Crispy brushwood on kefir recipe (gingerbread cookie)

Brushwood is a pastry that has been familiar to everyone since childhood. It is impossible to refuse such a treat. There are many different recipes for cooking brushwood. Such pastries can be both sweet and salty. Lush brushwood on kefir is especially popular with housewives . The recipe with the photo in the article will allow you to easily and quickly bake such a delicacy in a classic version. Several interesting variations of brushwood cooking will also be described.

What do you need to prepare a classic kefir brushwood?

In order to cook fluffy and airy kefir, the recipe requires the following ingredients:

• kefir - 250 milliliters;
• chicken egg yolk - 1 piece;
• flour - 400 grams;
• sugar - 50 grams;
• vegetable oil - 1.5 table. spoons;
• baking soda - ¼ tea spoons;
• salt - ¼ tea spoons;
• icing sugar.

How to cook lush brushwood on kefir? The recipe with the photo described step by step below will allow you to do this without much effort. Moreover, such a delicacy does not require the presence of rare or expensive ingredients.

How to cook classic brushwood on kefir: recipe

Lush cookies are prepared as follows. First you need to cook the dough:

1. Pour 300 grams of flour into a bowl. Make a small cavity in the center and place the egg yolk in it.
   
2. Add sugar.
   
3. Pour baking soda.
   
4. Pour in vegetable oil.
   
5. Add kefir.
   
6. Stir the ingredients until smooth.
   
7. Gradually, spoon after spoon, add the remaining flour, without stopping stirring.
   
8. Knead the dough. Add a little more flour if necessary. The dough should not stick to your hands.
   
9. Roll the dough in flour and wrap it with plastic wrap. Give him a rest for 15-20 minutes.
   

Now you know such goodies as brushwood on kefir, a recipe.

Lush products must have a certain shape. How to give it a test? You need to do the procedure described in detail in the section below.

How to give shape to brushwood?

1. Roll part of the dough on a surface sprinkled with flour into a thin sheet. Its thickness should be about three millimeters.
   
2. Using a knife, cut the dough into rectangles about 2.5 centimeters wide. The length of these fragments should be less than the size of the dishes in which the baked goods will be prepared.
   
3. In each rectangle with a knife you need to make a longitudinal incision.
   
4. Take a piece of dough.
   
5. Pass one of its edges through the incision made and stretch a little.
   
6. This is what should result in the end.
   
7. Repeat this procedure with the remaining rectangles.
   

Baking - the final stage of cooking brushwood

1. Heat 400 milliliters of vegetable oil in a saucepan. Place several pieces of dough into the container so that they float freely. Fry on one side until golden brown.
   
2. Turn brushwood to the other side.
   
3. Ready-made pastries must be removed using a slotted spoon and laid out on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat. Fry the remaining rectangles of the dough in the same way.
   
4. Put chilled brushwood on a large plate and sprinkle it with icing sugar using a fine sieve.
   
5. The delicacy is ready. Enjoy your meal!

Crispy brushwood on yogurt without eggs

To prepare a sweet treat, you can use the recipe for crispy brushwood on kefir with the photo below. Baking made according to this description does not contain eggs.

Essential Ingredients:

• kefir - 250 milliliters;
• flour - 400 grams;
• vegetable oil - 2 tables. spoons;
• sugar - 2 tables. spoons;
• soda - 1 tea the spoon;
• salt - 1 pinch;
• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
• icing sugar for sprinkling.

Cooking process:

1. Pour kefir into a bowl. Add vegetable oil, regular and vanilla sugar, salt and soda. Mix well. Add flour.
2. Roll out the dough very thinly. It is because of this that the pastries will be crispy. Cut into rectangles. In the middle of each, make a longitudinal incision and stretch through it one of the edges of the fragment.
3. In a large amount of heated oil, fry brushwood until cooked.
4. Put the finished baking on a paper towel and allow to cool.
5. Sprinkle the finished brushwood with powdered sugar.

Yogurt with cottage cheese

In order to cook lush homemade brushwood on kefir, you should use this recipe. The composition of baking includes cottage cheese, which gives it a special tenderness.

Essential Ingredients:

• kefir - 250 milliliters;
• cottage cheese - 100 grams;
• sugar - 2 tables. spoons;
• flour - 400 grams;
• vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• soda - ½ tea. spoons.

Cooking process:

1. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl. Add the egg, regular and vanilla sugar and mix well.
2. Pour kefir into the resulting mass. Stir until smooth.
3. Pour soda and flour. Knead the dough.
4. Roll out the dough. Cut into rectangles. In the middle of each, make a longitudinal incision and stretch through it one of the edges of the fragment.
5. In a large amount of heated oil, fry brushwood until cooked.
6. Put the finished baking on a paper towel and allow to cool.
7. Sprinkle the finished brushwood with powdered sugar.

Cheese brushing on kefir: recipe

Lush products with cheese have a salty taste and can be used as a snack.

Essential Ingredients:

• kefir - 250 milliliters;
• flour - 300 grams;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• hard cheese - 100 grams;
• mustard - 1 tea the spoon;
• salt.

Cooking process:

1. Pour kefir into a bowl, add flour and salt. Knead the dough with a soft consistency.
2. Finely grate cheese. Add the egg and mustard and mix well.
3. The dough is divided into four parts. Roll each of them. The width of one fragment should be about two centimeters.
4. Two obtained layers of dough should be sprinkled with cheese filling. Cover the top with the remaining two fragments. Cut the resulting layers into long strips.
5. Collapse the resulting elements in a spiral (as in the photo). Put on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in the oven at 200 ° C for eight minutes.

Conclusion

The article describes the preparation of such a delicacy as brushwood on kefir (recipe). Lush cookies can be served as a sweet dessert. There are also recipes for making salted brushwood, which can perfectly serve as a snack. In addition to great taste, this pastry has other advantages. After all, its preparation does not take much time and does not require complex or expensive ingredients.