Moldavian pastries vertuta. Moldavian twirls - a universal recipe

15.05.2020

Sweet pies

10-12

1 hour

250 kcal

5/5 (2)

Everyone loves homemade pies. Even children do not refuse them. But how to bake low calorie pie with a minimum amount of dough and abundance delicious filling? This requirement is met by Moldovan vertuties. They are easy to prepare, and will satisfy any gourmet with their taste. We offer several recipes for Moldovan pie with sweet and not sweet filling.

Vertuta with apples

The recipe includes a small amount of sugar, the sweetness is provided only by apples, and the dough is rolled out very thinly. Due to this, the vertuta is low in calories.

Kitchen appliances: oven, large baking sheet, suitable baking paper sheet, mixing bowl, rolling board, rolling pin, knife, sieve.

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Which apples to choose

The ideal option would be fresh apples from the master's garden. It is advisable not to expose imported and processed preservatives heat treatment... For baking, choose not very juicy, but soft fruits. Both sweet varieties and sweet and sour varieties are suitable. Sour apples you will have to sprinkle with sugar, as at high temperatures they become even more acidic. Sweetened apples, on the other hand, will release juice, which can leak out of the product and burn during baking.
The filling can be canned billet apples for pies. But before use, you must carefully drain the liquid and roll the apple pieces in flour, breadcrumbs or starch.

Step-by-step baking

Knead for twirls elastic dough

Prepare the apples

Form a vertutu

Step-by-step baking video

Pay attention to how to properly shape and place the twirls on the baking sheet.

If you are rich in apples, we suggest making an equally delicious one. Few apples - pamper the children.

Vertuta with cabbage

Cooking time: 60-70 minutes.
Servings: 4.
Kitchen appliances: oven, baking sheet, corresponding size sheet of baking paper, bowl for kneading dough, container for boiling eggs, rolling board, rolling pin, knife, frying pan, sieve.

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Which cabbage to choose

Considering that the dough rolls out very thinly and turns out to be tender after baking, cabbage filling should also be soft. Choose young cabbage or spitz-cabbage for vertuta.

Step-by-step baking

Knead the stretched dough

Sift flour into a bowl, add salt and 1/4 cup vegetable oil, start kneading.
Introduce into the dough gradually warm water until it becomes elastic.
Cover the dough with a towel and set aside to rest.

Prepare the cabbage

Place the eggs to boil.
Pour the remaining vegetable oil into the pan and set to preheat.
Chop the cabbage, send to the pan and simmer until tender.
Peel boiled eggs, chop finely with a knife, add to them ready-made cabbage, salt and pepper.

Form a vertutu

Turn the oven to 180 ° C.
Divide the dough in half, roll both parts thinly.
Place half of the sausage-shaped filling on the edge of each layer. Roll into rolls, twist them along the axis, and then - into rings.
Put the twirling rings on a baking sheet with baking paper, oiled with vegetable oil. Brush them with sour cream and bake for 40 minutes.

Step-by-step baking video

The video features a rich vertuta with a double filling. An interesting option is laying out a Moldovan pie in a round shape.

https://youtu.be/pYKHUlKoDy4

You can use a similar filling in cooking.

Vertuta with salted cottage cheese

Cooking time: 60-70 minutes.
Servings: 8.
Kitchen appliances: oven, baking sheet, appropriate baking paper sheet, bowl, rolling board, rolling pin, knife, sieve.

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Knead the dough

Prepare the curd

Form a vertutu

Step-by-step baking video

The virtuosity of drawing the dough is simply amazing. And again - new variant formation of twirls!

If this skill is beyond your strength, bake it.

Other filling options

Moldavian vertuta is stuffed with pumpkin, poppy seeds with honey and jam, raisins with nuts and butter.
For the preparation of this national pie, cheese filling is also used. A small amount of butter and herbs are added to it.
Delicious vertuta is also obtained with meat. Take raw minced meat with onions and spices or chopped boiled meat with onions.

The golden rules of the stretch dough

It should not dry out. While you are working on one part, cover the rest with a damp towel.
It should be crispy. Thinly lubricate the layers with vegetable oil before rolling into rolls. But do not overdo it, otherwise the dough will settle and turn into a heavy mass.
It should be baked until dark golden brown. If the baking time according to the recipe has not yet expired, and the cake is already golden brown, cover it with foil.

Try one of our recipes to bake vertuutu. Which of the offered fillings did you like? Share with us in the comments.

Delicious and easy-to-bake recipes

Original Moldavian pastries with sweet and salty filling - vertuta! Try to cook it with our simple step by step recipes with photos and videos.

1 h 30 min

283 kcal

5/5 (4)

Moldovan cuisine is delicious and varied. Vegetable dishes in this country, it is more often prepared from eggplant, cabbage, bell peppers and, of course, corn. From corn flour make delicious hominy. Zrazy is cooked with potatoes and meat. Bryndza, cheese and cottage cheese are made from milk. All of these dairy products are used as a filling for tortillas, placinas or twirls. It is the twirls that we will cook today.

The main rule of this baking is to roll out the dough very thinly, until it is translucent. The dough for vertuta is made very simply using the most common ingredients.

Since this dish was invented a long time ago, the recipe has changed over time. Each housewife brought something of her own into it, and as a result, many options for both the dough and the filling came down to us. I will present some of them to your attention.

Vertuta with apples

Rolling pin, knife and grater.

Ingredients for the dough:

For filling:

Choosing the ingredients you need

It is advisable to take natural butter for the dough, that is, from cream. But if you do not have the opportunity to purchase it, it is permissible to replace it with margarine.

Only the highest grade flour should be used for baking.

Choose sweet varieties of apples, then less sugar is needed for the filling. Firstly, the vertuta will be more useful, and secondly, for her unleavened dough you need a filling with a rich taste.

Take a light beer, the brand does not matter.

Step by step recipe

Put in a bowl butter, sift the flour there along with the baking powder.
Stir the ingredients until you get a crumb.
Add beer and remaining flour, knead the dough. It should roll out well and not stick to your hands. Then cover the dough with a kitchen towel and forget about it for a while.

Did you know? Even if we cook according to a recipe, it happens that the dough turns out to be thinner or drier than necessary. Most often this happens because the glasses and spoons with which we measure the ingredients are different for everyone. Therefore, adjust the consistency of the dough yourself. Add flour or liquid, depending on which dough structure you need.
We clean the apples, remove the core and three of them on a grater. Sprinkle with vanilla, you can flavor lemon juice to avoid darkening.
Divide the dough into two parts (or 4, if you want the product to be smaller). We roll out one of them as thin as possible, but so that the dough does not break.
Put half of the filling on the dough and sprinkle with sugar.
We wrap the dough in the form of a roll. Do the same with the remaining dough and filling.
Cover the baking sheet with special baking paper. Put the twirls on a baking sheet and put in the oven. It needs to be heated to 180 degrees.
I bake for 50 minutes, but it may bake faster or slower in your oven.

Did you know? The twirling dough remains rather pale during baking, it may seem that it is not ready. Therefore, from time to time you need to take out the baking sheet and determine its degree of readiness. If you want the Wertuta to have golden brown, before putting in the oven, brush it with egg yolk.
Remove the baked goods from the oven and slice while hot. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Video recipe for twirls with apples

I invite you to watch this video recipe. This will help you prepare the delicious vertuta properly.

Vertuta with cottage cheese

This vertuta cooks a little faster than with apples, because it doesn't take a long time to prepare the filling.

It will take to prepare it 1 hour 05 minutes.
This makes about 3 servings.... If you are cooking for a large family, double the amount of ingredients.
To prepare this dish you will need just a rolling pin.

Ingredients:

flour - 175 g;
salt to taste;
water - 100 ml;

butter - 10 g;
egg - 1 pc.;
cottage cheese - 250 g.

Step by step recipe

Combine flour, water and salt. We knead the dough, it needs to be kneaded for about 15 minutes to make it elastic. We leave it for 15 minutes, the dough should "rest".
The dough can be rolled out thinly, or you can stretch it with your hands. It will be faster and easier to roll out, since stretching requires skill. If you still want to learn how to stretch the dough, then divide it into two parts.
Roll both parts separately into small cakes, brush one cake with vegetable oil, and put the other on top. Let them crumble a little, about 10 minutes.
Then start stretching gently to prevent the dough from tearing. How to do it correctly, see the video recipe.
Mix cottage cheese with salt and egg, you can also add dill.
Spread the filling over the dough.
Roll gently.
Then roll the dough into a spiral shape.
Bake on a greased baking sheet for 40 minutes at about 180 degrees.

Video recipe for twirls with cottage cheese

Please watch this video. Here's how to properly stretch the twirling dough with your hands. Pay attention to the skill of the hostess!

Vertuta with cabbage

This vertuta takes about 2 hours to cook., almost half of this time will be taken to prepare the filling.
It will turn out to be one vertut which can be divided into 8-10 portions.
D to prepare this dish you will need frying pan, grater and rolling pin.

Ingredients:

egg (large) - 1 pc .;
water - 140 ml;
flour - 400 g;
salt to taste;

sunflower oil- 17 ml;
onion - 1 pc.;
cabbage - 1 pc.;
carrots - 3 pcs.

Step by step recipe

First, let's prepare the filling, as it should cool down by the time the vertices are formed. Finely chop the cabbage, after removing the top leaves.
Cut the onion into half rings and three carrots on a grater. Simmer vegetables over medium heat until tender.
Cooking the dough. To do this, combine water, flour, an egg and a pinch of salt.
Knead the dough and leave for a while.
Roll out the dough.
We spread the filling and fold it, as in the previous recipes.
We twist the twirl into a spiral.
We bake for about 40 minutes at standard 180 degrees.

Video recipe for twirls with cabbage

I suggest you watch this video of cooking twirls with cabbage. Here, the chef also very beautifully shows the ability to stretch the dough. Please also note that it is important to grease the dough abundantly with vegetable oil.

Decorating and serving the dish

Garnish with powdered sugar and fresh raspberries and strawberries. This is if the vertuta is coiled and not cut. If you have already divided it into portions, then icing sugar will be enough. This dish does not provide for a long and complicated decoration.

The salted twirl should be cut into pieces and served with vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. It can be served as independent dish and as an addition to soup or broth.

Bon Appetit! Leave your feedback and comments. Did you like the vertuta? Perhaps you can suggest your own options for filling for this interesting and delicious pastries... Share tips.

Vertuty is another wonderful dish of the national Moldovan cuisine! The peculiarity of the twirl is that they are prepared from stretch dough... Stretch dough is stretched by hand and on the table into a very thin layer, thick as papyrus paper, through which you can, as they say, "read books"!) Usually, it is stretched / stretched in vegetable oil, so it is more elastic and pliable, which does not give to him to tear and disperse. Stretch dough, usually made unleavened, and the filling when using such a dough in ready dish can be sweet (apple, pumpkin, cherry, plum, halva and others), and salted (feta cheese, cottage cheese, cabbage, potatoes, herbs, etc.).
Every family who has sheep prepares porridge, and then cheese, in Moldovan villages, for themselves and for sale. The recipes for its preparation are different and very old, but equally delicious! Therefore, twists made from stretched dough (after all, the ingredients for its preparation are very simple and affordable) it is with salted sheep cheese that have been cooked since ancient times.
Time passes and ideas do not stand still. So in this recipe I will tell you how real stretched dough has been made since the days of my ancestors. But we will experiment with the filling! Let's prepare a Moldavian vertuta with Austrian notes, as well as a pumpkin aroma, and a traditional salty one with feta cheese!

Servings: 5
Calorie content: High calorie
Calories Per Serving: 535 kcal

To make Moldavian twirls from drawn dough, you will need:

for the test:
wheat flour - 2 - 2.5 cups
water - 160 - 170 ml
vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
salt - 0.5 tsp
sweet filling:
apple - 2-3 pcs.
raisins - about 70-100 gr
vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
sugar - to taste
cinnamon to taste
and also, separately pumpkin - about 200 gr
salted filling:
feta cheese - about 200 gr.
for lubrication:
vegetable oil
yolk + milk - 20-30 gr

How to cook Moldavian twirls from stretched dough:

1. Let's prepare all the necessary ingredients. In the photo I captured everything for the stretch dough and the apple filling. The rest appeared during the preparation process).

2. Pour water into a deep bowl (or any other deep dish) room temperature... Salt. We measure and add sunflower oil. We mix everything.

3. Measure out the flour and sift it through a sieve into a bowl of water. Stir gradually, adding flour little by little. The dough should be elastic, soft, but not sticky to your hands.

4. Divide the resulting dough into 5 equal parts (you can also divide into a smaller amount, but the dough needs to be further stretched more and the final product will turn out to be larger. I like small twists, as we usually cook and serve in coffee and restaurants) ... We make even balls out of them.

5. Cover the resulting balls with a towel and leave to rest for 20-30 minutes.

6. While the dough is resting, prepare the apple filling. Peel and core the apples and cut them into four parts. Grate the apple on a coarse grater and sprinkle with lemon juice so as not to darken.

7. Let's start a rested test. We take the ball, put it in the middle of the table. Roll it out a little with a rolling pin. Now pour sunflower oil in the middle, on each side. We grind well, distribute it around the entire perimeter of the cake, both on one side and on the other. Roll out the oiled dough further, until thin pancake a couple of millimeters.

8. Now let's start stretching, pulling the dough. The position of the hands, as in the photo (it's easier and more convenient to stretch), as if you were holding an apricot or a peach in your hands (well, so that it was clearer). We cover our "bathes" from our hands with dough and turn it so gently in a circle, stretch the dough a little on the sides. Just do it very gently and carefully, do not overdo it, so that the dough does not crawl and break. Then we lay it flat on the table and help it stretch thinly. We make sure that the edges are thin, we do it with our fingers.

9. Here we have such a transparent, even stretched dough. Do not forget, the dough must be very thin, like papyrus, through which you can read !!! And one more thing - do not forget that the dough should always be oiled. If, after pulling and stretching it on the table, it has lost a little oil, we coat it again - pour it and distribute it by hand.

10. Let's get down to stuffing. Squeeze out the grated apple, remove the excess liquid. Sprinkle our stretched dough with our hands around the entire perimeter. We try not too much, but as in the photo. Rinse the raisins, dry them with a paper towel and sprinkle them on top of the dough. We also sprinkle sugar evenly over the filling, do the same with vanilla sugar and cinnamon. The filling is ready.

11. Now we turn off the twirl. Bend the edges from the right and left. Then fold the dough on top. Now gently roll the resulting dough with filling into a roll, rolling with both hands from the top of the palm to the fingertips. Here we have such a vertuta with apples.

12. We put the oven to preheat to 200 gr. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and put the twirls on it.
13. Begins to vertuts with feta cheese. Chop finely salted solid feta cheese into a bowl with our hands. Stretch the remaining dough and sprinkle it with chopped feta cheese evenly. Without bending, we roll up the tourniquet with our hands. It turns out a long tourniquet. Now we turn the snail out of it. Press it down a little with your hands and put it on a baking sheet too. So stretch and fill the remaining dough.

I bring to your attention Moldavian twirls with cottage cheese and herbs. These twists are prepared from stretched dough with the addition of vegetable oil, which makes the dough unusually elastic and due to this, it can be pulled to a thin layer.

The filling will be from cottage cheese and herbs and there will be a lot of it. We love it so much when there is a lot of filling and little dough. Try it too, I'm sure you will like it.

Let's prepare the ingredients for the dough. The water should be warm. You may need more or less flour, depending on the quality of the flour.

Pour salt into a bowl and add oil.