Each national cuisine has a range of dishes,defining its "face", characteristics and features. When it comes to baking, pastry, immediately recalled the Crimean Tatar pasties, Russian pancakes and pies, Ukrainian crunches, Moldavian vertuti. All these delicacies can be prepared by yourself - there would be recipes and a desire!
About the subject of conversation
The topic of our today's article is a vertu withapples. What it represents, you will be happy to explain in detail and even show the Moldavian mistresses, especially those from the countryside. After all, the art of cooking national dishes in its pristine nature was preserved in the villages. The same hominy, without which no meal once managed, is brewed a little in the cities. Yes, and baking is also not particularly bother themselves, especially when the store abundance. And only in the village you can be offered a real twig with apples or pumpkin, cheese or potatoes, taken out of the oven, cooked according to all the rules, in compliance with the necessary "technical" subtleties.
Moldavian vertu are made from special dough,which is rolled out, more precisely, it is stretched thinly and thinly, like a cigarette paper. The filling is put inside the layer, then it is rolled up with a roll - hence the name of the baking "vertuta". With apples, nuts, jam, i.e. sweet minced meat, they are served as a dessert, often sprinkled with powdered sugar. And with a more filling stuffing they go as an independent dish or to soups, deputies, borsch - instead of bread. As a rule, many eggs are put into the dough and vegetable oil is added. Therefore, the twig with apples and other stuffing is not even baked as it is roasted, which makes it particularly tasty.
Vertuta on kefir
The recipe of this baking is quite inexpensive, availablealmost every family, and the result will please all lovers of dough products. You will need half a liter of kefir, 2 eggs, a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of sugar and so much flour to knead an elastic, not very cool dough. Roll it into a ball, cover with a napkin and let it rest for half an hour, separate it. In the meantime, do some stuffing.
To make it tastier than your apple twirlThe recipe (photo is attached) suggests adding a little cinnamon to apples, which should be cut into small cubes, and vanilla for an appetizing smell. When the dough has come, cut off small chunks from it, roll it into flat cakes and, pouring flour, first roll with a rolling pin, and then evenly stretch your hands into rounded thin layers. Each such sheet, from which the twig with apples is baked, must be ordered to sprinkle with sunflower oil. Then evenly distribute the filling, sprinkle it with sugar, roll up the layers, fasten the edges at both ends. Top with oil again. Bake the pan too well, spread the twigs on it, put it in a heated oven and bake until ready at a temperature of 190-200 degrees for about 20 minutes. When the baking is cool, sprinkle icing sugar over the product.
Vertuta special
Очень вкусной получается вертута с яблоками из puff pastry. Of course, it takes a little more time to prepare it than baking in the previous recipe. But your efforts will pay off, you'll see! You will need 500 grams of sifted flour, a glass of water, a little salt. Knead the dough, roll into a ball, let it brew. Then roll it into a cake. Inside, put a piece of butter, roll the envelope, roll again. Wrap the dough in a bag, put it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Then repeat the operation twice more. In total, you must roll in 100 g of oil. After the last place in the refrigerator, the dough is ready for work. Roll out or stretch thin layers, put the stuffing, fold. Beat the egg with sugar and the twigs placed on a greased baking sheet and also grease with this mixture. Bake them until ready. Make a lemon icing: take 100 g of powdered sugar, a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice and the same hot water. Add the liquid components to the powder, rub it thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Cover it with twirls.
A few words about the filling
And now a few words about what you can put intwirls, except apples. First, the apple-curd mass. Curd curd through a sieve or twice through a meat grinder. Add the egg, vanilla sugar and plain, rub it well. Mix with shredded apples.
Apple-carrot filling can be used. Rub the carrot, add the apple, salt it, save in vegetable oil with a little water.
Another good pumpkin and apple filling. So experiment, be interested, try!
