Vertuta with apples: recipes, filling options. Moldavian twirls with apples according to classic recipes A few words about the filling

This recipe for apple twirls has been around for many years. Even in the old days, Moldovan women passed it on from generation to generation. The vertuta dough comes out extraordinary. It is obedient and very easy to work with. Simple baking always helps housewives in the kitchen. So I offer a simple recipe for vertuta. Cheese cheese is traditionally used as a filling. But at that moment I had apples in the refrigerator, which were useful to me. The apple filling gives the baked goods juiciness and slight sourness. I hope the result will surprise and delight you.

Ingredients for the dough:

Unrefined vegetable oil – 200 ml
Hot water – 180 ml
Soda - a pinch, on the tip of a knife
Flour - how much dough will take

Filling ingredients:

Apples – 2-3 pcs.
Cinnamon - to your taste
Sugar – 170 g
Raisins – 50 g

Preparation:

Pour vegetable oil into a bowl. Add a pinch of baking soda at about the tip of the knife.

Pour in a good amount of hot water. And start sifting the flour on top.

You will need enough flour to make the dough soft. It will take about 400 g of flour. Keep an eye on it and test it with your hand as you knead the dough. It will be soft and tender, do not flour it so as not to spoil it.

As with any dough, let it sit for 15-20 minutes to rest. Let all the ingredients get to know each other.
Let's prepare the ingredients for the filling. Peel the apples and soak the raisins in warm water. Apples can be sprinkled with lemon juice to prevent them from darkening. Drain the raisins and dry them.
Now let's start rolling out the dough. From such products I get 2 vertutas. Therefore, I divide the dough into 2 equal parts with a knife and begin to roll it out. If you are preparing verita for the first time, then it makes sense to divide the dough into 3-4 koloboks. This will make it easier for you to twist the twist.
Grease the surface of the table with vegetable oil and roll out one part of the dough with a rolling pin. Next, start stretching the dough across the table with your fingers, as if gluing it. It turns out almost transparent.

Grate the apples on top of the entire surface of the dough, sprinkle generously with sugar and ground cinnamon. Also add raisins.

Wrap the vurtuta into a roll and roll it into a ball, it looks like.

Line a baking dish with paper, lay out the apple twirl, and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top again. Place in a preheated oven for 30 minutes. The oven temperature should be at least 180 degrees.
Cut the finished vertuta into pieces and treat it to your relatives and friends.

Bon appetit!

Step-by-step instructions for the recipe for Vertuta with apples

• I prepared the dough in a bread maker. Pour warm water into a container, add egg and vegetable oil.
• Add sifted flour and salt. Set to "dough" mode. If you prepare the dough by hand, crack the egg in water, add vegetable oil, mix well. Add flour and salt, knead the dough - quite stiff. Knead for 10-15 minutes until the dough is smooth and does not stick to your hands.
• Let the dough rest. After kneading, leave the dough for 30 minutes to “rest” (wrap in cling film).
• Wash the apples, remove peels and seeds. Grate on a coarse grater, sprinkle with lemon juice. Add powdered sugar, mix and leave for 20-30 minutes.
• Now comes the most important part of making vertuta: the dough! You must first roll it out into a layer, approximately 30x40 cm. Next, stretch the dough in different directions with your hands. The dough should be very, very thin. The thinner the better! If it tears a little, it's okay.
• Squeeze the apples from the released juice. Spread throughout the dough. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs (to absorb excess moisture).
• Roll the dough with apples tightly into a roll and roll it into a spiral.
• Place the vertuta on a baking sheet lightly greased with butter. Brush with yolk (dilute a little with water). Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until golden brown (35-40 minutes). Grease the hot vertuta with butter.
• Allow the pie to cool completely and serve with tea, cutting into pieces. Very tasty, crispy dough!
  Bon appetit!

Preparation

Serve the vertuta with apples when it has cooled slightly. The thing is that when hot, this pastry is too fragile and brittle, and during the cutting process it crumbles a lot. By following the advice, you will be able to cut the vertuta beautifully and appetizingly, into even portioned pieces.

First, make the vertuta dough. To do this, mix the following ingredients in one container: salt, sunflower oil, kefir and granulated sugar. Stir the resulting mixture. Then begin to gradually add wheat flour to the dough, which must first be sifted through a sieve along with baking powder.



Add flour to the dough until it is no longer sticky. The final result should be airy and elastic. Roll the dough into a ball, then cover it with a napkin and leave it on the table for twenty minutes.



While the dough is rising, prepare the sour apples. Wash the fruits, peel them and cut into small pieces, such as in the photo. If desired, chopped apples can be supplemented with vanilla sugar or cinnamon. This will add flavor to future baked goods.



Sprinkle your work surface well with flour, and then place the risen dough on it.



Now start rolling out the dough. To do this, use a rolling pin sprinkled with flour.



Continue stretching the flour tortilla, only this time by hand. Be sure to lubricate your hands with sunflower oil, otherwise the mass will stick. Try to work very carefully with the dough and never rush.



Stretch the cake until it is as thin as possible. An example can be seen in the photo.



Place the previously prepared apple filling on one side of the dough.



Then cover the apples with dough, then grease the top of the resulting workpiece with oil. This can be done conveniently using a silicone brush.



Continue forming the roll, brushing the top with butter each time.



Next, place the resulting “sausage” on a greased baking sheet and roll it into a snail, on top of which you also apply the oil product. Important! Despite the fact that oil is used at almost every stage, this will not affect the baked goods in any way. The pie will not be greasy. Moreover, it will become softer and more tender.

I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite pies - vertuta. Vertuta is a swirled pie with a variety of fillings. I will use apples as a filling, but the dough for this vertuta deserves special attention.
I remember these pies from my childhood. Mom often fried the leftover dough from dumplings or pies in a frying pan. It was so delicious back then that those memories forced me to slightly diversify the familiar recipe.
The dough is very simple. 3 ingredients: egg, vegetable oil and flour. No baking soda, salt, or any baking powder is needed. The main secret is to beat the egg and vegetable oil well, preferably to the consistency of mayonnaise. The final taste of the pie will depend on this.
I’ll say right away that the final result should be crispy, but if you like soft baked goods, cover it with a kitchen napkin after the oven, not for long. Well, this is a matter of taste, let’s move on to the ingredients:
We will need:

refined vegetable sunflower oil - 100 g

0.5 glasses of water

Additionally:
- sugar - 0.5 cups
- cinnamon - 2 tsp.
- apples or jam - 0.5 cups
Cooking time - 30 minutes.
Complexity - none.

Short version of preparation:

Beat the egg and unrefined vegetable oil until white foam.

Add ½ cup of hot water to it.

Add flour gradually, adjusting the amount, knead the dough so that it is soft and does not stick to your hands.

Use thick apple jam as a filling.

Roll out a thin layer of dough, grease it with oil, lay out the filling, roll it up, and roll it out lightly with a rolling pin.

Place the vertuta on a baking sheet and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.

Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.

Place the egg and vegetable oil in a bowl convenient for you. We take refining so that it does not give off the characteristic smell of oil when baking.

Beat until white foam. Here we add half a glass of purified hot water.

Add flour. Adjust the quantity yourself.

Mix the dough. It should be soft and not stick to your hands.

We use thick apple jam as filling. If there is none, any other will do. Or you can simply grate fresh apples and sprinkle with sugar.

Roll out a thin layer of dough. Grease it with vegetable oil and spread jam on top. Roll it up. Then we wrap it and roll it out a little on top with a rolling pin.

Since the dough is not sweet, already on the baking sheet we generously sprinkle the vertuta with sugar. We use cinnamon as a spice. It goes very well with apples. Place in the oven for 30 minutes. Bake at 180 degrees.

Crispy airy twirl with apples is a worthy Moldovan answer to Viennese strudel and a nostalgic reference to distant childhood. The unusual, funny name of the baked goods reflects the way the apple filling is “packed” into plastic dough - it is literally spun, folded into several layers and imitating a puff structure.

If the dough is prepared and kneaded correctly, a paper-thin layer emerges from under the rolling pin, capable of holding fragrant apple cubes. But you should not add them in excess, otherwise the juice that has been released will leak out, burn on the baking sheet and give the dessert a bitter taste.

Ingredients

• vegetable oil 60 g
• water 60 ml
• salt 0.25 tsp.
• sugar 2 tbsp. l.
• chicken egg 1 pc.
• chicken yolk 1 pc.
• wheat flour 300-350 g
• apples 5-6 pcs.

Preparation

1. Pour room temperature water and odorless oil into a deep bowl. Shake with a spoon.

2. Beat in the egg. Add a tablespoon of sugar and salt. Stir until the sugar and salt dissolve and the egg is evenly distributed throughout the mixture.

3. Sift the flour into another container in advance. Add a little at a time to the rest of the ingredients. At the initial stage, take a spoon and mix the added flour with the liquid ingredients. Add flour until it becomes difficult to mix with a spoon. Transfer the thickened dough to a dusted board, and gradually add flour, knead until you obtain a dense dough that does not stick to your hands and the table.

4. Cover the finished lump of dough with a towel and let rest for 10-15 minutes.

5. Then divide the dough into four pieces. You should end up with 4 rolls of small diameter. Cover with a towel to prevent chapping.

6. Prepare the filling. Wash and dry apples with dense pulp and a sweet and sour taste. Remove peel and seeds. Cut into small cubes. Transfer to a deep bowl. Add the remaining spoonful of sugar and stir. You can add a pinch of ground cinnamon.

7. Roll out a piece of dough into a very thin translucent layer. Dust the board with flour to prevent the dough from sticking.

8. Place a quarter of the apple filling on the wide edge. Fold the sides towards the center.