The working day is over and once again you ask yourself: What quick, filling and healthy can I prepare this evening? Today we reward ourselves with a spicy leek cake from the tray. With the following dough variations it is made quickly and you have a delicious dinner on the table in just 30 minutes.
Leek cake from the tray: 3 quick dough variations
In the hectic pace of everyday life, there is hardly any time (or desire) to spend hours cooking in the kitchen. For all those evenings when things need to be quicker, the leek cake from the tray is ideal. With its slightly spicy taste, it is the classic for the autumn and pre-Christmas season. Perhaps the best thing about the savory dish is that the filling and spices can be varied as desired. Traditionally it is prepared with leeks, bacon and cream and seasoned with nutmeg, cloves and bay leaves. But there are now numerous variations, with meat or vegetarian, so that everyone can get their money's worth. You usually don't need much time to prepare the filling. The dough is a little more complicated. But you can save time with a few tricks.
Recipe for quick yeast dough
The leek cake with yeast dough is an absolute classic. But the dough with yeast has one major disadvantage: you have to let it rise. You can save yourself the wait with the next recipe. You need:
- 1/2 kg Mehl
- 1 packet of dry yeast
- 180 ml low-fat milk
- 60 g butter, unsalted
- 2 pinches of sugar
- tsp salt
Pour the milk into a small saucepan and warm it up. Then add the butter and let it melt over low heat. Then add the flour to a mixing bowl, form a well and add the yeast packet. Pour the warm butter and milk mixture into the cavity. Salt, add the sugar and mix the whole thing with a hand mixer to form a smooth dough. To do this, first run the mixer on a low setting for 2 - 3 minutes and knead the pre-dough well. Then continue to knead the dough well for several minutes at the highest level.Then the yeast doughRoll out on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Form a 4 cm high edge out of the dough and then top with whatever you like and garnish with sauce. Bake for about 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 200° Celsius.
Leek cake with puff pastry: ready to serve in 30 minutes
The first recipe will take you less than half an hour. Since the baking time is twenty minutes, the leek cake with puff pastry is also a good option for a warm dinner if you're in a really quick time or if you want to save on electricity and gas. At the same time, the taste of the leek cake is in no way inferior to the classic one made with yeast dough.
The preparation is also incredibly easy and ideal for complete beginners. There's really nothing you can do wrong. You need 5 slices of puff pastry, about 1/2 kg of leek and can then vary the topping as desired. If you want to save time, go for ham or bacon and peppers. Prepare a creamy sauce from crème fraîche or sour cream (10%). You can add pepper and nutmeg to taste. You can also take a ready-made hollandaise sauce and sprinkle the leek cake with grated cheese.
To prepare it, proceed as follows: Defrost the puff pastry and roll it out. Line the baking tray with baking paper. Prick the dough several times with a toothpick. Clean the vegetables and chop or dice the filling. Put some olive oil in a pan and heat it up. Then steam the vegetables in it and season with pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the hollandaise sauce, pour half a glass of water into the pot and bring the whole thing to the boil briefly. Then reduce the heat and let the filling simmer for about 5 to 10 minutes. Then spread the sauce over the puff pastry, sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake the leek cake at 200° Celsius in a preheated oven. After 20 minutes, take it out of the oven and serve it hot.
Quick leek cake with pizza dough
With oneBaking mix for pizza doughyou can quickly bake a leek cake. All you have to do is put the baking mixture in a bowl and knead with water using a hand mixer, first on a low setting and then on the highest setting, to form a smooth dough. Then roll out the dough on a work surface lined with baking paper. Then place the dough and baking paper in a baking tray and garnish with sauce and toppings.
Prepare leek cake from a tray without a base
Alternatively, you can also prepare the leek cake without a base. Proceed as follows: First preparethe covering. To do this, sauté mushrooms, bacon, leeks, peppers and vegetables of your choice in a pan and season with nutmeg and pepper. Then beat two medium-sized eggs in a bowl and add 50 g wholemeal spelled flour and a pinch of baking powder. Mix the egg mixture well and add the crème fraîche. Spread the egg and spelled flour mixture into a baking tray lined with baking paper, garnish with the vegetables and bacon and sprinkle with grated cheese. Then bake in a preheated oven at 200° Celsius for about half an hour.
