Does the word "baking" in your head have associations with sweets? Today we will try to change this. After all, baking is far from pies with cherries and puffs with pear and cinnamon. They are suitable for meat eaters, fish lovers, and vegetarians. They will help to diversify your table and the classic set of dishes that you periodically prepare. These recipes are quite easy, quick, and most importantly tasty. Please your loved ones and yourself with interesting pastry from the dough.
What is the dough
Many refuse to bake because they believe that it is long and difficult to mess with it. Some are simply afraid to burn something because of a bad oven. And all this is in vain! There are many life hacks to help you prepare the best delicious, interesting pastries in your life. But before exploring the intricacies of baking, we first suggest understanding what the dough is in principle.
Pizza dough
- Necessarily flour should be sifted.
- Use only high quality yeast.
- Avoid drafts.
- Do not roll out the dough, but gently stretch it with your hands.
- Grease the bottom of the mold with oil or sprinkle with flour so that the dough does not stick.
Puff pastry
- You must clearly adhere to the amount of ingredients in the recipe.
- Dilute milk in a ratio of 1 to 1 with water.
- Make cuts at the top of the dough before sending it to the oven.
Shortbread dough
- Do not spare the cooking oil; moreover, it should be slightly chilled, not very frozen.
- Use powdered sugar instead of sugar for a better taste.
Dumplings dough
- Sift the flour.
- Knead the dough in a circle in one direction.
- Let the dough rest for at least 20-30 minutes.
- The dough should be very thin, no more than two millimeters.
Sponge cake
- It is imperative to sift flour several times.
- Proteins from yolks must be carefully separated.
- Do not stir the ingredients for too long.
- Do not open the oven for the first twenty-five minutes, otherwise the dough will settle.
Choux pastry
- Sifting flour is a must.
- Eggs should not be cold, but at room temperature.
- Mix the dough not with a mixer, but with your hands.
Pancake dough
- Be sure to sift the flour, but in a separate bowl.
- Do not use egg powder - only chicken eggs.
- First, deal with liquid ingredients (water, mineral water, kefir, eggs), and only then with flour.
- Add oil only at the very end of cooking (until the pan).
- Do not beat the dough for too long.
Interesting baking recipes
We have learned all the secrets that will help you achieve the perfect dish. Now let's look at some simple, interesting baking recipes.
Cheesecakes with raisins
What we need:
- one pack of cottage cheese;
- one egg;
- 3-4 tablespoons of flour;
- a tablespoon of sugar (or vanillin);
- a handful of raisins.
Cooking:
- Put a pack of cottage cheese in a bowl, break one egg.
- Add sugar and beat with a fork or whisk.
- Sift the flour and introduce gradually, stirring the curd with sugar and egg.
- Add raisins steamed in boiling water in a bowl.
- Pour some flour onto a plate. After forming cheese cakes, roll in flour so that they do not stick to hands.
- In vegetable oil, fry the cottage cheese pancakes on each side until golden brown for a minute.
- Put the syrniki from the pan on a napkin to allow the oil to drain.
- Serve hot with honey, sour cream, jam, jam or condensed milk.
This dish is universal: they can have breakfast, and lunch, and dinner. Moreover, it is a very healthy snack. Since cottage cheese has quite a few calories and a lot of protein, this recipe will appeal to athletes and lose weight.
Kefir Mini Pizza
What we need for the base and filling:
- 200 ml of kefir;
- a tablespoon of mayonnaise;
- chicken egg;
- half tsp baking powder;
- 1 cup flour;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- a pinch of salt;
- tomato paste or ketchup;
- 2-3 tomatoes;
- boiled egg;
- sausage or sausage.
Cooking pizza:
- Heat kefir to room temperature.
- Add the egg, mayonnaise, salt and baking powder to it.
- Grate the cheese on a hard grater and leave to decorate and sprinkle before cooking.
- Stir everything and add half the amount of flour. Stir further and gradually add the remaining flour.
- Turn the oven on 40 degrees and put the dough there for five minutes. At this time, prepare the filling.
- We cut the sausage or sausages, as well as the tomatoes into cubes.
- Take out the dough and roll it thinly. Take a faceted glass and squeeze the circles on the dough.
- Put parchment paper on a baking sheet, and our future mini pizzas on it.
- Spread tomato paste or ketchup on the dough. We spread the filling. Sprinkle cheese on top.
- We send for seven minutes to cook in the oven, heated to two hundred degrees.
- Try to pierce the dough with a fork. If it is dry and hard, then the pizzas are ready.
You can cook this dish and take it with you to a picnic and even to work and study. It is very convenient for a snack. Therefore, we made them small in size.
Cinnamon Apple Pie
It's time for sweets. Moreover, we will cook in a slow cooker so as not to suffer with the oven. It is also quite an interesting pastry for children.
We study the ingredients:
- a pound of apples;
- 2 eggs;
- a glass of flour;
- a glass of sugar;
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp vanillin;
- 25 grams of butter.
Cooking a simple and interesting pastry:
- Break two eggs into a bowl and gradually introduce sugar and vanillin. Beat with a fork or whisk.
- Add the flour and beat further until a homogeneous liquid, so that there are no lumps left.
- Now let's deal with apples. Cut them into slices, removing seeds from the inside.
- Add some apple slices to the dough, leave some for decoration.
- Add cinnamon to the dough and mix again.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with butter and pour the dough. Spread apple slices on the circumference for decoration.
- We put the multicooker on the Baking mode for an hour.
- We get (do not leave the cake to languish, otherwise it will fall apart) the dish and serve. You can sprinkle cinnamon or vanilla on top. Garnish with mint.
Sweet tooth will definitely appreciate this airy, lush and light dessert. Good snack for tea.
Sausages in the test
Popular interesting pastry made from yeast dough will appeal to your whole family. Let's find out how to cook it.
What you need to prepare this interesting yeast baking:
- 400 grams of flour;
- 10 sausages;
- 300 ml of water;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 5 grams of dry yeast;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara.
Cooking:
- Mix the yeast with one tablespoon of sugar, warm water and two tablespoons of flour. Leave for twenty minutes in any warm place.
- Twenty minutes later, add a second spoonful of sugar and salt to the dough.
- Hands stir the dough, add oil to it. We interfere for seven minutes.
- Cover with a towel and leave the dough for an hour.
- Divide the dough into two parts. Roll each part into rectangles. Cut lengthwise, take each part and wrap each sausage with it to make a spiral.
- Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and send the sausages to cook for twenty minutes.
Our interesting pastry made from yeast dough is ready. You can also take a snack to school, university, work, and a picnic. Versatile and tasty dish!
Whiskey cheesecake
Do not know what to cook from puff pastry? We offer you an interesting pastry from puff pastry, which will amaze you with its delicate taste from the very first bite!
What is necessary:
- two packs of puff pastry (yeast-free);
- 250 grams of cream cheese;
- 200 grams of sugar and 3 tbsp. l sugar for sprinkling;
- 100 grams of butter;
- a teaspoon of vanillin.
How to cook:
- Defrost and roll out the dough. Put one layer in a baking dish.
- Beat cheese, butter, sugar until smooth and pour into a mold.
- Put the second part of the dough on top. Press the edges.
- Put the cheesecake in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for half an hour.
- When you remove the cheesecake from the mold, put it in the refrigerator for two hours. Cold, it’s much tastier.
The delicate taste of cream cheese in combination with puff pastry is sure to please you!
Puff pastry pasties
Everybody since childhood loves pasties. Now they are associated with stale pastries from the station. However, if you cook pasties at home, you do not have to worry about their composition and taste. Let's find out how to cook them yourself:
- kilogram of puff pastry;
- a pound of minced meat (beef or pork);
- 40 grams of butter;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- two onions;
- salt pepper.
Cooking, following an interesting baking recipe:
- Grind onion with a blender and mix with minced meat.
- Grind the garlic, add to the minced meat. Salt and pepper.
- Cut the dough into small triangles. Roll out balls from them and make them stretched from two edges.
- Put a spoonful of meat and a piece of butter inside each ball. The second piece of dough you need to cover the first. Pinch them with your fingers.
- Fry chebureks in vegetable oil until golden brown on each side.
- After they are ready, put chebureks on napkins to allow excess fat and oil to drain.
Chebureks are very juicy. If you want, add a slice or cube of cheese inside. Then it will melt and make your dish much more tender. Chebureks are best eaten hot right away. This is not the kind of food that can infuse and unfold in taste over time.
Chocolate croissants
Again, the time for desserts has come. If you want to make something for tea, then this recipe is for you. Below in the photo, interesting pastries look insanely appetizing. Let's try to cook our croissants:
Ingredients:
- a pack of puff pastry;
- two bars of milk chocolate;
- 3 tsp powdered sugar;
- egg
Cooking dessert:
- Roll the dough very thinly and cut into triangles.
- Cut the chocolate (or break it by hand) into small pieces about half a centimeter.
- Put each chocolate piece at the base of the triangle of dough.
- Fold the triangle with a roll and put it on parchment paper on a baking sheet.
- Grease the triangles with a raw egg.
- Put the oven at 220 degrees, bake triangles in it for about twenty minutes.
- Serve and eat hot, otherwise the chocolate will harden and will not be so tasty and spectacular.
This recipe is very fond of children. Therefore, be sure to try to cook it to please your daughters and sons.
Ham and Cheese Puffs
Everyone loves puffs for the refined taste of the dough and various combinations of fillings. Meat eaters and people who love cheese will definitely appreciate this recipe. It does not take long to prepare, since we use ready-made puff pastry, which can be easily found in almost every grocery store. So let's get started.
Ingredients:
- a pack of puff pastry (without yeast);
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- 150 grams of ham;
- egg;
- some flour.
Cooking delicious puffs:
- Pre-remove the dough from the freezer 2-3 hours before cooking. If you do not have time or forget - it does not matter. With a microwave, we can defrost it in just 2-3 minutes.
- We will cut ham into thin slices. Remove fat from the ham (if any). We do not need him.
- Cheese cut into slices too.
- Sprinkle a large board with flour. Put the dough and cut it into squares or rectangles. We put a piece of ham, and cheese on it.
- Cover one square of dough with another and pinch the edges. By the way, so that the dough does not separate, we pinch the edges with a fork.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil and spread the puffs. Grease them with an egg to make a crust when baking.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake for about twenty minutes.
Serve hot, as the cheese will then be hard. Note that cooking did not even take you half an hour. With this easy-to-cook dish, you can please your family at least every weekend.
A delicious pie with mushrooms on kefir
This pie can be prepared not only with mushrooms. Look for your filling and experiment at home, based on our simple recipe.
Ingredients:
- two glasses of kefir;
- two eggs;
- three glasses of flour;
- a teaspoon of soda;
- a tablespoon of salt;
- a teaspoon of sugar;
- 2 onions;
- a pound of mushrooms.
Cooking:
- My mushrooms, clean, chop finely. We chop onions and fry together with mushrooms in vegetable oil for ten minutes. Salt to taste.
- Kefir is heated to room temperature, add eggs, sugar, salt, soda and mix.
- It is necessary to further sift the flour and gradually introduce into kefir, stirring until there are lumps.
- Grease the mold with oil. Pour half our dough, then put our mushroom and onion filling there.
- Pour the second part of the dough. Garnish the top with greens.
- Bake for forty minutes in an oven, preheated to 200 degrees.
The cake can be served both hot and cold. The dish is not very fatty, as we made the dough from kefir, and from the filling we only have mushrooms. However, do not overdo it, because mushrooms are hard to digest. If you eat too much of them, abdominal pain can occur.
Thin pancakes in milk
Many just dream of lace pancakes. But few know how to cook them. So let's get started:
- two chicken eggs;
- half a liter of milk;
- a pinch of salt;
- a teaspoon of sugar;
- a glass of flour;
- vegetable oil.
Getting started:
- Beat the eggs, add salt and sugar to taste to them. Beat with a fork or whisk.
- Gradually add milk to the egg mixture and mix. Do the same with flour.
- Put the dough in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
- Take a ladle and pour into a pan with vegetable oil, forming a circle. Fry less than a minute on both sides. We make sure that they are not burnt.
- Fold the pancakes on top of each other. You can grease them with butter for a better taste.
Such pancakes are good in that they are, in fact, universal. If sugar is removed from the ingredients, then pancakes can be stuffed with anything: mushrooms, meat, ham, cheese. If you make sweet pancakes, you can use them with honey, condensed milk, jam, jam, sour cream. You can even make a curd mass with sour cream and raisins. Then you can make pancake rolls with cottage cheese.
We hope that today you learned a lot of interesting and varied recipes from the test. Do not be afraid to bake, we convinced you that it is easy. Enjoy your meal!