Strawberry jelly - 6 step-by-step recipes for the winter

Strawberry jelly is a delicate and delicious sweetness that resembles strawberry jam, but comes out more flavorful and retains more vitamins. Such a blank is stored in a cool place for about a year.

Thick strawberry jelly for the winter with gelatin

With the addition of gelatin, the consistency of strawberry puree takes on a very delicate shape, the jelly literally melts in your mouth. It can be used as a semi-finished product for baking or eaten with tea or coffee, spreading on a bun.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 4.

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  Rinse the berries well so that there is no sand, and remove the stalks.
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  Transfer the strawberries to a saucepan and cover with sugar. Heat the berries with sugar over low heat for about 10-15 minutes. Taste the mass, add lemon juice to taste.
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  Transfer the strawberry jam to a blender and purée or use a hand blender. This will take approximately 3-5 minutes. After that, return the puree to the saucepan and heat for another 5-7 minutes.
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  While the strawberry mass is cooking, pour the gelatin with hot water and, stirring, let it dissolve, which takes 5-7 minutes.
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  Pour the dissolved gelatin to the strawberry mass, stir and remove the saucepan from the stove. Pour strawberry jelly into jars, which must first be sterilized, and seal. Leave them in a warm place until they cool completely, then store them cold.

A simple and delicious recipe for strawberry jelly with agar agar

Agar-agar gives jelly an unusual flavor, and also allows strawberry jelly to retain its shape: even at room temperature, the dessert does not spread and remains tender and tasty.

Cooking time: 25 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings - 2.

Ingredients:

• Strawberries - 300 gr.
• Granulated sugar - 180 gr.
• Agar-agar - 3 gr.
• Water - 350 ml

Cooking process:

1. Sort the berries, remove the stalks and rinse well.
2. Pour sugar into a saucepan.
3. Pour 250 ml of cold drinking water over the agar-agar.
4. Put a saucepan with berries and sugar on the fire, pour in 100 ml of water and simmer for about 10 minutes.
5. Strain the strawberry syrup and remove the berries. Add agar-agar with water to the syrup and boil the mixture again.
6. Pour the strawberry jelly into the prepared serving bowl and leave in the cold to set the dessert. Serve garnished with fresh berries and basil leaves.

How to prepare strawberry jelly for the winter with pectin?

Pectin is very useful for humans, and in combination with strawberries is a good way to saturate the body with useful substances in the cold season. Pectin jelly can be used to make cakes and other baked goods.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 4.

Ingredients:

• Strawberry - 1 kg
• Fruit pectin - 10 gr.
• Granulated sugar - 330 gr.
• Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons
• Fresh thyme - 3 branches.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the strawberries well from the sand, sort out and get rid of the stalks and leaves. Large berries can be cut in half.
2. Put the berries in a suitable container, add the pectin and heat over medium heat for 10 minutes, until the strawberries begin to exude juice.
3. Add sugar, lemon juice and sprigs of fresh thyme to the strawberry mass with pectin. Continue heating the mass, stirring, until the sugar grains are completely dissolved.Cook for about 15 minutes to thicken the strawberry mass.
4. Pour the finished strawberry jelly into clean, sterilized containers and close.
5. After cooling completely, strawberry jelly with pectin should be stored in a cool place.

Delicious strawberry jelly for the winter with citric acid

Strawberry sugar jelly can be sugary sweet, and citric acid is used to neutralize the excess sweetness. It enhances the strawberry flavor and gives the jelly a slight sourness.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 12.

Ingredients:

• Strawberry - 3 kg
• Sugar - sand - 1.5 kg
• Citric acid to taste.
• Water - for making sugar syrup.

Cooking process:

1. We sort out the strawberries, wash and remove the stalks. We put the prepared berries in a saucepan.
2. We fill in with half of the sugar, and after the berries begin to secrete juice, add the rest of the sugar and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes, periodically removing the foam with a wooden spoon.
3. Brew sugar syrup from a tablespoon of sugar and water, add the required amount of citric acid there and pour the syrup into a container with strawberry jelly. Stir well.
4. We continue to heat the mass on the stove for another 5 minutes.
5. Pour the finished strawberry jelly into clean glass jars, seal tightly and store in the cold.

Step-by-step recipe for strawberry jelly for the winter without gelatin

This version of strawberry jelly requires sour apples to help neutralize excessive sugary sugar, while also containing pectin, which helps preserve dessert without adding gelatin.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings - 8.

Ingredients:

• Strawberry - 1 kg
• Granulated sugar - 1 kg
• Sour apples - 500 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Sort the strawberries, remove the stalks. Remove the peel from the apples, cut into slices, remove the seeds from the fruit.
2. In a separate container, puree the berries, and then, by analogy, but in a different bowl, turn the apple slices into puree.
3. Mix fruit and berry puree in one saucepan, add sugar.
4. Heat the mixture over low heat, stirring regularly, until it thickens.
5. Transfer hot strawberry jelly to clean, sterilized containers and seal tightly. Store dessert in a cool, dark place.

Thick strawberry and red currant jelly for the winter

Whole strawberries in red currant jelly are a light and bright dessert that can be served with tea during winter gatherings by the fireplace, or used with pancakes or cheese cakes. Red currants add freshness and slightly sourness to strawberries.

Cooking time: 5 hours 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Servings - 6.

Ingredients:

• Strawberry - 1 kg
• Granulated sugar - 600 gr.
• Red currant - 500 gr.
• Sugar - 300 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Sort out the red currant berries, remove the stalks and green berries, rinse, grind through a sieve, add 1/3 sugar to the puree and boil for several minutes.
2. Rinse the strawberries so that there is no sand on the berries, and pour the remaining sugar in a separate container so that the berries let the juice flow.
3. After 5 hours, drain the juice from the strawberries, and put the berries on medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
4. Pour strawberries with currant jelly and cook everything together for about 5 minutes.
5. Arrange the finished jelly from currants and whole strawberries in clean sterilized jars and cork. Store in the dark and cool.