1. Thaw the cherries in advance, place them in a sieve and leave to drain all the juice. If the cherries have pits, remove them.

2. Sift flour into a wide bowl or pan, add butter, salt, egg and water. Knead a fairly soft dough.

3. Knead the dough intensively (about 10 minutes) on a greased table. Then wrap it in cling film and leave for at least half an hour.

4. Grind the almonds using a blender. Fry it together with the breadcrumbs in butter for about a minute (just until they warm up). Next, add sugar and stir until smooth.

5. Roll out the rested dough a little using a rolling pin on a lightly floured table or other suitable surface. Place it on a towel (preferably linen). Place your hands under the dough, palms down, and gradually stretch it in all directions from the middle to the edges. Do not rush, otherwise the dough may tear. Pull until the dough becomes translucent. Try to keep the layer rectangular in shape. Lubricate the elongated layer with oil, distribute the prepared powder evenly on it. Leave 3-5 mm at the edges. without powder.

6. Next, lay out the cherries evenly, fold the edges of the layer to the sides. Roll the roll (since it will be quite difficult to do this with your hands without damaging the dough, help yourself with a towel), after each turn, grease its upper side with oil. Pinch the seam. Carefully place the resulting strudel, seam side down, on a baking sheet lined with paper.

Strudel is a roll containing a lot juicy filling, wrapped in the thinnest layer of crispy dough. The filling in this roll can be not only sweet fruit, but also vegetable or meat. To be fair, it is worth noting that the most popular were dessert options, including strudel with cherry filling.

There are three main recipes for cherry strudel:

1. A classic recipe that reveals all the intricacies of preparing the dough and filling;
2. A recipe for ready-made puff pastry - for those who have little time to cook, or who are not entirely sure that they can cope with preparing the dough;
3. Recipe with cherries and almonds - another unusual delicious variation fillings.

Classic recipe

Ingredients	Quantity
flour -	250 grams
water -	150 ml
egg -	1 PC.
vegetable oil -	2 tablespoons
salt -	pinch
fresh or frozen cherries -	700 grams
sugar -	250 grams
butter crackers (ground) -	2 tablespoons
butter for greasing the dough -	50 grams
Cooking time: 120 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 203 Kcal

The main feature of cherry strudel is the stretch dough. The classic recipe for this roll focuses on its preparation. Although it doesn’t seem difficult to make the filling, there are also certain subtleties that make it possible to give it sufficient juiciness without excess moisture.

The sequence of stages for preparing strudel with cherries:

1. For pull test: sift the flour into a bowl through a sieve, add a pinch of salt, then add liquid ingredients(water, egg and vegetable oil). Stir until the mass becomes elastic, but lags behind your hands;
   
2. Make a ball out of the dough, grease it with butter, wrap it in film and melt in a warm place for at least 40 minutes;
   
3. For the cherry filling you will need to cook the jam for five minutes. To do this, remove the pits from the cherries, cover them with 200 grams of sugar, put on the stove and boil for 5 minutes;
4. Allow the finished jam to cool completely, transfer the cherries to a colander. This will help remove excess juice from the filling;
   
5. When the filling is ready and the dough has proofed, it’s time to form the roll. You can't do without a cotton towel here. You need to spread it on the table, sprinkle a little flour and roll out the dough directly on it as thin as possible;
6. Your favorite magazine or newspaper will help you determine the required thickness. If it is not difficult to read the text lying under the layer of dough, then you can stop rolling. From the resulting layer you need to cut a rectangle with scissors, cutting off the thicker edges;
7. Moisten a silicone brush in melted vegetable oil and brush the prepared rectangle. Sprinkle one half of it with breadcrumbs and 50 grams of sugar, and top with cherries. The filling should be placed at a distance of about 3 cm from the edge;
8. Tuck the clean edge of the roll so that the filling does not spread and remains inside. Helping yourself with a towel, roll the strudel with cherries so that there are several turns of dough on top without filling;
9. Place the roll on a baking sheet, seam side down. He will have to spend about half an hour in the oven. Oven temperature – 180 degrees;
10. The finished roll is served hot. It can be decorated powdered sugar or serve with vanilla ice cream, but even without additional decoration it will be incredibly tasty.
    

Strudel with cherries from ready-made puff pastry

Preparing stretch dough takes a significant part of the time, so in a situation where there is little time, you can use ready-made puff pastry and another way to form strudel. This will help reduce cooking time by an average of 1 hour.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of ready-made yeast-free puff pastry;
• 400 grams of cherries;
• 100-200 grams of sugar, depending on taste preferences;
• 50 grams of sweet crackers;
• 50 grams of melted butter;
• 1 egg.

Cooking time: about 1 hour.

Calorie content: 279.9 kcal/100 grams.

The sequence of stages for preparing strudel with cherries from puff pastry:

1. Let the dough thaw and roll it out into 2 thin rectangles with a rolling pin. One should be 4 - 8 centimeters wider and longer than the other;
2. Sort the cherries, remove the seeds, let the excess juice drain;
3. Mix the prepared fruits with sugar and ground sweet breadcrumbs;
4. Spread a smaller layer of dough with liquid butter, then lay out the filling, retreating a few centimeters from the edges;
5. Also spread a larger layer of dough with butter, make transverse cuts on it with a knife every 1.5 - 2 cm. Cover the filling with the oiled side and pinch the edges;
6. Brush the top of the strudel with lightly whipped chicken egg and bake for 45 minutes, at standard 180 degrees.

Cherry strudel with almonds

The filling of a cherry strudel usually consists of cherries, sugar and breadcrumbs, which remove excess moisture from the roll, but if the filling is prepared a little differently, for example, by adding almonds to it, you can get new taste usual dish. This recipe will not leave indifferent not only almond lovers.

To prepare cherry strudel with almonds, you need to take the following products:

• 300 grams of flour;
• 50 ml and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 180 ml water;
• ½ teaspoon salt;
• 1 egg;
• 600 – 800 grams of frozen pitted cherries;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 50 grams of breadcrumbs and almonds;
• 1 tablespoon starch;
• 50 grams of powdered sugar and a handful of almond petals for decoration.

Cooking time: 1.5 – 2 hours.

Calorie content: 220.3 kcal/100 grams.

The sequence of stages for preparing strudel with cherries and almonds:

1. Knead the dough from flour, vegetable oil, water, salt and eggs, as for strudel. classic recipe. Wrap in film and place in a warm place for 30 - 40 minutes;
2. Place the cherries in a colander and defrost. Collect the resulting juice;
3. Fry crumbs of breadcrumbs in butter until golden color. Add almonds, ground into coarse crumbs, and 150 grams of sugar. Mix everything vigorously and remove from the stove;
4. Form a roll from the proofed dough, similar to the classic recipe. First, place fried crackers with sugar and almonds, and top with cherries;
5. Baking time: the same half an hour at the same 180 degrees;
6. While the roll is baking, prepare the sauce. Dissolve 50 grams of sugar and a tablespoon of starch in a glass of cherry juice, put on the stove and boil until thick, constantly stirring the sauce with a spoon;
7. Decorate the finished roll with cherries and almonds with powdered sugar and almond petals. Serve topped with cherry sauce.

Many people do not undertake to prepare strudel for fear of not being able to cope with the stretch dough. The tips below can help overcome all fears before cooking cherry strudel:

• There is no need to add more flour to the dough than indicated in the recipe. If it sticks to your hands, then you just need to knead it longer, greasing your hands and table with vegetable oil;
• A bread maker can simplify the preparation of dough. To do this, all the ingredients need to be placed in its bowl and kneaded using the “Pizza”, “Dumplings” or similar modes;
• Heat and proofing help the gluten to swell well, so the dough does not tear when stretched. You can defrost it by placing it in a hot pan;
• You need to stretch out the dough slowly and very carefully so that it does not tear. If a gap has formed, do not start the pulling process again. It will do dough is tough. You can simply cut a piece from the edge and seal the hole with it.

Cherry strudel is a dish that can immerse you in the atmosphere of a Viennese cafe and give you the pleasure of a delicious dessert. His recipes may not seem so simple at first, but the effort spent is more than compensated by the taste of this roll. Bon appetit!

IN original version Strudel with cherries is baked from stretch dough, the preparation of which requires a certain skill and, of course, a supply of free time. But busy housewives have long been using a lazy recipe for such a dessert, which involves preparing a delicacy from puff pastry.

Classic recipe for strudel with cherries made from ready-made puff pastry

Ingredients:

• puff without yeast dough– 495 g;
• flour – 35 g;
• pitted cherries – 495 g;
• sugar – 110 g;
• breadcrumbs– 85 g;
• walnuts or almonds – 85 g;
• corn starch – 30 g;
• peasant butter – 45 g;
• small chicken egg - 1 pc.

Preparation

Ready puff pastry twenty minutes before cooking, remove from freezer and let it thaw. Now, on a surface dusted with flour, roll out the layer as thin as possible and coat it with melted butter along the entire perimeter. Now we crush the dough with breadcrumbs and crushed nuts, stepping back about a centimeter from the edges.

Rinse the cherries, let them dry and remove the seeds. Place the berries in a bowl, add starch and mix. Now spread them evenly over the entire surface of the rolled out and oiled puff pastry, crush granulated sugar and roll the product into a roll. We carefully pinch the edges and place the workpiece on a baking sheet, having previously covered it with a piece of parchment.

We prick the product on top in several places with a toothpick, coat it with beaten egg and place it for baking in an oven preheated to 210 degrees. After fifteen minutes we remove ready-made strudel onto a plate and let it cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve, dividing the delicacy into portions.

Strudel is a dish of Austrian cuisine. It is prepared from stretch dough. This unleavened dough, consisting of flour, vegetable oil and water (without eggs). This dough is kneaded, allowed to sit, rolled out with a rolling pin, and then pulled out very thinly with your hands. The most popular fillings for strudel are apple and cherry. Strudel is also prepared with other fillings - berries, cottage cheese, raisins. Making strudel is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. The most important thing is to properly prepare the dough, which needs to be stretched well. In the end you will get delicious dessert made from thin crispy dough with your favorite filling.!

Ingredients:

- for the stretch test:

• flour - 200 gr.
• water - 125 ml.
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp.
• salt - ¼ tsp.

- For filling:

• - 400 gr.
• shortbread cookies (or crackers) - 100g.
• almonds - 50 gr.
• sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons
• butter - 70 gr.

Cooking time - 120 minutes.

Making cherry strudel

1. First prepare the dough. Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in it.

2. Pour in warm water.

3. Add vegetable oil and salt.

4. Knead the dough. The dough should be soft and sticky to your hands. Grease your hands with oil or fat and continue kneading the dough.

5. Cover it with a napkin and leave it in a warm place for an hour. During this time, the gluten in the dough will swell and it will become elastic. Do not try to roll out and stretch the dough immediately after kneading.

While the dough is resting, prepare necessary ingredients For filling. Remove the pits from the cherries and place in a colander to drain the liquid.

6. Butter melt in microwave oven or over low heat.

7. Fry the almonds in a dry frying pan, and then grind them in a blender.

8. Also crush the cookies.

9. Spread a clean kitchen towel on the table and sprinkle it generously with flour.

10. Place the dough on it. Sprinkle flour on top of the dough as well.

11. Roll out the dough using a rolling pin into a layer.

12. Now use the back of your hands to gently stretch the dough from the middle to the edges. The dough needs to be stretched out so thin that, for example, a pattern on a towel can be seen through it.

13. Using a pastry brush, brush the dough with melted butter.

14. Then sprinkle with ground biscuits and almonds, leaving about 10cm of free edge.

15. Place cherries on top.

16. Roll the roll, helping with a towel. Fold the edges of the roll inward.

17. Place the roll on a baking sheet and brush the top with butter.

18. Bake in an oven preheated to 180º C for about 30 minutes until golden brown.

19. Cool the roll and, if desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut the cherry strudel into portioned pieces and serve with coffee or tea.

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