"Mazurka" is a popular dessert in Russia, which is baked very quickly. Usually it is prepared in the form of a cake or cookies, and raisins and nuts are added to the dough. The Mazurka pie is a very tasty and satisfying treat for family tea drinking.
Classic recipe
What is required:
- a glass of flour;
- a glass of raisins;
- a glass of crushed walnuts;
- two large eggs;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- a glass of sugar.
Stages of preparation:
- First you need to prepare raisins. To do this, fill it with hot water. After 20 minutes, recline in a colander. Dry raisins with a towel.
- Grind eggs with sugar until a white mixture forms.
- Add raisins and walnuts to them.
- Sift flour, put baking powder into it, mix.
- Add it to the egg mixture, mix until smooth and let stand for 15 minutes.
- Lubricate the baking dish with butter, put the dough in it, flatten.
- Put in a heated oven, bake for about 40 minutes. Temperature condition - 180 ° .
- Check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick or other wooden stick.
Dessert should be immediately cut into portions and served with tea.
It is allowed to make changes to the Mazurka pie recipe. Nuts and raisins can be replaced or other ingredients added. For example, dried apricots, prunes, poppy seeds, almonds. The dough is easy to improve by adding sour cream, butter, cognac, citrus zest, nutmeg, vanilla, etc.
Further, several variations of the Mazurka pie with nuts and raisins.
With dried apricots and prunes
Ingredients for another Mazurka pie option:
- raisins, crushed walnuts, pitted prunes, dried apricots - one glass each;
- half a glass of sour cream;
- a glass of sugar;
- a glass of flour;
- one egg;
- half a teaspoon of soda;
- a pinch of nutmeg.
Stages of preparation:
- First of all, you need to soak raisins, prunes and dried apricots for 20 minutes. Water should be warm. If the dried fruits are soft, you can not do this.
- Cut dried apricots and prunes into pieces.
- Separate the yolk from the egg (protein is not used), combine it with sugar and sour cream, mix well.
- Quench soda with vinegar, add to the prepared mixture.
- Pour in flour, mix to make a smooth dough. Put raisins, dried apricots, walnuts, prunes in it and mix again.
- Grease a baking sheet with butter, put dough on it. Spread it evenly throughout the pan. The thickness should be approximately 1 cm.
- Heat the oven to 200 ° C, put a baking sheet with a billet in it and bake until a brown crust appears. The approximate time for making the Mazurka pie with raisins, nuts, dried apricots and prunes is 20 minutes. Readiness as usual is checked with a wooden stick. If it is dry and nothing sticks to it, then the cake is ready.
Cool the pastries in the oven, then remove and divide into portions. Pie can be eaten both hot and cold.
With poppy seeds
Another very quick Mazurka pie with nuts, raisins, poppy seeds.
What is required:
- a glass of sugar;
- a glass of peeled walnuts;
- a glass of flour;
- 130 g of poppy seeds and light raisins;
- four eggs;
- a tablespoon of brandy;
- 5 g of baking powder.
Stages of preparation:
- Grind walnuts, wash raisins and dry properly.
- Beat eggs with sugar until lush foam forms. The mixture should increase in volume by 2-3 times.
- Sift flour, put baking powder into it, mix.
- Pour flour into the egg mixture, mix.
- Then, in turn, add poppy seeds, raisins, cognac, ground walnuts.
- Place cooking paper in the baking dish, put out the dough.
- Put the mold in a heated oven.
- Baking time - 40 minutes. The temperature is 180 degrees.
Cool the finished cake, then remove, cut.
With almonds and orange zest
What is required:
- 200 g of flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 100 g of sugar;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- six yolks;
- a tablespoon of sour cream;
- a glass of small raisins;
- half a glass of crushed almonds;
- zest of 1 orange.
Stages of preparation:
- Pour baking powder into flour, then sift it through a sieve.
- Combine it with butter and sugar, grind to get crumbs.
- Add five yolks to it, mix.
- In the resulting dough, put the grated orange zest, then sour cream.
- Add pre-prepared raisins, chopped almonds, mix.
- Put the dough into a parchment-lined mold and smooth with a silicone spatula or fingers. It should be no more than 1 cm thick.
- Lubricate the surface with the remaining yolk.
- Bake the cake for half an hour in an oven heated to 180 ° C.
Cool the dessert, then cut into squares or rectangles.
"Royal Mazurka"
What is required:
- 350 g of flour;
- 350 g of sugar;
- 350 g butter;
- 100 g almonds;
- 1 lemon
- 350 g apricot marmalade;
- eight tablespoons of water;
- six eggs;
- 300 g of lemon glaze.
Stages of preparation:
- Pass almonds through a meat grinder.
- Melt the butter.
- Mix sugar with eggs, put in a water bath and beat until a thick mass forms. Before the end of whipping, pour boiling water acidified with lemon juice in a thin stream into the egg mixture. Remove from the water bath, mix until cool.
- Pour flour, ground almonds into the cooled egg-sugar mixture, pour the melted butter and mix.
- Put the resulting dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment, flatten, place in a well-heated oven for 40 minutes.
- Get ready-made pastries. When it cools down, remove from pan and cut into two halves along. Spread cakes with apricot jam. Top the pie with lemon glaze.
Dessert is ready to serve.
How to peel a walnut
Now you can buy peeled nuts without any problems. But if there are inshell walnuts, they can be chopped by yourself. The easiest way is to take a hammer or a heavy object, break a hard shell and remove the nut. The main thing in this case is not to crush the core, so it is important to calculate the impact force. Before breaking, wrap the nut with a piece of cloth or a towel and lay on a flat surface. It is usually enough to strike a few blows. No need to break the nut into flour. If the shell is cracked, it is easy enough to open with a knife and remove the intact core.
The most convenient way is to use a nutcracker or special tongs that are on sale.
In addition to a hammer for cracking nuts at home, use:
- large pliers (pinch the nut between the claws and press down);
- nippers (breaking off the shell into small pieces);
- door (just put the nut in the gap between the jamb and the blade and close the structure).
How to make raisins at home
If you look at how much raisins cost in markets or in stores (from 250 to 450 rubles per kilogram), it turns out that it is more profitable to do it yourself. Of course, for this you need to grow your own grapes.
How to make raisins at home? There are four ways to cook it:
- in the electric dryer;
- in the oven;
- in the sun;
- in the shadow.
Consider the method in an electric dryer. Drying in a special device is the most convenient option. Buying a good electric dryer is not a problem, while saving labor and time is evident.
It is better to take seedless grapes for cooking raisins, with fleshy berries and a dense skin, the same size.
Stages of preparation:
- Blanch in a solution of soda (per 1 liter of water - 1 tbsp.spoon), then cool in cold water. To do this, pour boiling water into the pan, dilute soda in it. Then lower the colander with grapes into the container for 3 seconds, and then immediately transfer it to a bucket of cold water. Then wash the berries.
- Dry the grapes on a towel so that excess fluid is gone.
- Take ripe undamaged berries and lay in one layer on special trays.
- Put them in an electric dryer and turn on the berries drying mode for 4 hours.
- After the time has passed, turn off the appliance for 2 hours, then continue drying, turning off the device every four hours for 2 hours.
- After about 10 hours, swap the upper and lower trays. So the grapes will dry evenly.
- Remove raisins from the trays, place in a jar, store in a dry room.
The berries should be dried, sticky to the touch, but not hard.
Raisins are cooked on average from 20 to 25 hours. It depends on the size of the berries, the variety, the consistency of the pulp.
About 1.5–1.7 kg of raisins are obtained from 4 kg of grapes.
Finally
Mazurka pie with nuts and raisins can be prepared not only for home-made tea drinking. It is perfect for meeting guests or a holiday. Despite its simplicity, this dessert is great.