Russian desserts are different from other sweets in their simplicity and cheapness. They are not made from expensive cream cheeses, exotic fruits, no need to add other unique ingredients, extracted from the ocean floor or collected at the foot of the great mountain.
Everything is much easier and easier! In Russian cuisine, desserts are simple, natural, affordable and incredibly tasty!
Russian desserts - general cooking principles
The sweets of Russian cuisine are notable for their satisfaction. Often they are prepared on the basis of cereals, this is all kinds of cereals (semolina, rice). Meets and pastries, usually it is uncomplicated, without complex creams. Usually it is all kinds of pancakes, pancakes, cheese cakes and dumplings. Below are some very interesting recipes. Bright tastes sought by natural ingredients.
What is added to Russian desserts:
• dried fruits, nuts;
• honey;
• fresh fruits, berries;
• spices;
• alcoholic drinks.
Most of the desserts are with sugar, they have quite sweet tastes. But at will we reduce the amount of sand. Another difference of Russian desserts is the abundance of hot sweets. You do not need to prepare warm delicacies in advance.
Russian dessert “Guryev porridge”
This recipe will turn the idea of semolina. A delicious Russian dessert was actively prepared for the royal table. Porridge turns sweet, delicate, very fragrant and looks more like a pie or a casserole.
Ingredients
• 10 Art. l semolina;
• 150 g of candied fruit, raisins, nuts, dried apricots;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 400 ml of cream 10%;
• liter of milk;
• a pair of apples;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Pour the cream into a wide, but not deep dish, add vanilla. You can take the pan. Put in the oven at 150 degrees. After a while, a foam appears on top. Carefully remove the spoon in a bowl. We are waiting for the new foam and remove it again. According to the rules, you need to remove as many foams as there are layers of Guryev porridge.
2. Prepare the most common porridge from milk, granulated sugar (100 g) and semolina. Do not forget to salt the liquid, so that the taste is pronounced. Boil the porridge for about five minutes, it should thicken. 3. Chop the nuts. Fry in a skillet until a pleasant aroma.
4. Large dried fruits cut, wash, dry.
5. Apples cut into slices. You can cook with other fruits, such as peaches, apricots, a delicious variant with bananas.
6. Collect porridge is best in non-stick form. Lubricate, lay out a layer of semolina, sprinkle with a mixture of dried fruits, nuts, add to taste the sliced apple.
7. Fruits pour over the foams, which were previously removed from the cream. Then we lay out porridge, fruit with nuts, again skins.
8. Finish the assembly with semolina, sprinkle it with sugar.
9. We put the form in the oven, cook Guryev porridge at 180 degrees for about half an hour or until sugar crust appears on top.
Russian dessert “Baba Rice” with cherries
In Russian desserts there are not only delicious dishes, but also original names. Another very satisfying delicacy. Fresh cherries are used for cooking, but you can take frozen berries.
Ingredients
• 0.75 Art. white rice;
• two spoons of crackers;
• 2 tbsp. cherries;
• four eggs;
• 4 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 80 g of oil;
• 1 tbsp. l starch;
• vanilla to taste.
Cooking
1. Enumerate and wash the rice, boil in salted water until ready, rinse in a colander to rinse the cereal more quickly.
2. Remove bones from cherries.
3. Separate the proteins, add sugar to them and beat until frothy.
4. Add berries to the rice, lay out the yolks and fill the mass with butter, leaving a small piece for the form, fill the starch.
5. Enter the whipped whites in rice, gently stir.
6. Rub the form with a piece of oil, sprinkle with croutons, lay out the rice mass. Align the layer.
7. Put the form in the oven, bake rice woman about 25 minutes.
Russian dessert “Eggnog”
A name familiar to all of us since childhood, but not everyone has tried such Russian desserts. Here is the classic version, but there are other types of egalgnus with various additives.
Ingredients
• one egg;
• spoon of sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l any wine;
• one pinch of salt; • 170 ml of milk.
Cooking
1. Wash the egg, separate the yolk from the protein in different bowls. It is very important to pay attention to the choice of product. Take only fresh egg from a trusted manufacturer. Since it will not be subjected to heat treatment.
2. Add a pinch of salt to the raw yolk, just a few grains, add granulated sugar and beat until frothy, pour wine with milk, beat again. At the time we remove this mixture in the refrigerator.
3. Protein whip in a lush and strong foam.
4. Combine the yolk mixture with protein, gently stir and shift into a glass or a glass.
5. Ready-made eggnog can be sprinkled with powdered cinnamon, often complemented with ground nutmeg.
Russian cheesecakes for dessert
Cheesecakes - a wonderful version of a simple, but useful and filling Russian dessert. For cooking, you can take absolutely any cottage cheese at its discretion.
Ingredients
• 500 g of cottage cheese;
• a couple of tablespoons of sugar;
• 3 tbsp. l flour;
• two eggs;
• 50 g raisins;
• a pinch of salt;
• 2-3 Art. l flour on the subfield;
• oil for frying.
Cooking
1. Grind or just stir the cottage cheese well, add sugar and eggs to it, add flour. Adjust the amount. If the cheese is wet, you can add a little more flour.
2. Rinse and dry the raisins. If it is too hard, it is better to pre-soak.
3. Add raisins to the curd dough and stir again.
4. Blind hands with small cheese cakes, roll in flour so that a beautiful crust appears after frying.
5. Put in hot oil, fry until cooked.
6. Russian cheesecakes were traditionally served with honey or jam. But at will, you can cook a cream for them, add boiled condensed milk, chocolate paste.
Russian dessert from apples (baked)
One of the easiest ways to make a delicious and healthy dessert. Once the fruit was baked in the oven, but today the oven will do the job perfectly.
Ingredients
• apples;
• carnation;
• some honey or sugar.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apples. Choose fruits that are as similar in size as possible. 2. With a sharp knife, cut off the top of the apple a few millimeters thick.
3. In each apple we stick a carnation on the star. Previously also used Badin.
4. Sprinkle the place cut with sugar or grease with honey.
5. We shift the workpiece in the form. Send the apples to the oven, bake at 180 degrees until soft.
6. Apples are served as an independent dessert. But you can supplement them with cream from sour cream, cream. Sprinkle with cinnamon, then water with honey.
Best Russian dessert “Sweet dumplings”
A very interesting recipe for a sweet dish that was often eaten in the old days. Syrup can be prepared from different fruit juices, berry decoctions, here is only one of the options.
Ingredients
• egg;
• 50 g of sugar;
• 30 g of oil;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 70 g sour cream;
• 0.2 tsp. soda;
• 1 liter sweet apple juice
Cooking
1. Beat the egg with sugar, add a pinch of salt, add sour cream and softened butter. Grind until smooth.
2. To extinguish the soda, add to the total mass, add flour, knead the sticky dough, which will be scooped up with spoons.
3. Boil juice in a saucepan, add some sugar to it.
4. Take two spoons. One we collect dough, and the second we throw it into boiling juice. Spoons every time we moisten. Quickly form all dumplings, boil for 2-3 minutes until cooked.
5. Take out the dumplings with a skimmer, shaking off the remnants of the decoction.
6. Juice boil a little more, about five minutes. Serve with dumplings. You can pour or put next to the bowl.
Easter Cottage Cheese - Orthodox Russian Dessert
Considering the Russian desserts, it is impossible not to touch Easter. This is a very tasty curd delicacy for a bright holiday table. Types of dried fruits can be changed at their discretion, add candied fruits if desired, but they should not be soaked.
Ingredients
• 1000 g of cottage cheese;
• 200 g raisins;
• 100 g dried apricots;
• 150 g Sakh. powder;
• 120 g plums. oils;
• 180 g sour cream;
• 2 bags of vanilla.
Cooking
1. Put dried fruits in a bowl, pour hot water, but do not use boiling water. Leave for fifteen minutes. 2. Twist the curd through the meat grinder twice. Or wipe the product through a sieve.
3. Combine sour cream with vanilla and powdered sugar, stir, shift to cottage cheese.
4. Butter should be softened, but not melted. Combine it with cottage cheese mixture and beat it together with a spatula.
5. Squeeze dried fruits, dry them with napkins, cut dried apricots a little smaller, leave the whole raisins. Pour it all in cottage cheese, stir.
6. We moisten gauze, squeeze and fill the pasochnica from the inside. We spread cottage cheese, cover with wet ends of gauze and set oppression.
7. We transfer all this to the refrigerator, letting it stand for about a day.
8. Then open the gauze, cover with a plate, gently turn over and remove the pasochnitsa. When serving, cottage cheese dessert can be decorated with additional dried fruits.
Russian desserts - tips and tricks
• There were no blenders before. A sieve has always been used to grind fruit, berries and cottage cheese. This method allows you to remove all unnecessary, get a very delicate texture.
• It is easiest to mix masses of the same temperature. This is important to keep in mind, as some products may melt, delaminate, become covered with grains.
• Once for cooking Russian desserts used only natural spices, herbs. Now you can add all sorts of essences, food colors, liquors. These ingredients will help make the treat even tastier.
