Homemade Strawberry Jello

Today’s recipe is also going to be kids friendly one. Recently my kids are crazy on jello, when ever we go for grocery shopping they pick their favorite color jello packs. I don’t want to buy those artificial flavors, hope most of the moms are like me. I use to tell them mommy will prepare it in home, for how many days I can say the same dialogue. In a stage we all got bored and ended up with this strawberry jello yesterday. After preparing this thought this is also a nice way to feed strawberry both of my kids love strawberries but hate to eat, still I was not able to satisfy one, she needs mango flavor. Again I prepared the next batch with mango this morning.

Ingredients:

Strawberry pure	¾ cups
Gelatin or Agar agar powder	1 ½ Tbsp
Sugar	¾ cup
Water	2 cups
Strawberry juice	½ cup

 

Directions:

1. Clean and cut the strawberries, blend that in a mixe or blender and filter just to remove the seeds.
2. In one cup cold water add gelatin and set aside for 10 minutes (stir it occasionally).
3. Add sugar and strawberry juice to the pure and mix well, microwave this pure mixture for 30 seconds or warm it little bit (don’t boil just room temperature). 
4. Boil another cup of water and add to gelatin mixture (make sure it is dissolved before adding boiling water).
5. Pour in the strawberry mixture to gelatin mixture and mix well.
6. Transfer to the serving bowl or any mold. And refrigerate for 1-2 hours.  
7. Before serving run a sharp knife around the edges and place the mold in warm water for 20 seconds, and flip that in a plate.

 

 

 

Note:

• Instead for strawberry you can use any other fruits. If you don’t have strawberry juice you can add apple or orange juice. I didn’t add juice but added a thin pure of strawberry.
• For mango jello I used ½ cup of mango pulp and 1 cup mango passion fruit juice.
• Adding sugar is your choice; since I used fresh fruit for strawberry jello I used ¾ cup sugar. But for mango I used only 4 tsp you will have sugar in juice, so try to adjust the sugar level.

 

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Cantaloupe Mousse

Mousse one of the kids friendly food, one of my little one love to eat smooth textured food and cantaloupe is their favorite one. Cantaloupe is one of the most wanted fruit in our home, during the seasons. For the hot summer this chilled mousse will be best combination.

Ingredients:

Cantaloupe pure	1 cup
Sugar	3 Tbsp
Gelatine powder	1 tsp
Water	3 Tbsp
Cantaloupe finely chopped	½ cup
Whipped cream	1 ¼ cup

 

Directions:

1. Cut the cantaloupe blend it in mixe or any blender and take one cup pure (I used ⅓ fruit for this).
2. Add sugar and mix until it dissolve and let it rest in refrigerator for an hour.
3. Sprinkle gelatine powder in water and mix well.  Double boil (heat water in a sauce pan, put the gelatine mixture bowl over the water) and cook until it dissolve and becomes thin watery.
4. Add this to cantaloupe pure and mix well. In another large bowl add the chopped cantaloupe, whipped cream and pure mixture, gently mix them.
5. Transfer the mouse in desired serving bowl and allow it to set for 1- 2 hours.

 

Note:

• You can skip the chopped cantaloupe if you don’t like it.
• I added a drop of orange food color, but you can skip and go with natural one.
• For best result allow it to set for 4 hours.

 

 

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