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Rhubarb kissel is a tasty and healthy drink that even a novice housewife can prepare. It has a balanced acidity and sweetness, so the jelly will be liked not only by children, but also by adults. There are many recipes for making a rhubarb drink, some of them will be presented in the article. After trying each of them, you can find the option that works best for the family.
How to make rhubarb jelly
Don't think that store drinks are healthier. It is best to cook compotes and juices with your own hands, since the hostess does not add any preservatives. And only high-quality products are taken. You can't find rhubarb kissel on store shelves, but you can make it at home.
Selection of ingredients
The drink can be brewed with fresh or frozen rhubarb stalks. Only young petioles collected at the beginning of summer are suitable for this. But the leaves cannot be used, as they are poisonous.
Great additives include:
- zest of lemon, orange;
- bananas and apples;
- strawberries and cream;
- cinnamon and cardamom.
Useful Tips
And now about how to prepare young petioles:
- Rinse the collected stems well in cold water, spread on a towel to glass the liquid.
- Then, using a knife, or better with a vegetable cutter, cut off the thin skin. It should be removed in the form of wide strips.
- Cut the vegetable into cubes or small strips, depending on the recommendations of the recipe.
- Put in a saucepan, add granulated sugar.
- Then cook the pieces until tender.
- So that a film does not form on the drink while it cools down, sprinkle the mixture with sugar on top.
Secrets of making jelly for children:
- The sugar indicated in the recipe is not a panacea, it can be added depending on the child's taste preferences.
- The thickness of the rhubarb dessert will depend on the amount of starch taken. But if you are preparing a drink, then you should not overdo it with this ingredient.
- To give a special taste to rhubarb jelly, which is prepared for children, you can also add currants, pears, dried apricots, raisins. These ingredients are cooked at the same time as the petioles, then mashed.
- To obtain a clear drink, only the liquid in which the rhubarb stalks were boiled is used.
Traditional rhubarb kissel
To prepare 4-6 servings you will need:
- 500 g rhubarb;
- 2 tbsp. l. starch;
- 2 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
- 1 liter of water.
Features of the recipe:
- Cut off the leaf blades, leaving only the petioles. Rinse and dry them.
- According to the recipe for the drink, the petioles must be cut into cubes. Then add granulated sugar, water and place on the stove. Cooking time - a quarter of an hour with constant stirring.
- Then the drink is boiled only from syrup, so you need to put the mass in a colander and drain the liquid.
- In 1 st. water to dissolve starch. Stir it thoroughly so that no lumps form. Put the syrup on the stove, boil it and add the starch liquid in a thin stream with constant stirring.
- Boil the liquid for another 5 minutes, then remove from the stove and cool.
Delicious rhubarb and banana recipe
As already noted, various fruits and berries can be added to rhubarb jelly to add a special taste and aroma. You can make a banana rhubarb drink.
Ingredients for jelly:
- petioles - 400 g;
- sugar - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
- water - 400 ml;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l .;
- banana - 1 pc.
From the proposed ingredients, 2 servings of the drink are obtained. It takes about half an hour to prepare it:
- Chop the petioles into small pieces, add sugar, water and boil until softened.
- Strain the rhubarb through a colander and puree.
- Transfer it to sweet and sour syrup.
- Remove the peel from the banana, chop the pulp in a blender.
- Put both purees in syrup, mix, bring to a boil.
- While the future jelly is boiling, you need to dilute the starch in 1 tbsp. cold water and pour in a thin stream while stirring into the boiling syrup.
- Boil rhubarb jelly for 5 minutes over low heat and remove.
- Divide the delicious dessert into portions and refrigerate.
Fragrant rhubarb and apple jelly
To prepare aromatic rhubarb jelly, you will need the following products:
- sweet apples and rhubarb stalks - 300 g each;
- sugar - 6 tbsp. l. with a slide;
- water - 6 tbsp.;
- potato starch - 8 tbsp. l .;
- beets - 1-2 pieces.
How to cook properly:
- Wash and peel the petioles, cut into slices.
- Peel the apples, remove the seeds and cut into small cubes.
- Put the chopped ingredients in a cooking container, add granulated sugar, add cold water. And also the secret ingredient, thanks to which the jelly will acquire a reddish color - beets. The vegetable is removed 5 minutes after boiling.
- After 10 minutes, strain the apples and rhubarb through a colander, make mashed potatoes from them.
- Combine with syrup, pour in prepared starch, stirring contents with a whisk.
This completes the process of making a drink from rhubarb with apples, you can pour it into glasses.
Rhubarb jelly with cream
Ingredients:
- rhubarb stalks - 2 pcs.;
- cream - 500 ml;
- granulated sugar - 3 tbsp. l. for adding to cream and also for adding to jelly - to taste;
- water - 1 l;
- potato starch - 3 tbsp. l. without top;
- tea with mint - 2 package;
- vanilla sugar - 1 packet.
Features of making dessert:
- Peeled stalks for jelly are cut into slices and put in boiling syrup, where sugar and mint tea are already poured.
- Boil the mixture for 5 minutes, remove the tea bags, continue simmering until the rhubarb softens.
- Dilute the starch in cold water, pour it into the liquid with rhubarb while stirring. Cook for at least 5 minutes so that the starch is well dispersed.
- When the drink has cooled down, they begin to prepare the cream. Beat them with sugar and vanilla.
- Jelly is poured into glasses, cream is added on top. You can decorate with melted chocolate.
Recipe for refreshing rhubarb and strawberry jelly
To prepare jelly you will need:
- young petioles - 500 g;
- apples - 2 pcs.;
- strawberries - 150 g;
- white wine - 125 ml;
- granulated sugar - 4-5 tbsp. l .;
- orange liqueur - 3 tbsp l .;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.
Cooking steps:
- Cut the peeled vegetable into pieces 3-4 cm long.
- The strawberries are washed, cut into 2 pieces.
- Peeled apples are cut into slices.
- Water, wine, 2-2.5 tablespoons of sugar, part of strawberries, rhubarb, apples are poured into a saucepan. From the moment of boiling, cook over low heat for a third of an hour.
- For jelly, the ingredients are whipped right in the pan with a mixer to get a homogeneous mass.
- Put the second half of apples and petioles in mashed potatoes, bring to a boil.
- Dissolve starch in cold water, carefully pour it into a saucepan with constant stirring.
- When the mass boils, liquor is introduced. Ready and chilled jelly is laid out in portioned bowls, sprinkled with granulated sugar, decorated with slices of strawberries and mint leaves.
Recipe for rhubarb jelly with lemon zest
Lemon is a great addition to rhubarb drinks. But in this recipe, it is the zest that is used.
For cooking you will need:
- stems - 300 g;
- sugar - 160 g;
- starch - 40 g;
- lemon zest - 5 g;
- water - 0.7 l.
Cooking rules:
- Young petioles are cut into pieces of no more than 1 cm.
- Lemon zest is finely chopped.
- 500 ml of water is poured into a saucepan, boiled, then sugar is added, syrup is boiled.
- Put pieces of rhubarb, zest in the syrup and simmer for about 12 minutes.
- When the petioles become soft, the mass for the future jelly is rubbed through a sieve and brought to a boil again.
- The starch diluted in cold water is poured into the boiling mass with stirring, boiled for 2-3 minutes and removed from the heat.
- While the jelly has not cooled down, it is poured into mugs or glasses and cooled.
Conclusion
Rhubarb kissel is an excellent soft drink, which is appropriate not only on a hot summer day, but also in winter, when there are not enough vitamins. That is why many housewives specially freeze rhubarb stalks.
