No other berry can quench thirst as well as watermelon. In this regard, watermelon syrup is often used to make soft drinks, iced tea, lemonades and compotes.
The most daring gourmets who love to experiment add watermelon syrup to coffee or hot chocolate, getting very original flavor compositions.
They also make from watermelon: liquor, moonshine, tincture
Easy Watermelon Syrup Recipe
You can flavor watermelon syrup with mint, lemon, thyme, vanilla, and many other flavors.
Ingredients
Watermelon pulp – 1 kg
Sugars – 500 g
Method of preparation
Wash the watermelon, cut it and separate the pulp from the green rind. Remove the seeds and cut into smaller pieces, or chop immediately with a blender.
Put the pulp in a saucepan with a thick bottom, add sugar and put on a quiet fire. There is no need to add water, the watermelon is already quite juicy.
After boiling, the juice will begin to change color and thicken. Stir the syrup and boil it, but no more than 30 minutes.
Now you need to separate the pulp and drain the syrup. Strain it through a sieve and evaluate the density.
If the syrup seems too liquid to you, it should be evaporated a little more. After all, the density of the syrup depends on the amount of sugar, and if the watermelon is not very sweet, then do not be stingy with time and cook the syrup as it should.
Warm syrup is bottled and tightly closed with a lid. In the refrigerator, watermelon syrup is stored for a maximum of the next season.
Alternative recipe for watermelon syrup
Ingredients
Watermelon pulp – 700
Granulated sugar – 300 g
Citric acid – 1 pinch
Method of preparation
Wash the watermelon, cut it and separate the pulp from the green rind. Remove seeds and cut into smaller pieces.
Grind the pieces of watermelon with a blender to a puree state.
The resulting mass should be divided into pure juice and a small amount of cake, which will still remain in the blender bowl. You can do this by passing the puree through cheesecloth. Pour the separated juice into a saucepan and send it to the stove.
Bring the purified watermelon juice to a boil, reduce the fire and add a pinch of citric acid and all the prepared granulated sugar to it. We mix the mass in the pan exclusively with a wooden spoon, so as not to spoil the taste or color of the syrup in any way.
Cook the syrup for the next 30-35 minutes until it thickens. During this time, all sugar crystals will completely dissolve, the color of the juice will become deeper, and the smell will be concentrated.
In the process, it is best to periodically continue to stir the mass with a wooden spoon so that it does not burn to the bottom.
Approximately 15 minutes before the final preparation of the syrup, we send a glass jar of small volume thoroughly washed with soda into the oven, sterilize it together with the lid.
Pour the hot syrup into the prepared container carefully and slowly with the help of a ladle, otherwise the glass will burst from a sharp temperature drop.
We tightly roll up the jar with the workpiece, cool it and send it for storage in a dark and cool place.
Store in a dark and cool place for up to a year.
Relevance: 14.08.2019
Tags: Syrup Recipes