The Orthodox of the whole world celebrated Apple Savior, which means that the time has come to harvest these fruits. Stewed fruit, preserves, jams, desserts, salads, pastries. What dishes do not include apples in their composition! Today we learn how to make apple pie. Or rather, a kind of this dessert is charlotte.
Which way to choose?
There are many options for making this dessert. The history of this cake comes from a classic French recipe with the addition of stale bread, liquor, custard and fruit. This dessert is similar to traditional English puddings, served warm. Then came the Russian charlotte, invented at the beginning of the 19th century by Parisian culinary specialist Marie-Antoine Karem from ready-made biscuit, Bavarian cream and whipped cream. Today, this word is understood as an easy-to-prepare pie, consisting of sliced apples (or other fruits), covered with layers of biscuit dough, and it can be cooked in an oven or on an open fire.
Oven baked charlotte with apples on kefir
Ingredients:
- 1 cup kefir;
- 1 ½ cup flour;
- 500 g of apples;
- 2 eggs;
- 50 g butter;
- 6 table. l granulated sugar;
- 2 tea l baking powder;
- 1 tea l vanilla sugar;
- salt.
Cooking:
- Beat the eggs with a mixer, gradually adding sugar, vanilla sugar and salt to them.
- Add a spoonful of baking powder (or soda) to kefir and leave for a couple of minutes.
- Sift flour into the lush egg froth and add kefir. Add softened oil at the end. Stir the dough thoroughly and leave for a while.
- While the dough is infused, there is time to tackle apples. Cut the skin, remove the core and cut into small pieces.
- The recipe for charlotte with apples on kefir suggests two options for decorating this pie: mix apples with dough and pour the mixture into a baking dish or lay the fruit on the bottom, covering with a layer of dough on top.
- Place the form in the oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Charlotte recipe with apples on kefir cooked in a water bath
Ingredients:
- 2 apples
- 2 bananas;
- 6 table. l granulated sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 6 table. l kefir;
- 1 tea l baking powder;
- 3 table. l water;
- 5 table. l flour;
- salt
- 2 table. l butter.
Cooking:
- Cut peeled apples and bananas into small pieces. In order not to darken in the air, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.
- Mix together 3 tablespoons of sugar, the same amount of water, oil and a pinch of salt, heat until sugar dissolves and add apples to the hot mixture. Simmer for 3-4 minutes, then transfer to a baking dish, place a layer of bananas on top.
- Since this recipe for charlotte with apples on kefir involves cooking it in a water bath, the baking dish must be placed in a wide deep pan, adding water so that the liquid does not reach the top of the side of the form about 1 cm.
- Beat the remaining sugar and eggs separately, add kefir, sift the baking powder and flour. Knead thoroughly. Pour the apple-banana filling with the prepared dough.
- Bring the water bath to a boil at maximum heat, then reduce the burner to a minimum, cover and cook for another 50-60 minutes. Readiness can be checked by pressing on the dessert with your finger, it should spring.
Invite to tea!
Now you know how to cook charlotte from apples on kefir in two different ways. It's time to make tea and invite relatives and friends to visit!