How to make fruit ice at home

Fruit ice is very popular in the hot season, it is loved not only by children, but also by adults. The delicacy perfectly quenches thirst, cools and cheers you up. Fruit ice can be prepared at home, if you have basic skills. The composition of the finished product includes exclusively useful components, there are no dyes or unknown additives. Not many people know that a frozen treat fights with vitamin deficiency, normalizes blood pressure and tones the skin.

Technology for making fruit ice at home

1. Fruit-based ice. You can prepare the product from fresh seasonal or frozen fruits. In the latter case, it is necessary to first defrost and thoroughly rinse the ingredients so that the bacteria do not get into the prepared ice. After the flushing is over, squeeze out the remaining moisture, then proceed to prepare the treats.
2. Juice based ice. The most common dessert technology. It is important to clarify that the most delicious is considered to be fruit ice from juice with pulp. It is enough to pour the composition into ice molds, and then send it to the freezer for half an hour. After the liquid has seized with a crust, you need to insert a stick into the contents, then bring to complete freezing.
3. Sugar syrup ice. For the most part, this kind of ice cream is made from fresh berries / fruits, sugar and water. The technology is not particularly difficult: sugar and water are poured into an enameled pan, the composition turns into a homogeneous mass. Then the berries are crushed in a convenient way and mixed with the first mixture. All this is poured into molds for ice and sent to the freezer.

Pear ice

• lemon juice - 55 ml.
• fresh pear - 550 gr.
• granulated sugar (preferably cane) - 180 gr.
• purified water - 200 ml.
• vanillin - 10 gr.

1. Wash the pears, remove twigs, seeds and all inedible parts, chop the fruit into small pieces. Place in a blender, grind into porridge.
2. Prepare an enamel pan, pour sugar, vanillin, put the container on the fire. Bring the composition to a boil; when the first bubbles appear, turn off the burner.
3. Add chopped pears to the sweet mass, let it brew until it cools completely. After time, check the fruits: if they are hard, put on fire and cook until soft.
4. After this, pour in lemon juice, cool, pack in ice molds. Wait until the mass is seized with a crust, then insert the stick and freeze completely.

Yogurt Ice

The prepared fruit ice consists of three layers, which is especially pleasing to children.

• fresh or frozen strawberries - 320 gr.
• icing sugar - 100 g.
• natural yogurt (fat content from 2%) - 170 gr.
• apple juice - 420 ml.
• pear juice - 200 ml.

1. Take a suitable oblong shape, fill in the first layer (one third of the capacity) of the apple juice and let it freeze.
2. At this time, grind fresh or frozen strawberries in a blender until porridge forms. Add natural yogurt and powdered sugar to it, repeat the manipulations.
3. Fill the resulting mass with the second row, again leave to freeze to a solid state. At the end of the process, pour the pear juice in a third layer, freeze again.
4. The technique is considered long due to the processing of all layers separately. To obtain a softer consistency of fruit ice, add a teaspoon of baking gelatin, previously soaked in warm water, to apple or pear juice.

Cherry ice

• Cherry juice (natural) - 680 ml.
• filtered water - 200 ml.
• beet sugar - 200 gr.
• currant (optional)

You can use both cherry and cherry juice, the main thing is that the composition is completely natural. Experienced housewives make fruit ice based on compote or fruit drink.

1. Make a syrup: pour sugar into the water, put on a slow fire and wait for it to dissolve. Stir the mixture constantly so that it does not burn. Be sure to use an enamel pan.
2. After the syrup is ready, cover the container with a lid, cool and mix with cherry juice / fruit drink. If desired, you can add fresh or frozen currant berries. Pour the mass into molds, freeze.

Baby puree ice

• baby fruit puree (any taste) - 310 gr.
• granulated sugar (cane) - 300 gr.
• gelatin - 1 sachet (10-15 gr.)
• grapefruit or lemon juice - 30 ml.
• pure water - 480 ml.

1. Squeeze the gelatin with a small amount of warm water, wait 25-30 minutes until complete swelling. Start cooking syrup.
2. Dissolve granulated sugar in water, put on low heat, stir until granules dissolve. Carefully pour in the swollen gelatin, turn off the stove.
3. Partly cool the mass to an acceptable temperature (so as not to burn your finger), then slowly pour in the fruit puree and stir constantly.
4. Cover, leave for a quarter of an hour. Then pour in the juice of lemon or grapefruit. Strain the resulting composition in a convenient way, distribute on ice molds and freeze.

Watermelon ice

• hard chocolate (milk or black) - 100 gr.
• lime - 0.5 pcs.
• watermelon pulp - 500 gr.

1. Grind the watermelon pulp in a convenient way (fork, blender, meat grinder), squeeze the juice of half lime into the porridge obtained.
2. Grate hard chocolate on a grater, turning it into chips. Add to the watermelon puree. Pour the composition into molds, put in the freezer.
3. If you wish, after making the ice, dip it in melted milk or white chocolate. You can also mix watermelon with seasonal berries, such as currants, strawberries, gooseberries.
4. It is quite simple to get fruit ice from the molds: prepare a container with warm water, lower the container with the prepared treat there, wait 2-3 seconds.

Pineapple ice

• canned / fresh pineapple - 400/500 gr.
• purified water - 575 ml.
• lemon juice - 80 ml.
• granulated sugar - 380 gr.

1. Prepare the syrup: pour the granulated sugar into the water, place the container on the stove and turn on the burner at low power. Bring the composition to a boil, stir the contents so that the sugar does not stick. Once the granules have completely dissolved, cool the mass and pour lemon juice into it. It’s important to understand that canned pineapples are sweeter than fresh. If you use the first type of product, add sugar not 380 gr., But 250-260 gr. Based on personal preferences.
2. At this time, place the pineapples in a blender, turn the fruits into mashed potatoes, and then pour into a mixture of granulated sugar and lemon juice. Pour the mass into molds, put in the freezer for half an hour. As soon as she grabs a little, insert the sticks and send them to freeze again.

It’s easy to make fruit ice if you know which products to use. Use what is at hand. It can be seasonal berries and fruits, frozen mixes or homemade spins. Show imagination, experiment, proceed from personal preferences.

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