Features of cooking. TOP-7 best recipes for fruit desserts with gelatin, cream, nuts, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream and cottage cheese, with or without heat treatment. Video recipes.
Fruit dessert is a simple and very tasty confection, the main ingredient of which is, of course, fruit. This category of sweet dishes is very extensive, there are many different technologies for their preparation. Fruits can be paired with berries, dried fruits, or nuts. They can be used fresh, frozen, mashed or whole, caramelized or baked. Fruit desserts are cold, hot, frozen, with whipped cream, liqueurs, yoghurt, curd and sour cream, biscuit layers and sandy bases. In general, the types of fruit desserts are so diverse that one TOP may not even be enough to get acquainted with the main ones. Therefore, further we will consider only the basic principles of their preparation and the most popular recipes suitable for use at home.
Features of making fruit desserts
Any dessert that includes fruits can in fact be called fruit, the same grandmother's apple pies or plum dumplings also belong to this category of sweet dishes. But there are recipes for fruit desserts in which fruits are the main ingredients, and it is they who give the confection a unique taste and delicate texture. Thanks to their high content, desserts are not just tasty, but very healthy.
Depending on the cooking technology, fruit desserts are divided into 2 types:
- Without heat treatment … Fruits do not need to be boiled, fried, baked or frozen, that is, they are used exclusively fresh. The simplest fruit dessert without heat treatment is fruit salad. The tradition of preparing desserts from fresh fruits came to us from warm countries, where these products are in abundance. In India, China, Italy, Egypt, fresh fruits have long been mixed and seasoned with juice. Nowadays, sour cream-fruit desserts are more often prepared or whipped cream, proteins, yogurt are used as a dressing. Desserts can be prepared not only from local, but also exotic fruits, using foreign recipes, since in modern supermarkets you can buy any ingredient you need for this. This type also includes smoothies - fruits whipped in a blender with the addition of milk, ice, ice cream and other ingredients.
- Heat treated … Freezing is used to prepare fruit puddings, jellies, ice cream. By boiling fruit, you can prepare compotes, jelly, preserves and jams. The baking method produces pies, cakes, cupcakes, muffins, muffins and pastries with fruit fillings, as well as baked fruits.
We should also highlight the hot fruit flambé desserts, which are served on the table in a hot dish. The fruits themselves may not be heat-treated, but a small amount of strong alcohol is added to them, which is set on fire immediately before serving. Vodka, rum, liqueur, brandy, cognac or whiskey after ignition improve the taste of the dish and give it an original aroma.
Very often, creams are the finishing layer in fruit desserts. This can be classic whipped cream, curd sour cream dressing, custard, butter cream, or meringues. Those who follow their figure prefer to cook fruit desserts with low-fat yogurt or even with a low-fat product.
TOP 7 recipes for fruit desserts
You can make a fruit dessert using various food processing technologies. If you want it to turn out not only tasty, but also as healthy as possible, then you should pay attention to confectionery, the list of ingredients of which does not contain sugar. Having mastered the basic principles of making fruit desserts, you can independently experiment with fillings and ingredients, creating your own author's recipe.
Fruit salad with curd dressing
This fruit dessert with cottage cheese and sour cream is very easy and quick to prepare. The set of fruits used can be changed, the dressing is perfect with kiwi, strawberry, raspberry or mango.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 205 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Pear - 1 pc.
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Banana - 1 pc.
- Canned peaches - 100 g
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Sour cream (20%) - 2 tablespoons
- Cottage cheese (5%) - 300 g
Step by step preparation of fruit salad with curd dressing:
- Wash the fruit. Peel and seed the apple and pear. Peel the orange and banana.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar and sour cream.
- Cut the peeled fresh fruit and canned peaches into medium cubes.
- Start collecting a curd-fruit dessert, for this, put a banana layer on the bottom of a transparent bowl, then alternately lay out apples, peaches, pear and orange.
- Put the curd dressing on top of the fruit, smooth it carefully.
The finished dessert can be garnished with fruit wedges, crushed walnuts, grated chocolate or coconut flakes.
Fruit dessert with nuts and cognac
This is a simple fruit dessert with nuts and cognac, in which apples, quince and lemon are boiled with the addition of spirits and honey. The result is a very sweet, gourmet dish with a unique aroma.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 3 pcs.
- Quince - 2 pcs.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Walnuts - 15 pcs.
- Water - 250 ml
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Sugar - 100 g
- Cognac - 60 ml
Step-by-step preparation of a fruit dessert with nuts and cognac:
- Wash the apples and quince, remove the peel from them, cut into 4 parts, remove the seeds. Cut each quarter in half lengthwise.
- Rinse the lemons well, pour over boiling water to remove the bitterness. Without removing the peel, cut the citrus fruits into 4 pieces. Cut each quarter into wedges.
- Peel the nuts from the shell and partitions, divide the kernels into 8 parts.
- Put quince in a small container, pour some water. Place the container on the middle burner. Bring the quince to a boil with constant stirring.
- Add apples to the quince, stir, simmer over medium heat for another 5 minutes.
- Add sugar, stir, cook for another 3-5 minutes on the same burner.
- Add lemon wedges, stir, simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add honey, stir, cook until honey is completely dissolved.
- Pour in cognac, add walnuts, mix everything, cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes, stirring the dessert from time to time.
Cool the finished fruit and nut dessert with cognac, put it beautifully on a flat plate and decorate with caramel threads if desired.
Fruit mousse with gelatin
This light, whipped fruit dessert is especially popular in the summer, and not only is great for refreshing, but also quickly satisfies hunger. There are a lot of sweet fruits in it, so you don't need to use sugar. It is quick and easy to prepare, but since this is a fruit dessert with gelatin, you will have to wait until the finished mousse thickens a little. Once you taste the dish, you will know that you are rewarded for your wait. From the proposed amount of products, you will get 2-4 servings of mousse.
Ingredients:
- Banana - 1 pc.
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Apples - 2 pcs.
- Strawberry - 150 g
- Gelatin - 10 g
- Water - 2-3 tbsp.
Step by step preparation of fruit mousse with gelatin:
- Boil water and cool.
- Pour gelatin with water, wait for it to swell. This can take 5-10 minutes.
- Wash the fruit. Peel and seed apples. Remove the skin from the banana. Remove the stems from the strawberries.
- Transfer the fruits and berries to a blender bowl and beat thoroughly until a fluffy homogeneous mass is formed.
- Wash the orange, cut in half, squeeze the juice out of both halves.
- When the gelatin swells, add orange juice to it and place in a water bath until the gelatin is completely dissolved in the juice.
- Pour the juice with the dissolved gelatin into the blender bowl to the fruit and berry mixture. Beat everything thoroughly.
- Pour the resulting fruit and berry dessert into bowls and refrigerate to thicken.
Garnish with strawberry halves and mint leaves before serving.
Persimmon dessert with whipped cream
This is an incredibly delicious fruit dessert with cream, in which the tart sweetness of persimmon is combined with honey aroma and spicy cognac notes.
Ingredients:
- Persimmon - 1 pc.
- Cream (32%) - 150 ml
- Cognac - 2 tsp
- Sugar - 2 tsp
- Liquid honey - 1 tablespoon
- Almond flakes - 1 tablespoon
Step-by-step preparation of persimmon dessert with whipped cream:
- Wash the persimmon. With a sharp knife, carefully remove the skin from it, cut the pulp into small pieces.
- Spread the sliced persimmons on the bottom of the bowls, sprinkle with sugar on top and sprinkle with brandy.
- Whip the cream until a cool foam forms, gradually add honey while churning.
- Spoon the whipped cream over the persimmons using a spoon or pastry bag.
- Put the bowls with dessert in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Put a dry frying pan on the fire, put almond flakes on it, fry until golden brown, cool.
- Sprinkle the cooled cereal over the whipped cream.
If you haven't found almond flakes, you can garnish the dessert with grated chocolate or fresh fruit wedges.
Fruit jelly "Jelly"
The homeland of "Zhelo" is sunny Sicily. In this dessert, fruit jelly is fixed not with gelatin, but with cornstarch. At the same time, it should not be confused with pudding, since it contains only herbal ingredients, and the structure is extremely uniform. Zhelo is essentially a lean jelly or light fruity vegan dessert. In Sicily, orange dessert is the most favorite, but it can be prepared from strawberries, watermelons and even completely unsweetened products such as coffee, almonds or cinnamon. Orange-tangerine jelly is an original interpretation of the classic Sicilian dessert.
Ingredients:
- Orange - 7 pcs.
- Mandarin - 4 pcs.
- Starch - 75 g
- Granulated sugar - 75 g
Step-by-step preparation of Jello fruit jelly:
- Wash oranges and tangerines, cut in half and squeeze out the juice. This can be done manually or using special tools.
- Chill the juice in the refrigerator.
- Add starch and sugar to cold juice and mix thoroughly with a whisk until the ingredients are completely dissolved.
- Put the mixture on fire, bring to a boil and simmer for 1 minute.
- Pour the resulting "Jelly" into the bowls and leave to cool completely. To speed up the setting of the dessert, you can refrigerate it.
Before serving, the fruit jelly dessert "Zhelo" can be garnished with slices of oranges or tangerines.
Caramel apples with ice cream
This is a delicious fruit dessert that takes no more than 45 minutes to prepare. The fruit is caramelized most of the time, but trust that the delicious taste of this dish will reward you for all your efforts. To prepare a fruit dessert from caramelized apples, you do not need to spend a lot of time and effort, and there are ingredients for it in any kitchen. The specified amount is sufficient for 2 servings of fruit dessert with ice cream.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 25 g
- Butter -25 g
- Walnuts - 30 g
- Ice cream sundae - 1 pack
Step by step preparation of caramel apples with ice cream:
- Wash the apples, remove the skin from them, remove the seeds and cut into slices.
- Transfer the apple slices to a separate bowl and sprinkle with sugar.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan, put the fruit slices in it.
- Fry the apples until golden brown, when they start to caramelize, turn them over to the other side.
- Peel the nuts from the shell and partitions, chop thoroughly with a knife or blender.
- Transfer the caramelized apples to deep bowls, sprinkle with chopped walnuts on top.
- Put a ball of ice cream on top of the nuts and pour over the dessert with the syrup left over after frying the apples.
Milk fruit dessert
This is an unrealistically delicate fruit dessert without baking, which combines not only tasty, but also healthy foods rich in all the necessary vitamins and minerals. If you don't know how to get your child to eat dairy products, be sure to check out the recipe for this milk and fruit dessert.
Ingredients:
- Banana - 1 pc.
- Kiwi - 1 pc.
- Pear - 1 pc.
- Prunes - 100 g
- Gelatin - 10 g
- Sugar - 200 g
- Milk - 160 ml
- Sour cream - 500 g
Step by step preparation of milk and fruit dessert:
- Pour half of the milk over the gelatin. Wait for it to swell. This can take 20-30 minutes.
- Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan, add the gelatin mixture, put on fire and bring to a boil with constant stirring. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
- Beat the sour cream with sugar, add the gelatin mixture, beat again.
- Wash the fruit, peel it, remove the seeds from the pear. Finely chop bananas, kiwi, pear.
- If the prune is hard, pour boiling water over it and leave it for half an hour. Then drain and chop finely.
- Place a layer of prunes, pears, banana and kiwi fruit in tall glasses prepared in advance.
- Fill the fruit with the prepared cream and refrigerate for several hours.
To make the fruit dessert in a glass look beautiful, you can sprinkle it with grated chocolate before serving, decorate with fresh berries or mint leaves.
