What stops us and prevents us from baking pies at home as often as possible? Some people think this is too expensive a treat. Indeed, the dough, in addition to flour, also requires butter, eggs, sugar. Others are stopped by the complexity and duration of the process. Knead, defend, roll ... In this case, the whole kitchen will be in flour. The third is stopped by negative experience. The capricious dough either does not want to rise, then tightly sticks to the pan.
But in this article we suggest you make a kefir pie. The recipes below are very easy to implement. The dish is simply doomed to success. And baking will be not only tasty, but also healthy. After all, kefir is not in vain called a cure for aging. When baking it, some useful properties are still lost. But how delicious is the kefir pie! The dough for softness and airiness can be compared with a biscuit, but, unlike it, it does not stale for a long time. There are many recipes for such pies, and you can cook this dish at least every day for a long time without ever repeating it. Fillings to your taste - sweet and salty. And you can make a cake like a cupcake by mixing candied fruits, dried fruits, lemon zest or cinnamon in the dough itself. But enough theory! We put on an apron faster and proceed to cooking.
Ingredients
Like any pastry, a kefir pie requires flour. But there are recipes where semolina is used instead. We also need eggs. But if you are an opponent of their use, then you can do without them. There are recipes in which eggs are not provided. The cake rises due to soda. But you do not need to extinguish it with vinegar. The necessary chemical reaction is launched by kefir itself with its lactic acid bacteria. Some recipes require the use of butter or margarine. Such baked goods will be drier and, according to reviews, tastier and more aromatic.
And what to take kefir? We are used to the fact that it is divided into fatty, regular and dietary. But this does not affect the quality of baking, but the time of its maturation. The more bifidobacteria accumulate in the drink, the tastier, softer and higher will be the cake. So in the store, focus on a lactic acid product called biokefir. Such a “strong” drink contains the right amount of carbon dioxide and alcohol.
What else is needed for a kefir pie? Recipes for sweet products include sugar, vanilla, jam, honey. But you can make a pie that will successfully replace the main course at dinner. There are recipes with cheese, chicken, minced meat, cabbage, potatoes, green onions and eggs. And where to cook such a pie? It can be done not only in the traditional way, in the oven, but also in a bread machine, and even in a slow cooker.
The easiest kefir pie recipe
First, melt a little butter. Culinary experts in their reviews say that it should be warm, but not hot at all. We need three tablespoons of melted butter for one glass of kefir (200 milliliters). We start the cooking process by whipping one egg with 200 grams of granulated sugar. Only after all the crystals have dissolved, we add the rest of the ingredients: kefir, butter, soda and flour. But in the reviews, the cooks advise mixing them a little so that lumps do not form. Soda (a teaspoon) is not necessary to extinguish with vinegar. It can be mixed with flour (half a kilo) and gradually add the bulk to the liquid.
There is also no need to knead the dough on kefir for a long time for a pie. Just dilute all the ingredients to homogeneity - and you're done. The pie dough should consist of fat sour cream in consistency. Lubricate the form with margarine. We turn on the oven 180 degrees. Pour the dough into the mold and bake for about twenty minutes. Readiness check match. If a piece of wood carries the dough with it, let's wait a little longer. But if the hole came out dry, then it’s time to turn off the oven and set the table. Above is the simplest recipe. But you can enrich it by adding a pinch of cinnamon to the dough or rubbing a little lemon peel. It would be good to sprinkle the top of the finished product with powdered sugar.
Another recipe for lazy housewives
If you have a little cheese, cottage cheese or just something left over from yesterday's dinner in your fridge, do not rush to throw it away. Better make jellied cake on kefir. Why is he called that? With jellied, which is made like aspic, on gelatin, this pie has nothing to do. We prepare the dough according to the simplest recipe, as described above. If the filling is unsweetened (stewed cabbage, hard cheese, fried mushrooms, chicken breast, minced meat and the like), do not put sugar, and instead add a pinch of salt. We take a baking dish of smaller diameter, but with high sides. Grease it with butter or margarine. We spread half the dough. On top, place the filling evenly. Fill with the remaining dough. The oven should already be well preheated. Since the pie is higher, then we bake it longer. Culinary experts claim in their reviews that half an hour is enough. But it is still worth it to play it safe with a match. After all, some fillings, such as stewed cabbage, slow down the baking process.
Muffin Cake
If you have metal or silicone molds, a simple kefir pie recipe can be implemented in a different way. Pour into a bowl, and even better - a glass of kefir in the mixer bowl. Pour the same amount of sugar. Beat until crystals are dissolved. Drive one egg. Stir again. Now add a teaspoon of baking soda, extinguished with a small amount of kefir. And finally, mix one and a half glasses of flour. As you can see, we introduced less of this ingredient than was required by the simplest recipe mentioned above. Therefore, the dough we get more liquid - like store sour cream. If the molds are metallic, grease them with fat. We fill them exactly half. The kefir dough for the pie during the baking process will rise significantly. So that the products do not crack and do not deform, the culinary experts in reviews recommend sprinkling cupcakes with something. It can be calcined in a dry pan and chopped nuts, as well as sesame seeds. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees in advance. Put the grate with cupcakes and detect 25 minutes. Let’s cool and take out the cupcakes from the molds.
Semolina dough
There is such a recipe for kefir pie in the oven. Popularly, such products are called manna. They can be made in the form of pies or small cupcakes. Let's look at the first recipe. Semolina cupcakes are very airy and tender. But the process of their preparation is slightly delayed. We pour a glass of semolina with the same amount of kefir. Stir. And now they have to wait until the cereal swells. This may take forty minutes. When the mass becomes a little sticky, we drive one egg into it. Knead everything well. We extinguish half a teaspoon of soda with vinegar or kefir. Knead again. And finally, add a glass of granulated sugar and flour. Knead everything again. We can connect a hand blender to the case. The oven must be preheated to 200 degrees. Cupcakes on semolina do not rise so high, so we fill the molds by two-thirds. And they bake longer. We check the readiness with a match after forty minutes. Such cupcakes can also be decorated with chopped nuts. And if you have no time, just sprinkle the finished product with powdered sugar.
Very simple gingerbread
If you do not find application for jam or confiture, prepare a pie on kefir with jam. If it is very sweet, take less sugar. And if the jam is sour, then more. Beat two eggs with half or a full glass of sugar. When there are no more crystals, mix the kefir. It will need 200 milliliters. Kneading the mass all the time, add one and a half cups of flour. Finally, pour in a small amount of jam a teaspoon of soda. You will be convinced, as the culinary experts assure in their reviews, that the acidic environment of berries acts no worse than vinegar. Soda will start to bubble and hiss softly, and the jam will change color. After waiting for the end of the reaction, add this to the test. And finally, we intervene in it another glass of jam. Rub well until smooth. Grease a baking sheet with margarine. Pour the dough. We put in an already preheated oven. Bake for about 25 minutes at 180 degrees. Cool down. With a sharp knife or a harsh thread, we cut the gingerbread into two layers. Smear them with jam or jam. Decorate the top of the product with powdered sugar or fresh berries. But if the gingerbread is served hot for tea, then you can not engage in impregnation of cakes. Warm kefir pie with jam is delicious and so.
Recipe with cottage cheese and apples
We start cooking as always, mixing eggs with sugar. But this recipe dictates other proportions. For a glass of sugar, we need three eggs. Next, pour a glass of kefir, pour a teaspoon of soda and a pinch of salt and begin to pour flour. It will take about one glass. Peel a large apple (or two medium ones) from the peel, seed boxes and rub it into a separate bowl with large chips. To prevent the flesh from darkening, sprinkle it with lemon juice. Knead an apple with 200 grams of cottage cheese. To taste, season this mass with cinnamon or vanilla sugar. You can also add a handful of raisins soaked in wine and carefully filtered. Next to you are two options. You can use the recipe for jellied pie on kefir, that is, put half the dough in a form, place the cottage cheese and apple filling on top and cover with the rest. But the chefs in their reviews tell us that nothing bad will happen if you slightly stir everything together and bake it like that. The oven should already be baked to 200 degrees. Baking a pie will take on average about half an hour.
Mannick with apples
This dish is very hearty, and it’s easy to prepare. Therefore, chefs recommend baking such a pie with apples on kefir for breakfast. Children will like it much more than regular semolina. Pour 200 grams of cereal with 250 milliliters of kefir. We leave it for half an hour or more so that the semolina swells up as it should. Meanwhile, 50 grams of softened butter is mixed with 200 g of regular sugar and a bag of vanilla. We drive in two eggs and knead well. Add semolina swollen in kefir and two teaspoons of baking powder for the dough. Knead until smooth. The dough for such a pie on kefir turned out to be quite thick, like on pancakes. Set it aside, but turn on the oven. We clean three apples from the peel and boxes. We cut two of them into cubes, and the rest into even thin slices. Pour 2 apples into the dough. Cover the baking dish with cooking paper, and grease it with vegetable oil. Pour all the dough. We decorate the top in the center with the slices of the third apple. We put in the oven and bake at 180 degrees for about forty minutes.
Kefir cabbage pie recipe: filling
And now we will consider not dessert dishes, but main ones. These pies are usually served hot. The filling, as we have already mentioned, can serve not only cabbage, but also other hearty ingredients. To begin, consider a very simple recipe. For such a lazy pie, juicy cabbage is the most suitable - a small fork of 300-400 grams. Shred it is not very thin. We will also cut the onion in half rings and finely chop a bunch of fresh herbs with dill and parsley. Culinary experts recommend adding a few feathers of a green onion. Pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into the pan and simmer the cabbage with onions for seven minutes - just so that the excess moisture evaporates.
Dough
While the filling is cooling, we will prepare the basis of the product. For yogurt pie on kefir, the dough is prepared in a similar way, as for sweet products. Only we do not put sugar in it. One and a half cups of fat yogurt we knead with two large eggs. Then add half a teaspoon of salt. Sift one and a half cups of flour into a separate bowl. Mix it with a teaspoon of baking powder. Knead the dough well. We have two options for further action. We can make jellied pie with cabbage on kefir. To do this, put two-thirds of the dough into a greased form with vegetable oil. We spread the filling, sprinkle with chopped herbs. You can also add grated boiled eggs to this. Also, chefs in their reviews advise sprinkling the filling with soy sauce. But it must be added carefully so as not to thin out the already thin dough. It is better to mix soy sauce and a spoonful of mayonnaise with the filling. Now close it with a smaller part of the dough. Sprinkle with sesame seeds (about two tablespoons). We send it into a heated oven and bake for three quarters of an hour at 180 0 . But there is a recipe for a pie with cabbage on kefir, in which it is prescribed to mix the filling in raw dough. Then stir until smooth.
Culinary Tips
Since the dough is prepared very quickly and simply, such products can be baked at least every day for breakfast. Moreover, everything that is left from dinner is usually put in the pie. The main thing is that the ingredients of the filling are ready. Such products can be made on the principle of a pie with cabbage on kefir. That is, at your request, mix the filling in the dough or put it in a layer in the middle. Culinary experts also advise making a flip flop. Here is the easiest recipe. Cover the form with parchment. We spread in layers: prepared mushrooms, grated cheese, boiled rice, minced meat fried with onions, greens. Pour the dough on top. We put in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, so that our pie on kefir immediately "grabbed". Bake the “changeling” for about forty minutes.