Baursaki - recipe

Baursaki - one of the most interesting dishes of Asian cuisine, is a piece of dough, fried in deep fat. Traditionally, the dough for baursaks is made sweet, as a dessert, similar to the chuck chuck , is collected from the ready-made lumps. Instead of sugar, honey can be used, as it is done in the Tatar version. However, there are baursaks and unsweetened, they are served instead of bread. There are several options for how to cook baursaks in Kazakh, so that the balls turn out ruddy, lush and soft.

Baursaks from frozen eggs

Such baursaks are very delicious, they should be served hot, and during frying, a certain skill will be required.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Lush baursaks are obtained if the dough is kneaded only from eggs, flour and vegetable oil. To get the main ingredient, just nail the eggshell from above, set them with the overturned end up and place in the freezer for an hour and a half. In a bowl, break the eggs, salt, add soda, vegetable oil and mix well. Since the yolks of frozen eggs are hard, it is better to do this with the help of potato. Gradually adding flour, knead a thick hard dough. Preheat the oil. From the dough, separate the lumps as large as a thimble, roll them into balls and lower them into the deep-fryer. Baursaks, the recipe of which is given here, significantly increase in size when frying. Put the finished balls on a napkin to cover the excess oil.

Sweet baursaks

Kazakh baursaks, the recipe of which is also quite simple, is prepared from a yeast dough.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Milk warm up to 30 degrees, add sugar and yeast to it. Leave for half an hour in a warm place, then add eggs, salt and sour cream. All ingredients should be at room temperature. Thoroughly mix everything, so that the mixture becomes homogeneous, gradually add the sifted flour. Knead soft dough, leave for 20 minutes to rest. This recipe produces a smooth, elastic dough for baursaks, the recipe can be slightly changed, for example, add more sugar to make a dessert, or replace milk with serum, then the dough will be easier. Divide the dough into 6-8 koloboks, stretching to the sides and rolling out, form bundles and cut small pieces the size of a small walnut. Fry the baursaks in deep-fried to a rich golden color, stirring all the time.

Baursaks with cottage cheese

The recipe for delicious baursaks can be composed independently, if you add cottage cheese or grated cheese to the dough.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Baursaks on kefir are very soft, they just melt in the mouth. Kefir should be at room temperature. Cottage curd Fork, add eggs, salt, soda and mix well. Pour kefir and stir until the mass becomes homogeneous. Instead of cottage cheese you can use grated cheese on the smallest grater. Gradually adding flour, mix a soft dough. Do not knead the dough for cottage cheese baursaks for very long. As soon as it "grabs", roll it into a ball and leave it for 10 minutes, while warming up the oil. Instead of vegetable oil, you can use melted fat or oil, fattening fat or a mixture of fat and vegetable oil. Separate small pieces of dough, roll them into balls and lower them into boiling oil. When they are roasted to an even brown color, open the colander in order to drain excess oil.