Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make marshmallows without sugar on agar-agar? Prepare the products. Take such an amount of apples that they, peeled together with the berry, weigh ~ 400 grams. Honey is better to take thicker, I had quite a liquid, it was a little in the way.
Step 2:
Wash the apples well, dry them. Peel them, remove the core. Cut the apples into small pieces.
Step 3:
Take a saucepan with a thick bottom, measure the apples on the scales together with currants, you should get 410 grams.
Step 4:
Boil the fruit to a puree state. This can be done in any way convenient for you — in the microwave, oven or just on the stove. I cooked on the stove, on the smallest fire. It took about 15 minutes. Apples should become soft.
Step 5:
Using a blender, grind the puree until smooth. If the puree turned out to be liquid, then cook it a little more.
Step 6:
I also additionally rubbed the puree through a sieve so that the currant seeds would not come across in the marshmallows. Measure 155 grams of the finished puree.
Step 7:
Divide honey into two parts — 150 and 210 grams, respectively. Add 150 grams to the fruit puree, stir and let the mixture cool.
Step 8:
Due to the fact that I had very liquid honey, my puree turned out to be liquid too and the finished marshmallows were a little blurry. With a thicker puree, this will not happen.
Step 9:
Fill the agar-agar with cold clean water. Leave it on for 15 minutes.
Step 10:
Divide the protein into two parts. Beat one half with a mixer to the state of steep peaks.
Step 11:
Put the cooled puree in another bowl. Add to it the other half of the protein (not whipped). Start whipping the mixture at a high speed mixer. It will lighten and increase in size.
Step 12:
Then add the whipped half. And keep whipping. Next, if you don't have a planetary mixer, you'll need an assistant. Add the remaining honey (210 grams) to the bucket with agar-agar. Put the ladle on a small fire. With constant stirring, bring the agar to complete dissolution, and then to a boil. Boil the syrup for 1 minute.
Step 13:
Pour the hot syrup into the whipped fruit mass. Pour a thick stream, away from the walls of the bowl, so that the syrup does not cool down quickly. Agar begins to gelate already at 40 degrees. You need to work with him quickly.
Step 14:
After adding the syrup, beat the mixture for another 2-3 minutes. It will become much lighter and greatly increase in size.
Step 15:
Transfer the mixture to a pastry bag.
Step 16:
Put marshmallows in the form of roses on pre-prepared parchment. Because of the liquid honey, they blurred a little, but then they still froze well. Let the marshmallows dry at room temperature for about 20 hours. Then connect them in halves. To prevent marshmallows from sticking, you can sprinkle it with starch.
It turned out to be a real delicious marshmallow! A little sticky, but I didn't immediately guess about the starch. The longer he lies, the stronger he becomes.
Why agar-agar sometimes does not freeze, how to work with it correctly and avoid annoying mistakes, as well as all the subtleties of cooking various dishes with this gelling agent read the article about agar-agar .
Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.
When whipping with a mixer, make sure that the entire volume of proteins is involved in the whipping process (the mixer must reach the bottom of the dishes), otherwise it may happen that the proteins remain liquid at the bottom.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Egg whites - 44 kcal/100g
- Black currant - 38 kcal/100g
- Fresh-frozen black currant - 44 kcal/100g
- Agar-agar - 301 kcal/100g