Usually baking is associated not only with pleasant taste sensations, but also with extra pounds. However, there are recipes for pies, the benefit of which outweighs all fears.
A few words about the benefits of blueberries
This dark berry is known and loved by many forbeautiful taste, pleasant aroma and those useful qualities with which it is rich. Dark-violet juice of bilberry is eaten into the fabric instantly, it is almost impossible to wash it. Yes, and the skin, lips and tongue he paints thoroughly. But these are trifles, compared to the amount of iron, carotene and vitamins contained in bilberry. Weak vision, hemoglobin falls, diabetes mellitus - blueberry is among the first assistants in the fight against illnesses and ills. And many other diseases, such as urolithiasis, gout, gastrointestinal diseases and others, with this berry are overcome more quickly. Therefore, it is desirable to consume it all year round: fresh, dried, ice cream, as a puree, jams and jams, fruit drinks, kissels and even as a filling in baked pastries.
Recipes, recipes, recipes ...
Recipes for baking are greata lot, but, perhaps, fruit and berry pies - the most delicious. And, indeed, what can be more remarkable to tea or coffee than the pie is sweet, airy, with ruddy crust and juicy berry stuffing! This kind of baking will remind you of the summer, will please with pleasant sweetness with light sourness, leave after itself on the tongue such aftertaste, which will then be remembered with pleasure for a long time.
Recipe # 1
A classic blueberry pie is prepared veryeasily and from the minimum of products that can be found in the refrigerator of any hostess. For a pie for 6 servings, 250 grams of wheat flour of the highest grade (you can have the first but not lower!), Butter or margarine for baking - 125 grams, sugar - depending on personal preferences will suffice: someone can limit 2 -3 tablespoons, and sweet tooth can pour and more. Blueberry pie will not suffer from this. Next, a bag of vanillin or two - vanilla sugar. Two because the taste and smell of sugar is less saturated than vanillin in its pure form. Fifteen tablespoons of starch, better than potato; a pinch of salt and two eggs. This is all that is needed for the test.
- Sift flour, mix with salt, add butter,Caged small cubes or rubbed on a large grater. The oil should be kept in the refrigerator until it is cold. To make a dough on a blueberry pie, the flour should be mixed, or rather, grinded with butter. To drive in eggs, add cold water and knead a not too steep dough. It is wrapped in cellophane and sent to the refrigerator for about an hour.
- Dough from the refrigerator is divided into 2 unequal parts.The one that is bigger (somewhere 2/3 of the total), you should roll out the shape and size of the container in which the blueberry pie will be baked. The shape should be with the sides. She carefully oiled, you can and vegetable. Breaded breadcrumbs (manga, if there are no biscuits, or just flour) sprinkle the bottom and the walls of the mold. In it lay out the rolled out dough, to coat the sides.
- Now it's up to the filling. If the berry is frozen, it is not thawed. Mix blueberries with starch, sugar (to taste), remnants of biscuits. Spread on the dough.
- On top of the pie-billet covered with the remaining rolled-up dough, carefully chipped edges, so that the juice from the berries did not flow out.
- Place in a preheated oven and bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 220 degrees. From time to time, check the readiness with a wooden knitting needle or toothpick.
- Ready cake sprinkled with powdered sugar or smeared with whipped protein with sugar.
Recipe # 2
The real delicacy is the blueberry pie withcottage cheese. For this, the bilberries should be mixed with the curd until a homogeneous mass. Also lay out on the dough (you can cook the same as in the previous recipe), top the greased whipped with sugar and bake. Instead of protein, you can make a strip of dough "grate". In any case, it will be very, very delicious!
