Got an excellent aged cheese but not sure how to pair it? Need to cook a piece of beef or game and looking for a novel way to serve it? Or maybe you just want to give your panna cotta a special touch? For all these dishes, there’s only one ingredient capable of giving them all a twist: red berry jelly. A condensate (in the true sense of the word) full of taste and aromas, it can be prepared at home, with very little time and effort.
Quality ingredients
For the jelly, red berries picked in summer on mountain trails are perfect, offering a more intense natural note, but red berries from market stands are just fine, as well. Make sure they’re firm, tight-skinned and free from bruises. Choose them fresh, as blueberries are very delicate and can deteriorate in a short time.
Red berries, a concentrate of health
Red berries should be consumed daily and not just because they’re delicious. Many beneficial substances are contained in these tiny fruits, starting with vitamins, particularly A and C, as well as mineral salts such as phosphorus, potassium and iron. Consuming red berries means protecting the walls of our blood vessels, averting the risk of urinary tract infections, strengthening the immune system and, above all, delaying the signs of aging thanks to the large quantity of antioxidant compounds they contain.
And now our recipe for a delicious blueberry jelly
Ingredients
1 lb of red berries, 1/2 oz of isinglass, 1/2 cup of brown sugar
Method
Clean and dry the red berries. Soak the jelly in a bowl of cold water. In the meantime, place the red berries in a large pot and cook them until they’ve completely flaked apart. Add the sugar and mix well. Pass the purée obtained through a narrow-mesh strainer, then add the wrung-out jelly to the red berry juice. Stir well and mix everything together. Pour the jelly into single-dose molds and let them cool in the fridge for 6 hours.