Pampushky with creamy garlic sauce

Pampushky are an excellent appetizer, a perfect base for meat, fish, or vegetable sandwiches, and a wonderful addition to soups, borscht, stews, and other first courses. They are quite easy and quick to prepare at home using yeast, flour, and milk. Homemade pampushky become especially aromatic and flavorful when served with a creamy garlic sauce. To make the sauce as rich and intense as possible, it is worth using both fresh and dried garlic.

Adding garlic enhances the taste of pampushky, gives them a pleasant spicy note, and significantly increases their nutritional value. Fresh and dried garlic are rich in vitamin C, B vitamins, and phytoncides — biologically active compounds with strong antibacterial and antiviral properties.

Eating garlic helps strengthen the immune system, supports metabolism, and protects the intestines from putrefactive processes that can cause bloating, cramps, and excessive gas formation. In addition, garlic helps the body digest «heavy» foods such as lard, fatty meat, legumes, and similar products more easily.

Eating garlic helps strengthen the immune system, supports metabolism, and protects the intestines from putrefactive processes that can cause bloating, cramps, and excessive gas formation. In addition, garlic helps the body digest «heavy» foods such as lard, fatty meat, legumes, and similar products more easily.

CraftOil offers an excellent selection of craft products: raw vegetable oils, organic flour, and spices with natural seasonings. Our catalog always includes high-quality dried garlic, certified and stored under optimal conditions. We package it in convenient jars, seal them hermetically, and promptly ship worldwide. Our garlic is a 100% natural product, perfectly suitable for sauces, seasonings, gravies, as well as first and main courses.

Ingredients

For pampushky with creamy garlic sauce (4 servings), you will need:

• ¾ cup water;
• ¾ cup milk (preferably whole milk);
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 2 slightly rounded tablespoons sugar;
• 700 g flour;
• 1.5 teaspoons dry yeast;
• 1.5 tablespoons vegetable oil;

For the sauce:

• 4 garlic cloves;
• 1 teaspoon dried garlic;
• 30 g butter;
• 150 g cream;
• 5–6 sprigs of dill and/or parsley;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• ½ teaspoon
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper (optional);

Step-by-step preparation

First, prepare the dough. Combine milk with water, salt, and sugar, then heat the mixture to 40–45°C and stir in the yeast. Allow the yeast to dissolve and activate by waiting 5–7 minutes until characteristic bubbles appear on the surface of the liquid.

Next, add half of the flour, pour in the vegetable oil, mix everything well, and leave the dough in a warm place for about 30 minutes to rise. After that, knead the dough, add the remaining flour, and form small balls from the moderately elastic dough.

Place the pampushky on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 180°C for approximately 20 minutes. Then leave them in the switched-off oven for another 20 minutes to finish baking and become soft.

While the pampushky are baking, prepare the sauce. Peel and finely chop the garlic, then fry it in butter for 3–5 minutes. Wash and finely chop the herbs, then add them to the fried garlic. Season with salt and pepper and mix with the cream and with dried garlic. Simmer the sauce over low heat for 5–6 minutes until it boils slightly and thickens.

Pour the creamy garlic dressing over the pampushky immediately after turning off the oven so that they can absorb the sauce while resting.

Notes:

If you add mustard oil to the pampushky dough, they will stay fresh and soft for longer. Mustard oil, black pepper, dried garlic, and other spices can be easily ordered from CraftOil in just a few clicks.