Jelly Recipe: Chrysanthemum Goji Berry Jelly

Herbal jelly with loads of health benefits. It’s indeed a Chinese jelly recipe, as chrysanthemum tea and dried goji berries are part of their cooking. Imagine the refreshing and cooling chrysanthemum tea and also the natural sweetness of goji berries (THAI RED RUBIES). 

In a mildly crunchy, yet wobbly jelly, made with lump sugar. Let alone only 4 ingredients (excluding water) for this not a common jelly. But it’s truly a sweet dessert pleasure, whether preferred at room temperature or after chilling in the fridge (ONDEH-ONDEH/KUIH BUAH MELAKA). 

Nothing complicated, and for the jelly base, the best is agar-agar. Another healthy ingredient, low-calorie and plant-based, high in fiber.

Ingredients
1 packet agar-agar - soaked for an hour and drained
Lump sugar - to taste
1/2 cup chrysanthemum flowers n- soaked in 1/2 cup hot water 
One handful dried wolfberries - soaked in water to soften
7 cups water  

How to Make Herbal Jelly
Simmer agar-agar and water. 

Stir and once agar-agar has dissolved, strain. 

Pour the mixture into a pot. 
Add sugar and stir to dissolve.
Remove from heat and add goji berries.
Stir. 

Pour in tea and stir. 

Pour into  individual molds.
Set and unmold.