Watermelon jelly
( Gelatina di anguria )

Watermelon jelly recipe

Preparation and cooking

• - Prepare watermelon.
  Remove seeds from watermelon flesh.
  Purée it in a blender until smooth.
• - Cooking.
  Pour puréed watermelon into a saucepan.
  Add sweet sparkling wine and yoghurt too.
  Cook over a low heat, half-covered, stirring now and then until your mixture is reduced to the third part.
  At this point add cinnamon and stir.
  Meanwhile soak gelatine shhet in cold water, squeeze and melt in the warm mixture.
  Let your mixture cool and then pour it into a pudding mold.
  Chill overnight.

Just before serving

• - Before serving your watermelon jelly, turn it upsidedown on a serving platter. If this operation is difficult, you can plunge your mold into hot water for few seconds.
  Arrange around a fruit salad made with melon, kiwi fruits, lemon juice and ice sugar.
• - Your watermelon jelly is ready to serve!

Note

Tips

• - Watermelon jelly is a tasty cold dessert that you can prepare in advance, the day before.
• - If you have any doubt on sparkling wine read the last paragraph.

Menu planning

• - I often prepare watermelon jelly in summer. I think it is very advantageous because you can prepare it in advance and calmly. It is a cool dessert, made with fruit, without any whipped cream or custard and so ideal for a fish menu and every alfresco dinner. Think of it for a BBQ party too.
• - It is a good choice for a meal, buffet-style.
• - Prepare it in individual bowls. It can be a tasty snack in afternoon.

Useful links for this recipe

• - I think you could also be interested in watermelon ice (Sicilian gelo di mellone).

Healthy eating

• - It seems incredible, right? A portion with less than 200 calories? The secret lies in the fact that you work only with the sugar of fruit and sparkling wine. Without adding any sugar, flour and eggs here it is the result! Excellent example of how you can eat well without overdoing in the ingredients :))
• - Fiber per serving: 0.9 grams

Loretta

What's the right wine for " Watermelon jelly "?

Sweet sparkling wine is already one of the ingredients for this dessert and in summer you'd drink less. Anyway chill a bottle of sweet sparkling wine, you never know! Obviously of the the same kind used for watermelon jelly ;)) I use Asti spumante.