It is better to cook them with fermented milk products - kefir, sour milk or sour cream. If you like moist muffins, then add soft cheese to the filling and cut it into pieces - this will add juiciness to the baked goods. With grated cheese, the muffins will be soft and tender, but the dough will be a little denser and more homogeneous.
Ingredients
- ham – 100 gr
- cheese – 50 gr
- flour – 220 gr
- low-fat kefir - 1 glass
- egg – 1 pc.
- salt - 1 tsp. (taste)
- sugar – 1 tsp. (taste)
- baking powder - 2 tsp.
- butter (margarine) – 50 g
- basil, thyme, thyme - to taste (optional)
Preparation
Beat the egg with a fork and pour into warm kefir (room temperature).
Add melted butter there.
Sift the flour and pour into the kefir mixture. Don't forget to add baking powder (it can be mixed with flour).
Stir the dough. While it has not yet become homogeneous and dense, add spices and spices to it to your taste. Knead the dough until all ingredients are combined.
Grate the cheese or cut into pieces.
Cut the ham into very small cubes. If you cut it coarsely, it will be difficult for the dough to rise and the muffins will turn out dense.
Mix cheese and ham into dough.
The dough will be denser than for sweet muffins; it will fall from the spoon in a lump rather than pour out.
Fill the molds no more than 2/3. The muffins will rise in the oven. Since the dough is dense and not entirely homogeneous, press it a little to better distribute it throughout the mold.
The top can be brushed with beaten egg and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Muffins are baked in a well-heated oven at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. In 20-25 minutes they will be ready. To prevent the muffins from getting soggy, immediately remove them from the pans and cool on a wire rack.
Not long ago I tried a recipe for excellent baked goods - muffins. And I was simply amazed at the opportunities that opened up for me. As it turns out, muffins are not only sweet and fruity. You can make snack muffins with a variety of fillings. And, after conducting a series of experiments in my kitchen, I identified the most delicious, convenient, simple recipe options for my family. These small products simply charmed us with their versatility - you can swallow them on the run instead of breakfast, you can put them on the table as dinner, and if you try and embellish them, they will be just right for a festive feast.
I offer 2 recipes for making muffins: they are a little similar, but the taste is still different.
Sausage and cheese muffins recipe
Kitchen appliances:
Ingredients
The butter should be very soft, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. Sausage and cheese – any kind.
Making muffins with cheese and sausage
Video about making muffins with cheese and sausage
Step-by-step video recipe for muffins with sausage and cheese.
Recipe for cheese muffins with ham
Cooking time: 50 min.
Number of servings: 10.
Kitchen appliances: whisk, muffin tins, oven.
Ingredients
Making cheese muffins
Video recipe for making cheese muffins with ham
Master class on making unsweetened cheese muffins with ham.
If necessary, muffins can be decorated - for example, sprinkle with sesame seeds before baking, or, after removing from the oven, decorate with nuts or seeds. Red or black caviar or drops of thick sauce will look beautiful on them.
According to the proposed recipes, it becomes clear that many ingredients can be safely replaced - instead of sausage, cut sausages or smoked meat, or a mixture of sausages, or even use minced meat. You can grate half the cheese and cut half into cubes. You can safely add finely chopped herbs - dill, parsley or anything else that you personally like. You can cook muffins with kefir or sour cream, not milk. I think it will be more convenient for someone to try the recipe.
In general, improvisation is welcome in such universal recipes. For those who have never made such baking, it would be wise to start from there and then continue to fantasize as you please. And I definitely recommend trying the great recipes for banana, lemon and – it’s just a fairy tale!
I think it’s not only my family that is enthusiastic about experimenting with muffins - there will probably be housewives who can offer equally tasty, and perhaps even more original, recipes for such baked goods. Please share your secrets.
Snack cake is always relevant. And when you need a quick snack, because cutting off a piece of a snack cake is even easier than making the simplest sandwich. And for the holiday table - whether in the office or at home: the solution is unpretentious and very appetizing, and also non-trivial.
A cupcake with filling is prepared according to the basic recipe for all cupcakes: first, butter is whipped, then eggs are added to it, followed by the rest of the ingredients. The dough should be smooth and creamy. It is also important that all recipe ingredients are at room temperature.
Cooking time: 60 minutes / Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
- boiled smoked ham 250 g
- hard cheese 100 g
- dill 1 small bunch
- flour 300 g
- serum 150 ml
- softened butter 100 g
- egg 3 pcs.
- baking powder 2 teaspoons
- sugar 1 teaspoon
- salt 0.5 tsp
Preparation
First, prepare the ingredients for the filling: cut the cheese and ham into cubes.
Finely chop the dill and mix it with cheese and ham.
Now start preparing the dough: beat the softened butter with a mixer until fluffy and creamy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating each time.
Add half the flour to the dough and mix.
Then add whey to the dough.
After this, add the rest of the flour along with baking powder, sugar and salt.
Beat the dough until smooth.
Add the filling last and stir until it is evenly distributed throughout the dough.
Place the dough in a rectangular pan, greased with a small amount of any fat.
Bake the snack cake at 180 degrees for 45-50 minutes. Check doneness with a toothpick; it should come out dry.
Before serving, the cake should be allowed to cool thoroughly so that it does not crumble during slicing and keeps its shape.
Store the cake in the refrigerator, wrapped in cling film or a bag.
Ingredients
- Kefir - 1 glass (200 g)
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil or butter - 50 g
- Wheat flour - a little more than 1.5 cups (220 g)
- Salt - 0.5 teaspoon
- Granulated sugar - 1 teaspoon
- Soda - 1/2 teaspoon
- Ham - 100 g
- Cheese (hard varieties) - 50 g
- Sunflower seeds or sesame seeds - 2-3 teaspoons (optional without them)
- Spices and aromatic herbs (black pepper, thyme, thyme, dill, herbs de Provence) - to taste
Preparation time: 30 minutes for preparing the dough, 30-40 minutes for baking.
Yield: 12 muffins
Fluffy muffins with ham and cheese can be an excellent replacement for hot sandwiches; the kefir recipe is easy to prepare, and their salty taste goes well with both first and second courses. They perfectly diversify the usual tea table and serve as a wonderful snack.
How to make ham and cheese muffins
Pour kefir into a deep container, preferably warm. Add soda to it and stir. When extinguished, soda will increase the volume of liquid due to the release of carbon dioxide bubbles.
Add egg, butter, salt and sugar, aromatic herbs to kefir and mix.
If you took butter, first melt it and cool. Cupcakes bake with butter a little faster.
If desired, you can add aromatic herbs and even a little garlic to the muffins. Take any seasoning or a fragrant mixture of them. It's fun to experiment with - each time you make it with a different type of weed, you'll end up with slightly different cupcakes.
Add sifted flour and knead the dough. Its consistency should be stiffer than that of sweet muffin dough.
Cut the ham and cheese into small cubes.
If you cut the ham into large pieces, they will not allow the dough to rise well and instead of fluffy muffins you will get cheese and ham pancakes.
The cheese can be grated. Then the muffins will be softer and more tender, but the dough will be denser and more homogeneous.
Mix all the products thoroughly and pour the resulting mixture into the molds, filling them about 2/3 full. You can sprinkle the top of the muffins with grated cheese, sesame seeds or sunflower seeds.
Place the semi-finished muffins in an oven preheated to maximum temperature. For the first 10 minutes, maintain the degrees at the maximum level. The dough in the molds should rise.
Reduce heat to 180 degrees and bake for about 20-30 minutes. Cooking time depends on what kind of oil you added to the dough and on the features of your oven. The sign of readiness will be the browned surface of the cupcakes.
Remove them from the oven as soon as they are ready; leaving the muffins inside may cause them to become soggy.
Set the table, invite the family - it's time to try muffins with ham and cheese, the recipe with photos is ready step by step! Bon appetit!