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.
A variant of open buns in the form of Christmas trees. However, the New Year’s holiday is with us!!! Cook to your taste, I’ve been wanting to throw out marshmallows for a long time, and I did it. I suggest you, on occasion, prepare such a funny decoration for dessert! On these Christmas trees you CAN HIDE LITTLE spells for good luck or quotes!!!
In the festive bustle, as usual, there is not enough time. And so I want to surprise my loved ones with something unusual. I offer a recipe for mini-pies made from ready-made puff pastry – fast, beautiful and delicious.
I have a visiting mother who is fasting. I wanted to please her with delicious pastries. The combination of caramel and spices makes a simple banana cake Christmas.
Very pleasant-tasting cupcakes with a pronounced orange flavor, moist inside. It’s nice to please yourself in the morning with homemade cupcakes — fresh, natural products that smell wonderfully of orange.
Mexican buns. Simple ingredients. Easy to prepare. Stored for a long time. And there are as many options of dishes with them as you want… Oh-ho-ho! The only negative was quickly eaten. It can be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator or freezer.
It so happened that I needed a Mexican tortilla, there was no one in the shops nearby. But if I have decided, then definitely. And now an absolutely wonderful tortilla recipe appeared on the Internet, and after 40 minutes I was holding her in my arms and was quite happy and proud of myself! So there are no hopeless situations! Who really believes you here!
Famous Mexican tortillas according to the recipe of the chef of the Mexican restaurant “Amigo Miguel”. Tortillas are the basis of many Mexican dishes. Traditionally, they are baked on an open fire in flat clay pans, and we will do it on a simple one.
