Name of Recipe: KISEL Number of People: 4My mother was Russian and used to prepare kisel regularly and I loved it. I've just worked out how to make it in the TMX
Ingredients:250 g mix of raspberries and redcurrants (weight of prepared fruit)
225 ml water
120g sugar (maybe more if you have a very sweet tooth!)
3 tsp potato flour (or more if you want a firmer dessert)
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 drops almond essence (optional but better with them!)
Preparation: - Pummel fruit with a wooden pestle (or similar) to break it up and release the juices. (
I don't use the TMX to do this as it might break up some of the seeds which you don't want to do)- Add fruit to TMX bowl with water and cook at
70, speed
2 for
15 minutes- Push contents of bowl through a sieve (don't use the TMX to break it up as it will make the fruit go cloudy)
- Rinse TMX bowl and return fruit juices to it
- Stir the potato flour into the lemon juice and add it to bowl together with the sugar.
- Cook at
70, speed
2 for
3 minutes
- Add the drops of almond essence (if using) and stir thoroughly (you can use Thermie to do this at speed 2 for a few seconds)
- Pour into a glass bowl (not strictly necessary but it looks nice!) and leave to cool. When cool, put in fridge to chill.
- Serve with pouring cream gently stirred through it.
Photos:Tips/Hints:You can use any fruit for it - if using strawberries you would probably need more fruit and maybe less sugar. If using cranberries you may need more sugar.
The texture is meant to be quite runny but if you want you can add more potato flour. Potato flour is good because the fruit doesn't get cloudy. If you can't get hold of potato flour, you can use arrowroot... but it's best not to use cornflour if at all possible.
(Sorry about the poor photo - I need to take lessons from JulieO
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