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.
Bright, hearty pie! It includes kefir dough, spinach and a set of vegetables “Mexican mix” – green string beans, corn, green peas, sweet bell peppers and carrots!
The pie is excellent, no, not so – the pie is simply incomparable – tender, creamy dough, crispy, sweet steisel and apple filling – couldn’t resist? Then I invite you to a cup of tea with a piece of this pie! After all, there aren’t that many apple pies!
Here is a simple and delicious fish pie that will perfectly decorate the festive Easter table. When egg yolks are added to the dough, the dough acquires a very soft, delicate structure, a pleasant sweet taste.
Italian Easter cake is prepared with traditional spring greens and eggs. It can be nettle, chard, beet greens, spinach, green onions, sorrel. A mandatory component of the filling is cheese. Ricotta gives the filling a delicate texture, and parmesan has a piquant taste. In my version, I combined several recipes of this dish. Taking the shortbread dough as a basis, I moved a little away from the classic version with the Filo dough. But the stuffed version, in my opinion, is the most successful. It holds its shape perfectly, has a delicate taste and a light, airy texture.
Delicious puff triangles with cottage cheese and herbs are a great snack that is easy to prepare from the most affordable ingredients. In this case, we can easily help in the slow cooker.
You can cook with fish, minced meat or, like me, with sausage and bacon. The rest depends on availability. The dough turns out very tasty even without filling.
I love the beautiful design of any dishes and always watch with delight the work of others, I try to cook thematically myself, decorating and adding something interesting. For Easter gatherings, for example, I will bake such cakes.
Puffs for the Easter table, but hot??? Why not?! I can imagine how surprised the guests will be when they hear this from the hostess. But I think they’ll be happy to see them on the table. And such puffs will really decorate a picnic, it’s a pity, it’s impossible now… But believe me, everything will change for the better, we will gather more than once with family and friends in a clearing or by the river, and then you will treat them…
A budget cupcake with saturated additives at your discretion. For daily tea drinking or visiting. Colleagues will not refuse either, it has been verified. Shape-diameter 22 cm, cupcake height-5 cm