After a weekly cleaning in the jungle of your refrigerator, did you suddenly find kefir? The taste is not very gorgeous, slightly peroxide. And what can you do with your mind now? What can be prepared from kefir? Do not worry! This product has proven itself very well in many of the ingredients in baking.
Okroshka a little bit
Yes, most often baking is made from this fermented milk product. Although you can cook something from kefir besides it. For example, when you make okroshka, instead of liquid (kvass, mineral water), you can pour kefir into the chopped vegetables. Only in the case of okroshka, kefir should be taken fresh.
Bake mannik
This product also makes an excellent cupcake. It is already permissible to use acidified kefir. During heat treatment, kefir will turn into a normal and safe component of this cake. Before you cook manic on kefir, check your grocery supplies. If the necessary ingredients are available, then proceed. You will not regret!
Let's collect products:
- 2 eggs.
- 1 cup kefir.
- 1 cup of sugar.
- 1 glass of flour and semolina.
- Half a teaspoon of soda and salt in the amount of 1 pinch (small).
In a bowl, mix the eggs, salt and sugar. Sprinkle baking soda and add semolina and flour to all these products. Knead our dough with a spoon and give 20 minutes to make the semolina swell - this is a very important secret of manna. Bake the cake in a preheated oven using a non-stick mold. Baking time is about half an hour. Watch your technique and you will not miss an important moment. After the cupcake is ready, it needs to be taken out of the mold, which we simply turn over a flat plate, and our manna turns out to be in it. Let the baking cool and decorate by generously sprinkling powdered sugar.
Kefir pancakes
If you want to make something completely budgetary from kefir, then here is the recipe for beautiful pancakes.
Products we need for them:
- Kefir - 1 glass.
- Flour - 1 cup
- A teaspoon of soda and a tablespoon of sugar.
- Salt is about a quarter of a teaspoon.
- An essential ingredient in frying fritters is vegetable oil.
Knead pancakes:
Pour kefir into a deep bowl. Then pour sugar, salt and soda into it, mix thoroughly the resulting mixture. Now it's time to add flour. Pour it carefully, in small portions, mix each portion of flour carefully so that unpleasant lumps do not spoil your pleasure from fragrant pancakes. As soon as the mass becomes remotely similar to thick sour cream, it's time to heat the vegetable oil in a pan.
How to fry pancakes
The oil in the pan should not be much. In a large amount of fatty substance, our pancakes can turn out to be heavy and flat. Place the dough in a pan with a tablespoon, as soon as the bottom side of the pancakes is covered with a golden brown, and the top - with bubbles, so it's time to turn over our delicious pancakes.
Ready-made, fragrant pancakes, can be served with tea with sour cream, jam, condensed milk or jam.
Yeast dough
This is the fantasy for what to cook from kefir is not over! Another zealous mistress will always be able to feed seven of the most tender pastry kefir pies. This dough is made without yeast and has a very pleasant taste and aroma. And you don’t have to spend time on leaven with a proofing.
Products for the test:
- 400 grams of flour.
- Kefir - a little less than half a glass.
- 100 milliliters of water.
- Eggs - in the amount of 2 pieces.
- Salt to taste.
Mesim pie dough
- Mix flour and salt.
- Separately combine kefir, eggs and water.
- Now gradually, in small portions, we introduce the flour into liquid products.
- Knead the dough and set it aside for the preparation of the filling for the pies.
Filling
In fact, the filling can be completely arbitrary. It may well be sweet or not. You can also turn meat products into a filling. But here I will give a recipe for toppings from cabbage:
- Chop cabbage and carrots finely. Prepare the onion in the same way. Now stew everything in vegetable oil in a pan. Salt to taste. Cool the resulting filling and proceed to the usual molding of pies. You can bake them in the oven, or you can fry them using a frying pan. These pies will turn out equally tasty in both cases.
Now, the sour-milk product forgotten in the refrigerator will not be a problem for you, because you will always know what to make from kefir.
Sour-milk products have a very beneficial effect on the entire human body. But in order to get the maximum of possible useful vitamins and no less useful trace elements, you need to use fresh kefir daily. And even better if it is not a store product, but kefir made in your own kitchen, but - how to cook homemade kefir? This is not difficult at all, there is only one, the most important condition - milk for your future kefir must be present. Yes, from the cow straight to your apartment. Look around, maybe there is a clean housekeeper with a cow? Or visit the market and buy milk there. What to do when you become the happy owner of a certain amount of fresh milk?
First, pour the milk into a glass dish. Be sure to strain it through a fine strainer or clean cheesecloth, folded in two layers. Everything! Cover the jar with the future kefir lid and wait. It will take about three days to wait. First, the milk acidifies, exfoliates into the upper and lower parts. The upper part is fatter. After two days, you can taste this top in a jar. If everything turned out right, then the taste will be pleasant, sour. You can collect the tops in a separate bowl (this is sour cream). Hold the remaining sour milk for another day. It will become a heterogeneous consistency, but do not be scared. This consistency is the most natural kefir. Now take the jar, close with a tight lid and shake the contents. Everything! You can eat a healthy product.
A couple more nuances for proper cooking:
- Milk intended for the manufacture of kefir in no case boil!
- Dishes in which milk “sour” should not be in the refrigerator. The tops taken from kefir and kefir itself are placed in the refrigerator when its taste seems satisfactory to you.