Dessert with yoghurt and fruit jelly

DESSERT WITH YOGHURT AND FRUIT JELLY

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Ingredients

500 g. yoghurt

130 g. whipping cream 35% fat

160 g. sugar or more, if you want it too sweet                                                                 

150 ml milk

25g. unflavored gelatin Knox

Fruit jelly

Ingredients

2.5 cups of any fruit juice

25g. unflavored gelatin Knox

100 g. about sugar (If you like the desserts too sweet, put more sugar)

A little grated coconut for the decoration

1/3 of a cup blanched almonds for the decoration

Instructions

Gelatin

Commercially you can find grated gelatin Knox in boxes. Each box contains 4 sachets of gelatin.

Each sachet weights 10 g.  

You can find also leaves of gelatin inside envelopes.

Both are suitable for this dessert. The total amount of gelatin you need is 50 g.

That means that you need 5 sachets of gelatin.

If you are going to use leaves of gelatin, you must know the weight of each leaf, to figure out how many envelopes you need. 

Put in small coffee pot 1 cup water.

Pour into the pot the gelatin.

Stir with a spoon. Leave the gelatin 5 min to absorb water and become soft and transparent.

You must warn up slightly the water and the gelatin.

Put the pot with the gelatin over very low heat and stir.

A few min are enough to transform the gelatin into a transparent liquid.

Once the gelatin is melted remove the pot from the heat and leave it to cool a bit.

Stir with a whisk the yoghurt, the cream, the sugar and the milk.

Mix until the mixture homogenizes.

Pour into the yoghurt half of the melted gelatin and stir again. 

You will use the rest of the gelatin to make the fruit jelly.

Try the mixture of yoghurt, to see if it's quite sweet. If you think that it needs more sugar, add some.

Pour the mixture of yoghurt in Pyrex dimensional 32CH22 X 5 cm. 

Put the Pyrex in the fridge and leave it there to cool.

It is necessary to thicken the mixture of yogurt, to form a solid foundation on which you will spread the fruit jelly.

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Jelly

For the jelly you need 2.5 cups fresh squeezed fruit juice.

The most suitable fruits for this are water melon, strawberries and cherries.

If you decide to make watermelon jelly you must prepare the watermelon juice.

Cut some watermelon slices. Clean them from their peel.

Put in a food processor the watermelon pieces and squeeze them.

Pass the juice through a strainer.

You must prepare 2.5 cups of juice.

If you choose to make strawberry jelly, you must buy 1/2 kilo of strawberries.

Thoroughly wash the strawberries and cut their stalks.

Pour the strawberries in the food processor and 1 cup water and half a cup of sugar.

Beat the strawberries until they become juice.

Pass the juice from the strainer.

Count the juice. It must be 2.5 cups.

If it is less, add water until it becomes 2.5 cups.

Try the taste of the juice. If it is sour add sugar.

If you choose to make juice from cherries you need more work.

Buy 600 grams of ripe cherries.

Wash them thoroughly and remove their stalks.

Then remove the kernel from each cherry.

Pour in the food processor the cherries, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup of water.

Knock all the ingredients until the cherries are mashed.

Strain the juice and measure it.

If the juice is not 2.5 cups add water until done.

Try the taste of the juice if it is not sweet enough, add sugar.

Put in a bowl the fruit juice you have chosen. Pour into it the bowl the melted gelatin you have kept.

Mix well and taste the mixture to see if it needs more sugar.

Remove the Pyrex from the refrigerator.

Pour evenly the mixture of fruit juice and gelatin over the base of yoghurt.

When the jelly thickens well, garnish the top of the dessert with almonds.

You can make any shape you like.

White daisies over the red jelly look nice.

Or you may chose to make waves of circles or any other shape.

You may use coconut to enrich your decoration.

This is a very light and refreshing summer dessert.

Posted by Katy hat-K