Cranberries are a source of vitamins and minerals necessary for the body to function and maintain the immune system. Berries can be consumed both in pure form and by preparing unusual and sweet desserts from them that everyone will like.
In this article, we will look at how to make cranberry jelly while preserving the taste and benefits.
Cranberry Jelly
This dessert is suitable for all sweet tooth who are closely watching their figure and foods high in fat and carbohydrates. One serving of jelly prepared according to this recipe contains 0 grams of fat, 3.3 grams of protein, 38.9 grams of carbohydrates and 166 kilocalories.
To prepare this recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
· Cranberry berries - 250 grams;
· A quarter cup of sugar;
· A tablespoon of gelatin;
· Drinking water - 400 grams.
The recipe is designed on average for three servings and can be supplemented or reduced by the appropriate number of people.
The total cooking time for cranberry jelly is ten hours and twenty-five minutes.
1. We take out a container or bag with cranberries from the freezer and leave it to defrost at room temperature. When the berries unfreeze, wash them thoroughly under warm water and leave them in a colander so that excess moisture from the berries of the glass.
2. Put gelatin in a glass and add boiling water there.
3. We return to our berries, from them you need to squeeze cranberry juice. We put cranberries in any container with a deep bottom, and with the help of a pushing machine we begin to knead the berries. When the juice is separated from the peel, it must be poured into another container, first filtered through a sieve.
4. Do not rush to throw away the cranberry peel. We put them in a pan, pour one glass of boiling water and put on a gas to boil for 10 minutes.
5. After cooking, you need to strain it again through a sieve so that the jelly turns out without adding leaves, twigs and particles of the peel. After that, the peel can be thrown away.
6. The juice returns to the slow gas again and boils with the addition of sugar until it is completely dissolved.
7. Add the gelatin to the still boiling solution, carefully mix the resulting mass.
8. Finally, we can turn off the gas under the pan and add the juice that was squeezed at the very beginning to the boiled solution. Mix the resulting mixture and pour into jars or bowls. Leave to cool.
9. After cooling, freeze the jelly in the refrigerator for ten to twelve hours.
Enjoy your meal!
Cranberry jelly without boiling and gelatin
You can cook a lighter and less energy-intensive jelly, the recipe of which you can find below.
For cooking, we need only two components:
· Granulated sugar;
· Cranberry berries.
It is important to know: for better solubility, select fine granulated sugar or make powder at all.
1. Defrost berries at room temperature, then pour them with hot water. Fold the cranberries in a colander, let the excess water drain.
2. At this stage, you need to get the juice from the berries. Put them in a container with a deep bottom, knead with a spoon or mortar. Find out how many grams of freshly squeezed juice you received, for every 200 grams add 300 grams of powder.
3. Mix cranberry juice with powdered sugar in a separate container, mix until no more sugar crystals remain on the bottom.
4. We got a syrup that needs to be frozen. Pour the liquid into the prepared containers and remove the finished jelly to freeze overnight in the refrigerator.
You can use cranberry jelly as you like - eat separately or use as a decoration for desserts.
Sour cream cranberry jelly - a delicious surprise for the new year
Have you been thinking for a long time to please your loved ones for the new year? Sour cream cranberry jelly will become a new culinary masterpiece on your holiday table!
Essential Ingredients:
· 1 pack of sour cream;
· A bag of frozen cranberries;
· 2 teaspoons of powdered sugar;
· 2 bags of vanillin per gram;
· A tablespoon of gelatin;
· Sugar as desired.
Cooking Method:
1. Prepare gelatin, pour it with hot water and mix well.
2. Pour sour cream in a separate container and add vanilla and powder, mixing thoroughly. We add gelatin there, previously passed through a sieve. Pour the mixture into small glasses and leave in the refrigerator.
3. Wash thawed cranberries in water and clean from twigs or leaves. Pour sugar into a small ladle to taste, put cranberries and cook slowly under a closed lid until it boils.
4. While the sugar cranberries are cooked, prepare another gelatin solution and pass it through a sieve.
5. Mix the gelatin and the finished cranberries with sugar. Decant the cranberry juice through a sieve, add it to the sour cream in cups, remove again in the refrigerator.
6. Exactly 60 minutes later, an unusual dessert will be ready, enjoy!
Interesting fact: maybe you don’t want to serve this dessert on the table in glasses, or do you need them for something else? Then just put the glasses with the finished cranberry jelly for a few seconds under the stream of hot water, then you can easily pull it out!
Cooking cranberry jelly in fasting
In the post, you can also sometimes indulge yourself with healthy and tasty sweets. This recipe is just right for making a dessert, in which gelatin changes to agar-agar.
To prepare this recipe, you should prepare:
· A small bag of frozen cranberries;
3 teaspoons agar agar
· 1.5-2 cups of drinking water;
· Sugar, half a glass.
Cooking Technology:
1. Defrost cranberries, then rinse thoroughly under running water, sort out the berries.
2. Put the washed cranberries in some deep container and begin to crush with a mortar or pusher for mashed potatoes until the berries turn into juice.
It is important to know: deep dishes are chosen so that good juice does not stain you during cooking, nor everything around. The berry contains a lot of juice, so you can not do without spray.
3. Separate the peel of the berries from the juice with a sieve, put the peel in a bucket, add water and set it to boil on fire.
4. While the cooking process is in full swing, pour agar-agar into a hotel cup and fill with very hot water.
5. Return to the ladle with cranberry mixture. Again, pass through a sieve, pour back into the bucket, add granulated sugar and mix until it is completely dissolved.
6. Pour in the resulting mass and agar-agar, cook for five to seven minutes. After preparation, you can add previously expressed juice and pour it into containers for storage and refrigerate.
Cranberry Jelly Ready!
Cranberry Jelly with Cranberry Foam
Another recipe that will not leave you indifferent either in taste or in species qualities!
The list of products that are needed has remained unchanged: cranberries, water, gelatin and granulated sugar.
Attention! Take a close look at the packaging rules for making gelatin. Soak it in either cold or hot water, depending on the instructions.
1. Peel and rinse cranberries, leave in a colander for drying.
2. Soak gelatin in accordance with the rules on the packaging, filter it through a sieve.
3. A new step in chopping berries in this recipe is to use a blender. Pass the resulting smoothie through a sieve that will not let the peel and small debris pass into the dish.
4. Put the peel remaining in the sieve onto the gas in a small container, add sugar and cook for very short time, until sugar is completely dissolved. Turn off the gas and leave to cool.
5. After waiting until the jelly temperature is compared to room temperature, we add gelatin and put it on gas or in the microwave again for a little heating.
Caution! Do not boil the mixture, otherwise the jelly will never take the desired consistency. Just warm the mixture to normal temperature.
6. After filtering the cranberry puree, you can add to it the previously made juice along with gelatin. Let the dish cool.
7. Pour some cranberry jelly into small forms in which you will serve it to the table. Leaving a little space on top, remove it to cool in the refrigerator. Wait until the jelly has completely hardened, otherwise the dessert may be ruined.
8. The remaining portion of the juice is mixed with a blender until a standing foam is formed. It was she who, at the final stage, decorates frozen jelly from above.
Cranberry and Lingonberry Jelly
The recipes do not have to be limited to using only one berry, you can mix them and create a unique taste! This recipe will explain how to do this.
For cooking, we need:
· Half a bag of cranberries;
· Half a bag of lingonberry;
· A bag of gelatin;
· Drinking water;
Sugar
Cooking step by step:
1. Defrost berries, rinse and sort out their impurities, then dissolve a tablespoon of gelatin in water.
2. We start to knead the berries in a container until juice is obtained, pass the mixture through a sieve and put the remaining peel in a ladle, fill it with water, add sugar and cook.
3. After boiling the mixture, add gelatin, stir and remove from heat. After cooling the future jelly from cranberries and lingonberries, filter it through a strainer, discard the peel.
4. Pour in the remaining juice, mix thoroughly, put into molds or containers and leave in the refrigerator until ready.
You just have to wait a bit and very soon you will be able to get a charge of vitality and vitamins for a long time!
Carefully following the whole cooking recipe, you can create amazing cranberry jellies that will become loved not only by you, but also by your entire family!
