Those housewives who cooked, or at least heard about pancake buns or American popovers, will be able to cook English Yorkshire pudding, since it is almost the same. But although these dishes are similar, all the same, there are a number of cooking features that allow the finished product to increase more than four times.

Classic Yorkshire Pudding

Classic Yorkshire pudding requires products in the following proportions:

  • 3 chicken eggs;
  • 175 ml of milk;
  • 50 ml of drinking water;
  • 125 g flour;
  • salt to taste;
  • vegetable oil for greasing molds

How to bake:

  1. Be sure to lubricate the baking dish for muffins or muffins with butter before kneading, put it in the oven, which should be turned on. The oven and tins should be well hot (220 degrees).
  2. Everything is simple with the dough: put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix with a mixer, whisk or fork. You should get a homogeneous liquid mixture, like pancakes. The dough for this baking can be prepared three hours before baking and refrigerated. From the cold dough, a more magnificent pudding is obtained due to a sharp temperature drop.
  3. Quickly fill the twelve cupcake hot form in half, with a maximum of 2/3 dough and return to the oven. After 15-20 minutes, get the finished Yorkshire pudding.

Recipe from Jamie Oliver

In the third episode of the first season of his television show “Cooking in 30 Minutes,” Jamie Oliver cooked a chic hearty meal of roast beef, fried potatoes, glazed carrots, watercress and Yorkshire pudding.

 

He did not need a scale to measure the right amount of ingredients, he used a measuring cup. It is important to note that the volume of the measuring cup used in British recipes is 250 ml. It may well be replaced by a thin-walled faceted glass.

The ratio of ingredients from the recipe Jamie Oliver:

  • 1 measuring cup of flour;
  • 1 measured cup of milk;
  • 1 pinch of salt;
  • 1 egg
  • olive oil.

Bakery products:

  1. Pour a cup of flour into a bowl of a mixer or kitchen food processor, pour a cup of salted milk and beat an egg. Cover to prevent flour and milk from scattering in the kitchen, and mix for several minutes.
  2. Lubricate generously, actually pour olive oil on the muffin baking dish on the tablet. Then fill it with ready-made pancake dough and send it to the oven, preheated to 220 degrees.
  3. When the dough in the molds is lightly browned, it remains to shake out the "Yorkshire mischievous", as the "Naked Cook" called them. Jamie Oliver's Yorkshire Pudding is ready.

Roast beef with pudding

On English tables, Yorkshire pudding is usually adjacent to beef roast beef, which is also very simple to prepare. Thus, a traditional Sunday lunch will be an ideal option for a working housewife, which will not only deliciously feed home, but also not spend the whole weekend in the kitchen.

For roast beef you need to take:

  • 1500 g of beef tenderloin or rib portion;
  • 30 g of beef fat;
  • 10-15 g of ready-made English mustard;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

For puddings:

  • 300 ml of milk;
  • 1 chicken egg;
  • 125 g of flour.

The algorithm of actions in the kitchen:

  1. Rub a piece of meat with salt, pepper, mustard and fat. Then lay it on a baking sheet covered with food foil and send it to the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
  2. The cooking time of roast beef in the oven will depend on the desired degree of roasting. For meat with blood it will take - 60 minutes, for medium-sized roast beef - 80 minutes, for fried - 100 minutes. While the meat is baked, it needs to be watered from the juice and fat from time to time.
  3. 45 minutes before the end of cooking, you need to cover it with foil and rearrange it to the lower level, and increase the temperature to 200 degrees.
  4. The readiness of roast beef in accordance with the desired degree of roasting is determined by the allocated juice when pierced with a sharp knife or needle (with blood, pink or transparent).
  5. If the meat meets the expectations of the hostess, you need to remove it from the oven and let it lie down a little in the foil, and in the meantime prepare the puddings.
  6. From milk, flour and eggs, knead the batter, pancake batter, for some time, for example, while the roast beef is preparing, keep it in the cold.
  7. Fill chilled dough with half the pudding molds and bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes without opening the oven.

In addition to meat and puddings, vegetables (carrots, potatoes, and others) can become. The British extinguish them without peeling, just washed well, and our housewives can use the more traditional recipes of their own cuisine.

How to cook in English?

If the product is less than 4 inches high, then this is not a Yorkshire pudding. This is the opinion of the British, and they know several secrets on how to prepare small but tall puddings crispy on the outside and airy inside for Sunday dinner.

To prepare this baking in English in compliance with all traditions you need to take:

  • 4 large eggs;
  • 200 ml of milk;
  • 200 g of wheat flour;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • vegetable oil that can hold a high temperature (sunflower or rapeseed).

Work sequence:

  1. Pour into a metal mold for 12 cupcakes into each cell of sunflower oil a layer of one centimeter. Put the mold with oil in the oven and turn on heating to 190 degrees.
  2. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk the eggs, milk with a pinch of salt and sifted flour. It should turn out a liquid batter, which will drain from a spoon. The finished dough should be poured into a measuring cup with a spout in order to fill the forms with dough without sagging around the edges, as they burn, they will prevent the products from rising.
  3. Fill the molds with dough and send to the oven for 20-25 minutes. The door must not be opened at this time, so that the pastries do not fall. After this time, real Yorkshire puddings can be served.

Yorkshire Pudding Stuffing Options

Thanks to the technology of baking, a large cavity is obtained inside the buns, which can be filled with any filling to taste.

As a savory filling of the Yorkshire pudding, you can choose one of the following options:

  1. Cheese with garlic and mayonnaise. Grind cheese (any suitable) on a fine grater, combine with garlic passed through a press and season with mayonnaise.
  2. Potato and mushroom filling. Mashed potatoes with fried onions and mushrooms.
  3. Ham, cheese and egg. Grate cheese and hard-boiled egg, finely chop the ham with straws. Combine all ingredients season with mayonnaise. If desired, you can add fresh herbs.
  4. Chicken and mushrooms with cream. Pre-cook julienne, fill them with buns, sprinkle cheese on top and put in the oven or microwave for a minute to melt the cheese.
  5. Salted salmon, fresh cucumber and cheese. Finely chop all the ingredients, sprinkle with lemon juice and the filling is ready.

In general, Yorkshire pudding can be a great alternative to tartlets and can be filled with any salad.

The neutral taste of buns goes well with various sweet fillings, turning pudding into a dessert.

You can fill the pastries:

  1. Curd cream. To beat cottage cheese, sour cream and icing sugar to taste with a blender. You can add any fresh or canned fruits to this cream.
  2. Fruit confiture with yogurt. Beat both ingredients with a mixer, or fill the bun with layers: first confiture, and yogurt on top.
  3. Condensed milk with butter. Beat condensed milk with soft butter in a lush cream. Chopped nuts can be added if desired.
  4. Cream whipped with sugar or fat sour cream. Berries and fruits also go well with this filling.

 

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