Many are accustomed to the fact that charlotte is an apple pie, but in fact it can be cooked not only with fruit, and it should not even be sweet. You can make it with vegetables. One of the most common options - charlotte with cabbage. This is often called a jellied pie stuffed with this affordable vegetable. It is prepared quickly, it is cheap, and it suits almost everyone to taste.
Cooking Features
According to the technology of cooking cabbage charlotte differs little from apple or baked with other fruits, but there are several features.
- Charlotte can be cooked with cabbage of different species and varieties. Early white cabbage, as well as Peking, have tender leaves that are sufficient to grind. White cabbage of late varieties, as well as cauliflower and broccoli, require pre-boiling, frying or stewing. Pre-heat treatment should not be long, usually 10 minutes is quite enough, then the vegetable will reach readiness already during the preparation of the cake.
- The better the flour will be, the more pleasant will be the taste of charlotte. Second-grade flour gives baking a grayish shade and a specific taste that you may not like.
- Flour before mixing with other ingredients must be sifted. This is done not only in order to rid it of small litter and insect larvae, the main goal is to saturate flour with oxygen. After sifting, it becomes easy, it is easier to combine it with other components, preventing the formation of lumps. Baking sifted flour turns more airy.
- Cabbage charlottes are usually made unsweetened, but you can put some sugar in the dough, this will highlight the taste of the cake.
- To make the charlotte more lush, baking powder can be added to it. In his role often serves soda, extinguished with vinegar. If the dough is kneaded on kefir, soda can not extinguish.
- The classic recipe for dough for charlotte contains a minimum of ingredients: eggs, flour and salt, but mayonnaise, sour cream or other dairy products are often added - with them the cake is more lush and does not harden longer.
- The cabbage is finely chopped and added to the dough. Another option is also possible: put cabbage in a mold and pour dough.
- To make the cake easier to remove from the mold, it is pre-lubricated with butter and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. If the cake is made in silicone form, you can do without these precautions.
- Bake the cabbage charlotte for 30-50 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200-220 degrees. The exact time depends on the size of the cake and the temperature in the oven. The degree of readiness of the charlotte can be checked with a toothpick: if it remains dry after dipping into the dough, the cake is ready.
Cabbage charlotte can be served hot and cold. A good idea would be to add it with sour cream or mushroom sauce.
Charlotte from fresh cabbage
Composition:
- fresh white cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 130 g;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g;
- salt - 2-3 g;
- sugar - 5 g;
- ground black pepper to taste;
- refined vegetable oil - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the cabbage, remove the top leaves from the head. Cut the desired size of the piece and finely chop it.
- Free onion from the husk, cut into thin halves or quarters of rings.
- Heat the oil in a pan, fry the onions until golden brown.
- Add cabbage. Stir. Cover the pan with the lid and stew the vegetables for 5-10 minutes, stirring a couple of times during this time.
- Put the cabbage filling in a bowl, let it cool slightly.
- Break eggs into a clean bowl. Add sugar and salt to them. Well whisk whisk.
- Sift flour, combine it with baking powder.
- Combine the dry mixture with the egg mass, stir them until a homogeneous composition.
- Lightly salt and pepper the cabbage filling, put it in a baking container. Pour dough. Cover with foil.
- Heat the oven to 220 degrees, place into it a form with a charlotte. Cook the cabbage pie for half an hour, then remove the foil and bake it for another 10-15 minutes, until the dry toothpick.
This variant of jellied pie with cabbage can be considered classic.
Charlotte with sauerkraut
Composition:
- wheat flour - 0, 3 kg;
- sauerkraut - 0, 3 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- butter - 100 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Rinse sauerkraut and squeeze.
- Melt the butter over low heat or in a microwave. Mix with sugar, trying to dissolve it in oil completely.
- When the oil has cooled to near room temperature, add two raw eggs to it. Whisk the products with a whisk. Salt, pepper and whisk again.
- Mix sifted flour with baking powder, add to liquid base. Mix well.
- Put the cabbage in the dough. Stir it, trying to distribute the filling evenly.
- Put the resulting mass in a baking dish and send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
- Bake a charlotte until tender.
The cake made according to this recipe has a unique taste. Especially it will appeal to fans of German cuisine.
Hearty Charlotte with minced meat and cabbage
Composition:
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- meat or chicken mince - 0, 3 kg;
- white cabbage - 0, 3 kg;
- onions - 150 g;
- kefir - 0, 2 l;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l;
- soda - 5 g;
- refined vegetable oil - how much will go;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Eggs break into a bowl, add salt, pound with a whisk or fork.
- In a bowl with eggs, add sour cream. Beat them together.
- In kefir, pour in soda, mix, wait for the reaction. Pour the kefir in a bowl with other products. Whisk the contents of the bowl again.
- Pour the sifted flour into a bowl and mix. You should get a homogeneous consistency without flour lumps.
- Heat oil in a pan, put chopped onion and minced meat in it. Fry them until the mince is pale.
- Salt and pepper the meat, add the finely chopped cabbage.
- Extinguish the food under a lid over low heat for about 10 minutes.
- Pour half of the dough into the form, put the filling on it, pour the remaining dough.
- Place the cake in the oven heated to 220 degrees for about 40 minutes. Before turning off the oven, check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick.
Cabbage charlotte with minced meat is a nourishing and tasty dish. From a piece of this pie, hardly anyone can refuse.
Charlotte with cabbage filling will be a good option for dinner or addition to dinner. This hearty and juicy cake will almost certainly appeal to your family and friends.
