Clear jelly is a newfangled discovery in confectionery art. Rapidly gaining momentum and occupies a leading position among the restaurant desserts. Transparent jelly is used as a base for making desserts and main dishes. Recipes and techniques are so simple that even a child can cope with its preparation. In addition, they are very economical, require minimal cost.
The presence of such a jelly dessert on the holiday table will not only surprise the guests, but also delight them. Gastronomic taste and creativity, in serving dessert, will be one of the favorite and sought after. Below is a list of the easiest and most special recipes from transparent jelly.
Classic Clear Jelly Recipe
The classic recipe is used not only as a basis for cakes and pastries, but also as a separate dessert. It has a dense, transparent texture, due to which fruit compositions are densely covered and visible. It is very important to strictly follow the recipe and the required number of ingredients to achieve an excellent result at the exit. So let's get started:
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of warm water
- 25 gr. gelatin
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- vanillin or vanilla sugar
- lemon juice, a couple drops
Preparation:
1. Heat the water and cool to near room temperature, the water should be slightly lukewarm.
2. Pour the contents of the package with gelatin in a glass of water in the required quantity. Stir in water until completely dissolved.
3. Add sugar, lemon juice and vanilla to taste.
4. Leave the gelatin to swell for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. It is possible to use as the top layer for cake, or to pour on molds.
Flower dessert “3D”
It sounds pretty weird: A flower in jelly! But so mysterious. Is it hard to imagine that? Of course yes!!! The dessert is so extraordinary and bright that it causes a feeling of pity from consuming such beauty. Suitable for a holiday table, as well as for a gift. The recipe is quite simple and natural. So: Ingredients:
Gelatin - 25 grams.
Water - 1 cup.
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 cup.
Carrot juice - 0.5 cup
Beet Juice - 0.5 cup
Spinach juice - 0.5 cup
Method of preparation
1. Gelatin 10 grams diluted in water, add lemon juice and sugar.
2. Pour into transparent molds, leave overnight in the refrigerator.
3. Separately, in milk, enter 15 grams of swollen gelatin, stirring until completely dissolved.
4. Add 5 tablespoons of ready milk thickener to each juice.
5. To make the core and the petals by injecting the juice into the jelly - with a 10 gram syringe.
6. For Carnation petals, insert a spoon or knife at an angle, constantly changing the slope up to 180 degrees, pouring juice into the hole. Make a flat line, gradually continue the action in a circle. With the help of a puncture technique. Petals cloves ready!
To make leaflets on the same principle - in green. It is worth considering: that with the help of a spoon, they will be oval in shape, with the help of a pointed knife. Further exclusively creativity and imagination.
8. Chrysanthemum: Orange color from a mixture of carrots and milk - make the core. We enter the syringe - vertically. For the petals we introduce beetroot dye into the circular recess from the spoon. Gradually we pierce under the slope, making more and more lunches, changing the degree each time. We continue in a circle, the more, the more magnificent the flower will turn out.
With the help of the same technique you can make a rose.
9. Form with ready-made flowers to refrigerate for 10 minutes and can be served.
In order to quickly get the dessert out of the molds, it is necessary to dip it in the bottom with hot water for a couple of minutes.
Marquetri Jelly Cake
Jelly cake is completely uncomplicated in cooking. Pretty bright and very tasty. Easy, sweet and special. Suitable for a great, easy completion - a festive feast. In appearance, it creates the impression of broken glass, which by some miracle appeared inside the jelly masterpiece. Ingredients:
- Classic clear jelly
- 3-4 packs of finished multi-colored jelly
- fruit (optional)
Preparation:
1. On the eve of the preparation, make a blank: dilute the finished packaged jelly and pour into molds.
2. Leave in the refrigerator overnight to acquire a dense form and elastic texture.
3. Before cooking the cake, it should be cut into small pieces. There should be no definite form, everything is cut arbitrarily, the smaller the pieces and the more varied - the more beautiful.
4. According to the recipe of classic transparent jelly - to prepare the basis for the cake. Jelly should not have time to harden completely. Therefore, it should be done very quickly.
5. Prepare a mold for the cake, brushing with a little creamy or vegetable oil for shine.
6. Pour the chopped pieces of colored jelly, you can also add a variety of fruits - slices.
7. From above, carefully pour all the transparent base.
8. Leave in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours, for complete solidification.
Transparent wine jelly with grapes and basil
Can I make an exquisite dessert from wine? And most importantly how? The answers to these questions are below.
Ingredients:
- 50 ml. hot water
- 2 tbsp. spoons of gelatin
- 3 tbsp. spoons of sugar
- 1 glass of white wine, can be replaced with champagne
- basil leaves or mint
- bunch of grapes
Method of preparation.
1. Prepare gelatin for swelling 1/1: 2 tbsp. tablespoons of gelatin for 2 tablespoons hot water.
2. Separately, in a glass container with hot water, dilute 3 tablespoons of sugar.
3. Finely chop one leaf of basil or mint.
4. Add to water.
5. Next, pour a glass of dry white wine or champagne.
6. Thoroughly mix and gradually add gelatin, pouring in a small stream, stirring constantly.
7. Prepare the grapes. Remove each grape from the brush and cut it in half.
8. Put on the bottom of the glass and pour jelly on top.
9. Decorate with mint sprigs.
10. Leave for full curing in a cold place.
Dessert will look very beautiful in a transparent ice-cream bowl for ice cream. You can also use glasses for cocktails or martini.
Fish filler
Fish appetizer with transparent jelly, fish and vegetables. In this recipe, the main ingredient is red fish, but you can successfully replace it with any other.
Ingredients:
- 400 gr. Fish fillet (preferably red fish)
- 0.5 liters of water
- 25 gr. gelatin
- Bay leaf
- salt, peppercorns
- carrot, onion
Method of preparation.
1. Wash the fish well under cold water.
2. Cut into beautiful portions.
3. Peel the carrots and onions.
4. Put fish and vegetables in a small saucepan, salt and add bay leaf, peppercorns.
5. Pour 0.5 liters of cold water and put on a slow fire.
6. Cook for about 5-7 minutes until the fish is ready in the broth.
7.Therefore, dissolve the gelatin in 0.5 cups of hot water and stir.
8. Leave for swelling.
9. Next, remove the saucepan from the fire.
10. Remove the vegetables and fish.
11. Enter gelatin and stir.
12. The broth is repeatedly filtered through gauze or a sieve, for its transparency.
13. Putting the fish in a deep plate.
14. Cut the carrot into circles and lay it out next to it for decoration.
15. Carefully pour broth and decorate with greens.
16. We put in the refrigerator for freezing.
Sea eggs with vegetables in clear jelly
Appetizer, which has a transparent texture and a form of jelly, in the form of chicken eggs. Perfect for New Year's holidays, as an edible Christmas tree toy. On the Orthodox holiday - Easter. For a children's holiday.
Ingredients:
- 5.6 fresh chicken eggs
- 25 g. Gelatin
- half a glass of water
- 200 gr. chicken fillet or ham
- canned corn
- green peas in a jar
- Bulgarian pepper
- salt pepper
- greenery
- seasoning to taste
Preparation:
Eggs will be used as a jelly mold!
1. Carefully make a hole at the top of the egg to pour the contents out of it.
2. Empty the shell, rinse well with a brush and soda.
3. Boil 200 g. Chicken in salted water, you can add to the vegetable broth.
4. Strain and dilute gelatin in it. Allow to cool slightly.
5. Fill the egg shape with corn, diced ham, pepper and herbs 6. Pour broth.
7. In the fridge until completely solidified.
8. Before serving, peel the shells and decorate with greens.
Meat galantine for 1 hour
In the world, there is no hostess who would not dream of cooking aspic quickly. Spending on cooking no more than an hour. Over time, recipes are becoming simpler and easier. It only remains to try once to finally fall in love and share a quick recipe with friends.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of warm water
- 1 can of any meat stew
- 25 gr. Gelatin
- salt pepper
- greens for decoration
- vegetables for broth
Preparation:
1. Heat half a glass of water, dilute gelatin in it
2. Choose meat from stew and disassemble into fibers
3. Boil the broth from the remnants of fat and vegetables
4. Enter the gelatin
5. Salt and pepper
6. Beautifully decompose the meat fibers in a deep plate, or in sudochki for jelly
7. Pour the transparent jelly
8. Decorate with greens
9. Leave in a cold place - freeze
Tips and tricks for making clear jellies
- Gelatin, categorically can not be diluted in metal and aluminum dishes, in order to avoid reaction and darkening.
- You can make jelly not only with gelatin, but also with other thickeners, such as agar-agar and pectin.
- In order for the jelly not to lose its shape and not melt, you need to put it in the fridge.
- In order to avoid mold, it is enough to put parchment paper soaked in alcohol on the jelly.
