Dough Products: Recipes

Bakery recipes - the most popular - have probably passed from mouth to mouth for centuries, from one culinary notebook to another. And home cooks keep them carefully, like the apple of an eye. A variety of dough products occupy an honorable place in the culinary traditions of many peoples of the world. They are prepared according to authentic and mass recipes on all continents. Experienced housewives know what to do so that both guests and homework will be delighted with a delicious dish. What can be prepared from the dough or with its direct participation? Yes, almost everything: as they say, the first, and second, and dessert. Let's find out more with you and take over the experience right now!

A little bit about classification

But the dough is different. And in order to understand what kind of its variety it is best to cook specifically taken food, you need to know what the differences are:

• The yeast version is prepared with the participation of yeast - dry or living. In turn, such a dough can be made uncoated (first put the dough, and then add the bulk of the flour and knead) and non-stick (knead all the flour at once and remove it to come up) in a way. This variety can also be puff - this is when at the end of fermentation it is layered with a spread or oil.
• The yeast-free (fresh) dough, respectively, is made without the participation of yeast cultures. It can be whipped (biscuits and pancakes), puff (coated with butter, margarine), custard, with baking powder (sand, gingerbread).

So, as you can see, there are many options to choose from. And each dish has its own.

Yeast Dough Products

This is an excellent and unchanging basis for most varieties of pastries, both sweet and savory. Cakes and pies, pizza of all stripes, rolls, rolls, cookies can be prepared with this product. Therefore, to learn how to cook it is simply an urgent need for many beginner home cooks. You could say a bit of a holy duty for a self-respecting chef. In addition, such dough products can be prepared in milk, and on kefir, and on water, using fresh or dry yeast, adding eggs or excluding it. In general, there are many options, each has its own nuances. Well, are you ready to start? Then here are some recipes for you.

Quick Pizza Dough

Today, these Italian yeast dough products are very popular. Want to treat your guests a quick option? Then we take a glass of water, a pack of dry yeast cultures (5 grams), two glasses of flour, a spoonful of vegetable oil, a little salt. And proceed to the batch.

1. Pour the flour into the prepared dry container. We also send high-speed yeast in the dry version there (you do not need to dissolve it in water beforehand).
2. Add tepid water (in boiling water, microorganisms will die, and their fermentation slows down from the cold).
3. Next comes a spoonful of vegetable oil (the dough will become elastic from it).
4. Knead the gingerbread man.
5. The basis for pizza is ready! The whole process took no more than 15 minutes, which is very important if, as they say, guests are on the doorstep.
6. Now divide the kolobok into 2 equal parts. With flour, roll the cakes and put them in the appropriate pizza dish, slightly oiled.

A few words about the filling

It can be the most diverse for your quick pizza - who loves what. Vegetarian, and with fruits, and the simplest varieties are possible. For example:

1. We take ketchup and lightly grease the base with it (we smear it with a brush on the surface).
2. Cut cervelat or other smoked sausage into thin circles. My tomatoes and cut into semicircles.
3. We spread the sausage and tomatoes evenly over the pancake dough.
4. Generously sprinkle with cheese of any hard variety. And on top for the beauty we lay out the olives cut into rings.
5. Fast pizza goes to the oven (temperature - more than 200 degrees, 10 minutes).
6. Done! Get swords from the stove and onto the table!

Dough Croissants

They will need puff yeast. We make the dough, as in the previous recipe. And now we cut the frozen butter into pieces and put it on baking paper. Cover with the same sheet of paper. Roll out the product with a rolling pin. Remove the top and bottom paper sheets. Put on the rolled yeast dough and fold several times. Cover and put down the refrigerator (time - about an hour). The procedure with rolling and folding is repeated several times.

In the final, roll out the dough into a thin sheet and divide it into small triangles. In a wide part of each we put a filling (for example, a spoon of apricot jam). We twist the triangle, giving it the shape of a croissant. And then bake in the oven (20 minutes until golden).

Kefir pies

Recipes for dough products using yeast are wide variety. Here, take, for example, pies. And they prepare quickly, and the fillings can be thought of very different. We need: 3 cups flour, half a cup of vegetable oil, a cup of kefir, 10 grams of dried yeast, a little salt with sugar. And soft, “downy” baked with an appetizing blush dough products will help any housewife. They are appropriate at almost any time of the year, optimally complement lunch, and breakfast, and dinner, and even a picnic in nature. “Downy” kefir dough is obedient and pleasant to cook, neutral in taste. This will allow you to use both salty and sweet fillings. And the pies will be soft, they will not blacken for a long time under a kitchen towel.

How to cook

1. Sift flour. Add dry yeast. Mix.
2. Combine vegetable oil with kefir and heat to a temperature just above 30 degrees. Mix by adding salt with sugar. And then all the resulting mass is introduced into flour with yeast cultures. Once again, we mix everything well, forming a bun (for 7-8 minutes we crush).
3. We cover the dough with a cotton towel and set aside for half an hour (during this time you can cook any filling that you like).
4. We crumble the infused kolobok and share in portions, depending on the size of the pies conceived (usually 12-20 parts).
5. Level each piece of dough (thickness - about half a centimeter). Add the filling to the center. And we carefully pinch the edges of the dough, giving the pie a characteristic shape.
6. We place the blanks on a baking sheet (it must be lined with baking paper). We cover with a towel and set aside for 10 minutes, so that the dough rises properly. Then grease the dough products with yolk (you can sprinkle with sesame seeds). Place the pan in the preheated oven (200 degrees, 15 minutes). Bake until a blush appears.

Fresh pastry

This variety of dishes is also very popular among the people. What can be prepared from yeast-free dough? Yes, a lot of things - and they did back in time immemorial, and they do today. Undoubtedly, the ancient cooks began with a yeast-free dough. Products from unleavened dough were baked on hot stones, then - in the centers. These types of authentic dishes are still popular. For example, Georgian khachapuri, Uzbek samsa, Finnish dumplings. And also such products from unleavened dough as dumplings, manti, pasta and so on, and so on. This base has only one drawback - a dense, dry structure. But for some recipes, these qualities turn into virtues! Especially for cooked dishes.

How to knead

For fresh dough we take cold water and premium flour (if we also use eggs, butter, milk, the dough will be rich). Pour the sifted flour with a hill, and in the middle we form a funnel. Gradually pour water there, slightly salted. Now knead the cool dough (if necessary, add oil or spread). Let it lie for about half an hour under a kitchen towel so that gluten swells. Then roll out the dough thinner. And if the filling is ready, you can sculpt dumplings (manti, dumplings and further on the list)! Bon appetit to all!