Lenten charlotte

Charlotte is loved by many housewives for the simplicity and versatility of the recipe. A small list of ingredients, their relative cheapness, unpretentious cooking, and, most importantly, the ability to vary the filling - thanks to all these qualities, this dish is deservedly included in the list of the most commonly used recipes in most families. I love to bake since my childhood, but I always avoided complex recipes, where the dough had to be kneaded and rolled. Well, a charlotte with my love for pies with stuffing - just a godsend! The dough is thin enough, just poured into a mold of it, and that's it.

The variety of fillings generates the same number of recipes of different charlottes. Among the ingredients of the classic recipe, there are eggs, and the dough is usually cooked in the same way as a regular biscuit dough. However, during the fast, many people are interested in how the lean charlotte is prepared, that is, eggs and other products of animal origin should not be included in its composition. And if you find a lean stuffing is not difficult, then how to avoid adding eggs to the dough, not everyone knows. So today I want to tell you a couple of interesting options, as preparing such a lean charlotte.

The first recipe I really like, it's filled with oranges, and the taste is very fragrant, citrus. However, if you are allergic to citrus, then be careful, it may be worthwhile to use apricots or peaches instead of oranges. In my family, no one has any allergies, and the orange charlotte becomes during our fasting our main dessert.

So, you have to take two large oranges. They need to be washed first, and then watered with boiling water. Wipe dry and grate on a small grated orange peel. After that, clean the oranges, disassemble them into slices and cut each slice into two or three pieces. Walnuts clean and chop them. If you do not have a special chopper for this, do as I do: lay the peeled nuts on a wooden board, cover with food film or a towel and a rolling pin begin to roll out the nut mass. Finished nut crumb you should get a half cup. Next, in a bowl, mix half a cup of sugar, half a glass of strong tea leaves, 60 grams of vegetable oil, odorless, orange peel, vanilla, three tablespoons of yellow jam (better than the same orange, if not, then apricot, peach, yellow plum or white cherry) . As for the latter, if you have jam or thick jam, then put it in the dough, but if the jam was cooked with pieces of fruit, then it is better to grind it in a blender to a uniform state.

Mix all the ingredients with a mixer. Approximately two glasses of flour combine with one tablespoon of baking powder and then gradually pour into the dough. Mix everything again. Lenten charlotte is baked from dough, in consistence similar to thick sour cream.

Form the baking grease, sprinkle with flour. Half of the dough is poured into the prepared form, top with oranges, mixed with nut crumb, and pour the remaining dough again. Lenten charlotte is baked for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Decorate the finished pie can be powdered sugar and caramelized pieces of oranges.

Cabbage charlotte is also very popular with my family and my guests. True, my recipe is not lean, but if there is a fast in the yard, then it's enough to just replace some of the ingredients. Instead of cans of mayonnaise, you need to take 50 grams of vegetable oil and 200 grams of mineral water, and instead of eggs half a cup of strong tea leaves.

For my recipe pie with cabbage you need: 3 eggs, half a spoonful of salt, a tablespoon of sugar, 250 grams of mayonnaise or sour cream, a teaspoon of hydrated soda, half a cup of flour. Pound salt and sugar with yolks, add mayonnaise. Whisk the whites separately and gently enter into the dough, gently mix. Mix the flour with soda and slowly pouring, stir with the rest of the mass. Pour half the dough into the mold. Finely chopped cabbage and stewed with onion mushrooms use as a filling. Cover with the remaining dough. After 40 minutes, check the skewers' readiness for the pie with a wooden skewer.

Bon Appetit!