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.
I suggest you try very interesting cupcakes without sugar and wheat flour, the idea of which I read in one of the blogs about healthy eating! Fragrant, rich, sweet and cute! They are made from oatmeal, pumpkin puree and dried fruits!
Long stuffed baguette – thanks to the spicy sauce and filling, it turns out very tasty, satisfying and flavorful. In a circle of friends, such yummy food will fly with a Bang.
Pie with apples and nuts, with the addition of rye flour. Fragrant, juicy, crumbly, fragile. Such a delicate and elegant at the same time simple and cozy. Delicious very! This pie is worth making. Try it!
Chvishtari-tortillas that are made from corn flour. Unlike mchadi, they have cheese in their composition. Chvishtari came to us from the region of Western Georgia, Megrelia, where corn flour is used in many dishes.
I suggest making quick, delicious and flavorful chocolate and coffee cupcakes with pear slices in paper cups. Cupcakes are airy, tender and juicy. They have a bright chocolate-coffee taste and aroma.
Brazilian cheese bread (Pao de Queijo) originated from African slaves who worked in the mining industry in Brazil. Common flour in that region was a rarity (and a luxury), so the local population began to work with cassava root. However, the product obtained from it is something between flour and starch (and closer to the second). There was no cheese then either, they did without it. But over time, life has improved, the number of products has increased and now Pao de Queijo is the business card of Brazil.
The other day I went to the vegetable store, and taaaam such an aroma of late autumn apples, like in an Apple orchard! This fragrance turned my head, I really wanted Apple pies, but I didn’t have time to do them, so I got an improvisation on the theme…
These cakes can be eaten instead of bread or served with tea. Tortillas are very complex and delicious. They can even be stuffed to your taste. Everything is easy and very tasty. Bon appetit.
You can’t just walk past the market and not buy anything. Again I took berries, this time blueberries, dried Rowan and rose hips. So this time I decided to make a cake with the taste of wild berries and the aroma of fragrant herbs. With a sponge cake on mineral water. The rich taste of berries and spices will be balanced with a delicate butter cream. The weather is bad-cold and wet. On the street only when necessary. So we will eat cake and imagine ourselves on a forest walk.
