Kefir pies fried in a frying pan

Kefir pies fried in a frying pan are a very tasty and quick flour product prepared at home. Pies can be prepared either with the addition of yeast or using quick kefir yeast-free dough. Such pies can be made with different fillings: with sweet jam, with fresh fruit, with potatoes, with cabbage, with mushrooms, with minced meat or with eggs and onions... Below you will see 8 quick and very tasty recipes offering options for kefir dough and all kinds of fillings for fried pies.

Fluffy kefir pies, fried in a frying pan: the dough is “like fluff”

These kefir pies with the addition of yeast turn out as airy as fluff. They can be fried in a frying pan, or baked in the oven to reduce the calorie content of the dish. We offer you a recipe for fried air pies with cabbage filling. However, you can replace it with any other one at your discretion: potato, meat or sweet.

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   How to cook fried kefir pies in a frying pan? Pour kefir (it should be at room temperature) into a bowl, beat eggs into it, sprinkle with salt and sugar and mix the ingredients well with a whisk. Next, add a spoonful of any vegetable oil to the mixture and shake well again.
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   The yeast for the dough must be dry, but very fresh, and its packaging must be intact. Add yeast to the future dough.
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   Add a couple of tablespoons of premium flour there, whisk the mixture well and let it stand for at least a quarter of an hour under a napkin for the yeast to rise. When a lush foam appears on the mixture, you can continue working with the dough.
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   Using a wooden or silicone spatula, stir the contents of the bowl and add sifted flour in two or three parts, gently kneading the dough.
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   Stir it thoroughly after each addition of flour. After adding all the flour, knead the dough for another quarter of an hour.
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   Roll the well-kneaded dough into a ball, place in a bowl and cover, leaving to rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes.
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   While the dough is rising, make the filling. Chop the cabbage and place in a cauldron (or thick-walled pan), add a little water and simmer for a quarter of an hour, stirring.
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   While the cabbage is stewing, grate a large carrot and add it to the cabbage, then add salt and pepper.If you want to add more flavor to the filling, sprinkle it with dried basil.
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   After simmering everything together for 5 minutes, add tomato juice to the cauldron and simmer until the excess liquid has evaporated and the vegetables are completely cooked. If you don't have tomato juice, you can replace it with a few finely chopped fresh tomatoes. The filling in the pies is not hot; it needs to be allowed to cool.
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    Dough made with yeast and kefir is considered ready for rolling when it has increased in volume and becomes light and airy, noticeable to the touch.
11. 
    Punch down the dough properly.
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    To make it easier to make pies, divide the dough into several parts. Roll each part into a roller, and cut all the rollers into portions.
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    Roll each piece into a flat cake or mold them with your hands. The thickness of the cakes is 5-7 mm. Place the filling in the center of the cakes, seal the edges well, giving the pies a beautiful shape.
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    Fry the pies in hot oil in a well-heated frying pan. Start frying with those pies that were made first, since they have already had time to rise.
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    The pies are fried until beautifully browned on both sides. The heat is medium, you can fry under the lid.
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    Fried kefir pies in a frying pan are ready! To remove excess oil from the finished pies, you can remove them from the pan onto a paper towel.

Bon appetit!

Kefir pies without yeast, fried in a frying pan

In order for pies made with kefir dough without adding yeast to be airy and tasty, the dough must be prepared from kefir, which has already passed its shelf life in the refrigerator for several days and has become very sour. The fat content of kefir should be high, and if it is low-fat, then it is recommended to add a couple of tablespoons of sour cream to the dough.Fill these pies with any filling.

Ingredients:

• Kefir – 300 ml.
• Flour – 450 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Lightly beat the egg with salt and sugar in a deep bowl.

2. Add kefir and a spoonful of any vegetable oil and continue whisking using a whisk or mixer.

3. Gradually add sifted premium wheat flour into a bowl.

4. As soon as the mixture in the bowl thickens a little, add soda and continue stirring, adding the remaining flour.

5. Once all the flour has been added, place the lump of dough on a floured cutting surface. Knead the dough for about 5-10 minutes.

6. Then roll out the dough into a large thick rope and divide it into small pieces of the same size.

7. Using your hands or a rolling pin, form the pieces of dough into flat cakes at least 5 mm thick.

8. Place a large heaped spoonful of filling in the center of each flatbread (stewed cabbage, boiled chopped egg with rice, jam or marmalade, etc.).

9. Carefully secure the seams of the dough on the pies so that the filling does not leak out when frying.

10. Shake off excess flour from the pies, otherwise they will start to burn when frying.

11. Fry the pies in hot oil on both sides, placing them seam side down first.

12. Ready-made, rosy pies made with kefir dough without yeast are delicious to eat hot, but you will definitely like them when cooled down!

Bon appetit!

Yeast pies with kefir

This is a recipe for pan-fried yeast pies filled with boiled eggs and chopped green onions.Despite the simplicity of the filling, the finished products are simply amazing, airy and deliciously porous. And all because, thanks to yeast, kefir is perfect.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Premium flour – 400 gr.
• Kefir – 150-200 ml.
• Dry yeast – 1-1.5 tsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Vegetable oil – 100 ml.

For filling:

• Boiled egg – 4 pcs.
• Green onions - to taste.
• Water – 50 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Pour kefir from the refrigerator into a bowl, add vegetable oil, sugar, and salt. Heat the mixture over low heat until warm, stirring constantly with a whisk to prevent the kefir from curdling.

2. Add fresh dry yeast to the mixture. Monitor their expiration date and the integrity of the packaging: old and damaged yeast will not germinate.

3. Then knead the dough with a spatula, introducing flour in portions. The flour must be sifted to make the pies more fluffy.

4. Cover the well-kneaded dough with a towel and place it in a warm place to rise.

5. To prepare the filling for the pies, boil the eggs hard, peel, and finely chop.

6. Chop fresh green onions and mix with eggs.

7. Season the filling with pepper, salt and any other spices to your taste. As a filling option: add a little boiled fluffy rice to the eggs and onions, it will be delicious.

8. When the dough has rested and risen, punch it down and divide it into several parts.

9. Roll each part into a sausage, and divide the sausages into portioned pieces according to the number of pies.

10. Roll out the pieces into thick flat cakes (at least 5 mm thick).

eleven.Place the filling in the center of the cakes - one heaped tablespoon or two spoons, and then pinch the cakes very carefully.

12. Fry the finished pies in vegetable oil in a well-heated frying pan over medium heat.

13. Place the pies seam side down and fry on both sides until beautifully browned. You can fry the pies by covering the pan with a lid.

14. Eat hot pies with eggs and onions.

Bon appetit!

Pies with potatoes cooked in a frying pan

Fried kefir pies with potatoes are a very tasty and satisfying flour product. Yes, they can’t be called healthy, but when you want a tasty and quick snack at home, pies have no equal! Moreover, two or three pies with potatoes, fried in a frying pan, are quite capable of replacing a full meal. They are very convenient to take on the road, on a picnic or to work, and you can also eat them cold.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Kefir – 200 ml.
• Premium flour – 300 gr.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Sugar – 1 tsp.

For filling:

• Potatoes – 0.5-0.7 kg.
• Onions – 250 gr.
• Fried pork cracklings - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Ground red pepper - to taste.
• Spices for potatoes - to taste.
• Sunflower oil - for frying.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Boil peeled potatoes until tender in salted water. As an option, boil potatoes in their jackets; with it, the pies will have a slightly different taste.

2. Fry the diced onion in hot vegetable oil. The finished onion should have a beautiful golden color.

3. While the potatoes are boiling, prepare the dough. Add soda to warm kefir, stir until bubbles appear and leave for 3-5 minutes.

4.Then add salt and sugar to kefir and stir.

5. Add sifted premium wheat flour in portions.

6. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands. However, the dough must remain moderately soft, otherwise the pies will not turn out.

7. Cover the bowl with the dough and leave it on the table for half an hour until it rises.

8. When the potatoes are boiled, strain them from the water and mash them (peel them and also mash the jacket potatoes if you are making pies with them).

9. Add fried onions, salt and spices to taste to the puree, knead again. Alternatively, you can add small, fried pork cracklings to the filling. Let the filling cool.

10. When the dough has risen, knead it with your hands and divide it into several parts, roll it into sausages.

11. Divide the sausages into portions.

12. Form the pieces into flat cakes using your hands or a rolling pin (thickness – 0.5 cm). Work on a floured cutting board or kitchen counter.

13. Place the filling on the tortillas, then pinch the edges of the pies well.

14. Fry the pies in a frying pan on both sides in heated oil over medium heat. When both sides of the pies are golden brown, they are ready.

Bon appetit!

Delicious kefir pies with cabbage

Try making cabbage pies, fried in a frying pan until nicely crispy. They are prepared using a quick yeast-free kefir dough. If you have dexterity and some culinary experience, even for novice housewives, this dish does not take much effort, but the delight of family members from the mind-blowing taste will last a long time. And you will have to cook them again and again!

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Kefir – 200 ml.
• Flour – 300-350 gr.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp. without top.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp.

For filling:

• White cabbage – 300-400 gr.
• Carrots – 1-2 pcs.
• Onions – 1-2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – 2-3 tbsp. and for frying.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Ground coriander - to taste.
• Ground dried basil - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First you need to make the pie filling. To do this, you will have to finely chop the cabbage, preferably young cabbage - it cooks very quickly.

2. Next, you need to grate the carrots on a coarse grater and chop the onions into cubes. (By the way, you don’t have to add carrots to the filling if you don’t like them).

3. In a small amount of vegetable oil, fry the carrots and onions, stirring. At the end of frying, add salt and pepper to the vegetables.

4. It is better to fry the cabbage separately, in a large frying pan, adding salt to taste. To prevent the cabbage from burning, you need to stir it all the time. The cabbage will be ready when its quantity is reduced by about half.

5. Add fried onions and carrots to the finished cabbage, stir, simmer everything together for a few minutes, if necessary, add salt and various spices to taste.

6. Place the filling in a large bowl and let it cool.

7. Next, prepare the kefir dough. In a bowl, mix kefir with egg, sugar and salt.

8. Next, add soda, mix the mixture thoroughly with a mixer at low speed or with a whisk. The mixture should bubble and sit for 3-5 minutes.

9. Next, add vegetable oil to the kefir mixture and begin to add the sifted flour in small portions, stirring well all the time so that no lumps arise.

10.Grease your hands with vegetable oil, as the dough will turn out soft, like yeast. After kneading the dough well, cover it with a towel and let it stand for about 20 minutes and swell.

11. When the dough increases in size and becomes more airy, divide it into several parts. If necessary, grease your hands with oil or dust the work surface with flour.

12. Divide the dough into equal pieces according to the number of pies.

13. Roll each piece into a flat cake 0.5 cm thick, place the required amount of cooled filling in the center.

14. Seal the edges of the pies carefully.

15. Fry the pies in well-heated vegetable oil, placing them seam side down. Make sure to keep the heat low, otherwise the pies will burn and remain raw inside. You can fry them covered.

16. Eat hot fried pies with cabbage on kefir, washed down with tea.

Bon appetit!

Fried kefir pies with jam

Fried pies with jam on kefir and soda are a wonderful memory of childhood; these used to be often sold in school canteens. Personally, my favorite thing is fried pies with thick, fragrant blue plum jam. But with pear or apple, they turn out no less delicious, especially if they are prepared in your own kitchen!

Ingredients:

• Kefir – 250 ml.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Flour - as much as needed.
• Jam, marmalade for filling - as much as needed.
• Vegetable oil - for deep frying.
• Granulated sugar – 0.5 tbsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. To start, you can use a whisk or mixer. Quickly beat the egg with salt, add sugar, stir and add kefir, stir well again.

2. Pour baking soda into the resulting liquid base and beat for another minute.

3.Add the sifted flour in portions and knead the pie dough, not liquid and not too tight.

4. Leave the dough for 15-25 minutes, covering it with a towel, so that it swells well and becomes more airy and elastic.

5. Next, knead the dough and divide it into equal portioned balls.

6. From each ball we make flat cakes (no more than 0.5 cm thick), put thick jam inside and seal the edges well so that it does not leak out during frying. Roll out the dough into flatbreads with a rolling pin sprinkled with flour, or knead the flatbreads with your hands.

7. Fry the dough products with jam in a preheated frying pan on both sides until cooked and golden brown. Fire is moderate. During frying, the pan can be covered with a lid.

Bon appetit!

A simple recipe for kefir pies with apples

Kefir pies with apples are an excellent option for flour products when you want quick and hassle-free baking. Moreover, fresh apples are one of the cheapest and most delicious fillings for fried pies; They are added to both yeast and yeast-free flour products. When preparing these pies, follow the recipe, but remember that you may need a little more or less flour to end up with a soft and pliable dough.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 3-4 pcs.
• Flour – 300-350 gr.
• Kefir – 120-130 ml.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Cinnamon - to taste.
• Sugar – 50-70 gr.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp. no slide.
• Butter – 30 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp + for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Warm the kefir to room temperature on the stove, stirring so that it does not turn into lumps.

2. Add soda to the kefir and stir well, let stand for 5 minutes until bubbles appear.

3.Next, add salt, sugar, vegetable oil to the kefir and stir well.

4. Beat the egg into the mixture and mix until smooth with a whisk or mixer.

5. Add the sifted flour into the dough in parts, stirring each portion to avoid lumps.

6. After kneading the plastic dough, knead it for 5 minutes and leave it in the bowl, covering it with a towel for a quarter of an hour. The dough must stand to become more airy and soft.

7. Prepare the apple filling. To do this, wash the apples, peel and core them, cut into small cubes and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, stir well.

8. When the dough has stood, divide it into portions according to the number of future pies.

9. Using a rolling pin, roll out pieces of dough into flatbreads; fill each flatbread with apple slices.

10. Pinch the pies well so that the filling does not leak out, and fry on both sides in heated, refined, odorless vegetable oil.

11. The pies will be ready when they are covered with a golden brown crust. To ensure even frying, you can cover the pan with a lid.

12. Brush finished kefir pies with apples with melted butter, and you can also sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with tea or coffee.

Bon appetit!

Quick kefir pies with cottage cheese, fried in a frying pan

And finally, another recipe for sweet pies for tea. We suggest you fry pies with cottage cheese and vanilla or orange zest in a frying pan. Making curd filling is not difficult, just like yeast-free kefir dough, so preparing these aromatic culinary products does not take much time.

Ingredients:

• Kefir or yogurt - 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Egg yolks – 2 pcs.
• Sugar - to taste for filling + 1 tbsp. for the test.
• Vanilla sugar or vanilla – 1 tsp.
• Vinegar 9% (alcohol or apple) – 1 tsp.
• Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
• Flour – 1.5-2 tbsp.
• Water – 1 tbsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Grind one egg yolk with salt and sugar in a bowl or saucepan.

2. Add a glass of cooled boiled water to the egg and whisk until you get a homogeneous liquid.

3. Mix soda with apple or alcohol vinegar in a glass of kefir (yogurt). Let the mixture bubble up.

4. Add kefir and soda to the water with the egg and stir until smooth.

5. Add the sifted flour into the liquid in portions, whisking each portion well with a whisk.

6. Knead a slightly sticky and soft dough, close it and let it stand for 15-20 minutes.

7. Let's prepare the filling. Mix the cottage cheese with one yolk and add a little salt. In addition to the yolk, you can add white to very dry cottage cheese.

8. Add sugar and vanilla sugar (vanillin) to the cottage cheese to taste and grind into a homogeneous mass.

9. Next, divide the dough into the number of future pies, roll each piece into a flat cake with a rolling pin dusted with flour.

10. Fill the flatbreads with curd filling and seal the edges.

11. Fry the pies in oil on both sides over medium heat (first heat the frying pan with oil well, then reduce the heat).

12. The pies will be ready when they are fried on both sides until golden brown and beautiful.

13. Place the finished pies with cottage cheese on paper towels to absorb excess oil.

14. Sweet curd pies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with tea or fruit and berry compote.

Bon appetit!

Advice: You can also prepare an unsweetened cottage cheese filling by adding salt to the cottage cheese and mixing it with chopped parsley, dill or paprika.