Cakes are wonderful relatives of such popular pies.
There was a time, they differed by the presence or absence of filling. And they cooked pies in wealthy houses, and cakes - where simpler.
Those times are long gone, and cakes with filling are no longer a rarity, but they are distinguished with pies ... well, perhaps with a more rounded, “cake” shape, but they usually try to make the dough lean and rough.
However - to whom, what to taste!
Tortillas with ham - general principles of preparation
Homemade cakes with ham are baked in the oven or fried in a pan in a small amount of vegetable fat. They are made with or without filling.
Any ham for tortillas will do. It is crushed with a grater or cut into medium-sized thin pieces, after which it is mixed with dough or put into the filling. Often, in addition, grated cheese and finely chopped greens are used. To enhance the taste, the ham can be lightly fried without overdrying its pieces.
The dough for cakes can be pick up yeast, kefir, sour cream or water. They even make it from mashed potatoes or canned corn. Flour is added to them in small quantities to hold together the other components.
Tortillas with ham are served with soup and meat dishes instead of bread. They are also served with tea, coffee or milk drinks.
Unleavened tortillas with ham and cheese
Ingredients:
300 grams of flour;
40 ml of purified oil;
Mild tomato ketchup;
Hard "Russian" cheese - 150 gr.;
Pork ham, boiled - 200 gr;
Spices "For pizza" - a couple of pinches.
Cooking method:
1. Boil 300 ml of drinking water.
2. In a large bowl, sift the flour, add a pinch of fine salt and mix thoroughly.
3. Pour boiling water into the flour and knead the dough, first with a spoon, and then with your hands on the table.
4. When the dough has cooled well, cut it into ten pieces and roll each into a thin cake.
5. Lubricate the blanks with ketchup and sprinkle with pizza spices. Place grated ham on half of each flatbread and sprinkle with small cheese chips.
6. Wrap the free edge of the cake over the filling and pinch the edges tightly.
7. Warm up in a frying pan, and then heat the vegetable oil strongly. Fry semi-finished products in it on both sides. Turn over and take out only after they are covered with a light blush.
Corn cakes with ham
Ingredients:
300 gr. canned corn;
Two small bulbs;
Four tablespoons of flour;
50 gr. ham;
70 gr. "Dutch" or "Kostroma" cheese;
Two eggs, large;
Butter, natural butter.
Cooking method:
1. Take four tablespoons of marinade from a can of corn into a separate cup, drain the rest of the marinade.
2. Wash the eggs with warm water, and, gently breaking the shell with a knife, separate the yolks from the proteins.
3. Beat the yolks well with salt and flour. Then add chopped onion to them and mix thoroughly.
4. Lightly pepper, add corn and selected marinade. Pour the ham cut into medium-sized cubes and the cheese grated on large chips, mix.
5. Beat the whites well and gently mix them into the corn and ham mass.
6. In a frying pan, with minimal heat, melt the butter and, slightly raising the temperature, warm it well. Then, prying the cooked mass with a tablespoon, lay out small cakes and fry on each side, achieving a bright blush.
Belarusian yeast cakes with ham - "Smazhentsy"
Ingredients:
For dough:
Half a kilo of white baking flour;
Two chicken eggs;
20 gr. instant dry yeast;
a tablespoon of sugar;
A spoonful of refined sunflower oil;
200 ml pasteurized milk.
For stuffing:
150 g of hard, mild cheese;
200 gr. ham;
Small pickled cucumber;
Any smoked sausage - 100 gr.
Additionally:
One and a half tablespoons of garlic ketchup;
Mayonnaise, fat - 1 tbsp. l.;
A spoonful of thick tomato;
Sour cream - two spoons;
Natural butter - 30 gr.;
Cooking method:
1. Dissolve the yeast in a glass of slightly warm water. Add a tablespoon of sugar and a small spoonful of fine salt, two full tablespoons of flour to the mixture. Stir and put closer to heat.
2. The yeast mixture will begin to bubble. Immediately mix it with warm milk. Add the beaten egg and vegetable oil. Add all the flour and knead the dough. Form it into a ball, put it in a large bowl and leave it covered with a towel. After about two hours, crush the ball that came up with your hands and leave it for another two hours.
3. Grind pickled cucumber, ham, smoked sausage and cheese into shavings with a coarse grater. Mix ham and sausage.
4. In a small bowl, mix sour cream with a small pinch of ground pepper.
5. Spread a thin layer of butter on a baking sheet.
6. Pinch off small pieces of dough and, right on the baking sheet, lightly press them with your palm so that you get cakes up to 0.7 cm thick. Lay out the blanks at a centimeter distance.
7. When the entire baking sheet is filled, grease the cakes with mayonnaise mixed with tomato paste and ketchup. Put sausage with ham on top and cover the meat layer with chopped pickles, rarely sprinkle cheese on it.
8. Lightly press the filling with your hands and brush with sour cream and ground pepper.
9. Put the baking sheet with the cakes in the oven. Temperatures - 200 degrees, duration - up to 20 minutes.
Potato pancakes with ham
Ingredients:
700 gr. potatoes;
One egg;
90 gr. flour;
a teaspoon of sesame seeds;
Turmeric, curry and a mixture of ground peppers - to taste
A spoonful of refined oil.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices and boil in lightly salted water. Strain the broth, and mash the potatoes with a crush and cool well.
2. Break the egg into the mashed potatoes. Add turmeric, curry and pepper mixture to your liking. Add diced ham and thin green onion rings. Knead the potato dough thoroughly, it will stick a little to your hands.
3. Line a baking sheet with parchment and apply a thin layer of vegetable oil on it. With your hands moistened in water, form small round cakes from the potato dough, half a centimeter thick, and spread them on a baking sheet.
4. Evenly prick the surface of the products with a fork and moisten them with sunflower oil. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top and set aside for 15 minutes. into the oven. The temperature is 180 degrees.
Cheese cakes with ham on kefir
Ingredients:
A full glass of fatty kefir;
Cheese "Kostroma" or Russian "- 200 gr.;
0.5 tablespoons of sugar;
Refined oil;
0.5 tablespoons of soda;
Half a spoonful of salt;
250 gr. pork ham.
Cooking method:
1. Warm up kefir in advance by placing a container with a fermented milk product in warm water.
2. Pour the kefir into a wide, voluminous bowl. Pour soda into it, stir vigorously and leave for ten minutes.
3. Add salt and granulated sugar, pour in the cheese chopped with the smallest grater and mix again.
4. Pouring flour in small portions, knead the dough and let it stand for twenty minutes.
5. Cut the ham into thin, medium-sized sticks or grate with a coarse grater.
6. Divide the aged dough into parts and form a ball from each.
7. Roll out the pieces of dough into flat cakes, place the ham filling in the center and close the edges of the products over the filling. Then turn over and lightly roll out the cakes with a rolling pin, giving them a neater shape.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan for several minutes, lower and fry the cakes in it on both sides, until a delicious golden crust appears.
Tortillas with ham and cheese, in a pan with sour cream
Ingredients:
300 gr. high-fat sour cream;
Three eggs;
Young dill;
100 gr. fresh "Russian" cheese;
Ham, any boiled - 100 gr.;
Five tablespoons of flour.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the eggs into a bowl, add sour cream, a small pinch of salt to them and mix everything well with a whisk or mixer.
2. In the process of stirring, add a full spoonful of flour to the mixture. When all the flour is used up, you should get a dough that resembles thick sour cream in its consistency.
3. Grate the ham and cheese with medium shavings, chop the dill with a knife and add all the chopped ingredients to the dough. Stir.
4. In a frying pan, heat a few tablespoons of non-aromatic vegetable oil well and put a few tablespoons of dough into it. With a spatula, spread it evenly across the bottom of the pan and fry the tortilla, three minutes per side.
Tortillas with ham - cooking tricks and useful tips
Do not add a lot of filling to the cakes and glue the edges tightly so that the filling does not fall out during frying.
When frying the cakes, do not pour a lot of oil into the pan, otherwise the products will turn out to be too greasy, after frying, put them on a disposable towel or napkin to remove oil residues from them
To prevent sesame seeds from sprinkling from finished products, lubricate their surface with water or oil before you sprinkle.
Try adding pickled cheeses to the filling instead of hard cheese, or to it. The filling will be looser and the taste of the cakes will improve.
Ham from large and flat cans is not suitable for stuffing flat cakes, it contains too much moisture. But homemade types of ham, especially from poultry meat, are simply made for such baking.
If you are cooking homemade ham, knowing in advance that some of it will go into the filling for flatbreads, make it a little saltier and a little less fat. Excess moisture is also not good, but ham should not be too dry either.
If you bake the cakes in the oven, be sure to line the baking sheet with parchment or grease it with oil so that they do not stick to the brazier.
In the northern regions of Ukraine, cakes with ham filling are served with sour cream and garlic sauce. Baking is made somewhat undersalted, and salt, crushed garlic and sour cream are mixed, whipped and served separately in gravy boats. Such cakes are called "Smazheniki" and they act as a completely independent dish. Hot smazheniki are dipped in chilled sauce and washed down with sweet tea.
Few ingredients and ease of preparation make this dish so special. The product will be appreciated by both adults and the smallest gourmets. Indeed, in the end, delicious cheese cakes with ham will flaunt on the table.
First of all, pour flour, all 300 grams, into a large round container. Add shelled eggs and mix thoroughly. Next, add kefir to this whole mixture. For this dish, it is best to choose high-fat kefir (3.2%). You can use both a mixer and improvised means for mixing ingredients.
It is necessary to ensure that the dough is not viscous, but not liquid. Cheese cake with ham in a pan may burn due to too watery dough. Also, you need to strike a balance in order for the result to please you.
Add a little salt to the dough, it is very important not to overdo it. Keep in mind that the ham itself is salty and over-salted dough can, in the end, spoil the overall taste. Place the finished dough in a cold room and cover with a towel.
The advantage of this recipe is that it is cooked in a pan. Thus, you can safely monitor how the roasting is going on. The dough is burnt, or vice versa, not yet ready enough. In the oven, it is not always possible to follow the baking process.
Also, you can complement the cheese cakes with whatever your heart desires. Bell peppers, pickled cucumbers, chicken, peas, corn, zucchini, eggplant, various sausages - everything is perfect for cheese cakes with ham. The recipe can be supplemented with many other ingredients.
So, back to the very preparation of delicious cakes. Remove the dough from a cold room and mix it with half of the whole hard cheese (100 grams). Cheese must be pre-shredded on a coarse grater. It is important to ensure that the cheese is evenly distributed throughout the dough. Roll out the dough so that its thickness does not exceed half a centimeter.
Already finished and rolled out dough should be divided into even circular pieces. Their radius should be approximately 10 centimeters. In fact, it depends on each hostess how exactly she sees her finished product. They can be made smaller or larger.
Onions can be pre-marinated in vinegar and hot water, which will make it taste sweet and remove unpleasant odors. Fans of fresh onions can just finely chop it and that's it. Also, it can be replaced with green onions, which do not have a specific smell, but are not inferior in taste.
All ingredients should be enough for 7 equal-sized cakes. You need to divide the onion, herbs and ham into 7 servings. Fill dough with filling and remaining cheese. Wrap the dough so that in the end it does not “spread out” in the pan.
After all the cakes are securely “sealed” in the dough layer, you need to gently roll them out again with a rolling pin. This will allow them to be larger and the dough thinner.
Absolutely any frying pan is suitable for frying cheese cakes with ham. Place a dry and clean frying pan over high heat. Add a small amount of sunflower oil, then reduce the heat.
Fry the cakes so that they do not touch, otherwise the products will stick to each other and their appearance will not live up to expectations.
Optionally, you can add green onions, garlic or a little basil to the recipe. These ingredients enhance the taste of the dish. Still, you can fry cheese cakes with ham in breadcrumbs. This will only enhance the taste of the tortillas, the crust will be crispy, and inside is an amazing combination of ham and hot cheese.
Such a dish will decorate any festive table and will delight even the smallest guests. Flat cakes are convenient to take with you on the road and on picnics. Even when they cool down, they will not lose their amazing taste.
Breakfast is a must. Everyone knows about it. But not everyone follows this rule. You don't have to force your family to eat breakfast. It is enough to cook something tasty, original and fragrant. Kashi, of course, will be more useful. However, you can break the tradition and make cakes on kefir with cheese and ham. The dish can be served with tea or coffee.
Classic tortillas with filling
If necessary, you can cook tortillas with cheese and ham in a pan. They are not only tasty and satisfying, but also tender. To make cakes you will need:
- 300 g cheese.
- A glass of kefir.
- 2 cups white flour
- 400 g ham.
- ½ teaspoon of soda, sugar and salt.
- Vegetable based oil, preferably unscented.
If there is no ham at hand, then it can be replaced with any boiled sausage or sausages. You can take almost any filling. If you do not like sausage, then you can make cakes with cheese and green onions or with potatoes.
How to cook tortillas with cheese and ham in a pan
To prepare a delicious breakfast, you need to knead the dough. To do this, pour kefir into a deep container and add sugar, salt and soda to it. The components must be thoroughly mixed. It is recommended to grate the cheese, and then add it to the container with kefir. Flour should also be carefully introduced here. After that, knead the dough so that there are no lumps. It should not stick to the hands and be too liquid.
The finished dough should be divided into balls. From such blanks it is necessary to form cakes. Ham or sausage should be grated on a coarse grater. It must be laid out in the center of each cake. The blanks must be glued along the edges so that there are no holes left. Closed cakes are recommended to be slightly rolled out with a rolling pin.
Now you can start baking them. Such cakes with cheese and ham are cooked in a pan. They require vegetable oil for frying. The pan should be heated and put cakes on it. They need to be fried over low heat until a golden crust appears, periodically turning over.
That's all. Cakes with cheese and ham are ready. There is another way to prepare them.
Cakes in 5 minutes
To make quick tortillas with cheese and ham, you will need:
- White flour - 2 cups.
- Grated cheese - 1 cup.
- Chopped ham or sausages - 1 cup.
- A glass of kefir.
- Salt, soda and sugar - ½ teaspoon each.
- Cheese for stuffing
Cooking steps
How to cook cakes on kefir with cheese and ham in 5 minutes? The first thing to do is to knead the dough. Pour kefir into a deep container. You need to add sugar, salt and soda to it. Mix everything, and then add flour. Cheese is recommended to grate and add to the dough. As a result of mixing, you should get a mass that does not stick to your hands, but is well molded. The dough should be divided into several parts and rolled into balls.
After that, you need to form cakes. As a filling, you should use grated ham and cheese, the variety of which is different from the product added to the dough. Put the mixture in the center of each cake, and then carefully wrap the blanks and pinch their edges.
Cooking in the oven
To make cakes with cheese and ham in the oven tasty and satisfying, it is necessary to strictly observe the proportions of the products. To prepare such a breakfast you will need:
- Hard cheese - 200g.
- Cheese - 100 g.
- Ham - 100g.
- Cream-based butter - 50 g.
- Kefir - 1 tbsp.
- White flour - from 1 ½ to 2 tbsp.
- Egg for greasing blanks.
- Salt.
- Baking powder - 2 tsp.
Cooking process
To make cakes on kefir with cheese and ham, you must follow the recipe. To begin with, it is recommended to knead the dough. To do this, in a deep container, combine cream-based butter, previously melted in a water bath, and kefir. In this mixture, carefully add flour, combined with baking powder and salt.
Of the components, it is worth kneading not too liquid, but not too dense dough. The mass should not stick to the hands. The finished dough should be divided into parts and rolled into round layers. The thickness of these blanks should not exceed one centimeter.
How to form
The first layer must be covered with stuffing. To prepare it, you need to grate ham and cheese on a coarse grater. The first layer of dough with filling should be covered with a second layer of dough and pinch the edges. After that, the cake must be cut into 8 segments. Cuts should be made with a knife sprinkled with flour, not completely. At the end, the cakes should be covered with a beaten egg.
Now the workpiece must be placed in the oven. Bake cakes on kefir with cheese and ham should be at a temperature of 200 ° C for half an hour. During this time, a golden crust should appear. Ready cakes should be divided. This will be easy thanks to the incisions.
Step 1: Prepare kefir.
Kefir must be put out of the refrigerator in advance so that it warms to room temperature. At the beginning of cooking, pour it into a cup or glass, add soda, sugar and salt. Mix everything with a whisk or a teaspoon. You will hear a joyful hiss with which the soda reacts with the fermented milk product. Your task is to wait until this reaction passes.Step 2: Prepare the cheese.
While kefir is being prepared, take the cheese and grate it on a fine grater, and it will be even better if you chop it in a food processor or blender.
Step 3: Prepare the dough.
Pour kefir mixed with salt, sugar and soda into a deep plate, add grated cheese and start kneading the dough, gradually adding flour. In the end, you still have to leave the mass aside to let the kefir finally wet the flour. While the dough is infused, take care of the filling, and then divide the finished homogeneous mass into several equal balls.
Step 4: Prepare the ham.
Peel the ham from the skin and cut the meat into thin, small cubes or grate.
Instead of ham, you can use regular sausage or some sausages, sausages, sausages.
Step 5: Form the cakes.
Prepare your cooking surface by dusting it with flour. Lay out one of the balls made of dough and roll it into a cake, but not very thin. Then put pieces of ham in the middle and close the edges of your product.
To make the cake neat, roll it out again, finally closing up the edges.
As a result, you should get something like this, almost a round-shaped pie filled with ham. Finally, make sure your tortilla has no holes and is not too thin.
Step 6: Fry the cakes.
Put the pan on medium heat, heat the sunflower oil in it and fry the cakes until a delicious golden brown on both sides. In the process of cooking, make sure that there is always oil in the pan, adding it as needed, and the fire is not too strong and the products do not burn. Well-fried cakes with ham can be served at the table.
Step 7: Serve cakes with ham on kefir.
Serve hot cakes with ham at the table, brew coffee or tea for them, and in the afternoon they will be good with tomato or sweet juice for an afternoon snack. That's all, enjoy delicious pastries with hearty toppings inside.
Bon appetit!
Kefir, from which you will knead the dough for cakes, should be fresh, not sour. It is not a good habit to try to cook something tasty from spoiled and sour foods.
You can also add cheese or green onions to the filling for ham, as well as other herbs.
You may need a little more or a little less wheat flour, everything will depend on the quality of the ingredients.
We can say with confidence that in the cookbook of every housewife there are recipes for making cheese cakes. And this is not surprising, because they are prepared quite simply and quickly from a minimum set of products. In addition, they can be served at the table with the first course, and as a dessert. It all depends on which recipe you choose. Today we will tell you how to fry delicious tortillas with cheese in a pan.
There are a lot of options and methods for making cheese cakes, but there are a few general rules that must be considered to make them really tasty:
- dough for cheese cakes can be cooked on kefir or water, and if you choose the first option, then it is better to use low-fat dairy products;
- so that the dough for cakes is easily rolled out and they turn out thin, you must first bring the water to a boil;
- the finished dough should be covered and left for at least half an hour so that it brews a little - so it will be easier for you to work with it;
- to fry cakes with cheese in a dry frying pan without adding vegetable oil, take dishes with a thick bottom;
- if you are frying cakes in vegetable oil, then the pan must be covered with a lid;
- cheese cakes can be prepared with any filling - it all depends on your preferences.
We have studied the basics of making cakes with cheese, you can safely go to the kitchen and create your own culinary masterpieces.
Classic recipe
Cheese cakes with herbs can be served instead of bread or as a separate dish for breakfast with tea. Cakes are being prepared on kefir with cheese in a pan. If you like lush cakes, then add a little soda to the dough. You can take any cheese. Unusual and exquisite taste are cakes with Adyghe cheese in a pan.
Compound:
- 250 ml fat-free kefir;
- 500 g flour;
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 250 g of cheese;
- 50 g of greens (you can take dill, parsley, green onion, mint);
- 50 g butter;
- 1 tsp granulated sugar;
- salt.
Cooking:
We fry delicious cakes with cheese and ham
As already mentioned, cheese cakes can be made with any filling. If you add ham to them, you get a very satisfying and tasty dish. If you do not have ham, then according to the same recipe, you can cook cakes with cheese and sausage in a pan.
Compound:
- 250 ml fat-free kefir;
- 250 g of cheese;
- 300 g of ham;
- 500 g flour;
- ½ tsp. soda, salt and sugar.
Cooking:
Cheese cakes with potatoes
The process of making cheese cakes with potatoes is not much different from previous recipes, so we will only consider its features. So, we need the same ingredients as in the first recipe, but we still need to add 5-6 potatoes.
Cooking:
- Cooking dough.
- We make the filling: potatoes need to be peeled, boiled and ceilinged. Mix crushed potatoes with grated cheese and chopped herbs.
- We form cakes in the way we already know and fry them.
So we have mastered with you the basic methods of making cheese cakes in a pan. Do not be afraid to experiment with the filling, add your favorite products - and you will get delicious and original cakes. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit!
