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10 recipes with dried fruits with a photo: a vitamin mixture with honey and nuts, pilaf with dried fruits, a recipe for cake and pie with dried fruits.

There is no doubt about the benefits of dried fruits - volume nutrients and the minerals contained in them, after drying, not only does not decrease, but even increases. So, raisins are richer in potassium than fresh grapes, 4 times, and dried apricots are superior fresh apricots by this indicator already 5 times, plus a significant composition of magnesium, iron, phosphorus. An equally valuable source of potassium - it improves the work of blood vessels and the heart - is prunes, which are also ready to work on normalizing blood pressure and metabolism. Dates provide excellent nutrition for our brains due to their high levels of fructose and glucose. And one more weighty argument: dried fruits are a powerful vitamin mixture for enhancing immunity.

Earlier, we have already learned, how to dry and prepare dried fruit mixtures , now it's time for delicious recipes of them and with them:

• Dried Fruit Vitamin Recipe with Honey and Nuts to Boost Immunity & Heart Benefits
• Porridge with dried fruits
• Meat pilaf with dried fruits
• Cupcake & Dried Fruit Pie Recipes
• Bread - Irish and bran recipe
• Kissel
• Meat - glazed pork and spicy chicken- with dried fruits

Vitamin mixture with honey, nuts, dried fruits recipe to boost immunity

This useful mixture from dried fruits with honey and nuts - a real natural recipe for enhancing immunity and for the health of the heart and blood vessels. It is prepared in some 15-20 minutes, it is stored for a long time in a jar in the refrigerator. You just need to reach out to enrich your body with a vitamin mixture a couple of times a day, just do not do this in the evening, since the honey mix is ​​high in calories (350 kcal per 100 g) and energetic. The best time to consume it is in the morning and afternoon tea.

What you need:

• Dried fruits of your choice - 200 grams each. The optimal set is dried apricots, prunes, raisins. We advise adding figs and dates - you can put them in smaller quantities
• Nuts - 200 grams. It can be walnuts or hazelnuts, peanuts.
• Honey - an average of 6-7 tablespoons, the main thing is that it completely covers the mixture of dried fruits with nuts
• Ground cinnamon - 1-2 teaspoons, but you can do without it if you don't like the taste of cinnamon.
• Lemon - 1 fruit, pre-cut into small wedges

What to do:

1. Dried fruits should be soaked in cold water - 20 minutes is enough, drain the water, rinse again and let dry or blot with a paper towel. Remove pits where present. Note: If desired, dry fruits can be soaked in rum, whiskey or brandy, but for taste, this should be done longer than soaking in water - from 12 to 24 hours.
2. While the fruit is drying, lightly brown the nuts in a skillet or oven.
3. Put dried fruits, nuts, lemon in a blender bowl and chop them. The same can be done with a meat grinder.
4. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, top with honey, sprinkle with cinnamon and stir well to soak each bite with honey. Transfer to a suitable jar, close the lid and store in the refrigerator.

Porridge with dried fruits recipe

"Tropical Island"

Oatmeal with dried fruits is a common thing, but we want to surprise you rice porridge... The recipe is for 4 servings and will take 30 minutes to cook.

What you need:

• Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
• Rice - 180 grams
• Water - 500 ml or chicken / vegetable broth
• Dried fruits - 100-150 grams - tropical without sugar: mango, pineapple; or raisins, dried apricots and even cherries

What to do:

1. In a skillet over medium heat, heat the oil, add the rice and cook for 2 minutes or until the rice is golden. Now add dried fruit, stir, cover with water or broth, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to slowest and cook for about 20 minutes until rice is done.

An excellent recipe for pilaf with dried fruits and chicken

Cooking pilaf scares many housewives, especially novice cooks, with its complexity. But our simple recipe delicious pilaf able to pleasantly surprise. To make the process easier, rice, dried fruits and vegetables will be cooked separately, except for dried barberry. In total, you will get 8 servings, and it will take about 2 and a half hours to prepare the dish.

What you need:

• Long grain rice, best basmati - 600 grams
• Water - 2 liters (plus 2 teaspoons of salt)
• Whole chicken(divided into portions) for frying
• Onion - 1 large piece
• Ghee - about 250 grams
• Dried fruits - 500 grams. The set should include: raisins, dried apricots, prunes and figs, which should be pre-soaked for 15-20 minutes in water, drained, rinsed and dried
• Zira and dried barberry - 1 tablespoon each
• Eggs - 2 pieces
• Ready seasoning for pilaf
• Cauldron or thick-walled pan, chicken pan

What to do:

1. First of all, rinse the rice several times, let it dry. Add salt to boiled water, stir and pour rice into it - it must be cooked over low heat for no more than 10 minutes - until it becomes slightly soft. Drain the water through a colander and leave the rice in it for a while.
2. We fill the cauldron. Lubricate the sides and bottom of the cauldron with a good portion of ghee. Beat 2 eggs, pour them into a cauldron. Now the actual rice - it needs to be laid out in layers, sprinkling each with cumin and barberry, sprinkling with butter on top (all the same ghee). Cook the rice with the lid tightly closed and over low heat for about 20-25 minutes. Then remove from heat and wrap with warm cloth.
3. Dried fruits. Boil one and a half glasses of water. Put a frying pan on the fire, add ghee to it - 3 tablespoons will be enough, heat it up. Transfer dried fruits to a frying pan and fry them for 5 minutes over medium heat, then pour in hot water... Without reducing the heat, extinguish until soft. During stewing, juice will stand out from the dried fruit - do not rush to wash the pan, we will need it.
4. Hen. To prepare it, finely chop the onion, add the portioned chicken pieces to the fruit-oil gravy left over from the dried fruit, mix with the onion and cook for 30-40 minutes until fully cooked.
5. To serve, put all the ingredients of the dish - rice, chicken, dried fruit - together on one large plate or in portions for each.

Meat recipe with dried fruits

Pork tenderloin with alcohol-soaked figs

It sounds like you have to spend a lot of time cooking meat with dried fruits. But no - just 30 minutes for 2-3 servings! And you don't have to bother with the oven, the whole process will take place in a frying pan. And what a delightful fig glaze will turn out, mmm, you will lick your fingers!

What you need:

• Dry figs, cut lengthwise into 2 pieces - 150 grams
• Bourbon, rye whiskey or brandy - 120 ml
• Gelatin powder - 2 teaspoons
• Chicken bouillon, slightly salted - 250 milliliters
• Whole piece of pork tenderloin - 450 grams
• Salt, black pepper
• Cornstarch - 80 grams
• Vegetable oil - approximately 1 tablespoon
• Shallots - 1 small piece, finely chopped
• Whole Grain Mustard - 1 Tbsp
• Maple syrup - 150 ml
• Cayenne (hot) pepper - a pinch
• Butter, unsalted - 2 tablespoons

What to do:

1. Place the figs in the chosen alcoholic beverage set aside. Pour gelatin into the broth, and set aside too.
2. Rub the tenderloin on all sides with salt and black pepper. Put the cornstarch on a large plate, smooth it over the surface and roll the pork in it. Heat vegetable oil over high heat in a 1-inch (preferably stainless steel) skillet and dip the tenderloin into it. The total roasting time is 8 minutes. During this time, turn the piece of meat so that it is browned until golden brown on all sides. Reduce heat if there is a risk of burning. Transfer the meat to a plate for now.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the chicken stock, mustard, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper.
4. In the same skillet where the pork was cooked, but now fry the shallots over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, just enough to let the aroma come out. Remove skillet from heat and pour figs and alcohol into it. When the bubbles have subsided in the skillet, return it to the heat and light the contents very carefully. Cook by shaking the pan until the fire is out. Now add the broth and spice mixture - point 3 - and stir.
5. Reduce heat to a barely noticeable simmer in the pan, return to it pork tenderloin and cook, turning the meat from time to time, for 6-10 minutes. If you have a kitchen thermometer, the cooking time is even easier to calculate: for medium roasts in the thickest part of the meat, the temperature should be 54-57 degrees Celsius, for good roasts - 60-63 degrees.
6. Take out the pork, put it on a plate. Add butter to a skillet and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook the mixture for about 4 minutes, until it turns into a thick, gooey icing. Return the tenderloin to the skillet again, cover and let stand for another 5 minutes. Then proceed to portioning and serving.

Spicy chicken legs with dried apricots and raisins

Chicken with dried fruit is an excellent and international combination. Inspired by Moroccan cuisine, this recipe makes couscous the perfect accompaniment to this spicy, fruity, exotic dish. You will not have any difficulties in preparing it, despite the fact that the level is still more difficult than the usual frying of chicken legs. And in time - only 40 minutes and 4 servings on plates.

What you need:

• Cooking oil - 2 tablespoons
• Chicken thigh - 4 pieces
• Chicken's leg- 4 pieces
• Salt - 1 and ¾ teaspoon
• Black pepper - half a teaspoon
• Onion - 1 piece
• Garlic - 3 cloves (pass through the garlic press)
• Chicken broth - 300 milliliters
• Allspice, ground - ¼ teaspoon
• Red pepper, ground - ¼ teaspoon
• Dried apricots - 40 grams, cut into quarters
• Brown or yellow raisins - 40 grams
• Parsley - about 10 grams

What to do:

1. In a large, deep skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Rub chicken thighs and legs with salt and black pepper - it will take about ¼ of each. Transfer the chicken pieces to the skillet, cook in total for about 8 minutes until browning - remember to turn. Remove the chicken and drain off the fat, leaving 1 tablespoon in the skillet.
2. Reduce heat to medium-low, add onion and garlic, cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is tender - about 3 minutes. Pour in the broth, add the remaining salt and black pepper, allspice and red pepper. Return the thighs and legs, as well as the raisins and dried apricots. Bring to a light boil, then reduce heat to the slowest and, loosely covering the skillet with a lid, simmer the chicken with dried fruits for about 20 minutes or until it is fully cooked. Sprinkle with finely chopped parsley when serving.

Irish Bread with Dried Fruit Recipe

This Irish raisin bread recipe is different from others in that dried grapes are pre-soaked in very strong tea overnight. And this is the only "difficulty" in its preparation. Baking time - 1 hour 40 minutes and 15 minutes to cool down, after which it is in your hands delicious sandwich with butter or jam, if your household does not have time to grab bread before that.

What you need:

• Raisins - 225 grams
• Tea, very strong, chilled - 240 ml
• Self-rising flour - 260 grams
• Brown sugar - 200 grams
• Cinnamon - half a teaspoon
• Nutmeg- a quarter teaspoon
• Egg - 1 piece, beat lightly
• Oatmeal, not fast food(the grains must be thicker)

What to do:

1. Place the raisins in a container with strongly brewed and cooled tea, leave to sweat overnight.
2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with the wire rack in the middle position. Grease a rectangular baking dish and dust with flour, shaking off excess.
3. Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, beaten egg, raisins and tea in a large bowl. Stir until smooth and even consistency so that there are no lumps, and pour into the prepared form. Sprinkle on top oat flakes... Bake the bread until brown for about 1 hour and 40 minutes. Spend another 15 minutes on cooling. You can start!

Heart healthy dried fruit recipe

Bran bread with dried fruits

Bran and dried fruits are real recipe for heart. The benefits of dried fruits were mentioned earlier, as for bran, thanks to the B vitamins they contain, our body fights more successfully with high cholesterol levels and the occurrence of atherosclerotic plaques, which has a beneficial effect on the work of the heart.

What you need:

• Bran baking mix - 195 grams
• Flour - 35 grams
• Dried fruits of your choice - 180 grams (cut into large pieces)
• Walnuts, chopped - 25 grams
• Pineapple juice - 80 milliliters
• Egg white - 2 pieces

What to do:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Grease a 23 x 13 cm baking dish with oil or sprinkle with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, combine the bran mixture, flour, chopped dried fruit, and nuts. Make a depression in the center of the dough and pour the pineapple juice and lightly beaten egg whites into it. Mix thoroughly again.
3. Transfer the dough to a mold and bake for 35 minutes. Check with a match - if it remains clean and dry after piercing the bread, the bread with dried fruits is ready. Remove from oven and let cool for about 15 minutes.

Dried fruit muffin recipe with nuts

Would you like something stunning for dessert? Eat your mind - this is about the recipe for this wonderful cupcake that melts in your mouth (just do not get carried away with eating it at night, at noon it is also not worth it - because of the rum). And don't be afraid in advance of a little long list of ingredients - they are all very simple. It turns out about 12 servings, the active cooking time is about 40 minutes, and the baking time is 1 hour and 40 minutes.

What you need:

For the cupcake:

• Baking spray or vegetable oil
• Walnuts, chopped - 100-115 grams
• Coconut pulp, chopped or coconut flakes - 30 grams
• Baking flour - 260 grams
• Vanilla pudding mix - 100 grams
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Sugar - 150 grams
• Butter, not salted, room temperature- 8 tablespoons
• Milk - 120 milliliters
• Vegetable oil - 110 milliliters
• Eggs - 4 pieces
• Dark rum - 120 milliliters
• Vanilla - 2 teaspoons
• Dried pitted dates - 180 grams

For the rum sauce:

• Butter, not salted - 4 tablespoons
• Water - 60 milliliters
• Sugar - 200 grams
• Dark rum - 120 milliliters
• Vanilla - half a teaspoon

What to do:

1. For the cupcake: Put the oven rack in the middle position and preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Lubricate a round muffin tin with a notch in the middle vegetable oil or spray with a spray. Lay the base of the mold evenly with walnuts and coconut.
2. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the flour, pudding mixture, baking powder, and salt and toss. Set aside for now.
3. In a mixer bowl, whisk the butter and sugar until creamy with fluffy foam - 3 minutes should be enough. Add vegetable oil, milk and continue whisking. Add dry ingredients and eggs, beat, now - rum and vanilla, beat again. Add dates and stir with a rubber spatula.
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan and smooth over the top. Bake for about 55 minutes, or until a tester (the same match) inserted into the cake to be checked is clean and dry. While the cake is cooling, it's time to start the sauce.
5. For the rum sauce: in a medium-sized saucepan (saucepan) combine butter, water, sugar, rum, put on medium-high heat and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. After boiling, reduce heat and let the sauce simmer for 7 minutes until thickened, remove from heat.
6. Using a skewer, toothpick, or chopstick, poke holes all over the top of the cupcake. Gently pour the rum sauce over the top of the cake until it is soaked all over. And let it brew for at least 20 minutes before enjoying the treat.

Apple pie with dried fruits in the oven

You can adjust the variety in the texture and taste of this cake yourself - it all depends on the sweetness or sourness of the apples and dried fruits that you have chosen.

What you need:

For the test:

• Baking flour - 350 grams
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons
• Salt - 1 teaspoon
• Butter - 280 grams, cut into 0.6 centimeter pieces
• Cold water- 85 milliliters

For filling:

• Golden or Breburn apples - 8 medium sized apples (peel, core, cut into 0.6cm slices)
• Dried fruits - 280 grams (a combination of dried cherries, figs, raisins, cranberries, currants)
• Lemon zest - 1 tablespoon
• Granulated sugar - 170 grams (adjust the amount depending on the taste of apples and a set of dried fruits)
• Cornstarch - 14 grams
• Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
• Nutmeg - pinch
• Egg - 1 piece, beat lightly
• Granulated sugar for topping

What to do:

1. Dough: combine two-thirds of the flour with sugar and salt in a bowl food processor, scroll twice. Spread the butter over the surface, and scroll about 25 more times - not a single dry piece of flour should remain, and the dough itself begins to gather in lumps. Using a rubber spatula, spread the mixture evenly over the bowl, add the remaining flour and scroll again 5. Transfer the dough to a large bowl.
2. Sprinkle with water, knead and press the dough into an even ball without cracks. Divide in half and form each half into a 10 cm disc. Sprinkle lightly with flour, cover or wrap with cling film and chill dough for at least 2 hours before rolling and cooking.
3. Roll out the first disc and place it in the baking pan so that its edges hang slightly from the sides of the baking pan. Roll out the second one and leave it on a suitable board or plate for now, lightly dusting both cakes with flour and hiding in a cool place.
4. Pie: put the oven rack on the lower level, and preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.
5. Place the apple slices in a spacious bowl or saucepan, pour boiled, hot water on top, cover and let stand for 10 minutes. Drain well, transfer apples to a plate, let cool for 20 minutes, turning over. Transfer to a large bowl and toss with the dried fruit combination.
6. Stir together the sugar, starch, spices and add them to the fruit-berries, mix everything together again and put on the prepared crust in a baking dish. Cover with a second cake on top - you can either whole or, dividing into strips, in the form of a lattice. Pin the edges of the cakes together and let the cake cool for 15 to 20 minutes.
7. Before placing in the oven, spread the top of the pie with a beaten egg and sprinkle with granulated sugar. If you covered the cake with a whole crust, make several cuts in the surface.
8. Bake for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 190 degrees and add time: for a pie with a grid top - 40 minutes, for a whole top with slots - 50. The crust should be golden brown and the filling should be bubbling. If some parts of the top start to burn, cover them with foil to protect from the heat.
9. Before serving, allow apple pie cool completely with dried fruits. The pie can be prepared in advance, but it is best served the same day that you bake it.

Kissel from dried fruits - a winter recipe

Do you know what our jelly is called in Europe? Fruit soup! True, they serve it as a dessert dish.

What you need:

• Dried fruits - 400 grams (for example, 100 grams each: dried apples, prunes, apricots and cranberries)
• Boiling water - 1.5 liters
• Cold water - 125 milliliters
• Potato starch - 2 tablespoons
• Honey - 2-3 tablespoons
• Cinnamon stick - 1 small piece

What to do:

1. Rinse and dry the fruit, transfer to a large saucepan along with the cinnamon stick. Pour boiling water over, cover and let stand for 30 minutes.
2. After 30 minutes add honey, stir, taste, add more if necessary. And put it on fire. After boiling over medium heat, reduce to low and simmer for another 5-7 minutes.
3. At this time, dissolve potato starch with cold water and, after the above indicated 5-7 minutes, slowly pour the mixture into the cooking jelly, with the other hand constantly stirring the liquid in the pan.
4. Bring to a boil again, raising the heat and immediately remove from the stove. It can be served both warm and cold. You can drain the fruit through a colander, but it tastes much better with them!

In the cuisine of the Slavic peoples, a pie with dried fruits has long held an honorable place. Firstly, it is very tasty, secondly, which is important, satisfying, and thirdly, it is available at any time of the year. Indeed, in Russia, dried fruits were prepared in huge boxes. And it is no coincidence that this type of preparation was preferred - when drying fruits, everything beneficial features and vitamins are retained better than any other preparation method. And cooked all year round from them compotes, jelly and baked pies and pies with dried fruits.

Today we will introduce you to recipes for pies stuffed with dried fruits from different Slavic peoples.

Patties with healthy dried fruits

Ingredients (grams):

• flour - 750-800;
• granulated sugar - 50;
• butter (butter, margarine) - 20;
• granular yeast - 20;
• milk - 250;
• salt - 7-10 (full h / l);
• eggs - 4 pieces;
• dried fruits - 500;
• cinnamon - 10.

The dried fruit filling should be ready a little earlier than the dough. Perfectly beautiful and delicious pies with dried fruits it will turn out, if you do not forget about a little trick. Dried fruits for the filling must be sorted out and soaked in warm water for an hour. Then we dry (manually with a towel), grind (with a knife, a food processor, a blender), add a tablespoon of sugar, do not forget about cinnamon (a little).

Algorithm for making pies:

1. Heat milk, add yeast, sugar, salt and eggs.
2. Beat everything in a mixer or a whisk.
3. Pour the sifted flour into the beaten mass and knead the dough. Add melted butter or margarine while kneading. The dough is ready when it comes off easily.
4. Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 3.5-4 hours to ferment. During this time, the dough must be crumpled twice to free it from excess carbon dioxide.
5. The finished dough is rolled into a rope, the rope is cut into 10 pieces and balls are formed, which are left for 5-7 minutes for proofing. Roll the balls into tortillas, put the filling and pinch the edges, giving the pies any shape (boat, crescent, triangle).
6. Put them on a prepared baking sheet, let the dough come up for 10-15 minutes, grease the surface of the pies with an egg and send them to the oven to bake at a temperature of 230-260 degrees until browning.

Dessert with nuts and dried fruits

Ingredients (grams):

• sifted flour - 500;
• sugar - 300;
• butter - 250-300;
• lemon juice - 60;
• yolks - 3 pcs.;
• zest - 60;
• proteins - 120;
• icing sugar - 100;
• dried fruits - 500;
• nuts - 100-150.

1. For the filling, take dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes and raisins) in equal parts.
2. Sort out, rinse, hold raisins and dried apricots in warm water for 30 minutes. Fry the nuts in a dry skillet and grind. Finely chop dried fruits with a knife and combine with nuts, add whipped protein with sugar to this mass and mix thoroughly.
3. Add sugar to the egg yolks, grind and add softened butter.
4. Add lemon juice, lemon zest and flour.
5. Knead the dough and beat lightly.
6. Wrap the dough in a napkin and let stand for 30 minutes. Then roll out the dough into a cake that is larger in diameter than the baking dish.
7. Put a cake in a greased form, forming sides. In several places, prick the dough with a fork, cover with a sheet of oiled paper, and pour the beans on top to maintain their shape and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Take out, cool slightly.
8. Spread the filling for dried fruit pies with nuts on the cake in the resulting form, put in the oven for 10 minutes. Then they take it out and fill it with whipped protein and powdered sugar and bring it in the oven until browned.

A pie with dried fruits and nuts made according to the above recipe will decorate any festive event or meeting with friends.

The original pie recipe

Ingredients (grams):

• dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots, raisins, quince, cranberries) - 750;
• sugar - 200;
• butter - 200;
• lemon and orange juice - 50;
• roasted almonds - 200;
• flour - 300;
• baking powder - 5;
• chicken egg - 4.

An important nuance - the filling is immediately introduced into the dough! Perform manipulations strictly in this order:

1. Melt butter over low heat.
2. Add sugar, finely crushed dried fruits.
3. Boil this mass for 8 minutes (stir constantly).
4. Introduce eggs. After 2 minutes - flour combined with baking powder;
5. Add lemon juice and half crushed almonds. After that, mix the whole mass well, put it in a greased form, bake in the oven at a temperature of 250 ° C. The remaining almonds, ground into powder, are sprinkled ready-made pie immediately after taking it out of the oven.

Baking recipe with apricot jam and dried fruits

Ingredients (grams):

• dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins, candied fruits) - 800;
• apricot jam - 300;
• flour - 350;
• baking powder - 7-10;
• chicken eggs - 4;
• butter - 350;
• sugar - 200-300;
• icing sugar - 100-120.

Procedure:

1. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder.
2. The oil is rubbed on a coarse grater and mixed with flour.
3. Add 3 yolks to this mass, knead the hard dough.
4. The dough is left in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
5. Dried fruits are sorted out, washed and finely chopped. Mix dried fruits with apricot jam.
6. The dough is rolled out in a layer that is larger than the baking dish.
7. Dough is laid out in a greased form, forming sides, covered with parchment paper and beans or other cereals are poured.
8. Place in an oven preheated to 250 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
9. The finished dough form is filled with a mass of dried fruits and jam and put back in the oven for 10 minutes.
10. Then pour everything on top with whites, whipped with powdered sugar, and allow to brown.

The filling for dried fruit pies can be varied, which allows housewives to show their imagination 100 percent. Each recipe is good and unique in its own way. The piquancy of taste due to the presence of dried fruits will make friends more often come to your house for tea. So gatherings will now become a common thing, but no less pleasant from this.

01.03.2017 Administrator

Recipes from childhood are great! We present you the most delicious dessert from the past, which has every chance to conquer today's young generation and "fight" with store bars and industrial chemical cakes. The older generation will surely remember this quivering moment when my mother brought out the most beautiful dessert at that time - prunes with walnuts in sour cream - to the general delight. There was no limit to joy and glee!

11/30/2015 Administrator

06.09.2015 Administrator

A fragrant, reminiscent of the "soulful" country baking pie with dried fruits and coconut flakes is one of the best examples of homemade baking. The shape and filling of the product, in fact, do not matter, and here there is room for baking imagination. Our recipe demonstrates the principle of forming a pie in the form of a ring with "braids" and this option is useful for meeting invited guests and / or Sunday tea.

19.10.2014 Administrator

This dessert has a lot of advantages - no burning and heat from the stove, no white sugar, flour and eggs, a very quick cooking process. If you decide to protect yourself as much as possible from starchy foods or too fatty foods, try to start your “sweet life” by mastering this particular recipe. However, we do not promise a minimum of calories, since dried fruits are quite "weighty" products in terms of the content of energy units, but there is no doubt that this brownie is very useful!

10/16/2014 Administrator

This recipe is very often found on the pages of Hungarian cookbooks called "Turosh gomboc". To the taste, these curd balls very much resemble our curd cakes, but still, due to the fact that they are not fried, but boiled, they end up being much softer. Combination of flavors curd dough, apricot jam and prune filling are just wonderful! Although ... You can serve this dessert the way the Magyars themselves like to eat it - with slightly warmed sour cream, bread crumbs and salt.

24.08.2014 Administrator

Wonderful recipe for those who do not want or cannot eat traditional white sugar! Dried fruits - prunes and dates, which are sources of "natural" sugar, and therefore easily assimilated glucose, which our body needs so much in building new healthy cells, will add moderate sweetness to these syrniki. In addition, you don't need to use a lot of vegetable oil to prepare these cheesecakes - we will bake them in the oven, which will save the recipe from extra calories.

03/11/2014 Administrator

Love to spend your morning with a cup aromatic coffee or tea? Diversify your morning meal with delicious and healthy homemade dried fruit covered in chocolate. The composition of this delicacy includes such dried fruits as dried apricots and raisins, which become very relevant during the vitamin deficiency season. The listed number of ingredients is based on approximately 20 candies.

01/28/2014 Administrator

You've probably heard more than once about professional chocolatiers who can turn chocolate into a work of art. If you also want to touch this high art and learn how to make amazing homemade sweets, then we suggest starting with the simplest - with chocolate bars. At this stage, you will learn how to work with chocolate, it is no secret that it is very capricious and does not accept careless handling.

We habitually soak dried fruits in water: raisins, dried apricots, prunes - so that they become softer. If you use alcohol instead of water, then candied fruits and dried fruits not only soften, but also acquire a bouquet of aromas.

Later, once in baked goods, flavored and softened dried fruits will give it a festive taste and aroma.

The mixture is prepared at least three weeks before the appointed baking day, further actions are simple: mix all prepared and measured fruits, candied fruits, spices, salt and sugar and alcoholic beverages, mix thoroughly, put in clean dry jars and put in a cabinet. The first few days you need to shake the jars, then the dried fruits absorb enough moisture and stop pressing.

But even a week before baking, all is not lost! Simply put all prepared ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat and cook, stirring frequently, for 15 minutes. Cool, put in jars and be patient.

Such a mixture can be stored for years, so it makes sense to do a lot at once, because you will probably want to bake a cupcake, and a stollen, and pudding, and baskets to give to friends and to please yourself.

Light blank for Christmas cupcake

110 g light raisins

100 g dried cranberries

50 g candied ginger

140 g candied orange and lemon peels

100 g dried apricots

100 g dried figs

6 tbsp light rum

5 tbsp. l. cherry liqueur

3 tbsp. l. sweet fortified wine

3 tbsp. l. water

1 tsp dry ground ginger

1 tsp dark brown sugar

0.5 tsp nutmeg

0.5 tsp ground cloves

0.5 tsp ground coriander

0.5 tsp salt

Dark Christmas Cupcake Blank

2 muffins, each with a diameter of 20 cm

150 g dark raisins

140 g prunes

170 g cherry plum or dogwood

140 g pitted dates

6 tbsp. l. dark rum

5 tbsp. l. fruit liqueur

3 tbsp. l. sweet fortified wine

3 tbsp. l. water

1 tsp grated orange peel

1 tsp brown sugar

0.5 tsp ground cardamom

0.5 tsp ground black pepper

0.5 tsp ground cinnamon

0.5 tsp salt

A week before baking the cake, measure out all the liquid ingredients and pour them into a large saucepan.
Cut large dried fruits into raisin-sized pieces.

Add all dried fruits, candied fruits, spices and herbs, salt and sugar to a saucepan and stir until all pieces become moist.
Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat and simmer over low heat, stirring frequently, for about 15 minutes.

Cool the mixture completely, arrange in jars and leave in a cool place for a week. Sometimes the contents of the jar can be mixed.

Dried fruits and sweet dough are the perfect duo to create the best dessert... Sweet apples, tart pears, sour cherries, and aromatic lime candied fruits can be used to make cakes, cookies, pies and pastries. Dried fruit recipes are a godsend for dieters with a sweet tooth, as they are incredibly tasty and low in calories (fructose will not be deposited on your hips and waist with unnecessary body fat).

Especially useful are raisins, prunes, dried apples and dried apricots.

Oatmeal cookies with pecans and raisins

150 g chopped nuts, 100 g raisins or candied fruits, 100 g oatmeal, 200 g flour top grade, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ⅔ teaspoon baking soda, 9 Art. spoons butter, salt to taste, 150 g brown cane sugar, vanilla pod, 2 fresh chicken eggs.

Melt butter in a water bath, add nuts, dried fruits, etc. Gently beat eggs into a warm mass, add baking powder, baking soda, salt, vanilla, sugar and flour. Knead elastic dough and leave it in a warm place for 20-25 minutes. Form the oatmeal into cookies and bake them for 20 minutes in the oven at 180-200 ° C.

Simple Dried Fruit Pie

300 g ready-made puff pastry, 2 fresh eggs, 200 g dried dried apricots, 100 g dried plums, 100 g white raisins, 100 g dried apples, 200 g brown sugar, 50 g almonds, 12 tbsp. l. butter, 2 tsp. rum or alcohol, cinnamon on the tip of a knife.

Boil dried fruits in a saucepan with a little water. Drain the water, pat dry the fruit with a paper towel. Put them in a bowl, add rum, butter, almonds and cinnamon.

Roll out the dough and sprinkle with sugar, top with fruit. Make a "side" of the dough to appetizing filling did not leak out during cooking. Cover the top with the beaten egg using a silicone brush. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 ° C.

Vanilla Christmas bread with dried fruits

3 chicken eggs, 200 g of low-fat yogurt, ½ tsp. fine salt, 100 g melted butter, 100 g sugar, vanilla pod, 1.5 tbsp. flour, 200 g of finely chopped dried fruits, ½ tsp. baking powder, icing sugar, 4 tbsp. l. sour cream.

Beat eggs in metal more often, add butter, vanilla, yogurt and sugar. Whisk the mixture thoroughly. Add flour and baking powder and dried fruit. Shape the bread with your hands or pour the dough into a specially oiled dish.

Whisk the sour cream with a little sugar and cover the bread with it. Bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes at 200 ° C. You can check the readiness of the bread with a knife or toothpick. Vanilla bread is a great addition to breakfast or evening tea.

Cupcake with prunes and dates

100 g butter, ½ tbsp. walnuts, 1 cup cane sugar, ½ tbsp. orange juice, 450 g flour, 2 eggs, 150 g dates, 200 g prunes, baking powder.

Chop the cold butter with a knife along with the cane sugar. Add eggs, orange or lemon juice and some baking powder (you can use plain baking soda instead). Beat the mixture with a mixer, at the same time slowly add the required amount of flour into it. The dough should be soft and pliable. Finely chop the walnuts and combine with the dough, add dates and prunes there. Pour the dough into a buttered muffin tin. Place the cake in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 35 minutes.

Cottage cheese tart with dried fruits

150 g flour, 100 g butter, 3 packs fat cottage cheese 200 g each, 100 ml of liquid sour cream, 3 tbsp. l. milk, 100 g dried dried apricots, 100 g raisins, 100 g dates, 4 eggs, vanillin, 1 tbsp. l. baking powder.

Rinse dried fruits under running warm water; if dates or dried apricots have seeds, remove them. Pour dried apricots, raisins and dates into a saucepan, add 1 glass of water and put on low heat. Boil for 5-10 minutes. Drain the water.

Chop cold butter with cottage cheese, add sour cream, milk, eggs and sugar. Stir. Use a blender to beat the dough, gradually adding flour, vanillin and baking powder. Refrigerate for half an hour.

Fry dried fruits in a dry frying pan without oil. Curd dough put in a mold greased with butter or vegetable oil. Decorate the top with dried fruit. Place in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 ° C. This tart can be enjoyed over a morning cup of coffee or green tea.

Dried fruits can be used not only in baking - curd desserts, meat dishes, salads will "sparkle" with new flavors if you add prunes, dried apples, cherries or candied orange fruits to them.