Rhubarb kissel: 6 recipes

Rhubarb jelly is a tasty and healthy drink that even a novice housewife can prepare. Acid and sweetness are balanced in it, so jelly will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. There are a lot of recipes for making a drink from rhubarb, some of them will be presented in the article. After trying each of them, you can choose the option that is best for the family.

How to cook rhubarb jelly

Do not think that store-bought drinks are healthier. It is best to cook compotes and juices with your own hands, since the hostess does not add any preservatives. Yes, and only high-quality products are taken. You won’t find rhubarb jelly on store shelves, but you can cook it at home.

Ingredient selection

The drink can be brewed from fresh or frozen rhubarb stalks. Only young petioles collected in early summer are suitable for this. But the leaves can not be used, as they are poisonous.

Great for supplements:

• lemon, orange peel;
• bananas and apples;
• strawberries and cream;
• cinnamon and cardamom.

Useful Tips

And now about how to prepare young petioles:

1. Rinse the collected stems well in cold water, spread on a towel to glass the liquid.
2. Then, using a knife, and preferably a vegetable cutter, cut off a thin skin. It should be removed in the form of wide ribbons.
3. Cut the vegetable into cubes or small strips, depending on the recommendations of the recipe.
4. Put in a saucepan, add granulated sugar.
5. Then boil the pieces until done.
6. So that a film does not form on the drink while it cools, sprinkle the mass on top with sugar.

Secrets of making jelly for children:

1. The sugar indicated in the recipe is not a panacea, it can be added depending on the taste preferences of the child.
2. The thickness of the rhubarb dessert will depend on the amount of starch taken. But if you prepare a drink, then you should not overdo it with this ingredient.
3. To give a special taste to rhubarb jelly, which is prepared for children, you can add more currants, pears, dried apricots, raisins. These ingredients are boiled simultaneously with the petioles, then mashed.
4. To obtain a clear drink, only the liquid in which the rhubarb petioles were boiled is used.

Kissel from rhubarb according to a traditional recipe

To prepare 4-6 servings you will need:

• 500 g rhubarb;
• 2 Art. liter. starch;
• 2 Art. l sugar;
• 1 L of water.

Recipe Features:

1. Cut off the leaf blades, leaving only the petioles. Rinse and dry them.
2. According to the recipe for the drink, the petioles must be cut into cubes. Then add granulated sugar, water and put on the stove. Cooking time – a quarter of an hour with constant stirring.
3. Further, the drink is brewed only from syrup, so you need to put the mass in a colander and strain the liquid.
4. In 1 st. dilute the starch with water. It must be stirred thoroughly so that lumps do not form. Put the syrup on the stove, boil it and add the starch liquid in a thin stream with constant stirring.
5. Boil the liquid for another 5 minutes, then remove from the stove and cool.

Delicious rhubarb and banana recipe

As already noted, to give a special taste and aroma to rhubarb jelly, you can add various fruits and berries. You can make a rhubarb drink with bananas.

Ingredients for jelly:

• petioles – 400 g;
• sugar – 1,5 st. l .;
• water – 400 ml;
• starch – 1 Art. l .;
• banana – 1 pc.

From the proposed ingredients, 2 servings of the drink are obtained. It takes about half an hour to prepare.

1. Chop the petioles into small pieces, add sugar, water and boil until softened.
2. Drain the rhubarb through a colander, mash it.
3. Transfer it to sweet and sour syrup.
4. Remove the peel from a banana, grind the pulp in a blender.
5. Put both purees in syrup, mix, bring to a boil.
6. While the future jelly is boiling, you need to dilute the starch in 1 tbsp. cold water and a thin stream, while stirring, pour into boiling syrup.
7. Boil the rhubarb jelly for 5 minutes over low heat and remove.
8. Divide the delicious dessert into portions and refrigerate.

Fragrant jelly from rhubarb and apples

To prepare fragrant rhubarb jelly, you will need the following products:

• sweet apples and rhubarb petioles – 300 g each;
• sugar – 6 tbsp. l. with a slide;
• water – 6;
• potato starch – 8 tbsp. l .;
• beets – 1-2 pieces.

How to cook properly:

1. Wash and clean the petioles, cut into pieces.
2. Peel the apples, remove the seeds and cut into small cubes.
3. Put the chopped ingredients in a cooking container, add granulated sugar, add cold water. And also the secret ingredient, thanks to which the jelly will acquire a reddish color – beets. The vegetable is taken out 5 minutes after boiling.
4. After 10 minutes, strain the apples and rhubarb through a colander, mash them.
5. Combine with syrup, pour in the prepared starch, stirring the contents with a whisk.

This completes the process of making a drink from rhubarb with apples, you can pour it into glasses.

Rhubarb kissel with cream

Ingredients:

• rhubarb stalks – 2 pcs.;
• cream – 500 ml;
• granulated sugar – 3 tbsp. l. to add to cream and also to add to jelly – to taste;
• water – 1 l;
• potato starch – 3 tbsp. l. topless;
• mint tea – 2 pack;
• vanilla sugar – 1 package.

Features cooking dessert:

1. The peeled stalks for jelly are cut into slices and put into boiling syrup, where granulated sugar and mint tea are already poured.
2. Boil the mass for 5 minutes, remove the tea bags, continue to simmer until the rhubarb softens.
3. Dilute starch in cold water, pour with stirring into a liquid with rhubarb. Cook for at least 5 minutes so that the starch is well dispersed.
4. When the drink has cooled, proceed to the preparation of cream. They are beaten with sugar and vanilla.
5. Kissel is poured into glasses, cream is added on top. Decorate with melted chocolate.

Refreshing rhubarb and strawberry jelly recipe

To prepare the jelly you will need:

• young petioles – 500 g;
• apples – 2 pcs.;
• strawberries – 150 g;
• white wine – 125 ml;
• granulated sugar – 4-5 tbsp. l.;
• orange liqueur – 3 tbsp. l.;
• starch – 1 tbsp. l.

Stages of preparation:

1. The peeled vegetable is cut into pieces 3-4 cm long.
2. Strawberries are washed, cut into 2 parts.
3. Peeled apples are cut into slices.
4. Water, wine, 2-2,5 tablespoons of sugar, part of strawberries, rhubarb, apples are poured into the pan. From the moment of boiling, cook over low heat for a third of an hour.
5. For jelly, beat the ingredients directly in the pan with a mixer to get a homogeneous mass.
6. Spread the second half of the apples and petioles in the puree, bring to a boil.
7. Starch is dissolved in cold water, carefully pour it into the pan with constant stirring.
8. When the mass boils, liquor is introduced. Ready and chilled jelly is laid out in portioned bowls, sprinkled with sugar, decorated with strawberry slices and mint leaves.

Recipe for rhubarb jelly with lemon zest

Lemon is a great addition to a rhubarb drink. But in this recipe, it is the zest that is used.

For preparation you will need:

• stems – 300 g;
• sugar – 160 g;
• starch – 40 g;
• lemon zest – 5 g;
• water – 0,7 l.

Cooking Rules:

1. Young petioles are cut into pieces no more than 1 cm.
2. Finely chop the lemon zest.
3. Pour 500 ml of water into the pan, boil, then add sugar, boil the syrup.
4. Slices of rhubarb, zest are laid out in syrup and simmered over low heat for about 12 minutes.
5. When the petioles become soft, the mass for the future jelly is rubbed through a sieve and brought to a boil again.
6. Starch diluted in cold water is poured into the boiling mass with stirring, boiled for 2-3 minutes and removed from heat.
7. While the jelly has not cooled down, it is poured into mugs or glasses and cooled.

Conclusion

Rhubarb kissel is an excellent soft drink, which is appropriate not only on a hot summer day, but also in winter, when there are not enough vitamins. That is why many housewives specially freeze rhubarb petioles.