Sea buckthorn jelly

Sea buckthorn kissel is a drink that, in taste and benefits, is not inferior to desserts made from other homemade fruits or berries. It is very simple to prepare it; special knowledge or skills are not required. You can take both fresh and frozen berries, add other ingredients to it, which will only give the finished product a peculiar taste. Several recipes by which you can quickly prepare sea buckthorn jelly are presented in this article.

General rules for making sea buckthorn jelly

Kissel from starch with sea buckthorn is always cooked according to the same rules.

1. They prepare the raw material, that is, sort it out, remove all the berries that are unsuitable for processing (too small, with specks of rot, traces of various diseases, or dryish, in which there is little juice) and washed under running water.
2. The berries are crushed to a puree-like state and the juice is separated from the cake, passing it through a colander or a coarse sieve.
3. Syrup is prepared separately.
4. Put everything together and boil for a while.
5. Only then is the starch added.

This drink doesn't look very good and is unpleasant to drink. To prevent this from happening, you need to dilute the starch in a small amount of water and pour it into the jelly being prepared gradually.

Leave the hot drink to thicken, after which it is ready to drink. You can drink it in any form: hot, warm or cold.

The classic recipe for sea buckthorn jelly

For this option, choose only ripe berries, preferably freshly picked. They are put in a colander, washed under running water, left for a few minutes so that all the liquid is glass.

To prepare sea buckthorn jelly according to the classic recipe, you will need

• 2 liters of water;
• 0.5 kg of berries;
• 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• 2-3 st. l. dry potato starch.

The preparation of a drink using the classic technology takes place in the following sequence:

1. The washed sea buckthorn is ground in mashed potatoes, put in a pan (enameled, but not aluminum), poured with cold or warm water and put on the stove.
2. When the mixture boils, add sugar to it according to the recipe and stir.
3. Starch powder is diluted in a small volume of cold water, the sea buckthorn is removed from the fire and the liquid with the starch dissolved in it is immediately poured into it.
4. Everything is mixed and set to cool.

Kissel is ready.

A simple recipe for sea buckthorn syrup jelly

To prepare it, you will also need a minimum of ingredients. The difference in the preparation of jelly according to this recipe from the classic one is that first a syrup is prepared from water and granulated sugar, and only then sea buckthorn juice is added to it.

1. To obtain it, the berries are washed, crushed in a meat grinder and the juice is squeezed out of the resulting gruel.

    

   Important! The ratio of syrup to sea buckthorn juice is approximately 1: 3.
2. A mixture of juice and sweet syrup is placed on the stove and boiled.
3. Then they are removed from it, allowed to cool slightly and starch water is poured into it (for 1 liter - 1-2 tbsp. L. Starch), gently stir.
4. The finished drink is put to cool until warm, in which it is served.

Kissel from frozen sea buckthorn: recipe with photo

It can be prepared not only from freshly picked berries, but also from frozen ones, which can be collected in your garden plot, purchased in a store or at the market from private sellers and stored in a freezer.

The advantage of this method is that the drink can be prepared not only in the season when you can pick the berries directly from the bush, but also, for example, in winter, when it is impossible to get fresh sea buckthorn.

Ingredients required for cooking:

• 1 tbsp. berries;
• 1 liter of water;
• 150-200 g sugar;
• 2-3 st. l. starch.

Cooking method:

1. The berries are removed from the refrigerator and allowed to thaw at room temperature. To make this happen faster, they are filled with hot water, which is drained after a few minutes.
2. Sea buckthorn is crushed with a crush, transferred to a sieve and passed through it, squeezing the juice into a separate container.
3. Boil water, pour squeezed juice into it and add granulated sugar.
4. As soon as the liquid boils, it is removed from the heat.
5. Starch diluted in a small volume of water is added to hot jelly from frozen sea buckthorn and left to thicken.

Sea buckthorn milk jelly with corn starch

You can cook sea buckthorn jelly not only in water, but also in milk.

1. To do this, you will first need to prepare sea buckthorn juice (or simply grind the washed berries into gruel) and boil it.
2. Pour fresh cow's milk into a separate non-aluminum container, place it on the stove and leave there until it boils.
3. As soon as this happens, pour into it hot sea buckthorn juice and cornstarch, which before this is diluted with a small amount of cold milk.
4. Mix everything well and leave to cool.
5. Serve thick warm jelly poured into mugs.

Ingredients:

• the ratio of milk and sea buckthorn juice is 3: 1;
• it should be borne in mind that corn starch for this amount will need 2 times more than potato, that is, about 4 tbsp. l. for 1 liter of jelly of a thick consistency.

Oatmeal jelly with sea buckthorn

This thick and quite nutritious drink can be viewed as a kind of light dish that is suitable for breakfast or dinner. Ingredients you need to make it:

• 1 tbsp. oatmeal;
• 2 tbsp. liquids;
• 100 g of ripe sea buckthorn berries;
• 2 tbsp. l. granulated sugar.

How to cook?

1. Pour oatmeal with boiling water and leave to infuse so that they swell well.
2. Pour berries into them, fresh or thawed.
3. Thoroughly grind the mixture in a blender, pass the gruel through a sieve.
4. Pour the liquid fraction into a saucepan, boil, add sugar and boil for no more than 5 minutes.
5. Remove from stove, allow to cool slightly.
6. Pour into cups and serve.

How sea buckthorn jelly, prepared according to this recipe, looks like, can be seen in the photo.

Oatmeal jelly with sea buckthorn and oranges

This recipe for sea buckthorn jelly is basically similar to the previous one, with the only difference that it contains another component - orange juice.

Ingredients to purchase:

• 1 tbsp. oat flakes;
• 2 tbsp. water;
• berries of fresh or pre-frozen sea buckthorn;
• 1 large orange or 2 small ones;
• 2 tbsp. l. sugar (or to taste).

You need to prepare this drink in the same sequence as a simple oatmeal jelly, but add orange juice to the listed components (squeeze it out of the fruit by hand or using a juicer). Pour hot jelly into cups or special forms intended for this and leave in them to thicken.

An old recipe for oatmeal jelly with sea buckthorn and honey

The sea buckthorn dessert prepared according to this recipe turns out to be tasty, satisfying, vitamin and moderately sweet.

To cook it you need:

• oatmeal in the amount of 1 tbsp.;
• 3 tbsp. water;
• sea ​​buckthorn berries - 100 g;
• 2 tbsp. l. starch;
• honey to taste.

You can take any honey you like.

Cooking sequence according to an old recipe:

1. Pour boiling water over the flakes, cover the pan tightly with a lid and leave to infuse.
2. Add the sea buckthorn gruel to the still warm mixture, put everything in a blender and grind in it at the same time.
3. Transfer the mixture to a sieve and rub over the entire mass.
4. Throw out the cake, and put the juice over medium heat and bring to a boil.
5. Remove it from the stove, pour in starch water, stir slowly, leave to cool.
6. Add honey to still warm jelly and stir.

Assorted, or how to cook sea buckthorn jelly with berries and fruits

You can make sea buckthorn jelly not only from these berries. It is beneficial to add other garden or wild-growing berries or fruits to it to make it taste different from usual. For example, apples, cranberries and lingonberries go well with sea buckthorn. How to prepare this drink, further in the article.

Kissel from sea buckthorn berries and cranberries

This is a very tasty sweet and sour drink, for which you need sea buckthorn and cranberries in equal quantities, that is, 100 g of both per 1 liter of water. Sugar and starch will also need to be taken in equal proportions, that is, 2 tbsp. l. In this case, you get a liquid of medium density.

Kissel is prepared like this:

1. The berries, clean and dried, are ground in a mortar with a crush or scrolled in an electric blender, squeezed dry from the resulting mass.
2. Pour it with boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes, no more.
3. Pour sugar and starch water into hot jelly, stirring gently with a spoon to achieve a homogeneous consistency.
4. After a short natural cooling at room conditions, pour into cups or mugs.

Now you can drink it.

Sea buckthorn jelly with apple juice

This recipe involves a combination of sea buckthorn and everyone's favorite apples. The taste of the finished product is sweet or sweet and sour, depending on the variety of apples used and the ripeness of the sea buckthorn.

The ratio of products should be the same, that is, for 1 part of the berries, you will need to take the same amount of fruit.

Kissel is prepared like this:

1. Sea buckthorn and apples are washed, chopped in a meat grinder or in a blender separately.
2. Juice is squeezed out of the applesauce, and the sea buckthorn is poured with boiling water, boiled for about 2-3 minutes, the apple juice is poured in, boiled again a little, and then immediately removed from the heat.
3. Pre-diluted starch is added to the hot liquid, everything is mixed until a homogeneous consistency, poured into cups and left to thicken.

Kissel from frozen lingonberry and sea buckthorn

The recipe for frozen sea buckthorn and lingonberry jelly is simple.

1. You need to take 1 tbsp. berries of two types, crush them in a mortar, strain through a coarse sieve.
2. Mix the squeezed juice with heated water in a ratio of 1: 3, boil, add sugar to the boiling solution and boil everything for no more than 5 minutes.
3. Pour potato starch into a hot liquid (dilute 2 tablespoons in a small volume of cool water).
4. Mix the mass and divide into cups or specially selected molds.

Drink warm.

Sea buckthorn jelly with powdered sugar and mint

Such jelly is prepared according to the classic recipe, but instead of adding sugar traditionally used in this process to it at the cooking stage, powdered sugar is used, which is used to sweeten ready-made thick jelly.

Another difference is that several mint leaves are added to the liquid for flavoring during cooking. This makes the drink more aromatic.

The benefits of sea buckthorn jelly

It is not for nothing that sea buckthorn is famous as a multivitamin berry: it contains many of these substances that are extremely important for human life. It also contains mineral salts, organic acids.For sea buckthorn, bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, immunostimulating, antitumor, tonic, antioxidant properties are noted. This is the benefits of sea buckthorn jelly for adults and children. For babies, it will also be useful as one of the best sources of vitamin compounds and minerals necessary for their normal development.

Calorie content of sea buckthorn jelly

The nutritional value of this drink depends on how much sugar and starch has been added to it. Naturally, a sweet and thick jelly will be more intense than a liquid and slightly sweetened one. On average, its caloric content is about 200-220 kcal, while in fresh sea buckthorn this figure is at the level of 45 kcal.

Contraindications to the use of sea buckthorn jelly

Speaking about the benefits of sea buckthorn jelly, one cannot but say about its dangers, more precisely, about the limitations in its use.

It is not recommended for adults to drink it with a tendency to allergies, intolerance to any substances in the composition of products, and also to give it to young children until they reach 3 years of age.

Sea buckthorn jelly is contraindicated for gastritis and other gastrointestinal diseases, for example, with urolithiasis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis due to acids that irritate diseased organs.

In all other cases, drinking it is not prohibited, but this does not mean that you can get carried away with it beyond measure, because an excessive addiction to it is also harmful.

Conclusion

Sea buckthorn kissel is a simple but interesting drink that any housewife, both experienced and beginner, can easily prepare at home. To do this, you only need sea buckthorn, sugar, honey, water, starch, some free time and the desire to cook a delicious and healthy dessert for the whole family. Sea buckthorn jelly is cooked very quickly, so you can cook it on any day convenient for you and at any time of the year: summer or winter, spring or autumn.

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