Hello! Today, I cook very delicious, airy, soft buns with apple filling... Why "Bast shoes"? But here everything is very simple, even in my head there are such associations - weave pattern reminiscent of an old Russian shoes - sandals. As the filling can be used not only apples - delicious with berries will \ strawberries with cottage cheese filling. You can prepare savory stuffing, but in this case it is necessary to reduce the amount of sugar in the dough.
Ingredients for cooking:
We start with the dough - and to start preparing the brew. The test will be a lot, so a bowl for mixing should take a little more, I have a 5-liter volume. Pour into a bowl of warm milk, crumble the yeast, add 1 tablespoon of sugar, 5-6 Art. spoonfuls of flour, mix well and put in a warm place. And, if the yeast is fresh, quality - is already in 20-25 minutes you bowl will be filled with foam, air brew. Yes, I have it just dough ...
Now melt the butter, cooled, pour in the brew. Add salt, vanilla - is for sweet fillings, and the rest of the sugar and stir.
Further sift flour and knead soft, while keeping the shape of the dough. Again put the bowl with the dough in a warm place.
At that time I cook apple filling. Apples were purified from the seeds, cut into small pieces. In a frying pan put a very small piece of butter, melt, I lay chopped apples, add a little sugar (1 tbsp. l.) - if the apples are very sweet, the sugar can be eliminated altogether. And the carcass somewhere 5-7 minutes - apples should be soft but not collapsed. I shift the apples from the pan into a bowl - filling must be completely cool.
After 1.5 hours, the dough will be ready!
To prepare the dough rolls divide into pieces, weighing about 100 g, rounded. Then roll out each piece, giving a rectangular shape.
Cut the rectangle in half along the long side, and apply one strip to another, doing a little bit beveled cross - two "tail" will be longer, two shorter. In the middle lay out the apple filling.
Close the filling short "tails", fixing the edge.
Long "tail" cut into four strips and from the corner, twisting them.
The result is a very cute braided bun - I even in this form, they cause appetite.
Shift the rolls on baking, the laid parchment paper, to give 20 minutes proofing and then lubricates beaten egg yolk, and send baked in the oven ...
... and they are baked at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.