No festive meal will be offended without dessert. Coffee jelly with whiskey, for a party, will satisfy a wide variety of tastes.
What is jelly? It is a food grade colloidal solution. It contains gelatin, which, when cooled, turns into a gelatinous mass. For the preparation of meat and fish jellies, jelly can be obtained by boiling gelatin from pork and veal heads and legs.
Any jelly is suitable for those who follow their figure and are afraid to gain extra pounds. After all, you always want to enjoy something tasty and conventionally forbidden. In addition, a jelly dessert can quench your thirst in the hot season. And most importantly, everyone can prepare coffee jelly in their own kitchen, and my advice will help you with this.
To make coffee jelly delicious, you should choose the right main ingredient - coffee. But, there are little tricks to achieve the perfect taste … Of course, the recipe for brewing coffee is well known to everyone, but it is very important to reveal the aroma of its beans, making the taste soft and rich.
- The powder should be poured with cold water, then put on high heat to boil. Cooking time is increased for a richer flavor.
- Alternatively, ground coffee is poured with hot water, put on a slow fire and quickly brought to a boil.
- For a kid's table or lovers of decaffeinated coffee: add 2-3 grains of cardamom to a cup of coffee, which will "absorb" the caffeine and give a spicy aroma.
- To emphasize the bright aroma of roasted beans, the coffee is roasted in a Turk for 30 seconds, without water.
- To obtain a mild taste, put a small piece of butter on the tip of a knife into the brewed coffee.
How to make gelatin jelly?
Many housewives ask themselves the question: how to correctly calculate the proportions of gelatin for the amount of products?
- For 1 part of gelatin, 8-10 parts of water are taken.
- Do not use aluminum cookware.
- Lump-free jelly can be obtained if the bottom of the gelatin dish is not cold.
- To remove the frozen jelly from the dishes, you need to lower it in hot water for 5 seconds, and then put it on a cold plate.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 125 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 3 portions of 200 ml
- Cooking time - 2 hours
Ingredients:
- Milk - 400 ml.
- Brewed coffee - 1 tbsp.
- Cinnamon stick - 1 pc.
- Sugar or powdered sugar - to taste
- Gelatin - 30 ml.
- Whiskey - 50 ml.
Making coffee jelly with whiskey
1. Brew brewed coffee in a way convenient for you. If you have a coffee machine, use it. Whoever has a Turk, brew coffee in it. Well, in the absence of coffee appliances, just pour boiling water over the coffee.
2. Whichever way you brew the coffee, dip a cinnamon stick into it and let the drink brew, ideally under a closed lid.
3. In the meantime, put sugar in the milk and heat it slightly so that the sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Brew the gelatin following the instructions on the manufacturer's packaging. This is most often done in the following way. The contents of the package are placed in a container, filled with hot water (5 × 6 tablespoons), mixed well and infused for about 5 minutes so that the gelatin is completely swollen.
5. Combine milk with coffee. For this, it is advisable to use filtration (sieve, cheesecloth) so that coffee beans do not get into the milk mass.
6. Mix milk and coffee well and pour in whiskey, which, if not available, can be replaced with cognac, brandy or liqueur.
7. Add the diluted gelatin to the milk and coffee drink and mix well.
8. Pour coffee jelly into bowls (glasses), which are sent to cool in the refrigerator for 1-1, 5 hours.
9. Decorate the frozen coffee jelly with whiskey with grated chocolate, crushed nuts or coconut.
