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Yeast dough without eggs - recipes for pies, buns, pizza
Yeast test
Pizza
Dough
Bun dough
Pie dough
Pizza dough
Although baking dough is often made using eggs, they can be omitted. Especially when it comes to lean, vegetarian or diet menus. At the same time, there are many recipes that will help you make exceptionally tender yeast dough without eggs.
Yeast dough without eggs
Suitable for: pies, pies, buns, pizza.
Ingredients
- 15 g fresh yeast;
- ½ tablespoon sugar;
- 250 ml warm water;
- 500 g sifted flour;
- 1 ½ tablespoons vegetable oil;
- ½ teaspoon salt.
Preparation
Crumble the yeast, add sugar and mash with a spoon. You will end up with a liquid mixture. Pour water into it, add a little flour and stir well. Cover with a towel and leave in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Then add oil and salt. Sift the flour and add it in parts, mixing well after each addition. Knead the dough with your hands. It should be elastic and should not stick to your hands.
Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 40–50 minutes. During this time it will increase 2-3 times.
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How to make for buns
It is important to add kefir to the bun dough, not water, in order to end up with the most tender baked goods!
Required Products:
- warm kefir – 1/2 cup;
- wheat flour – 0.4 kg;
- instant yeast – 1 sachet;
- a pinch of table salt;
- granulated sugar – 1 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 20 g.
Step by step recipe:
- Pour granulated sugar, instant yeast (12 g) and table salt into a high bowl. And also sift the flour (highest grade).
- Now pour in the melted butter and warm kefir. It is better to preheat these ingredients in the microwave.
- Using the hook attachment, knead a soft, not very thick dough for 20 minutes. After this, separate several pieces. The approximate weight of each is about 70 g.
- Roll out a ball from each piece. Place everything on a baking sheet, which is best lined with thin parchment paper. Let sit for 20 minutes, after which brush the surface with beaten yolk. Now you can put it in the oven.
Using kefir will provide the buns with tender pulp. But for taste and aroma, it is permissible to include grated cheese or crushed garlic in the dough, the core of which is important to cut out so that it does not taste bitter. It’s so easy to figure out how to make dough for buns!
Water dough without yeast or eggs
Suitable for: pies, pies, buns, pizza.
Ingredients
- 400 ml hot water;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 150 g butter;
- 600 g sifted flour;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- a few drops of vinegar.
Preparation
Dissolve salt and oil in water. Pour half the flour into the resulting liquid mixture and mix thoroughly. Add baking soda, quenched with vinegar, and remaining flour.
Stir and knead the dough well with your hands. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
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Kneading dough
How to prepare the dough? First you need to slightly heat kefir (or yogurt) on the stove.
Why do this? In warm liquids, reactions occur faster, and for fluffy dough for pies this is very important, because there is no yeast in the recipe, which means the dough will rise only due to lactic acid bacteria, which, like yeast, love heat and will actively release carbon dioxide, making our the dough is airy and incredibly tasty. It is also important not to overheat the kefir, otherwise the milk bacteria will simply die: body temperature no higher than 40 degrees is just right.
Add sugar, salt and soda to the heated liquid. When the mass begins to foam - a consequence of the interaction between the acid of kefir and the alkali of soda, you need to start adding flour little by little, stirring the resulting dough, the easiest way to do this is with your hand, making movements in a circle, grabbing the edges.
It is very important not to make it dense or clogged with flour, it should float slightly, but not spread, so the amount of flour according to the recipe is not indicated in exact proportions: the plasticity of the dough will tell about this, as well as a slight stickiness to dishes and hands.
Also, like any quick dough, you should not overly knead, knead or knead it; moreover, if the dough is easily kneaded on the table and holds its shape perfectly, it means that a lot of flour has been poured in. For the first time this is certainly not bad, but if you try dough for pies without eggs from a more “floating” dough and kneaded until elastic, you will feel a significant difference.
Shortcrust pastry without eggs
Suitable for: cookies, pies, tarts.
Ingredients
- 300 g sifted flour;
- 80 g sugar;
- 170 g cold butter;
- 1 tablespoon of sour cream.
Preparation
Mix flour and sugar. Add the diced butter to these ingredients and knead the dough with your hands until it has a crumbly consistency.
Add sour cream and mix well. Then knead the dough again with your hands until smooth. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
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Option for those who are fasting
For those who fast, it is sometimes difficult to choose dishes for their diet. But you can always make buns or bread by kneading the simplest dough from a minimum amount of ingredients.
Ingredients needed:
- live yeast – 10 g;
- sifted wheat flour - 3 cups;
- salt/sugar – 5 g each;
- mineral table water – 140-150 ml;
- vegetable oil – 1 tbsp. l.
Step by step instructions:
- Mix salt, mashed yeast and sugar. Combine with warm mineral water, which just needs to be heated to 33-35 degrees in the microwave.
- After finishing the process, pour in a spoonful of lean sunflower oil. After this, sift the highest quality flour.
- Kneading the dough is an option for those who are fasting. Let the mixture rise for an hour, placing it in a warm place. After the specified time, everything is ready!
Since a minimum of baking is used here, and there are no eggs at all, it is important to add mineral water (table water, not medicinal!) to the recipe. It is this that will add softness to the yeast dough.
Sponge dough without eggs
Suitable for: biscuits.
Ingredients
- 100 g sugar;
- 150 ml water at room temperature;
- 200 g condensed milk;
- 250 g sifted flour;
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda.
Preparation
Dissolve sugar in water, add condensed milk and stir. Add flour and baking soda and knead the dough until smooth.
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Lenten yeast pies without eggs: how to bake correctly and how to make them golden brown
- In order for the pies to be soft, well baked, but not dry out, it is enough to bake them for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
- For a delicious golden brown crust, instead of egg, brush the pies with something from this list.
- Place the finished pies in a dish/bowl and cover with a bag/cling film or towel to keep them soft. The towel is still slightly breathable. Therefore, if you are going to store them for more than 1 day, it is better to use a disposable bag or cling film.
Choux pastry without eggs
Suitable for: dumplings, manti, dumplings.
Ingredients
- 350 g sifted flour;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil;
- 200 ml hot water or milk.
Preparation
Mix flour with salt. Add butter and pour in boiling water or hot milk in a thin stream, stirring the dough.
When the dough thickens, knead it with your hands for a few minutes. Cover with a towel and leave at room temperature for half an hour.
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Kefir dough without eggs and yeast
Suitable for: pies, pizza, whites, donuts, flatbreads.
Ingredients
- 300 g sifted flour;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 250 ml kefir;
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
Preparation
Mix flour, soda and salt. Pour in kefir and oil and stir until smooth.
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Curd dough without eggs
Suitable for: cookies, pies, tarts.
Ingredients
- 350 g cottage cheese;
- 250 g softened butter;
- 400 g sifted flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ¼ teaspoon salt.
Preparation
Grind the cottage cheese with butter. The fastest way to do this is with a blender. Mix flour with baking powder and salt.
Add the flour mixture to the cottage cheese and use your hands to knead the dough to a uniform consistency. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
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How to work with the test?
Of course, it’s not immediately clear how to work with dough that’s too soft: it sticks a little and doesn’t obey. How to make eggless pie dough easy to form? It’s very simple: when forming, with your hands lightly greased with vegetable oil, pinch off a piece of dough, roll it into a ball and use a rolling pin to flatten it. It’s convenient and the dough is manageable, although you have to fry them right away, otherwise the dough will still stick to the table.
There is another option for working with soft dough, completely opposite to the previous one: dump the entire lump of dough onto a table generously sprinkled with flour and knead lightly, literally three or four movements. Cut a piece of dough with a knife, also sprinkled with flour, dip it in flour and use your fingers to shape it into an oval, similar to the one formed with a rolling pin. Just try to make the edges of this cake a little thinner and the middle thicker, so that when making pies, the layer of dough will be uniform throughout the entire product.
This is where readers are probably confused: which method is more convenient and correct for making pies? There is no answer, since to each his own and you need to try both options to find what is convenient for you. Some people even knead the dough in a bread machine and don’t worry about such trifles.
Quick dough for pies without eggs seems incomprehensible at first, but during the kneading process you will see how you need to work with it so that baking is a success.
This is probably one of the factors of a good housewife: to be able to “feel” the products or, as in this case, the dough and put a piece of your soul into it - then the pies will turn out and the food will be tasty. All this comes with experience, or as they say: “The hundredth time everything will turn out right!”
Quick puff pastry without eggs
Suitable for: any puff pastry.
Ingredients
- 250 g sifted flour + a little for rolling;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 170 g cold butter;
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice;
- 130 ml cold water.
Preparation
Mix flour with salt. Add the butter cubes and rub the dough into crumbs. Pour in lemon juice and water and knead into a smooth dough.
Place the dough on a floured surface and roll out into a layer 1 cm thick. Fold the layer in three, turn 90° and roll out again in the same layer. Repeat the last steps again.
Then fold the layer in thirds again, wrap it in cling film and put the dough in the refrigerator for an hour.
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Batter without eggs
Suitable for: pancakes, pancakes.
Ingredients
- 400 ml milk;
- 160 g sifted flour;
- 1 tablespoon sugar;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 2 ½ tablespoons vegetable oil.
Preparation
Add flour, sugar, soda and salt to the milk. Mix the dough until smooth and leave at room temperature for half an hour. If the dough turns out watery, add a little more flour. After half an hour, pour oil into the dough and mix.
Stretched dough for strudel (phyllo)
This thin dough is used to make strudels, baklava and some layer cakes.
- 500 grams of flour;
- 90 ml vegetable oil;
- 1 teaspoon salt;
- 290 ml warm water.
Cooking process:
1. Sift the flour into a large bowl.
2. Mix water with vegetable oil and gradually pour into the flour, kneading the dough.
3. Knead until smooth and homogeneous. Gather into a ball. Now you need to hit it on the table - 50-70 times.
4. Wrap the dough in film and leave for 1 hour at room temperature.
5. Roll out the stretch dough without eggs on a towel sprinkled with flour. Then stretch it with your hands until it becomes translucent.
Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 7 days and in the freezer for up to 30.
For a detailed recipe and cooking process with step-by-step photos, see here.
