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Wickets are small open pies made from unleavened dough made with rye flour. According to historians, they appeared around the 9th century. long before the baptism of Rus'. This dish belongs to Karelian, Vepsian and Russian cuisine. Recipes for their preparation have survived to this day. The name of the pies comes from a corruption of the Finnish word “kalittoa”. It means "smeared." Since the filling is, as it were, lubricated in the middle of the pancake or “skanza”. Even in Karelia they are called “rupettettu”, which translates as “gathered”, “wrinkled”. Karelian housewives said this: “The gate requires an eight.”
This means that to bake these pies, you will need 8 components:
- oil;
- curdled milk;
- Rye flour;
- sour cream;
- water;
- milk;
- salt;
- filling.
Such pies can have different shapes: oval, round, quadrangular. They are also made at five, six and seven angles. The edges are pinched or folded. Various products are used for filling. For example, traditional ingredients - potatoes, oatmeal, barley. Today they also use cottage cheese, rice, boiled eggs, and other ingredients.
Classic recipe
This cooking method is based on V. Pokhlebkin’s recipe.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
The following products need to be prepared:
- eggs – 3 – 4 pcs.;
- curdled milk – 200 ml;
- milk – 1 l;
- butter – 100 g;
- salt – 1 tsp.
- wheat flour – 0.5 tbsp., rye flour – 200 g;
- pearl barley or rice - 1 tbsp. (can be replaced with potatoes - 4 - 5 large tubers).
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking technique:
- First of all, the curdled milk is poured into a deep bowl.
- Then salt and sifted flour mixture are poured into it.
- Next, knead into a smooth dough. It should not stick to your hands.
- Then it is rolled out in one large layer, like homemade noodles.
- Afterwards, a saucer with a diameter of 12–18 cm is placed on it, turned upside down.
- Using a sharp knife, they cut out a pancake called “skanets”.
- The blanks are laid out on the tabletop.
- Place about 1 - 2 tbsp in the middle of the pancake. l. fillings. Prepare porridge or crushed potatoes in advance.
- Next, the pies are pinched and brushed with a mixture of sour cream and egg yolks.
- They are baked for approximately 20 minutes. in the oven at 200°.
What can I add?
Cottage cheese, rice or other cereals are added to such baked goods as desired. They also put eggs, berries, and vegetables. And the dough is made not only with yogurt. Take kefir, whey, yogurt.
Rye-wheat gate
Try to deviate a little from the traditional recipe and make wickets from a mixture of two types of flour - the products will turn out more tender. Vary the filling by adding a little onion. This will make it a little sweet.
Ingredients:
- 150 gr. wheat flour;
- 150 gr. rye flour;
- 200 ml. kefir;
- 0.5 kg. potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 100 gr. butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 gr. sour cream;
- salt.
Preparation:
- Sift both types of flour and combine. Add a little salt.
- Add kefir to the dry mixture (it should be at room temperature).
- Knead the dough. Form it into a ball and leave it under the film for 20 minutes.
- Boil the potatoes. Mash into a puree. Add butter, 1 egg and finely chopped onion.
- Roll the dough into a sausage. Cut it into flatbreads. Roll out each of them thinly. Place 2 tablespoons of filling in the center. Pinch the edges into an accordion - make the tucks at the same distance.
- Add the yolk and a pinch of salt to the sour cream. Lubricate the gates.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 190°C.
From rye flour
Karelian wickets made from rye flour (classic baking recipes may vary), which are prepared in the traditional way, are not particularly complicated.
Ingredients:
Ingredient | Quantity |
butter | 120 g |
potato | 5 tubers |
milk | 20 ml |
kefir, wheat flour, rye flour | 1 tbsp. |
sour cream | 3 tbsp. l. |
egg | 1 PC. |
salt | taste |
How to cook:
- First, the potatoes are peeled. It is boiled until tender and seasoned with salt.
- Then both types of flour are mixed with salt.
- Next, kefir is poured into this mixture and an obedient dough is kneaded.
- Then the mass is placed in a plastic bag. She is allowed to rest for 10 minutes.
- Then add butter to the boiled hot potatoes and pour in warm milk.
- Next, the potato mass is pounded well. Then a beaten raw egg is added to it. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Then the dough is formed into a rope. It is cut into equal pieces.
- Then each piece is flattened into a flat cake.
- Next, minced potatoes are placed in the middle of the skant. The edges of the workpieces are pinched.
- Then the gates are laid out on a baking sheet, previously greased with oil.
- Then the sour cream is mixed with the yolk.
- The pies are coated with this mixture. They bake for about 20 minutes. Oven temperature 200°.
How to serve a dish
Ready-made wickets are best served hot. They are generously poured with melted butter. Such pies are eaten with milk or yogurt, kefir, or tea. Cooled baked goods become stale. It can be stored for about 2 days. Therefore, the wickets are soaked in hot milk and butter before eating them. Remove the pies from the milk-butter mixture with a large wooden spoon. Place the cheesecake on your own plate. It is eaten with a spoon, scooping up milk, or cut into pieces with a knife. Dry your hands with a towel or napkin.
With potato
Potatoes are one of the best fillings for wickets.
Composition of ingredients
You will need:
- milk – 20 m;
- potatoes - 9 tubers;
- rye flour, wheat flour – 130 g each;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- butter – 120 g;
- salt - to taste;
- sour cream – 75 g;
- kefir – 200 ml.
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking technology:
- The first step is to peel the potatoes. It is boiled by adding salt to the water.
- Next, both types of flour are poured into kefir and salt is added.
- Then the dough should be kneaded with a spoon, and then with your hands, placing it on the countertop. Sprinkle the wooden surface with flour if necessary.
- You should get an elastic, dense mass. The lump is wrapped in cling film and left for 15 - 20 minutes.
- Then the dough is made into a rope. It is cut into 14 parts.
- Each piece is rolled in flour and shaped like a thin round cake.
- When the potatoes are ready, drain the liquid.
- Then 50 g of butter is added to it, and heated milk is poured in.
- The potatoes are mashed with a masher, turning them into puree.
- Then beat the egg into the potato mixture and mix quickly.
- Next, place 2 tbsp onto the “pancakes”. l. cooked minced meat. Their edges are pinched, leaving the middle open.
- Then the egg, sour cream and salt are mixed.
- Then the cheesecakes are transferred to a baking sheet previously covered with parchment. They are brushed with sour cream and egg mixture and baked for about 20 – 25 minutes.
- The oven is heated to 180°.
How to serve a dish
Ruddy pies are served hot. They are washed down with tea, cocoa, and milk.
How to cook “Kalitki with potatoes”
1. Wickets are prepared in different sizes, but almost always of the same shape. They can be 4, 5 or even 7 coal. First, mix baking powder, salt, flour and warm milk.
2. I used two types of flour. If you don’t have rye, you can use crusts from rye bread by soaking them for 15 minutes in warm water. After softening, you need to remove excess water and add the resulting mass to the main wheat flour. You need to knead the dough for about 15 minutes so that it does not stick to your hands. Then let it sit for about half an hour.
3. The dough turns out very elastic. Once you have practice making wickets, you will be able to feel the dough.
4. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes in their jackets. Please note that the puree, the filling for the gates, is prepared from just such boiled potatoes.
5. Do not add water or milk to the puree, but only one or two tablespoons of oil.
6. Now comes the most important stage... Cut the finished dough into strips, rolling them well. After this, divide the strip into equal balls, roll each of them out.
7. I made an oval shape, and the thickness of the dough was like pies. After the puree has cooled a little, you can sculpt the gates: place a tablespoon of filling on each slate (if desired, you can add an egg to the puree before beating). The edges need to be pinched or folded, leaving the middle open.
8. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place the gates on it. I greased the surface of each gate with yolk beaten with a few tablespoons of milk. You can also grease it with salted sour cream - but this is a matter of taste.
9. The gates are baked in the oven for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. As soon as you remove from the oven, brush the edges and surface with butter. To this day, there is a belief in Karelia: when guests arrive while the wickets are baking, they say: “Kaunis käsi tahroja!”, which means “beautiful hands of the one who spreads them!”, and the hostess should say in response: “Go take the one that was spread!” Bon appetit!
With millet
Karelian wickets made from rye flour with millet according to this recipe are easy to prepare at home.
Karelian wickets, recipe with millet.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
Required:
Ingredient | Quantity |
water, curdled milk | 1 tbsp. |
butter | 60 g |
Rye flour | 200 g |
salt | pinch |
cooked millet | 50 – 70 g |
quicklime soda | ½ dessert l. |
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking steps:
- First, pour soda into the curdled milk and stir it well.
- Next, water is poured into the fermented milk base and salt is added. Mix everything until smooth.
- Then add flour here and make a thick dough that will not stick to your hands.
- Then the mass is rolled out into a sausage. It is divided into equal parts.
- Next, flat cakes are made from the pieces of dough. Cooked millet is placed in the center of each piece. The edges are pinched and beautifully folded inward.
- Then the baking sheet is covered with parchment paper. Pies are laid out on it.
- Then the cheesecakes are baked for about 25 minutes. at t 200°.
How to serve a dish
This treat is served with sweet tea or as an afternoon snack.
Wickets with potatoes, millet, cheese, eggs and fresh dill
Such pies can be baked with several fillings at once.
Composition of ingredients
List of required products:
- curd cheese – 200 g;
- potatoes – 4 pcs.;
- millet – 80 g;
- yolks – 2 pcs.;
- sour cream – 100 g;
- onion - 1 head;
- rye flour – 450 g;
- egg – 3 pcs.;
- butter, vegetable oil – 50 – 60 g each;
- dill – 1 bunch;
- kefir – 300 ml;
- salt - a pinch;
- mixture of 5 peppers - to taste.
Step-by-step cooking process
How to cook:
- To begin, pour kefir, sour cream into a bowl, add flour and salt.
- Next, knead the dough for 5 – 7 minutes.
- Then the mass is wrapped in film. It is sent to the refrigerator for about 25 - 30 minutes.
- Then boil millet, potatoes, and eggs in different containers.
- Next, the onion is peeled. It is chopped into small cubes and sauteed until golden brown in hot vegetable oil.
- Then the fried onions are combined with millet. Add 30 g of butter to the porridge, salt and pepper it. Mix everything well.
- Then the boiled potatoes are mashed. Sprinkle it with pepper and salt and mix thoroughly.
- Next, the boiled eggs are peeled. The whites are separated from the yolks and grated.
- Then they are mixed with cheese, chopped herbs, lightly salted and pepper. The ingredients are mixed.
- Then the dough is made into pieces approximately 2 mm thick.
- Next, the prepared fillings are laid out in the center of the flatbreads.
- Then the sour cream is mixed with the yolks. This mixture is coated with the spread minced meat.
- The wickets are baked for approximately 15 – 20 minutes, setting the temperature to 200°.
How to serve a dish
These pies are served with milk, tea and coffee. These cheesecakes are also eaten with soup. They are pre-coated with melted butter.
With rice
Karelian wickets made from rye flour (this recipe is considered the most popular today) with rice filling are tasty and satisfying.
Composition of ingredients
Product set:
Ingredient | Quantity |
rice | 240 g |
water | 250 ml |
Wheat flour | 150 g |
sugar (for porridge) | taste |
milk | 600 ml |
Rye flour | 350 g |
salt | 1 dessert l. |
oil | 25 g |
Step-by-step cooking process
How to cook:
- First of all, bring the water to a boil.
- Then it is removed from the stove, salted, and cooled slightly.
- Then both types of flour are poured into the water.
- Next, knead a stiff dough that does not stick to your hands.
- The lump is covered with film and left warm for 15 – 18 minutes.
- Next, milk is poured into the saucepan; it must be brought to a boil.
- Then, well-washed rice cereal is poured into a boiling milk drink, and salt and sugar are also added.
- Then the porridge is cooked over low heat until the rice is completely cooked.
- You should get a viscous, thick mass.
- It is flavored with butter and mixed well.
- The dough is then cut into pieces of the same size.
- Next, warm rice filling is placed on the rolled out flatbreads. The edges of the pies are sealed, leaving the top open.
- Then the gates are laid out on a baking sheet, pre-coated with oil.
- Then the pies are baked for about 30 minutes. in an oven preheated to 190°.
How to serve a dish
The still warm dish is eaten for breakfast, afternoon snack or dinner. It is served with hot sweet tea.
Wickets with carrots and eggs
Karelian wickets made from rye flour (the recipe is quite unusual) can have an original filling.
Composition of ingredients
Grocery list:
- kefir, rye flour, wheat flour - 1 tbsp each;
- large carrots - 4 roots;
- eggs – 3 pcs.;
- butter – 80 g;
- soda, salt - 1 tsp each;
- sour cream – 3 tbsp. l.;
- onion - 1 head.
Step-by-step cooking process
How to cook:
- First, kefir is slightly heated on fire. Then the soda is quenched in it.
- Next, add salt, light and dark flour to the fermented milk drink.
- Then all the ingredients are mixed, forming a thick, dense dough.
- Then it is covered with film and left for a quarter of an hour.
- Next, carrots and eggs are boiled in salted water. They are cooled and cleaned.
- Then the carrots are grated on a coarse grater, and the eggs are finely chopped.
- Then the diced onion is fried in butter.
- Next, all prepared ingredients are mixed.
- Then the carrot-egg filling is spread onto the rolled out dough flatbreads and open-topped pies are formed.
- Then the semi-finished products are placed on an oiled baking sheet.
- Next, the pieces are baked for about 25 – 27 minutes. at a temperature of 200°.
How to serve a dish
These pies are served with a cup of sweet tea.
Form and bake in the oven
How are Karelian wickets made from rye flour? The recipes for such products are quite similar to each other. The prepared dough is divided into equal pieces and then rolled into thin flat cakes. Then 1-2 large spoons of curd filling are placed in their center. After this, the free edges are beautifully wrapped inward, forming an even semicircular pie.
Carefully placing all the semi-finished products on a baking sheet with baking paper, they are generously greased with melted butter. After this, the Karelian pies are sent to the oven and baked for half an hour.
As soon as the gates are browned, they are taken out and lubricated again, but with fresh butter.
Traditional wicket with potatoes on kefir
This simple recipe makes 10 servings.
Composition of ingredients
Required:
Ingredient | Quantity |
milk | 120 ml |
egg | 1 PC. |
butter | 50 g |
sour cream | 125 ml |
potato | 6 – 7 tubers |
Rye flour | 500 g |
salt | taste |
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking steps:
- First, milk is mixed with sour cream.
- Then sifted flour is poured into the sour cream and milk mixture.
- Next, knead the elastic dough.
- It is rolled into a ball, covered with a napkin and sent to the refrigerator.
- Then the peeled potatoes are boiled, mashed, and salted. Put butter and egg in it.
- Then the dough rolled into a sausage is divided into slices.
- Next, each piece is rolled out into a thin pancake.
- Then they put the filling on the “skants”. They are pinched in a circle.
Then the cheesecakes are transferred to an oiled baking sheet. They cook for approximately 25 – 28 minutes. at t 200°.
How to serve a dish
Warm open pies are served with milk or sweet tea.
Wickets on milk
Karelian wickets made from rye flour (the recipe is easy to follow) made with milk are very tender. The milk drink softens the taste of these pies.
Composition of ingredients
List of products:
- potatoes – 500 g;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- rye flour – 0.5 kg;
- sour cream, milk - 150 ml each;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- butter – 50 g.
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking technique:
- First of all, you need to boil the potatoes. Then it is mashed into puree.
- An egg, salt, and melted butter are also added here.
- Then the milk is combined with sour cream. Pour flour into this mixture and add some salt.
- Next, knead the dough. A ball is formed from it.
- The mixture is left for 30 minutes. under the film.
- Then they roll it into a sausage 5 cm thick.
- Then it is cut into flat cakes, which are rolled out thinly.
- Next, place minced potatoes in the middle of each circle.
- Then the edges of the blanks are pinched with an accordion.
- The wickets take approximately 20 minutes to prepare. Oven temperature 200°.
How to serve a dish
Hot pies are washed down with tea or milk.
Making delicious Karelian pies with sweet cottage cheese
Now you know the recipe for Karelian wickets made from rye flour with potatoes. If you want to get sweet products for tea, we recommend preparing them using cottage cheese. But first things first.
So, the recipe for Karelian wickets with cottage cheese involves the use of:
- fatty yogurt - 1 full glass;
- baking soda - a few pinches;
- sifted wheat flour - ½ cup;
- rye flour – 1.5 cups;
- fine table salt – 1 dessert spoon;
- coarse-grained fat cottage cheese - about 3 cups (for filling);
- medium-sized eggs – 2 pcs. (For filling);
- butter - about 50 g (for greasing);
- coarse sugar - about 4 large spoons (for filling);
- aromatic vanillin - a pinch (for filling).
Wickets with cottage cheese
Wickets with cottage cheese turn out very aromatic and appetizing.
Composition of ingredients
You will need:
Ingredient | Quantity |
curdled milk, rye flour | 1 tbsp. |
ghee | 50 ml |
salt | pinch |
egg | 1 PC. |
cottage cheese | 500 g |
sour cream, wheat flour | ½ tbsp. |
sugar | 100 g |
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking method:
- To begin, pour yogurt into the sifted flour, as well as 100 ml of sour cream.
- Next, add some salt to the mixture and mix well.
- Then the rolled out sausage dough is cut into small pieces.
- They are flattened like flat cakes.
- Then the cottage cheese, sugar, and egg are thoroughly mixed.
- Then the curd filling is placed in the middle of the flatbreads, and the edges of the dough are pinched.
- Next, the pies are placed on a baking sheet. It is pre-covered with parchment.
- The gates take about 15 minutes to prepare. at a temperature of 220°.
What can I add?
You can add raisins or dried lingonberries, cranberries to the filling, and prepare the dough itself with yogurt or whey.
How to serve a dish
These cheesecakes are greased with melted butter. They are served with milk, tea, cocoa.
Making delicious wickets with rice porridge
If you cannot get your child to eat rice porridge, then we suggest serving it a little differently. Using this dish as a filling for pies, no child will be able to refuse it.
So, to implement the recipe we need:
- Warm drinking water – 1 full glass;
- baking soda - a few pinches;
- sifted wheat flour – ½ cup;
- rye flour – 1.5 cups;
- fine table salt - 1 dessert spoon for the dough and the same amount for the filling;
- round rice - about 1 cup (for filling);
- butter – about 60 g (for filling);
- full fat milk – 3 cups (for filling);
- coarse sugar - 1 large spoon (for filling).
Wickets with lingonberries
Berries are taken fresh or frozen.
They are ground with sugar. The baked goods are not dry thanks to the juicy lingonberry filling.
Composition of ingredients
Product set:
- granulated sugar, wheat flour, rye flour - 200 g each;
- lingonberries - 2 tbsp.;
- salt - a pinch;
- kefir – 200 ml;
- corn starch - 2 tbsp. l.
Step-by-step cooking process
Cooking process:
- First, salt and flour mixture are poured into kefir.
- Next, the elastic dough is kneaded by hand or using a food processor.
- Then the mass is left for approximately 14 - 20 minutes. at room temperature. She is covered with a towel.
- Then the berries are sorted, washed, and dried. Frozen fruits are also rinsed.
- Next, half the lingonberries should be crushed with a fork or masher along with sugar.
- Then the rest of the whole berries are poured into them. They are sprinkled with starch and mixed.
- In addition to it, you can use wheat flour. But then they take it at half the specified amount. The same goes for potato starch.
- If the berry is already ground, simply add starch and mix.
- Next, the dough is divided into equal pieces. They are used to make oval or round flatbreads approximately 4–5 mm thick.
- Then the berry filling is distributed on the blanks, and the edges of the dough are pinched.
- Then they are carefully laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment or oiled.
- Next, the wickets are baked for about 15 – 20 minutes. The temperature is set to 200°.
What can I add?
You can take gooseberries, cherries, black currants or other berries instead of lingonberries.
How to serve a dish
Similar pastries are served with tea and cocoa.
Useful tips
It is not difficult to prepare wickets, but there are certain rules for preparing such pies.
Adviсe:
- First, mix the dry and bulk ingredients, and then add the remaining ingredients.
- Baking will be more delicious if you combine two types of flour together.
- When using pearl barley, it must be boiled for at least 5–6 hours.
- Barley grits must first be soaked for 10 - 12 hours in kefir with melted butter (50 - 75 g). Then it becomes soft, acquires sourness and a special taste.
- The potato filling can be improved with butter, sour cream or chopped eggs and onions. The same additives can be added to minced rice.
- The rolled pieces must be stacked and covered with a large container. This way they will not get airy and dry out.
- You should not continue to cook cereal if it has already absorbed water and milk. Otherwise the porridge will burn.
- The pies must be pinched to keep the middle open.
- Karelian wickets made from rye flour must also contain a wheat base. This is the main secret of their recipe.
Baking pies with potatoes in the oven
After all the pies are formed, they are placed on a baking sheet with baking paper.
It should be noted that the presented recipe for Karelian gates involves the use of not only the above ingredients, but also other products intended for lubricating semi-finished products. To do this, beat the chicken egg well with a fork, and then add a few large spoons of sour cream. All the pies are greased with the resulting mixture and immediately put into the oven.
It is advisable to bake such products at a temperature of 200 degrees for 25 minutes. After the gates become rosy, they are taken out and greased with fresh butter while hot.