Raisin pie is a very tasty pastry, for the preparation of which you may need completely different ingredients. Today we will tell you about how to make such a dessert from yeast and regular puff pastry.
Making a delicious yeast cake with raisins in a slow cooker
Before you start baking a homemade dessert, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- granulated yeast - 4 g;
- wheat flour - about 700 mg;
- warm drinking water - 1 cup;
- whole milk - 2 cups;
- table salt - a pinch;
- light sugar - 3 large spoons (1 of them to the filling);
- melted butter - 130 g;
- large egg - 1 pc.;
- dark seedless raisins - 400 g;
- ripe bananas - 3 pcs.
Cooking dough
The raisin pie, the recipe of which we are considering, turns out to be very satisfying and tasty. To prepare it, you need to knead the yeast base. To do this, take warm drinking water and mix it with whole milk. White sugar and granular yeast are then added to the ingredients. After they dissolve, ghee, butter , beaten egg and sifted flour are spread in the same bowl.
After mixing all the components, a homogeneous dough is obtained. It is covered with a towel and left warm for 95 minutes. Periodically, crush the base with your hands so that the dough settles and rises again.
Preparing the filling
Pie with raisins and bananas is very fond of children. After all, such pastries are sweet and tasty.
To prepare the filling, take dark seedless raisins and clean it of debris. Then dried fruit is poured with boiling water and left in it for 30 minutes. Over time, the product is thoroughly washed in a sieve and shaken vigorously.
As for bananas, they are peeled and cut into thin circles.
We form a product
Pie with raisins and bananas is formed quite quickly. To do this, batter the dough in half and roll into layers. One of them is placed in the greased bowl of the multicooker, making peculiar sides. Then spread on it (evenly) circles of bananas and steamed raisins. Both ingredients are sprinkled with sugar (if desired) and covered with a second base sheet. The edges of the dough are beautifully braided into a mini pigtail.
Baking process
Pie with raisins and bananas is baked in a slow cooker, setting the same mode. The duration of the preparation of such a dessert is 55 minutes. During this time, yeast baking should become ruddy, as well as significantly increase in volume.
Serve pastries to the table
Now you know how to cook a raisin pie in a slow cooker. After it is fully baked, it is carefully removed from the bowl and placed on the board. After cutting the dessert into portioned portions, it is presented to the table with tea or coffee.
Puff pastry with raisins: a step by step recipe
Puff pastry pie is made much easier and faster than yeast pie. This is due to the fact that for the formation of such baking there is no need to knead the base for a long time, and then wait for it to rise. After all, puff pastry is sold in almost all stores.
So, to make a delicious cottage cheese pie with raisins and nuts, you need to purchase:
- non-yeast ready puff pastry (buy at the store) - about 400 g;
- raw medium-sized eggs - 3 pcs.;
- wheat flour - ½ cup;
- cottage cheese 15% (you can take rustic, wet) - about 350 g;
- creamy fresh butter - about 50 g;
- white sugar - 2 large spoons;
- medium-sized lemon - ½ fruit;
- black seedless raisins - 1 cup;
- walnuts - ½ cup.
Foundation preparation
Before making a pie with cottage cheese and raisins, it is necessary to remove the puff pastry from the freezer in advance and let it completely thaw. Then the layers need to be flavored with wheat flour and rolled into two rectangular sheets (along one side).
Stuffing Processing
After the dough is prepared, proceed to the processing of the filling. To do this, take raw medium-sized eggs and beat them with a whisk. Then they add granulated sugar, moist fat curd and lightly toasted walnuts.
Having received a liquid curd mass, it is brought to a density by adding dark seedless raisins. However, before that, dried fruits should be carefully processed. They are cleaned of existing debris, scalded with boiling water and kept in it for 25 minutes. After this, the raisins are thrown into a sieve and washed thoroughly in cool water.
Having laid dried fruits to the egg-curd mass, it is thoroughly mixed. The output is a thick and sweet filling.
The process of forming a layer cake
To form a puff cake, use a large oven sheet. A rectangular layer of dough is laid on it, on which, in turn, the entire filling is placed (not reaching the edges of 2-3 centimeters). Then the egg-curd mass with raisins and nuts is covered with a second base sheet and the edges are strongly pinched.
Heat treatment of the cake in the oven
Having formed a layer cake, it is immediately sent to a preheated oven. At a temperature of 193 degrees, the product is baked for 42 minutes. During this period of time, the dessert should become lush, ruddy and slightly crumbly.
How to present to tea?
After the curd cake with raisins is baked, it is carefully removed from the oven. Having partially cooled the product, it is cut into portioned pieces and distributed on plates. By the way, if you do this immediately after heat treatment, then, most likely, the entire filling will leak out.
A layer cake with raisins, cottage cheese and nuts is served with a cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate. Enjoy your meal!