The best pies are made from seasonal fruits and berries. For example, a currant pie is fragrant, juicy, tender and incredibly tasty. Moreover, it can be easily prepared from fresh or frozen berries. Here are 15 great recipes!
1. Pie with currants on sour cream
Any novice hostess can easily cope with such a recipe.
You will need: 100 g sour cream, 4 eggs, 1 glass of currants, 1 glass of sugar, 1.5 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup flour.
Cooking: Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy, add sour cream and then add the sifted flour with baking powder. Pour half of the dough into the mold, cover with currants and pour the dough again. Bake the cake for 40 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
2. Puff pastry with currants
There is nothing faster than making a puff pastry pie.
You will need: 500 g of ready-made puff pastry, 400 g of currants, 1 cup of sugar.
Cooking: Mix currants with sugar. Roll out most of the dough into a shape with sides, lay out the berry and cover with a second layer of dough on top. You can cut the second layer into strips and lay out with a lattice. Bake the cake in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees.
3. Jellied pie with currants
Jellied pies are incredibly simple and do not require any culinary skills.
You will need: 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sour cream, 3 tbsp. butter, 400 g currants, 1 tsp. baking powder, 300 g flour.
Cooking: Whisk eggs with sugar, and then add sour cream with melted butter. Mix flour with baking powder into the dough. Pour half of the dough into the mold, cover with currants and fill with the second half. Bake the cake for 35 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees.
4. Pie with currants on kefir
Get the yogurt in advance so that it warms up to at least room temperature.
You will need: 1.5 cups flour, 1 cup kefir, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. soda, 1 glass of currants.
Cooking: Beat eggs with sugar, and mix kefir with soda and leave for a couple of minutes. Combine both masses and add the sifted flour. Pour half of the dough into the mold, lay out the currants, fill with the remaining dough and bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
5. Vegetable oil pie with currants
Delicate and fluffy variation of a simple kefir dough.
You will need: 100 ml of vegetable oil, 150 ml of kefir, 300 g of currants, 2 eggs, 80 g of sugar, 300 g of flour, 1 sachet of vanilla sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder.
Cooking: Whisk eggs with sugar. Add kefir at room temperature and butter. Then add vanilla sugar and sifted flour with baking powder. At the end, mix currants into the dough, pour it into a mold and bake the cake for about 40 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
6. Pie with currants in milk
If you use frozen currants, then first let it thaw and drain off excess water.
You will need: 180 g sugar, 100 ml milk, 2 eggs, 250 g flour, 2 handfuls of currants, 1.5 tsp. baking powder, 1 pinch of vanillin, 4 tbsp. vegetable oil.
Cooking: Mix all dry ingredients and pour oil and milk into them. Whisk the eggs and add to it. Stir currants into the dough, pour it into a mold and bake the cake for 40-45 minutes at 180 degrees in the oven.
7. Sand cake with currants
Crumbly shortbread dough that goes amazingly with juicy currants.
You will need: 100 g butter, 80 g sugar, 80 g sour cream, 300 g currants, 1 pinch of vanillin, 1 pinch of salt, 270 g flour, 1 tbsp. starch.
Cooking: Mix half the sugar, flour, salt and vanilla. Chop the cold butter and rub everything into crumbs. Add sour cream, quickly knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Roll out most of the dough into a shape with sides. Sprinkle with starch, lay out the currants and sprinkle with the remaining sugar. Rub the remaining dough on a grater and pour on top. Bake the cake for 35 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
8. Lean currant pie
Apple or orange juice works best for this recipe.
You will need: 450 g flour, 125 ml fruit juice, 170 g sugar, 0.5 tsp. baking powder, 150 ml vegetable oil, 270 g currants, 2 tbsp. starch.
Cooking: Mix currants, starch and a third of sugar, and leave everything for a couple of minutes. Separately, mix fruit juice, oil and remaining sugar. Add sifted flour with baking powder and knead the dough. Send a third of the dough for half an hour in the freezer,and the rest – in the refrigerator.
Roll out the dough from the refrigerator into a mold with sides and put the currants on top. And the dough from the freezer – grate and pour on top. Bake the cake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
9. Cottage cheese pie with currant
Light and dietary pie for those who watch their figure.
You will need: 150 g cottage cheese, 50 g oatmeal, 50 g rice flour, 300 g currants, 1 egg, 50 g 20% sour cream, 1 tsp. baking powder, 2 tsp stevia.
Cooking: Beat cottage cheese with egg and sour cream. Add the sifted dry ingredients and put the dough into the mold. Cover it with currants and bake the cake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
10. Semolina pie with currants
Not quite a mannik, not quite a classic flour dough – but still a very tasty and tender cake.
You will need: 200 g of currants, 1 cup of kefir, 1 cup of flour and semolina, 1 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 10 g of baking powder.
Cooking: Pour semolina with kefir and leave for half an hour. Beat eggs with sugar, mix with kefir and gradually add flour with baking powder. Pour the dough into a mold, cover with currants and bake the cake for 40 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
11. Chocolate cake with currants
In addition to cocoa, you can mix in a few more chocolate drops into the dough.
You will need: 20 g cocoa, 180 g sugar, 150 g currants, 1 egg, 250 g sour cream, 1 tsp. soda, 160 g flour.
Cooking: Whisk the egg with sugar and sour cream. Add the sifted dry ingredients and finally stir in the currants. Pour the dough into a mold and bake the cake for 35 minutes at 180 degrees in the oven.
12. Pie with mayonnaise and sour cream with currants
An interesting version of a tender dough that literally melts in your mouth.
You will need: 120 g sour cream, 90 g mayonnaise, 3 eggs, 300 g currants, 100 g sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 100 g flour.
Cooking: Beat eggs with sugar, add sour cream with mayonnaise and beat again. Add sifted flour with baking powder. Pour half of the dough into the mold, lay out the currants and pour in another half of the dough. Bake the cake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
13. Pie with currants in a slow cooker
We recommend that you grease the bowl with oil or cover it with parchment.
You will need: 150 g flour, 150 g butter, 120 g sugar, 150 g currants, 3 eggs, 3 tbsp. milk, 1 tsp baking powder.
Cooking: Rub soft butter with sugar, add eggs with milk and beat everything. Add sifted flour with baking powder. Sort and mix the currants into the dough, pour everything into the multicooker bowl and turn on the “Baking” mode for 45 minutes.
14. Pie with currants on rice flour
For those who avoid gluten and wheat flour, or just want variety.
You will need: 120 g butter, 200 g rice flour, 2 eggs, 220 g sour cream, 120 g sugar, 10 g baking powder, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 180 g currants.
Cooking: Whisk eggs with sugar. Add sour cream and melted butter and beat again. Then add the sifted rice flour and dry ingredients. At the very end, pour half of the dough into the mold, fill it with currants and fill it with the remaining dough. Bake the cake for 40 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
15. Banana cake with currants
The secret is that the banana goes straight into the dough – it turns out very tasty!
You will need: 250 g flour, 150 g sour cream, 130 g sugar, 8 g baking powder, 2 eggs, 150 g currants, 50 g butter, 1 banana.
Cooking: Whisk eggs with sugar. Add melted butter and sour cream and beat again. Then add banana pulp and beat again. Mix flour and baking powder into the dough, and then – currants. Pour the dough into a mold and bake the cake for 40 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.