RECIPES: Natural Berry Delight

Once the pursuit of natural recipes of homemade sweets present you a simple recipe for Turkish delight on the basis of cranberry juice - what you need in a season berry harvest.

Taste basic variations of this eastern goodies we supplement with rose water, but you can put nuts, dried fruit or coconut to add more texture and variety.

First fill gelatin berry juice mixture (room temperature) and rosewater. In our case, berry base - natural cranberry juice, but it can be replaced by any berry juice to taste.

While gelatin swells, prepare the starch solution by mixing starch with a half cup of water.

The only stage of preparation, which will require you to care, will be cooking syrup. If you have a special thermometer sweet - no problem: Mix honey and sugar with the remaining water and set everything on fire and cook until the solution reaches a temperature of 112 ° C. Without thermometer willingness to determine dropping a bit of syrup in cold water: well cooked syrup can then be removed and rolled into a soft ball. The cooking syrup desired consistency fluctuates within 15-18 minutes after the arrangement of dishes on the fire of medium strength.

Reblended starch solution, since the cooking time for the syrup itself starch to precipitate and become tacky. Pouring starch syrup. We should be sent to the swollen gelatin and mix everything up until the latter is completely dissolved.

Optionally, you can add to the mix 2-3 drops of food coloring gel.

Cover the form cling film, sprinkle powdered sugar and pour over mixture.

Spoon or spatula remove the foam from the surface, then leave treat solidify at room temperature for 5 hours and preferably overnight.

Ready Delight carefully separate from the film, cut and roll in powdered sugar.

Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 + 1/2 cups water (360 ml);
• 3 cups granulated sugar (600 g);
• 3 tablespoons of honey (45 ml);
• 3/4 cup starch (120 g);
• 1/2 cup berry juice (120 ml);
• 21 g of gelatin;
• 1-2 drops of food coloring;
• 2 tablespoons rose water (30 mL).

preparation

1. Pour gelatin berry juice room temperature and rosewater. Leave it to swell while preparing the remaining ingredients.
2. Dissolve starch half cups (120 ml) of water.
3. The remaining water pour sugar and honey. Put a saucepan with the mixture on medium heat and boil for 15-16 minutes (to a temperature of 112 ° C). Willingness to define the sample on a soft ball.
4. The hot starch syrup solution, add swollen gelatin and mix until complete dissolution of all the granules.
5. Pour the solution into the laid cling film form and leave completely harden at room temperature for 4-5 hours. Ready delight slice and roll in powdered sugar.