Now it’s summer, the time has come for various berries and fruits. At this time, it is highly recommended to stock up on vitamins, since in winter their quantity is limited. One such fruit is apples. In almost every area you can find at least one apple tree. Apples have medicinal properties, they improve brain performance, normalize digestion and maintain blood cholesterol levels. Well and how without it, they increase immunity! In summer, apples get bored, their sweet and sour taste begins to dream in a dream, and until winter the person does not even approach apples. But apples must not be lost, because this is a universal fruit! From them you can make jams, compotes and even jelly! Jelly from apples is a very gentle drink that is loved by both children and adults. Especially during the hot season, no one is off to enjoy the cool jelly. Consider one of the many recipes for jelly from apples. Cooking it is really very simple!
Ingredients
To make jelly from apples we need:
- Apples Depends on how many servings you want to prepare and what concentration of the drink.
- Drinking water - 1 liter.
- Corn starch. If you take into account that you will cook jelly from 0.5 kg of apples, then you need 50 grams of starch.
- Sugar - 100-150 grams depending on taste preferences.
- Any jam (optional).
Which apples to choose
For jelly from apples, you can take, in principle, any fruit. The main thing is that they should not be too sour. If we take, for example, the Antonovka variety of apples, then they ripen only in the fall, until the end of the summer they are sour and it is simply impossible to consume them, unless, of course, you are a fan of sour. If there are no apples, then you can buy them on the market. In general, more vitamins are found in homemade fruits, everything is natural there. In the summertime, you can often meet grandmothers in the market who sell apples from their orchards, so it is better to take from them.
Fruit preparation
To make jelly, you must first prepare the apples. First of all, to clean them from dirt, they need to be washed with hot water, and then dried. The next step is to chop the apples. People have different preferences and tastes, so you need to rely only on them. It’s better to clean the core, not everyone will like it if such a coarse element comes across when using gentle jelly. If you want to take apples out of jelly with a spoon and eat, enjoying the excellent taste, then you can cut the fruits into small cubes. You can also cut into large slices, if you are a lover to feel pieces of fruit in jelly.
Cooking jelly
We put the water on the fire, and then wait until it boils. After boiling water, apples should be added. After 5 minutes, add sugar or jam and sugar. The fact is that the jelly from apples without adding jam turns white. This does not affect the taste, but children may not like it. You can use dyes, of course, but it would be better if you add jam! Firstly, it will give a beautiful color, and secondly, a combination of tastes! It is best to use strawberry or blackberry jam, they go well with a fruit such as an apple. After 10 minutes of boiling, you can get the fruits from the resulting compote and rub through a sieve. This is not necessary, but it is such a jelly made of apples that has a rich taste, and also looks more uniform and harmonious.
After rubbing the apples through a sieve, add them back to the compote. To our jelly finally turned out, you should add a thickener to it, usually it is starch. The amount of starch used depends on your preference. If you like a thicker jelly, then you need to use more. In order to add it to the jelly, you first need to prepare the starch. You need to take some vessel where you need to quickly mix our starch with a small amount of cold water. Then the ready-made solution can be added to the jelly from apples. You need to add in small portions with constant stirring. Now you just have to wait! We wait 5 minutes and turn off the fire. Mix the jelly thoroughly and let cool. In no case do not let it boil.
Hot or cold jelly?
You can drink jelly both in hot form and in cold. In hot summer weather, a cold drink will save you from the heat with its unique and refined taste, and in the winter cold season it will warm you.
What can be added
You can add icing sugar or whipped cream to the jelly. It will look very beautiful, and the taste will become unique. You can also add marshmallows like marshmallows, an excellent combination with jelly!
So to summarize. We learned how to cook jelly from jam and starch, in fact, to prepare this forgotten, but very tasty drink, very few ingredients are required. Before such a jelly no one can resist! The drink is a good source of vitamins, and it only takes 15-20 minutes to prepare! If you harvest apples in the summer, you can pamper yourself and your family with kissel all year round!