Before you start preparing any gelatin dish, it must be diluted in water. The most important thing is to learn how to do it correctly. We initially dissolve gelatin in cold water, and then heat the solution, brought with additional water to the volume we need.

There are some tricks:

• It is very important to observe all the necessary proportions, this is done so as not to end up with rubber. If you have 20 grams of gelatin, then mix them with one liter of water. You will end up with dangling jellies. A little more gelatin (from 40 to 60 grams) for the same liter of water, we get jelly that will need to be cut.
• Gelatin should not be boiled under any circumstances, otherwise it will simply thicken and that’s it.
• To make the fruit dish look beautiful and the gelatin to be evenly distributed in the mold, you need to finely chop the fruit.
• Do not cool the gelatin in the freezer, otherwise you will get a crystallized mass.
• Be sure to pay attention to the expiration date of gelatin; expired gelatin can let you and the entire dish down.

Here are some recipes using gelatin.

1.Dairy dessert

We need less than a tablespoon of gelatin, half a glass of water and two and a half glasses of milk. We will also add three large spoons of sugar and a little vanilla.

First of all, pour the gelatin powder into cooled boiled water and leave it to soak for half an hour, after which we squeeze it out thoroughly. Milk must be heated to a boil and sugar added to it. Boil further with sugar, and then remove from heat. Constantly stirring the milk, add our squeezed gelatin to it.

Let the resulting mass cool and season it with a little vanilla. Mix everything thoroughly and strain using a strainer or gauze napkin. Pour the prepared mixture into molds and place them in a cool place. When you are ready to serve the jelly, you need to place the molds in hot water for a couple of seconds and then it will come out of the molds well.

2. Chocolate soufflé

For this dish we will need 8 eggs, 200 grams of powdered sugar, a liter of milk, 50 grams of cocoa, 25 grams of gelatin and a couple of packets of vanillin.

We separate the eggs, not the yolks and whites. Mix the yolks with powder and add cocoa powder and milk to them. Cocoa must first be diluted with milk. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove and continue stirring, add gelatin soaked in cool water. The whites must be whipped together with vanilla powder into a stable foam, and in a foamy state, add them to the cooled mass. Stir, pour into molds and place in a cool place.

3. Yogurt jelly

We need 40 grams of gelatin, a little more than half a glass of water, boiling water, two tablespoons of yogurt, 100 grams of sugar, the zest of half a lemon, 2 tablespoons of an alcoholic drink - cognac or rum (to your taste).

The gelatin, left for some time in very cold water, is poured with boiling water and stirred very well. Pour yogurt there, previously whipped with sugar. It is better to beat the yogurt by steaming it, this will make it fluffier. Add the grated prepared zest and the alcohol you chose to the resulting mixture. Pour the finished mixture into any molds. Be sure to rinse the molds with cold water first.

4. Jelly “Air milk”

We will need: Half a liter of milk, two tablespoons of sugar and 25 grams of vanillin, just a little vanilla will also come in handy.

Soak the gelatin in water and wait until it swells. We dissolve sugar in milk, and you need to boil it, add vanillin to it. Dissolve gelatin in freshly boiled milk and then beat it into a stable foam. Distribute the resulting mixture into prepared molds and place in a cool place. The jelly will be delicious to eat with various syrups and fruit sauces.

5. Berry and milk pleasure

Required: gelatin - a tablespoon, half a glass of water, one and a half glasses of milk, 4 large spoons of sugar and three large spoons of berries of your choice.

Fill the gelatin with water, preferably cold, and leave to soak for half an hour. Meanwhile, prepare the milk base. We take milk and need to bring it to a boil along with half the required sugar. When the milk boils, add half of the soaked gelatin to it. Don't forget to stir constantly. Pour the resulting milk mixture into pre-cooled metal molds. The layer should be approximately 5 centimeters thick.

Place in the refrigerator and let cool thoroughly. When our mixture has hardened, take the molds out of the refrigerator and apply the next layer. this will be berry jelly, after which the layer will be milky again. Berry jelly is also very easy to prepare. Squeeze the juice from the berries and strain it. After straining, the remainder left on napkins is sent to boil along with sugar. Then filter again and add the remaining gelatin to this, stir thoroughly and mix with berry juice.

Gelatin is processed collagen, or a protein found in animal connective tissue. Many people practice consuming 1-2 teaspoons of dry gelatin daily. However, doctors are silent about its full absorption by the body with this use. But at home, you can make all kinds of desserts from gelatin. They are so simple to make that they will not present any difficulties even to a novice cook. The recipes proposed in the article will tell you how to make jelly with a bright and original taste using a variety of ingredients.

Basic cooking method

Per liter of liquid you will need about 40 g of gelatin. Since it is usually packaged in 15 g per package, you will need at least three of them. The contents should be placed in a glass, the remaining volume of which should be filled with cold water. To ensure uniform swelling of the gelatin, stir the mixture every 10 minutes. After 40 minutes, the jelly base can be turned off.

You can save significant time if you start preparing the remaining components of the jelly immediately after pouring the gelatin with water. These can be berries that need to be boiled in a separate container with water and lightly boiled. All that remains is to add the swollen gelatin to the resulting compote. The liquid must be brought to a boil again, stirring continuously, removed from heat and poured into molds.

They need to be placed in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. If the form is roomy enough, you can leave it overnight.

The type of berries or fruits taken does not affect the hardening time of the jelly. The main thing is to ensure that there is no imbalance in proportions: when there is less gelatin than needed, the jelly may not set. If you don’t have time to boil, you can use ready-made juices as a base. To do this, gelatin is also pre-soaked, after which it needs to be dissolved on the stove, and then added to the juice and mixed.

There is no need to limit yourself to the process of pouring gelatin into fruit liquids when you can experiment a little with fillings. You will be able to prepare completely different types of jelly: both in appearance and in taste.

Dessert No. 1 – striped flight

First of all, berry and fruit preparations are made so that the jelly is multi-colored:

• pears + apples;
• pineapples + oranges;
• cranberry + strawberry.

First, one of the liquids is filled with gelatin, after which it must be poured into molds in a layer of about 1-2 cm thick. After an hour of hardening in the refrigerator, the next liquid is added on top of the mixture, which was also brought to a boil after adding gelatin. The forms are again placed in the refrigerator, and similar actions are performed with the remaining products.

If there are not many ingredients, and only a couple are available, then layers of different colors can simply be alternated. To decorate, you can alternately add a piece of fruit or berry to each of them. Experiments are welcome here!

Dessert No. 2 – avalanche

The dessert requires a small amount of ingredients:

• gelatin;
• milk;
• sour berries.

The first step is to prepare the berry-gelatin base, which also needs to be poured into molds. They are placed in the refrigerator in such a way that the contents freeze at an angle. Therefore, wine glasses are perfect as forms for this dessert. The layer frozen in this position will act as a “mountain”.

The second layer will be milky. The mixture of gelatin base and milk is brought to a boil, after which it is added to the glasses. But now they need to be placed in the refrigerator in an even position to harden. The result is a layer of milky snow that adorns the red mountain.

The delicate milky taste and berry sourness combine perfectly.

Dessert No. 3 – a storm in a glass

The recipe contains alcohol, so it is suitable for a feast with friends.

The berry-fruit mixture must first be strained so that there are no fruit fragments or seeds left in it. Before introducing gelatin into the liquid, a small amount of vodka is added to it (1/8 of the total volume). Then gelatin is poured into the mixture and brought to a boil. Small glasses are used as containers into which the finished liquid is poured. To harden, they are placed in the refrigerator.

The berry and fruit base can be replaced with orange juice.

Dessert No. 4 – sour cream

Not too fatty sour cream (1 l) should be whipped with sugar (100 g) using a mixer. Finely chopped prunes in the desired quantity are added to the mixture. Pre-soaked gelatin is brought to dissolution and poured into the mixture. All that remains is to mix everything well and place in the molds.

Although jelly is not an instant dessert that can be used to surprise friends who happen to drop by, it is unlikely to cause much harm to their figure.

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Jelly is very popular with children and adults. The variety of recipes allows you to prepare products that have a special taste difference. Any similar dessert, including fruit jelly, is prepared from:

• gelatin;
• water;
• Sahara;
• fresh fruits and berries;
• milk;
• sour cream;
• cream;
• syrups;
• berry juices and other products.

To enhance the aroma, orange zest, vanilla sugar, liqueurs, wines, and citric acid can be added.

Traditional recipe

To prepare a wonderful dessert in natural home conditions, you need the following ingredients:

• sour cream;
• fruit syrup;
• cream;
• coffee;
• lemon acid;
• melted chocolate;
• sugar;
• orange zest;
• table wine;
• pieces of fruit.

Important: if you take fresh berries and fruits, you need to put them in a container, cover them with sugar, and wait for the juice to release. The resulting syrup is suitable for eating a delicious dessert, such as fruit jelly.

The delicacy is served in transparent glasses, goblets or bowls. The jelly, consisting of multi-colored layers, looks original. To make it, you need to pour warm jelly into a bowl. When the mass can completely harden, lower the mold into boiling water and immediately remove it so that the dessert can move away from the walls, turn it over and place it on a portioned dish or plates.

A recipe for raspberry jelly from frozen or fresh berries can be a bright dessert not only with excellent taste, but also natural without preservatives and dyes, which are found in semi-finished products from bags. In order to prepare a natural product, you need to take:

• a glass of fresh raspberries;
• water – 400 ml;
• gelatin – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
• a glass of dry white wine;
• sweet peaches – 3 pieces;
• half a glass of sugar;
• mint leaves for decoration.

Delicious jelly is prepared this way. Sprinkle fresh berries with two large spoons of sugar to release juice. In the meantime, you need to prepare the syrup by taking a glass of wine, water and sugar, which you need to boil for two minutes. Then add the peach halves and simmer for a while. Take them out, remove the skin and put them in the refrigerator. Then combine the finished syrup and raspberries with juice and boil this mixture for another five minutes. Cool well and rub through a sieve.

Important: gelatin should only be poured with wine, this should not be done with water.

Pour the swollen gelatin into the hot raspberry syrup and mix everything. Place the finished dessert into glasses or bowls and place it in a cool place to harden for five hours. The finished dish can be decorated with chopped peaches, raspberries and mint leaves.

The jelly will be very tasty if you prepare it with sour cream and chocolate. This recipe is the most affordable option to make a delicious dessert. Chocolate can be replaced with instant coffee or cocoa. The steps to prepare the product are as follows. Stock up on ingredients:

• cocoa powder - 3 large spoons;
• a glass of sugar;
• thick sour cream - one and a half glasses;
• gelatin - 30 g;
• kiwi.

First, add water to the gelatin as directed on the package and stir frequently for 30 minutes. Take half a liter of hot water. Next, mix sour cream and sugar. If necessary, leave until the sugar is completely dissolved and mix well again. Pour the swollen gelatin into the sour cream and mix again.

Transfer half of this jelly, prepared naturally at home, into another bowl, and add cocoa powder to the rest and mix. Pour some chocolate jelly into a flat pan and refrigerate until it thickens. After that, you can pour a sour cream layer on top of it and put it in the refrigerator again. Do this until the molds are filled to the top. Decorate with kiwi.

Even the most demanding lovers of this dessert will be able to appreciate the following recipe. If you prepare such a dish, it will surprise you with its variety of tastes and ingredients. The product consists only of strong coffee and milk. The products used are available to everyone, and they are inexpensive. First you need to take the following components for coffee jelly:

• 1.5 glasses of strong hot coffee;
• 45 g water;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 25 g vanilla sugar;
• 15 g gelatin;
• lemon;
• for milk jelly you need 15 g of gelatin;
• 45 g water;
• 2 tbsp. Sahara;
• 25 g vanilla sugar;
• 1.5 glasses of milk.

First you need to add gelatin to swell. It just needs to be soaked in chilled boiled water. Next, brew a coffee drink and dissolve regular and vanilla sugar in it. Slowly pour the swollen gelatin into the hot coffee with lemon and stir thoroughly, then pour the dessert into the molds.

After the delicacy has hardened in the refrigerator, the prepared product is turned over onto a plate. The next step is to prepare the milk jelly. It is similar to the previous description. Place milk jelly on top of the frozen ball of coffee jelly and do so until the mold is completely filled. When serving, you can garnish with a little grated chocolate.

To prepare the product you will need:

• a quarter kilogram of cottage cheese;
• half a glass of sour cream;
• a glass of milk;
• 15 g gelatin;
• 100 g sugar;
• 5 g vanilla sugar;
• grape;
• cherry plum;
• apples;
• crackers;
• corn sticks;
• dark chocolate.

First of all, having decided to prepare such a dessert at home, you need to pour milk into the gelatin and leave it to swell. Next, the milk should be heated over low heat and stirred constantly so that the gelatin can dissolve well. Allow the product to cool slightly. Place cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream, vanillin in a blender bowl and beat these components at low speed, and then switch to high speed to best grind the cottage cheese.

Pour milk with dissolved gelatin into the crushed curd mass in a thin stream. Don't forget to cut the fruit in the meantime. Line the mold with special cling film, place a few spoons of the curd mixture on the bottom of the dish, put corn sticks on top and lay out the cottage cheese again. Continue this way, laying out pieces of fruit and cottage cheese mixture one by one. Cover the final ball with broken crackers, then wrap it in film and place the mold in the refrigerator. When the dessert is ready, remove it from the mold, transfer it to a dish, and decorate with chocolate.

Sour cream dessert

• jelly from various berries and fruits - three packs;
• sugar - half a glass;
• sour cream - five hundred grams;
• gelatin - forty grams.

First of all, you need to make jelly according to the instructions. You need to take about a glass of water. Then pour the dessert into the molds in a thin layer and place in the refrigerator. Mix gelatin with 300 ml of water and then leave to swell. This procedure will take half an hour. Divide the prepared jelly into small pieces, which are placed in bowls.

Then bring the gelatin to a boil over low heat. Combine gelatin, sugar and whipped sour cream, mix thoroughly to obtain a uniform mass. Next, pour everything into bowls with gelatin and put it in a cold place again. You can serve the prepared dessert directly in the bowls.

Sour cream and strawberry jelly is a product that is worth preparing for the holiday. To create such a sweet you will, of course, need to spend a little time and effort, but this dessert has no equal in taste. For the sour cream layer you will need:

• gelatin;
• milk;
• sour cream;
• vanilla sugar;
• regular sugar.

To make the strawberry layer:

• gelatin;
• cold water;
• strawberry;
• sugar.

Important: when serving this jelly, you can generously sprinkle it with chocolate.

To prepare sour cream jelly, you need to pour gelatin over milk and water over strawberries. Leave everything to swell. Next you need to make strawberry jelly. Thaw the strawberries, then puree them in a blender along with three large spoons of sugar. Gently heat the swollen gelatin to a boil over low heat until the product dissolves well.

Cool to room temperature and very slowly, in small portions, add to the berry puree. Leave in the refrigerator. Then bring the gelatin, previously filled with milk, until dissolved. Set aside the dissolved gelatin so that it does not interfere, proceed to whipping sour cream with vanilla sugar. Without stopping, you need to beat and add gelatin, which has been cooled to ambient temperature, and add it to the strawberry jelly.

Place the dessert in layers in glasses: the first ball is sour cream, the second is strawberry, and so on. Place a little fruit dessert, in this case strawberry, on the last layer of sour cream and make derivative streaks using a stick. Place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Lemon jelly

Lemon jelly can be very refreshing in the summer heat. For lemon you will need:

• 1.5 cups sugar;
• 20 g gelatin;
• 3 glasses of water.

The recipe for this fruit jelly is very simple. First you need to prepare the zest from the citrus product. Dissolve 1.5 cups of sugar in water and add more lemon zest. Meanwhile, dissolve the gelatin in the standard way and gradually add this substance to a mixture of water with lemon zest and sugar. Squeeze juice from lemon. Bring the water to a boil, but do not boil it, because then the jelly will not be able to harden.

When the water reaches the required temperature, gradually pour lemon juice into the container and immediately turn off the heat. Prepare a cooking cloth or sieve, strain and place in the refrigerator to harden. Decorate the treat with your favorite berries and mint.

If you decide to pamper your household with a delicious and delicate dessert, then try making jelly. The process of preparing it will not take you much time, and all the necessary ingredients can be found in the refrigerator. In addition, jelly is considered a very healthy product containing a large amount of nutrients. How to make jelly at home?

We have selected for you several simple recipes for making a delicious jelly dessert.

What you need to know about making jelly at home?

To make the jelly not only tasty, but also healthy, when preparing it you need to take into account the following nuances:

• if you are preparing jelly for small children, then use only natural products;
• the main component of jelly is gelatin - it must be pre-soaked;
• jelly can be poured into special molds or used in any container, for example, glasses or glasses;
• if you are preparing multi-layer jelly, then each subsequent layer is poured when the previous one thickens;
• add a variety of fruits and berries to the jelly; you can also use honey, yogurt, jam, cottage cheese and milk.

How to make gelatin jelly: a classic recipe

As already mentioned, most often jelly is prepared using gelatin, since it is this that helps maintain the shape and harden the dessert. In addition, with gelatin, jelly is prepared much faster and easier. We present to your attention a recipe for delicious jelly with fruits.

Compound:

• gelatin - 3 tbsp. l.;
• water - 0.5 l;
• fruits and berries (at your discretion);
• sugar - 100 g.

Preparation:

Sour cream jelly recipe

Compound:

• sour cream - 1 l;
• gelatin - 20 g;
• fruits and berries (of your choice);
• sugar - 100 g.

Preparation:

1. Gelatin, previously swollen, must be heated in a saucepan over low heat or in a microwave oven.
2. Beat sour cream and sugar until smooth in a blender.
3. Continuously whisking, add gelatin to the sour cream. Mix everything well.
4. Fruits need to be washed, peeled and finely chopped, added to sour cream and mixed.
5. Pour the resulting mixture into molds and place in the refrigerator until it thickens.

How to make jelly from jam?

Compound:

• 150 g strawberry jam;
• 1 tbsp. water;
• 15 g gelatin.

Preparation:

1. Gelatin should be poured with cold water and wait until it swells.
2. You should remove the strawberries from the jam, and add water to the syrup and stir.
3. Boil the syrup over low heat, slowly adding gelatin.
4. When the gelatin has dissolved, remove the pan from the heat.
5. Place strawberries on the bottom of the molds and fill with syrup and gelatin.
6. When the syrup has cooled, place the jelly molds in the refrigerator.

Recipe for making colorful jelly with fruits

Compound:

• gelatin - 40 g;
• powdered sugar - 1 tbsp;
• 3 oranges;
• 6 kiwi;
• 2 bananas;
• creamy yogurt - 250 ml.

Preparation:

1. Peel the oranges and squeeze out the juice using a juicer.
2. Cut the orange zest into small pieces and mix with yogurt.
3. Peel the kiwi, banana and beat with a blender (separately) until you get a paste.
4. Dissolve gelatin in water, as in previous recipes.
5. Pour gelatin into yogurt and mix. Pour the resulting mixture into molds, filling only a quarter of them, and put them in the refrigerator.
6. As soon as the base hardens, add kiwi, previously mixed with gelatin, on top and place it in the refrigerator again.
7. In this way we make two more layers: orange and banana. The main thing is to wait until the previous layer hardens.

You can arrange the layers in any order, add other fruits, or place berries between different types of jellies. You can sprinkle the jelly on top with nuts or decorate with fruit.

Jelly at home: photo

There are many ways to make jelly at home. It is made from cottage cheese and sour cream, jam and fruit juice. This list can be continued indefinitely. Experiment, add new ingredients, come up with original forms of jelly - and your dessert will be a success among guests and household members. Bon appetit!

Gelatin is nothing more than processed collagen (animal connective tissue protein), so many girls find it extremely useful to consume one or two teaspoons of dry gelatin daily. Doctors do not comment on how much it is actually absorbed by the body, so it is better to still use it for its intended purpose - to prepare delicious dishes from it, including wonderful and simple desserts. Due to the fact that the product is of animal origin, it should not be eaten by vegans, who are advised to make jelly from pectin or agar-agar as an alternative.

Basic gelatin recipe
Gelatin is taken at the rate of approximately 40 grams per 1 liter of liquid. Since the classic packaging is 15g per package, you need to take about 3 packs. Pour the contents into a glass and top up with cold water. To ensure that the gelatin swells evenly, stir periodically (every 10 minutes), and after 40 minutes the jelly base will be ready. In order not to waste time, as soon as you pour the gelatin with water, start preparing what you are going to make the jelly from. For example, rinse the berries, add water, put on fire, bring to a boil and boil a little. After this, add the swollen gelatin and, stirring constantly, bring your “compote” to a boil again. After that, remove it immediately. Pour the liquid into the molds and refrigerate for at least 2-3 hours, preferably overnight if you have a very deep mold. The jelly is ready!

You can take any fruits and berries - this will not affect the freezing in any way. The only problem may be that the jelly will not set if you do not add gelatin, so measure the proportions accurately. You can take ready-made liquids (for example, juices), then you do not need to boil them. Simply dissolve the gelatin on the stove after soaking, pour into the juice and stir.

Recipes for various types of jelly
In addition to simply filling fruit compotes with gelatin, you can play with fillings and make this dessert interesting both in appearance and in taste!

1. Striped flight. Make several jelly preparations of different colors - oranges and pineapples, apples and pears, strawberries and cranberries, etc. To begin, fill only one of these liquids with gelatin - pour a small layer into your molds (1-2 cm, depending on the depth of the mold). Leave in the refrigerator for an hour, and then, as the mixture hardens, add the next liquid on top, into which you just poured the gelatin and brought to a boil. Also put it in the refrigerator. Repeat with all remaining products.
   You can make this dessert with one or two ingredients, alternating them often if you don't have many ingredients. You can put a berry or a piece of fruit on the previous layer before pouring a new one... In short, don’t be afraid to experiment!
   
2. Avalanche. For this recipe you will need sour berries and milk. First prepare the berry base with gelatin and pour it into molds. Place in the refrigerator so that the mixture is angled in your pan - this dessert will look beautiful in a wine glass. It is necessary that this layer freezes in exactly this position - this will be our “mountain”.
   We will make the next layer from milk - pour the mixture of gelatin base and milk brought to a boil into your glass and place it in the refrigerator in a level position. After hardening, the dessert is ready! A layer of milky snow lies beautifully on the red mountain, and the delicate taste of milk goes well with sour berries. It also tastes delicious with strawberries.
   
3. A storm in a teacup. This option is more likely to amuse your friends. It is better to strain the fruit and berry mixture from seeds and pieces of fruit. Before pouring gelatin into the prepared liquid, add a little vodka, about 1/8 of the volume (do not overdo the amount!). After pouring in the gelatin and bringing to a boil, pour the liquid into small glasses and leave to harden in the refrigerator. This recipe can also be made with orange juice.
   
4. Sour cream recipe. Take about 1 liter of not very fatty sour cream, beat with a mixer with about one hundred grams of sugar. Finely chop the prunes (the quantity is limited only by your taste) and mix with the resulting mixture. After soaking, bring the gelatin to complete dissolution on the stove and pour into the resulting mass. Mix thoroughly and distribute into molds.
   

Even a novice cook can handle gelatin, and the variety of ingredients will allow you to constantly experiment. Jelly cannot be called a dessert with which you can pamper unexpected guests, since it still requires time to prepare, but it is an excellent budget option for a homemade delicacy that will not harm your figure (of course, it depends on the filling you choose).