According to the canons of healthy eating, dried fruits and nuts are the most useful delicacy: they are as high in calories as chocolate and sweets, but they are valuable to the body and, if taken care of, do not harm the figure. There are a lot of successful combinations of such products, but one of the most famous, used for desserts and savory snacks, is a tandem of walnuts and prunes. What dishes can you cook with it and how to do it correctly?
A sweet delicacy that will be appropriate on a children's table, in the diet of a losing weight person, and even will benefit male and female health - prunes with walnuts and cream. Most of the homemade desserts are a variation of this recipe: only the type of cream changes (custard, chocolate, sour cream, cream, condensed milk) and the composition of the filling - add to the chopped nuts:
A tasty dish starts with quality products, so make sure that nuts, if purchased not in shells, are devoid of an unpleasant (rancid) odor, and that there are no ugly stains on dried fruits. A few more important nuances:
There are a lot of options for combining products for this sweet tandem: you can make a dessert for which you can prepare a delicate cream (the simplest option is prunes with walnuts in sour cream), or add a few more fruits, berries or dried fruits and get a salad that is seasoned with yogurt. Prepare a chocolate icing - and you are one step away from homemade sweets, and if you use cottage cheese, cheese, herbs, spices, a piquant snack will be born.
The simplest homemade delicacy that can only be thought of in the absence of time and the absence of exotic products is dried fruits with nut filling under sour cream. Be sure to use very fatty thick sour cream (from 25%), since liquid dietary sour cream does not whip well, does not hold its shape, and instead of neat caps, you will have a spread sauce. Granulated sugar for the cream is not worth taking, since large granules do not completely dissolve in sour cream.
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If you have time or just don't feel like using too easy recipes, try adding variety to the above: make a custard to decorate your dessert. It consists of milk, butter, egg yolks and sugar. For flavor, this recipe specifies vanilla (pod), which can be replaced with vanilla essence, and cornstarch acts as a thickener.
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A simple and familiar delicacy from childhood memories in the form of dried fruits stuffed with nuts, is served not only with sour cream: you can make the dessert even sweeter using condensed milk. The easiest recipe is a modification of the one discussed above, where sour cream was used, and the more interesting one is with a multicomponent filling. Condensed milk will play a central role, but gelatin, heavy cream and sugar will join it. It will not be possible to resist such a culinary masterpiece, especially for children with a sweet tooth!
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Prunes with walnuts in cream are not always just a sweet dessert: take a little boiled or stewed chicken (you can replace with any meat or mushrooms), add soft cheese - a hearty snack will appear in front of you. It becomes juicy due to stewing in cream sauce (liquid, 20%). If you do not like the spiciness in the appetizers, do not use the pepper indicated in the recipe.
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Dried fruits, toasted nuts and cheese cubes - can you think of a more delicious snack? Even simply laid out on a wooden board and served with wine or strong coffee, these products are amazingly perceived together even by the most picky gourmets. You can enhance the effect if you collect them into a single dish: fill soft, steamed prunes with a nut-cheese mixture. Any kind of cheese is suitable here - from well-aged Parmesan to processed cheese, but most chefs advise using hard varieties: Dutch, Swiss.
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Unsweetened dishes based on a prune-nut mixture can be made not only with cheese, as it was in the previous recipe: cottage cheese is also perfect for this purpose. Choose pressed in briquettes (or ricotta), as it already has a uniform soft consistency and is guaranteed to hold its shape. If grain was purchased, you will need to rub it through a sieve or scroll it in a blender. It is desirable that the fat content of cottage cheese for such a snack starts at 9%: dry is more difficult to "mold", it crumbles. The mayonnaise mentioned in this recipe can be replaced with 20% sour cream.
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Looking for the perfect dessert for a kids' party table or want to indulge your favorite sweet tooth on a weekday? Try an unusual combination of roasted nuts, delicate vanilla marshmallows, sweet banana and light whipped cream. Gastronomic pleasure is guaranteed! The dessert will become even more attractive if you replace the marshmallows with small marshmallows, which are marked "for coffee": they are not cut. Be sure to serve the delicacy in tall narrow glass bowls: due to the layered structure, there is no need to decorate the dessert additionally.
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All dried fruits acquire special softness if they are not simply treated with boiling water, but boiled. Some housewives advise doing this in the form (dry red is ideal), where you can add spices: it will turn out very fragrant. This technique is an ideal choice for making a dessert with dark chocolate icing. It is served in small glass bowls.
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If you strictly control the quality of each product that ends up on your plate and try not to buy factory-made products, you should learn how to cook candies yourself. The process is not as difficult as it looks from the outside. The easiest option is to melt the purchased chocolate, pour the dried fruits stuffed with nut mass (crush the kernels, mix with honey) with it, and cool, but you can completely exclude store sweets. Chocolate icing is easy to make at home with cocoa butter.
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Ideas for decorating and serving such desserts can be spied on photos of culinary magazines: even simple products can be used to create a great confectionery composition. There you can also find several valuable recommendations from professionals:
Cooking time - 90 minutes
Servings - 10
Required Ingredients:
For dessert
For a snack
The recipe for prunes stuffed with walnuts has been known since Soviet times. It was a frequent dish on New Year's tables and served as a snack. This is a delicious and incredibly healthy treat. By itself, prunes are rich in many useful substances, and in combination with walnuts, its benefits increase several times.
Before preparing this dish, you need to carefully consider the choice of prunes. It should be black and have a sweet, slightly sour taste. In no case should the dried fruit be bitter. If the fruit has a brown tint, this means that it has already been blanched, and fewer vitamins have been preserved in it.
If you have prunes with pits, then you need to rinse it, fill it with hot, but not boiling, water and leave for about 1 hour. After that, dry the fruits with a paper towel and make one neat longitudinal cut on the side with a sharp knife. We take out the bone through it.
Now let's get down to stuffing. We clean the nuts from the shell so that the kernels are whole. We choose only high quality nuts, not blackened, without mold. After that, fry them a little in a dry frying pan and, cooled down, fill each dried fruit. If possible, we connect the edges of the prune cut.
And finally, the sauce. Using a mixer, beat sour cream or chilled cream with sugar and vanilla until stable peaks are formed. To prevent the cream from settling, sugar must be introduced gradually, in a thin stream, without stopping whipping.
To bring a more piquant taste to the dish, you can stew prunes stuffed with walnuts in wine. To do this, put the stuffed dried fruit in a small enamel saucepan. Then we boil the syrup from water and sugar, with which we pour the prunes. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Fill with wine, remove from heat and cool the dish.
When the prunes have cooled down, put them on one large dish or in portions in bowls. Now pour each fruit beautifully with whipped sour cream or cream and sprinkle with grated chocolate on top. Garnish the finished dish with fresh mint leaves.
However, prunes can be served not only as a sweet dessert, but also as an unusual appetizer. To do this, the dried fruit is stuffed with walnuts mixed with cheese and garlic. The filling is prepared very simply. Grind walnuts and mix them with finely grated cheese and garlic, passed through a press. We fill the mass with mayonnaise, stir thoroughly and stuff the prunes with it. We leave the finished dish in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, decorate with parsley leaves and serve.
Prunes are dried fruits made from dark varieties of plums. The product retains the vitamins contained in a ripe fruit, making dishes from it tasty, aromatic and healthy. Can you make a spicy snack from a sweet dried fruit? How to stuff prunes properly? What products can it be combined with? Photos and recipes for making stuffed prunes are given in the article.
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Prunes 500 grams Sour cream 30% fat 250 grams Walnuts 300 grams Milk chocolate 1 tile Sugar 0 stack
This dish is a frequenter of the New Year and Christmas, it is moderately sweet, has a pleasant creamy taste. To prepare dessert, you will need pitted dried fruit.
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Wash dried fruits, cover with warm water and leave to soak for 15–20 minutes, fry the nuts. Then drain the water from the dried plums and dry it on a towel. While the prunes are drying, prepare a creamy sauce by whisking sour cream and sugar with a mixer.
Melt the chocolate in a water bath, preventing it from boiling. Then stuff the prunes with nuts. Lay the dish in layers in a deep bowl - first prunes, then a layer of sauce, and so on until the end.
Top with slightly cooled chocolate, sprinkle with chopped nuts and refrigerate for 12 hours.
The sweetness of dried fruit in the dish is accentuated by the pungency of garlic and the creamy taste of cheese. To prepare a snack you will need:
Rinse dried fruits, then place in hot water for 5-10 minutes, drain the liquid. Fry the nuts, then chop finely and pour into a cup.
Grate cheese and garlic, combine with nuts and two tablespoons of sour cream, mix. You can add salt and pepper to the filling to taste.
Stuff the prunes tightly and place on a flat plate. Separately prepare the sauce from sour cream and fresh herbs. To do this, chop the dill, parsley, chop the onion and mix with sour cream, transfer the sauce to the bowls.
In this recipe, hard cheese can be replaced with mozzarella or cottage cheese, which will make the taste even softer. If you are allergic to nuts, they can be removed from the recipe.
To understand how to stuff prunes, the video posted at the end of the article will help. To fill one prune, use a small spoon or put the filling inside with your finger. It is important not to damage the thin skin, otherwise the dish will lose its presentable appearance.
Prunes are a versatile dried fruit; they are used to prepare meat and vegetable dishes, desserts and snacks. Stuffing each prune is a long process, but easy to perform. Even a novice culinary specialist can cope with the preparation of dried fruit with a filling.
Found in many dishes, salads, snacks. From this duo, you can cook a lot of delicious things and not only desserts. Let's try?
For stuffing, choose large pitted prunes. Usually, dried fruits are soaked for a while so that they soften and increase in size. Then the main product needs to be squeezed out, dried, filled with filling.
Ways of stuffing prunes:
1. The hole through which the bone was taken out is stretched with a finger, stuffed inside with a filling.
2. From the side of the hole, make small cuts with a sharp knife, stuff the prunes with the filling with the top, dried fruits look like small "barrels".
3. The prunes are cut into two parts, but not until the very end. Put the filling inside. Prunes look like ajar mussel shells.
Sometimes a piece of nut is simply thrust into prunes, and sauces or cream are poured on top. The method of stuffing depends on the selected recipe, the desired amount of filling, the size of the prunes.
Kernels for the filling are used whole or chopped, crushed into crumbs. They are often mixed with other products: cheese, eggs, garlic, cottage cheese, herbs. Improves the taste of the spice. Meat products, mushrooms, chicken can be added to the filling, but in small quantities. In desserts, creams based on sour cream and whipped cream are used, sugar, vanilla are added to sauces, other fruits can be used.
Recipe for a savory prune appetizer stuffed with walnuts and garlic. The pungency can be adjusted to your taste by adding more garlic, pepper.
Ingredients
200 g of prunes;
150 g of nuts;
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
2 cloves of garlic;
2-3, dill sprigs;
Salt pepper.
Preparation
1. Fill the prunes with water, but not for long. We take the liquid at room temperature or cold. Otherwise, the dried fruit will become limp.
2. As soon as the prunes become soft, the water can be drained, put the fruit on a napkin, let it dry.
3. Grind the nuts into small crumbs, grind the garlic and herbs.
4. We connect everything, season with mayonnaise (you can take sour cream), salt and pepper to your liking.
5. Fill prunes with cooked minced meat, put them on a plate, decorate with herbs. You can serve the appetizer right away, but it is better to let it brew a little in the refrigerator, one hour is enough.
A delicious and healthy dessert recipe that you must try! You can use sour cream of any fat content, but it is better not to take an overly liquid product.
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150 g prunes;
70 g of nuts;
200 ml sour cream;
80 g sugar;
1 pinch of vanilla
Preparation
1. Soak prunes for 20 minutes. If it is too hard, then leave it in the water for an hour.
2. Take out, wring out.
3. Insert a piece of walnut into each piece. Chop the rest into crumbs, leave aside.
4. Beat the sour cream with sugar, throw in vanillin for flavor, but this is not necessary.
5. Fill the prunes with sour cream, stir gently, leave in the refrigerator for an hour.
6. Put the dessert into portioned bowls. Pour sour cream from the bottom.
7. Sprinkle the rest of the nuts on top and serve!
Recipe for prunes stuffed with walnuts, garlic and any cheese. You can take a solid or processed product, in this case, adjust the amount of mayonnaise.
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150 g prunes;
2 cloves of garlic;
50 g of nuts;
150 g of cheese;
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
Some greenery.
Preparation
1. Place the prunes in water.
2. Rub the cheese finely into a bowl. You can grind the garlic with it right away.
3. Dry the walnuts in a skillet and grind them too. Can be chopped with a knife or crushed. Combine with cheese.
4. Add mayonnaise, stir. You can salt, pepper, add other seasonings.
5. Optionally, put chopped greens in the filling or leave it for decoration.
6. Remove the prunes from the water. Cut the hole slightly to make the filling fit more.
7. We fill the dried fruits with cheese mass.
8. It remains only to beautifully arrange the "shells" on a platter, decorate with herbs and you can send the filling to the table!
Another way to make a dessert with sour cream and stuffed prunes. The dish differs in technology and taste.
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500 g sour cream;
300 g prunes;
3 tablespoons of sugar;
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1. In a colander you need to lay a thin cotton cloth, put sour cream on it and leave for 4 hours. During this time, the whey will drain, the mass will turn out to be thick.
2. Add sugar, vanilla to the strained sour cream, stir.
3. Soak the prunes.
4. Put the nuts on a plate, dry them in the microwave or fry them in a skillet. Cool it down.
5. We take one prune in our hands, stretch the inner cavity with our finger, fill it with sour cream.
6. Stick in a piece of walnut. It is possible and more, we look at the size of the prunes and the amount of cream.
7. Transfer to a plate. Stuff all the prunes in the same way.
A variant of the curd filling for stuffing prunes. Choose a quality product with a fat content of at least 9%, in this case the dish will turn out to be delicate and creamy. The amount of sour cream is regulated depending on the moisture content of the curd.
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200 g of cottage cheese;
2 cloves of garlic;
1.5 tablespoons of nuts;
2-3 sprigs of parsley;
Sour cream.
Preparation
1. Chop nuts, you can pre-fry them. Grind the greens.
2. Pour prunes with water for soaking.
3. Beat the cottage cheese with sour cream until smooth, add the garlic. You can put everything in a blender and grind at the same time.
4. Add greens with nuts, salt and taste. For pungency, add pepper or mustard.
5. Take out the softened prunes, make small cuts, fill with the prepared curd mass.
6. Put on a dish with herbs, serve.
Another recipe for an amazing dessert, which should be allowed to brew for at least one hour. The simplest vanilla marshmallow is used, there should not be any additives in it. Even small prunes can be used for this dessert.
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150 g prunes;
4 marshmallows;
200 g sour cream;
1 spoon of sugar;
50 g of nuts.
Preparation
1. Fill the prunes with warm water, leave for half an hour. We take out, squeeze out. Can be blotted with paper towels.
2. Put a piece of walnut into each prune.
3. Mix sour cream with sugar, pour over prunes, leave for an hour.
4. Cut the marshmallows into cubes. To prevent the knife from sticking, we periodically moisten the blade with cold water.
5. Cut the banana into pieces, mix with marshmallows, put on the bottom of small bowls or salad bowls.
6. Put prunes on top. We distribute between all portions.
7. Pour the rest of the sour cream with sugar on top.
8. For decoration, you can use chopped nuts or slices of banana. Coconut flakes go well with this dessert.
For minced meat, you need a small piece of chicken breast. You can take an already boiled product or part of a baked poultry.
Ingredients
Prunes;
100 g of chicken;
2 cloves of garlic;
50 g of nuts;
A little dill.
Preparation
1. Cut the boiled chicken into cubes, put it in a blender.
2. Add nuts and garlic, spread half of the sour cream.
3. Beat the mass until smooth, evaluate the consistency, add sour cream if necessary.
4. Put chopped greens, stir.
5. Make cuts in the soaked prunes.
6. Fill dried fruit with cooked pate, put it on a plate, decorate it to your taste.
Recipe for an amazing dessert for adults. The dish is prepared in the oven in pots, it can be used cold and warm. Red wine is used, it will also be delicious with a rose drink.
Ingredients
500 g of prunes;
2 tablespoons of sugar;
200 ml of wine;
50 g butter;
150 g of nuts.
Preparation
1. For this dish, the prunes are poured with warm water, kept for half an hour.
2. Fill the prepared fruit with nuts. If more than one fits, then boldly stick it in.
3. Mix the wine with granulated sugar.
4. Put the stuffed prunes in a pot.
5. Fill with sweetened wine. More sugar can be added if desired.
6. Throw butter on top, no need to melt it beforehand.
7. Close the pot with a lid, put it in the oven. Cooking for 40 minutes at 170 degrees.
8. Before serving, cool the dessert until warm or completely cool it down. Can be served with cream, ice cream balls.
The filling will be tastier and more aromatic if the nuts are fried. You don't have to use a frying pan. This can be done quickly and easily in the microwave. Only the nucleoli need to be monitored, they can burn out at any time.
If the prunes are caught with seeds, then they must be steamed before extraction. It will be easier to remove the bone, the hole will be more accurate.
If you need to quickly chop nuts, you can pour the kernels onto a cutting board, roll with a rolling pin with pressure.
Keeps on sharing with you recipes for delicious holiday dishes. Baked pork with barberry. And today we will start with snacks, original holiday snacks will decorate the table and accentuate the taste of the aperitif. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of prunes stuffed with cheese and nuts. Cheese balls with almonds. Ham bells with cheese salad.
I was preparing stuffed prunes for the first time, I love the smoked taste of prunes and I thought that in combination with cheese and nuts for champagne, this is a snack!
I will say that it is very tasty !!! The guests grinded a new snack from the festive table right away, and the husband really liked it, the sister suggested the recipe, thanks to her! Prunes with hard cheese and a delicate taste of cashew nuts for champagne are just a delight !!!
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Prunes
Hard cheese
Garlic - 1-2 teeth.
Mayonnaise
Cashew nuts (any)
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I don't write the number of ingredients, I did everything "by eye". I chose cashews, for my taste they fit in the most harmoniously, the delicate taste of cashews does not clog the aroma and taste of the rest of the ingredients. According to the recipe, you can take any nuts: walnuts, almonds, peanuts - the taste of the snack will turn out to be original. Prunes should be of high quality, pitted. You can take any hard cheese, but ideally Parmesan.
I washed the prunes thoroughly in warm water and left them so that the moisture would go away and the dried fruits would dry out.
I filled the prunes with the cheese mass in half, put in a nut and cheese again.
The original prune appetizer is ready! Bon Appetit!
Another interesting festive cheese snack for those who are not very fond of prunes.
Required Ingredients:
Hard cheese
Almonds (roasted)
Garlic - 1-2 teeth.
Mayonnaise
Dill greens
Feed skewers
Recipe
Grate hard cheese on a fine grater, add garlic crushed through a press and a little mayonnaise. Roll a ball, place fried almonds in the middle, lightly grease with mayonnaise on top and roll in finely chopped parsley. Place the cheese balls in the refrigerator to harden.
Required Ingredients:
Ham
Processed cheese
Egg
Carrot
Garlic
Mayonnaise
Salt, black pepper
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Hard boil the egg. Boil the carrots. Grate cheese, carrots, egg and garlic, season with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste.
Cut the ham into thin slices. Roll a bell out of a slice of ham and secure with a toothpick. Fill with cheese filling. You can put a spoonful of filling on a slice of ham and just roll it up, put on a plate with the seam down.