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Tasty, simple and healthy: Kefir pies

by Ekaterina Vasilyeva - Nov 11, 2016

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Who doesn't love pies? Everyone loves them, well, almost everyone. Homemade baked goods always gives coziness and warmth, which is why housewives love to cook it in order to please their household with something delicious or to feed their favorite guests. And with whatever they make pies, as they say, for every taste and color - it’s a matter of your imagination. So, the topic of today’s article is kefir pies.

Pie with cabbage and kefir
Quick kefir pie
Kefir jellied pie recipe
Apple pie with kefir
Kefir pie in a slow cooker
Kefir pie with jam
Simple kefir pie
Fish pie with kefir
Potato pie with kefir
Meat pie with kefir
Egg pie with kefir
Kefir pies without yeast

Pie with cabbage and kefir

We offer a recipe for jellied pie with cabbage and kefir. It turns out very tasty, and it takes very little time and ingredients to prepare.

What you will need:

1.5 cups of kefir;
a couple of eggs;
half a teaspoon of soda;
a couple of glasses of flour;
200 g fresh cabbage;
50 g butter;
salt and spices at your discretion.

Shred the cabbage.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and simmer the cabbage. Salt and pepper to taste.
In a separate bowl, combine eggs, soda, salt, flour and kefir. Beat the dough.
Pour the dough onto a baking sheet and place the filling.
Cook in an oven preheated to 200°C. Readiness pie can be identified by its golden crust.

A few nuances that will help make this jellied pie even better:

It is best to prepare the filling with milk. The proportions are as follows: for 400 g of cabbage, take half a glass of milk. First, the vegetable is chopped and lightly fried. After this, milk is poured into the pan with the cabbage, everything is covered with a lid and left to simmer over low heat for about half an hour. If desired, the filling can be seasoned and do not forget to salt it. Cabbage stewed in this way will be very tender and tasty.
To make the filling tastier, it is better to purchase young forks that are small in size. Do not allow veins into the filling; they do not stew well and remain hard, which negatively affects the finished product.
Before pouring the dough into a baking sheet, the latter must be covered with baking paper (parchment), which is pre-greased with sunflower oil.
Pay special attention to the consistency of the dough. In order for the pie to turn out decent, the thickness of the dough should be similar to the mass for making pancakes or thick sour cream. Dough that is too thin will prevent the cake from rising and may not set well.
You can fill this pie in a variety of ways. The simplest one is to put the filling in a deep baking tray, pour the dough on top and mix everything with a spoon. But the best way to do it is to first pour half of the dough into a baking tray, spread out the filling, and then cover it with the rest of the dough. Then it will really look like pie, in the first case it may resemble cabbage casserole.
You can use not only kefir, but also mayonnaise as a basis for preparing the dough. The first one, of course, is preferable in terms of healthy eating and neutrality of taste. Mayonnaise gives the dough a rich taste, but the baked goods are more nutritious.

Quick kefir pie

And this is also a recipe for a budget-friendly, but dessert pie made with kefir, topped with streusel. Just like the previous version, it cooks very quickly and is very tasty.

What you will need:

250 ml of kefir, the fattier the better (by the way, you can replace it with sour milk);
sugar according to personal preference, but the standard amount is a glass;
a couple of eggs;
a couple of glasses of sifted flour (about 300 g);
a teaspoon of soda;
a third of a glass of melted butter;
vanillin;

To prepare the streusel you will need:

50 g butter;
two tablespoons of sugar;
two tablespoons of flour;
two tablespoons of cocoa.

Combine eggs with sugar and beat until fluffy.
Pour kefir into the egg mixture and mix gently with a spoon. Add baking soda and vanilla and mix again.
Begin gradually adding flour, stirring gently with a spoon. Don't worry if there are lumps.
Pour in the melted butter and beat thoroughly with a mixer.
Start preparing the streusel. To do this, melt the prepared butter, combine it with sugar, cocoa and flour. Stir until lumps form.
Grease the prepared baking pan with butter and pour in the dough. Top with prepared streusel. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180°C for half an hour. Check readiness with a dry toothpick.

Another delicious and quick pie based on kefir. The dough recipe makes little dough, so either use several times more, or bake the pie in a narrower mold.

What you will need:

a couple of chicken eggs;
a glass of fatty kefir;
half a teaspoon of soda;
a glass of sifted flour;
250 g of any hard cheese;
200 g sausages or sausages;
butter;
semolina or breadcrumbs.

Beat eggs with salt.
Pour the baking soda into the kefir and let it sit for a while, just a couple of minutes. Then pour into the egg mixture.
Gradually add flour and mix thoroughly. The consistency of the mass should resemble the composition for making pancakes.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, cut the sausage or hot dogs into slices. Throw everything into the dough and mix.
Grease the mold, sprinkle with semolina or breadcrumbs, pour the dough on top and smooth with a spoon. The cake is baked for an average of 25 minutes at a temperature of 200°C. The baked goods taste wonderful both cold and hot.

Kefir jellied pie recipe

The filling for this pie can be anything, so rely on your taste and desire.

What you will need for the test:

half a liter of fatty kefir;
a couple of chicken eggs;
a teaspoon of salt;
a pinch of sugar;
a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
half a teaspoon of slaked soda;
flour - its quantity is determined during the process, poured in until the mass becomes the consistency of pancake dough.

For the filling in this case, we will take five medium-sized potatoes, an onion, ground pepper, salt and canned fish.

Mash the canned food with a fork.
Wash the potatoes, peel and cut as for fries.
Chop the onion.
In a preheated frying pan, fry the onions and potatoes, add some salt. Fry until half cooked.
Transfer the filling to a plate, let it cool a little while you make the dough.

Preparing the dough.

In a bowl, mix sugar, eggs, slaked soda, salt, kefir and butter.
Start adding sifted flour until the dough has the consistency of sour cream.
Grease a baking dish with oil and place the filling in the form of potatoes. Flatten with a spoon. Place the next layer of fish pate. Pour the prepared dough on top and smooth it out again.
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Let the pie cook for half an hour. Check doneness with a toothpick.

As mentioned above, you can put what you like best as a filling in the pie: meat/eggs with onions/cabbage, etc.

Apple pie with kefir

A simple and delicious apple pie made with kefir.

What you will need:

apples, about 5 pieces;
250 g sifted flour;
100 g butter;
150 g of sugar, you can add or subtract its amount, it all depends on your desire (about 120 g goes into the dough, the rest is used for sprinkling);
a glass of kefir, take it thicker so that the dough does not fall off during cooking;
one chicken egg;
a tablespoon of cinnamon;
one and a half spoons of baking powder.

Combine softened butter with egg and sugar. Set the oven to prepare in advance to 180°C.
Add flour and baking powder to the egg mixture. Mix well and pour in kefir. The latter can be replaced with yogurt.
Place the prepared adze on a greased baking sheet. Use a spoon to smooth out the mixture.
Wash the apples, remove seeds and branches and cut into flat slices. Place on top of the dough, stacking them on top of each other. It should look like a scale.
Sprinkle everything on top with sugar, which you mix with ground cinnamon in advance.
Finally, drizzle melted butter over the top of the pie.
Bake the pie for about 40 minutes.

The dough of this pie is thin, but very tasty. Bon appetit!

Kefir pie in a slow cooker

It is very convenient to cook pies in a slow cooker. They turn out evenly fried and with a golden brown crust.

What you will need:

a couple of glasses of flour;
a glass of full-fat kefir;
a glass of sugar;
a couple of chicken eggs;
refined sunflower oil half a glass;
a couple of teaspoons of baking powder;
a pinch of vanillin;
raisins or nuts as a filling - you can use it as you wish.

The amount of ingredients is designed for eight servings.

In a deep bowl, beat the eggs with sugar. You don’t have to use a mixer; a whisk will do just fine.
Pour in kefir. It is very important that it is not cold, but at room temperature, so it is better to remove it from the refrigerator in advance.
Add vegetable oil. Mix everything very well.
Mix baking powder, vanillin and sifted flour together in a separate bowl. This is important, since this is how the uniformity of the dry mass is achieved.
Add flour to kefir with eggs, mix thoroughly and add nuts and raisins. By the way, if you decide to use nuts, it is advisable to first fry them or at least dry them in the microwave or oven. Then the cake will acquire a pronounced nutty aroma. It’s better to roll the raisins in flour so that they dry out a little. Mix the dough well. It turns out relatively liquid, so this should be done with a spoon.
Grease the multicooker bowl with oil. Pour the dough into it. Set the unit to frying mode. The average cooking time for a pie in such a machine is about 90 minutes. However, everything depends on the specific brand of machine and its power, so for the first time you will have to control the entire process.

The finished cake can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, or left as is.

Kefir pie with jam

This pie takes only an hour to prepare. To prepare it, you can use absolutely any jam, but it is not advisable to use too liquid one so that it does not spread or leak out. If all the jam is extremely liquid, you can thicken it by adding a little flour.

What you will need:

a glass of kefir;
a glass of jam;
a couple of chicken eggs;
a couple of glasses of flour;
half a glass of sugar;
a tablespoon of soda, but without a slide;
powdered sugar;
vanillin;
vegetable oil.

Pour the selected jam into a separate container, add soda to it and mix well.
In another container, beat the eggs with sugar, pour kefir into them, add vanillin. Sift the flour and begin gradually adding it to the dough. Mix everything very thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
Add the prepared jam to the dough and mix thoroughly again.
Grease a baking pan with oil.
Pour the finished dough into the mold, smooth the surface with a spoon and bake in an oven preheated to 200°C for 30 minutes.
Remove the prepared delicacy and sprinkle it with powdered sugar through a sieve.

It can be poured over and at the same time decorated with sour cream, which is prepared as follows. Beat about two hundred grams of thick sour cream with one hundred grams of granulated sugar. For aroma, you can add a pinch of vanillin; for cinnamon lovers, you can add a little of it.

Simple kefir pie

It's more of a sponge cake with a curd filling and a crispy crust than a pie, but it's very easy to prepare, quick, and the taste is to die for!

What you will need:

a glass of full-fat kefir;
three chicken eggs: one will go into the curd filling, and the remaining two into the dough;
200 g of sugar in the dough and three more tablespoons will be needed for cottage cheese;
300 g sifted flour;
half a teaspoon of soda;
a teaspoon of baking powder;
250 cottage cheese: any fat content, but the higher the percentage, the tastier the baked goods will be;
vanillin;
vegetable oil about 100 ml.

Stir the baking soda into the kefir and leave to sit for 10 minutes.
After this, add two eggs with sugar to it and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the vegetable oil and mix thoroughly again.
Combine the flour passed through a sieve with baking powder and gradually add it to the total mass and mix the entire mixture. Now you can proceed to preparing the filling.
Mix cottage cheese with one egg and sugar. Add vanillin and mash the mixture with a fork. If the composition seems dry, you can add a little milk, but the cottage cheese should not be liquid either.
Pour the dough into a greased form. Smooth the surface with a spoon. The filling, i.e. cottage cheese, roll into balls, about 13 pieces. Poke these balls halfway across the surface of the pie.
Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake the pie. The delicacy takes about 40 minutes to prepare. Readiness, as in other cases, is determined using a toothpick.

Fish pie with kefir

The pie turns out very fluffy, tasty and nutritious. It may well replace the second one.

What you will need:

a couple of chicken eggs;
a couple of glasses of full-fat kefir;
three tablespoons of mayonnaise;
a teaspoon of salt;
three glasses of sifted flour;
a teaspoon of soda;
For the filling you will need: a head of onion, a couple of cans of canned fish and boiled rice.

Beat eggs with salt.
Add soda and kefir with sifted flour to them.
Add mayonnaise and mix well. The dough is the same as it is usually made for pancakes.
Prepare the filling. Finely chop the onion.
Add canned fish, oil and juice from the can also go into the filling. Mash with a fork until smooth.
Add rice to the filling and mix well until the mixture becomes even.
Grease the prepared baking dish with butter.
Pour half of the prepared dough into the mold. Place all the prepared filling on top and smooth the surface. Pour the remaining dough over the top.
Place the cake to bake in the oven, preheated to 180°C.
When the crust of the pie has hardened, take it out and brush the entire surface with beaten yolk and put it back in the oven until completely cooked. Thanks to lubrication with yolk, the crust will be evenly fried and acquire a beautiful color.

That's it, ready, bon appetit!

Potato pie with kefir

What you need for the pie:

half a liter of fat kefir;
a couple of chicken eggs;
a teaspoon of salt;
one and a half teaspoons of sugar;
50 g margarine;
50 g vegetable oil;
half a teaspoon of soda;
onion head;
about 4-5 potatoes, depending on their size;
salt and spices at personal discretion;
flour is taken “by eye”.

Pour kefir into a bowl. Add eggs, sugar and salt to it.
Melt the margarine, add salt and soda, which must first be quenched with boiling water. Mix everything well. Begin to gradually add the sifted flour and stir constantly. Here you need to be careful. The dough should not be too stiff, but not too liquid. Like thick sour cream or pancake dough. Place the prepared dough in the refrigerator.
Wash the potatoes thoroughly, peel and cut into thin slices.
Peel the onion and finely chop it.
Divide the dough into two parts. Place one part on a greased baking sheet and spread over the entire bottom. Sprinkle onions on top, then lay out potatoes, then onions and potatoes again, salt and pepper everything and pour a little vegetable oil. Cover the top with the remaining dough, brush with beaten egg and place in an oven preheated to 180-200°C for 40 minutes.

Meat pie with kefir

A wonderful pie with a crispy crust and juicy filling!

What you will need:

about 2.5 cups of sifted flour;
a glass of kefir;
a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
half a teaspoon of salt;
one chicken egg;
a pinch of soda;
you will need sesame seeds for sprinkling;

For the filling you will need:

half a kilo of pork;
a couple of onions;
one clove of garlic;
greens to taste;
three tablespoons of cream or milk;
salt, spices and pepper according to personal preference.

Start by preparing the dough. Shake a little eggs with salt, pour in kefir, vegetable oil and soda. Mix everything thoroughly.
Add sifted flour to the above-mentioned preparation in such an amount that the dough itself will take it. Approximately about two and a half glasses are required. It should be soft and a little sticky, but not too much. After the dough is kneaded, cover it with a clean towel and leave to rest for 20 minutes.
During this time, prepare the filling. Chop the meat into cubes and chop it along with the garlic and half an onion. Scroll through a meat grinder. The fattier the meat, the juicier the filling will be, keep this in mind.
Chop the remaining onion, finely chop the greens and add to the minced meat. You can add more onion, this will only have a positive effect on the taste. Add cream (or milk, whichever is chosen). Pepper, salt and mix well.
Roll out the dough on the table into a large circle. Or divide it into two parts: one a little larger, the other smaller. The thickness of the rolled layer is at least 8 mm. Place the filling in the center and smooth it out. Next, if there is only one cake, then begin to collect the edges and interlock them in one place with each other, in the center. If there are two cakes, then cover the filling on top with a smaller round and join the edges.
Turn the cake over and poke the surface with a fork in several places to prevent it from puffing up. Make a hole in the center.
Brush the pie with cream or whipped yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds and place in the oven preheated to 180°C for about half an hour.
Remove the finished pie from the oven, sprinkle with water and cover with a towel. Leave it in this position for a quarter of an hour.

Ready!

Egg pie with kefir

What you will need:

a couple of glasses of milk;
160 g butter;
a couple of tablespoons of sugar;
half a teaspoon of salt;
a couple of chicken eggs;
280 g sifted flour;
one and a half teaspoons of baking powder.

For the filling you will need:

green onion;
a pair of chicken eggs;
salt and pepper.

Adjust the amount of filling yourself, depending on your personal preferences. Some people like it more, some less, so the quantity is not indicated here.

Boil the eggs. When ready, peel and cut into cubes.
Wash the green onions and chop them. Grease the frying pan a little with oil and fry the onion a little so that it becomes softer and settles a little. Salt and pepper it while frying. Add chopped eggs. Start preparing the dough.
Melt the butter, add sugar, salt, kefir and beaten eggs. Combine the sifted flour with baking powder and add it all to the kefir. Knead the dough.
Grease a baking pan with oil and pour out some of the dough. Place the filling on top and fill with the rest of the dough.
Bake at 200°C for about half an hour. Bon appetit!

Kefir pies without yeast

If you pay attention, absolutely all the pies presented above do not contain any yeast. This is the main advantage of baking with kefir, that the dough rises remarkably well even without auxiliary ingredients and becomes fluffy and light. It is also worth noting the positive impact of such pies for those who regularly watch their figure. Such baked goods are considered dietary and are not capable of adding extra pounds, of course, provided that they are consumed in moderation.

Finally, we offer you a recipe for delicious Ossetian pies, the dough for which is also prepared with kefir, which is loved by many housewives.

What you will need:

a couple of glasses of full-fat kefir;
flour - as much as the dough will take, so the amount is determined in the process;
a pinch of salt;
a pinch of soda;
half a kilogram of homemade minced meat: if you wish, you can use either pure pork or beef;
a couple of onions;
spices according to personal preference.

Pour the kefir into a saucepan and heat it, but do not boil.
Add soda to it and stir.
Add salt and sifted flour. Knead a soft, but not sticky dough.
Roll half of the resulting dough mass into a layer and cover it with a baking dish, which must first be greased with oil.
Salt the minced meat, add spices and chopped onions. Stir as you would when preparing cutlets.
Place the filling on the layer in the mold. Roll another flat cake from the remaining dough and cover the filling with it. Pinch the edges of the pie and use a fork to poke holes all over the top to prevent the top from puffing up when cooked.
Preheat the oven to 180-200°C and place the pie in it for 35-40 minutes.
Remove the dish from the oven and let it rest. After this it will be ready to eat.

Bon appetit!