Fragrant Ossetian cakes with cheese and herbs is a dish that will not leave anyone indifferent. Only those who have never tried them can afford not to love these cakes. The main secret of Ossetian cakes is that they are fried in a dry frying pan, without adding oil. The basis is kefir, which makes them very tender. You can cook Ossetian cakes with any filling, this recipe presents a variant with hard cheese. Also, very tasty cakes are made with cottage cheese and greens, or simply with several types of greens, for example, cilantro, dill and green onions. What is important, it is very easy to cope with the preparation of this dish, since the technology does not require a professional culinary skill - the main thing is to have a desire!
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Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 50 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Output: 10 pieces
So let's get started!
Pour kefir at room temperature, two pinches of salt and half a teaspoon of soda into a deep bowl. Mix well. We add flour. It is better to add flour in half a glass. Knead elastic dough. You can stop when the dough stops sticking to your hands. Dust it with a little flour and set it aside for now.
We twist the cheese through a meat grinder or three it on a coarse grater, whichever is more convenient for you.
Grate two cloves of garlic on a fine grater.
Finely chop the dill.
Now mix cheese, garlic and dill in one container and mix well. If desired, you can add a little ground pepper.
Now back to our test. We tear off a small piece and roll it out on a table sprinkled with flour. In the middle we put about one tablespoon of the filling and close the cake, moving its edges to the center, thus forming an uneven lump. Then we turn the “seams” down and try to roll out our cake as thin as possible, but do not tear it, because when frying, the cheese will melt and flow into the pan.
Fried tortillas with cheese and greens are a simple, tasty and easy-to-prepare dish that will appeal to the whole family. Cooked on kefir, with the addition of pickled cheese and fresh herbs, the cakes are soft, fragrant and very delicate in taste. Hearty, ruddy and appetizing both hot and cold, tortillas with cheese and greens will be an excellent breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack during the day. Try it!
Prepare the ingredients for making fried tortillas with cheese and herbs.
In a bowl, combine kefir, sugar, salt and soda.
If desired, add melted butter and mix well. The dough for tortillas can be prepared without adding oil, but with it the tortillas will turn out to be even more delicate in taste.
Gradually add the sifted wheat flour.
Mix the ingredients, and adding flour as needed, knead a smooth, soft, elastic dough.
Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes. Then form the dough into a ball, place in a bowl, cover with a damp towel and leave for 25-30 minutes.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Any cheese is suitable for making tortillas with cheese and herbs in a pan, but I like to use pickled cheese (homemade feta cheese, suluguni) most of all - the tortillas taste almost like.
Finely chop fresh herbs. I add mint leaves (4-5 medium-sized stalks), but you can also use any fragrant fresh herbs that you can find around the house. The amount of greens in the filling can and should be adjusted to your taste.
To the grated cheese, add 1-2 pinches of salt (if the cheese is not salty), chopped fresh herbs and 1-3 tablespoons of kefir.
Mix well. Kefir will slightly moisten the filling and combine all its components.
Punch down the rested dough and divide into 6 pieces. Roll each piece of dough into a ball.
If necessary, adding flour to the work surface, roll out the first part of the dough to a thickness of about 0.5-1 centimeter.
Add a portion of the prepared filling.
And pinch the edges of the dough around the filling to make a kind of "pouch". Sprinkle the dough joint with a pinch of flour.
Then turn over and carefully flatten the cake to the desired thickness, pressing the palm of your hand against the surface of the table. If desired, you can roll out the cake with a rolling pin to the desired diameter. Repeat the procedure with the remaining filling and dough.
Fry the prepared cakes over medium heat, in a dry frying pan, covered with a lid, for 3-4 minutes on each side.
To make a hole for steam to escape, pierce the tortillas in several places with a fork.
Transfer the pan-fried tortillas with cheese and herbs to a plate and brush with butter. For a while, while you are frying the remaining blanks, you can cover the already prepared cakes with a plate or lid and wrap them with a towel so that they remain warm.
Cakes with cheese and herbs are ready! Bon Appetit!
Sometimes you need to cook something quickly for breakfast, or take a snack with you to work. Help out cheese cakes. They cook quickly, very tasty, nutritious. There are different recipes and ways to prepare them, which can be found below.
Kefir should be warm. It is poured into a bowl and salt, soda, sugar are put in it, mixed and left for five minutes.
At the next stage, cheese is grated, which is added to kefir, flour is also placed there. Knead the dough first with a spoon, and then do it with your hands. From the resulting mass you need to make five cakes. Fry them on both sides. The food is ready.
Advice! To quickly turn the cake over without breaking it, it is convenient to use a lid from a frying pan or do it with two spatulas.
It is no secret that fried foods are not very useful for the body - they are more high in calories and can adversely affect the digestive system. It is much better to bake cheese cakes in the oven.
Pour flour into a bowl, put salt and butter, previously softened, a quarter of a glass of cheese, mustard, milk. Knead the dough. It gets soft. You need to let it stand for 10 minutes, then roll out cakes 2 cm thick. From this volume, 12 forms are obtained. Put them on a greased baking sheet, sprinkle with cheese on top, put them in the oven to bake for 20 minutes.
Quick cakes in 15 minutes will be a real find for moms who care about a varied breakfast for children and the whole family, as well as for lovers of simple, tasty and quick recipes.
All components are thoroughly mixed. First, cottage cheese, greens, cheese, eggs, milk, then flour is added there. Cakes roll from the dough. Baked on a greased pan. First, one side is baked, then it should be turned over and brought to readiness.
Put sour cream with butter, salt and sugar in a bowl and mix. In small portions, add flour, make a dough.
Now we need to work on the filling. Mix boiled, cooled, peeled eggs with grated cheese, mayonnaise, garlic.
Divide the dough into four parts. Roll out in a thin layer. Spread the filling evenly. Pinch like a cheburek, then you need to pick up the dough a little from the edges and pinch again. The stuffing should be inside. Make a flat cake with the palms of a round shape, roll it out to fit the size of the pan. Fry in a dry frying pan on both sides. Do the same with other cakes.
On a note. These cakes are very tasty with milk or aromatic tea. Immediately after baking, you can grease with oil. It is better to eat while the products are hot.
Cheese cakes on kefir with ham will be a hearty breakfast or a snack on the road.
Sugar, soda, salt put in kefir, stir. Sprinkle flour and make dough. For the filling, chop the ham. Divide the dough into pieces. Make balls, squeeze a recess into them, put the filling, seal. Roll out cakes and bake.
Salt, grated cheese, soda, dill should be put in kefir, stirred. Next, add flour and knead the dough. It should be elastic, slightly watery. Divide into three parts. Pour the batter into the multicooker bowl. Bake one side, then turn over.
Pour milk into a saucepan, put salt and sugar there. Boil, cool until warm. Put the yeast, dissolve them. Wait for them to take effect. While you need to grate the cheese, crush the garlic, mix with butter.
Knead the dough, divide into pieces. Make cakes out of them. Brush with garlic butter and sprinkle with cheese. Bake on a baking sheet in the oven or in a pan.
It all starts with eggs. They need to be beaten. Then you need to mix sour cream into them, then add flour. Everything intervenes so that the mass is homogeneous.
Now pour this mass into a frying pan with heated oil and fry for seven to eight minutes until cooked. You need to fry on both sides.
Greens can make the taste of a classic dish a little more interesting - just one product, and the flavor notes play in a new way.
Sugar is put in kefir, flour is poured, soda, salt are added. The dough is made from these ingredients. Flour pours in gradually and little by little. The resulting dough should be covered with a damp cloth. Let it stand for half an hour.
In the meantime, you need to rub the cheese, mix it with chopped herbs.
When the dough arrives, it is divided into pieces, rolled out. The filling is placed in the middle. The dough is pulled up from the edges, hooked on top.
Such a pie needs to be rolled into a cake and baked in a dry frying pan.
Lazy cheese cakes can be attributed to quick dishes in haste.
The cooking process is no different from the options listed above. The ingredients are all mixed in a large bowl. If the workpiece turned out to be very thick, like a tough dough, you can add a little drinking water. Flatbreads are fried in a small amount of oil on both sides in a hot frying pan.
Delicious dough, fragrant herbs, salty-sour taste of cheese - these cheese cakes with herbs are a wonderful thing!
They are prepared very simply, so they often help out the hostess when a quick snack is needed for loved ones or sudden guests come.
They are good for evening tea or breakfast, and on a hike or a trip they have no equal: tortillas with cheese and herbs are delicious cold and do not spoil for a long time.
The dough for cakes can be very different. This is a lush yeast, and completely lean simple on the water, and gentle kefir, and very soft custard, even tomato! Of course, cakes from different doughs will differ from each other.
Cheese is also taken differently in different recipes. Hard, which is rubbed. Mild type of feta, it is often cut into pieces. Processed smoked, processed in the form of curds, as well as creamy, which is spread on a tortilla. Sometimes cheese interferes with the dough, is used as a filling, and in some recipes it is spread on half of the cake and covered with the second part, it turns out a kind of pie.
As for greens, dill, parsley, cilantro, as well as green onions and garlic will be suitable herbs. Other plants are also possible.
The manufacturing technology is simple, although there are options. In some, greens interfere with the dough, sometimes combined with grated cheese, if these are tortillas with filling. Products are fried most often in a pan.
For frying, a small amount of vegetable oil is used or the process takes place in a completely dry frying pan.
Cheese cakes with herbs are served along with tea, coffee, milk drinks. They can also be used with soup, spread with some kind of pastes, butter, sour cream.
A simple dough on the water - can it be tasty? Of course it can, and the proof of this is not only dumplings and manti, but also fried products. For example, pasties - the dough for them is brewed. Cakes can be made from the same dough. Crispy, tender, very tasty!
Ingredients
The weight of flour and the volume of water should be the same, for example:
200 g premium wheat flour
200 ml water
150 grams of cheese - any one to your taste will do, hard, melted and others
Dill and parsley greens
Oil for frying.
Cooking method
To boil water.
Sift flour into a bowl.
Immediately pour the boiled water into the flour, stir well, prepare the dough. It should be soft. We adjust, if necessary, the consistency with the help of flour.
Cheese cut into pieces or grated
Chop the greens, you can add a little salt if the cheese is not very salty
Mix with cheese
Roll out the dough into round cakes
Lay out the stuffing
Make round pies, turning the edges towards the center on all sides. It is good to close up and walk with a rolling pin so that the products are even.
Heat oil well in a frying pan.
Fry the tortillas on both sides until golden brown.
Delicious with sweet tea and soup instead of bread.
If you want more fluffy cakes, then it is better to choose yeast dough. You will have to tinker with it, but the result is worth it. But it is easier to form cakes - they do not need to be covered up like pies with filling. The cheese is simply pressed into the dough.
Ingredients
Half glass of milk
One egg
Packet of dry yeast
Tablespoon of sugar
Half a teaspoon of salt
200 grams of not too hard cheese
A spoonful of butter or sour cream
Bunch of green parsley
Vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Heat milk until warm.
Pour salt, sugar, yeast into it, stir.
Sift flour. About a third or a quarter mixed with milk.
Put in a warm place for about an hour, the mixture should rise.
Add melted butter and egg.
Cut the parsley greens and also pour into the total mass.
Add the rest of the flour and knead to a soft dough.
Remove for another hour and a half to rise.
Cheese cut into small cubes.
Divide the dough into pieces. Roll out each into a thin cake.
Distribute the cheese cubes over the cakes, lightly press them into the dough.
Prick the cakes with a fork in several places and fry in hot oil.
Serve with sour cream.
Another simple dough is kefir. The cheese is evenly distributed in the cakes and melted. And all because it does not act as a filling, but is added to the dough itself during kneading.
Ingredients
A glass of kefir
One and a half cups of wheat flour
A teaspoon of sugar
Half teaspoon of salt
teaspoon of soda
250 grams of semi-soft cheese
Green onions with feathers, dill
Vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Warm up the kefir.
Add all dry ingredients to it. Soda must first be extinguished with a few drops of vinegar.
Finely chop the greens, add to the mixture.
Cheese cut as small as possible or grate on a coarse grater. Also pour into the total mass.
Knead the dough, it should be like very thick sour cream.
Heat the oil and fry the cheese cakes like pancakes, spreading in portions with a spoon and turning over after a few minutes.
Perfectly combined with tea, well kept on a hike or trip.
These cakes have an original slightly orange color and a slight tomato flavor. Adding sausage to the filling makes them more satisfying, but this is not a required ingredient. The advantage of flat cakes is that they are baked without oil, in a dry frying pan.
Ingredients
Half glass of water
Half a glass of tomato juice
Two tablespoons of vegetable oil in the dough
Salt to taste
A glass of flour
100 grams of cheese
100 grams of semi-smoked or smoked sausage
butter spoon
Cooking method
Mix water, tomato juice, vegetable oil. If there is no tomato juice on hand, you can mix a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste with another glass of water.
Heat the mixture, adding salt, to a boil.
Pour flour into the boiled liquid and knead the dough. It should be soft but keep its shape.
Cool, cut into pieces.
Grate the cheese, cut the sausage into strips.
Roll out pieces of dough, put cheese and sausage on each, close up, giving a round shape.
Fry in a hot pan without oil until golden brown.
Fold in a pile, greasing with butter.
This cake is also baked in a dry frying pan. She comes from Italy and is called Piadina. Cheese in this case is used soft varieties. If desired, not only cheese and greens, but also any other meat products, mushrooms, and vegetables can be added to the cake as a filling.
Ingredients
Premium flour - kilogram
Two tablespoons of pork fat - can be replaced with margarine
Two tablespoons of olive oil
Two teaspoons of baking soda
Salt to taste
Half glass of water
200-300 grams of soft cheese such as Philadelphia, Ricotta and others
Green parsley and basil.
Cooking method
Sift flour, lay out a slide, make a depression.
Put salt, soda in it, pour olive oil, melted fat or margarine and water.
Knead the dough, wrap in cling film and put in a warm place for three hours.
Divide into pieces and roll out thin cakes.
Bake in a hot pan.
A barely removed cake should be half greased with soft cheese, sprinkled with herbs and folded in half.
Serve slightly chilled so as not to burn.
These cakes are sprinkled with cheese right in the process of frying, then a second layer of dough is made. The dough is kefir, and the best cheese is processed sausage cheese, smoked.
Ingredients
300 ml kefir
Two glasses of wheat flour
Large pinch of sugar
A teaspoon of salt
teaspoon baking soda
200 grams sausage cheese
Dill and parsley greens
Ground black pepper, can be red
Vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Mix the ingredients for the dough, it should be like pancakes, let stand for half an hour.
Coarsely grate the cheese, pepper - for greater spiciness, you can use not only black, but also red pepper, you can introduce other aromatic spices.
Add chopped herbs to cheese.
Fry in hot oil.
When the cake is browned and starts to bubble, sprinkle it evenly with cheese and herbs. After half a minute, pour a little dough on top and turn the cake over.
The cheese will be between two layers of fried dough.
Serve hot with sour cream, tomato juice or any toppings.
If the cakes are fried in oil, you need to pour it moderately so that it does not turn out too greasy. Put the finished pastry on a napkin so that excess oil is absorbed.
Cakes in a dry frying pan are fried quickly, you can not let them burn, so they should be as thin as possible.
Before frying, you need to put cheese in cakes moderately, and pinch well, otherwise the melted filling will run out and there will be a lot of greasy splashes.
Kefir dough, if used, can be frozen for future use. And you can make ready-made cakes stuffed with cheese from it and put them in the freezer. If necessary, hold for ten minutes at room temperature and fry in oil.
Cheese cakes can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week, especially if each is wrapped in a special film or foil. Without a refrigerator - about a day.
Cooking:
The cakes are very easy to prepare.
To prepare the dough 200gr. mix flour with salt and soda, then add kefir (or yogurt, or the best option: 100 ml of whey and 50 ml of water). We knead the soft dough, then add enough flour so that the dough is soft and does not stick to your hands (this is about 50 grams of flour). Knead the dough well and beat it a little on the table, then it will not tear when rolling. We leave the dough under the film and a towel for 20 minutes, but for now we will deal with the filling.
You can use any cheese for the filling, but it is best to take young cheese (Adyghe or mozzarella). Grate the cheese on a medium grater, add finely chopped greens, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix. Now let's make the cakes. I will bake cakes in a pan with a diameter of 18 centimeters. To do this, I need to roll out a cake 17-18 centimeters in diameter.
The cakes are cooked very quickly and in order for the dough to bake well, the cake must be very thin. In order to roll out the cake thinly, not to tear, and at the same time, so that the filling is not too much and not too little, there is a rule: the size of the ball of dough and the ball of filling should be approximately the same. For my size pan, a ball of dough weighing 80-85 grams and a ball of cheese with herbs weighing about 50 grams will do. The weight is different, but the size is the same.
Roll out the ball of dough so that you can put a ball of filling in the middle, bring the edges together and pinch the dough.
We begin to roll out the pinched dough with the filling on a floured surface. The cake rolls out easily, but you have to be careful. Having rolled out the cake almost to the desired size, you need to turn it over and roll it out completely. If the dough suddenly breaks during rolling, you just need to seal the hole with a thin piece of dough.
In a rolled cake, greens from the filling will shine through the dough. We put the finished cake on a frying pan heated over a fire (a little more than average) and pierce the whole cake in many places with a knife or fork.
A cake with cheese is baked quickly and at the same time it can swell, therefore, when it swells, you need to pierce it again. Fry the cake on both sides until golden brown.
Remove the finished cake with cheese from the pan and immediately grease with butter. Butter is better to take from the refrigerator, so it will be less consumption.
So we roll out and bake all the cakes. From the indicated ingredients they will turn out 5 pieces, with a diameter of about 17 centimeters. Serve cakes with cheese should be well warm. If you don't have butter for greasing the tortillas, you can fry them in a small amount of vegetable oil.