No homemade pastry lover ever stops searching for something new. Unsaturated recipes are being sought in cookbooks and on the Internet. Constant experiments are being carried out, the most complex ideas are being implemented. For all this, the far from the worst life principle, which reads “Everything ingenious is simple,” recedes into the background. These words are great for confectionery and baking in particular. Of the simplest ingredients that are almost always at hand, every amateur or professional will be able to create a small, but miracle. And an excellent illustration of this is almost all the recipes of delicious bagels from different dough with apples.
Tasty, simple and budget
Everyone who has ever tasted these little curls from a different dough stuffed with apples will never forget their taste. Recipes are recorded in personal home cookbooks and passed on from generation to generation. Someone thinks that it is easier to buy finished products, but true connoisseurs of confectionery art are well aware that purchased products can never be compared with cooked ones. Yes, it takes time. Yes, this requires effort. But the result is worth it. An enthusiastic appreciation of guests and household members, requests to share the recipe - this is the reward for the time and effort spent.
Of course, there are laborious recipes using expensive ingredients. But there is no point in spending crazy money on those products whose names are not known in stores and in markets, when you can create a masterpiece from inexpensive, always available products. Flour, eggs, milk and yeast. Cottage cheese, apples, sugar and some more ingredients. Everyone can afford it all. And when everything you need is at hand, not making bagels with apples will be unforgivable.
What are bagels?
Bagels bear their name for a reason. If you do everything according to technology, then the result will be a small tasty curl in shape resembling horns. This confectionery product can be found in many national cuisines of different peoples of our planet. Mostly bagels under various names are found in the cuisines of European countries. And how many peoples have this delicious dish in their arsenal, there will be so many recipes. But be that as it may, the underlying technology remains virtually identical for everyone.
First and foremost
What is the main thing in cooking bagels with apples? Of course, the dough. There is nothing revolutionary here. Bagels with apples are made from yeast and yeast dough, from puff pastry, as well as from shortbread and cottage cheese. Someone cooks them in kefir, someone - in sour cream or milk, someone prefers cheese bagels. Curd dough differs from all other types in a more delicate and mild flavor. For lovers of cottage cheese, this will be just a godsend.
Basically, bagels with apples are made from yeast dough. Its preparation takes much longer than yeast-free. And the technology is more complicated. But it is tastier and more tender. So it makes sense to sacrifice time and make bagels with apples from yeast dough .
Yeast dough for bagels
The total time for making bagels from this test takes no more than an hour. Ingredients required: milk, butter, flour, egg. Yeast can be used live or dry - whoever likes it. Supporters and opponents in both types of yeast have the same amount. The main stages of cooking are probably familiar to all fans of cooking:
- In warm milk, dilute yeast.
- Add beaten eggs and soft butter (margarine).
- Stir and add flour. Knead well.
The main thing is that the products used in the preparation of the dough are fresh and of high quality: chasing low cost at the expense of quality will be more expensive.
Well, then - all according to the recipe that is available. How to cook bagels with apples? The recipe with the photo is presented to your attention below.
Dough for bagels
What do you need:
- milk 3.2% - 0.2 l;
- fructose - 0.2 kg;
- flour - 0.8 kg;
- margarine - 0.15 kg;
- dry yeast - 0.011 kg (sachet);
- or fresh - 0.025 kg;
- vanillin - 0.005 kg;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
What to do:
- Dissolve yeast and sugar in warmed milk. Insist a quarter of an hour. When the mass rises, add 0.15 kg of flour, stir. Put aside so that the dough stood for another quarter of an hour. During this time, she will rise well.
- Grate the eggs (3 pcs.) With sugar and introduce into a dough. Stir. Then add 0.35 kg of flour, add soft margarine and mix well. Set aside in heat for half an hour.
- Then add some more flour to the dough. The dough should not stick to the palms. Consistency - 15% sour cream.
Puffed bagels with apples
Puff pastry takes more time than simple. But the result is decent. Bagels from puff pastry with apples can also be prepared from purchased dough. Today it will not be difficult to purchase a finished yeast-free or yeast product. The price for it is low, this dough is sold in almost all stores. High-quality, really tasty and tested dough is sold under the brands "Morozko", "Star", "Talosto", Horeca. In fact, there are a huge number of manufacturers, but the above-mentioned brands are Russian market veterans who have stood the test of time.
But not everyone prefers the purchase of puff pastry. It is fair to say that what you do yourself can never be compared with store products.
Puff pastry technology
Ingredients:
- sublimated yeast - 0.011 kg;
- sugar - 0.03 kg;
- salt - 0.002 kg;
- milk 3.2% - 0.08 kg;
- wheat flour - 0.25 kg;
- margarine - 0.25 kg;
- large egg - 2 pcs.
What do we have to do:
- Margarine put in heat so that it softens naturally.
- Pour a tablespoon of sugar into warm milk and carefully mix yeast with continuous stirring. Stir until completely dissolved. Close the container with a lid and put in heat. After a quarter of an hour, the dough will rise.
- In another container, beat the eggs, gradually adding cubes of softened margarine (0.15 kg) and flour.
- Punch the dough with a mixer to a homogeneous state at medium speed. Then, gently add all the dough over a teaspoon, without stopping whipping, but at low speeds. When the mass becomes homogeneous, remove the dough to the side, cover with a cloth and leave for 2 hours. Keep the dough warm.
- Remove the finished dough from the container and divide into three identical pieces. Also divide the remaining margarine into three parts.
- Roll out each third of the dough into a 1 cm thick circle. Cut the margarine into 6 mm plates. Put it on two-thirds of the obtained cakes. Bend the free space of the cake to the middle, blocking the remaining third. Then cover it with this remaining part. The result is a rectangle one third wide of the original tortilla.
- Roll out the rectangle so that the thickness is 1 cm again. Pack the dough in a film and put in the freezer for 25 minutes. Then fold again in three and roll again. Again, put in the freezer, roll again. So repeat 5 times. Do the same with the rest of the test.
- Roll out the required amount of dough, reducing the thickness by 2 times. Cut into identical triangles. On a wide edge of each, put a slice of the processed apple and roll into a bagel.
Curd bagels with apples
The most common and elegant of the varieties of bagels with apples are those that use cottage cheese. Cooking technology is also simple:
- Paste cottage cheese in a blender, add vanillin and margarine. Mix.
- Add sugar, pour kefir. Mix.
- Pour flour with baking powder. Mix well and put in the refrigerator.
Further, as in the other recipes: rolling, laying out the filling (in our case - apples) and the actual baking.
There are many options for bagels. As an example, bagels with ... meat are being cooked in South Ossetia. But bagels with apples are the perfect combination of price - time - taste. The main advantage of this dish is that there will not be any dissatisfied. Everyone who will try them will be glad, and this is the biggest reward to the one who prepared them ...