Successful cherry pie with tea sauce: a recipe for the perfect yeast dough

Buns, pies, cheesecakes, dumplings, pancakes – all these dishes are made from flour, eggs, and sugar. For example, when preparing fluffy buns and pies, it is very important to make a good dough, which determines the taste of the dish.

Culinary expert Yevhen Klopotenko has shared a recipe for a delicious pie with cherry filling and cherry sauce on his website.

Ingredients:

• warm milk - 150 ml

• dry yeast - 1 tsp.
• sugar - 2 tbsp.

• oil - 40 ml
• salt - 1/2 tsp.

• wheat flour - 1-1.5 cups
• egg yolk - 1 pc.
• dry yeast - 1 tsp.

For the filling and sauce:

• cherries - 300 g
• sugar - 3-4 tbsp.

• corn - 1 tsp.
• ground cinnamon - a pinch

• cardamom - a few grains
• zest from half a lemon

Method of preparation:

1. Dough: Pour the milk warmed to a lukewarm state into a deep bowl and add the yeast, mix, add sugar, flour, and mix thoroughly again. Put the mixture in a warm place for 15 minutes.

2. Then add the remaining oil, salt, and flour, stir everything together, knead the dough, and leave it to rest.

3. Filling: Put the pitted cherries in a small saucepan, add sugar, a pinch of cinnamon, a few cardamom seeds, and the grated zest of half a lemon. Put the saucepan on the stove and bring the mixture to a boil, after boiling, cook for another 7 minutes. Remove the pan from the stove and strain the juice through a sieve.

4. Roll out the dough, put the filling, gently wrap the dough in the form of a pie, make a few shallow cuts with a knife, and brush with beaten egg yolk.

5. Leave the cake to rest for 20 minutes.

6. Cover the baking sheet with parchment and put the cake, bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 C until golden brown.

7. Sauce: Dissolve the starch in a little cold water and add to the juice, boil in a saucepan for a few minutes. Once the sauce thickens, it is ready.

Serve the cherry pie with the sauce!