Cherry strudel - general principles of cooking
The strudel is a sample of the delicious dessert from Austrian cuisine. Such a roll (and strudel is just a roll) is very tasty for breakfast or you can serve it as a dessert for dinner, but not for dinner, as the strudel is very caloric and hard for the stomach. The strudel can be prepared with any filling, both sweet fruit, and with vegetables (for example, strudel with cabbage is very tasty) or with meat. Try making a cherry strudel - a sweet and sour dessert. A fragrant cherry under a thin crispy crust of puff pastry will surely quench your thirst for something tasty.
Cherry strudel - preparing food and dishes
The most important thing in strudel is, of course, the dough. It is the dough that determines whether you get the famous Austrian roll in the end or just a delicious dessert. In order to cook a strudel with a cherry, you can use both fresh cherry and frozen or cherry jam. The dough should be flaky, making it easy, but many housewives, not wanting to waste time and effort, prefer to use the purchased puff pastry from the store.
Cherry strudel Recipes:
Recipe 1: Cherry Strudel
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh cherry 0.5 kg
- Flour 1 glass
- Sunflower oil 2 tablespoons
- Water 1/2 cup
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Sugar powder 100 grams
- Butter
Preparation Method:
- Sift flour through a sieve. Pour into a deep dish, mix with water and salt. Water is best heated to 40-45 degrees before mixing. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the mass and mix. The resulting dough will be quite thick and sticky.
- Roll the dough into a ball, smear with vegetable oil, wrap with cling film and set to reach 30-40 minutes, preferably in a warm place.
- Prepare the cherry. Remove the bones from the berries and pour them into the saucepan, add sugar and mix. Put the pot on the fire and, while stirring, bring to a boil. Cook cherries in their own juice for 5-6 minutes.
- When the cherry has cooled, strain it from the juice - it will not be useful for strudel.
- Take out the dough and roll it into the layer, but not very thin. Squeeze the dough in a circle with your palms.
- Melt the butter and grease the dough with it. At this stage, you can use and vegetable.
- Spread the cherries on the dough, first sprinkling it with powdered sugar.
- Roll the dough with a cherry into a roll, helping yourself with a towel.
- Coat the finished roll with butter and place on a baking sheet covered with paper.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cherry strudel for about 30 minutes.
- The finished strudel can be cut into portions after cooking and served at the table.
Recipe 2: Cherry strudel with almonds
Almond nut will set off the taste of cherry in the most advantageous way, making the strudel taste rich and rich.
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh cherry 0.5 kg
- Almonds 100 grams
- Flour 1 glass
- Water 150 ml
- Chicken Egg 1 piece
- Water 1/2 cup
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Sugar powder 50 grams
- Butter
- Salt
Preparation Method:
- Sift flour through a sieve. Pour into a deep plate, mix with water, egg and salt. Knead the dough, adding to it a little melted butter. The resulting mass should be supple and soft.
- Roll the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and place in a warm place for 40-60 minutes.
- Prepare the cherry. Remove the bones from the berries and pour them into the saucepan, add sugar and mix. Put the pot on the fire and, while stirring, bring to a boil. Cook cherries in their own juice for 5-6 minutes.
- When the cherry has cooled, strain the berries from the juice - it is not useful for strudel.
- Chop almonds with a rolling pin or a blender. Spoon together powdered sugar, ground almonds and cherries.
- Take out the dough and roll it into the layer, but not very thin. Squeeze the dough in a circle with your palms, placing a clean towel under it, until it becomes thin.
- Butter or vegetable oil grease the dough.
- Spread the cherry-peanut mixture onto the dough.
- Roll the dough with a cherry into a roll, helping yourself with a towel.
- Coat the finished roll with butter and place on a baking sheet covered with paper.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the strudel with cherries and almonds for about half an hour.
- The finished dish can be cut into portions after 5 minutes after cooking and serve.
Recipe 3: Cherry strudel with cookies
For this strudel we will take the purchased dough. Dairies and bakeries have made life easier for women by selling ready-made puff pastry. You will only need to roll it out and cook the filling.
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh cherry 500 grams
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Puff pastry 250 grams
- Vanilla Cookies 50 grams
- Sugar powder 50 grams
- Butter
Preparation:
- Prepare the cherry. To do this, remove the bones and put the berries in the pan, add sugar, stir and boil for about 5-6 minutes after boiling.
- Chop the cookies into a crumb using a rolling pin or a blender.
- Strain the cooled cherries with the juice and mix with powdered sugar and crumb.
- Roll out puff pastry with a rolling pin as thin as possible and brush with melted butter.
- Put the cherry mixture with the cookies on the dough and roll them up.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and cover the deck for baking a sheet of parchment paper. Put the strudel on it and bake it for about half an hour.
Recipe 4: Cherry and Cranberry Strudel (from Frozen Berries)
If you think that you can make strudel only in summer, during the cherry season, then you are mistaken. A delicious dessert will turn out from the frozen berries.
Ingredients Required:
- Cherry, frozen without stones, 250 grams
- Cranberries, frozen 250 grams
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Puff pastry 250 grams
- Sugar powder 50 grams
- Butter
Preparation Method:
- Prepare the berries. Remove them from the refrigerator and let them thaw, then put them in a saucepan, add sugar, stir and cook after boiling for about 5-6 minutes.
- Strain the berries from the juice and cool. Mix them with powdered sugar.
- Puff pastry should be rolled out with a rolling pin as thin as possible and smeared with melted butter.
- Put the berry mixture on the dough and roll it up with a towel.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and cover the deck for baking a sheet of parchment paper. Put the strudel on it and bake it for about half an hour.
Cherry strudel - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- You can knead the dough not manually, but use the bread machine and knead it in the “Pizza” mode for 10 minutes. Also the “Dumplings” mode is suitable,
- Berries and fruits, ground nuts, poppy seeds can be added to the cherry strudel stuffing.
- If it breaks when you pull the dough, pinch a piece off the edge and “patch” the hole with it.
- In Austria, hot strudel is served with a scoop of ice cream and a mint leaf. It is very tasty, because you can adopt this tradition when serving dessert.
