The kissel made from natural products not only is tasty, but also is useful. Doctors quite often recommend to take this drink at diseases of digestive tract and for prevention of dysbacteriosis. Health giving qualities of kissel depend on its basis.
Tasty kissel can be made of milk, fresh berries, fruit, oat-flakes. To cook traditional kissel, it is necessary to bring liquid to the boil and at continuous stirring to pour in it in the starch which is previously divorced cold water. All mix needs to be brought once again to the boil, and then to remove from fire. In order that the surface of kissel didn't become covered by a film, it needs to be powdered with sugar. A traditional basis for kissel is jam. Having diluted it with water, surely taste and sweeten so that liquid turned out a little more with pleasure than future kissel as starch ugashat sweet. Take 2 glasses of hot water, pour in cherry syrup from jam, add sugar and кристаллик citric acid. Carefully mix everything, boil and it is possible to add the divorced starch. Berry can be not strained off from liquid. Hit them in kissel will make taste of drink juicier. In this case it is better to make kissel dense on consistence. Milk dense kissel cooks as usual with only that difference that milk is taken as a basis boiled with sugar. The milk beverage falls down from above a ground cinnamon and is eaten by a spoon. For giving of aroma it is possible to add vanillin, a dried peel of a citrus or several drops of almond essence to even hot kissel. Kissel from malt or a soyamilk is cooked the same way. It is possible to make kissel from dried fruits. For this purpose fill in dry fruit or berries with 2 glasses of cold water and you cook 20 minutes. When fruits are softened, knead them a wooden pestle, previously having filtered broth in other ware. Fill in the kneaded weight with a glass of water, boil and filter in a pan with broth. Then it is necessary to add sugar (on 50 g of dried fruits 2 tablespoons of starch and ¾ a glass of sugar), to boil and pour the starch divorced in cold water again. Kissels are traditionally eaten with honey.