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Shaker churek cookies. Shaker churek cookie recipe. How to prepare Shaker churek cookies according to GOST

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Today we will cook Shaker churek cookies- Azerbaijani flour product made from shortcrust pastry made with melted butter.

Recipe – Shaker churek

Shaker churek (translated as “sweet bread”) is a sweet, crumbly, round-shaped cookie with a golden crust. Azerbaijani Shaker Churek cookies are prepared from the following ingredients:

  • Flour - 0.5 kg
  • Sugar - 160 g
  • Ghee* - 100 g
  • Vanillin - ¼ tsp.
  • Eggs - 2 pcs.

*If you use a traditional recipe for making cookies, shaker churek is made from flavored ghee, popular in the East. But in our case, in order to cook Shaker churek You can also use regular butter.

Shaker churek: step-by-step recipe

1) Prepare shortbread dough according to the recipe for shaker churek:

  • Beat the egg whites until a stable foam forms.
  • Add vanillin, sugar and melted butter to the whites and mix everything until a homogeneous mass is formed.
  • Sift the flour onto a work surface, forming a high mound.
  • Make a deep hole in the flour and pour a mixture of butter, protein and sugar into it.

  • Knead the dough for Shaker churek cookies thoroughly.

  • Leave the finished dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.

2) Form small balls from the risen dough and place them on a greased baking sheet. To prevent the cookies from burning, you can line the baking sheet with non-stick parchment or baking foil.

3) Beat the egg yolks and grease the churek shaker with them. You can use another recipe - Shaker churek it is not completely covered with yolk: a depression is made in the middle of the top of each cookie, which is brushed with beaten egg.

4) Place the baking sheet with Shaker Churek cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

5) According to the recipe, the shaker churek is baked for about a quarter of an hour until golden brown. It is important not to dry out the cookies when baking.

6) After the cookies have cooled, according to the recipe, shaker churek needs to be sprinkled with powdered sugar on top. By the way, if you don’t like very sweet cookies, you can refuse to use powder.

Azerbaijani Shaker Churek cookies: calorie content

  • Flour (0.5 kg) - 1710 kcal
  • Sugar (160 g) - 636.8 kcal
  • Butter (100 g) - 748 kcal
  • Vanillin (¼ tsp) - 5.04 kcal
  • Chicken eggs (2 pcs.) - 172.7 kcal.

Calorie content of 100 g of Shaker churek cookies: 376 kcal.

Alternative recipe for Shaker churek cookies

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Shaker churek (great-grandmother pronounced sheker-choreyi) is an Azerbaijani cookie. The origin of the name is Turkic, churek is the name for bread in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and shaker, as I already wrote in recipes and, means sweet. Shaker churek is a very tasty, aromatic, crumbly and sweet creamy cookie. Of course, it’s terribly high in calories, each piece contains about 200 kcal, so you need to be careful with it, as with all oriental sweets. I love all these “shakars and shakers”, but I rarely bake them. All recipes for various homemade cookies By . A selection homemade recipes for oriental sweets -

Compound:

  • Soft butter (preferably ghee) - 100 grams
  • Eggs - 1 piece
  • Sugar - 120-130 grams
  • Flour - 180-210 grams
  • Saffron - a pinch
  • Cardamom - 1/2 teaspoon
  • Powdered sugar - 1/2 teaspoon

How to make Shaker churek, butter cookies without baking powder

For Shaker churek dough, combine soft butter with sugar and rub with a spatula.


Grind butter and sugar

Add the egg white, beat with a spatula.


Add protein

Using a teaspoon, scoop half the yolk into the butter mixture, mix the rest of the yolk with half a spoon of powdered sugar.


Add part of the yolk

Sift the flour. First add about 150 grams of flour. Mix with a spatula. At this stage, add a pinch of mashed saffron and half a teaspoon of cardamom.


Add flour little by little, 2-3 tablespoons at a time, stirring first with a spatula.


Once the dough can be gathered into a ball, knead with your hands. In total, I used exactly 200 grams of flour. The dough for Shaker churek is very soft and flexible. To make sure that the dough is ready, run a spoon over the surface and if the dough separates under the smooth surface, you can form Shaker churek, butter cookies without baking powder. It's time to turn on the oven at 160 degrees.


Roll the balls, I will have 8 pieces of Shaker Churek.


Divide into 8 parts

Use any available material to make indentations in each ball; I have a cap from a thick cosmetic pencil for this purpose.


Carefully fill the indentations with the reserved half of the yolk and powdered sugar.


Fill the indentations with yolk

Place Shaker churek on a baking sheet lined with parchment or on a silicone mat at a distance from each other.


Bake Shaker churek, butter cookies without baking powder for about 15 minutes until light creamy. There is no need to brown it, otherwise you will end up with very tasty croutons instead of cookies. Shaker churek butter cookies are ready as soon as the color begins to change. But this time I missed the point and overexposed the cookies in the oven a little - the churek shaker will be tasty and aromatic, but a little harder than ideal.

How long have you enjoyed cookies that literally melt and crumble in your mouth? Don't remember? Then it’s time to prepare an oriental sweet with the fancy name Shaker Churek. This is a dish of Azerbaijani cuisine. The baked goods, whose name literally translates as “sweet bread,” attracts with its spicy aroma and taste of baked milk. Tender pulp and crispy white crust will please even the most sophisticated gourmets. In summer, these cookies can be enjoyed with berry tea, and in winter - with coffee.

Cooking time – 1 hour 30 minutes.Number of servings – 7-10

Ingredients

To make Shaker Churek cookies, you will need to prepare the following products:

  • flour – 550 g;
  • powdered sugar – 200 g;
  • butter – 270-300 g;
  • eggs – 2 pcs.;
  • vanillin - to taste.

How to prepare Shaker churek cookies according to GOST

The original recipe for shaker churek cookies is not particularly difficult.

  1. You should start by preparing the butter. It should be melted in a water bath or in the microwave. Add powdered sugar to it and mix everything thoroughly.

  1. Now you need to add one egg to the mixture. The second needs to be divided into white and yolk. The last component should be left for lubrication, and the protein should be poured into the dough for shaker churek.

  1. Flour, vanillin powder and salt are added to the mass. Then the composition must be kneaded.

  1. Next, the process of preparing these cookies involves cooling the dough. The mixture should be transferred to the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

  1. Then you should pinch off a small piece of the dough. Each piece is rolled into a small, neat ball. The workpiece needs to be crushed a little to make a circle. The resulting lump should be transferred to a special mat or parchment paper.

  1. A small notch should be made in the center of each piece. To do this, you can use any available devices, for example, the tip of a rolling pin or your fingers.

  1. The resulting hole should be greased with the reserved yolk and the cookies should be placed in the oven for 25 minutes. The oven should be preheated to 180 degrees.

  1. During baking, you need to ensure that the Azerbaijani dessert does not brown.

As you can see, creating this delicacy does not involve anything complicated, and a step-by-step recipe with photos will allow you to avoid possible flaws.

Video recipes for making Shaker Churek at home

And she jumped around like a little girl on one leg.

It turns out that “Sheker churek” means “sweet bread” in Azerbaijani. But this is not bread at all, but a wonderful aromatic pastry, more reminiscent of cookies.
During my childhood, sheker churek, along with other oriental sweets such as zemelakh, cinnamon pretzel, sheker puri, kozinaki, nuts fried in sugar, etc., were sold in any bakery. By the way, do bakeries still exist now??? So, this cookie was sold individually, it seemed to cost 19 kopecks (like ice cream), it was 10 centimeters in size, and it was difficult to eat it at one time. Due to the high cost or some other reasons, most often these cookies were sold, to put it mildly, not very fresh, i.e. you won't bite. But the sweetness and vanilla aroma attracted me to them like a bee to honey. And if you managed to buy fresh ones! mmmmm....
So, I haven’t tried sheker churek for a thousand years - my favorite cookie after Baku kurabiye. And here is the recipe, and it seems quite simple. Well, how could you pass by.

Frankly speaking, I didn’t even think that everything would be so simple.


4 stacks flour
1 stack melted butter
2 eggs
1 stack powdered sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar
1 egg yolk for decoration

I melted about 300 g of butter - it turned out to be more than a glass. I poured the glass and let it cool. I poured a glass of powdered sugar and a bag of vanilla sugar into it and mixed thoroughly with a wooden spatula. Added 2 eggs and mixed again.
Next, gradually pour in the sifted flour,
Sevda writes that if you want to make the cookies more crumbly, you need to add only yolks instead of 2 eggs, but then the amount of flour should be reduced to three glasses.
I didn't reduce it and used all the ingredients. I kneaded the dough first with a spatula and then with my hand. It is very soft and pleasant to the touch. I rolled it into a ball, wrapped it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
I divided the dough into 15 pieces (it should have been 14, and then the cookies would have been larger) and rolled them into balls. I placed the balls on a baking sheet lined with paper and pressed them lightly with my hand. I made a small indentation in each ball and dropped a drop of egg yolk from a teaspoon.
I baked the sheker churek for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. In this case, the top of the cookies should not brown, but should remain light.

The cookies turned out very tasty, moderately sweet and aromatic. The texture is dense and at the same time crumbly. Sevda, thanks for the recipe! Wonderful cookies!

PS. You can find recipes for sheker churek with yeast and soda, but it seems to me that this particular one is most consistent with the original.