Summer is the time for berry pies. Strawberries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries - this is the filling for a fragrant treat. They are usually cooked in the oven or stove, but if there is a slow cooker in the kitchen, why not try to make a pie in it? For example, from strawberries.
No need to be afraid that the strawberry pie in the slow cooker will turn out raw, not baked. If everything is done correctly, the right temperature is selected, then the baking will be tender, melting in the mouth and very magnificent.
Pie with strawberries in a slow cooker - general principles of preparation
To bake a strawberry pie in a slow cooker, you need a few ingredients. Necessarily need flour, eggs, butter, sour cream. As a rule, the dough needs liquid or shortbread, very soft.
As for juicy strawberries, they should be quickly and accurately washed with cold water, put on a paper towel and dried thoroughly. Watery berries needless moisture. It is important that the berries are not too soft: these can ruin the dish with excessive moisture. Ripe and strong - just right.
The power of the multicooker matters: in powerful appliances, dessert is baked better. Depending on the thickness of the layer, baking can take from an hour with a small to one and a half hours. The thicket will definitely need to be oiled so that nothing sticks.
Pie with strawberries in the multicooker "Tenderness"
Simple ingredients and the extreme simplicity of cooking this version of a strawberry pie in a slow cooker make the dish suitable for understanding the basics of culinary art. Even a novice can easily cope with cooking.
Ingredients:
• four hundred grams of strawberries;
• two glasses of flour;
• two hundred grams of sugar;
• two eggs;
• one hundred grams of butter;
• five tablespoons of sour cream;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• five tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• bag of vanillin;
• a little sugar powder for a sweet "breading" and for decoration (3-4 tablespoons).
Cooking method:
Measure the butter and leave it in the room for softening.
Hammer eggs in a bowl for kneading dough and beat with a mixer until a dense mass is obtained. Whipping time - from 5 to 7 minutes.
Put soft butter, sour cream in eggs, pour in vegetable oil.
Mix everything carefully to maintain the density of beaten eggs, but achieve uniformity.
Sift the flour and pour it into the mixture.
Add baking powder and vanillin over the flour.
Knead the batter.
Carefully pour it into the mold.
Sprinkle the prepared whole strawberries with powdered sugar, laying in a sieve and then shaking it several times. You can simply "brew" the berries, dipping each in icing sugar.
Put the berries in the dough. It's okay if they drown.
Bake on the appropriate program for 40-50 minutes. Check readiness with a match.
Remove the pie from the multicooker, turn it upside down with a brown bottom when serving.
Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar, optionally spread strawberry slices for beauty.
Pie with strawberries in a crock-pot "Creamy Strawberry"
This recipe uses milk. There is less flour, so the taste of goodies will turn out different. If the strawberry pie in the multicooker succeeds, it will be very tender.
Ingredients:
• a glass of flour (180 grams);
• a glass of sugar;
• one egg;
• four hundred grams of strawberries;
• 100 ml of milk;
• vanillin and salt on the tip of a knife;
• one and a half teaspoons of baking powder;
• one hundred grams of butter;
• some vegetable oil to lubricate the bowl.
Cooking method:
Sift the flour.
Mix with salt and baking powder.
Beat soft butter with sugar with a mixer.
Put the egg, milk and vanilla in the bowl. Beat everything up again.
Without turning off the mixer, add flour in parts.
The dough should turn out liquid.
Oil the walls of the bowl well.
Cut dried berries into halves.
Pour dough there.
Arrange the berries evenly with the slice down.
Cook in baking mode for 50 minutes.
The pie will turn pale on top. This is normal. When serving, you can turn it pale side down.
Pie with strawberries in the multicooker "Strawberry Lake"
Lovers of “reverse” baking will surely enjoy this unusual and very tasty strawberry pie in a slow cooker. Fragrant, beautiful, airy - well, just a real treat!
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of sugar;
• three eggs;
• a spoonful of butter;
• 250 grams of flour;
• kilogram of strawberries;
• a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking method:
Lubricate a bowl of a multicooker with a piece of oil and sprinkle with flour.
Dried whole berries lay in a layer on the bottom of the bowl.
Sift the flour.
Separate the proteins, add a pinch of salt to them and beat until steep peaks are obtained.
When the proteins become strong and elastic, they need to gradually add sugar in small portions, then the yolks. Mix the ingredients at a low speed.
Also, in portions, add flour until the dough becomes homogeneous.
Pour batter over berries.
Cook in baking mode for 50 minutes.
After turning off the program, leave the device in warm-up (temperature maintenance) mode for another 15 minutes.
Carefully remove the cake by turning it over with the help of the double boiler tab.
You can decorate baked goods with powdered sugar.
Pie with strawberries in the multicooker "Sour Cream Jellied"
Sour cream taste is exactly what you need a strawberry pie in a slow cooker. Thin creamy sourness blends wonderfully with the sweetness and aroma of strawberries.
Ingredients:
• a pound of strawberries;
• one hundred grams of butter;
• four eggs (one in the dough, three in the filling);
• one and a half glasses of sugar;
• 300 grams of sour cream (nonfat, shop);
• 250 grams of flour (200 per dough, the rest to the filling).
Cooking method:
Remove the butter from the refrigerator, cut into slices.
Sift the flour and pour it into the butter.
Mash and then grate the butter and flour to make crumbs.
Drive one egg into the butter crumbs and pour half a glass of sugar.
Knead a nice, soft dough.
Send it to rest in the refrigerator, wrapping in cling film or bag.
Cook the sour cream bay. To do this, put sugar, sifted flour and vanillin into sour cream.
Mix until the mass is homogeneous.
Beat eggs separately and add them to the prepared filling. To mix everything.
Dried berries cut into slices.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll out a little more than the diameter of the bowl so that low sides are obtained.
Put the dough layer in the bowl, make punctures with a knife or fork in several places.
Put strawberries, not particularly caring about beauty. In the fill, the strawberry slices mix independently.
Pour sour cream over the cake.
Cook in baking mode for 50 minutes.
Pie with strawberries in the multicooker "Cottage cheese and yogurt" on gelatin
An excellent version of a traditional pie can be prepared without baking, but using a slow cooker. Its charm is that you don’t have to worry whether it will be baked. And even cottage cheese and yogurt in combination with strawberries is just a holiday! Not too budget, but very tasty.
Ingredients:
• 150 grams of ordinary shortbread cookies;
• a glass of strawberries;
• 60 grams of butter;
• 200 ml of cream (from 30 percent fat content);
• 50 ml of milk;
• 200 grams of cottage cheese;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 300 grams of natural yogurt;
• a tablespoon of cocoa powder;
• two tablespoons of gelatin.
Cooking method:
Cover the crock-pot with baking paper.
Break the cookies into crumbs.
Add cocoa and mix.
Put soft butter in crumbs and mix by hand so that a soft mass is obtained.
Put it in the bowl of the multicooker, form the base of the pie and send the bowl to the refrigerator.
Heat the milk, add gelatin to it and leave to swell.
Separately mix cottage cheese, sugar and yogurt.
Beat the mixture with a mixer.
Add strawberries to the bowl while continuing to whisk.
Then pour gelatin dissolved in milk, mix.
Put the mixture in the refrigerator so that it cools down, but the gelatin does not begin to solidify. It will take about 20 minutes.
Beat cream until foam appears.
Mix whipped cream and gelatin fill.
Remove the bowl with the sand base from the refrigerator and pour the cottage cheese and yogurt mousse into it.
Send the thicket in the cold for 8-12 hours.
When the gelatin hardens, remove the cake by the tips of the baking paper and transfer to a dish.
Pie with strawberries in the multicooker "Sand"
Another simple and effective version of a pie with strawberries in a slow cooker, requiring the preparation of shortcrust pastry. It turns out friable, and in combination with delicate strawberry filling is very tasty.
Ingredients:
• two hundred grams of butter;
• four eggs (one in the dough, three in the filling);
• six hundred grams of granulated sugar (one hundred per dough, half a pound to the filling);
• 350 grams of flour;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• four hundred grams of sour cream;
• two tablespoons of starch;
• four hundred grams of strawberries.
Cooking method:
Soften butter and mix with a part of sugar.
Mix sifted flour with baking powder.
Gradually add flour to the creamy sugar mixture.
Add the egg and knead a thick dough.
Mix sour cream, sugar and starch in a separate bowl.
Grease the cooker thick with butter.
Lay out the dough, evenly distribute it on the bottom, make small sides.
Spread dried strawberries according to the dough.
Pour with a swept mixture.
Cook on the baking program for an hour.
After baking, leave the appliance in heating mode for 10-15 minutes.
Take out the bowl, put it in the refrigerator for an hour, so that the sour cream filling will seize even more.
Carefully take out the pie, chop and serve.
Strawberry Pie - Tips and Tricks
If there are cracks on the bowl cover, the cake may stick. To prevent this from happening, you can lay the bottom with baking paper. It will be possible to take out the pie simply and without loss.
There is an interesting way to take out the cake. The baking paper must be cut into two strips and put them on the bottom of the mold before making the cake. When it is ready, you need to pull the strips.
In order to bake a strawberry pie in a slow cooker, you need to bake it on average an hour at a temperature of 150 degrees. You can check readiness traditionally - with a match. If it stays dry, the cake is ready.
To make the dough more interesting, you can add citrus zest, a spoonful of strong alcohol, and chopped nuts to your taste.
