A variety of sweet and fresh pastries allows you to discover something new and tasty every day. One of these options is bulk shangs. Also known as shanezhki. From this material you will learn some interesting recipes for cooking this dish.
But first, a little about what it really is.
What are shangs?
Shanga is a variety of flour dishes of Russian cuisine. It is an open pie, which is covered with a filling on top. Sometimes it is called "spreading." Today, bulk shangs are not prepared with a sweet filling. If we talk about the appearance, it can be noted that they are more like lush cakes.
The dough for them can be either yeast or yeast-free. As a basis, rye or wheat flour is used. Bulk shangs are prepared with eggs, mashed potatoes, porridge, fried mushrooms, herbs, sour cream, mixed with flour, cheese, meat and many other products.
However, we will not pull and move on to recipes.
Meat shangs
Stuffing is used as a filling for this dish. In addition, this variation is not traditional due to a different cooking technique. The implementation of the recipe is divided into two parts. And therefore, the ingredients will also need twice as much. To make the dough, you must:
- 260 grams of cottage cheese;
- two chicken eggs;
- one and a half cups of wheat flour;
- a teaspoon of baking powder.
To prepare the filling, you will need:
- half a kilogram of minced meat (beef, pork, chicken and other species);
- onion head;
- garlic to taste;
- three pinches of salt;
- two pinches of black pepper.
Making the filling
If not prepared meat is used, but meat, then the following must be done:
- Peel the onion and garlic.
- Chop the meat and mince it.
- Do the same with peeled vegetables.
- Combine both ingredients and mix. Add spices and repeat the procedure.
How to make dough?
Now it’s worth doing the basics:
- Put the cottage cheese in a separate bowl and crush it with a fork.
- Beat two chicken eggs to it. Mix everything to a mass of homogeneous consistency.
- Combine flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Pour into the previously prepared mass and mix again. Treat everything until a mixture of uniform consistency is obtained. Ready dough should be soft.
- Now it is necessary to roll it into a layer with a thickness of not more than three millimeters.
- Once the pancake is ready, lay out the filling.
- Put the minced meat on the dough and spread evenly on the base with a spoon or spatula.
- As soon as the filling is on the basis, it is necessary to collapse the resulting roll.
- Cut the workpiece into pieces two centimeters thick. But no more, otherwise they will not be able to fry.
- If desired, they can be shaped into circles.
- Now you need to pour the vegetable oil into the pan and heat it up.
- As soon as the required temperature is reached, it is possible to lay out the bulk shafts one at a time. It is necessary to fry on each side for several minutes.
- Billets should be prepared until golden brown. By piercing them with a fork, you can check whether they are ready.
- If you want to get rid of excess oil inside the product, you can put them on paper towels.
Potato Shangi
This is a recipe for bulk yogurt on kefir with potato filling. It is worth noting that the dough in this case is prepared without yeast. To create it you will need:
- 400 milliliters of kefir;
- three glasses of flour;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- 30 grams of butter or margarine.
To prepare the filling you need:
- six potato tubers;
- one chicken egg;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook this dish?
First you need to start preparing the filling, as it will take more time, and already after it - the dough:
- Peel and wash the potatoes. In order for it to cook faster, it is worth cutting it into small slices. At this time, the dough is kneading.
- Pour warm kefir into a separate bowl.
- Melt the butter and add to the same. Add soda, salt and mix.
- Now you need to add flour in small parts. Knead thoroughly after each time.
- As soon as the flour is over, start mashing the mixture with your hands. It should be soft and not stick to your hands. Allow to infuse warm for half an hour.
- Once the potatoes are cooked, drain the whole broth.
- Now it is necessary to crush it in mashed potatoes and add butter and egg.
- Pour spices and mix with a fork until smooth.
- Further, according to the recipe for preparing bulk chanas, the dough is kneaded and divided into equal pieces of a small size.
- Balls are formed from blanks.
- After they roll out into cakes, which are smeared with mashed potatoes.
- All buns are laid out on a baking tray, oiled.
- Before starting cooking, grease the siphon on kifir with sour cream.
- Cook for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.
Arkhangelsk bulk shangs. Sour Cream Recipe
It is worth noting that this recipe is slightly different from other options. The main reason is that the dough is made liquid. It is poured into wide forms of small sizes.
To prepare a dish, you must:
- 150 grams of sour cream;
- six chicken eggs;
- half a liter of warm milk;
- 550 grams of wheat flour;
- 150 grams of butter;
- two tablespoons of sugar;
- eleven grams of yeast;
- a teaspoon of salt.
How is the dish prepared?
How to prepare bulk shangs? The whole process is divided into two stages. First, the dough is created, and then the filling:
- beat eggs in a separate bowl;
- add sugar, warm milk, yeast and salt. To mix everything;
- further portioned flour is added. After each part, the mixture is mixed;
- as soon as all the ingredients are combined, they must be kneaded again and put in heat for 40 minutes;
- melt the butter and mix in one bowl with sour cream and sugar;
- mold the molds with butter and fill half with dough and leave to rise;
- after that, three tablespoons of the filling are laid out in the center of the harvesting of the filling tunnels;
- they are cooked in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees;
- as soon as they are browned and ready, they are removed from the forms.
Shangi with sour cream
Another batter option. This recipe for bulk chanas with sour cream is prepared quite simply. And something similar to the Arkhangelsk. For the test you will need:
- six chicken eggs;
- half a liter of milk;
- 550 grams of flour;
- 11 grams of dry yeast;
- a teaspoon of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of sugar.
For the filling, you must use:
- 160 grams of sour cream;
- the same amount of butter;
- 40 grams of flour.
How are such shanezhki made?
Products are prepared as follows:
- First, we make the dough for bulk changers. Break eggs into separate dishes. Add salt and sugar there. Beat the resulting mixture properly.
- Next, add milk and yeast.
- Now flour is poured and everything is mixed until a uniform thick mass. After the dough is left for 40 minutes to increase the volume.
- To prepare the pouring, it is necessary to mix sour cream and wheat flour in one bowl.
- Melt the butter and pour into the base of the filling.
- Fill each dough exactly half.
- Put the filling in the center.
- Bake at 200 degrees for half an hour.
- Get ready-made bunnies after they cool down a bit.
Cottage cheese recipe with cottage cheese
This option is interesting in that in the finished baking there is not only pouring, but also a gentle filling of cottage cheese, cheese and greens. To prepare the test you will need:
- 370 grams of flour;
- 30 milliliters of odorless vegetable oil;
- 150 milliliters of milk or kefir;
- one chicken egg;
- 1 tbsp. l granulated sugar;
- 0.5 tsp salts;
- a teaspoon of dried yeast;
- 50 grams of butter or margarine.
To create the filling you must use:
- 260 grams of cottage cheese;
- hard cheese;
- one chicken egg;
- 30 grams of fresh dill;
- half a teaspoon of starch.
Filling is preparing:
- from one chicken egg;
- a tablespoon of cream or sour cream;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- tablespoon butter.
Cooking Chanajka
First of all, it is worth preparing the dough. And while it will be insisted, it will be possible to do filling and filling.
- Pour into milk and mix yeast. After leaving them for 15 minutes to swell.
- Then, using a mixer, beat the egg, sugar, salt and softened butter.
- As soon as the necessary consistency is achieved, mix with milk and bran.
- Now it's time to add flour. Everything is thoroughly mixed and cleaned for 60 minutes.
- The line of filling. Cottage cheese is kneaded and mixed with chicken egg, salt and starch. Cheese is rubbed into the same dishes and chopped greens are poured out.
- Mix the mixture until a sticky mass of uniform consistency is obtained.
- Mash the pastry and remove for another 15 minutes.
- For pouring in one bowl, beat an egg, butter, flour and cream or sour cream.
- Equal pieces similar to cheesecakes are made from the finished dough.
- A fairly large amount of filling is formed inside.
- Billets are placed on a baking tray and covered with filling.
- Everything is prepared at a temperature of 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
- In the process of cooking, the dough will rise slightly, and the filling will acquire a golden color.
Some cooking tips
These recommendations will help you improve the taste of the finished dish. Among them are the following:
- paprika can be added to potatoes to give the ingredient special piquancy;
- also as a fill you can use a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise;
- we also recommend adding garlic, mustard or horseradish to it;
- mashed potatoes for the filling can be mixed with fried onions.