Muffins from Adyghe cheese with dill and sesame. Muffins with cheese and herbs Other fillings

The third simple and light snack for the New Year's table is cheese muffins with herbs.

It is also a very tasty and easy-to-prepare appetizer, very democratic - suitable for almost any alcohol. It does not require special skill and a lot of time, but it looks great on the table and smells very fragrant, moreover, if you use some odorous herbs in cooking - parsley, basil or a little tarragon. And also salty spicy cheese. Absolutely a win-win snack option, try it!

For these muffins I use:

• Butter, melted - 100 g
• Flour - 250-300 g
• Soda - 1/2 teaspoon
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
• Sugar - 50 g
• A pinch of salt
• Kefir - 200 ml
• Egg - 2
• 100 g of spicy salty spicy cheese - parmesan or hard ricotta, but in general any will do
• half teaspoon turmeric or curry

From this I get 16-18 muffins, which is quite enough even for a large company.

In muffins, the whole thing is that the dry ingredients and the “wet” ingredients are mixed separately, and then the wet is added to the dry. So: I mix flour, baking powder, salt, soda and sugar in a large bowl. Many people advise to sift the flour carefully, but I sometimes neglect this. After that, I add finely chopped parsley (30 grams) and cheese - 100 grams, finely grated, to the dry ingredients. Options: instead of parsley - dill or basil (green), sometimes I add a little cilantro and a crushed head of garlic to parsley (such muffins go with a bang to beer and wine). In another bowl, mix melted butter, kefir and eggs. Then I pour the liquid into the dry and mix everything lightly. In my opinion, there should be lumps (I always have them, and the muffins turn out great). The dough should be thick and keep its shape, as they say.

The second stage: I take either a standard form for muffins (such):

I put special corrugated pieces of paper for cupcakes-muffins into the forms. And fill the holes in the mold 3/4.

I bake in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees. I bake 20 minutes.

You can use separate silicone cupcake/muffin molds. They are more convenient, well, for me anyway - they do not need to be lined with paper molds.

You can also bake muffins in a double-triple paper form - then it is better to fill it halfway so that the muffins do not deform during baking.

In general, muffins are such a thing that you can experiment with every time: then, when making berry muffins, I add a little to the dry ingredients - literally 1/4 teaspoon of ginger or turmeric powder. I add a tablespoon of cinnamon to apple muffins in dry ingredients, and add 2-3 large apples, finely chopped (cubes about 1 cm by 1 cm) to the finished dough. You can also add finely chopped pear. If you are tired of sweet muffins, then you need to put less sugar in the dough itself (50 grams), and the filling can be anything - from finely chopped ham-sausages to chicken breast left over from yesterday.

In muffins, the main thing is to understand the cooking method - dry separately, wet separately, then lightly mix, and the filling can be completely varied, where your imagination will take you. Just as I said, you can add some spices to the dry ingredients - turmeric, parsley, ginger, ground red sweet pepper.

1. We take the dishes convenient for you for kneading the dough. We break the egg, pour in vegetable or olive oil, stir.
2. Then add kefir. Soured milk is also suitable, as well as buttermilk left after whipping homemade butter.
   
   
3. We rub the Adyghe cheese on a coarse grater or rub it with our hands into crumbs. Other varieties of cheese are also suitable - Cheddar, Parmesan, Gruyère, Russian, as well as ordinary village cheese. You can find recipes for cheese muffins, for the preparation of which processed cheese is used (for example, Druzhba, Creamy, Russian), and sour cream is taken instead of kefir.
   
   
4. Add shredded cheese to a bowl. We stir the dough.
   
   
5. Add salt, ground black pepper to taste, put soda. You can also add some spices to taste. You do not need to extinguish soda with vinegar or citric acid. It will be enough that it mixes with kefir, which contains acid.
   
   
6. Garlic is peeled and crushed with a press.
   
   
7. Finely chop fresh dill.
   
   
8. Add chopped herbs, garlic and sesame seeds to the dough. Sometimes, for a change, I replace sesame seeds with cumin. It gives a spicy taste.
   
   
9. Mix well with a spatula or whisk.
   
   
10. Add carefully sifted wheat flour, mix. Next time you're doing some creative cooking, you can use half wheat flour and half corn flour. Ready-made pastries on the cut will have a beautiful yellow tint.
    
    
11. Put the finished dough into a cake mold. Forms should be filled in 2/3 parts, because our delicacy will increase in size when baking. I prefer to use modern silicone molds, from which pastries can be easily removed without sticking. Old-style metal molds can also be used, but they must first be lubricated with vegetable oil using a whisk.
    
    
12. Cheese muffins are baked on kefir at 180-190 degrees, about half an hour.
    
    

Muffins are considered to be originally from England and the USA. This dish resembles small cupcakes, but unlike them, it is made from soft dough. Such pastries were originally only sweet. But the stereotypes are destroyed, and a culinary novelty has recently appeared - muffins with cheese. Based on this product, they are fragrant, lush, melting in your mouth.

We offer you 5 recipes to choose from. Each of them is delicious in its own way. Choose and enjoy a dish that you will never get tired of.

ON A NOTE! Such pastries are prepared without yeast from a light, uncooked dough. To activate it for lifting, use soda or synthetic baking powder instead.

These cheese muffins are prepared in 15 minutes, and eaten even faster. This simplest recipe without any additions will appeal to lovers of cheese taste in food.

Ingredients for 6 pieces

• hard cheese (preferably cheddar) - 100 g;
• flour - 110-120 g;
• baking powder - 1 tsp. l.;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• milk - 1 tbsp. l.;
• 2 with a slide st. l. sour cream;
• 2 tbsp. l. olive oil.

Cooking method

The method of preparing dough for cheese muffins is so simple that you first need to simply mix all the dry ingredients, then all the liquid ones, and then combine all the mixtures. Cheese is ground on a grater separately.

Some all just began to beat the blender now. However, this technology was not previously used during the invention of muffins. Classical recipes implied precisely the division of products when kneading the dough into dry and liquid.

When the muffins are golden brown, they are removed from the oven and served warm or cold. It is better not to eat them hot, as the whole flavor of the taste is felt after cooling.

Muffins cook very quickly, so they are easy to overcook. To prevent this from happening, do not leave the oven until they arrive.

Muffins with ham and cheese

This option is also easy to prepare, like the previous one. But unlike him, muffins with ham and cheese according to this method are more satisfying, since they also contain a meat product. They are suitable as breakfast with tea or coffee, or as a snack on the table.

Moreover, these muffins can be supplemented not only with bacon, but also with herbs and sweet bell peppers. This will eventually make such unsweetened pastries more fragrant and appetizing.

List of necessary products and accessories for baking

In order for the muffins with cheese and ham to turn out the same, beautiful, you will need to acquire a mold in the form of a panel with recesses, as well as paper tools in advance.

They will help eliminate sticking, and the mold will make baking more aesthetic in appearance. Silicone utensils will not work for this recipe, as they may not hold the heavier stuffed dough.

To make cheese-based ham muffins, you will need the following list of ingredients:

• cheese (preferably hard) - 200 g;
• ham or bacon - 180 g;
• butter - 100 g;
• chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
• warm milk - 250 ml;
• wheat flour - 2 cups;
• soda or baking powder - 1 tsp;
• red bell pepper - 1 piece;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• sugar, salt - 0.5 tsp each. or to taste;
• greens (onion, basil, dill, etc.) - 1 bunch;
• vegetable oil - for lubrication.

ON A NOTE! You can choose any greens, but a particularly tasty combination is obtained from ham and green onions.

Recipe with photo step by step

Everything you need is ready, and the process of making muffins from cheese and ham has begun. Products are made in simple steps:

It is convenient to spread the mass with an ordinary tablespoon. At the same time, the recesses should be ¾ filled, as the pastry will rise. From above, future muffins with cheese can be sprinkled with sesame seeds or peeled sunflower seeds.

While the mass was laid out in molds, the oven warms up to 190 degrees. We send the filled form into it and wait 20-25 minutes until the muffins are baked. With the filling, baking takes a little longer.

Muffins with cheese and chicken

This pastry can be made not only with milk, but also with kefir. The dough is also very airy, light, tender. We will change the filling in the recipe, then we will get muffins with chicken and cheese with an original taste. And if you add more mushrooms as a filling, because such ingredients are perfectly combined with each other, then the muffins will become fragrant, even more appetizing.

And since they contain chicken meat, the snack turns out to be satisfying, but not very high in calories. Chicken muffins with cheese are convenient to take with you on the road, to work or to other places where you need a snack.

List of required products

To make such muffins with cheese, just like in the previous recipes, you will need molds. Chicken breast is boiled in advance, until half cooked. If you put it raw, the meat will not have time to cook, since the dough on kefir is also baked quickly.

Ingredients for this recipe:

• hard cheese - 100 g;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• chicken fillet - 130 g;
• kefir - 200 ml;
• flour - 150 g;
• mushrooms (optional) - 3-5 pieces;
• garlic (optional) - 2-3 cloves;
• salt - a pinch;
• dill greens - half a bunch;
• soda or baking powder - 0.5 tsp

NOTE! If you plan to add mushrooms to muffins according to this recipe, then you do not need to put garlic. These two products are poorly compatible in taste and aroma, so we choose one of the two.

Cooking method

We lay out all the necessary products on the table so that they are at hand. We proceed in this order:

1. Break eggs into a cup, add salt and pour in kefir. We mix everything.
2. Add soda to the kefir-egg mass, beat with a whisk. The mixture should foam up a bit.
3. Add flour, knead a homogeneous dough without lumps. The consistency will be like for pancakes - thick.
4. Cheese is rubbed on a grater.
5. The fillet is cut into small pieces.
6. The greens are crushed.
7. If mushrooms are selected, they are cut into small plates, and if garlic, the cloves are passed through a garlic press.
8. Add the chopped ingredients for the filling to the dough, and mix everything gently.
9. We take a large spoon, fill the molds greased with oil with the resulting mass.
10. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, bake for 20-25 minutes.

The readiness of cupcakes can be determined by the ruddy crust. Or, piercing the product with a dry toothpick - the dough should not stick to it. Chicken muffins are served hot or cold.

Other filling options

In fact, with such savory pastries in terms of fillings, you can experiment endlessly. For example, muffins with sausage and cheese are very tasty. They are made both on kefir and on milk, and sausage is replaced with sausage.

More diet options include zucchini and cheese muffins. This vegetable is very useful, plus, in combination with cheese dough, such baking produces an unusual interesting taste.

What toppings do you prefer to add to cheese muffins? Perhaps you have an individual option? Share your feedback in the comments, because they will help our readers become real chefs. And the video has a great recipe, be sure to check it out.