Lovers of natural products made at home will certainly be delighted with this material, which we decided to devote completely to the details of how to make marmalade at home. From a store such marmalade differs not only in the composition (which, by the way, you can regulate yourself), but also with taste, and also a slightly less dense texture.
Home marmalade - recipe
Marmalade differs from other sweets in texture, viscidity, which can be provided in several ways. In the first of these, gelatin is added to the ingredients of the mixture, but you can also choose a vegetarian alternative in the form of agar-agar or pectin.
Within the framework of the first recipe, we will choose the most banal gelatinous base.
Ingredients:
- gelatin (granules) - 1/2 st;
- water - 365 ml;
- mix of berries - 2 1/2 items;
- honey - 55 ml;
- lemon juice - 55 ml.
Preparation
First it is necessary to let the gelatin swell, for this, the granules should be filled with a glass of cold water and left for 20 minutes. After swelling, the granules are beaten with a blender, add berries, lemon juice and the remaining water. As we cook homemade jelly without sugar, a good substitute for the latter will be honey. When all the ingredients are mixed, the gelatin solution is poured into forms that are preliminarily lubricated with oil and left in the cold for 2-4 hours.
Marmalade with gelatin at home
Another version of home marmalade has a very unusual taste, because it is based on tea. As a sweetener in the recipe used honey, a small amount of sugar and condensed milk, and for a variety of taste in the base also add berries.
Ingredients:
- raspberries - 175 g;
- juice of one lemon;
- honey - 65 ml;
- sugar - 15 g;
- brewed tea - 235 ml;
- gelatin - 6 tbsp. spoons;
- evaporated milk - 95 ml.
Preparation
Raspberry berries are placed in a saucepan and pour with lemon juice. Cook all until softening of the fruit, then wipe the mixture through a sieve and combine with sugar and honey. Add the gelatin to the berry puree and dilute all with tea. When the gelatin solution is ready and there are no pieces left in it, add the last stroke in the form of condensed milk and pour the jelly over the molds. Leave in the cold until completely hardened.
Chewing marmalade at home with agar-agar
The basis of marmalade can be any fruit or berry juice, which can easily be turned into marmalade with the help of agar-agar. Since agar-agar is extracted from algae, such sweets are a wonderful natural treat for those who have excluded animal food from their diet.
Ingredients:
- agar-agar - 8 tbsp. spoons;
- fruit juice - 1 liter.
Preparation
Molds for marmalade sprinkle with starch and place in the freezer. Now prepare the very basis for marmalade, for which agar-agar is first poured into the juice and left to swell for 5 minutes, and then place the mixture on medium heat and boil until thick. After, the future marmalade is poured into molds and returned back to the cold before solidification. Due to the high content of agar, this marmalade turns out to be dense and chewy.
Apple marmalade at home
Ingredients:
- gelatin - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- pinch of cinnamon;
- apple juice - 125 ml;
- honey - 15 g.
Preparation
Mix the granules of gelatin with cinnamon and pour all the apple juice and honey. Cook the mixture over medium heat with constantly stirring until it thickens. Pour the marmalade solution over the blurred forms and send it to the cold to speed up the hardening.