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’m not a fan of bananas, I just had to use a couple of bananas, some oatmeal and semolina. Adding a couple of spoons of cocoa and prunes, I had this recipe. The result pleased me). The pie turns out not cloying and moist. Sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar.
Dear cooks, I offer you an excellent pie, which is very popular in my family. Despite its large size, it never stays for long, disappears right before your eyes. The ingredients are measured in glasses, I have a glass with a volume of 200 ml. The volume of the glass, in principle, is not important, the main thing is to observe the proportions.
I saw a picture of this cake in a women’s magazine and couldn’t resist making it! There were some changes and additions on my part, but the result pleased me! I suggest you try an open pie with oatmeal, tender dough and a filling of baked mackerel, spinach and cottage cheese!
I want to offer an option that is not at all difficult to make from rye bread! Fragrant, ruddy, with a crispy crust! Kefir dough made of two types of flour – rye and wheat!
If you like chocolate and fluffy pancakes, then you will definitely like this recipe. Chocolate, velvet pancakes with sunken pieces of chocolate. In a frying pan, it turns out almost brownies, and with chocolate sauce, pancakes are full of chocolate flavor melting in your mouth. Insanely delicious chocolate dessert or second breakfast/afternoon tea.
I suggest you treat yourself to a piquant, bright, moderately sweet, fragrant biscotti with carrots and nuts! They will be a nice addition to a cup of coffee or tea!
