Raisins are a very useful product. Baking with raisins is in the kitchens of all nations. This pastry is so popular that it is served in coffee shops and pastry shops all over the world. We have collected for you the best recipes for baking with raisins.
Baking with raisins - the basic principles of cooking
Baking with raisins is prepared in the oven, microwave, bread maker or a slow cooker. These can be buns, muffins, cookies, casseroles, etc.
Raisins for baking, you can use any, as long as it is of good quality. It is washed and soaked in warm water for at least half an hour. Then dried fruits are dried and added to the dough. In some recipes, before adding the raisins to the dough, it is mixed with flour or starch. So it is evenly distributed on the test.
Baking is made from any dough, but the most delicious is obtained from sweet yeast.
If pies are made, then raisins can be added not only to the dough, but also to the filling.
In addition to raisins, nuts, fruits, berries, etc. are added to pastries.
The dough is laid out in the form, if it is a cupcake or cake, or it is formed into buns or cookies and spread on a baking sheet.
To make raisin pastries aromatic, add citrus zest, vanilla or cinnamon.
Recipe 1. A simple pie with raisins and figs
Ingredients
four egg yolks;
pine nuts - a quarter cup;
milk - half a liter;
raisins - third of a glass;
vodka - a quarter cup;
dried figs - six pcs .;
corn flour - half a cup;
salt - pinch;
150 g cane sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the raisins and soak for ten minutes in warm boiled water.
2. Wash figs in hot water and cut into small strips.
3. Add sugar to the egg yolks and whisk until smooth. In a skillet mix milk with vodka and salt. Put it on a moderate fire and bring to a boil. 4. Constantly beating with a whisk, introduce hot milk into the yolks. Return the resulting mass to the fire.
5. Without stopping to whisk, we add cornmeal to the egg-milk mixture. We twist the fire and cook, stirring, until the dough begins to bubble. It will take about eight minutes.
6. Raise the raisins back on the sieve, shake well and put in the dough. Here we also send pine nuts and figs. Mix well.
7. Lubricate the detachable form with oil, spread the dough into it and send it to the oven. Bake for forty minutes at 180C. Cool the cake right in the mold, then hold a thin knife between the cake and the walls of the mold. Turn over pastry with raisins on the dish. Before serving, cut the pie and serve it with fruit juice or compote.
Recipe 2. Cheesecakes filled with sour cream
Ingredients
Fondant sponge yeast dough - 800 g;
fresh sour cream - 350 g;
fat cottage cheese - 300 g;
raisins and candied fruits - handful;
egg;
sugar - half a cup.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the raisins. Fill it with hot water and leave for 25 minutes.
2. Collapse the colander with gauze, put cottage cheese into it, cover with a plate and place a jar of water on top. Leave the cottage cheese under the yoke for an hour. Then we grind it through a sieve.
3. Shake egg with sugar until smooth. Add grated cottage cheese to the mixture and mix.
4. Raise the raisins on a sieve, dry them and add it to the curd mass. Here we also put finely chopped candied fruits. Stir.
5. Roll out the dough on a floured table in two rectangles, half a centimeter thick. Spread the filling in an even layer and roll up the roll.
6. Each roll is cut into circles with a thickness of three centimeters. Put them on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes at 190C until golden brown.
7. Whip sour cream with a whisk. We spread the hot cheesecakes in deep form and immediately pour the sour cream. Cover the pastries with raisins with foil and cool.
Recipe 3. Soft pumpkin cookies with raisins and dried apricots
Ingredients
raisins;
egg;
50 grams of corn starch;
a glass of grated pumpkin;
half a pack of butter;
baking soda;
a half cup flour;
5 g of baking powder;
180 grams of granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Pound soft butter with sugar until white, add an egg and finely grated pumpkin. Stir with a spoon. Add corn starch and baking powder. Knead again with a spoon.
2. Cut dried apricots into pieces. Raisins and dried apricots are placed in a separate bowl and pour dried fruit with boiling water. Leave for five minutes. Then pour the infusion, and lay the dried apricots and raisins on a paper napkin, cover with a second napkin on the top and carefully squeeze.
3. Add dried fruit, flour to the oil-egg mass and mix.
4. Heat the oven to 180C. Deco lubricated with oil. Spread dough on it with a spoon at some distance from each other. We bake 20 minutes. Then lay out the pastries with raisins on the grill and cool. Served with tea or coffee.
Recipe 4. Yoghurt cake with raisins and dried apricots
Ingredients
100 g raisins;
three eggs;
a glass of drinking yogurt;
100 grams of prunes without pits;
40 g butter;
salt;
50 ml of vegetable oil;
a bag of vanilla;
a half cup flour;
80 g sugar;
5 g baking powder.
Method of preparation
1. Heat the oven to 180C. We grease big or small molds with oil.
2. Wash dried fruit and pour boiling water. Leave for five minutes. Then pour the infusion, and dry the raisins and prunes on a napkin. Prune cut into pieces. Add some flour to the dried fruit and mix.
3. Beat yolks with sugar until white. Add salt and vanilla. Continuing to beat, pour in ghee and vegetable oil. Then we introduce drinking yoghurt, mix and gradually pour the flour with baking powder. Stir until a homogeneous mass without lumps. Add dried fruit and mix for the last time. 4. Protein whip in a separate bowl to a stable foam. Gently inject the whipped proteins into the dough and mix slowly. Pour the dough into a mold and bake until lightly ruddy. Readiness check wooden toothpick. We shift the finished cupcake on the grill and cool. Cut the cupcake into slices and serve with tea or cocoa.
Recipe 5. Pita from pita with raisins, grapes and apples
Ingredients
100 grams of grapes;
three eggs;
50 g of raisins;
four apples;
350 ml of kefir;
two-thirds cup of sugar;
40 ml of cognac;
two pita bread;
5 g cinnamon.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the apples. Cut in half and remove the core. Pulp cut into small cubes.
2. Wash the raisins in hot water and pour it with brandy.
3. Kefir combine with a half cup of sugar and eggs. Shake the mixture with a whisk.
4. Cut the lavash sheet to the size of a deep form so that you can close the sides and top.
5. Lubricate the form of oil, lay it in pita. At the bottom of trimming pita. Pour on the bottom a little egg-kefir fill.
6. Top lay out a third of raisins, grapes and apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
7. Cover with two layers of pita bread. Lay out two more layers. Cover the top of the cake with hanging edges, brushing them with pouring. Pour the remaining fill on the cake and sprinkle with sugar.
8. Sent for an hour in the oven, heating it to 180C. If the top starts to burn, cover it with foil. Cool the cake in the form and turn it over on the dish.
Recipe 6. Oat buns with raisins, nuts and banana
Ingredients
50 grams of nuts;
100 ml of drinking water;
a glass of oatmeal;
80 ml of olive oil;
5 g cinnamon;
small carrot;
half a cup of sugar;
small apple;
5 g of baking powder;
banana;
70 g raisins;
sea salt.
Method of preparation
1. Oatmeal combine with salt, chopped nuts, baking powder, cinnamon, raisins and sugar. Stir. 2. Clean the banana peel, finely chop and put it in a separate bowl. We clean the apple and carrot from the peel and grind on a fine grater. Send the resulting mass to the bananas. Here we pour warm water and olive oil.
3. Add the dry mix to the fruit and vegetable mass and knead well with a spoon. Leave for a quarter of an hour. If the dough is watery, add a little flour.
4. We heat the oven to 180C. Deco covered with baking paper. Take a full tablespoon of dough and lay it on the deco, leaving a small distance.
5. Put the buns in the oven and bake for half an hour until roasting. Then we put the pastry with raisins on the grid, cool it and serve it with cocoa or milk drinks.
Baking raisins - tips and tricks
- Before adding the raisins to the batter, sprinkle it with flour or starch and mix. So he will not settle to the bottom and evenly distributed on the test.
- In the baking process with raisins, try not to open the oven door without need.
- If you like raisins very much, you can put them more than what is stated in the recipe.
- Pre-fill the raisins with hot water and leave for half an hour.
- If the raisins are not too dry, you can do without soaking.
- Baking will turn out with a pleasant nutty aroma, if the form is pre-sprinkled with ground hazelnuts.
