Lush, soft or slightly crispy brushwood on kefir is a delicacy from childhood. It was his mothers and grandmothers who did for the holidays, school tea parties and various gatherings. The treat was sprinkled with powdered sugar, served with hot tea or compote. And even now, many housewives pamper children with delicious pastries of an interesting shape, checking the recipe from memory with the notebook notes of the 80-90s. Many cooking options have been invented, you can easily choose the one suitable for every taste.
To cook mind-blowingly delicious brushwood at home, certain conditions must be observed. When choosing an easy step-by-step recipe, you should pay attention to simple requirements:
- kefir should not be diluted with water if there is little of it, but a small amount of milk and sour cream can be added;
- to give an appetizing smell to the delicacy, you can pour vanilla sugar in the desired proportions into the dough;
- if you put a little sugar, the baked goods will look pale; if you put them over, they will acquire a dark brown hue, like burnt.
It is necessary to make homemade brushwood if you have free time, when no one bothers to cut interesting strips and figures from the dough. It is better to serve it chilled with tea, sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
5 tricks from experienced chefs
To cook fragrant and very tasty brushwood on kefir, you need to know 5 secrets of this unusual treat. Only if you follow simple tricks will an ordinary-looking delicacy turn out to be appetizing, sweet and lush.
- Kefir must be fresh. The old one will sour or bitter, which will have a bad effect on the taste of the baking.
- You need to take a kefir drink with a fat content of 2.5%. With a lower fat content - too liquid, it will require more flour when kneading, which will negatively affect the splendor.
- The kneaded dough should be elastic. So that it does not stick to hands, table, bowl, it is cool and soft enough.
- The thickness of the layer is needed no more than 5 mm, or even thinner. The quality of the crunch and the softness of the brushwood depend on rolling.
- It is better to fry in ghee. It will give a delicate aroma and a beautiful golden crust, will not smoke much. But expensive vegetable is also suitable, the main thing is that it is refined.
Classic recipe without baking powder
The easiest step-by-step recipe for successful and delicious homemade brushwood does not contain baking powder. Chicken eggs and kefir with a fat content of 2.5% give splendor to a slightly crispy delicacy. It is necessary to cook such a treat half an hour after kneading the dough, frying in heated oil.
What to prepare:
- fresh kefir - 600 ml;
- eggs - two;
- sugar - 6 tablespoons;
- salt - a teaspoon;
- flour - about 5, 5-6 glasses;
- vanilla sugar - optional;
- powdered sugar;
- vegetable or ghee.
How to make
- Beat eggs with a mixer, slowly adding sugar in small portions.
- Pour all the kefir into the mixture, add vanilla powder, salt. Beat again.
- Add the sifted flour in portions, kneading the dough first with a spoon, then with your hands. When it stops sticking, leave it for half an hour under a towel.
- Divide the dough into 2 parts in half, each roll out into a layer about 3 mm thick.
- Cut the layers into ordinary squares, rhombuses, stripes, in each workpiece, make a cut in the middle with a knife, turn it out through the hole. This is how the classic twigs are made.
- Heat oil in a saucepan or deep fryer, fry the blanks until golden brown, as in the photo below.
- Sprinkle with powder for beauty and sweeter taste.
With soda for splendor
In order for a high-calorie, but tasty rich product to turn out lush, like donuts, you must definitely add soda to the flour. Interacting with kefir, it will release a lot of carbon dioxide, which will raise the dough. It is not necessary to extinguish it with anything. The step-by-step recipe for lush homemade brushwood on kefir is almost no different from the classic one; when adding ingredients, only add half a teaspoon of baking soda to kefir.
The ingredients are mixed alternately, the blanks are formed, cutting the strips with an ordinary knife or a special device with curly teeth. Fry the pieces, given that the brushwood will greatly increase in volume. You will get such donuts as in the photo below. Sprinkle with powder and serve with tea.
With vodka for softness
It is not difficult to bake soft, almost fluffy brushwood at home - adding vodka to the dough while kneading will help. This step-by-step understandable recipe was used by our mothers, resulting in a delicacy with a porous structure and a very appetizing golden crust. For those who do not count carbohydrates and calories when drawing up a menu, you can try making sweets for tea with vodka.
What to prepare:
- kefir 2.5% - 0.5 l;
- vodka - 4 tablespoons;
- eggs - four;
- sugar - 4-5 tablespoons;
- salt is not a whole teaspoon;
- soda - 1, 5 teaspoons;
- flour - about 5-6 glasses;
- frying oil;
- powdered sugar for sprinkling.
How to make
- First mix all the liquid ingredients in stages, then dry. Pour vodka into the kefir-egg mixture.
- Roll out the finished dough as thin as possible, cut with a knife.
- Form the brushwood into spirals, curls or knots.
- Fry in hot oil, cool.
- Sprinkle with powder.
Dry yeast
To make lush brushwood yourself, you can add dry baker's yeast to your recipe. They will add porosity and softness to the finished treat. If desired, some or all of the sugar can be easily replaced with honey.
What to prepare:
- fresh kefir - 200 ml;
- eggs - two;
- sugar or honey - 4 tablespoons;
- dry yeast in powder - sachet;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- butter - 80 g;
- flour - 600 g;
- oil for frying.
How to make
- Melt the butter in the microwave.
- Heat the kefir slightly, sift the flour.
- Mix dry yeast, honey (or sugar) in kefir, let stand for 15 minutes.
- Pour eggs, butter, beaten with a whisk into the mixture, add salt to the mixture.
- Pouring flour in portions, knead the elastic dough.
- Leave in a bowl for 1, 5 hours, cover with a towel, bag.
- Roll out a layer of medium thickness (4-5 mm), cut into diamonds, strips, twist, fry in vegetable oil.
From curd dough
Cooking curd brushwood on kefir is not difficult. The structure of the muffin turns out to be fluffy, crumbly, and the crumpets themselves are very delicate in taste. Although such a delicacy will be high-calorie, children will like it.
What to prepare:
- kefir - 2 cups (fat content from 2.5%);
- eggs - two;
- sugar - 6 tablespoons;
- salt - a teaspoon without a slide;
- soda - half a teaspoon;
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- flour - about 4 glasses (how much it will take);
- oil for frying.
How to make
- Grind cottage cheese to get a homogeneous consistency, without lumps.
- Extinguish soda with kefir, combine sour milk with cottage cheese.
- Drive eggs into the mixture, add salt and sugar.
- Knead the dough by adding the required amount of sifted flour.
- Leave it under a towel for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the layer, cut into strips, twist the brushwood with pigtails or snail, flower, fry until golden brown.
If you have time to twist the brushwood, you can make not curls or threading through the cuts, but beautiful flowers:
- cut out identical circles from the rolled layer with a glass or a cup, then make the same number of circles in a stack, a glass - so that they are less than two times;
- on each large mug, make 5-6 petals with a knife, cutting not to the center;
- put small circles on large ones, blinding them in the center with your finger;
- fry as usual, making sure that the pieces do not come apart.
If you wish, you can serve such delicious homemade pastries with jam, jam, fresh berries.
