If you are looking for a quick and tasty dish that could be served on the table for guests who have a look at a cup of tea, then we advise you to pay attention to the sand ring with nuts. The recipe is so simple that even small children can easily be connected to cooking.
As experienced housewives say, shortbread dough is always a win-win option. It is prepared quickly, it does not require numerous ingredients, and if necessary it can be stored in the refrigerator for several days, which is very convenient for all the same case of unexpected guests.
Ring with nuts
The shortbread ring with nuts, the recipe of which we offer you today, is a confectionery product made from ordinary shortcrust pastry and with the addition of crushed or whole nuts. As a rule, peanuts are used for cooking, but if desired, you can take any other nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, etc.). For many, this dish evokes memories of childhood, because in Soviet canteens and shops of the 90s such a sandy nut ring was one of the frequent acquisitions of schoolchildren.
Most often, such a dish has a round shape with a hole inside. But many housewives experiment using various forms and devices, and create fancy cookies.
Have you decided to pamper your home with a delicious and hearty nut treat? Then let's get down to cooking and bake delicious and fragrant peanut shortbread rings.
Essential Ingredients
- 200 grams of butter.
- One teaspoon of baking powder for dough.
- 350 grams of wheat flour.
- One chicken egg.
- A pinch of salt.
- 100-130 grams of granulated sugar or icing.
- Peanuts - 60-70 grams - for sprinkling.
- Yolks - two pieces - for lubrication.
No other products are added to the sand ring according to GOST. In some recipes, milk is present, in others, crushed nuts are added directly to the dough, in the third there is sour cream or kefir.
GOST cooking process
We take a voluminous bowl for kneading the dough and put the butter, sugar powder and baking powder there. It should be noted that there are various options for making shortbread dough. Recipe on margarine is used quite often, but according to GOST, as we are preparing now, butter is nevertheless used.
Now mix thoroughly. Next, break into a mass of chicken egg and salt.
Many housewives sift flour before adding to the dough. But, as a rule, we can expect splendor from the yeast option, and we have shortbread dough, so if you are sure of the quality of the flour, you can not sift it. After adding flour to the mass, we thoroughly mix everything until a homogeneous sand mass is obtained.
You can knead the dough with a special spatula or with your hands. We form a ball from the dough and wrapping it with plastic wrap, place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
We take out the ball of dough from the refrigerator and use a rolling pin to make a pancake, the thickness of which should be no more than seven millimeters. Further, a special shape in the form of a circle or an ordinary table plate of a suitable size will go into the course. Using the form, cut out circles from the dough. Use a smaller mold or knife to make a hole inside the circle.
Some housewives immediately seek to dip circles in a nut mass and send them to bake. But we are preparing a classic shortbread ring with nuts, a recipe in accordance with GOST. Here, the obtained rounds are sent first not to the oven, but to the freezer for fifteen to twenty minutes. When the rings cool off the time, we take them out and begin to decorate.
So that the nut crumbs have the best hitch with the dough, it is pre-lubricated with egg yolk. After that, you can already sprinkle nuts. Egg yolk allows not only to better combine nuts and shortbread dough, but also to make baking more vibrant and mouth-watering.
The last stage is an oven preheated to 200 degrees, into which our rings must be sent for 10-15 minutes. Once the pastries have a nice golden color, the rings can be taken out.
Structure
Too many tea recipes are based on shortcrust pastry. But how beneficial is it for our body? Thanks to the presence of egg whites and nuts, shortbread dough becomes a source of energy. In its composition, you can find most of the elements of the periodic table: iron, zinc and copper, calcium and potassium, phosphorus. This dish is also rich in organic acids, B vitamins and PP.
The secret to perfect shortcrust pastry
There are some simple secrets that will allow even an inexperienced housewife to make a win-win shortbread dough.
- Temperature. The room where you cook should be cool. All ingredients for the test must be at room temperature.
- Margarine or butter should be in sufficient quantity, because it is thanks to the presence of this component that the dough is crumbly. We do not regret the oil. This dish still does not work to make low-calorie. And an insufficient amount of oil will only harm the result.
- Try to mix all the ingredients thoroughly. It is generally better to grind flour with butter.
- To achieve a good result, it is important to keep proportions. Remember that the amount of flour should be twice the amount of margarine.
- Instead of granulated sugar, icing is recommended. In this case, the dough will turn out, as they say, melting in your mouth.
- We observe the correct sequence of bookmarking the ingredients.
- Do not forget to cool the finished dough and already formed rings in the refrigerator.
- In a cold, still poorly warmed up oven, products from shortcrust pastry should not be placed.
Calorie content
If you were looking for diet recipes for tea, then, unfortunately, they went to the wrong place. Shortcrust pastry - a recipe for margarine, and even with the addition of fatty nuts and a significant amount of powdered sugar - will not have a positive effect on weight loss. One hundred grams of this dessert contains about 400-420 calories.
Although it is reasonable to use this confectionery treat, not every day and in large portions, you can treat yourself. As experts in dietetics say, the main thing is to know the measure, and then you can eat whatever your heart desires. Including a sand ring with nuts, the recipe of which we offered you today.