This article is for lovers of dairy products and dishes with their application. And also for those who find in their fridge a pack of sour cream, which will soon expire and that you need to urgently use the whole. Until it goes bad. Dishes from sour cream are very, very diverse, with it prepare a huge number of dishes, as appetizers, and main dishes, and, of course, desserts.
Perhaps it is worth starting with the appetizers, as they are less common. What can be cooked from sour cream and fresh vegetables? For example, in sour cream, you can stew fresh cucumbers. 600 g of fresh cucumbers are peeled and cut into circles, 1 cm in thickness. Pieces of cucumbers are rubbed with salt and sprinkled with pepper, dipped in wheat flour and spread in a pan. Cucumbers fry and shift them into a deep form. Mix half a glass of sour cream, a little tomato paste, fresh herbs, add salt. Pour fried cucumbers with this sauce, put on a small fire, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and stew. When the cucumbers become soft, the dishes are removed from the stove.
Another great snack is mushrooms in sour cream. For this you need a pound of porcini mushrooms. They are cleaned and cut into large pieces. Then they are folded into a mold, butter and salt are added and stewed, without adding anything else, until all the liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated. For the sauce, take half a glass of sour cream, add half a tablespoon of flour to it. This mixture is poured into the mushrooms and boiled. Then remove from heat and add finely chopped dill.
The main dishes of sour cream are equally varied. Here, for example, is a recipe for fish in sour cream. A fragrant dish with a delicate creamy taste. Best for him is a large marine fish with a minimum number of bones. For one fish, one onion, 250 g sour cream, spices, flour and frying oil will be needed.
Gut the fish, peel it off the skin, bones and then cut the fillet into portions. Grate each piece with fine salt and leave to soak for 10 minutes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings, put in a pan and fry. Roll the fish in flour and fry so that the flour becomes golden. Then the fried onions are spread on top of the fish, then sour cream is poured into the pan, sprinkled with pepper and stewed for 20 minutes, without bringing the sauce to a boil. Fish is served with fresh herbs and a side dish.
Another wonderful recipe is a rabbit in sour cream. 1 kg of rabbit meat is cut into large pieces, pepper and salt them. Meat is rolled in flour and crushed. Then pour sour cream, diluted with water, sprinkle with dried herbs, mix and stew until cooked. There are other main dishes of sour cream: in sour cream , fish, pork, beef, poultry, vegetables and mushrooms are stewed and baked.
What to bake from sour cream? There is an excellent recipe for sour cream cake. To cook it, you must first divide two eggs into yolk and protein. The whites are whipped into the foam and a glass of sugar is added to them, and 200 g of melted butter, 400 g of sour cream, egg yolks, 2 cups of flour and a teaspoon of soda are mixed in a separate container. It is important not to forget to salt.
Gently whipped whites with sugar in the dough so as not to knock the foam, stir it with the movements of the spoon from the bottom up. To bake two cakes from this test, when they cool, they need to be connected together using any sour cream.
By the way, about sour cream creams. This is also a whole science, and they also need to be able to do. It would seem easier to mix sour cream and sugar. But if you simply beat them with a mixer, the cream turns out to be liquid and often flows from the cake. To make a thick sour cream, it takes time.
First of all, sour cream should be put in cheesecloth and suspended over a bowl so that excess liquid is left from it. It is good to leave her in this position for a long time. As a result, sour cream will resemble cottage cheese. Now you can add sugar to sour cream. Another little trick needed to make a thick cream is to beat it for at least 20 minutes, and not only until the sugar has dissolved.
That's how diverse the sour cream dishes are, indeed, for all occasions.