Muffins are very easy to prepare a dish for snacks. It is very versatile, so even without enough ingredients, you can cook them.
Muffins can be made standard - without anyfilling or flavoring, but it will be more interesting and tasty to experiment with them, since you can add anything: berries, fruits, nuts and much more. But today it's about muffins with ham and cheese.
Muffins externally very similar to ordinarycupcakes, but in fact they are significantly different from each other. For starters, it should be noted that the muffins are of an airy structure, rather porous, and the muffins, on the other hand, are very dense in structure, but not less soft in this case, because in comparison with cupcakes, they add more liquid (kefir, milk, water - relying on the product from which you make the dough).
В большинстве случаев, в маффины почти не added no sweet fillings, due to what they are, incidentally, less calories than cupcakes, which cooks often fill with sweets. More often in muffins put cheese, vegetables or meat, which makes them a special dish, because, apparently, this is a sweet treat, but in fact it is not always so. One of the advantages of muffins is that there is even a recipe for those who keep fasting.
Another difference is that the muffins atPreparation is abundantly lubricated with oil to make them more greasy. Thus, there is a significant difference between muffins and cupcakes, even considering the fact that muffins are served portion by piece, unlike cupcakes.
So what does the muffin mean and where does it come fromin general undertook? The homeland of this batch is England XI century. At that time, the muffins were first prepared from the remainder of the dough that went to the bakery for the master's table, and muffins were served to servants and workers.
Later, this dish was fond of many people, and itsbegan to be served in the form of snacks at almost every holiday. Already at the end of the XIX century there were many recipes for muffins. Now these tasty snacks are famous all over the world. They are easy to prepare, have many variations, low-calorie, in general, have a huge number of advantages. In America, many people like to eat muffins for breakfast. This is due to the fact that such a dish is light and small. Many muffins are charged with energy and good mood.
As for the origin of the word itself, there are twotheory. One of them says that the word muffin was formed from the French moufflet, which translates as soft bread, because outwardly in ancient times muffins were more like buns or bread than muffins.
The essence of the second theory is that muffincame from the German muffe, which means one of the types of bread. So, somebody adheres to this theory, but today it does not matter, because we will consider the modern recipe for muffins with ham and cheese on kefir. They can also be cooked on milk and water, if you keep fasting, and even on the water they are quite tasty.
To prepare snack muffins with ham and cheese we need the following ingredients:
Prepared all the ingredients? Now proceed directly to cooking!
It is important to note immediately that muffins are baked iniron molds, paper or silicone. In stores, a huge selection of molds, so that you can give your baking absolutely any shape you want.
So, how to make muffins with ham and cheese will be described in detail below. Preparation in general will take you about 1-1.5 hours and all should be about 10-12 muffins.
Если вы уверены, что быстро приготовите тесто, то immediately turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees. Now heat the yogurt and pour it into a separate container, add soda to it, stir well. Then stir the egg, salt and sugar.
Preliminary it is necessary to soften the butter,but not to the liquid state! At best, let it stand at room temperature for a while, about 30 minutes. And only then add the oil to the rest of the mass.
At this stage you can add scented herbsor any spices according to your desire. Many people say that pepper and dill are best combined with ham and cheese, but you can experiment and add everything that your heart desires. Muffins with ham and cheese on the starch will also be quite good for the taste.
Now sift flour, add baking powder to it.and gradually add it to the rest of the mass so that the dough is dense. The consistency should be quite thick, but such that it can be poured into molds.
Next you should cut into small cubescheese and ham, add them to the already prepared dough. Ham should not be cut into large pieces, otherwise the dough in the oven will not rise, and the muffins will not work. Cheese, as one of the options, you can grate, then the dough will come out more dense, but it does not spoil it.
Now, making sure that the dough is ready,You can spread it in molds, but not to the end and certainly not with a slide. You have to understand that the dough will rise, your muffins with cheese and ham should not spread all over the baking tray and turn into something incomprehensible. From above you can decorate your baking with sesame or sprinkle with grated cheese.
Put your muffins in the oven, constantlylook at them. You need to bake about 20-30 minutes. Keep an eye on them, and when the dough rises, pierce one of the muffins with a toothpick or match. If there are any traces left on them, then the dough is not ready yet, but if the match or toothpick is clean, you can safely get a baking sheet. It is advisable to check to pierce a few more muffins.
When you've got the muffins out of the oven, let them cool for a few minutes. Now set the table, call guests or loved ones, rather try your wonderful muffins!
They can be served as a starter to the main course,and a full dish, for example, as a treat for tea. A warm and fresh muffin with cheese and ham tastes even better when the melted cheese stretches and the pastry itself melts in your mouth, so hurry to try it, but don't forget to treat your guests too!
But, of course, cooled down, the muffins are no less tasty. They will amaze you with their texture in the same way as those that are only from the oven.
In principle, the recipes for this disha large number of. But they can differ only in some ingredients for the test. Otherwise, this fairly simple recipe is very easy to prepare, so if everything worked out, then you enjoy your meal!
