Snacks & baking
Vatrouchka
Round bread garnished with a sweet vanilla-flavored curd cheese, sometimes scented with lemon. A typical Russian breakfast or afternoon snack, it is eaten lukewarm with tea.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Pâte
Garniture
Optional extras
Instructions
- In a bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm milk with a spoonful of sugar and let it rest 10 minutes until it foams.
- Mix the flour, sugar and salt, then add the yeast, the egg and the softened butter. Knead 8 to 10 minutes until you have a smooth, elastic dough.
- Cover and let rise 1 hour in a warm place, until the dough has doubled in volume.
- Meanwhile, mix the tvorog, egg yolk, icing sugar, vanilla and lemon zest until you have a smooth cream.
- Punch down the dough, divide it into 6 balls and flatten them into disks. Raise the edges to form a small cup.
- Fill each cup with a spoonful of tvorog, then let rise another 20 minutes.
- Bake at 190 °C for 20 to 25 minutes, until the edges are golden. Let cool slightly before serving.
Variations and tips
Raisin version. Add 40 g of raisins soaked in the filling.
With what's available here. Drained fresh cheese can replace tvorog: use 250 g of 20% fat fresh cheese strained through a sieve for 1 hour.
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Original Ecomely recipe.