How to cook blackberry jelly?
Many housewives prepare jelly for themselves and their families for the winter.This dish can be made from various berries and fruits. This article will tell you how to make such a dessert from blackberry.
Ingredient preparation
Before you start creating jelly, you need to properly prepare the blackberry. First you need to remove from the berries all the excess garbage and insects. Then the blackberry is thoroughly washed in a colander under water. This should be done carefully, because the fruits are easily damaged. After that, remove all tails. In this form, the berries can already be used to make jelly.
Recipes
Currently, there are many different recipes for making blackberry jelly. Consider the most popular ones.
Classic recipe
To make a dessert according to this simple recipe, washed and dried berries are laid out in a bowl, and then ground there with a blender. Wait until the berries become a homogeneous liquid mass.
After that, the resulting mixture of blackberry sugar is added. Stir until all the sugar is completely dissolved. Then the mass is poured into a plastic container and closed with a lid. In this form, the future of jelly is placed in the refrigerator.
At the same time, banks should be taken and sterilized. Ready-made blackberry jelly is placed in such containers. If you want to store dessert for a long time, it is recommended to pour some sugar on top. At the end of the container twist sterilized lids in advance.
With apples
Washed berries poured into the container for cooking. Liquid is poured there and sugar is poured. All these ingredients are thoroughly mixed together. After this, the dishes are put on the fire. Boil blackberries need as long as the berries are soft enough. After that, a lot of fray with a metal sieve. At the end gelatin and some lemon juice are added to it.
The future jelly is once again well mixed and put on the stove again. Dessert is boiled, but at the same time it should not boil. Enough to thicken it well. The finished product is still hot poured into pre-sterilized jars and tighten the lids.
Seedless
The washed and dried berries are laid out in a separate clean bowl. There they are crushed with a blender to a homogeneous state. Then add sugar to the resulting mass. Mix everything until sugar completely dissolves.
The mixture is wiped through a fine sieve. After that, it will remain bones that are not used to create such a jelly. The product is poured into a plastic container and sent for a while into the refrigerator.
At the same time you need to prepare jars with lids for the future jelly. They should be sterilized. Then the dessert is taken out from the refrigerator and poured into containers.
Blackberry juice
Fresh berries squeeze juice using a juicer. Then it is poured into a clean container with a thick bottom. There also put sugar. The pot is sent to the stove, turning on a slow fire. In the process of cooking do not forget to constantly stir the mixture with a spoon. All sugar in the mass should be completely dissolved. When the syrup for the future jelly is cooked, it is still hot through a gauze bandage, folded in several layers.
The filtered blackberry syrup is again poured into the pan and boiled until the volume of the mass gradually decreases. At the same time you need to sterilize the jars and lids. Another hot dessert is bottled in containers that are well plugged.
With agar-agar
To make such a dessert, you first need to boil the syrup. In a saucepan with a thick bottom, water is poured and sugar is poured. The mixture is boiled until the sugar is completely dissolved in the liquid. Then add fresh, washed blackberries to the pan. The mass is brought to a boil. After that, all the ingredients are boiled for another ten minutes on low heat.
At the end, agar-agar is added to the mixture and boiled for another three minutes. Wherein do not forget to stir the mixture periodically with a spoon. The resulting dessert is poured into molds and sent to the refrigerator for cooling.
At the same time, banks and caps should be sterilized. Ready blackberry jelly is poured into containers.
At the end it is recommended to add some different spices. This is done in order to get rid of the smell of agar-agar, which is similar to the smell of algae.
With whole berries
A piece of blackberry is placed in a juicer, where juice is obtained from the berries. It is poured into a separate container, which should also be filled with granulated sugar and some gelatin diluted in water. The resulting mixture is left for some time until a thin transparent film is formed on its surface. Later, the film is neatly removed. Then the finished jelly is poured into sterilized jars and fresh blackberries are put there. After that, the dessert is cleaned for several hours in the refrigerator.
Frozen berries
To make this dessert, the berries are pre-thawed. Then the fruit is placed in a bowl and a blender crushed them, bringing to a state of homogeneous mass. Then sugar is poured into the mixture.
It should be noted that the sugar should be as much as the berries. Also remember that berries can be thawed only once, because after repeated carrying out this procedure, they lose their taste.
The resulting syrup is cooked over low heat. Make sure that all sugar is completely dissolved in the liquid during cooking. The resulting dessert is poured into forms and sent to the refrigerator to freeze. After that, it can already be poured into sterilized cans.
With citric acid
Water is poured into the pan and blackberry sheets are laid out there. All this is boiled for a few minutes. Then put sugar into the container. Whole blackberries are placed in hot syrup. All are boiled for two hours on low heat. During this time, the fruit must completely give all its juice.
Then citric acid is added to the hot syrup. If not, then you can use ascorbic acid. The mixture is boiled for another ten minutes over low heat. Dessert is distributed over sterilized containers and tightly sealed.
Cooking recommendations
Many housewives in the preparation of blackberry jelly are advised to use not powder gelatin, but sheet. It can be soaked in almost any amount of water. It absorbs only the necessary moisture, and the excess will remain in the pot. Sheet gelatin also swells much faster. For this he needs only about five minutes. After that, this ingredient can already be placed in a hot liquid in which it is completely dissolved.
Particular attention should be paid to dishes for jelly. Most housewives give their preference to molds made with silicone coating. If you did not have such a container, you can use deep salad bowls.
If you are planning a batch serving, then you are perfectly suited beautiful decorative glasses. As a rule, this option is used when setting the table for various holidays. Remember that any dishes should be pre-lined with cling film. This is done so that the dessert after its preparation is easier to extract.
Do not forget that Remove the finished jelly from the mold should be careful not to damage it. So, at first it is recommended to dip the dishes with dessert in hot water for a few seconds. This is done in order to heat the walls of the tank well. After this, the dishes with jelly are gently turned over, and the product is spread on a separate plate. Remember that keeping the container in hot water for too long should not be held. This may cause the dessert to lose its shape.
If you did not have gelatin, then you can use agar-agar. Many housewives are advised to cook homemade jelly with this component.It has a whole mass of beneficial vitamins and minerals. But remember that this ingredient must be pre-soaked in water overnight.
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