Various recipes for kurabye cookies at home

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

We will analyze several recipes for kurabye cookies, which are part of the ritual in the Crimea during the holiday of Uraza Bayram, and in Greece they bake for the Christmas holidays as a treat.

Kurabie is a biscuit familiar to us since Soviet times. Few people know that it has eastern roots, a recipe was brought from the Crimea. But the opinions of historians differ, and it is believed that this sweet (“kharabie”) began to be baked back in the time of Khan Krym-Girey, and he loved French cuisine. Specialists, during the discussion, brought together a sweet couple: these culinary pastries and coffee. They are still served together in many countries.

Cookie shape

It is accepted that the recipe for kurabye cookies provides for the shape of a flower. But it's not. In different countries it is cooked in different variations.

Russian businesses have their own standard, and at home you can also use a pastry bag or syringe with a curly nozzle to make a flower. A rounded flattened shape is also quite suitable. You can make cuts along the edges with a regular knifeand get a similar option.

Some freeze the dough a little, roll it out and cut it out with special molds.

Guest's recipe for Baku cookies

First, let's look at the option that cookies were prepared in Soviet times. It could be bought in any cookery.

Let's prepare right away:

• 320g bread flour;
• protein from 2 eggs;
• 200g margarine;
• 80-90g powdered sugar;
• vanillin optional;
• a teaspoon of starch;
• jam.

This recipe for kurabye cookies with a photo is still used in confectionery industries, sometimes removing protein from the composition.

First, let's make a "mass", that's what the chef calls whipped margarine with sugar. It should turn out to be curvaceous with white color. Add proteins there and turn on the mixer for a few more minutes.

Sift the flour so that it is saturated with oxygen, and mix with vanilla. Immediately pour everything into a cup with "mass" and quickly mix with your hand. At the same time, you should not crush it like dough. And with your hands, make light rotational movements, as if a dough mixer is working. Do not delay the procedure in order to prevent contraction, and immediately stop as soon as there are no lumps. Readiness can be checked by trying on your hand (the dough should not stick to the skin).

The oven should already be on and set to 180-200 degrees. Cut off a piece of parchment paper and place on a baking sheet. Use a pastry bag or syringe to dispense curly cookies andmake a hole in the middle and fill it with jam mixed with starch.

Usually it takes 10-15 minutes for the products to brown.

Two-color cookies

This variation also exists, but is sometimes called "In love" in stores. The recipe for kurabye cookies at home will be based on the previous, Gostovsky. Only for him we need cocoa, which we add to 1/3 of the already prepared dough. The amount of powder depends on the manufacturer.

Next, you can make white balls with your hands, put on a sheet and press down a little. From dark dough, similar rounds, but smaller, are placed on top.

In production, this is done with confectionery bags with different nozzles. If you also use them, then make the bottom round and the top curly. That will make it more interesting. This cookie does not require jam, so we immediately send it to bake.

Chocolate Kurabye

For chocolate lovers, they probably came up with such a recipe for kurabye shortbread cookies. And we will again take the first option as a basis, only slightly change the ingredients, of which we will replace the jam with dark chocolate. We will also reduce the amount of flour by 50 g (exactly the amount of cocoa powder required).

Knead the dough as usual, with the addition of cocoa. Immediately deposited or shaped by hand. We make a recess, but do not fill it with anything and bake it. Let the cookies cool completely and pour the right amount of chocolate bar melted in a water bath into the middle. For convenience, the chocolate mass can be poured into a cellophanebag and make a small hole in the corner. Leave to dry completely.

Turkish Nut Cookies

In this country, this pastry is also often found in pastry shops. We will slightly change the Turkish kurabye cookie recipe to make it look more festive.

Ingredients:

• high-grade flour - 4 full glasses without a slide;
• butter - 260 g;
• 1 egg yolk;
• sweet powdered sugar - 1 cup;
• as many walnuts;
• almond kernels;
• baking powder - 5g

At the very beginning, mix all dry ingredients except almonds. Turkish confectioners do not use a mixer when making this dessert. Therefore, the oil should be at room temperature. We grind it with the resulting flour, add the yolk and knead the dough.

Make balls, put on a baking sheet, press the bottom of the glass and cut the edges. Press an almond into the center of each cookie. We bake, as always, and cool. Serve generously sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Kurabiedes

Getting ready for Christmas and making national Greek pastries according to the recipe for kurabye cookies with a photo. A step-by-step guide will help you get closer to the desired result.

We buy the following products:

• homemade butter - 250g;
• sugar - 120 g;
• flour - approximately 400g;
• cognac - 50 g;
• vanillin and baking powder;
• roasted nuts.

Kneading the dough is no different from ours, except for the lack of eggs. Instead, cognac is poured into the "mass". Flour is added with care to get a soft consistency. Then balls with a diameter of about 4 cm are rolled out and baked in a preheated oven. Sprinkle cookies with powdered sugar.

Kurabie

All the recipes have not had time to consider. We can say that in almost every country now you can find such pastries, where even the name itself resembles ours.

For example, in Turkey, the finished dough is given the same shape as in Greece, but additionally rolled in coconut before baking. In Bulgaria, kefir is taken as the basis, and there it is called “Kurabiyka Voinishki”. Azerbaijan adds honey and spices.

There are many recipes for kurabye cookies. Choose the option that suits you and always serve new pastries for tea drinking.