Quite often it happens that the products are stored in the refrigerator, and they seem to have not yet expired , but you can’t even call them fresh. It turns out that it is a pity to throw them away, and I don’t really want to use them anymore. In this case, zealous housewives try to use such ingredients, for example, for baking. It turns out that the product does not disappear, but receives a second life in the form of a cake or cake. For example, every good housewife has several recipes for what can be baked from kefir. It turns out that this can be a muffin, and a pie, and crumpets, and a host of other options.
How to bake kefir bread
It is usually cooked simply on the water, but you can dream up a little and make not ordinary bread, but some special and preferably healthy bread. For example, it may be a yeastless cupcake with seeds. For 300 ml of kefir (preferably not very fresh) you need to take a teaspoon of salt, soda and sugar, half a glass of any seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin or mixture), a little vegetable oil and 3 cups flour.
First, turn on the oven to heat up (its temperature should reach 200 degrees). Not everyone knows that you can bake kefir not just something tasty, but also quite healthy. And this recipe is just one of those. For completeness, part of the flour used is replaced with bran.
Such bread is better to bake in the form, the bottom of which is covered with parchment, and the sides are oiled. Then proceed to the preparation of the dough. Kefir is poured into a bowl, salt, sugar, soda, seeds and a little vegetable oil are added. Then pour half the flour and begin to knead the dough, gradually adding it. When it ceases to adhere to the fingers, it is shifted to a shape, leveled. A few cuts are made from above and sent to the oven for an hour. The finished bread is taken out of the mold and covered with a cloth until completely cooled. It turns out tasty and quite useful. The only drawback of such bread is that it quickly becomes stale.
How to bake kefir dumplingsMore precisely, they are usually fried in a pan or deep-fried. The dish turns out to be rather harmful due to the cooking method, but if you use it infrequently and use a minimum of fat, then nothing bad will happen. In the end, donuts can be baked in the oven, although fried is much tastier.
Among the many recipes for donuts, this, despite the speed of preparation, always guarantees an excellent result. Therefore, thinking about what can be baked from kefir, forgotten in the refrigerator, it is first of all to be remembered. Crunchy crusty on the outside and tender on the inside will be a wonderful breakfast for the whole family.
On a glass of kefir take an egg, 50 gr. butter, 300 gr. flour, a little salt, soda, 3 tablespoons of sugar and deep-frying fat. Soda is quenched in kefir, and the egg is beaten with salt and sugar. Then these masses are combined and flour is added, kneading a cool dough. Then pour melted butter (not hot) into it and mix well. In deep dishes,
vegetable fat is heated
, into which dough is laid with a spoon, frying until golden. Ready-made donuts can be sprinkled with icing sugar or served with something sweet (honey, jam or condensed milk).
What can you bake from kefir yet
It turns out that this product makes a wonderful cake biscuit, which then simply remains to be lubricated with your favorite cream. For 2 cups kefir take the same amount of flour, 2 eggs, 100 g. sugar and 200 gr. oil, you still need a little salt, soda and vanilla to taste. If desired, you can add raisins or other dried fruits. The soft butter is ground with sugar, eggs, kefir, soda, salt and vanilla are added, the sifted flour is poured out and the dough is kneaded, similar in consistency to the one from which the pancakes are baked. It can make 1 thick or 2 thin cakes. They are baked in a rather hot oven, after which you can cool them and collect a wonderful cake from them.