Because fruits are usually prepared compotes, jams and marmalades.This is a traditional piece.You can also prepare jelly apples for the winter.Firstly, it is the most affordable fruit.Secondly, apples, especially acidic varieties contain much of pectin, which promotes the formation of gel.Consider a few recipes of the dishes.
Two variants of preparation
Cold way is to add sugar to the apple juice, and sometimes pectin.The mixture is well stirred until complete dissolution of ingredients and poured into jars.Jelly from apples, the prepared for the winter, in the cold store.
hot more laborious.Fresh juice with sugar, boiled for 30 minutes in a large container on high heat.Thus it is necessary to interfere with it constantly and remove the foam.Cook no more need to put time, not to destroy the pectin.
simple recipe
Take 1 kg of sour apples, washed, cut into wedges, remove seeds, spread in a saucepan and fill with water.Cook about 30 minutes over medium heat.The pan should cover.Then drain the broth and filter it.For every cup of broth will need 160 grams of sugar.Put the apples in the syrup and cook until the mixture will turn into a jelly.At the end add 1 g of citric acid.Jelly from apples, the prepared for the winter, spread to the banks, close lid and put in a cold place, when cool.
Jelly ginger
will take 2.5 kg of apples, grated zest of 4 lemons, 2 kg of sugar and 30 grams of ginger root.Pour into a saucepan half a liter of water and covered with sugar.Boil syrup until until it is dripping from the spoon very slowly, which means it must be very thick.Before making jelly apples, they should prepare.Clean up, remove seeds and cut into slices.Ginger clean and three on a grater.Next, mix fruit, lemon zest, ginger and add to the syrup.Now we cook everything is about 1.5 hours, but on a very low heat.Jelly from apples (for the winter), put in jars.After cooling the ship in a cool place.
recipe with oranges
Apples are perfectly combined with a lot of fruit.Therefore, we can safely experiment, creating new flavors.Take one kilogram of apples and oranges, 1.2 kg of sugar and 2 cups of water.Before you prepare jelly apples, oranges to be cleaned from the skin and films.With peels remove the zest.Main fruits washed, cleaned, remove the seeds and three on a grater.Fill them with water and boil until a puree.Then wipe it through a sieve.We spread the puree sugar, oranges and zest.All we stir and cook for about 15 minutes.Jelly from apples, the prepared for the winter, spread to the banks, close and leave to cool.Then we move them to store in a cool place.
In conclusion
Apples are rich in pectin, but do not have a pronounced taste.To improve the taste of the jelly can combine them with more aromatic fruits that do not have such stocks pectin.Thus, they complement each other, and you get a delicious jelly.The cooking process is similar to the recipe.