What is strudel? This is a dessert that is prepared on the basis of puff pastry. It can be meat, and maybe sweet. Learning to cook it is not difficult, and the cost of the products is small. One strudel recipe can be varied according to one’s own mood, changing the fillings from berry to fruit or even meat. How to cook strudel? This can be done in different ways. Choose a recipe that will appeal to you more.
Meat strudel recipe
Ingredients: 450 grams of flour, a glass of kefir, 2 eggs, baking soda - tea. spoon, 5 potatoes, 2 heads of onions, 500 grams of minced meat, a pinch of black pepper, salt.
Add soda to kefir and mix thoroughly. Then whisk the eggs with a whisk and add to the kefir. Salt and gradually pour flour until a dough is obtained.
From the dough we form a ball, which we cover with a linen towel and set for an hour in a warm place.
Forcemeat pepper, salt and mix thoroughly. When the dough for the strudel is ready, roll it out with a rolling pin and spread the minced meat on the resulting cake. Then we wrap the minced meat in a roll and cut into pieces, the thickness of which should be about 3 cm. Let them rest for 15 minutes.
Pour the vegetable oil into the stewpan, spread the finely chopped onion and fry it until a light golden color. Add the potatoes cut in the cups, salt and fill the water so that it covers the potatoes 1/3. Close the stewpan with a lid and bring to a boil. After that, put the strudel on the potatoes and reduce the heat. Close the stewpan with a lid and leave it on fire for another 50 minutes.
Apple strudel recipe
Ingredients: 3 apples, puff pastry, sugar and ground cinnamon.
Cooking method:
We clear apples from seeds and cut into strips. Roll out the puff pastry with a rolling pin and put the chopped apples there. Sprinkle with ground cinnamon and sugar.
Wrap the dough in a roll, spread on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes until cooked.
Strudel with nuts recipe
Ingredients: butter dough - 450 g, granulated sugar - 3 tables. spoons, ground crackers - a glass, raisins -3/4 cups, apples - 5pcs, an egg, ground nuts (almonds) - half a cup, sugar. powder - 2 table. spoons, cinnamon - half a teaspoon. spoons, lemon zest - table. spoon, butter.
Cooking method:
We divide the dough into two parts and roll them out using a rolling pin. The size of one cake should be about 30x15 cm, and the other a little larger. Cut into small strips or grate apples. After that, mix them with cinnamon, sugar, ground crackers, raisins, nuts and zest. Spread the resulting filling on a smaller cake and cover on top with another. Beat the egg, grease the edges of the cakes with them and clamp them. Make cuts from above with a knife and grease with a beaten egg. Put it in the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Dried Fruit Strudel Recipe
Ingredients: 150 grams of puff pastry (ready to buy), 150 grams of dried fruit and nuts to taste, one pear, 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of milk, 50 grams of cookies (dried), 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar , 50 g chocolate crumbs, a teaspoon of chopped lemon peel, 2 tablespoons of orange juice.
Nuts with dried fruits need to be crushed with a blender not to powder, but to medium pieces. Add shortbread cookies (previously crumbled), a little butter, chocolate chips, diced pear cubes to this mixture. Then add the zest of lemon and orange juice, mix everything until the ingredients are evenly distributed in the total mass.
Lay the dough on the table, lay the cooked filling on top of it, leaving an indent along the edges. Moisten the edges with water and wrap the dough in a roll, close the ends. Place the strudel on a baking sheet covered in butter and covered with parchment paper.
Before baking, coat the strudel surface with milk. Put in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 10 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and cook for another 20 minutes. Sprinkle the finished strudel with powdered sugar and garnish with nuts.