Pear pastille in the oven and dryer

There are many ways to store pears in the winter. They are frozen whole, cut to dry. Pear pastille is a delicious recipe that can be prepared in a variety of ways, using the oven, dryer, with and without sugar. It is worth considering how easy it is to make this dish at home in different ways.

What varieties are suitable for pear marshmallow

To make marshmallow, it is not necessary to choose perfectly smooth pears. Fruits are better to choose soft varieties that are easy to grind with a blender or in a meat grinder. Varieties to watch out for:

• Bare Jaffard;
• Victoria;
• Bare Moscow;
• In memory of Yakovlev;
• Marble;
• bumpy;
• Faith Yellow.

These pears are characterized by increased softness and suppleness. They are stored for a short time, so you can not leave them in the refrigerator for longer than 1 week. Even slightly rumpled pears will do for the dish, but without rot.

How to make pear pasta

Pastila from pears at home is made according to a simple recipe. The basic principle of preparation is to dry the pear mass in the oven or dryer. Each housewife decides for herself how to complement the product, what spices to add for taste. First you need to prepare the fruits, then follow the recipe:

1. Wash and dry fruits.
2. Cut out rotten places, remove the core.
3. Cut into cubes for easy grinding.
4. Grind the pieces with a blender or meat grinder to a puree state.
5. Add spices to taste, mix until smooth.
6. Take a baking sheet, spread parchment over the entire area, grease with refined vegetable oil.
7. Pour pear porridge onto a baking sheet, spread evenly with a spatula around the entire perimeter so that there are no thin spots left.
8. Send to the oven for 5 hours to dry at a temperature of 100 degrees, leaving the oven door ajar so that the moist air evaporates.
9. Set aside the prepared dry mass until warm.
10. Take out the marshmallow along with the paper, turn everything upside down and wet the paper with water so that it is completely wet, so it is easier to separate it from the finished dish.
11. Cut into uniform rectangular plates.
12. Twist into tubes, tie with a thread.

This is the principle of making a pear product, which underlies the rest of the variations and experiments.

Pear pastille in the oven

There are various recipes for making pear marshmallows, differing in minor variations. Here is one of the recipes for making soft pear marshmallows in the oven:

1. Take 8-10 ripe pears, prepare the fruits, peel.
2. Cut into pieces, grind to porridge.
3. You can add sugar, but it will take longer to dry than without it.
4. Pour the mass into a saucepan and cook, stirring, for 1-1,5 hours, so that the first water layer evaporates.
5. After cooking, lay out on a baking sheet, previously covering it with parchment.
6. Dry in the oven with the door open at a temperature of 90 degrees until the mass stops sticking to the fingers, but without overdrying to a brittle state.
7. While still hot, roll up the finished marshmallow into tubes and leave to cool.

You can wrap each piece separately in baking paper, arrange it beautifully with a ribbon and go to friends for tea.

Pear pastille in the dryer

To prepare a large amount of pear marshmallow for the winter, it is worth taking several different fruits and mixing them. For example, let’s take 3 kg of pears, 2 kg of apples and 2 kg of grapes. After cleaning from the grains, it comes out 1 kg less. From 7 kg of the resulting workpiece, 1,5 kg of the finished product is obtained at the output. The recipe for making pear pastille in the dryer is as follows:

1. Prepare the fruits, wash and chop finely for grinding.
2. There is no need to add sugar, the mixture of fruits will be quite sweet.
3. Grinding in a blender, add each fruit a little bit so that the mass is easily ground, capturing all the pieces.
4. Spread the puree around the perimeter of the drying tray, brushing it with vegetable oil.
5. Set the temperature to +55° and dry for 18 hours.

After preparation, it is necessary to wait for cooling and serve cold with tea, or immediately determine the product by containers for preservation.

Spicy pear marshmallow at home

In marshmallow, in addition to sugar, you can add various spices that enhance the taste of the dish, making it a unique delicacy.

An easy way to make homemade pear marshmallow with sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds:

1. Take 5 kg of pears, peel and seeds.
2. The remaining 3 kg of fruit, pour 100 g of water in a saucepan and cook for 30 minutes.
3. After boiling for half an hour, add a few grains of cardamom and cook for another 10 minutes until the pears are completely softened.
4. Take out the cardamom seeds and grind the fruits with a blender.
5. Add a glass of sugar (250 g) to the puree and cook for another hour, stirring thoroughly.
6. Spread parchment on a baking sheet, grease with vegetable oil and pour pear puree 0,5 cm thick, distributing it evenly over the dishes with a spoon.
7. Chop the peeled pumpkin seeds and sprinkle on top.
8. Add sesame seeds, or sprinkle 1 baking sheet with sesame seeds and the other with pumpkin seeds, 5 sheets should be obtained from the whole mass.
9. Dry in the oven at 100 degrees for 3 hours.
10. Roll the finished plate into a sausage and cut into pieces.

Lozenges from cottage cheese for the winter

For the winter version of marshmallow, you can use both fresh pears and frozen ones. Better yet, immediately freeze the pear puree, distribute it into jars for baby food and freeze at a temperature of at least -18 degrees. In winter, defrost pear puree and cook according to a standard recipe.

Pear candy for the winter is stored in several ways:

• wrap each piece of marshmallow in cling film and push gently into three-liter jars, closing tightly with a thermal lid, which must be boiled in boiling water for 2 minutes so that it softens and sits tightly on the neck of the jar;
• distribute the finished servings of marshmallows into plastic bags with a freezer closure, having previously pumped out as much air as possible from the bag.

You can store it in any container, the main thing is that it does not let air through and is not in a warm, bright place.

Sugar-free curd lozenges

Sugar is a natural preservative that allows you to store the product without freezing and the use of chemical additives. But the use of sugar makes marshmallow very high in calories and less healthy. Sugar candy should not be eaten by people with diabetes. Fructose may be an alternative. When it is broken down in the body, insulin is not required, but it is as sweet as sugar.

Pear marshmallow can be prepared without the addition of sweeteners at all. One ripe fruit contains almost 10 g of sugar, which is 2 teaspoons. And if you add apples (10,5 g of sugar in 1 fruit) or grapes (29 g in 1 glass of berries) to pears, then the marshmallow will contain natural fructose, which ensures the sweetness and preservation of the product.

Pastila from pears without cooking

Sweet pear marshmallow can be prepared without steaming first. Cooking is used only for greater softening and evaporation of the first layer of moisture. But this is optional. If you beat the pears well to a uniform puree, without lumps, then cooking is not needed. Also, before drying, it is better to boil the product if the recipe contains sugar, honey and other additives, except for seeds, for better dissolution and obtaining a homogeneous mass.

Disinfection and evaporation of water will occur in the oven. Therefore, each housewife decides for herself whether she should boil pears before drying or not.

Terms and conditions of storage

Preservation principles:

• dark room (basement, cellar, pantry);
• low but positive temperature;
• low humidity – with an excess of moisture, the product will fill with water, become brittle and crumbly;
• minimum oxygen access (store in sealed jars, cling film, bags);
• dried fruits and similar products are susceptible to attack by kitchen moths, at the first sign of infection, it is necessary to protect the product from the spread of insects.

With proper storage, the product is usable for two years.

Conclusion

Pear pastille is an exquisite decoration in cooking. Even on weekdays, by inviting the whole family to the table for tea and serving pear, rolled into tubes, marshmallow, you can create a festive mood.

Making delicious pear marshmallows is a very profitable culinary trick. It can be given to children at school as a snack for tea. It contains many useful vitamins, such as iron, zinc, magnesium, silicon, sodium, phosphorus, manganese, as well as vitamins of groups B, C, D, E, H, K, PP. The calorie content of marshmallow in 100 g reaches 300 kcal, making it a satisfying product.