Apple dumplings are a very unusual dish that came to us from antiquity. It is similar to the traditional pyshki known to many people – St. Petersburg doughnuts. The legendary dessert appeared in the Soviet Union and quickly managed to win the hearts of people. The trend for pyshki came in the 1960s, when the Soviets began to have more contact with the outside world.
Probably, pyshki is a kind of answer to the American popular doughnuts. Pyshki are also cooked in plenty of butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
If you are
too
lazy to cook full-fledged pyshki, you can make small apple pyshki. Their difference is that apple small puffs do not look like a donut.
Ingredients for apple puffs:
- Kefir – 200 ml;
- Sour cream – 2 tbsp;
- Egg – 2 pcs;
- Sugar – 2 tbsp;
- Salt – ⅓ tsp;
- Leavening agent -1 tsp;
- Flour – 160 g;
- Apples – 3 pcs.
Preparation of apple puffs:
In a bowl with kefir pour salt and sugar, beat the eggs, add sour cream and mix thoroughly. Pour flour and baking powder into the kefir, knead a thick dough without lumps. Peel
apples from the peel and cut into small cubes, put into the dough and mix.
Heat vegetable oil in a
frying
pan – 300 ml.
Put a teaspoon of dough into the oil and fry the dumplings on both sides until golden.
It is better to take the dumplings out of the oil with a spoon.
You can sprinkle the dumplings with powdered sugar, so they will be even sweeter.
