The pies baked with semolina in the people are called by "mannik". Wheat flour, sugar, often cottage cheese and other dairy products, fresh or tinned fruit, berries and candied fruits are a part of such pastries besides semolina. These pies "are less whimsical" in preparation, than biscuit pastries, and well rise.
Semolina pie
The following products will be necessary for preparation of semolina pie:
- 400 g of flour; - 150-200 g of semolina;
- 150 g of carrots; - 150 g of apples; - 120 g of cottage cheese; - 3 eggs; - 100 g of margarine; - 1 lemon; - 150 g of granulated sugar; - 50 g of raisin; - vanillin or cinnamon; - salt; - baking soda. In advance get margarine from the fridge that it was softened. Wipe cottage cheese through a sieve. Wash up carrots and apples, dry and grate. Drench a lemon with boiled water, rub a dried peel on a small grater, and squeeze out juice of pulp. Wash raisin with warm water, then wet for about 20 minutes then dry on a paper towel.
Pound soft margarine with granulated sugar, add eggs and fresh lemon juice, a salt pinch, baking soda on a knife tip, and, stirring slowly, enter the grated carrots and apples, wheat flour, semolina, cottage cheese, the prepared raisin, gratings of a lemon and vanilla or cinnamon for choice. Then mix all components in homogeneous mass. Grease a heat resisting form for pie with margarine, strew with bread crumbs, lay out weight and level a surface. Put a form with pie in an oven on average fire, approximately for an hour. Take out ready semolina pie from a form, grease top with a desi and strew with icing sugar.
Fruit and cottage cheese semolina pie
To bake semolina pie according to this recipe, it is necessary to take: - 1 kg of apricots; - 50 g of margarine; - 100 g of granulated sugar; - salt; - 3 eggs; - 500 g of low-fat cottage cheese; - 150 ml of yogurt; - 2 lemons; - 75 g of semolina; - 2 tsps of baking powder; - 40 g of ground almonds; - icing sugar. Drench apricots with boiled water, cool a little and husk with fruits. Remove stones, and cut pulp in small cubes. If desired apricots can be replaced with other fresh or tinned fruit (peaches, plums). Room temperature mix margarine with the granulated sugar, a salt pinch, eggs wiped through a sieve with cottage cheese, yogurt and a grated lemon dried peel. Mix semolina with baking powder and connect to other ingredients. Add small cut apricots and carefully mix everything. Grease a split mold with a diameter about 26 centimeters with fat, strew with 1 teaspoon of ground almonds, lay out in it curds and level. From above strew with the remained almonds and icing sugar. Bake fruit and cottage cheese pie at a temperature of 180 wasps about 60 minutes.