It is possible to make kissel in two ways. Buy a special briquette or powder in shop, to part with water and to bring to the boil. But it is better to cook kissel independently from natural products. Such drink will turn out more usefully, and more tasty.
It is required to you
- 2 l of water;
- 1-2 articles of a berry syrup or jam;
- 2 tablespoons of potato starch;
- sugar to taste.
Instruction
1. Pour water in a pan and put on fire. Separately in a glass of warm water dissolve potato starch. Well mix. When water in a pan begins to begin to boil, a thin stream pour in starch. If at the bottom of a glass there was a deposit, it can be diluted with a small amount of water and to send to a pan. You watch that there were no lumps.
2. Add a berry syrup or jam to boiled water. Perfectly syrup from cherry or black-fruited jam, jam from red or blackcurrant, raspberry, strawberry, a cranberry will approach. It is also possible to use mix from these berries. The main thing that there were no stones and skins. It is better to take jam or syrup of a home cooking. They are much more fragrant, besides in them there are no preservatives. To taste kissel can be sweetened also with sugar.
3. If you have no home-made jam, prepare syrup from a fresh or frozen berries. Take 300 grams of cherry, raspberries, red currant or a cranberry. Add sugar to taste. Wait when berries start up juice, put on slow fire. Stir slowly that weight didn't burn. Bring to the boil, scum.
4. Boil even minutes 5-10, then cool and filter berries through a sieve to get rid of skins and stones. Now they can be added to kissel. Syrup is done also of dried fruits. However, such drink will be less fragrant and saturated.
5. Well mix the turned-out weight. Bring to the boil, reduce fire and wait for minutes five. If it seems to you that kissel not rather dense, then it is possible to dissolve a little more starch and to add to a pan. At the same time it is necessary to pour in it very carefully that lumps weren't formed.
6. Taste drink. Whether it is enough in it a berry syrup and sugar? If isn't present, add also them. Boil kissel some more minutes, then remove from fire and let's cool down. Pour drink on glasses and give to a table.