Kefir is a delicious, healthy product that is perfect for making dough for pies.
Moreover, baking from such a dough is very tender, soft and airy. For any kefir pies, absolutely any fillings are suitable: vegetable, meat, fish. But especially sweet pastries come out: pies with berries or fruits.
An excellent filling option will be fragrant sunny apricots. Thanks to their unobtrusive sweet cakes are not sugary, very tender. There are many recipes for apricot pies with kefir, but the principle of preparation is almost the same for everyone.
Kefir apricot pie - general principles of preparation
The simplest dough for apricots on kefir is jellied. It is prepared as simple as possible: all the ingredients indicated in the recipe are mixed, placed in a greased form, after which the cake is sent to the oven. But you can also tinker a bit and cook puff, yeast, semolina or honey dough, which, in principle, is also not so difficult.
Kefir for pie is suitable for any fat content, it does not have to be fresh, the main thing is that it is not sour. Also, the test includes mainly eggs, granulated sugar, soda and flour, in addition, margarine, sweet cream butter, and flavors such as cinnamon, vanillin can be added.
It is advisable to take apricots for pies fresh, without obvious signs of spoilage. Although you can use canned apricots, only in this case the fruits will need to be drained from the syrup so that the baking does not spread.
In addition to apricots, you can add other ingredients to the filling to your taste: nuts, poppy seeds, honey, dried fruits and fruits.
1. Homemade apricot pie with kefir
Ingredients:
• 350-400 grams of fresh apricots;
• 200 grams of kefir;
• 100 grams of margarine;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• a pound of flour;
• three eggs;
• soda;
• powdered sugar.
Cooking:
1. Rinse apricots, dry. Cut into two parts, take out the bones. Cut the halves into layers.
2. Melt margarine with a little heat on a fire or in a microwave, cool.
3. Beat the eggs with sugar until the mass becomes a tender pale yellow color.
4. Add melted margarine and kefir, mix thoroughly with a dipping blender or whisk.
5. Pour flour, stir until all flour lumps disappear.
6. Add slaked soda, whisk again.
7. Lubricate the baking dish, pour the dough, put the prepared apricots on top.
8. Bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes. You can determine the readiness of the product by the golden crust and dry toothpicks.
9. When the cake cools slightly right in the mold, gently remove it on a flat dish. Garnish with icing sugar as you wish.
2. Yeast cake with kefir apricots
Ingredients for the filling:
• kilogram of apricots;
• 5 tablespoons of sugar;
Ingredients for the dough:
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 160 ml of kefir;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 3.5 cups flour;
• 30 g of yeast in the briquette;
• a quarter pack of oil;
• two eggs;
• vanilla sugar.
Cooking:
1. Heat the milk, pour it into a bowl. Cut or crumble the yeast, put in milk.
2. Once the yeast has dispersed, add sugar and two to three tablespoons of flour. Whisk.
3. Cover the bowl with the yeast mass with a towel, leave for 20-30 minutes in a warm place.
4. After the allotted time, the volume of the mass should increase about one and a half times, then it is time to pour a slightly warm kefir.
5. Also add softened butter, beaten with vanilla and regular sugar eggs. Shuffle.
6. Continuing to stir or whisk the kefir mass gently, pour small amounts of flour into it. When it becomes impossible to stir with a spoon, pour out the remaining flour, knead the dough with your hands.
7. From the finished dough on kefir, form a ball, put it in a dry bowl, cover with a towel. Leave on for 1.5-2 hours.
8. Washed and dried apricots cut in half, remove the seeds. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
9. Mix apricots with granulated sugar.
10. Divide the approached dough into two parts, make one more, another less.
11. Roll out most of the formation, line them with a greased baking sheet, making the sides.
12. Put the apricot filling, cover the pie with a second layer, pinch the edges.
13. Put the cake in the heat for half an hour, then bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes.
14. Grease the finished pie with apricots on kefir with melted butter, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
3. Pie with apricots and apples on kefir
Ingredients for the filling:
• 400 grams of apricots;
• two sweet apples;
• 1/2 cup sugar;
Ingredients for the dough:
• 200 ml of kefir;
• half a glass of sugar;
• egg;
• two glasses of a bitch;
• 250 grams of margarine;
• soda.
Cooking:
1. For the filling, you will need to thoroughly rinse and dry the apricots and apples. For apples, cut the skin, cut the core. For apricots, remove the seeds.
2. Grate the fruit on a coarse grater or cut into small cubes. Mix the workpiece with sugar. To prevent apples from darkening, they can be sprinkled with lemon juice.
3. For the test, mix kefir with soda in a large bowl, let the mixture brew for 15 minutes.
4. Add pre-melted and chilled margarine, sugar beaten egg, and flour.
5. Knead soft, flexible dough. Put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
6. Roll out the slightly hardened dough with a round-shaped layer, place it on a greased baking sheet. Make sides in 2-3 cm.
7. Distribute the prepared filling into the dough, level it.
8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake the cake for 20 minutes.
9. Ready cake can be decorated as you wish: dried and crushed apricot nuts, chocolate chips, icing sugar.
4. Pie with apricots and nuts on kefir
Ingredients for the filling:
• kilogram of apricots;
• a glass of walnuts;
• two eggs;
• 100 grams of honey;
• a teaspoon of starch.
Ingredients for the dough:
• 400 ml of kefir;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• 120 ml of vegetable oil;
• two eggs;
• about a kilogram of flour;
• a tablespoon of baking powder.
Cooking:
1. Thoroughly mix sugar with eggs, pour kefir, add flour and baking powder. Knead the dough.
2. Pour vegetable oil into an almost ready-made dough, knead until the dough becomes elastic and pliable.
3. Lightly roll out the dough with a rolling pin, then place in a greased form. Spread the dough on the bottom and slightly on the sides with your hands.
4. Cut the apricot pulp into small cubes, put on the dough.
5. Send the apricots pie on kefir for 15 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees.
6. While the product is setting, crush the kernels of nuts, fry them to a characteristic smell.
7. Beat eggs with honey and starch, mix this mixture with the cooled nuts.
8. Pour the nut-and-honey mixture on the cake, soak in the oven for another 30 minutes.
9. Cool the cake directly in the pan, then carefully remove and cut.
5. Semolina pie with apricots on kefir
Ingredients:
• a pound of apricots;
• 150 grams of semolina;
• 280 ml of kefir;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 200 grams of margarine;
• a glass of flour;
• egg;
• a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking:
1. Pour semolina into a bowl, pour it with kefir, mix. Let the mass stand for 20 minutes to swell semolina.
2. Pound sugar with eggs, mix with melted and chilled margarine. Beat the mixture until sugar is dissolved.
3. Pour the egg mass into the swollen semolina, add baking powder and flour. Knead not liquid and not thick dough. Its consistency should be average, approximately as on pancakes.
4. Lubricate the mold with butter, sprinkle a little bottom with semolina.
5. Rinse the apricots, remove the seeds in any convenient way.
6. Spread the apricots on the bottom evenly.
7. Pour apricots with semolina dough on kefir. From above, stick small pieces of butter in several places.
8. Bake the product for about 30-40 minutes in an oven warmed up to 180 degrees. Check readiness with a toothpick, it should remain dry.
6. Honey-poppy seed cake with kefir apricots
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of apricots;
• 100 ml of kefir;
• 20 grams of poppy seeds;
• 100 grams of liquid honey;
• two eggs;
• soda;
• one and a half to two glasses of flour.
Cooking:
1. Pour poppy seeds in a bowl, pour cool boiling water for 20 minutes. Half a glass is enough. Put the swollen poppy on a fine sieve, let the water drain.
2. Pour kefir into a deep bowl in which you will stir the dough. Put soda, mix.
3. Beat whisk eggs with sugar, add honey first, then kefir with soda, after poppy. Shake well.
4. Add flour to the mass, put not all at once, but with spoons, so that there are no lumps left.
5. Rinse the apricots, remove the seeds. Cut the flesh into thin slices or small cubes as you like.
6. Mix apricots with kefir dough.
7. Bake the cake in oiled form for 40 minutes, preheating the oven to 170 degrees.
8. The same cake can be baked in a slow cooker. You will need to pour the dough into a greased bowl, it cooks in the "Baking" mode for one hour.
Pie with apricots on kefir - tricks, tips
• To make the dough lush, before making the pie you should warm up the kefir a little.
• Sugar whipped whites will also add airiness to the cake.
• It is better to sift flour before kneading.
• It is best to cool the cake directly in the mold, then it will be easy to take it out.
• In any of the above recipes, kefir can be replaced with yogurt, fermented baked milk or natural yogurt.
• Pie with apricots on kefir is tasty in both cold and hot.
