What pastries are associated with national Russian cuisine? Of course, these are pies - with all kinds of stuffing: potatoes, fish, eggs, mushrooms, rice, cabbage, berries and fruits. The abundance of ingredients that can be filled with cakes is truly impressive!
Apple Pies - general principles and methods of cooking
Apple pies should be a separate place. Who among us since childhood is not familiar with their magical taste and sweet aroma? It is unlikely that anyone remained indifferent to such warm, rosy and unusually tasty grandmother's pastries. And today, even the most inveterate figure curator, is not averse to tasting a sweet and savory delicacy. Moreover, apple pies can be not only fried in a pan with a lot of butter, but baked in the oven with a minimum amount of fat.
By the way, speaking of the sweet stuffing, it should be noted that the products with this one are best baked in the oven. This will prevent “traumatization” of the dough in the baking process, as well as leakage of juice. To prevent this from happening while frying pies in a frying pan, experienced housewives adapted themselves to add starch to the filling, and to start the dough somewhat steeper than usual, adding more eggs and butter to it.
The dough for making apple pies can be used any. In our article we will experiment with the dietary option (without adding sugar and yeast), yeast, puff and cottage cheese. In the coming days, be sure to use our advice and surprise your family with delicious and fragrant homemade pastries!
Apple Patties - Food Preparation
For mixing yeast dough, it is allowed to use both fresh pressed yeast and dry ones. When buying freshly pressed yeast, make sure that they do not have a sharp or offensive odor. Flour for making any kind of dough should be sifted - it will saturate it with oxygen, and also allow the dough to come faster and better. If you use baking powder, mix it with flour. But do not forget that its action quickly disappears, so when adding baking powder do not tighten with baking. As for apples, it is highly desirable to peel them, let alone remove the core. Do not be lazy, and a real masterpiece will soon appear on the table! Apple Pies - The Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Diet Apple Pies
The question of preserving the ideal parameters is of primary concern to the owners of the weaker sex. Often they are forced to deny themselves in many ways, so as not to spoil the figure. We offer you a dietary option for cooking apple pies, in which there is neither yeast, nor sugar, besides, they will be baked in the oven with the minimum amount of fat. But who said that from this pies will become less tasty? Not at all! So, let's begin!
Ingredients:
- a pack of margarine (medium fat)
- one and a half cup of kefir (fat content of 2.5 or 3.2%)
- one egg yolk
- soda on the tip of a spoon
- flour
- four apples (sweet variety)
Method of preparation:
1. Melt the margarine using a water bath. Add to it kefir, soda and yolk. Mix well. We sprinkle portions of the sifted flour to a state until a dense, soft lump forms, but it adheres well, that is, the dough should not be liquid and too tight. We pour it gradually so as not to miss the necessary consistency.
2. Next, the filling: clean the apples, remove the core and rub them on a coarse grater. For sweet tooth, you can add a little natural sweetener (for example, fructose). We begin to sculpt the pies (who knows how) in their traditional way. The main thing is tightly pinch the edges or seam.
3. Sprinkle baking tray, heat the oven. We put the apple pies on a baking sheet, grease them with melted butter or raw eggs and send the concoction to the oven. We bake on average about-gne for 20-30 minutes. Then we get, we grease with butter (margarine) and cover with a napkin. That's all! We eat on health!
Recipe 2: Apple pie made from yeast dough with cinnamon and raisins
The pies prepared according to the “grandmother's” recipe from yeast dough butter, of course, cannot be called a dietary dish. Ruddy crust, melting in the mouth the dough and tender filling of apples, cinnamon and raisins - what can be compared with a similar baking baking? Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour (4-5 stak.)
- milk (1 cup)
- 16 gr. dry yeast (1 sachet)
- 60 gr. fat margarine
- 5 table. l Sahara
- three eggs (one for smearing the surface)
- a pinch of salt
For filling:
- 500-600 gr. sweet apples
- to taste sugar
- floor table. l starch
- a handful of raisins
- vanilla sugar
- cinnamon
- optional nuts
Method of preparation:
1. Heat the milk (do not boil), add a pinch of salt and sugar (2 tbsp. L.), Pour in the yeast and gently mix everything. Remove the mixture in a warm place before the formation of foam. Next, melt the margarine in a water bath, cool and pour it into the yeast mixture. Beat two eggs with the remaining sugar (3 spoons) and also add to the yeast base. All mix with a whisk and begin to pour the sifted flour in portions, kneading soft dough. Then leave it in the pelvis, covered with a towel for 30-60 minutes. Dough is ready.
2. While the dough fits, prepare the apple filling. To do this, clean the apples, remove the core and cut into small cubes. Wash the raisins and leave to swell in hot water for 5-15 minutes. Apples mix with raisins, vanilla sugar, powdered sugar, starch and cinnamon. Optionally add ground peeled nuts. Stir.
3. So, the dough at our place “rested”, we begin to sculpt the patties in the usual way for you, laying the stuffing in the middle and pinching the seam well. Then you can go in two ways: either fry them in a frying pan, or bake in the oven, after pre-brushing the egg, at a temperature of 180C. In any case, our pies will turn out beautiful, fragrant and extremely tasty, especially with milk, cocoa or compote.
Recipe 3: Apple Pies with Puff Pastry
Puff pastry pies, of course, can be baked with the addition of any sweet or salty toppings. As a rule, they have an airy multi-layered structure that is crispy and simply melting in the mouth. Today we will conjure stuffed with apples. You can also combine them with other fruits (for example, with bananas) and dried fruits. Ready? Ingredients:
- 500 gr. puff pastry (purchased)
- 500 gr. apples (or 300 grams of apples and 200 grams of bananas) + optionally a handful of dried fruits, pre-soaked in hot water
- 10 gr. cinnamon
- lemon juice
- 159-200 gr. sugar (depending on the variety of apples)
- egg for lubrication
Method of preparation:
1. Clean the apples, finely chop them and sprinkle with lemon juice, also add cinnamon, sugar and other optional ingredients. Next, we add starch or let the filling settle and drain the juice.
2. Defreeze the dough, cut it into squares, on which we spread the filling. We pinch the edges and grease the patties on top of the egg. Send them to the oven (as frying puff pastry is not appropriate), preheated to 180C, and bake for 15 to 30 minutes. After that, we get and immediately serve with a cold drink.
Recipe 4: Apple pie made from cottage cheese dough
Cottage cheese, perhaps, goes well with apples to taste, so the filling of these fruits is ideal for cottage cheese dough.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. cottage cheese (medium fat)
- 80-100 gr. butter
- egg 1 pc.
- 1 table. l Sahara
- half tsp of baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 150 g flour
Filling:
- 2-3 apples
- a handful of raisins
- Spoon melted plums. oils
- vanillin
- to taste sugar
Method of preparation:
1. Curd wipe through a sieve. Then mix it with butter, sugar, salt and a slightly beaten egg. Pour the flour with baking powder and start the dough, soft in consistency. Put it aside for a few minutes.
2. While the dough is resting, let's clean up, cut (or rub) apples. Melt in a saucepan a little, add fruit, sugar and simmer the mixture until the liquid evaporates. Then mix it with vanilla and steamed raisins. Let the filling cool.
3. The dough has come, and the filling has cooled - it's time to start cooking cakes. We make them as usual (in the form of a boat or a month) and bake in a preheated oven, brushing the egg on top. Baking time - approximately 30 minutes. Next, we take out, cover with a towel for 10 minutes and savor cottage cheese pies with apples. Enjoy your meal!
Apple Pies - useful tips from experienced chefs
- Yeast dough for patties with apples is better allowed to rise twice, in some cases - and three times. This approach ensures excellent taste of the product and good uniform propekaemost;
- Milk for dough can be used not only fresh, but also soured. In addition, do not be afraid to add to the dough yogurt or kefir;
- It is the salt that contributes to the best approach of the test, so a pinch of salt will never be superfluous in baking;
- Lemon juice will give the filling not only an additional taste, but also prevent the brows from darkening;
- Before cooking the pies, the filling for the dough must necessarily cool down, otherwise the yeast fungus will die, and the baking will turn into a banal and completely unpresentable rubber.
