Mannick is a dessert that is known to almost everyone. It is quite simple to prepare and has a lot of variations. From the name you can guess that the main ingredient is semolina, but anything can be accompanying: sour cream, kefir, cottage cheese, milk. In today's article, we will focus on the intricacies of preparing lush manna in milk.
Basic principles of cooking
To prepare this dessert, you will need products that, as a rule, are always at hand. In addition, if desired, you can adjust the proposed composition of the products based on personal taste preferences. Despite this, the dessert always turns out to be tender and tasty.
To bake lush and crumbly manna on milk, you should follow the general rules:
- Bake the cake in a preheated to 180 degrees oven. Cooking time varies from 40 to 90 minutes. So that the mannicker does not lose its porosity and splendor, it is not recommended to open the oven during baking.
- To prepare lush manna in milk, it is important to pay special attention to semolina. As a rule, it is filled with water or milk and left for several hours to swell. It is worth noting that the longer the semolina will be in the liquid, the more tender the cake will turn out.
- When preparing dessert in a slow cooker, it is not recommended to open the lid during cooking. And how to cook lush manna in milk in a slow cooker is described in detail in the next video.
- For manna, milk of any fat content is suitable, since this will not affect the quality of the dessert in any way. But those who follow the figure should give preference to a less high-calorie product.
- When preparing the pie, you should use milk at room temperature, since a cold product can adversely affect the quality of manna.
Mannick without flour
We suggest considering a recipe for lush manna in milk without adding flour. This option is one of the simplest, every housewife will cope with it. Ingredients:
- One glass of milk.
- One glass of semolina.
- Half a glass of sugar.
- Butter - 10 g.
- Three eggs.
- A pinch of baking powder.
The cooking process is as follows:
- Mix together all dry products: sugar, semolina, baking powder.
- Beat eggs in a separate bowl and introduce the resulting mass into milk.
- With constant stirring, add semolina mixed with sugar and baking powder.
- Beat the resulting mass with a whisk until smooth and leave for an hour.
- Cover the baking dish with parchment paper and grease with a thin layer of sunflower oil.
- Pour the resulting dough into a mold. Bake for at least 40 minutes.
Classic recipe
The recipe for classic lush manna in milk is not much different from the above option. The main difference is the presence of flour and sunflower oil in the composition, which, in fact, affects the taste of baking. To do this, you will need:
- Semolina - 200 g.
- Butter - 20 g.
- Flour - 150 g.
- Milk - 250 ml.
- Two eggs.
- Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l
- Sugar - 150 g.
- According to a bag of vanillin and baking powder.
Cooking process:
- First of all, pour semolina with water or milk and let it brew for at least 40 minutes.
- In a separate bowl add sugar, eggs, vanillin and sunflower oil. Beat everything thoroughly.
- Heat the milk over low heat by adding a slice of butter. Do not boil.
- After the oil has dissolved in the milk mixture, the egg mass can be added with constant stirring.
- Add baking powder and sifted flour in small portions to the swollen semolina.
- Grease the bottom and walls of the dishes with oil and sprinkle with dry semolina.
- Pour the dough into a mold and put in a preheated oven.
You can serve with maple or any other syrup, nuts.
Cottage cheese mannik
If you add cottage cheese to the manna, it becomes not only tastier, but also healthier. To prepare lush manna in milk with the addition of cottage cheese, you will need the following products:
- Manka - 220 g.
- Sugar - 130 g.
- Half a briquette of butter.
- Milk -250 ml.
- Three eggs.
- Flour - 130 g.
- Cottage cheese - 220 g.
- A bag of vanillin.
- Bag of baking powder.
Cooking process:
- Add warm milk to dry semolina and leave to swell for at least 40 minutes.
- Using a mixer or whisk, beat the eggs with granulated sugar.
- Add the resulting sugar-egg mixture to the swollen semolina.
- Melt the butter and pour into the prepared mass.
- Stirring, add vanillin, flour, cottage cheese and baking powder to the general container.
- Pour the curd dough into the mold and put in the oven for forty minutes.
After the delicious lush manna in milk is ready, it is necessary to let it brew for about ten minutes, and only after that it is recommended to transfer the pie to a dish.
Chocolate Mannik
This original and delicious recipe for chocolate manna with curd balls will delight not only children, but also their parents. Its appearance and taste resemble expensive desserts, but in fact it will not take a lot of food and time to prepare this manna.
Ingredients for the dough:
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Four eggs.
- Butter - 100 g.
- Baking soda - ½ tsp.
- A bar of dark chocolate.
- Coconut flakes - 100 g.
- Vinegar - ½ tsp.
- One glass of milk.
- Flour - 40 g.
- Cottage cheese - 250 g.
- Cocoa Powder - 50 g.
Cooking method:
- Pour semolina with warm milk and leave for an hour. The result will be even better if the milk is slightly sour.
- While semolina swells, you can begin to prepare the curd balls. To do this, grind the curd into a homogeneous mass. Then add the egg, sugar (60 g), flour and coconut flakes to it.
- Form small balls from the resulting mass. Put them in one layer on a wide plate and put in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Beat the remaining eggs with sugar so that a white homogeneous mass is obtained. Pour the mixture into a swollen semolina, add room temperature oil to the same.
- To extinguish soda with vinegar and pour into semolina.
- Mix cocoa powder with flour, add dry products to the total mass. It should be noted that each time a new ingredient is added, the mixture should be mixed thoroughly.
- Finely break the chocolate bar and add the pieces to the dough.
- Pour the finished dough into the prepared form, place the curd balls on top of it.
- Bake for an hour and a half at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Chocolate mannik in a multicooker
You can cook a gentle and magnificent manna in milk not only in the oven, but also in a slow cooker. This will require:
- Sour cream (20% and above) - 300 g.
- Milk - 250 ml.
- Sugar - 180 g.
- Butter - 1 tbsp. l
- Semolina - 250 g.
- Milk Chocolate - 100 g.
- Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l
- Three eggs.
- Baking powder - 1 tsp.
Cooking process:
- Heat over low heat and melt butter in it.
- Gradually introduce semolina into the milk mixture, while stirring constantly. Leave for half an hour to swell semolina.
- Beat eggs with sugar in a separate bowl.
- Add baking powder and cocoa to the egg mass.
- Stir the swollen semolina and pour the egg mass into it.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil, then pour the dough into it.
- The cake is baked for 40 minutes in the "Baking" mode.
While the manna is preparing, you can proceed to the preparation of the cream. For this, sour cream must be beaten with sugar until lush and sent to the refrigerator. Grate a bar of chocolate on a fine grater and also put in the refrigerator.
After the multicooker gives a signal that the dish is ready, the cake must be allowed to stand under the lid for about 15 minutes. Cover the finished pie with cream of sour cream and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
Mannik with raisins
Note that the recipe for this pie can be easily modified based on personal preferences. For example, replace raisins with nuts, candied fruits, chocolate and any other ingredients.
To prepare a fluffy and crumbly manna on milk in the oven you will need:
- Two eggs.
- Semolina - 250 g.
- Sugar - 200 g.
- Flour - 200 g.
- Raisins - 180 g.
- Sunflower oil - 50 ml.
- Milk - 250 ml.
- Vanillin - 2 g.
- Butter - 20 g.
- Baking powder - 2 g.
Cooking process:
- In a heat-resistant container, heat the milk by adding a small piece of butter to it.
- Grind eggs with granulated sugar and vanilla. Then add sunflower oil to the white mixture.
- Add the egg mass in warm milk, while stirring constantly. Pour semolina into the same mixture and put aside for swelling for 40 minutes.
- Rinse and dry raisins.
- Pour flour, baking powder, raisins to the swollen semolina.
- Mix the dough again and pour it into the prepared form.
- Cooking time in the oven is approximately forty minutes.
Pumpkin Mannik
According to the recipe, such a pie does not contain butter and eggs, which is why it is considered to be a low-calorie dessert. To cook lush manna in milk in the oven with pumpkin, you need to prepare the following products:
- Semolina - 1 tbsp.
- Milk - 1 tbsp.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Pumpkin - 500 g
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Baking powder - 2 g.
- Apple juice - 2 tbsp. l
How to cook lush manna in milk with pumpkin:
- Grate pumpkin pulp on a fine grater, mix with milk.
- Add sugar to this mixture and mix thoroughly until all the grains have disappeared.
- Pour semolina and baking powder into the resulting mass.
- Grate the lemon zest on a fine grater and squeeze the juice out of half the citrus. Both that and another to add to the dough, and then leave it for 30 minutes to swell semolina.
- Grease the mold and pour the dough into it.
- The cake is baked for at least 40 minutes in a preheated oven.
While the manna is preparing, it is recommended to make syrup. To do this, mix the remaining lemon juice with apple juice, add sugar to taste and bring to a boil. The syrup is cooled and then poured over the finished manna.
Mannick in the pan
For those who do not have the opportunity to bake lush and crumbly manna on milk in an oven or slow cooker, there is an option for cooking in a pan. To do this, you will need:
- Semolina - 1.5 cups.
- Butter - 50 g.
- Milk - 1 cup.
- Egg - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
The test preparation process does not differ from the above recipes. The main difference from the previous options is only the cooking method. So, after the dough is kneaded, it is poured into a pre-oiled pan, put on a slow fire and covered with a lid. When the bottom of the future cake acquires a jelly-like consistency, it is necessary to turn off the fire and let the dessert brew for about ten minutes. After that, with the help of a spatula, the finished manna is laid out on the dish.
On a note
It is worth noting that semolina pie is a universal recipe that every housewife can experiment on. To any of the above options, you can add walnuts or fresh berries. Thanks to a simple baking technology, such a pie cannot fail.
Useful Tips
There are several tricks that will help novice cooks in cooking manna:
- To prevent lumps from forming when milk is combined with semolina, add semolina with a thin stream with constant stirring.
- Add warmed milk to the semolina. As a rule, cereals absorb better warm liquid.
- To mannick easily slipped out of the baking dish, pre-grease the bottom and walls of the dishes with sunflower or butter. Margarine will also cope with this task. For best results, sprinkle the oil layer with flour or semolina.
- If the finished pie cannot be removed from the mold, the container should be placed on a damp terry towel. After 30 minutes, getting the cake out of the container is not difficult.
Finally
To summarize the above, it is worth noting that on the Internet you can find various options for the pie for every taste. In addition, mannik cooked in milk is often used as cake cakes. To do this, the finished cake is cut into several parts and smeared with any cream.