Kefir dough apple pies are remarkable for their simplicity, nevertheless, when cooked correctly, they are juicy, and apple juice, impregnating the air dough, creates the effect of a juicy biscuit in one case, decorates pumpkin filling in the other, or shades the taste of poppy seeds in Makovei .
As for the kefir dough, in the proposed recipes it attracts with pastry and splendor, and although such pies are usually eaten “with the heat”, nevertheless, a piece of the cake left under a linen napkin will remain for several days, almost without losing its original taste.
Kefir pie with apples - the basic principles of preparation
• Kefir pies with apples are sweet pastries and therefore, in addition to kefir, eggs, granulated sugar, fats - vegetable oil, margarine or sufficiently fat butter are added to the dough.
• Add honey and semolina to the dough for manna and honey cake with apples baked on kefir.
• In order for the pies to rise well and turn out to be magnificent, kefir or flour is mixed with cultivators: baking soda or a special baking powder.
• In the yeast dough for pies with apples on kefir, as the name implies, put the yeast, which is dissolved in a little warm milk, and only then mix with kefir and other ingredients.
• Apples can be used as a filling with other products: nuts, honey, poppy seeds, fruits, as well as pumpkin or added to the dough in crushed form.
• Whatever kind of pie on yogurt with apples - bulk, yeast, puff, honey or mannich would not order your homemade dessert for you, you can safely take it for anyone. All of them are relatively simple, affordable and, most importantly, deliciously tasty.
Kefir pie with apples - "Home"
Ingredients:
• 200 ml low-fat kefir;
• 360 grams of sugar;
• half a pack of margarine;
• three eggs;
• 500 grams of wheat flour;
• baking soda - 0.5 tsp;
• two large apples;
• powdered sugar for decoration.
Cooking method:
1. On a little heat, dissolve the margarine, remove from heat and leave to cool.
2. Beat eggs with sugar until a homogeneous white mass is obtained. Pour all the kefir at once, add the margarine and again thoroughly beat.
3. Do not stop whipping, pour all the flour. When no flour lumps remain in the dough, add baking soda in half a tablespoon of vinegar and whisk again. Do not whisk for too long, finish, as soon as air bubbles begin to appear on the surface of the dough.
4. Lubricate a small baking sheet with low sides with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it. On top lay thin plates of apples without skin.
5. Bake the product until cooked by placing it in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Check the readiness of the cake by piercing it with a wooden stick or a toothpick. If the stick remains dry after a puncture, then you can get it. Once the cake has cooled slightly, decorate it with icing sugar, shaking it in a small sieve.
Kefir Pie with Apples - "Apple Delight"
Ingredients
To the filling:
• 7-9 medium-sized apples;
• three tables. tablespoons of brown sugar;
• powdered sugar - 50 grams;
• two tables. tablespoons of 72% butter;
In the dough:
• 3-3.5 Art. wheat flour;
• 90 grams of granulated sugar (half a cup);
• 150 ml of kefir;
• pasteurized milk - 100 ml;
• two chicken eggs;
• 30 gr. fresh spirit yeast;
• 50 gr. frozen oil;
• 2 grams of vanilla sugar.
Cooking method:
1. In a slightly warmed milk, dissolve the yeast broken into crumbs, you can replace the pressed yeast with quick-acting, dry (12 grams). Add granulated sugar and a couple of tablespoons of flour, beat well with a fork, you can whisk. Cover the container with the yeast mixture with a linen napkin and leave it warm.
2. Twenty minutes later, when the surface begins to bubble and the mixture increases in volume by about one and a half times, enter warm kefir. To warm up the kefir, put the packet laid out from the refrigerator enough for a quarter of an hour into warm water.
3. Add vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla and beat thoroughly with the remaining sugar.
4. Gently stirring with a spoon, begin to add flour in small portions. When the dough starts to become sufficiently dense, add the remaining flour and knead it well with your hands. Form a ball from the dough, wrap it with a linen napkin and keep warm for about two hours.
5. Half each apple along, peel and cut the center with the seed box. Put the apples on a dry frying pan with the slice down, pour 2-3 tablespoons of some water and lower them slightly under the lid (five minutes). Set aside to cool in a colander.
6. Put the completely cooled apples on a large flat dish with the round side up and sprinkle with brown sugar, instead of sugar you can take liquid honey and pour it over it.
7. Roll out the dough that has come up with a layer one centimeter thick and cut out large circles with a diameter of about 10 cm.
8. Line a medium-sized round baking dish with a parchment greased with oil. Fill the dough with apples as follows: a circle of dough, half an apple placed on the edge, again a circle of dough and an apple again. The result should be a semblance of a children's pyramid laid on its side, where the halves of apples with “cakes” of yeast dough alternate successively.
9. Remove the workpiece, covering it with a cloth towel, in the heat for half an hour, and then bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes.
10. Pour the hot cake on top with the melted butter over the fire, and after about seven minutes, when the butter is absorbed, lightly sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Kefir pie with apples - "The sun under the cloud"
Ingredients
In the dough:
• fat-free kefir - 200 ml;
• 1/2 cup refined;
• baking soda - 0.5 tsp;
• 250 grams of “Capital” margarine;
• one egg;
• two glasses of baking flour.
To the filling:
• 300 grams of apples of the Semerenko variety;
• 450 grams of ripe, orange pumpkin;
• sugar - 180 grams;
• two eggs.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare the filling for the pie. Mix the peeled apples grated into a coarse grater with pumpkin pulp chopped in the same way. Add the yolks mixed with sugar (90 g) from two eggs and mix thoroughly again.
2. To prepare the dough, first mix soda and kefir and let stand for twenty minutes. After that add well-chilled margarine melted on the stove, sugar with an egg with a spatter and fork, and flour. Knead a soft, non-sticky, elastic dough and put it in the cold for an hour and a half.
3. Roll out the dough in a circle slightly larger than the frypot and transfer to it. When distributing the dough on the bottom, make a border of three-centimeter sides.
4. Put the filling, smooth it with a spoon, put in the oven and bake at 200 degrees for twenty minutes.
5. While the workpiece is baked, beat the sufficiently meringue out of the remaining granulated sugar (90 g) and protein.
6. Pour the meringue cake removed from the oven. On the surface with the back of a spoon soaked in water, apply a chaotic pattern and remove the cake back to bake for ten minutes.
Kefir Pie with Apples - "Apple Grill"
Ingredients
In the dough:
• two glasses of kefir (400 ml);
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• a full glass of sugar;
• 800-900 grams of baking white flour;
• ripper for the test - 2 tsp;
• 100 ml of vegetable refined oil.
To the filling:
• walnut kernels - 1 cup;
• two chicken eggs;
• starch - a teaspoon;
• a kilogram of sweet-sour apples;
• 120 grams (4 tbsp. L.) Honey.
Cooking method:
1. Whisk, mix eggs with sugar, pour kefir and beat again. Gradually adding, introduce the flour sifted together with a cultivator, and knead the dough.
2. Make a small depression in the dough into which refined oil is poured and continue to knead until the oil is absorbed and the dough regains good elasticity.
3. Roll the kneaded dough a little with a rolling pin into a rectangular layer and transfer it to a roasting pan, which is pre-lubricated with oil.
4. Slightly stretch the dough with your hands, all over the baking sheet, slightly raising it to the sides and pressing it to them.
5. Put the apples carefully sliced into thin slices (slices) according to the dough and send the cake for 15 minutes to the oven at 200 degrees.
6. While the cake is baking, break the nut kernels into pieces, add the eggs beaten with starch to them, pour the honey melted in a water bath and stir the mixture well.
7. Pour the honey cake taken out of the oven with honey mixture and put it back for another half hour.
8. Cover the cake pan with a towel and leave to cool.
Kefir pie with apples
Ingredients:
• three medium sweet apples;
• semolina - 160 grams;
• one raw egg;
• 300 ml of low-fat kefir;
• creamy margarine - 200 grams;
• 5 grams of baking powder for dough;
• 180 grams of sugar (glass);
• one glass of flour.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the semolina with kefir and let it stand for 20 minutes so that it swells well.
2. In the chilled melted margarine, add granulated sugar and the eggs ground in it and beat the mixture well with a whisk, beat until the sugar crystals dissolve completely.
3. Pour the butter into the swollen semolina, and add the flour sifted with baking powder. Stir well with a whisk, knead the batter.
4. Slightly softened margarine or butter, so that there are no missing places, grease the bottom and sides of the mold well and sprinkle them with white breadcrumbs. Shake off the crackers that do not stick to the fat, turning the form upside down.
5. Lay out small pieces of apples on the bottom of the mold, and fill them with the prepared dough, and put a few squares of butter on top, so that the top of the pie is well browned during baking.
6. Bake the cake for at least 40 minutes, checking after a specified time the readiness for a toothpick piercing. Finish if necessary.
Kefir pie with apples - apple-honey "Macovei" in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• one and a half glasses of flour;
• 90 grams of light honey, liquid;
• two eggs;
• 100 ml of kefir;
• two tablespoons of poppy seeds;
• baking soda;
• two small sour apples.
Cooking method:
1. Steam the poppy for a quarter of an hour in half a glass of boiling water. Throw it on a sieve and wait until all the water from the poppy leaves.
2. Kefir mix with soda (a teaspoon) and let pass the reaction.
3. In lush foam, use a kitchen processor, beat eggs with sugar. Enter honey, pour in kefir and stir until smooth.
4. Add the flour, all at once, and stir well again. There should be no flour lumps in the test.
5. Stir the dough with poppy seeds and chopped apples into small slices. Pour the mixture into the multicooker bowl, liberally greased with melted butter and slightly sprinkled with semolina.
6. Put the slow cooker in the “Baking” mode for one hour, close the lid and start the start.
7. Remove the cake from the multicooker and refrigerate.
Kefir puff pastry with apples
Ingredients:
• 0.5 cup yogurt or kefir, 3.2%;
• 2 fresh eggs;
• White, premium flour - 70 gr., Plus 50 gr. separately;
• baking powder - a teaspoon;
• 70 grams of sugar in the dough and separately 1 tbsp. l .;
• a small pinch of salt;
• butter, 72% butter - 50 grams;
• apples - 8 ripe fruits;
• cinnamon.
Cooking method:
1. Break the eggs, add 70 grams of sugar, salt to them, and beat to a fluffy hat with a mixer at medium speed.
2. Without changing the speed and without ceasing to beat, pour the kefir into the egg mixture. Pour in gradually, in a continuous thin stream.
3. Add flour with baking powder and mix well into a uniform, thick mass with a whisk.
4. Cold, slightly frostbitten, grate the butter with large chips. Rub it thoroughly with a spoonful of granulated sugar and flour until medium-sized crumbs are obtained.
5. Cut the apples into thin, medium-sized slices, after peeling them off the peel and removing the middle.
6. Lubricate the small form with plenty of margarine, sprinkle with flour and lay in it in layers: a thin layer of dough sprinkled with butter and flour crumbs, then apples, which are also sprinkled with crumbs, again the dough, crumbs, apples, crumbs, etc. Sprinkle the top of the pie the remaining baby.
7. Bake the cake for at least forty minutes, at 220 degrees. Do not remove the cake from the mold immediately after removing it from the oven, wait until it has completely cooled.
Kefir pie with apples - tricks and tips
• The apples in the pie will not darken if they are slightly moistened with lemon juice after chopping.
• If you take too sour apples for the filling, increase the amount of sugar in the dough and, accordingly, flour.
• To make kefir dough better rise, be sure to sift the flour, you can even do it more than once, and add soda directly to kefir and keep it a little.
• Semolina, added to the dough for pies with kefir with apples, be sure to soak in kefir until it swells, the cake will not be “sticky” and heavy.
• Checking the filling cake for readiness, note that when piercing it, you can get into a piece of apple and then the cake can be overexposed in the oven.
