The perfect end to dinner is a delicate dessert. We always try to surprise home with our culinary abilities and start looking for new recipes. Lemon pie is often made from shortcrust pastry, but there are many options for using yeast and biscuit flour. Every day, confectioners around the world have new ideas for this baking, and many use the old proven methods. In one article it is impossible to make out everything, but you will find popular dishes for sure.
Quick Citrus Dessert Option
The recipe is simple, the lemon pie is sure to turn out delicious. He will help you when guests are about to come, and there is nothing to tea.
All ingredients are usually found in any home:
- 150 g of baking flour.
- Big lemon.
- Sugar - half a glass.
- 2 eggs.
- 100 g margarine (if you like to use butter, add it).
- A quarter of a teaspoon of soda.
The oven can be turned on in advance, as the temperature will need high (220 °), and we will prepare the dough quickly enough.
Now let's take a look at the lemon pie recipe step by step. A photo with the result is already causing appetite. And what a fragrance awaits you!
Here's what you need to do:
- It is better to freeze citrus in advance, and then use a grater.
- Beat the mixer with sugar and butter until a white, lush and homogeneous mass is obtained.
- Add one egg each, and then zest and turn off the device in a couple of minutes.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour with soda, and then with the prepared mass.
- Lubricate the form with sunflower oil and sprinkle with semolina. Pour the dough here, leveling the surface.
Bake for about 20 minutes, checking for preparedness with a match or a toothpick. Do not try to immediately get the cake out of the mold, otherwise you doubt it. Better let it cool slightly.
Shortbread dough
Since this version of the base is used quite often in lemon pie recipes, first we will learn how to cook it correctly.
We will need:
- 0.25 kg of granulated sugar.
- Baked sifted flour - 0.5 kg.
- 0.3 kg of butter or cooking margarine.
- A drop of salt.
- 3 eggs.
Shortbread dough contains a lot of fat. Therefore, it is not necessary to melt it; put the oil in a freezer for a while better. Then use a grater, or better, cut into pieces, mix with flour and chop well with a knife or rub it with your hands into crumbs.
Add sugar and salt, make a depression in the hill into which break 2 eggs and 1 yolk. Combine all components with quick movements, until the dough becomes smooth, give a rounded shape. Put the cellophane bag or wrap with cling film, cool.
After 35 minutes, you can start baking.
Another base option
If you make open lemon pie from shortcrust pastry, the recipe can be modified. This will require the following products:
- 4 cups warm wheat flour.
- Vanillin on the tip of a knife.
- A teaspoon of baking powder.
- 2 eggs.
- A glass of sugar.
Here, the butter needs to be melted in a prepared enameled bowl, add sugar to the still warm and cool.
At this time, beat the eggs with vanilla with a mixer, and then send to the prepared mass. Separate flour with baking powder and add to other products. Knead the dough. As in the first embodiment, it is necessary to cool.
Simple open pie option
Below is another recipe for lemon shortcake with a photo and step-by-step instructions. We have already learned how to make the dough, now we will begin to prepare delicious desserts.
You will need:
- Shortbread dough.
- Freshly squeezed juice of three lemons.
- 4 chicken eggs.
- Zest from one lemon.
- 2 tablespoons of flour.
First, the base of the cake is baked. To do this, roll out the chilled dough using parchment or film. The thickness should be no more than 5 mm. Gently place in a baking dish. Be sure to make the sides. To prevent the form from getting lost, pierce the bottom with a fork in several places or pour beans into the bottom (peas can be). We keep 15 minutes in the oven, remove the load and leave it in the oven for a few more minutes.
During the preparation of the base, care should be taken about the filling. Mix in a container, using a mixer with a nozzle for dough or a whisk, the sugar to be dissolved, zest, lemon juice, eggs and flour. Pour it in immediately, as soon as you get the cake from the plate, level it. The oven is still half an hour, while lowering the temperature to 160 degrees. A hot pie filling will resemble jelly. Allow to cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
American Pie
Now we offer an overseas recipe with a photo of a lemon pie. All the products that are required for him can be bought in our stores. Take the finished shortcrust pastry, and for the filling:
- 3 tbsp. l starch (potato);
- 2 small lemons;
- 1.5 cups of water;
- quarter tsp salt;
- 270 g of sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l flour;
- 50 g butter or margarine;
- 4 eggs.
To cook everything faster, we will do it in stages. Knead shortbread dough, and while it lies in the refrigerator, prepare the filling.
Pour water, juice and lemon zest into a pan, a glass of sugar mixed with starch and salt. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly with a whisk. Add oil. Separate the yolks of 4 eggs, beat with a fork and pour in a thin stream a little syrup from the saucepan, without ceasing to beat. Send the resulting mixture back to the lemon brew, hold on fire until it thickens, and set aside to cool slightly.
Roll out the dough, 3-4 mm thick and bake cakes with sides, piercing the bottom in different places. Cooking meringues. Whip the remaining mixer proteins from the eggs into the foam, constantly adding a little 6 tbsp. l Sahara. It should make a dense mass.
We begin to collect the pie. To do this, pour the contents of the pan onto the cake and level it. Above is meringue. It can be laid out simply or with the help of a cooking bag to make a dense drawing. At 180 degrees hold the pastries for a quarter of an hour. The top should be a little brown.
Multilayer lemongrass
This recipe for lemon pie can be done on the weekend.
All that is required for the filling is 2 cups of jam or a fresh twisted seedless lemon mixed with a glass of sugar. You choose, but the second option is more fragrant.
We’ll prepare the dough 3 times more, as the result should be 4 layers. We prepare it according to the first option, which is described at the beginning of the article. After we get it out of the refrigerator, divide it into 4 parts. In this case, one should get more than the rest.
We roll it out using parchment paper and put it on the bottom of a greased form, filling out the sides. Grease the filling. On top is a second piece of thin dough. Repeat 2 more times and fasten the edges of the lower layer with the upper. We make a few punctures and bake for half an hour.
Delicate lemongrass
Here the dough will be prepared a little differently and it will turn out friable. Look at the recipe for shortcake lemon pie and try baking in your free time.
Shortcrust pastry products:
- 5 full tablespoons of sour cream;
- 12 tbsp. l Sahara;
- slaked soda or baking powder;
- 100 g of oil;
- 2 ordinary glasses of flour.
Let's make a citrus filling from:
- Large lemon.
- 2 large spoons of corn starch (look at the store).
- A glass of sugar.
Grind the butter with flour and baking powder into crumbs. Add sugar and sour cream. The dough should not be too sticky, but it is not worth making it steep. Roll out a thin layer and cover the bottom of the mold. It is necessary to make punctures so that the middle does not rise and does not spoil our appearance.
We cut the lemon, immediately removing the seeds, we fill it with sugar and starch. Grind it with a blender, but so that pieces of citrus are visible. We send the filling to the prepared cake. At 180 degrees, keep in the oven for 40 minutes. The top should lighten a little.
Chocolate Miracle
This is what guests will call the most delicious lemon pie. The recipe is not so difficult and deserves your attention.
The required set of products:
- Faceted glass of flour.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- A bar of dark chocolate.
- 240 g of curd.
- Lemon jam.
- ½ cup sugar.
- 1 tbsp. l starch.
- lime.
- 3 tbsp. l sour cream.
- 160 ml of cow's milk.
- A teaspoon of baking powder.
In a small bowl, melt the chocolate in 50 ml of milk (leave the rest for now). Leave to cool slightly.
To prepare the dough and filling, we need a mixer, with which we begin to beat 1 egg with sugar. Grater remove the zest from a well-washed lemon and send to the mass. Pour in the remaining milk without turning off the appliance. Here, slowing down, chocolate, baking powder and flour. To prevent the dough from settling, turn off the machine almost immediately and wash it.
In another cup, beat again, but already the cottage cheese, fat sour cream, egg and potato starch. At the end, add our lemon jam and set aside.
Lubricate the form. At the bottom we lay the chopped lemon, from which the zest was removed. Then we pour half of the beaten dough, then with an even layer of curd filling and cover with the remnants of the chocolate dough. Soak in the oven for about 1 hour at 180 degrees.
Garnish finished baked goods with powdered sugar or grated chocolate.
Wonderful Bread Breakfast
You will have a very delicate lemon pie according to this recipe in this device, which has become simply indispensable in many families. The minimum set of products, the selected mode and ... the hot dessert is ready.
Ingredients:
- 1 lemon
- 3 eggs;
- 350 g of flour;
- some salt;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of tea baking powder;
- 100 g butter;
- to decorate 150 g of powdered sugar.
Beat eggs well with salt and sugar. Pour the lush mass into the bowl of the bread machine. Here we add chopped and softened butter, zest and juice of half a lemon, flour and baking powder.
The baking mode should be set for fresh dough. More often it is called "Cake", the time on it is 80 minutes. And during this time we will make a small decoration. Just mix the powdered sugar with the juice of the second half of the lemon. Put the mixture on a slightly cooled dessert.
Lemon Yeast Dessert
Try baking this option. Maybe you like this recipe for lemon pie. Photos with a description of the actions are presented below.
For 3 glasses of flour, the following ingredients will be required:
- a pack of margarine or butter (room temperature);
- 1 egg
- an incomplete glass of warm milk;
- 2.5 tsp high-speed yeast (replace 25 g fresh if desired);
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara.
For the filling, prepare: lemon and a glass of sugar.
We prepare the dough, as usual, that is, first we breed yeast with sugar and 1 tbsp in milk. l flour. While the contents dissolve, melt a little oil, cool slightly and break the egg there. Stir in the prepared liquid mass. Pouring a little flour, knead the dough, which should stick off from the hands, but not remind dumplings.
Scald lemon with boiling water, twist in a meat grinder, removing seeds, and mix with sugar.
Allow the kolobok to stand until it grows in volume, then divide it into 2 parts, and make one more. We roll it first. We put on the bottom of the greased pan, making the sides. Put lemon filling. Cover with a second layer and blind neat beautiful edges. With a fork, chop the “cover”, grease with yolk. Bake in a preheated oven until lightly browned.
Some tips
There are several nuances that can help you:
- In order to make it like the lemon pie suggested in some recipes (see photo above), get a low shape with corrugated edges.
- Hot baked dough can easily break or lose shape. Always cool it.
- In some recipes, lemon can be replaced with jam, but this will serve as a slight loss of flavor.
- All ovens are heated differently, so control the time yourself.
- When using a bread machine, there is a little trick if there is no baking powder at hand. Take regular baking soda and put it out in lemon juice.
Enjoy your meal!