Vak belyashi dough in the oven

Tender and crumbly, for delicious baked goods! The dough for vak belyashi in the oven is made like shortbread. Adding egg yolks makes it more crumbly in finished baked goods. It goes well with the juicy meat filling, and the small Tatar pies turn out amazingly tasty!
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Piper JohnsonPiper Johnson
Author of the recipe
Vak belyashi dough in the oven
Calories
2131Kcal
Protein
40gram
Fat
130gram
Carbs
185gram
*Nutritional value of 1 serving

Ingredients

ServingsServings: 1
50ml
140g
0.5teaspoon
0.3teaspoon

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking timeCooking time: 15 mins
  1. STEP 1

    STEP 1

    How to make dough without yeast on a wak-belyashi in the oven? Measure out the required ingredients. The butter should be cold, so remove it from the refrigerator just before cooking. Also use cold water.

  2. STEP 2

    STEP 2

    Sift the flour and baking powder into a suitable size bowl. Thanks to sifting, it will be saturated with oxygen, and the dough will turn out more tender. Read about all the nuances of working with baking powder in a separate article, link at the end of the recipe.

  3. STEP 3

    STEP 3

    Add cold butter to the flour. It can be pre-cut into small cubes.

  4. STEP 4

    STEP 4

    Quickly rub the butter into the flour with your hands until you obtain crumbly crumbs. Speed ​​of the process is essential. It is necessary that the butter does not have time to melt from the warmth of your hands.

  5. STEP 5

    STEP 5

    Combine the egg yolks with cold water and salt, stir until smooth.

  6. STEP 6

    STEP 6

    Add the yolk mixture to the butter-flour crumbs. Mix everything quickly until you get a homogeneous dough. There is no need to knead the dough for a long time, otherwise after baking it will not turn out crumbly and tender. If necessary, add a little more flour.

  7. STEP 7

    STEP 7

    Wrap the finished dough for vak-belyashi in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

  8. STEP 8

    STEP 8

    To form wack-whites, roll out the chilled dough into a layer and cut out the blanks using a round notch. Or you can form a sausage and cut into pieces, and roll each piece of dough into a thin round cake. Place the filling in the middle of the dough. For wak-belyashi, it is traditionally filled with minced meat or minced meat, potatoes and onions with the addition of spices.

  9. STEP 9

    STEP 9

    Lift the edges of the dough over the filling and pinch, forming folds and leaving an opening at the top. Bake wak-belyashi from shortcrust pastry in the oven.

  10. STEP 10

    STEP 10

    From the amount of dough received, I got 8 small wack-whites. Good luck with your baking!