Cherry strudel - general cooking principles
The strudel is a sample of the delicious dessert from Austrian cuisine. Such a roll (and strudel is just a roll) is very tasty for breakfast, or you can serve it as a dessert for dinner, but not for dinner, as the strudel is very caloric and heavy for the stomach. The strudel can be prepared with any filling, both sweet fruit, and with vegetables (for example, strudel with cabbage is very tasty) or with meat. Try making a cherry strudel - a sweet and sour dessert. A fragrant cherry under a thin crispy crust of puff pastry will surely quench your thirst for something tasty.
Cherry strudel - preparing food and dishes
The most important thing in strudel is, of course, dough. It is the dough that determines whether you get the famous Austrian roll in the end or just a delicious dessert. In order to prepare a strudel with a cherry, you can use both fresh cherry and frozen or cherry jam. The dough should be flaky, making it easy, but many housewives, not wanting to waste time and energy, prefer to use the purchased puff pastry from the store.
Cherry Strudel Recipes:
Recipe 1: Cherry strudel
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh Cherry 0.5 kg
- Flour 1 cup
- Sunflower oil 2 tablespoons
- Water ½ cup
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Icing sugar 100 grams
- Butter
Cooking method:
- Sift the flour through a sieve. Pour into a deep dish, mix with water and salt. Water is best heated to 40-45 degrees before mixing. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the mass and mix. The resulting dough will be quite thick and sticky.
- Roll the dough into a ball, smear with vegetable oil, wrap with cling film and put to reach 30-40 minutes, preferably in a warm place.
- Prepare the cherry. Remove the bones from the berries and pour them into the saucepan, add sugar and mix. Put the pot on the fire and, stirring, bring to a boil. Cook cherries in their own juice for 5-6 minutes.
- When the cherry has cooled, strain it from the juice - for the strudel, it is not useful.
- Take out the dough and roll it into the layer, but not very thin. Squeeze the dough in a circle with your palms.
- Melt the butter and grease the dough with it. At this stage, you can use and vegetable.
- Spread cherries on the dough, pre-sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Wrap the dough with cherry in a roll, helping yourself with a towel.
- Cover the finished roll with butter and place on a baking sheet covered with paper.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cherry strudel for about 30 minutes.
- The finished strudel can be cut into portions after cooking and served to the table.
Recipe 2: Cherry strudel with almonds.
Almond nut will set off the taste of cherries in the most beneficial way, making the strudel taste rich and rich.
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh Cherry 0.5 kg
- Almond 100 grams
- Flour 1 cup
- Water 150 ml
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Water ½ cup
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Iced sugar 50 grams
- Butter
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Sift the flour through a sieve. Pour into a deep plate, mix with water, egg and salt. Knead the dough, adding to it a little melted butter. The resulting mass should be supple and soft.
- Roll the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and place in a warm place for 40-60 minutes.
- Prepare the cherry. Remove the bones from the berries and pour them into the saucepan, add sugar and mix. Put the pot on the fire and, stirring, bring to a boil. Cook cherries in their own juice for 5-6 minutes.
- When the cherry has cooled, strain the berries from the juice - for the strudel it is not useful.
- Chop the almonds with a rolling pin or a blender. Mix a spoon of powdered sugar, ground almonds and cherries.
- Take out the dough and roll it into the layer, but not very thin. Squeeze the dough in a circle with your palms, placing a clean towel under it, until it becomes thin.
- Butter or vegetable oil grease the dough.
- Spread the cherry-nut mix on the dough.
- Wrap the dough with cherry in a roll, helping yourself with a towel.
- Cover the finished roll with butter and place on a baking sheet covered with paper.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees and bake strudel with cherries and almonds for about half an hour.
- The finished dish can be cut into portions after 5 minutes after cooking and serve.
Recipe 3: Cherry strudel with cookies
For this strudel we will take the purchased dough. Dairies and bakeries greatly facilitated the lives of women by selling ready-made puff pastry. You will only need to roll it out and cook the filling.
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh cherry 500 grams
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Puff pastry 250 grams
- Vanilla cookies 50 grams
- Iced sugar 50 grams
- Butter
Cooking method:
- Prepare the cherry. To do this, remove the bones and put the berries in the pan, add sugar, stir and boil for about 5-6 minutes after boiling.
- Chop the cookies into a crumb with a rolling pin or a blender.
- Strain chilled cherries from the juice and mix with powdered sugar and crumb.
- Puff out the puff pastry with a rolling pin as thin as possible and grease with melted butter.
- Put the cherry mixture with cookies on the dough and roll up the roll.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and cover the deck for baking with a sheet of parchment paper. Put the strudel on it and bake it for about half an hour.
Recipe 4: Cherry and Cranberry Strudel (Frozen Berry)
If you think that you can cook strudel only in summer, during the cherry season, then you are mistaken. A delicious dessert will turn out from frozen berries.
Ingredients Required:
- Cherry, frozen pitted, 250 grams
- Cranberries, frozen 250 grams
- Sugar 2 glasses
- Puff pastry 250 grams
- Iced sugar 50 grams
- Butter
Cooking method:
- Prepare the berries. Remove them from the refrigerator and let them thaw, then put them in a saucepan, add sugar, stir and cook after boiling for about 5-6 minutes.
- Strain the berries from the juice and cool. Mix them with powdered sugar.
- Puff pastry should be rolled out with a rolling pin as thin as possible and smeared with melted butter.
- Put the berry mixture on the dough and roll up with a roll with a towel.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and cover the deck for baking with a sheet of parchment paper. Put the strudel on it and bake it for about half an hour.
Cherry strudel - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- You can not knead the dough manually, but use the bread machine and knead it in the Pizza mode for 10 minutes. Also the "Dumplings" mode is suitable,
- In the stuffing to the cherry strudel, you can add berries and fruits, chopped nuts, poppy.
- If, when pulling the dough, it is torn, pinch off a piece of the edge and "patch" the hole with it.
- In Austria, hot strudel is served with a scoop of ice cream and a mint leaf. It is very tasty, because you can adopt this tradition when serving dessert.
