Mannica is a type of cake in which semolina must be present among the main ingredients. There are several options for making this original dessert. Each of them is good in its own way. For example, you can make manna with jam. It turns out juicy, delicate and very fragrant.
Mannik on sour cream
When choosing a recipe, you always need to understand how the finished dish will look. For example, mannik with jam can be made in the form of a cake with a sweet fruit layer. To do this, you will need: 1 cup of sour cream, flour, semolina, sugar and any thick jam, 3 eggs, one and a half teaspoons of baking powder, 80 grams of butter and a tablespoon of brandy.
It’s easy to cook manic with jam:
- First, semolina should be poured into a bowl, pour sour cream and leave it to swell for about 1 hour.
- Beat eggs thoroughly with sugar at this time.
- Add to them the swollen semolina, flour, baking powder, melted butter and mix thoroughly.
- Pour the dough into a mold and bake for 40 minutes in the oven. Readiness can easily be checked with a toothpick (or match) by piercing it with cake.
- Cut the cooled mannik horizontally into two parts and place jam between them. The product should stand for a while so that the cakes can soak.
After that, you can immediately serve it for tea and enjoy a wonderful dessert. Such a cake is able to replace even a birthday cake.
Multicooker Dish
A wonderful manna with jam is obtained even without eggs. To facilitate the work, you can use modern kitchen appliances. An ordinary multicooker can easily cope with this task. You only need: 90 grams of flour, 1 glass of sugar, water and semolina, 300 grams of jam (or fresh cherries), as well as one teaspoon of cinnamon and soda (or baking powder).
Cooking Technique:
- First, cereal should be mixed with sugar, and then pour water and leave for 40 minutes, so that it swells a little.
- Add the rest of the ingredients according to the recipe and mix everything well.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl generously with vegetable oil, and then transfer the finished dough into it.
- Close the lid tightly, set the “baking” mode and the timer for 50 minutes. In this case, the upper part will turn out to be a little pale. In order not to spoil the appearance of the whole pie, it is also necessary to bake it a little.
- To do this, the manna must be turned on a plate, and then again sent to the bowl upside down. Bake for 30 minutes in the same mode.
After cooling, the finished product can be decorated with snow-white icing sugar.
Mannick without flour
Confectioners claim that such a popular dessert turns out to be delicate and very tasty even when using a minimal set of products. For example, the lack of flour does not affect the quality of the finished product. To prepare a manna with jam, the recipe can contain the following main ingredients: 150 grams of semolina, 100 grams (1/2 pack) of margarine (or butter), 2 eggs, 2.5 teaspoons of baking powder and two thirds of a glass of jam.
Making such a pie is also very simple:
- First of all, butter should be softened a little, and then thoroughly mix it with jam.
- Introduce the eggs and beat the resulting mixture well with a whisk.
- Add semolina connected to the baking powder. After thoroughly mixing, the dough should look like thick sour cream.
- Pour the mass into the mold and send it to the oven.
- Bake for 10 minutes at a temperature inside the chamber of 180 degrees. The oven must be preheated in advance.
- Reduce the temperature to 170 degrees and continue baking for another 30 minutes.
The finished dessert looks no different from the rest. It turns out the same magnificent and fragrant. After cooling, the cake can be decorated at your discretion using icing, icing sugar or fudge.
Kefir semolina pie
There are a huge number of different recipes for baking the famous manna. Among them, everyone is able to find a suitable option for themselves. For example, you can make a wonderful manna on kefir with jam. This cake is light and crumbly. In addition, flour is not used in it, which makes baking itself more useful and less high-calorie. For work you will need:
0.5 liters of kefir, ¼ kilogram semolina, 2-3 grams of salt, 2 eggs, 100 grams of sugar, 1 packet (10 grams) of baking powder, the same amount of vanilla sugar, 220 grams of currant jam and 30 grams of animal oil (for greasing molds )
The whole process of preparing such a manna consists of several stages:
- Pour kefir into a deep bowl.
- Add semolina and mix the foods very thoroughly with a whisk.
- Cover the container with a napkin and refrigerate for at least half an hour to swell. In principle, this can be done in the evening, and in the morning start cooking.
- Beat eggs separately with salt, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
- Combine both masses and only now add baking powder.
- Gradually introduce jam.
- Pour the dough into a mold processed inside with butter.
- Bake for 45 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
After this, the cake needs to be cooled, cut into portions and served with coffee or tea.
Semolina pie on milk
Any experienced hostess knows several options for a favorite dessert. For example, in order to treat your family and friends with sweet pastries in the morning, you can make a wonderful manna in milk with jam. The following required components are required: ½ pack of butter (100 grams), 1 cup of milk, semolina, sugar and flour, 2 eggs, 5 tablespoons of jam, ½ teaspoon of citric acid and soda, and 3 grams of vegetable oil (for form processing).
You need to cook the pie in the following order:
- First you need to beat the eggs in a deep container with sugar until it is completely dissolved.
- Add warm milk and gradually introduce semolina. Mix everything and leave for half an hour.
- After time, add warmed oil, salt, soda, vanilla sugar and lemon. It is better to mix the mass with a mixer.
- Add flour in portions without stopping whipping.
- Lubricate the mold slightly with vegetable oil, and then pour the finished dough into it.
- Add jam at the top.
- Bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Inside the cabinet, the temperature should already be 180 degrees.
It turns out a very original dessert, which practically does not need additional decoration.