From early childhood. This product, made from wheat grains, can be considered ideal for feeding not only children, but also adults. Many tasty and healthy dishes are prepared from it, such as porridge, cutlets, pancakes and casseroles. There are also interesting recipes that can be used to make a very tasty cake with semolina.
Delicate pie
The number of culinary recipes related to baking is amazing. One of the most interesting and at the same time simple options is a cake with semolina. Its preparation, as a rule, does not take much time.
And for work you may need the following ingredients: for a glass of semolina the same amount of sour cream (20%) and sugar, one and a half glasses of wheat flour, 3 chicken eggs and a bag of baking powder.
A cake with semolina is usually prepared as follows:
- First, you need to pour the cereal into a separate bowl.
- Then pour sour cream over it, stir and leave for about 60 minutes. During this time, the semolina will swell a little.
- Grind the eggs well with sugar and add them to the prepared cereal.
- Add flour with baking powder and make the final knead.
- Pour the dough into a greased pan and place in the oven for baking. The temperature there should be 175 degrees.
In 50 minutes the cake with semolina will be ready. It can be removed from the oven and decorated as desired.
The simplest option
It must be said that the simplest fermented milk product is most often used to make pies. That is why in most cases the cake is made with semolina and kefir.
The set of products in this case also changes slightly: for a glass of sugar you need to take 2 raw eggs, one and a half glasses of semolina and kefir, as well as half a pack (100 grams) of butter.
In this case, the process technology will be as follows:
- First, add a pinch of salt to kefir, then add semolina and leave for 30 minutes.
- Soften the butter slightly, and then grind it with sugar.
- Separately, beat the eggs into a fluffy foam.
- Combine them with the oil mixture.
- Place the semi-finished products in one bowl and knead into a slightly runny dough.
- Transfer it into a mold and put it in the oven for 50-60 minutes. It is better to set the temperature to 160 degrees.
If you want to make an unusual cake with semolina and kefir, you can place several pieces of the selected fruit on its surface a few minutes before the end of baking. For the standard version, just sprinkle it with powder.
Dietary product
It turns out that you don’t have to have eggs at home to make delicious muffins with semolina. There are a variety of recipes for this option.
For example, you can take the simplest composition: for 125 grams of butter or margarine, one glass of flour, sugar, semolina and kefir, as well as a teaspoon of soda (slaked with vinegar) and 100 grams of raisins.
The procedure in this case will be as follows:
- First, as usual, you need to pour semolina with kefir and leave it to soak for half an hour.
- Add the remaining ingredients (except dried fruits) and carefully knead into a homogeneous dough.
- Add raisins and distribute them evenly throughout the mixture.
- Fill the molds with the mixture and place them in the oven. The temperature can be increased. 200 degrees will be enough.
To bake special small molds, it will take only 30 minutes, and for a large volume - at least 40. In any case, it is better to check the readiness with a toothpick by piercing the crust closer to the center.
With added chocolate
Culinary experts say that muffins made with semolina and kefir are the most beneficial option for experimentation. The prepared dough rises well and bakes. In addition, you can use all sorts of flavoring additives. Take chocolate, for example. To prepare this unusual delicacy you will need:
for two glasses of kefir (or sour milk), half a glass of sugar and semolina, 1 egg, 100 grams of margarine, 12 grams of soda, a glass of flour, a little vanilla and 50 grams of cocoa.
The cooking method in this case is slightly different:
- Dilute semolina in half the amount of kefir and leave for half a day (12 hours).
- After time, add sugar, egg and vanilla.
- Pour soda into the remaining kefir and leave for 30 minutes.
- Once it starts to bubble, add melted margarine and cocoa. Mix well.
- Combine both mixtures and add flour. The dough will turn out a nice chocolate color.
- Pour it into silicone molds and place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Ready-made cupcakes for lovers of sweets will be a pleasant addition to tea.
Muffins with semolina with milk are delicate in texture. It seems that cottage cheese has been added to them. You can put juicy summer berries, apple slices or jam in the muffins. They will help diversify the sweet dishes on your menu.
- Soak semolina in sour milk or kefir. Leave to swell in a cool place for one hour.
- Beat the eggs until thick foam. You can separate the whites from the yolks and beat the whites separately, gradually adding fine sugar. When you get a thick, elastic white foam, add four yolks to it. Mix carefully.
- Add slaked soda with vinegar, vanillin, softened margarine to the soaked semolina with milk. Beat well with a mixer. Pour flour into semolina and margarine and mix thoroughly until lumps disappear.
- Combine semolina and beaten eggs. Mix gently and quickly. Place in molds and bake immediately in a hot oven. If the muffin tins are made of iron, they must be greased with oil before pouring the batter. If they are silicone, you don’t have to lubricate them.
- Bake at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes. Check readiness with a match. If the matchstick is dry when you pierce the cake, it means it is ready.
- When the cupcakes have cooled, remove them from the pans and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Semolina cake with dried apricots
Components
- instant semolina 1 tbsp;
- dried apricots;
- butter 1 tbsp. l.;
- wheat flour 1 tbsp.;
- vanillin;
- baking powder 2 tsp;
- a pinch of salt;
- eggs 2 pcs.;
- vegetable oil 80 ml;
- milk 250 ml.
Recipe
- Beat the eggs and sugar into a strong foam. Add refined, odorless sunflower oil to the eggs.
- Heat the milk to 40 degrees and add butter to it. Pour semolina into milk. If you have instant semolina, you don’t need to let it swell. If it’s regular, add warm milk and leave for an hour, covering the container with a lid.
- Add baking powder and salt to flour. Combine flour, milk with semolina and egg-butter mixture. Preheat the oven. Grease muffin tins.
- Pour the dough into the molds. Place half a dried apricot whole or cut into small cubes into each mold. Bake at 180 or 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.
- Allow the finished cupcakes to cool. Remove from pans and dust with powdered sugar or glaze.
Semolina carrot-tangerine cake
Components
- semolina 1 cup;
- sour milk or kefir 200 ml;
- egg 1 pc.;
- sugar 100 g;
- butter 2 tbsp. l.;
- wheat flour 160 g;
- baking powder 10 g;
- tangerines 2 pcs. (small);
- carrots 1 pc.;
- tangerine juice 2 tbsp. l.;
- powdered sugar 4 tbsp. l.
Recipe
- Soak the semolina in milk or kefir and leave for 1 hour, covering with a lid. Do not put it in the refrigerator.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg with sugar and butter at room temperature.
- Add the egg-butter mixture and flour with baking powder to the swollen semolina.
- Grate the carrots on a fine grater. Peel the tangerines (you can take one small orange instead of two tangerines). Grind tangerines or peeled oranges in a blender. Add grated carrots and tangerines to the dough.
- Pour the dough into molds, bake in a hot oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.
- Add a few tablespoons of tangerine juice to the powdered sugar to prepare the glaze. Drizzle frosting over finished cupcakes and sprinkle with orange zest.
You can make semolina muffins with cocoa powder, pistachios, or banana pieces. Just remember to soak the semolina before cooking, add butter, baking powder and eggs. Then you will have real muffins with semolina.
We wish you good health and success in your culinary career!
These are such that I don’t even know if there could be any simpler recipe. Mixed, poured into molds, baked. There are no pitfalls, nothing that could spoil the final result. I can’t even imagine what might go wrong in this recipe - it’s elementary. Simple muffins, like twice two, in general. But! At the same time, the baking turns out so deliciously wonderful that I’m writing the recipe, but I’m thinking that I urgently need to run to the kitchen and repeat it, repeat it again and again, because it’s actually very tasty.
Did you know that semolina boasts a high content of potassium - an element that ensures the smooth functioning of the heart? In addition, semolina is useful in iron, B vitamins, and essential vegetable protein.
Dough semolina muffins it comes out crumbly, slightly crispy, but at the same time completely devoid of heaviness, for example, shortcrust pastry. Of course, you can’t call it airy either, but it’s still very light and even fluffy. Considering that in these plain muffins There is practically no fat, this is a very significant plus. In general, cook it - you won’t regret it! I added a little raspberry to the dough - it fell down, but did not spoil the overall impression of the baking. If desired, you can add zest, nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits and whatever you want. But raspberries, keep in mind, in kefir muffins"sounds" incredibly cool.
Ingredients:
1 cup of sugar;
1 glass of kefir;
1 cup semolina;
1/2 tsp. soda;
1/3 tsp. salt;
1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
I use a 200 ml glass.
I pour kefir into a bowl.
I add sugar, break an egg, and add salt.
I stir and add oil.
Add semolina, stir, leave for 5 minutes.
After this, I add soda, mix again and pour into muffin tins.
I bake simple muffins with semolina and kefir for about 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Bon appetit!
Great baked goods with a glass of milk or a cup of strong coffee.
Kefir cupcake is a sweet and tasty dish that will certainly become a favorite among your family’s favorite desserts. What’s interesting: many housewives consider making a cupcake a complicated process and rarely indulge their family with this type of homemade baking. However, baking it is much easier than, for example, making shortbread or sponge cake. They say that the first cake recipe belongs to the inhabitants of ancient Rome, who added pomegranate, dried fruits and nuts to boiled barley and then baked it. Over time, the extraordinary dish gained popularity throughout Europe. Muffins, Russian Easter, German adit and English cupcake are all types of cupcakes. In many countries, cupcake is a traditional dish, an obligatory attribute of the New Year and Christmas table. Homemade cupcakes are usually given as gifts to the hosts you come to visit. As a rule, they are baked from yeast or biscuit dough with a variety of fruit additives, candied fruits, raisins, and jam.
General cooking rules
Most often you can find recipes for sweet cupcakes that contain dried fruits, chocolate, jam or condensed milk. But you can bake unsweetened ones, salty or spiced muffins– they can easily replace a snack or a full breakfast. These muffins are topped with feta cheese or cheese, fresh or frozen herbs, bacon, sausage, boiled chicken and much more. The scope for imagination is unlimited, but you should remember that if you overdo it with additives, the dough may not rise well.
The cupcake can be baked in the form of cute figures using special small molds, made into a pie, or given the classic cupcake shape - a round cake with a recess in the center. It is believed that the most convenient forms are silicone, they are easy to clean, baked goods do not stick to the walls and are easy to remove. But if you don’t have them, you can use metal molds after putting paper ones in them. By the way, paper molds are convenient because you can eat the muffins without touching them with your hands, for example, while traveling.
Baked sweet cupcakes will look festive if you cover them with fondant or icing. A great option for savory muffins is to sprinkle with grated cheese at the end of baking so that the cheese melts slightly.
Basic recipe
Number of servings: 6, cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes, calorie content: 285 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 tbsp. semolina
- 1.5 tbsp. low-fat kefir
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 1.5 tbsp. Sahara
- 3 eggs
- 100 gr. melted butter
- dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, candied fruits)
- ½ tsp. soda
- salt to taste
The use of fermented milk products such as kefir is common in the baking of confectionery flour products. They turn out tasty, practically do not crumble, and if you wrap them in parchment and put them in a cupboard, they are stored for a long time, but do not become stale and do not lose their taste.
Preparation:
Without butter and margarine
Number of servings: 6; cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes, calorie content: 270 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. semolina
- 1 tbsp. kefir
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 0.5 tbsp. Sahara
- 2 eggs
- 6 tbsp. any vegetable oil
- 1 lemon
- 15 gr. vanilla sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp soda
Semolina gives the cake extra aroma and flavor notes. Lemon zest will add a little pleasant sourness, and vanilla and cinnamon will highlight it favorably. The dough for this recipe is baked evenly, and the cake itself is not dense, but tender and airy. Ideal for berry or fruit muffins.
Preparation:
- The flour must be sifted before baking to ensure that the baked goods are tasty and fluffy.
- Vegetable oil is usually included in the cake, so it is not necessary to grease the pan before baking.
To make the raisins softer, you can steam them in hot water. For holiday baking, dried fruits are soaked in rum or cognac for a day.
No eggs
Number of servings: 6, cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes, calorie content: 250 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. semolina
- 1 tbsp. kefir
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 0.5 tbsp. Sahara
- 110 gr. vegetable oil
- 0.5 tsp soda
- dried fruits
Great budget option classic kefir cake.
If you take low-fat kefir, you will get an ideal dish for those who are watching their figure.
Preparation:
- Combine semolina and kefir and leave for half an hour.
- Add soda, sugar and butter to the prepared kefir mass.
- Beat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Start adding flour, whisking constantly until you get a dough with an even consistency. Add dried fruits and mix.
- Bake at 180° for about an hour.
Without flour
Number of servings: 5, cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes, calorie content: 265 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. semolina
- 1 tbsp. kefir, preferably 3.2%
- 1 tbsp. Sahara
- 2 eggs
- 40 gr. butter
- 0.5 tsp soda
Delicious and tender semolina cake that seems to melt in your mouth! You can conduct a culinary experiment and replace the butter with two eggs - you will get an excellent diet pie.
Preparation:
- Combine semolina with kefir and leave for half an hour.
- Beat the eggs until white with sugar using a whisk or fork (not a mixer).
- Add salt and soda to the softened butter and stir. Pour in the egg mixture.
- Mix the resulting mass with kefir, mix everything.
- Bake at 180° for about half an hour.
Serving options
The key to the success of any dish is proper presentation. Kefir muffins can be served with your favorite jam, cutting off a piece and pouring it generously. Various types of fillers, bright and colorful, look good in cross-section. This could be orange citrus zest, brown chocolate chips, berries, or colorful jelly beans. Another popular way to decorate cupcakes is with sour cream fondant. You will need to beat 100 g of sour cream with ¼ tbsp. sugar, then brush the top of the cooled cake with this mixture and let stand. Creamy and chocolate icing is ideal for decorating children's cupcakes.
Unsweetened "Spring"
Number of servings: 5; cooking time: 1 hour; calorie content: 250 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- 0.5 tbsp. semolina
- 1 tbsp. kefir
- 0.5 tbsp. flour
- 3/4 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 150 gr. salted cheese
- greens (dill, spinach, parsley)
- a pinch of salt
- 1 tsp Sahara
- 1 tsp soda
An absolutely incredible recipe for savory muffins that will delight guests and become a favorite dish for everyone in the household.
Preparation:
- Rinse the greens well under running water, chop, mix with kefir and prepare puree using a blender. Then pass the pureed mass through a sieve and remove excess cake. After these steps, kefir acquires a beautiful green color.
- Add semolina to kefir and leave for half an hour.
- Cut the cheese into very small cubes and roll in half the flour.
- Add the remaining half of the flour, butter, soda, salt and sugar to the kefir mass, knead until smooth. Add cheese cubes. Seasonings, such as marjoram, red or black pepper, and turmeric, will give the product an unusual taste and color.
- Bake at 185° degrees for 20 minutes.
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