Kefir is a tasty, healthy product that is perfectly suitable for preparing dough for pies.
Moreover, pastries from this dough are very tender, soft and airy. Absolutely any fillings are suitable for kefir pies: vegetable, meat, fish. But sweet pastry is especially delicious: pies with berries or fruits.
An excellent option for filling will be fragrant sunny apricots. Thanks to their unobtrusive sweetness, the pies are not cloying, very tender. There are a lot of recipes for apricot cakes on kefir, but almost everyone has the same principle of cooking.
Pie with apricots on kefir - general principles of cooking
The simplest dough for a cake with apricots on kefir is aspic. It is easy to prepare: all the ingredients listed in the recipe are mixed, placed in a greased form, after the cake is sent to the oven. But you can also tinker a bit and make puff pastry, yeast, semolina or honey dough, which, in principle, is also not so difficult.
Kefir for the cake will suit any fat content, it does not have to be the freshest, the main thing is that it is not sour. Also in the dough include mainly eggs, sugar, soda and flour, in addition, can add margarine, sweet butter, and flavorings such as cinnamon, vanillin.
Apricots for pies, it is desirable to take fresh, with no obvious signs of damage. Although it is possible to use canned apricots, only in this case it will be necessary to drain the fruit from the syrup so that the baking does not spread.
In addition to apricots, you can add other ingredients to taste: nuts, poppy seeds, honey, dried fruits and fruits.
1. Homemade apricot pie on yogurt
Ingredients:
• 350-400 grams of fresh apricots;
• 200 grams of kefir;
• 100 grams of margarine;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• a pound of flour;
• three eggs;
• soda;
• powdered sugar.
Cooking:
1. Rinse and dry apricots. Cut into two pieces, remove the bones. Cut the halves into pieces. 2. Melt with a little heat on the fire or in a microwave oven margarine, cool.
3. Beat the eggs together with the sugar until the mass is tender pale yellow.
4. Add melted margarine and kefir, mix thoroughly with an immersion blender or a whisk.
5. Pour the flour, stir until all the flour lumps disappear.
6. Add slaked soda, whisk again.
7. Grease the baking dish, pour the dough, put the prepared apricots on top.
8. Bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes. You can determine the readiness of the product by a golden crust and a dry toothpick.
9. When the cake has cooled slightly right in shape, gently remove it to a flat dish. Decorate at will with powdered sugar.
2. Yeast tart with apricots on kefir
Ingredients for the filling:
• kilogram of apricots;
• 5 tablespoons of sugar;
Dough Ingredients:
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 160 ml of kefir;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 3.5 cups flour;
• 30 g of yeast in the briquette;
• a quarter pack of oil;
• two eggs;
• vanilla sugar.
Cooking:
1. Heat the milk, pour it into a bowl. Cut or chop the yeast, put in milk.
2. As soon as the yeast disperses, add sugar and two or three tablespoons of flour. Beat up.
3. Cover the bowl with yeast mass with a towel, leave for 20-30 minutes in a warm place.
4. After the allotted time, the volume of the mass should increase by approximately one and a half times, which means that it is time to pour in slightly warm kefir.
5. Also add softened butter, whipped eggs with vanilla and regular sugar. Stir.
6. Continuing to mix or whisk the kefir mass with a whisk, pour the flour in small portions into it. When it becomes impossible to interfere with the spoon, pour out the remaining flour, knead the dough with your hands.
7. From the finished dough on kefir form a ball, put it in a dry bowl, cover with a towel. Leave for 1.5-2 hours.
8. Cut the washed and dried apricots in half, remove the bones. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
9. Mix the apricots with sugar. 10. Divide the dough into two parts, one to make more, the other smaller.
11. Roll out most of the layer, line them with a greased baking sheet, making the sides.
12. Put the apricot filling, cover the cake with a second layer, pinch the edges.
13. Put the cake in heat for half an hour, then bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes.
14. Smear the finished cake with apricots on kefir with melted butter, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
3. Pie with apricots and apples on kefir
Ingredients for the filling:
• 400 grams of apricots;
• two sweet apples;
• 1/2 cup sugar;
Dough Ingredients:
• 200 ml of kefir;
• half a cup of sugar;
• egg;
• two glasses of a bitch;
• 250 grams of margarine;
• soda.
Cooking:
1. For the filling, you will need to thoroughly wash and dry apricots and apples. In apples, cut off the skin, cut out the core. In apricots, remove the bones.
2. Grate the fruit on a coarse grater or cut into small cubes. Mix the preparation with sugar. So that the apples do not darken, they can be sprinkled with lemon juice.
3. For the dough, mix the kefir with soda in a large bowl, let the mixture stand for 15 minutes.
4. Add the pre-melted and chilled margarine, egg, beaten with sugar, and flour.
5. Knead soft, elastic dough. Put it in a refrigerator for a couple of hours.
6. Roll out the slightly hardened dough with a round-shaped layer, put it on a greased baking sheet. Make the sides in 2-3 cm.
7. Distribute the prepared filling over the dough, level it.
8. Heat the oven to 200 degrees, bake the cake for 20 minutes.
9. The finished cake can be decorated as desired: dried and crushed apricot nuts, chocolate chips, powdered sugar.
4. Pie with apricots and nuts on kefir
Ingredients for the filling:
• kilogram of apricots;
• a glass of walnuts;
• two eggs;
• 100 grams of honey;
• teaspoon of starch.
Dough Ingredients:
• 400 ml of kefir;
• a glass of sugar;
• 120 ml of vegetable oil; • two eggs;
• about a kilogram of flour;
• A tablespoon of baking powder.
Cooking:
1. Thoroughly mix the sugar with the eggs, pour kefir, enter the flour and baking powder. Knead the dough.
2. In the already almost ready dough, add vegetable oil, knead until the dough becomes elastic and pliable.
3. Slightly roll out the dough with a rolling pin, then place in a greased form. Spread the dough on the bottom and slightly on the sides with your hands.
4. Pulp apricots cut into small cubes, put on the dough.
5. Send the apricot pie to the kefir for 15 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees.
6. While the product is setting, crush the kernels of nuts, fry them to the characteristic smell.
7. Beat the eggs with honey and starch, mix this mixture with the cooled nuts.
8. Pour over the nut-honey mixture cake, soak in the oven for another 30 minutes.
9. Cool the cake right in the baking sheet, then carefully remove and cut.
5. Semolina pie with apricots on yogurt
Ingredients:
• a pound of apricots;
• 150 grams of semolina;
• 280 ml of kefir;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 200 grams of margarine;
• a glass of flour;
• egg;
• a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking:
1. Pour the semolina in a bowl, pour it with kefir, mix. Let the mass stand for 20 minutes to make the semolina swollen.
2. Spread sugar with eggs, mix with melted and cooled margarine. Beat the mass until the sugar has dissolved.
3. Pour the egg mass into the swollen semolina, add baking powder and flour. Knead not liquid and not thick dough. Its consistence should be average, approximately as on pancakes.
4. Grease the form with butter, sprinkle a little bottom with semolina.
5. Rinse apricots, remove the bones in any convenient way.
6. Lay apricots on the bottom evenly.
7. Fill apricots with manna dough on kefir. On top, stick in several places small pieces of butter.
8. Bake the product for about 30-40 minutes in a heated oven to 180 degrees. Readiness check with a toothpick, it should remain dry.
6. Honey poppy pie with apricots on yogurt
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of apricots;
• 100 ml of kefir;
• 20 grams of poppy seeds;
• 100 grams of liquid honey;
• two eggs;
• soda;
• one and a half to two glasses of flour.
Cooking:
1. Sprinkle the poppy in a bowl, cover with boiling water for 20 minutes. Half a cup is enough. Put the swollen poppy on a fine sieve, let the water drain.
2. Pour the kefir into a deep bowl in which you will stir the dough. Put soda, mix.
3. Whisk eggs with sugar, add honey first, then kefir with soda, after poppy seeds. Shake well.
4. Add flour to the mass, put not all at once, but spoons so that there are no lumps left.
5. Wash the apricots, remove the bones. Cut the flesh into thin plates or small cubes as you like.
6. Mix apricots with kefir dough.
7. Bake the cake in the oiled form for 40 minutes, heating the oven to 170 degrees.
8. The same cake can be baked in a slow cooker. You will need to pour the dough into a greased bowl, it is prepared in “Baking” mode for one hour.
Apricot Kefir Pie - Tricks, Tips
• To make the dough lush, before cooking the cake, you should warm up the kefir a little.
• Squirrels whipped with sugar will also give lightness to the cake.
• It is better to sift the flour before kneading.
• It is best to cool the cake directly in the form, then it will be easy to take it out.
• In any of the above recipe kefir can be replaced with yogurt, ryazhenka or natural yogurt.
• Pie with apricots on kefir is delicious both cold and hot.
