Classic charlotte with apples on kefir without oil (recipe)

Today we will prepare charlotte with kefir. Yes, not just one, but several at once. They all have different tastes, although all the ingredients in each recipe are almost the same. But what distinguishes them all is that they turn out to be very fluffy, delicate in taste, and somewhat “wet” in feel. This effect is achieved thanks to a sufficiently large number of apples.

When you eat such a pie, sometimes it seems that there is no flour in the pie, but there are many, many apples.

There is nothing complicated in preparing such a pie; it is prepared simply and quickly, just like all charlottes. Maybe that’s why they love it so much, because despite its ease of preparation, it invariably turns out airy, tender, and incredibly tasty.

Another special feature of this recipe is that despite the small amount of ingredients, the pie turns out to be quite fluffy and tall. And this happens thanks to such a component as kefir. According to the previous recipe, our baked goods were also quite fluffy, but this was achieved in a different way. However, we will talk about this in more detail below in the recipe.

Classic recipe step by step

I make a simple pie recipe using my garden sweet and sour apples. Although, you can also cook from store-bought ones. My apples are very crumbly, but it’s better to take it harder. It turns out delicious from the Semerenko and Grushovka varieties. How much sugar to add depends on the taste of the fruit. I add 170 grams. If the apples are sour, then the amount of sweetness can be increased to 200 grams.

Ingredients:

240 grams of flour (1.5 cups)
250 ml kefir (1 glass)
350-380 g apples
2 chicken eggs
170-200 g sugar
30 g sour cream (1 tbsp)
1.5 g vanillin
0.5 tsp soda
a pinch of salt
2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil and + oil for greasing the mold

Preparation:

1. Remove all products from the refrigerator in advance and let them sit for 30 minutes.

2. Place the eggs in a bowl, add sugar and vanilla. You can use vanilla sugar or vanilla extract instead.

3. Beat the mixture with a mixer for 1-1.5 minutes. The speed should be average. The resulting mass will slightly increase in volume and become lighter in color.

4. Pour in kefir and sour cream. Mix everything again with a mixer until smooth for 30 seconds.

5. Sift flour and soda through a sieve and gradually, in three parts, add to the resulting mass. Use a mixer for this. Don't forget to add salt.

6. Leave the finished dough for 15-20 minutes so that the flour disperses. Then pour in the oil and mix the mixture one last time with a mixer.

7. While the dough is resting, chop the apples. We need very thin slices. Since the fruits I have are quite crumbly, I do not remove the skin from them. For hard apples with rough skin, it is better to peel them.

8. Grease a baking dish with butter and pour 1/3 of the dough onto the bottom. Then spread a layer of apples on its surface, thus creating a kind of “pillow”. All other pieces can simply be poured out. Then smooth them out.

9. Pour the remaining dough into the mold. Lightly shake the contents by hitting the pan on the table. This is necessary so that the dough penetrates between the apples.

10. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Then, without opening the door, reduce the temperature to 160 degrees and bake for another 10 minutes until done.

In some ovens, charlotte is ready in just 30 minutes. But in my oven the middle remains damp. Therefore, I add another 10 minutes to the main time at a lower temperature so that the top does not brown too much.

11. Take out the finished cake and let it stand in the pan for 10 minutes. During this time, it will easily move away from the walls and can be taken out.

We eat the pie while it is still hot. It turns out very tasty! There is very little dough, there are practically only apples in it. At the same time, everything bakes perfectly. Charlotte does not fall off and remains fluffy.

Recipe for lush apple pie with cottage cheese

One way to diversify the traditional charlotte recipe is to add curd filling to it.

Ingredients:

For the test:

Premium wheat flour - 200 g
Eggs - 3 pcs
Sugar - 200 g
Kefir – 100 ml
Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp
Soda - 1/3 tsp
Baking powder - 3/4 tsp

For filling:

Cottage cheese – 150 g
Sour cream – 100 g
Eggs - 1 piece
Sugar - 3 tbsp
Apples - 2 pcs.

Preparation:

1. Pour soda into a glass of kefir, stir well and leave for 10 minutes so that the soda “quenches.”

2. Break the eggs into a deep bowl and add sugar to them. Beat the mixture with a mixer until white foam forms (8-10 minutes).

3. Then add vegetable oil and settled kefir to the bowl, and mix the mixture again with a mixer.

4. Pour the sifted dough into a bowl, add baking powder and knead the dough with a mixer until it has a homogeneous consistency without lumps.

5. The dough is ready.

6. Now take the peeled and seeded apples, cut them into cubes and mix with the dough.

7. Let's move on to the filling. Combine cottage cheese, sour cream, sugar and egg in one bowl.

8. Beat the filling with a mixer.

The fattier the cottage cheese, the thicker and more flexible the filling is.

9. Pour the dough into a baking dish greased with vegetable oil. Pour the curd filling on top of the dough.

You can take a teaspoon and make several deep grooves in the dough so that the filling sinks into the dough in places

10. Place the pie in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes.

Ready. Bon appetit!

Charlotte on kefir with apples in a slow cooker

Be sure to try making this delicious dish - charlotte in a slow cooker! Fast and easy!

Surely each of us loves to enjoy delicious, soft pastries, but not every housewife can cook it the way she wants. It happens that the proportions are not respected or the baked goods are baked for too long. Many women think that the perfect pie is obtained by baking it in the oven. Today I will refute this information and prove that a multicooker copes with this task no worse than an oven. So, below is a recipe for charlotte in a slow cooker with apples and kefir. Even an incompetent housewife can handle the preparation, it’s too simple. Let's get started!

Ingredients:

apples - 4 pcs. (you can use more apples if you wish if you like sweet pastries),
kefir - 1 tbsp.;
selected egg - 4 pcs.;
sugar - 1 tbsp;
soda - 1 tsp,
flour - 2 tbsp;
butter (to grease the baking bowl)
cinnamon - 1 pinch.

Step-by-step preparation:

Step 1. First, you need to beat the eggs with sugar (beat for about 5 minutes until foam forms. This will make the dough more fluffy and soft).

Step 2. Next, you need to quench the soda with kefir (that is, add soda to kefir) and add to the beaten eggs.

Step 3. Slowly pour the flour into the resulting liquid mixture. It is important to stir the dough well when adding flour so that there are no lumps.

Step 4. Apples are peeled and cut into not very thin and not very thick slices. You can cut it into cubes, whatever you like.

Step 5. The next step is to grease the multicooker bowl with oil.

Step 6. Finally, you can place the chopped apples on the bottom of the bowl and sprinkle with cinnamon. If desired, you can also sprinkle with sugar if you like your baked goods sweeter.

Step 7. The final step is to fill the apples with the prepared dough and leave for 50 minutes. You definitely need to set the multicooker to the “baking” mode, otherwise our dish will not be quite ready to eat or, on the contrary, the cake will turn out to be too dry. An important point: do not open the multicooker lid while baking - the dough may settle.

Now you know this simple recipe for making a pie and are ready to delight your guests and your family. The most important thing is to maintain all proportions!

Variants of kefir charlotte

The recipe for charlotte pie with apples on kefir is as simple as any other charlotte recipe and does not require special skills. The main secret of baking with sour milk is that the defining ingredient must be warm so that the reaction with the baking powder proceeds more violently. This is what will give the desired splendor to the finished dessert. Another subtlety - we take sweet apples, not sour ones, as in charlotte without fermented milk products.

Classic recipe

kefir - 1 glass;
flour (premium grade) - 2 cups;
eggs - 3 pieces;
sweet apples - about 5 pieces;
sugar - 1 glass;
baking soda or baking powder - 1 teaspoon.

Prepare the apples: wash and peel (although many people like the pie with unpeeled fruit - it’s even healthier), remove the seeds and cut the fruit into thin slices. You can use a slicer.
Sift the flour so that it absorbs air - this will make the cake more fluffier. Beat eggs and sugar until foam appears, add soda. There is no need to quench it with vinegar, since kefir itself is sour.
Mix beaten eggs and kefir. Add the sifted flour little by little, stirring gently. You should not stir too intensely or for a long time, otherwise all the air will be removed from the dough and the sponge cake will not be so fluffy. The dough for charlotte with kefir should be a little thicker than for pancakes.
Pour part of the dough into a mold greased with butter (or margarine) (if you are using a silicone mold, you can bake the charlotte without oil).
Place the apples and sprinkle them with cinnamon. If they seem sour to you, you can lightly sprinkle them with sugar. Fill with the rest of the dough.
Bake the charlotte with kefir in the oven for about 45 minutes, temperature - 180 degrees. To reduce baking time, you can use a cake pan (in the form of a ring).

The finished pie can be decorated to your taste - with powdered sugar, coconut flakes, whipped cream, berries or confectionery sprinkles.

In almost every family with children, there is often excess milk left over, which within a day or two becomes “suspicious” and can no longer be drunk. Using the same recipe, you can easily prepare charlotte with apples using yogurt, and it will turn out no less fluffy and tasty.

Mannik on kefir

Charlotte made with kefir and semolina turns out tender and crumbly, and few people can guess that it contains semolina (given the biased attitude of men, children and even some nutritionists towards it).

semolina - 1 cup;
flour - 1 glass;
kefir - 1 glass;
melted butter - 100 grams;
sugar - 1 cup (or less);
soda - 1 teaspoon;
apples - about 5 pieces.

Semolina must be combined with kefir in advance in a separate container. Leave the mixture for about half an hour so that the semolina swells.
Add cooled melted butter and sugar and beat.
Add flour and baking soda and mix well until smooth. After this you can add apples.
Place the dough with apples in a suitable sized mold or deep frying pan.
Place the pan in the oven for 35 minutes, temperature - 190 degrees.

Mannik is best eaten cooled - it goes well with maple and cherry syrups.

Charlotte on kefir with apples in a frying pan

A quick option for a sweet addition to tea is to cook charlotte in a frying pan. This method is simple and practical, and will especially please those who do not have an oven. Your family will appreciate this dessert!

Ingredients

Apples - 2 pcs. large
Egg - 2 pcs.
Wheat flour - 1 tbsp.
Granulated sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
Kefir - 1 tbsp.
Baking powder - 0.5 tsp.
Butter - for frying
Powdered sugar - for decoration

Cooking process

Cut the apples into small cubes. It is not necessary to separate them from the peel.

Prepare the dough. Beat eggs with sugar until it dissolves, pour in kefir, sift flour and baking powder. Mix thoroughly, the dough should come out thick.
Now put the charlotte into the frying pan. Grease the pan thoroughly with butter. You will need more of it than for baking in the oven. You can lightly sprinkle with semolina to ensure it doesn’t burn. Arrange the apples evenly and fill them with dough.
Cover the pan with a lid and cook the charlotte over low heat for 25 minutes. Then carefully turn the contents over and leave on the fire for another 10 minutes. If necessary. Check readiness with a toothpick.

How to cook charlotte with apples and semolina

Charlotte, the recipe for which you should definitely try, involves the use of a fermented milk base. In this case, the hostess need not worry about the delicate texture of the dessert and its splendor. You will get a tall and ruddy pie.

To prepare the dough, use the following products for 6–8 servings:

semolina, kefir and sugar - 1 glass each;
eggs - 3 pcs.;
soda - 1 tsp.

For the filling you will need 4 medium sweet and sour apples, 1 tsp. lemon juice and 1 tsp. cinnamon.

Baking with kefir is the most advantageous dessert option for a housewife who does not have time to prepare yeast dough or tinker with sponge cakes. Therefore, the idea of making charlotte with kefir has become very popular among modern mothers and grandmothers.

Apple charlotte according to the presented recipe is prepared very quickly. The whole process fits into 2 main stages:

Preparing the filling:

Wash the apples, cut off the peel.
Cut the fruit into small thin slices or strips.
Sprinkle them with lemon juice to prevent them from darkening before preparing the dough, sprinkle with cinnamon and stir.

Preparation of the dough:

Pour room temperature kefir into a deep container, add baking soda and mix everything. Leave for a few minutes until bubbles appear on the surface.
Beat eggs with sugar and pour into kefir mass.
Add semolina and chopped apples. Mix everything thoroughly.
Grease the springform pan with butter and sprinkle with semolina. Pour the dough into it.

Apple charlotte is ready in 25 minutes if you set the oven temperature to at least 180 °C.

Apple charlotte with semolina and kefir is a simple and affordable pastry. Its preparation does not require much effort from the housewife. This dessert can easily be made for dinner or offered for breakfast. He will help out if guests suddenly arrive.

Grandma's recipe

Despite the fact that charlotte with kefir according to grandma’s recipe is very simple to prepare, there are culinary subtleties that are unfamiliar to a beginner. Here are some of them:

By volume (not by weight) there should be approximately the same amount of apples as dough.

Kefir improves the quality of the dough. The higher its fat content, the stronger the effect.

The dough becomes airy when adding any fermented milk products. If you add soda, carbon dioxide is released as a result of its interaction with the acid. When heated, that is, when baking in the oven, the amount of carbon dioxide increases.

Baking: eggs, butter, sugar, sour cream, improves the taste of the dough and the finished charlotte. Therefore, it must be added.

This dessert is good on its own and with various flavorings: cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, cloves, lemon zest. You can also add raisins and other dried fruits.

There should be enough eggs in the charlotte. They lift and enrich baked goods. In order for the charlotte to become fluffy, the eggs must first be divided into whites and yolks. Grind the yolks with sugar, beat the whites into a strong foam and add at the very end of mixing.

Flour should be of good quality, with a high gluten content, at least 28. The dough should be left for half an hour for the gluten to swell.

Be sure to sift the flour. You can repeat this operation again, so the dough will become more airy.

The thickness of the dough should be viscous. It does not pour, but falls from the spoon.
For charlotte, use non-acidic varieties of apples. It is best that they are strong and retain their shape when baked. If the apples are very sweet, then the amount of granulated sugar should be reduced slightly.
To prevent apples from darkening, you need to either peel and cut them very quickly, or use a ceramic knife. There is another option: sprinkle the apples with lemon juice or diluted citric acid.

If you follow these rules, charlotte with apples in the oven will turn out tasty, fluffy and beautiful.

Recipe in a slow cooker

Charlotte on kefir with apples in a slow cooker turns out no less airy and tender than in the oven.

kefir - 1 glass;
eggs - 1-2 pieces;
apples - 3 pieces;
flour - 1.5 cups;
sugar - 0.5 cups;
melted butter - 50 grams;
soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
vanillin - a pinch;
salt - a pinch.

Using a mixer or hand whisk, beat sugar and eggs, pour in warm kefir and butter, mix.
Stir vanillin, soda (or a teaspoon of baking powder) and one pinch of salt into the sifted flour and combine with the whipped mass.
Pour half of the dough into the multicooker pan. Place the apple slices and fill with the remaining dough. If you like it sweeter, you can lightly sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top.
Cook the pie for 50 minutes in the “Bake” mode. Please note that charlotte with kefir in a slow cooker can take longer to cook than a pie according to a standard recipe without fermented milk products.

Lush charlotte on kefir with apples in the oven according to grandma’s recipe with soda

The secret of any delicious filled pie has 2 components: fluffy dough and delicious filling. If everything is done correctly, then the baked goods will definitely be appreciated by everyone at home. So let's get started.

Components:

apples - 3-5 pieces (medium);
juice of half a lemon;
kefir - 1 tall glass;
eggs - 2-3 pieces (depending on size);
sour cream - 50 g;
granulated sugar - ¾ cup;
flour - 1.5 cups;
soda - ½ teaspoon;
salt - a pinch.

Preparation:

Cut the apples into beautiful and thin slices, like an orange. There is no consensus on peeling apples. Our grandmother always left it, because, in her opinion, without it the pie loses its taste. But the apples were from our own garden, with thin skins. If the skin is rough and thick, then it is better to remove it. To keep the slices just as beautiful, you need to sprinkle them with lemon juice and stir.

Separate the yolks from the whites and grind with granulated sugar. If the apples are very sweet, then the amount of granulated sugar can be reduced to half a glass.

Mix sour cream with yolks.
Pour in kefir. For charlotte, it is best to use full-fat kefir. If you don’t have it, you can take yogurt, matsoni or fermented baked milk.
Sift flour, mix with salt. Divide the entire volume into 3 parts. Gradually pour two parts into the yolk-kefir mixture. Stir and leave for half an hour in a cool place.
After half an hour, add soda and mix it well in the dough.
Place the oven on preheat. The temperature should be 180-200 degrees.
Pour the rest of the flour into the dough. You need to add flour gradually so as not to add more than necessary. The consistency of the dough should resemble very thick semolina porridge or mousse. The squirrels will dilute it a little and it will become a little thinner.
Beat the whites into a strong foam, as for meringue. Carefully mix the whites into the dough.

Place apples in a greased mold and fill with dough. Bake for about half an hour.

Charlotte with semolina - classic recipe

The base for the pie is prepared with semolina. In this case, it replaces flour. The baked goods are light and airy. Classic charlotte without flour is a type of pudding with fruit.

Ingredients for charlotte with semolina:

four green apples;
75 g granulated sugar;
a glass of semolina;
egg;
a glass of kefir of any fat content.

Step-by-step recipe for charlotte with semolina:

Step 1:

Pour semolina into a bowl, add kefir and mix. Let it swell for an hour.

Step 2:

Beat the egg into a deep bowl and add granulated sugar. Rub it well. Pour the egg mixture into the swollen semolina and mix vigorously.

Step 3:

Wash green apples under running water. Wipe with a towel, cut each fruit in half and remove the core. Cut the fruit into slices.

Step 4:

Grease the mold with oil. Place the apple slices in the pan, making sure they completely cover the bottom. Fill with semolina dough. Level the surface with a wooden spatula.

Step 5:

Place the pan in the oven for forty minutes. Bake at 195 degrees.

Bake the pie in a springform pan, so it will be easier to get out. In addition to apples, you can add fresh raspberries or currants. To make the apples bake better, cut them into thin slices.

Pie with apples, semolina and butter on kefir: step-by-step recipe

To prepare apple manna with kefir you will need:

semolina, flour, sugar, kefir - one glass each;
apples – kilogram;
butter – half a pack;
soda - a teaspoon.

The pie is prepared like this:

Wash, peel and cut the apples (slices should be medium in size).
Pour kefir over semolina and wait 30 minutes. Then add butter (melted) and sugar to the mixture.
Add flour, followed by soda. Mix everything well.
The last ingredient is apples. Add them to the dough, stirring.
The baking pan (if it is not silicone) must be greased - butter will do for this purpose. Then sprinkle with semolina.
The dough is poured into the mold and leveled.
Bake in the oven at a temperature of about 200 degrees. An hour later, the lush charlotte is ready!