Russian caravan tea lime orange and strawberry jelly

Savour Spring with bold creative dessert

This year, Spring hasn’t warmed up; it’s still freezing cold. However, I need to clean not only the garden but also my big pantry. While dusting the shelves, I found two packets of Twining Tea: Russian caravan, expired lime 10 months ago, and expired orange 6 months ago aeroplane jelly packets. The strawberries don’t look like they will last another 3 days, and there’s enough gelatine powder left for 1 Tsp.

I don’t like wasting food, and I haven’t made jelly in a while. I’ve been creating meals with my air fryer. Today, I’m giving it a break and experimenting with making jelly using tea. I’ve tried making coffee berry blue panna cotta jelly pudding before, so why not try it with tea? If you never try, you’ll never know how it tastes.

I’m mixing tea with expired lime and orange jelly, and adding strawberries for texture and colour. It turned out great! The combination of tea, lime, and orange jelly creates a unique flavour, and the strawberries add crunch. Who’s with me? Will you try it as a dessert? I might be one of the first to experiment with tea, expired lime, orange jelly, and strawberries. Let’s make a tea, lime, orange, and strawberry jelly!

Ingredients

2 Russian caravan tea bags
2 packets unflavoured gelatine powder, each 12 g
1 expired 10 months ago lime aeroplane jelly
1 expired 6 months ago orange aeroplane jelly
1 Tsp gelatine powder
500 ml hot boiling water
400 ml cold water
125 ml hot water, plus extra for unflavoured gelatine
10 strawberries, stems removed and sliced
oil, grease jelly mould

Method

Put kettle on. Grease the jelly mould and set aside. Open the two jelly boxes and empty the jelly powder into a big metal bowl. Once the kettle is boiled, pour 500 ml hot water into the prepare jelly bowl. Stir until dissolved. Add the two tea bags, jiggles a couples of times. Let it sit for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, add 400 ml cold tap water into a jug, and sprinkles 1 Tsp gelatine powder, then pour into the hot water jelly mixture; stirs again to make sure all are combined. Sit again for a further 5 minutes. As both jellies are expired it would not set fully. Fill a jug with 125 ml hot water, sprinkles the powder of one packet of unflavoured gelatine. Stir until well mixed and set aside. Wait 5 minutes to absorb. Remove tea bags and pour the unflavoured gelatine into the big metal bowl with both jelly and tea mixture. Gives another stir or two. Wait for another 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes up, it’s still not set, pour 100 ml hot boiling water into jug, open the second unflavoured gelatine, sprinkles powder over the hot boiling water. Stir until well mixed and set aside. Wait for 5 minutes. Then add into the jelly tea metal bowl. Mix well and pour into the greased jelly mould. Scatter the slices of strawberries all around it. Chill overnight or 4-6 hours. Enjoy!!!! the unwasted tea bags, jellies and strawberries!!

Note: If both of your jelly aeroplane are not expired you don’t need the unflavoured gelatine. You can use any tea bags of your choice as well as any fruits except pineapple, kiwi or paw paw, jelly will not set.

https://helenscchin.com/2024/09/23/russian-caravan-tea-lime-orange-and-strawberry-jelly/


For my Coffee berry blue panna cotta jelly pudding:
https://helenscchin.com/2024/08/25/coffee-berry-blue-panna-cotta-jelly-pudding/

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