic acids: malic, citric, oxalic and salicylic.
Whatever the choice, the benefits to the body will be obvious.
Little conclusion
Now you know how to make delicious and healthy desserts. Recipes of various dishes we reviewed. We hope that you enjoyed some dessert and you can prepare such a treat for friends and relatives. Good luck in creating sweets and bon appetit!