Want to know how to make the simplest dough? For it you need just two ingredients: water and flour. Such a simple base is good for cooking more complex composite dishes and baking. But it always calls for a filling, unless we're talking about bread or unleavened flatbreads. This is the simplest dough, and its recipe can be supplemented with other products if you like, to turn it into yeast, puff, shortcrust or sponge dough. The temperature of the water often doesn't matter; the main thing is that it be clean, preferably bottled.
The five most commonly used ingredients in simple dough recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Wheat flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
| Flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
| Chicken eggs | 80 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 0.3 |
| Milk | 68 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
As a rule, the dishes made from simple dough are ones where the filling is what matters and the dough should stay unobtrusive: pizza, varenyky, dumplings, manti. But that doesn't mean it turns out tasteless. The recipe for a simple dough for, say, pies will come out better if, besides water and flour, other products appear in the mix: eggs, sour cream, vegetable oil, yeast.
The base for the dough described above can be:
- kefir
- milk
- sour cream
in different proportions and with different added ingredients such as eggs and fats.
Vegetable oil is especially good to add if the dough needs a long kneading by hand — it takes away excess stickiness. It's better not to overdo the flour for this, so you don't turn the dough into tough rubber.
The five fastest recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| The simplest custard dough for chebureki | 5 min | 262 | +74 |
| Simple liquid pizza dough with sour cream | 10 min | 227 | +253 |
| Simple pizza dough in a dough mixer | 10 min | 274 | +48 |
| Simple batter with mayonnaise for pizza, pies, pancakes | 10 min | 232 | +94 |
| Dumpling dough, simple and fast | 10 min | 230 | +91 |
Tips and tricks :
- keep yeast-free plain dough in the refrigerator in an airtight package for no longer than a week
- in the freezer — no longer than a month
- the dough cannot be frozen twice