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Prep Time
30 min.
Cooking Time
45 min.
Serves
8
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About This Recipe
Tatar mini pies "Vak Balish" – one of the popular dishes of Tatar cuisine, renowned for its exceptional taste. This is an appetizing and delicious pastry that is easy to prepare at home. The sweet filling of Vak Balish successfully combines rice, raisins, and dried apricots, creating a balanced and harmonious combination. The shortcrust pastry dough for the pies is very simple to make and does not require prolonged standing time. Butter ensures the tender crispness of the dough, and the addition of kefir guarantees that the finished product will not be too heavy on the stomach. By the way, from such dough, you can bake both very small pies and large pies in the oven, with any filling of your choice.
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Ingredients List
Total ingredients: 10
Serves:
Rice - 200 g
Raisin - 200 g
Dried apricots - 200 g
Sugar - 60 g
Flour - 500 g
Kefir 2.5% - 200 ml
Butter 82.5% - 200 g
Egg - 2 pcs.
dough baking powder - 1.5 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Nutrition Facts
Serves:
🥓
Fat
188г
🍚
Carbohydrates
799г
🥩
Protein
109г
🔥
Kcal
Daily Values
Preparation Steps
Step 1
Pour rice into a small saucepan, pour in 400 ml of hot water, add salt and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low, cover the saucepan with a lid and cook the rice for 15 minutes. Stir the rice several times with a fork.
Step 2
Wash the raisins and dried apricots thoroughly, place in a bowl, add a small amount of hot water and leave for 20 minutes. Drain and dry dried fruits with paper towels. Finely chop the dried apricots.
Step 3
Cool the rice slightly, transfer to a bowl and combine with chopped dried apricots and raisins. Add sugar and mix gently with a spatula. Leave the filling to cool to room temperature.
Step 4
Combine 450g flour and baking powder and sift into a large bowl. Add salt. Using a coarse grater, grate 160 g of cold butter into a bowl. Using your hands, rub the butter and flour mixture into crumbs.
Step 5
Add eggs to the bowl, pour in kefir and knead into a soft dough. If necessary, add a little flour, but no more than 2 tbsp. l., otherwise the dough will be too tough. Roll the dough into a ball, cover with a towel and leave warm for 15 minutes.
Step 6
Dust your work surface with flour, turn out the dough and roll it out to a thickness of 5 mm. Using a glass or mold, cut out circles with a diameter of 8-10 cm. Form the dough scraps into a ball again, mix and roll out again. Cut out small circles with a diameter of 4-5 cm.
Step 7
Place 2 heaping tablespoons of filling onto large circles. Place small circles on top of the filling. Lifting the bottom edges of the dough, pinch the pies with a string, catching the edges of the top circles.
Step 8
Preheat oven to 190°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Carefully transfer the formed vak balish to a baking sheet, leaving at least 1.5 cm of free space between the pies.
Step 9
Place the baking sheet on the middle rack of the oven and bake the wak balish until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Place the finished pies in one row on a large plate and brush with the remaining butter. Cover with a towel and leave for 15-20 minutes before serving.
Enjoy your meal!
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