Sometimes one wants to please relatives and friends with delicious pastries, and there is so little free time.
In this case, the best solution would be to cook hearty kefir cakes fried in a pan.
For many, it is also a taste of childhood, when a caring grandmother baked delicious cakes with a golden crust along with warm milk.
Simple ingredients, fast cooking and an unforgettable taste!
To cook them, you do not need expensive products.
Everything you need is sure to be at hand. And cooking airy and tender cakes takes only half an hour of your time.
Kefir cakes are a hearty treat. They are served instead of bread for soup or as a dessert for tea. And with the filling, you can conduct any experiments.
General principles for the preparation of cakes on kefir in a pan
1. Knead the dough carefully so that it is of medium consistency, not too steep and soft. Otherwise, the cakes will be firm and dense, and with elastic dough, on the contrary, it is pleasant to melt in the mouth.
2. It is advisable to sift the flour so that it is saturated with oxygen, and the dough becomes more magnificent.
3. You can add vanillin - this will give the cakes a pleasant sweetish smell.
4. To get sweet cakes, you need to add sugar. And if the cakes go as bread, then salt.
5. You can start the tortillas with any filling: stew, chicken, crushed potatoes with fried onions, cottage cheese, stewed cabbage, vegetables, cheese or greens. You can just grease the tortilla inside with ketchup, mayonnaise or mustard - and the snack is ready.
Classic kefir cakes in a pan
Ingredients:
• flour - 2.5 cups;
• a glass of kefir;
• 3-4 g soda;
• salt;
• cheese mixture.
How to cook:
1. Add salt, soda to the flour and mix well.
2. In the middle we make a small depression and pour a glass of kefir into it, mix again. Knead the dough better with your hands. As necessary, add flour to obtain an elastic lump.
3. Send the dough to the refrigerator. While it is infused in a cold place, we begin to make a cheese mixture, with which we start tortillas.
4. For the filling, grate hard cheese and mix it with squeezed garlic.
5. Roll out the dough into a sausage and divide into equal parts.
6. Lubricate the hands with vegetable oil and begin to roll out the dough in the form of circles. Put the filling formed into a ball in the middle of the tortilla. We collect the edges of the dough up and pinch, slightly crushing. Gradually press down with your palm and shape the cakes.
7. Fry cakes in a pan without oil for 3-4 minutes on each side. At the end of cooking, coat with butter.
Kefir cakes with cheese and mushroom filling
Ingredients:
• a glass of kefir;
• salt, soda, sugar - a teaspoon;
• 2 cups of flour;
• cheese - 100 g;
• fresh champignons - 150 g.
How to cook:
1. In a deep bowl, mix a glass of kefir, salt and soda.
2. We begin to knead the dough, adding flour. The dough should be medium in consistency. Not soft, but not hard. Subsequently, remove the dough in a bag in the refrigerator for half an hour, so that it is infused.
3. Grate hard cheese, fry the mushrooms until cooked.
4. We divide the pastry into two parts, then into 4 more portioned slices. Roll out cakes 4-5 mm thick. Spread champignons in the middle, cheese on top. We close the other with one edge of the dough and roll out without damaging the structure of the cake so that the filling remains inside.
5. Pour a little vegetable oil into the pan. Fry on both sides until golden brown cakes are obtained. Ready cakes perfectly complement garlic sauce and fresh herbs.
Sweet kefir cakes in a pan for tea
Ingredients:
• egg;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
• salt and soda - 3-4 g;
• vanillin;
• rast.th oil - 30 ml;
• a quarter liter of kefir;
• 3 cups sifted flour.
How to cook:
1. In a deep bowl, break the egg, add sugar, soda, salt, vanillin and vegetable oil. Mix all the ingredients until smooth.
2. Pour kefir and continue to interfere. Add the sifted flour. Knead and leave in a plastic bag or plastic film for several hours in the refrigerator.
3. After some time, pour the flour onto the board and spread the dough. Knead a little more so that the dough does not stick to your hands.
4. At your discretion, divide the dough into the required number of cakes.
5. Pellets roll out an oblong shape. We make cuts and spread the cakes on a preheated pan. For 2-3 minutes, fry on each side over moderate heat.
Yogurt kefir cakes fried in a pan
Ingredients:
• kefir - 600 ml;
• 2 eggs;
• sugar - 50 g;
• 2 tsp dry yeast;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• flour - 1 kg.
How to cook:
1. Pour the yeast into a cup and pour 100 ml of kefir, add a teaspoon of sugar and 2 teaspoons of flour. We shake everything and leave it for 15 minutes until the foam appears.
2. In the resulting mixture, break the eggs, add sugar, salt and mix everything.
3. To knead the dough, make a depression in the flour and pour the yeast mixture with eggs and kefir into it. We begin to mix with a mixer. From above, add flour and knead as necessary. The dough will turn out quite liquid, but at the same time so that cakes are easily formed from it.
4. Cover the dough with cling film and send to a warm place. After half an hour, the dough will increase by 2 times, after which it is necessary to precipitate it, cover again and send to come up a second time. After another half hour, we can begin to form cakes.
5. Form cakes on a table sprinkled with flour. The dough bundle is divided into roundish pieces. It’s better to form flat cakes with your hands, before baking, shake the excess flour from the flat cakes and put them in a preheated pan. We fry on minimal heat with the lid closed so that the cake is baked. When the cake is sufficiently browned, turn it over to the second side and fry it without a lid.
6. If you lubricate the surface of the cake with butter or vegetable oil, this will make its crust softer and more beautiful, and the cake itself is mouth-watering and tasty.
7. You can cut the finished cake in half, make a longitudinal incision in it, grease the resulting deep pocket with mayonnaise, sauce and put sausage, meat or vegetables there.
Pies in a rustic way on kefir in a pan
Ingredients:
• kefir - 250 g;
• flour - 400 g;
• soda - 3-4 g;
• potatoes - 3-4 pieces;
• Adyghe cheese - 150 g;
• sweet cream butter - 30 g;
• seasonings for potatoes;
• salt and pepper.
How to cook:
1. Pour kefir into the flour, add salt and soda. Knead the dough, wrap in a film and leave in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
2. Potatoes should be boiled in salted water, then crushed with the addition of oil, salt, pepper and seasoning. Add grated Adyghe cheese to the mashed potatoes - the filling is ready.
3. Divide the dough into equal pieces, roll out cakes, the middle of which we start mashed with cheese. The edges of the cakes are collected in a "bag". The main thing is not to damage the integrity of the cake, so roll out without much effort.
4. Fry the cakes until cooked (about 3-4 minutes on each side over moderate heat).
Coconut Kefir Cakes
Ingredients:
• flour - 400 g;
• kefir - 250 ml;
• soda - 3 g;
• salt - 3 g;
• 2 eggs;
• coconut flakes - 4 tbsp. spoons.
How to cook:
1. Add kefir to the flour. We beat in 2 eggs, add salt, soda and mix. If it seems to you that the flour is not enough, you can add, but it is not recommended to over-tighten the dough. Add the coconut flakes and continue to combine the ingredients into a common mass.
2. Knead the dough on the table with the addition of flour. The dough should be slightly less steep than dumplings. Leave the dough to rest for half an hour.
3. After a while, we roll out the dough with a thin layer no more than a centimeter thick. Then, with a special or ordinary knife, we form rhombuses.
4. Fry the tortillas on both sides in sunflower oil. Fry in small batches.
5. Dumplings can be pre-greased with chocolate sauce by melting a chocolate bar with butter. Or garnish with icing sugar.
Cheese cakes
Ingredients:
• kefir - 300 g;
• salt;
• 3 g of soda;
• flour - 600 g;
• cheese;
• sausage;
• egg;
• garlic;
• spices;
• dill.
How to cook:
1. Mix kefir, salt, flour. Putting soda, kefir will start to foam, which means that the dough will rise during baking. Stir the mass with a whisk, then with your hands. Knead the dough until hard. Cover with cling film and leave to insist for 15-20 minutes.
2. Rub cheese, sausage. Add the egg, garlic and spices. Mix well and add dill. You can put whatever you want into the filling - this is your choice and your preference.
3. Divide the dough into equal slices and begin to form cakes. In the center of the tortillas we lay the filling and pinch the edges, giving the form of large dumplings. Roll the cake with a rolling pin. The diameter of the cake should correspond to the diameter of the pan.
4. The pan must be dry, without oil, preheated. Fry for 8-10 minutes under a closed lid, then turn over.
5. Lubricate the cakes with butter.
Ham flat cakes
Ingredients:
• kefir - 300 g;
• salt, sugar, soda - 1 teaspoon;
• ham (or sausages);
• flour - 500 g.
How to cook:
1. Add kefir, salt, sugar and soda quenched with vinegar to flour. Mix the resulting mixture. Grate cheese and ham, send them to the dough.
2. From the dough we make a ball and begin to roll. In the center of each cake we put the filling and roll out again.
3. Fry the cakes on medium heat for several minutes on each side.
4. Serve tortillas with sour cream and herbs. You can squeeze garlic into sour cream for piquancy.
Kefir cakes in a pan - useful tips and tricks
• It is recommended to lay ready cakes on a paper towel so that it absorbs excess fat.
• One of the secrets of kefir dough is the following: kefir, on the basis of which we make cakes, should be warm or at room temperature.
• Be sure to add soda - it will make the dough airy and magnificent.
• The dough needs rest, so leave it to stand in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.
• We roll cakes not thin, with a diameter of about 10-15 cm, depending on the size of your pan.
• Cakes can be fried without oil in a dry pan.
• To make the cakes more appetizing and soft, they should be greased with butter or vegetable oil.
• Serve cakes as an independent dish, or as bread.
It is impossible not to agree that the cakes cooked in a pan are much tastier than store bread. Kefir cakes go well with hot tea, milk, cocoa or coffee.
Cook with pleasure!
