Homemade pastilles from gooseberries, especially if it is cooked without sugar, is one of those rare delicacies that do not harm either the teeth or the figure. So, it's time to learn how to cook it, especially since it's not difficult at all!
A recipe for pastilles from gooseberry
Ingredients:
- gooseberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 700 g.
Preparation
Gooseberries are sorted, my and fall asleep in an enamel pot. Tightly close the lid and send it to bake in the oven, until soft. When the berry mass cools down, wipe it through a sieve, and then whisk the blender into a foam.
Sugar is brewed with water and cooked over a slow fire thick syrup. We pour it into the mashed potatoes and once again carefully beat. Cover the pan with parchment and grease with melted butter. On top, fill the fruit mixture, level with a knife and send it to the oven. Dry the pastille at minimum heat with the oven door open. After a couple of hours, the sheet is turned over. Pastila is ready, if it does not stick to the fingers. Cut it into pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar. We store in dry, hermetically sealed cans.
How to cook a pasta from gooseberries without sugar?
Ingredients:
- gooseberries - 1 kg.
Preparation
For natural, sugar-free, pastilles choose only the ripeest berries. We rinse with cold running water and blanch in the steam sokovarke. When the gooseberry softens, still hot rub it through a sieve. The resulting mass is boiled in the enameled basin 2 times, over low heat and constantly stirring. The cooled mashed potatoes are laid out on boxes, covered with parchment,
And we expose to the sun. After a day, turn the canopy and change the paper so that the mold does not appear. When the bars of the pastille become sufficiently dense, we hang them on strings for final drying.
Readiness of the pastille is checked so - it can be rolled into a tube, while it does not break and does not stick. It can be immediately enjoyed, and for long-term storage we put it in dry jars and close tightly. By the way, from such a pastille you can cut decorations of any shape for home cakes and desserts.