Some quick and easy home-cooked meals include whipped bread cakes . Their preparation will not be difficult for an inexperienced chef, and even a housewife with experience will consider the process a rest.
A flat cake can replace bread during lunch, or it can be an independent dish. In Russia, from time immemorial they loved cakes with baked goods - our semblance of Italian pizza. As a bake, cereals, jam, pickles, boiled meat and fish, vegetables and fried mushrooms were used. In this article, we will talk about the test and ways to improve the taste of tortillas with the help of oil, seeds and flour from different plants, and first we will learn how to make the simplest and most affordable - wheat tortillas.
Dough for tortillas can be purchased at the store, or you can cook yourself. Moreover, it can be done in advance and frozen until a suitable time.
Making a simple dough
Flapjacks made from unleavened yeastless dough are made from flour, water and salt. Pour flour on the table with a slide, make a depression on top. It turned out like a volcano with a crater. Pour salt into this crater groove and pour a little water. Gently mix the water with flour, making rotational movements with a spoon inside the crater. Gradually stir in the flour from the walls of the crater. When the dough becomes so thick that the spoon will not turn, start kneading with your hands. The dough is considered ready when it ceases to stick to the hands. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 25-30 minutes. This is necessary in order for it to stabilize.
Ingredients for the dough:
- wheat flour - 5-6 glasses;
- boiled water at room temperature - 1 cup;
- salt - a pinch.
The number of ingredients is arbitrary. It also includes flour for rolling dough. Flour can be different gluten, so do not be afraid to pour it, if necessary.
Roll out the dough into a sausage and divide into equal parts, one hundred grams each. Pour flour on the table and roll one piece with a rolling pin. The thinner the better. 2-3 millimeters - the best for unleavened cakes. Using a template plate, cut out a round cake from the dough. To prevent the flat cake from swelling too much during the frying process, pierce it with a fork over the entire surface.
Tortillas fried in haste in red-hot refined oil. 2-3 minutes on each side. Especially delicious are cakes on peanut, mustard oil, walnut oil or grape seed.
Potato Filling Recipe
Quickbread cakes can be made double with a thin layer. To do this, two identical pieces of dough are rolled into flat cakes. In the middle of one, departing from the edge by 3 cm, one tablespoon of the filling is placed in a thin layer. The edges of the cake are smeared with egg white. Another is placed on this cake and pressed while smoothing the voids. It is pressed especially carefully around the perimeter.
Potato Filling:
- peel one onion, finely chop and fry in vegetable oil;
- peel 400-500 grams of raw potatoes, cook and crush in mashed potatoes;
- mix fried onions and potatoes, add salt to taste.
You can add spicy greens to the filling - chopped dill, parsley or celery.
Kefir dough
Quickbread cakes can be prepared with seeds of poppy, sesame, pumpkin, sunflower, caraway and amaranth.
From 4-5 cups of wheat flour and one cup of kefir, knead the dough. Add a pinch of salt and a tablespoon of seeds into the dough. Allow the dough to stand for half an hour. Now you can roll and bake. Oven buns are delicious whipped up not necessarily in butter. Faster and easier to do this in the oven. Preheat the oven, put baking paper on a baking sheet, and a flat cake on it. Prick with a fork and bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees.
Cheese Recipe
With kefir dough you can bake delicious cheesecakes in a hurry. Three options:
The first option, with kefir dough in the oven. Hard cheese is cut into cubes, with sides of about 1 cm, carefully intervening in the dough. It is baked as usual, at a temperature of 220 degrees, for 10 minutes.
The second option, with cheese filling. Two identical cakes roll out. Hard cheese is rubbed on a coarse grater and placed in the middle of one cake, about a tablespoon. The edge of the cake is smeared with egg white. Another is placed on a cheese cake , well pressed and pierced with a fork. To give a larger plane, you should roll a rolling pin on the cake. In order not to tear the dough and squeeze the cheese, do not push hard on the rolling pin.
The third option, with cheese topping. Roll the cake, pierce it with a fork and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
Salt the dough is not necessary. This task will perform the cheese.
How to serve and how to maintain a slim figure
Tortillas are delicious with warm milk. This is a good and hearty dinner. Tortillas served with meat or fish broth. They are good with fresh vegetable salads. Cakes can be taken with you on the road. Then it’s nice to drink tea from a thermos.
Wheat cakes are not worth getting carried away. This can have a bad effect on the figure. Therefore, the dough should be made not only from wheat flour, but also from buckwheat, rye, oat, barley, amaranth, or from a mixture thereof.