Wholemeal flour pie

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a pie from wholemeal flour? First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Take large, selected eggs. Brown sugar can be replaced with plain white. Kefir should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. The fat content of kefir is 2.5%. Instead of strawberries, you can take apples or any other berries, fruits.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash and dry the strawberries thoroughly. Remove the tails. Cut the berries in half. You can cook such a pie with any berries or fruits, but it tastes best with strawberries and apples. Strawberries should preferably be taken fresh - there is not as much moisture in it as in frozen. If the strawberries are frozen, first defrost them and drain all the juice.

3. Step 3:

   

   Sift both types of flour into a bowl and mix with baking powder and salt. You can replace all the flour with whole grain, but then the cake will turn out to be more dense in consistency. Therefore, pastries with whole grain flour are usually diluted with wheat flour of the highest grade.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour in the kefir at room temperature. Mix everything thoroughly with a whisk until a homogeneous viscous mass. Note that you may have more or less flour, look at the consistency of the dough.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour in the lemon zest and mix the mixture well.

6. Step 6:

   

   In a separate bowl, whisk eggs with sugar and vanilla sugar into a fluffy foam.

8. Step 7:

   

   The mass should increase in volume by 3-4 times. There should be a lot of air bubbles in it.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour the beaten eggs into the kefir-flour mixture. Mix gently.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put half of the dough in a baking dish lined with parchment and greased with oil. Spread the sliced strawberries on top.

11. Step 10:

    

    Spread the remaining dough on top. Bake the pie in a preheated 180 °C oven for about 50 minutes. The exact time depends on your oven and the thickness of the pie.

12. Step 11:

    

    Remove the finished cake from the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!