The beneficial properties of blueberries have long been known.
This is an excellent biostimulant, the berry has a beneficial effect on the immune system and digestive organs, everyone knows about its benefits for vision.
In addition, it is very tasty.
In the season, they eat it fresh, jam, stewed fruit, cook pastries with it, and the excess is frozen for the future. To enjoy delicious desserts with blueberries even in winter, replenish your supply of vitamins. One of the best options for eating frozen blueberries is to use it as a filling for pies.
The basic principles of making frozen blueberry pies
The peculiarity of this dessert is that it has a lot of options. So, in shape, blueberry pies can be open, with a grid of dough, closed, aspic. But the main difference is in the test. A good pie of frozen blueberries and yeast, puff, biscuit, shortbread, bulk dough. Of course, all these pies are sweet, therefore sugar and flour are required for their preparation. Depending on the recipe, eggs, dairy products, margarine, soda and others can be added.
Frozen blueberries often do not need to be fully thawed, you just need to hold it at room temperature so that it is not a single frozen lump.
Lovers of variety mix blueberries with other fruits and berries. And also as spices use cinnamon, vanilla, mint.
Shortbread simple blueberry pie
Delicate crumbly dough, delicious toppings, pretty top-lattice - all this is about blueberry shortcake pie. The dough is prepared simply, and the cake itself is baked quite quickly.
Ingredients
Pack of margarine or butter
Two glasses of flour - approximately
A pound or more of blueberries from the freezer
Sugar three cups
Starch about three tablespoons
Half a glass of cold water.
Cooking method
Grate a little melted butter or margarine into the flour. They should not be very soft, but not icy. It should be oil shavings.
Add sugar - about a third of the norm - and rub it well with your hands. We monitor the condition of the baby: it should be moderately large, not stick together in a single com. If this happens, add a little flour.
Pour in water and knead the dough. Wrap in polyethylene and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
Let the berries thaw a little, mix with sugar and starch.
Separate a quarter of the test, set aside.
Roll out the rest lightly and put in a baking sheet, forming the sides.
On the test, spread the berry filling.
Roll out the remaining piece of dough, cut into strips, decorate the cake on top.
Send the oven in the middle heat for half an hour, monitor the readiness.
From this amount, a rather large pie is obtained. If the shape is small, you can reduce the number of ingredients or prepare two products.
Overseas recipe: American frozen blueberry pie
In American films, heroes often ask for blueberry pie in cafes or roadside food outlets. It's time to get acquainted with this overseas dish. In fact, it is very tasty and quite simple to prepare.
Ingredients
A glass of sifted flour
Pinch of salt
Glass with a hill of sugar
120 grams of butter or margarine
A couple of spoons of cold water
A pair of spoons of fresh lemon juice
A pound of frozen blueberries
A couple of spoons of starch, in the original - corn
A piece of butter for decoration.
Cooking method
From flour, a spoonful of sugar, salt, softened margarine and water, quickly knead a soft dough. It should not stick and spread, but it is also not necessary to knead too tight. Wrap with a film and put in the cold.
After an hour or two, we roll out the layer, put it in the form, cut off the excess at the edges - they will come in handy.
Let the berries melt and pour them with lemon juice. Pour sugar, mix.
Put the filling in the form on top of the dough. Level the top, grease with melted butter.
To resemble a real American dessert, cut out stars and stripes from the remains of the dough, decorate the top.
The cake is first baked for about half an hour at a fairly high temperature. Then it is covered with foil and brought to readiness for another fifteen minutes.
The tradition is to serve such an ice cream pie like our ice cream.
Frozen Blueberry Sour Cream Pie
Pouring sour cream and eggs is used in a pie, which was called Tsvetaevsky - it is baked with apples. However, with blueberry filling it turns out great. Sour cream plus sweet blueberries are a wonderful combination of taste and tenderness. And this is a wonderful magical color for the filling!
Ingredients
Flour - a glass, maybe more
Half a packet of butter or margarine
About two glasses of sugar - for dough, toppings and pouring
One and a half cups of sour cream - in the dough and pouring
Three eggs - in the dough and pouring
A teaspoon of soda
Tablespoon semolina
About 200 grams of blueberries from a freezer
Cooking method
Wipe half a glass of sugar, softened butter or margarine with a spoon into a homogeneous mass.
Add a glass of sour cream and soda, stir to react well.
Pour two out of three eggs into the mixture, add flour and knead the dough.
Sprinkle the mold greased with semolina, spread out the dough, forming a side.
Mix the berry with about a glass of sugar, put on the dough.
Beat the remaining sour cream, sugar and egg. Pour the mixture with the berry, send to the oven.
At medium temperature, keep for half an hour or a little longer.
Allow to cool at least until warm and serve.
Chocolate Blueberry Frozen Berry Pie
This cake can even be called a cake - several layers of chocolate biscuit soaked in cream and layered with berry filling look great and have a wonderful taste. Frozen berry is very suitable for this dessert.
Ingredients
One and a half cups flour
Two glasses of sugar
Three eggs
Glass of kefir
A glass of sour cream or cream
Half a teaspoon of soda or baking powder
Vanillin several grains
250 grams of blueberries
3-5 tablespoons of cocoa
A bar of chocolate - dark or milk as desired.
Cooking method
Mix flour, baking soda or baking powder, cocoa. The amount of cocoa vary as desired.
In another container, beat the eggs with half a serving of sugar until fluffy.
Pour, continuing to whip, kefir. It should not be cold.
Gradually pour the flour mixture with the liquid part, whisking all the time.
Pour into a greased mold and place in a heated oven.
Bake at medium temperature for about half an hour.
Cool the finished biscuit. Cut with a long knife or thread into two, and preferably three, parts.
While the biscuit is cooling, prepare the cream. Beat sour cream or cream with the remaining sugar.
Grind blueberries - with a spoon or a blender - and gently mix with cream.
Layered cooled cakes, lay on top of each other.
Melt chocolate in a microwave or in a water bath, pour on a cake in the form of a pattern, or smooth over the entire surface. Brush the sides of the cake with chocolate.
In the cold, such a dessert should stand for at least a couple of hours, and preferably night, so that the cream saturates the cakes well.
Finnish Frozen Blueberry Pie
If there is an American blueberry pie, why not be Finnish? And it really exists, very tasty and quite original. It uses cottage cheese. In general, cottage cheese is often combined with fruit and berry filling in pies. But the trick here is that the curd is added to the dough. It turns out great.
Ingredients
A glass of flour - 50 grams can be replaced with ground almonds, it will be tastier
Half a packet of butter or margarine
Curd one hundred grams
A pinch of salt
A glass of sour cream
One whole egg and three yolks
Glass of sugar
Vanillin to taste
About a glass of frozen blueberries.
Cooking method
Combine flour, almonds, if used, salt, cottage cheese and non-cold butter, grind everything into crumbs.
Add the egg and form a smooth, soft dough. It should be tight and not sticky.
Roll out the formation and carefully transfer it to the mold. Make sides, chop the bottom of the dough often with a fork so that it does not rise.
The test form is advised to stand for about fifteen minutes in the freezer and only then to collect the pie.
Mix the yolks with sugar, sour cream, vanilla, and beat a little.
Pour the mixture into the mold with the dough.
Spread evenly thawed blueberries on top, pour over the allocated juice.
At medium temperature, the cake is baked in the oven for about an hour, but it is better to check the readiness of the cake in forty minutes and determine the time of baking.
Pie with frozen blueberries in a slow cooker
This cake is made according to the principle of charlotte, only instead of apples - and you can take it with them - berry is taken. The simplicity of the recipe and the excellent end result have made charlotte recipes very popular. With the advent of multicookers with a baking mode, cooking such pies has become even easier.
Ingredients
Three to five eggs depending on the size of the mold
For each egg in the original recipe - a spoonful of flour and sugar
If a cake that is too sweet is not needed, the amount of sugar can be slightly reduced.
Blueberries to taste - about a glass
Vanillin.
Cooking method
Thaw blueberries slightly
Beat eggs first without anything at low speed, then gradually add sugar and increase speed.
When you get a single mass, gently pour the flour in portions, constantly stirring.
Add vanillin, pour in the berry and mix again. Pour the dough into a greased dish.
You can, as in a classic charlotte, put the filling on the bottom of the form and pour the dough, but this way the blueberries will not be evenly distributed. You can pour part of the dough, put the berries on top again dough.
Place the mold in a warm oven.
Bake for half an hour at medium temperature.
Tricks and secrets of making a frozen blueberry pie
Blueberries are a very juicy berry, and so that the juice does not stand out strongly and does not soak the dough, it is mixed with starch. You can not mix, but pour it under the filling. Also used for this purpose are ground crackers, crumbs of cookies.
Blueberry berry is sweet, but without a particularly bright taste. It will help to emphasize and enrich the taste palette by adding juice, lemon peel, orange, and liquor to the filling.
Serve blueberry pies with sweet milk desserts - cream or sour cream, whipped with sugar, with ice cream.
