The shape and decoration of the cake - a matter of taste and imagination
Cakes baked in almost all countries of the world. One smell who are concerned cake is already creating a sense of comfort in the home and is able to reconcile the quarreling household. They are good, and as a separate dish, and as an extra. There are festive and from a large number of ingredients, and the daily, which is often served instead of bread, from a simple test.
If you forgot to buy bread, and the furnace was not able to go to the store and do not have time, then you have a very tart rescue. Especially as baking bread takes a lot of time, but to bake a cake in a hurry quickly, and very ordinary soup and cake instead of bread can become a festive dinner. After all, home-made pies and loved by children and adults, and bake them not every day.
Cakes made with various fillings, but there are few products from which you can make the pie and sweet and salty. Cabbage - this is such a product.
It is known since prehistoric times, growing everywhere. Due to its beneficial properties that have been seen in ancient times, cabbage and used as a medicine and as a cosmetic. It helps cabbage in lean years: it is unpretentious and autumn rains that can ruin the harvest other vegetables, will not cause her any harm. Cabbage is low-calorie, so the cakes with it easily enough, but at the same time give a sense of satiety. They are good and cold and hot. And for breakfast, and for lunch and for dinner a piece of cake with cabbage is perfect for almost any dish.
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Filling different types and taste
Pies with cabbage has long been loved and popular in almost all countries where it grows cabbage, and never get bored, because you can prepare the filling of different kind and taste.
To prepare the filling is better to choose winter varieties of cabbage, white and succulent leaves rather than fiber and green.
You can add a bit of cabbage stuffed mushrooms - cabbage and mushrooms are perfectly combined. To prepare the cake the size of a round pan, you will need about 1 kg of raw cabbage, and for a large pie - 2 kg.
With onions and carrots - for any test
This is the traditional filling. For its preparation you need in a small amount of vegetable oil to fry the chopped onion until transparent, add grated on a coarse grater carrots and stew for 1-2 minutes. Then add the shredded cabbage and simmer until tender. Number of onions and carrots everyone can put to your liking - who he loves.
With green onions - for lovers of greenery
In a small amount of oil or butter should be shredded cabbage stew, salt it and add finely chopped green onions. That cabbage is good for filling the open, and closed, and crisp, and the filler, and yeast cake. Those who love carrots, cabbage can be put into pre-fried for 1-2 minutes grated carrot. This filling will look very nice on the cut of the pie.
With boiled eggs - traditional
The combination of cabbage and boiled eggs - one of the traditional and has a wonderful taste. By filling this can only add a little onion. In addition, the eggs will add satiety cabbage stuffing.
To prepare this stuffing need to fry shredded cabbage in a small amount of butter until tender, or first fill it with boiling water for 5 minutes, discard in a colander and then boil for some time with butter (those who love onions can first fry it until transparent, and then add the cabbage). Then add the chopped cabbage eggs and salt to taste. What lay eggs, a matter of taste.
With cheeses eggs - soft and comfortable
Lightly beaten eggs are added to the cabbage stuffing and satiety, and to ensure that they are sealed together the pieces of cabbage and they are not falling out of the pie when biting. You can add them to any cabbage stuffing, except for filling with boiled eggs - they are there redundant. If you wish (or when enough eggs) when whipping, you can add a little milk to the eggs. 1 kg of cabbage need to add 2-3 eggs, beaten.
Sauerkraut - and sweet and salty
Stuffed sauerkraut can be made sweet and salty. To do this, squeeze the sauerkraut, pour into the pan a little vegetable oil and fry until transparent chopped onion, then add the squeezed cabbage and simmer it until tender. Simmer need, uncovered, to evaporate excess liquid. In the finished cabbage can add sugar and black pepper - a combination of sweet, spicy and sour tastes very juicy. To enhance the spice can be added to extinguish a little white wine.
Cauliflower - diet
Many people who are on a diet, ordinary cabbage can not be there. In order not to deny yourself the pleasure to eat the cake, it can be done with color. Cabbage must first boil in salted water and boil for some time in a frying pan or skillet with a small amount of water or milk. Then discard in a colander to glass excess fluid. When putting salt not be added - such stuffing and without it has an intense flavor.
From raw cabbage - for crumbly cake
The young need to finely chop the cabbage and salt to taste. If cabbage is young, it is necessary to add salt, peremyat hands and let stand in order to make it soft. You can add herbs and spices to taste. This is very good for stuffing crumbly cake, the test of which is oil. Crumbly cake stuffed with raw cabbage get less fat.
From boiled cabbage - an ancient recipe
This is perhaps one of the oldest recipes for cabbage filling. Besides cabbage and butter, which emphasizes its flavor and gives it a creamy color, it does not include. To prepare a stuffing cabbage coarsely chopped needed, removing the thick edges of the leaves and boil portions in boiling water for 5-7 minutes, then laying in a colander. When the drain excess fluid, you need to further squeeze the cabbage, put it in a pan with melted butter, stew 3-5 minutes and add salt to taste. The color of this filling should remain white. For the preparation of 1 kg of cabbage need to take 200 grams of butter.
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Dough on yogurt - tender and tasty
On yogurt can be prepared in various types of test: and without yeast, and yeast, and a thick and liquid, and crumbly. Kefir adds any test of tenderness and splendor. All these types of tests are ideal for cabbage filling. A combination of a filling and dough to choose depends on your personal preferences and tastes of your family and guests.
In the preparation of any test, it is important to remember that it can be made more or less fancy. It depends on the number of eggs, butter and sugar. If it turns out that you do not have the amount of eggs and butter, which is specified in the recipe, replace these ingredients equal volume of yogurt. In addition, do not forget that the meal is different in quality, so it often happens that it requires a little more or a little less than that specified in the recipe.
We need to be guided on the consistency of the dough, and if it is watery or stick to your hands, you need to add flour. Any dough can be when cooking add a tablespoon of vodka or cognac - then finished cake will not only by air, but will remain soft after cooling. Depending on your taste and availability of products on hand to cook you can choose any dough:
Liquid - good for a quick filler cake. From this test often make pancakes. To make it, you need to take 1 egg, add a pinch of salt and 1 tbsp. spoonful of sugar, beat with a fork, add ½ cup of yogurt, stir, add a cup of sifted flour through a sieve with a slide mixed with ½ tsp. baking soda, mix well and add ½ cup of yogurt. Yogurt is added in two stages so that the dough obtained without lumps. The finished dough should be the consistency like thick cream.
Yeast butter - it can be done with the brew, and without it. When preparing dough with yeast brew mixed with a small amount of water or milk sugar and a small amount of flour to produce a liquid batter. Give sponge like, then adding the remaining ingredients and the remaining amount of flour. When the dough is kneaded bezoparnym method immediately. When kneading dough all products should be slightly warm. Yeast (20 g fresh) to dissolve in a small amount of warm water, add a glass of warm yogurt, 1 egg, a pinch of salt, 1 tbsp. spoonful of sugar, 0, 5 kg of flour and knead the dough. Then the dough vmese 100 g softened butter. The finished dough should not stick to hands. Then you need to cover the dough with a clean towel and leave it for 40 minutes in a warm place to come it.
Yeast simple - it can be done only from yogurt, flour, yeast and salt. It is necessary to dissolve the yeast in a glass of warm yogurt, add salt, 2 cups of flour and knead the dough. It can be left, covering with a towel, it is to come, and can be formed of a cake once.
Unleavened dough - quickly. Fast cooking sometimes makes the dough is indispensable. We must beat 2 eggs, add 1 cup of yogurt, ½ tsp. Salt 3 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil or melted butter, 2 cups flour, mixed with ½ tsp. baking soda and knead the dough.
Loose - for a celebratory cake. Friability this test gives butter. We must beat 1 egg, add 1 tbsp. spoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt, 150 grams of butter or margarine 1-2 cups flour, ½ tsp. baking soda and knead the dough. With one cup of flour to get the dough filler cake, and if you knead the dough with two cups of flour, then it will be possible to do vertuty and pie.
In mayonnaise - test consists of eggs and vegetable oil. Therefore, we can do it in a mixture of mayonnaise and yogurt without adding butter and eggs.
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The shape and decoration of the cake - a matter of taste and imagination
Pies cook a wide variety of shapes and forms: both open and closed, and twisted (vertuty and pie), and flood. All they are tasty and beautiful, but closed pie is easy to handle and take on the road. Be sure to give anyone before baking the cake to stand for 15-20 minutes in a warm place. Closed pie before baking should be lubricated with beaten egg or egg yolk to form a nice crust. Selecting a suitable dough and filling to taste, you can make the cake of any type and form:
Outdoor - done quickly and easily. In the form to pour the batter, put the filling to give rasstoyatsya and bake. When the top of the cake zapechetsya, it needs to be lubricated with beaten egg or egg yolk.
Closed - a traditional form of pie. Make it a little more difficult than the open, but this cake is easy to handle. To make it, you need to lay out a form or on a baking two-thirds of the test, then the filling, roll the rest of the dough, stuffing her close, fasten the lower part of the test with the top. Coat the cake with beaten egg or egg yolk. If the egg is not, it is possible to lubricate and strong sweet tea.
Priming - a cake made from batter quickly. First, in the form of poured half of the dough, then spread the filling and pour the remaining batter.
Twisted - vertuty and pie. They are usually made from leavened dough or crumbly. To prepare the pie need to roll the dough thick 0, 5 mm, put him stuffing, roll up roll, put on a baking sheet, and bake to rasstoyatsya. To prepare the dough vertuty need to roll out a little thinner and ready to roll with a stuffing screw the spiral, giving the cake a round shape. Little vertuty can fry on both sides in a frying pan in a little vegetable oil.
On the pan - this is probably the fastest Kefir pie. It is convenient to cook for breakfast, especially if you have the evening left a small amount of cabbage - per serving, and you need to cook breakfast for two or three. If cabbage with tomato or tomatoes, the pie will be even more beautiful. Prepared stuffing should be put on the hot pan and pour the batter is the consistency a little thicker than a pancake, but a little more liquid than pancakes, stir gently and cook, covered over low heat for 5-7 minutes. Then, cut into 4 pieces, each piece to flip to the other side with two blades or vanes and a spoon and fry for another 5-7 minutes. In such a cold pie it is even tastier.
Pancake - a combination of slightly sweetish cabbage and tender pancakes yogurt gives a great result. This dish is perfect for breakfast, and for dinner and the festive table - it is not only delicious, but also smart looks, and cut altogether resembles a cake. First you need to bake pancakes. To do this, beat 5 eggs, add 0, 5 liters of yogurt, salt, baking soda, 3-4 tablespoons. tablespoons vegetable oil and knead the dough as pancakes, and then add 0.5 liters of yogurt, stir and bake pancakes on hot skillet. Ready to shift the cabbage pancakes stuffed with whipped raw eggs and bake for 15-20 minutes. Crepes can be baked in advance, and when the time comes to breakfast or dinner, quickly bake the cake. It will taste better in the form of heat.
If you have baked a cake, it is worth spending a minute or two on its decoration. Decoration takes very little time and cause a lot of pleasant emotions. If you make the filling with carrots, green onions, boiled eggs or mushrooms, leave a small handful of these products for decoration.
