Homemade chewy candies which are called as jujubes. These gelatin based jujubes are tasty and fruity.
Jujubes Recipe
Jujubes was on my to do list for quite some time. Finally i made yesterday and it turned out pretty good. My little one loved it. I used agar agar in this and the jujubes turned out to be more melt in mouth. But if you use gelatin it will be more chewy and gummy.
This is a delicious and kids friendly recipe.Your kids will love it for sure. You can half the batch for lesser quantity. For vegans and vegetarians you can use agar agar powder in this recipe which will give perfect jujubes.
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Ingredients for Jujubes
- Sugar
- Water
- Liquid Glucose or Corn Syrup
- Agar Agar Powder or Gelatin
- Lemon Juice
- Food Colouring (yellow, red, green)
- Essence - Raspberry, Strawberry and Pineapple
I will soon share a fruit snack recipe which is made using fresh fruit juices.
Jujubes Preparation
- Take gelatin or china grass in a bowl, add in ½ cup of water and mix well. Set aside for 10 mins.
- In a heavy bottom pan, take sugar, ½ cup of water, glucose and mix well. Put it on heat and cook on low heat till the sugar melts. Bring it to a boil.
- Boil the syrup until it reaches the hard ball stage (125°C) or you can check this by using a clean spoon when the syrup is dropped into cold water it may be formed into a hard ball.
- Now add in lemon juice and mix well. Boil it well.
- Now add in gelatin,mix and stir till it is melted.
- Divide this into three bowls and food colour and essence.
- Now pour it in greased bowls and let it dry outside overnight.
- Now cut into small pieces, and roll it in sugar.
- Store in an air tight container in fridge..
Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
Table of Contents
Jujubes with Step by Step Pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take gelatin or china grass in a bowl |
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| add some cold water and stir well and let it sit for 5 mins |
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| grease three plates with little oil and set aside |
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| squeeze lemon juice and strain it |
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| take sugar in a heavy bottom pan |
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| add water |
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| simmer till sugar is melted |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| once it reaches hard ball stage take it off heat |
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| spoon some syrup in a plate with water, it should form a hard ball |
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add liquid glucose
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| add the gelatin mix |
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| add lemon juice |
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| mix well |
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| place a strainer over a bowl |
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| now it is strained |
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| divide it into three bowls |
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| add food colour and essence |
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| mix well |
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| pour it into moulds |
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| repeat with remaining mix |
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| pour it into moulds |
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| set aside to dry overnight |
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| now time to some rolling in sugar |
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| cut it into squares |
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| roll it in sugar |
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| Serve |
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Jujubes | Jujubes Candy Recipe
Ingredients
- Sugar - 2 ½ cups / 500 grams
- Water - ½ cup + ½ cup
- Liquid Glucose or Corn Syrup -½ cup / 150 grams
- Agar Agar Powder or Gelatin - 50 grams
- Lemon Juice - 3 tblspn see notes
- Food Colouring yellow, red, green
- Essence - Raspberry Strawberry and Pineapple
Instructions
- Take gelatin or china grass in a bowl, add in ½ cup of water and mix well. Set aside for 10 mins.
- In a heavy bottom pan, take sugar, ½ cup of water, glucose and mix well. Put it on heat and cook on low heat till the sugar melts. Bring it to a boil.
- Boil the syrup until it reaches the hard ball stage (125°C) or you can check this by using a clean spoon when the syrup is dropped into cold water it may be formed into a hard ball.
- Now add in lemon juice and mix well. Boil it well.
- Now add in gelatin,mix and stir till it is melted.
- Divide this into three bowls and food colour and essence.
- Now pour it in greased bowls and let it dry outside overnight.
- Now cut into small pieces, and roll it in sugar.
- Store in an air tight container in fridge..
Video
Notes
2)Using agar agar will give melt in mouth jujubes. Gelatin will give gummy jujubes
3)Cook sugar syrup till it reaches hard ball stage, so it gives perfect gummy.
Rajshekher Garikapati
Thanks for your recipe. This particular one is quite unique. Please keep it up. I have bookmarked your page. Thanks once again.
Uma Raji
Awesome..can we use corn syrup instead of liquid glucose.if yes, pls mention the quantity..thank you
Rosalita David
Super duper.. I am a great fan of your recipes and almost always dishes turn out right when I follow your style of doing things.. keep up the good work... btw can you post traditional nagercoil recipes.. My husband is from nagarcoil and I will like to make some authentic nagarcoil food for him...
Rosalita David
Super duper.. I am a great fan of your recipes and almost always dishes turn out right when I follow your style of doing things.. keep up the good work... btw can you post traditional nagercoil recipes.. My husband is from nagarcoil and I will like to make some authentic nagarcoil food for him...
sona
agar agar is not available at my place from where i can get it and for how much.
Aarthi
check this
http://www.amazon.in/Meron-Agar-Agar-China-Grass-Sachet/dp/B00VRA7HUS/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1480962583&sr=8-4&keywords=meron+agar+agar
waves sea
Hi Aarthi,i have tried jujubes,but i got semi-solid one,like top layer was all set and the bottom layer was not good.i used agar agar patches instead of powder.
Aarthi
this works with only powder
waves sea
oh ok ok Thanks Aarthi..
Dhruva Satchelman
For extra chilli pip zing zing, put in Trader Joe’s ground bhut jolokia (ghost papper) powder. But only little bit. Then give to you little gupta goons for playtime.