Gooseberries, which are still known in Russia as bersen, northern grapes and royal berries, often appear on tables with jam, various jams, compotes, jams, jelly, sauces, soups ... Of course, you can’t list all the drinks and dishes. But what is the main delicacy with gooseberries in the recipe? Pie, of course, we will answer! This sweet and slightly sour berry, coupled with a biscuit, can remind you of the taste of grapes, raspberries, plums or even peaches. That is why this dish will appeal to even the most capricious and choosy children.
What is useful gooseberries?
Gooseberries, among other things, are also a storehouse of healthy vitamins. All of its miraculous properties can not be counted. It has choleretic, laxative and diuretic effects. It is prescribed to people suffering from hypertension, anemia, obesity and skin diseases.
Gooseberries are rich in vitamins, minerals, trace elements (zinc, iodine, cobalt, phosphorus and so on), as well as tannins, flavonoids and acids.
Choosing gooseberries for baking
At the moment, countless varieties of this berry have been bred. So what to choose for making a gooseberry pie? The recipe does not limit you to the size of the berries, nor to other qualities. For example, it has long been proven that the presence or absence of thorns on the branches of berries does not affect their taste at all. It may depend on regionality, soil and the conditions in which summer residents cultivated and harvested. But we cannot give a definite answer to the question about the best variety, since everyone has different tastes. We will introduce you to the sweetest of them:
- So, the Cooperator is a variety of dark cherry, sweet and sour berries of medium and large size.
- Krasnoslavyanskiy. Berries of this variety have a lot of prickly thorns, and they are distributed along the entire length of the shoot. But they are famous for their sweet taste with an almost imperceptible pleasant sourness.
- And the third grade is the Ural Emerald. These berries are green, slightly transparent and almost always sour.
Choose a variety that you like and start making a pie.
Gooseberry pie with kefir (ingredients)
To prepare this gourmet dessert you will not need much time, and knowledge of the culinary business is not particularly needed. All that you need, we will list:
- some wheat flour (300 g);
- one glass of sugar;
- three pieces of eggs;
- a cup of milk;
- half a glass of sunflower oil;
- a teaspoon of baking powder (can be replaced with soda, slaked vinegar);
- a pinch of powdered sugar;
- two tablespoons of vanilla sugar;
- two glasses of gooseberries.
Cooking
Now we start cooking:
- To begin with, we will do the dough kneading. We will break three eggs into a deep container, add sugar, butter and kefir, mix with vanilla sugar.
- The second step is to add wheat flour with a baking powder mixed in it and achieve a homogeneous mass. Next, we wash gooseberry berries, cleaning them from twigs, leaves and other unnecessary litter. Please note that sometimes the size of the berries can reach the average size of the plum. In this case, we will need to cut them in half or even into quarters.
- Lubricate the baking sheet (any other baking dish is suitable) with sunflower oil, you can also just lay the parchment. Pour the liquid mass and then add the gooseberries. But not all, we must leave one third, and mix everything else with the dough. Now we simply sprinkle the remaining gooseberry on top so that it looks beautiful.
- The oven should already be preheated to 180-200 degrees. Put the cake to bake for forty minutes. To check if he is ready, we poke a match or a toothpick into him. If it is wet or wet, it means you need to leave it for another five minutes, if it remains dry - feel free to serve the pie on the table!
Shortcake with gooseberries
One can hardly imagine a more pleasant pastime than a warm summer evening in the company of close people with fragrant hot tea and a little crunchy freshly baked pie. Absolutely all family members will not like to enjoy this. And the gooseberry pie recipe is quite simple, now we will tell you about it.
The ingredients for the sandy text will be different. Instead of kefir, sunflower oil and milk, we add sour cream (100 grams) and half a packet of butter. And gooseberry pie with sugar and two tablespoons of starch will be stuffed for a pie.
How to cook?
First we make the dough:
- Mix the prepared ingredients in one container.
- After adding sour cream to the eggs and sugar, beat the resulting mixer or whisk, then sift the wheat flour, and grate the butter there.
- Knead the dough until soft and pliable.
- We put it in a bag or wrap it with cling film and send it to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Rinse gooseberry berries with a cold stream of water and thoroughly clean. Next, we put them on a piece of paper or a waffle towel so that unnecessary moisture is gone, and then twist in a meat grinder. To the finished liquid mass add a cup of sugar and starch.
We lubricate the mold, put the frozen dough out of the refrigerator and roll it to the very edges so that we get two-centimeter sides. Now we pour the gooseberry filling with sugar here, smooth it with a spoon and leave it in the oven for half an hour at a temperature of up to two hundred degrees.
When the cake is cooked, give it a few minutes to cool with the window open. And only then we invite all household members to the table.
Cooking Tips
When preparing a gooseberry pie, the recipes of which we have brought to your attention, use the following tips:
- When you put the baking sheet in the oven, you first need to hold it at a low temperature up to 150 degrees and only then add up to 200. This is necessary so that the dough rises higher and swells more.
- It will be better if you cool the cake directly in the pan, so it will condense and finally solidify in its shape.
- When you get the dessert out of the oven, it will not break and crumble when cut into pieces if you preheat the knife.
- To preserve the taste and aroma of the cake, put it in a closed enameled bowl with vanilla on the bottom.
- If you decide to cook a pie with gooseberries in a slow cooker, then keep in mind that it does not have the function of heating the top, so a few minutes before you get the cake, just turn it upside down and serve it on the table. It will look much more appetizing!
- Melted chocolate, candied fruit, marmalade and Easter topping can serve as a cake decoration.
That's all. We hope that this article will be of great service to you when preparing a gooseberry pie. You can choose any recipe, depending on personal tastes and mood. And we wish you a pleasant tea party!