Sweet tortillas on water in a pan. Cakes in a frying pan

03.02.2021

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To bake wonderful unleavened cakes in a skillet instead of bread, you only need the very minimum of food. Plain flour, salt and water are always in the house. It is only necessary that the hostess has a desire to bake such cakes: you will not have to go to the store for bread. Freshly made tortillas will replace even the tastiest store-bought bread. homemade baking, which is filled with the warmth of female hands, will outshine any store baguette or loaf. There are many recipes homemade bread-, ... But unleavened cakes are prepared much easier and faster. The most valuable thing about such baked goods is that you can eat tortillas with anything, anytime, anywhere. I always give such cakes to my husband for work and my son for school. As a result, such baked goods come out dry and do not crumble, so my men always take fresh unleavened cakes. I once took such cakes for a picnic, so the whole family ate them in a minute. So, we cook together unleavened cakes in a pan - instead of bread, loaf or baguette.

Required tortillas:

- 500-600 grams of premium flour;
- 200-250 grams of water;
- 1 tea. l. salt.

Recipe with photo step by step:

First of all, I sift the flour several times so that the dough becomes airy afterwards. I add salt to the sifted, snow-white flour to make the dough tastier.

I pour in water in parts

and begin to knead the dough without lumps.

Then I add the remaining flour, but also in portions, spoons, and gradually.

I shape, roll the dough into a single ball and make sure that it no longer sticks to my hands. If the dough is elastic, tight, then there is enough flour and there is no need to add any more.

I will leave the dough to rest for 15 minutes. Then I cut it with a knife into even small pieces, so that each of them can be rolled into a round shape for a flat cake.

I roll out one piece of dough thinly so that the surface of the wooden board on which I am rolling is practically visible. But the dough shouldn't break. I catch the moment when I need to stop rolling with a rolling pin, and cut out a cake with a round plate.

I put it on a hot dry frying pan and bake on each side for 15-20 seconds.

I put the hot baked flat cakes on a separate plate. The cakes will rise, swell and stand up during the drying process. This is normal. The beauty! From conventional yeast-free products, fluffy tortillas... This is a miracle!

As a result, I get a mountain of the freshest delicious cakes.

These unleavened cakes in a frying pan instead of bread (of course, cooled a little so that no one gets burned) can be served on the table with any sauce, and even with meat. And you can also make the most delicious of them.

In principle, they are perfectly prepared both at home and in a traveling pan over hot coals. Therefore, on long hikes, experienced tourists prefer to take not purchased bread, which dries quickly and "blooms", but flour. Mixing it with salt and water, in a quarter of an hour you can get hot fresh baked goods for any meal.

Fried tortillas: what kind of dish?

Flatbread is popular all over the world and is present in one form or another in the cuisine of almost every nation.

The most common fried tortillas in Asia, where they are prepared mainly with yeast, as well as without yeast in tandoor and others special devices as well as in the Mediterranean and America.

Bannock is a popular dish in Indian cuisine - flat piece yeast dough fried in boiling oil. Bannock stayed in American cuisine, having undergone some changes.

A similar story has a tortilla - a flat round bread that came to Mexican cuisine from the North American Indians. The tortilla is baked in a dry flat earthen pan and then stuffed with pepper, cheese, meat, sausages, eggs.

In the kitchens of Balkars and Karachais, thinly rolled fried flatbread stuffed with potatoes and cheese or meat and herbs is popular. Traditionally, khychins were fried in a kettle of boiling fat, but modern technology involves frying in oil in a deep frying pan. The closest "relative" of the khychin is khachapuri. This dish of Georgian cuisine is a flat cake mixed with yogurt with cheese filling fried in a pan. Khychin and khachapuri are a bit like a Turkish fried flatbread with cheese and herbs - gözleme.

In the Tatar and Bashkir cuisine kystyby is considered traditional - unleavened flatbread fried in oil with cereal or potato filling... This dish is also common among the Chuvash people.

In India and Nepal, as well as in some parts of Afghanistan, chapatis are prepared - unleavened dough fried in a dry pan and eaten dipped in various sauces. It is a fast and cheap alternative to bread.

Famous italian pizza in fact also an ordinary thin dough cake with various fillings... Traditionally, it is baked in a special wood-fired oven. At home, it is cooked in the oven of a gas or electric oven, but recently recipes where pizza is cooked in a frying pan and even on a wire rack over glowing coals are gaining popularity.

In Mediterranean cuisine, such simple flatbread known as. Classically, it was baked in the oven, but the modern recipe allows for frying.

Mochi is a Japanese fried rice cake. There is a similar rice cake in Chinese and korean food... It is called shouzhubain in China, especially the Chinese with green onions... In Korea, it is called tirimgubi. All of them are fried in oil or baked in a dry pan.

Fresh Armenian bread- lavash - also prepared by instant frying. Initially, it was prepared in the tandoor. Lavash is widespread not only in Armenia, but also in Iran, Afghanistan and other neighboring countries. Another type of Armenian flatbread is a plump plump mantakash.

Georgian corn mchadis are served empty or stuffed with cheese, beans, onions and greenery.

Traditional Uzbek everyday obi-non and festive patyr are also varieties of fried bread cakes.

Used for different cakes different flour: wheat for pizza, khachapuri, patyr, mantakash, kystybyya and lavash, corn for tortilla and mchadi, rice for mochi, showjubain and tirimgubi.

Bannok and chapatis are prepared from any coarsely ground grain or gritty grains.

For khychin mix different types flour - wheat, barley, rye, but more often I just use wheat.

Pita was originally prepared from wallpaper flour - coarsely ground together with shells of wheat, rye, barley and other cereals; modern recipe provides mainly wheat.

Mongolian flatbread bortsok and Finnish reykäleipya are baked from rye flour.

Universal recipe: bread cakes with milk

Bread cakes with milk without yeast, eggs and butter can successfully replace bread. Due to their neutral taste, they can be served with garlic for borscht or with honey for tea. You can cook such cakes in a few minutes, without proofing and long baking.

V this recipe tortillas are fried in a dry skillet, but if desired, they can be fried in a little vegetable oil.

The ingredient list is basic. If we supplement it with fresh herbs or dried herbs, cheese, sesame seeds, then we get completely new tastes.

Breadcakes can be made about the size of a coffee saucer or a soup plate, whichever suits you best. They turn out to be quite soft with small air voids inside.

Ingredients:

Recipe Information

Type of dish: baked goods
Cooking method: frying
Servings: 10
30 minutes

milk - 150 ml
soda - 0.5 tsp.
apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
salt - 0.75 tsp
vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
wheat flour - 300 g.

Cooking method

The flour for the tortillas must be sieved to make the dough soft and tasty. Then you need to add salt and mix with flour.

For bread cakes, you can use fresh or slightly sour milk. The liquid should be poured into flour.

Then add vegetable oil and soda quenched in vinegar.

It is necessary to knead soft dough... When it almost stops sticking to your hands, cover it with a towel and leave for 10 minutes. During this time, the flour will absorb moisture, and the dough will become denser and more elastic.

Divide the rested dough into 9-10 servings. Each piece must be rolled into a ball.

Sprinkle the table with flour or grease with vegetable oil. Each portion of the dough should be rolled out into a cake 2-3 mm thick.

Heat the frying pan over medium heat. Bread cakes can be fried one at a time or several at once, depending on the size of the pan and the cakes themselves.

One side is browned in 2-3 minutes. Then the cakes must be turned over and fried on the other side. Ready baked goods fold it in a pile and cover with a towel to keep it soft.

You can make a lean version - we leave the recipe for flat cakes the same, just replace the milk with water.
If the dough is kneaded on sour milk then vinegar can be skipped. In this case, the soda must be added to the milk and mixed, and then poured into the flour.
If the cakes are very swollen and unevenly browned, prick in several places with a fork before placing in the pan.
Wheat flour can be partially replaced with corn, buckwheat or oatmeal. However, in any case, wheat flour should be more than 50%.
As an experiment, you can add sugar to make delicious sweet baked goods.

Mexican tortilla

You can prepare a variety of meals with tortilla.

If you wrap fried meat in it, canned beans and corn baked Bell pepper, slices of tomatoes, you get a burrito.

If you wrap cheese, herbs and vegetables, you get an enchilada.

A Mexican tortilla with grilled meats and vegetables is called fajita.

But in essence, these are ordinary fried corn tortillas in water and flour in a pan.

Products:

flour - corn and wheat - 150 g each
hot water - 200 ml
butter - 50 g
salt to taste.

Preparation:

Sift both types of flour with salt in a heap with a depression.
Pour in a little water, kneading the dough.
Melt the butter and pour into the dough.
Knead a smooth lump of homogeneous dough and leave covered with a napkin for half an hour.
Divide into 8-10 slices, roll out thin cakes and fry in a dry skillet on both sides until bubbles appear.
Bubbles need to be punctured and turned over with a tortilla.
Fry a little more.

Gozleme: Turkish cakes on kefir

Gozleme is a great replacement for your usual breakfast pancakes and great addition for lunch or dinner in a hurry.

Although if you do not know the history of the dish, then these are just ordinary cakes with kefir stuffed with cottage cheese and herbs.

They don't even have to be cooked with a filling - you can fry them without anything, and then grease them with butter and serve.

What do you need:

wheat flour - 400 g and a handful of topping,
slightly warmed kefir - ½ cup,
warm water - ½ glass,
fat cottage cheese with large grains - 250 g,
greens (assorted) - 50 g,
butter - 40 g.
salt.

How to cook:

Mix kefir, water and salt.
Adding flour, knead the dough and leave for half an hour.
Salt cottage cheese and combine with finely chopped herbs - dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, celery.
Divide the dough into 6-10 pieces, roll out very thinly.
Put the filling and roll up, patting the seam with your hand.
If there is an envelope shape, put the filling in the middle; if there is a semicircle shape, the filling is laid out on one side.
The gözleme needs to be baked in a dry frying pan. Each side to be fried is greased with melted butter.

Rye cakes with sour cream

Such flatbreads are popular in Finland.

Sour cream can be replaced natural yoghurt, kefir, yogurt, rye flour is complemented by its other types - wheat, barley.

Barley, by the way, can completely replace rye if necessary.

Ingredients:

flour - rye and wheat - 150 g each
sour cream or thick fermented milk product- 250 ml
sugar - 1 tsp
soda - ½ tsp.
vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.,
salt to taste

How to do:

Combine dry products and sift.
Combine liquid products and stir with a whisk.
Introduce the dry mixture into the liquid, slowly knead the dough.
Leave it for half an hour, grease it with vegetable oil and cover with a film, and then divide it into 6-8 parts.
Roll each piece into a circle 1 cm thick, fry in a greased frying pan under the lid for several minutes on each side.
If the cakes turn out to be damp on the inside (this can happen due to the low stickiness of the flour), they can be brought to readiness in the microwave.

Cheese recipe

Yeast Cheese Tortillas - Simple and quick recipe, however, it can be supplemented with various ingredients.

If the cheese in the filling is salty, then finely chopped pickled cucumber, ham, if the cheese is unsalted, then a grated apple or pear with dense pulp.

Very tasty with green onions - just take a large bunch of onions.

Products:

warm milk - 200 ml
wheat flour - how much the dough will take, about 350-400 g
butter - 50 g
sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
salt - ½ tsp.
yeast (live) - 20 g
solid or Adyghe cheese- 150 g.

How to bake:

Dissolve the yeast in warm milk, let it stand for literally 10 minutes.
Mix all bulk products with a slide, pour in milk, knead the dough.
Leave it for a while - no more than 20 minutes, you do not need to wait until it grows, just so that the flour begins to release gluten. Grate the cheese, stir in the mixture.
Roll out a round tortilla (up to 1 cm) and fry in a dry frying pan, greasing the finished tortillas with cheese with melted butter.

Secrets of storage and filing

How and with what to serve such quick baking, depends on your desires - this product is as versatile as bread. Serve with honey or jam and you can have a tea party. Fry the cakes for some soup, for example, for pickle, and a full dinner is ready.
Tortillas without any fillings and additions are served with any dishes; in some kitchens they even replace a spoon for soups and sauces. They can be stored from several days to several months, depending on the recipe.
This stuffed pastry is served with tea, coffee or first courses. It is not subject to long-term storage.
If baked too much, cool, wrap in a bag and freeze. It will be enough to warm it up in the microwave and the delicious pastries are ready.

Mistresses on a note

None of the recipes are rigorous. Ingredients can be replaced and supplemented. For example, olive oil can be replaced with corn, nut, sunflower, cheese - cottage cheese, one type of meat - another. The finished tortillas will taste differently, but they will not get worse. The main thing to observe is the proportions of dry food and liquid.

The dough should be soft, elastic, homogeneous - then it will roll out well and will neither burn nor creep when frying.

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Delicious Chinese puff pastry with onions. It's not difficult to make them, here is a simple video with tips:

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The yeast-free tortilla recipe uses flour, water, and salt, without plant or animal ingredients. For more bright taste and flavor is added by butter, eggs and dairy products.

Yeast-free flatbreads can be cooked in water or kefir

Ingredients

Salt 1 tsp Vegetable oil 2 tbsp Boiled water 200 milliliters Flour 3 stacks

Servings: 3
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes

Yeast-Free Pancake Recipes

There are many options for cooking Uzbek pastries. Tortillas are unleavened, butter, cheese, I add fillings to them, for example, ham, vegetables or mushrooms. We will prepare the dish according to a classic recipe. These cakes replace bread.

For baking, you need a non-stick frying pan with a thick bottom. Fried tortillas, unlike those cooked in the oven, are more high-calorie, but they cook faster and they have an appetizing golden brown crust.

Preparation:

Sift flour and mix with salt.
Add water.
Knead the dough like dumplings.
Add vegetable oil at the end of the batch.
Leave it on for 20 minutes.
Roll the dough into a sausage shape and cut into pieces up to 2 cm thick.
Roll each piece into a thin layer and fry on both sides until golden brown... Add vegetable oil to the pan only for the first cake. On the first side, fry the cake under closed lid, then turn over and cook with the lid open.

The finished tortillas are cut into 4 parts and greased with butter until they cool. Served with the first course or side dish, eaten with jam and honey.

Yeast-Free Cheese Tortillas

The dish turns out to be lush, because it is cooked with kefir and soda. After spending 15 minutes, you can enjoy crispy tortillas.

Ingredients:

2 stacks wheat flour;
1 stack kefir;
150 g of hard cheese;
0.5 tsp sugar, salt and soda.

If desired, after kneading the dough, add sausage or greens to it.

Preparation:

Heat kefir to 38 ˚С.
Pour sugar, salt and soda into it. Leave it on for 5 minutes.
Grate the cheese, mix with flour and add to the kefir mass.
Knead the dough with your hands for 3 minutes.
Divide the mass into 5 parts, form each into a cake.
Fry on both sides for 2-3 minutes. under a closed lid.

If you fry the cakes with the addition of vegetable oil, then they are similar to pasties, the same crunchy and crispy. They are eaten with low-fat dishes, for example, with a fresh vegetable salad.

Cakes in a frying pan are used as a basis for cooking. They are used to wrap a filling, such as onions or mushrooms, then fry and cut into portions... It will turn out hearty snack, which is suitable for a festive table.

Pour into the mixer bowl mineral water with gas, vegetable oil and mix. Such cakes can also be cooked in ordinary, non-carbonated water, but with carbonated dough it turns out softer, respectively, and the cakes are even tastier.

Pour in baking powder, salt and about half of the sifted flour. Mix thoroughly.

Add the remaining flour and mix with a mixer.

Collect the resulting dough in a ball and knead for 2-3 minutes. The dough is very soft and tender. It is difficult to accurately indicate the amount of flour, be guided by the resulting dough: it should be approximately like a dumplings.

We divide the dough into the number of future cakes. From the amount of ingredients given in the recipe. This makes four cakes. Roll out a piece of dough thinly - 3-5 mm, to a diameter of 15 cm (approximately).

Put the cake in a pan, preheated with a little vegetable oil. Bake the cake over medium heat (or slightly below medium), covered for 2.5 - 3 minutes, until golden brown.

Then turn the cake over and bake the same on the other side. We bake all other cakes in the same way. But we no longer grease the pan with vegetable oil - we put the blanks in a dry pan. It is convenient to work in parallel: we roll out one cake and begin to fry it. While the first cake is being fried, roll out the second, and so on.

Put the finished cakes in a bag or cover with a towel to keep them soft.

Such cakes are good for meat, fish, first courses ...

Bon Appetit!

Pancakes can be made in a pan for any occasion. They go well with tea, decorate any picnic, or just become a pleasant alternative. bakery products... The beauty of this dish is that it can be prepared from the simplest ingredients, even if the "inner world" of the refrigerator is going through hard times.

The dough for cakes in a pan is prepared with kefir, milk, whey, sour cream, etc.... For the most simple recipe plain water and flour are enough. Also, if desired, eggs, butter or vegetable oil, dry or fresh yeast are added to the cakes.

Tortillas are good on their own, but with the filling they become even tastier and more interesting.... It might just be shredded greens sausages, hard cheese or feta cheese, cottage cheese, etc. From spices you can take salt, black pepper and herbs.

Fry the cakes in vegetable or butter on both sides until a characteristic golden color... Many people choose not to use oil at all, leaving the pan dry. The fire should be medium, and the pan should not be too hot.

Depending on the recipe, the tortillas are served with various sauces or simply as bread. Any filling can be wrapped in thin cakes, using them as pita bread. This dish is recommended to be served hot, as it becomes dry after cooling.

Secrets of making perfect pancakes in a frying pan

Pancakes are a delicious alternative to store-bought bread that can easily turn into a snack or even a full meal meal. It all depends only on the chosen filling, which can be very diverse, like, in fact, the dough itself. Knowledge, how to cook tortillas in a pan, will definitely help out in everyday life, so you should remember a few simple notes about this dish:

Secret # 1. To make the cakes softer, after frying they need to be stacked on top of each other and covered with a warm towel.

Secret number 2. It is worth starting only approximately from the amount of flour indicated in the recipe, since in fact you may need a little more or less of it. It should be added to the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.

Secret number 3. If the flatbread dough is too tight, just dilute it with a little clean water.

Secret number 4. Roll out the tortillas to the size of your skillet so that they are evenly fried on all sides.

Secret number 5. Tortillas can be fried without adding vegetable oil in the pan. From this they will not be so ruddy, but the calorie content of the dish will sharply decrease.

Secret number 6. The easiest way to work with tortilla dough is to grease your hands and table with vegetable oil.

Secret number 7. Finished tortillas can be brushed with butter for more delicate taste... Moreover, this way they will stay fresh longer.

The cakes with cottage cheese in the pan may turn out to be a little dry. Therefore, you should dilute the filling with more juicy feta cheese. This will significantly improve the taste of the dish, and will take care of the appearance. fresh herbs... Parsley, dill, cilantro, and green onions work well. The cakes themselves will turn out to be quite lush and voluminous.

Ingredients:

300 g flour;
200 ml of kefir;
2 tbsp. l. butter;
¼ h. L. salt;
¼ h. L. soda;
100 g feta cheese;
100 g of cottage cheese;
Fresh greens;
Pepper.

Cooking method:

Sift flour, mix with salt and baking soda.
Combine kefir and butter in a separate plate, pour over to dry ingredients.
Knead a soft, elastic dough and leave it under a damp towel for 15 minutes.
Put cheese and cottage cheese in one plate and knead everything well with a fork.
Add chopped greens and a little ground pepper to the filling, mix again.
Divide the dough into eight equal parts, roll each into a thin cake.
Put the filling in the middle of the cake, collect the edges in the center and turn the joint downwards.
Gently roll out the cake again and fry on each side for 2 minutes.

Interesting from the net

To implement this recipe, you do not have to make any expensive purchases. All the ingredients are very simple and affordable, but the cakes are quite tasty with them. The yeast will allow the dough to rise better, making the dish more appetizing, but it should also be considered that adding it will increase the calorie content.

Ingredients:

300 g flour;
150 ml of water;
10 g dry yeast;
200 g feta cheese;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
Salt.

Cooking method:

Mix flour and salt and pour into a deep bowl.
Make a hole at the top of the slide and add yeast there.
Gradually adding water, knead the dough and add vegetable oil to it.
Mix everything again and leave to rise for 30 minutes.
Transfer the dough to the table and knead it with your hands into a large cake.
Chop the feta cheese and spread it over the entire surface of the dough.
Roll up the cake into a thin tight roll, then wrap it in a "snail".
Knead the dough again into a cake using the palms of your hands, but not the rolling pin!
Fry the tortilla over medium heat until golden brown.

By adding to classic recipe a little sour cream, you can radically change the taste of the cakes. Thereby simple ingredient they become more luxuriant and tender. Instead of water and sour cream, you can immediately use whey. Mixing the two types of flour is also important. Experienced chefs advise to cook cakes in a pan only according to this principle.

Ingredients:

1 cup wheat flour
1 cup rye flour;
500 ml of water;
3 tbsp. l. sour cream;
1 tsp baking powder;
1 pinch of salt;
Greens.

Cooking method:

Put the sour cream in a container with water and stir until smooth.
Add rye and wheat flour, baking powder and salt, knead the dough.
Chop the greens and add to the dough, knead it well again.
Divide the dough into portions and roll them into flat cakes.
Fry each tortilla in a pan without adding vegetable oil for 1 minute on each side.

Unleavened cakes can be served with any dish instead of bread. Such a replacement will certainly benefit the entire body, especially the figure. In this recipe, tortillas are sprinkled with icing sugar, thereby turning them into light dessert for tea. If desired, this ingredient can be excluded, then the cakes will remain neutral in taste.

Ingredients:

3 cups flour;
1 tbsp. l. yeast;
50 ml of vegetable oil;
30 g butter;
1 glass of water;
1 pinch of salt;
50 g icing sugar.

Cooking method:

Heat the water, add yeast, salt and flour into it, knead the dough.
Leave the dough warm for 40 minutes, then roll it out into a thin layer.
Melt the butter and grease the entire surface of the dough with it, roll the dough into a roll.
Cut the roll lengthwise into 2 equal parts and roll each one again into a round roll.
Roll the resulting circles into flat cakes and make a small hole in the middle.
Let the cakes sit for 10-15 minutes, then fry them on vegetable oil and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Potato tortillas go well with a variety of sauces and can serve light snack before or during a meal. Cooking them is extremely simple, the recipe is somewhat reminiscent of pancakes. To make the dish even more aromatic, you must definitely add to it Provencal herbs or any other dried herbs.

Ingredients:

4 potatoes;
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
100 g flour;
Provencal herbs;
Salt pepper.

Cooking method:

Boil the potatoes, then peel and mash with a fork (you can grate on a coarse grater).
Salt and pepper the resulting puree to taste, sprinkle with Provencal herbs.
Add 50 g flour to the potato dough, mix well and form small balls from it.
Roll each piece in flour and roll it into a flat cake with a rolling pin.
Fry the cakes in a well-heated frying pan until golden brown.

Now you know how to cook cakes in a pan according to the recipe with a photo. Bon Appetit!