Strudel with cherries: a quick recipe

Strudel is a roll made of the finest non-yeast dough with various fillings. In many countries, the strudel is considered a national dish, although the most popular German strudel with apples. The fantastic aroma of apple strudel that comes from small caffeine throughout Austria will not leave anyone indifferent. Many bakeries offer strudels with various fruit fillings: apple, cherry, apricot, peach, etc. Not less popular and unsweetened strudels: meat, mushroom, cheese or vegetable. Simple at first glance dish strudel with cherries. Recipe with small secrets from each of her mistresses, which make her strudel unique.

In this article I want to share my experience on how to prepare a strudel with a cherry. A delicate and elegant roll with cherry is not inferior in taste to the classic German strudel with apples, and the time for its preparation will be minimal.

Strudel with cherries. The recipe is quite simple, with which anyone can cope. Just want to say that fit and ready-made puff pastry, then the preparation of strudel will take even less time. If you have a desire to knead the dough on your own, then prepare half a kilo of good wheat flour, 200 grams of butter and a glass of boiled water.

In a bowl, mix the flour, water and 50 g of butter, pre-softened in a water bath. For the beginning of 10 minutes vigorously mix the dough, then divide it into two parts, cover with a napkin, so that the dough rests. After a quarter of an hour, roll the dough into thin layers, cover with a napkin and leave for a quarter of an hour, then leave the dough not covered for a while.

The feature of the test for the strudel in its thickness - it should be as thin as possible, so be very careful when rolling. Professional bakers roll the dough to the thickness of papyrus paper! The edges of the rolled dough, as a rule, are thicker than the middle, so they can be cut.

The filling for strudel can be prepared from fresh cherries or from canned in own juice.

To make a filling of fresh cherries you need about 0.6 kg of fresh cherries or frozen, a small amount of sugar, so that the filling was not very acidic and 1 tbsp. Tablespoon of starch.

Cherries free from pits and put in a saucepan. After heating on medium heat, add sugar and starch. Strudel with cherries - the recipe allows you to improvise: you can put a little cinnamon, vanilla or orange peel.

If you use a canned cherry, it usually has a lot of juice for the filling, just throw the cherry in a colander and drain the cherry juice.

Since the filling is very juicy, you can grease the dough with an egg so that it does not melt.

Now on the pre-rolled out dough, spread the remaining softened butter. At high temperature in the oven, butter helps open up the puff pastry. Spread an even layer of stuffing and turn into a roll. The lateral edges of the roll should be turned inside a few centimeters so that the filling does not leak out. The top part of the roll is also greased with butter.

The oven must be warmed up beforehand. On a baking tray, oiled (vegetable or creamy), put the strudel and put in the oven. The first 10 minutes strudel is baked at 200-220 ° C, then reduce the heat and bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Finished strudel covered with a napkin or towel for 10 minutes. After that, cut into small pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Strudel with cherries - the recipe is quite simple, economical and very tasty. The best flavor of cherry strudel opens with black hot tea.