The dough can be of different types: yeast, puff pastry, biscuit, shortbread, cottage cheese, pastry, unleavened, simple, etc. Before you prepare the dough, decide what you need: they all differ in technology and cooking time, the composition of products and the type of dishes for which they are intended. For example, for fried pies, the usual dough without yeast is suitable, for buns – butter, for pies – any of the above, including unleavened, if it is unsweetened pastries.
For a well-prepared dough at home, concentrate on choosing the right flour. For dishes that require pomp, lightness and lightness, flour of the highest grade is necessary. For those that are simpler, the first or second grade is suitable. Wheat flour is used more often in baking, but recently housewives like to combine it with other types or even replace it with rye, corn, oatmeal – due to lower calorie content and higher digestibility.
Also, you should always sift the flour twice, even if you are cooking something simple like tacos tortillas or lasagna sheets. This is a necessary habit for a good cook. Also, all dry ingredients are mixed with each other, then all mixed wet ingredients are added to them. This can happen the other way around, it all depends on what a specific test recipe requires at home. Mixing is carried out in small portions, gradually. With this approach, the dough is saturated evenly, there are no lumps.
Always knead the dough clockwise, collecting it from the edges to the center. This will greatly simplify the cooking process. Roll out the rolling pin, if it is required, sprinkle with flour, the same with a table or board. If you knead with your hands, lubricate them with vegetable oil – the dough will not stick. The airiness of the dough is given by yeast, soda and baking powder. Soda can be extinguished in any acidic liquid: vinegar, lemon juice, kefir – this will save your baking from an unpleasant soda taste.
Briam is a vegetable stew baked with feta. I brought the recipe for this stew from Greece a few years ago, since then I have been cooking regularly. This time I decided to experiment and put it to the test. The result exceeded all my expectations! Very harmonious, delicious and bright in spring! The dough turns out crispy and soft, the vegetables are juicy and rich, feta gives the dish a zest. The dish turns out to be quite low-calorie and healthy. The dough is in vegetable oil, instead of cream, and the filling consists of almost the same vegetables.
Suggest another recipe using puff pastry. The galette turns out delicious (however, like any pastry made from this dough), and the filling is juicy! Highly recommended!
Insanely delicious biscuits made of lean dough, in my case – with apple and onion filling! This biscuit has a lot of advantages: a minimal set of products, the absence of butter and eggs, it is very pleasant and convenient to work with the dough, and of course – an incredible number of filling options!
I saw these biscuits on the cover of a magazine and couldn’t resist! The magazine was bought, and, slightly changing the recipe, we made these biscuits for breakfast. Very tasty and beautiful pastries turned out, ruddy cookies with cottage cheese and fruit – like the sun on a cloudy morning. Replacing part of the flour with oat bran, we add more benefits to our diet, but it is important to remember – flour / tasty / sweet is eaten in the morning))) By the way, figs are rarely found, pears can be replaced with cinnamon, nectarine or plum.
Galetta, the dough for which is prepared on kefir. A tender, very tasty and real dish, from which the dough turned out just fine, even if you didn’t put a drop of oil in it. Try to cook.
I looked through the recipes of galette, but I did not meet this, basically the recipe for the flour-butter-ice water dough, I have a different recipe, so I decided to offer it to your court. Our family loves this kind of biscuits with different fillings, sweet and with cabbage. This option is summer – the cherry in baking is a little bland, so I added apples and freshly frozen cherries – it turned out very juicy and delicious in combination with a crispy and tender base.
