Kefir pie with cheese is a lifesaver if you need to cook a quick and satisfying dinner. It will take no more than 20 minutes. Usually this is not sweet pastries, the ingredients can be different - sausages, sausages, green onions, potatoes and others that are currently available. And now some recipes for kefir and cheese pie.
With eggs and greens
What do you need:
- 0.5 l of kefir;
- 0.3 kg of flour;
- 5 eggs;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 100 g of green onions;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- to taste ground pepper and salt.
How to do:
- Three hard boiled eggs, two raw eggs will be used to prepare the dough.
- Pour kefir into a bowl, break two eggs, mix.
- Sift the flour and mix it with baking powder and salt.
- Gradually add flour to the kefir mixture and mix. The dough should be liquid.
- Prepare the filling: chop the onion feathers and boiled eggs, grate the cheese and mix it all.
- Place baking paper in a mold, grease it with oil and pour half of the dough. Put the filling on it and pour the remaining dough.
- Place the pan in the oven and bake for about 35 minutes. The temperature is 180 degrees.
Remove the finished kefir pie with cheese from the stove and cool a little. Then cut into pieces and serve.
With potato
For 6 servings of the pie, the following foods will be required:
- 80 ml of kefir;
- 50 g of cheese;
- 0.25 kg of flour;
- 1 egg
- a pinch of salt and granulated sugar;
- 5 g of fast-acting yeast;
- 1 onion;
- 3 potato tubers;
- butter;
- ground black pepper.
How to do:
- Sift flour through a sieve, pour sugar, salt and yeast into it.
- Pour kefir into a bowl, add an egg to it, mix and knead the dough.
- Combine the kefir mixture with flour and mix. Let stand for about 1 hour.
- Peel and chop potatoes and onions arbitrarily, grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Combine all the ingredients for the filling, add salt and pepper and mix.
- Divide the dough into two identical servings. Roll one part on a cutting board.
- Cover the baking dish with parchment, put the rolled out dough, then the filling.
- Roll out the second part of the dough and cover them with the filling.
- Put the mold in the preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes.
- Remove it from the stove and grease a piece of butter on top.
Ready cake on kefir with cheese and potatoes should have a delicious ruddy crust. Allow it to cool slightly and you can treat your family.
With sausages
Instead of sausages, you can take boiled sausage without salted pork or ham. The recipe for kefir dough for jellied pies is used, that is, it should be liquid, like sour cream.
What do you need:
- a glass of kefir;
- two eggs;
- a glass of flour;
- half a teaspoon of soda;
- salt.
How to do:
- Soda put in kefir and leave for 10 minutes.
- Add the egg to kefir and beat.
- Pour the flour gradually and mix until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
To prepare the filling, you need to take:
- 200 g of sausages or sausages;
- 300 g of hard cheese.
How to do:
- Cut the sausages into circles (sausage with bars or cubes).
- Grate the cheese.
- Put sausages and grated cheese into the dough and mix well.
- Lubricate the form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs, lay out the dough.
- Put in the oven, previously heated to 180 degrees, and bake for about 40 minutes until golden brown.
If you don’t like sausages, and it seems that they “cheapen” the kefir cheese pie, you can add cheese and chopped greens instead of them, as well as seasonings to your liking. It will be an excellent breakfast or dinner.
With Adyghe cheese
This cake is very tasty. Greens are especially good for it - onion feathers and dill.
What do you need:
- a glass of wheat flour;
- 250 ml of kefir;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g soft Adyghe cheese;
- half a teaspoon of soda and salt;
- green onions and dill;
- vegetable oil.
How to do:
- Kefir slightly heated, add soda to it (it will be extinguished in kefir) and eggs, then salt and beat with a whisk.
- Grate the cheese, finely chop the dill and onion. Put greens and cheese in kefir.
- Sift flour and add gradually to the kefir mass and mix. Leave the resulting dough for 20-30 minutes. It should consistency resemble thick sour cream. You may need to add flour.
- Pour the dough into a mold covered with parchment and greased with oil.
- Bake until golden brown at 180 degrees.
Remove from the oven, cool and cut into portions.
Kefir cheese pie in a slow cooker
This hearty cheese dish with aromatic Provencal herbs is very easy to prepare.
What do you need:
- 150 g of flour;
- 100 g of cheese;
- three eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- a teaspoon of provencal herbs;
- 80 g of butter.
How to do:
- Grate cheese, add eggs to it, chilled butter, mayonnaise, Provencal herbs and mix.
- Mix flour with baking powder and sift. Add it to the mixture and mix.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil, send the dough into it and flatten.
- Install the Baking program and cook for one hour. The cover must be open.
Ready cake with kefir cheese can be served with any vegetables.
With pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds
This recipe may seem complicated due to the large amount of ingredients. But in fact, it is prepared very simply, and you can put everything into it. For this cake, it is recommended to take a detachable form.
What do you need:
- 0.2 l kefir (liquid nonfat sour cream or yogurt);
- 0.2 kg of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 70 g semolina;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil (preferably olive);
- 40 g oatmeal flakes;
- 100 any hard cheese;
- 100 g mozzarella;
- 50 g of olives;
- two tsp baking powder;
- 70 g celery;
- on a tablespoon of pumpkin and sunflower seeds;
- small chili pod;
- two tablespoons of sesame seeds;
- paprika;
- thyme, oregano;
- salt.
How to cook:
- Pour salt into kefir, break eggs, mix well.
- Pour in vegetable oil and mix until smooth.
- Combine semolina, oatmeal, flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Add paprika, thyme, oregano.
- Combine the dry mixture with the wet and mix so that there are no lumps. Put chopped pitted olives and diced mozzarella.
- Cut celery into small pieces and boil in water, grate hard cheese on a coarse grater.
- Send grated cheese and celery to the dough.
- Finely chop the chilli and add to future baking.
- Mix the dough properly and put in the form on parchment greased with oil.
- Flatten the dough and sprinkle sesame seeds and seeds on top.
- Heat the oven and place the pie on the middle wire rack. Bake for about 40 minutes.
Remove the finished kefir pie with cheese from the stove, let it cool slightly and remove from the mold.
The secrets of kefir dough
Such pies should have an airy, lush structure. Traditionally, the kefir dough recipe includes the following ingredients:
- 300 g flour;
- half a liter of kefir;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g butter;
- baking powder;
- salt to taste (usually a pinch).
First you need to mix the flour with baking powder. Then beat eggs with salt and gradually add flour to this egg mixture. Lastly, pour kefir and melted butter and mix until smooth. The dough should turn out liquid (like sour cream).
The dough acquires a lush structure due to baking powder. What is it and how to replace it? It is a mixture of several components, which together provide the raising and loosening of the dough in the absence of yeast.
Baking powder appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century and became very popular in Europe and the USA. We have this mixture can be found in stores called "baking powder".
What to do if it was not at hand, but you need to cook a meal of magnificent dough. How to replace baking powder and what is it? It can be prepared independently from the available ingredients, which are likely to be in the kitchen. Different manufacturers may have different composition, but usually the following ingredients are put in it:
- baking soda;
- starch or flour;
- citric acid in granules (it must be passed through a coffee grinder so that it becomes shallow).
These components must be taken in the following proportion - 5: 12: 3.
All components must be poured into a glass jar and shaken properly so that they mix. Take the baking powder only with a dry spoon so that it does not interact with moisture.
Tips
These recommendations can be useful to anyone who wants to learn how to bake kefir cheese pies:
- To reduce the calories of the pie, do not put eggs in the dough.
- To prevent the cake from burning, the pan must be sprinkled with breadcrumbs or semolina.
- The best filling for such pies is salted cheese (for example, suluguni or Adyghe) and a lot of chopped greens.