The name itself says that pies are made from this test - the most magnificent, soft and delicious. They can be baked in the oven or microwave, or they can be fried in a saucepan, deep fryer or in a pan.
The filling for pies is made from cottage cheese, meat, fish, vegetables, mushrooms, fruits. For baked pies, use the finished filling, otherwise it will not be baked (if the pies are closed). For fried, you can take any - both prepared and raw (minced meat or coarsely grated potatoes).
Patty dough - general principles and methods of preparation
Patty dough can be made yeast and yeast-free. Yeast dough is made with dough (sourdough) or without dough, kneading all the products at once. Dough dough is used mainly for baked pies. You can also bake pies from the meatless, but more often they are fried.
The yeast-free dough is kneaded on kefir, cottage cheese, sour milk. Soda acts as a baking powder. It is not necessary to extinguish it with vinegar in order for the reaction to proceed, lactic acid is enough. Yeastless pies are usually fried. You can also use it for baking, it just turns out to be harder than that of pies baked from yeast dough.
Recipe 1: Yeast Batter
This is a real yeast dough. The pies made of it are tender and soft. First, the dough is made - sourdough, and then the rest of the dough is kneaded on it. Pies from the sponge dough come out the most light, lush and airy, with many small bubbles. If the mass suddenly rises poorly (low-quality yeast or for another reason), add a baking powder to the dough (2 tsp).
Ingredients: dough - yeast (dry 12-15g or fresh 50g), flour - 4 tablespoons, sugar - tbsp, 100 ml of milk; for dough - flour - 12 tablespoons, milk - 100ml, 2 eggs, melted margarine - 100g, salt - 1.5 teaspoon. (for sweet filling - 1/2 teaspoon).
Cooking method
Make a dough. Mix sugar, yeast, warm milk (36-37С), add flour in five to ten minutes. Mix the ingredients well, the mass should not be too thick, like sour cream. Cover the bowl with a towel or plastic wrap and place in the heat for half an hour. During this time, it should double and foam, become bubbly.
Add soft or melted margarine, lightly beaten eggs with a fork and warm milk to the finished sourdough. Mix. Pour salt and flour. It may need more than the specified amount, it all depends on the quality of the flour. Stir again. First with a spoon, as the mass at this stage is sticky enough, then knead well with your hands. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel, napkin or foil and leave (for an hour and a half) in a warm place. It will begin to rise. During this time, you will need to hug him a couple of times. Then sprinkle flour on the table, put out the dough and you can proceed to the formation of pies. It is better not to roll out the dough with a rolling pin, but to press and stretch with your hands. Before baking, allow the pies to stand for 20-25 minutes, grease with egg or milk and bake.
Recipe 2: Yeast Dough for Fried Pies
Although this dough is yeast, it is made quickly and always turns out. And the pies come out delicious and airy. It can be kept for 2-3 days in the refrigerator, which is very convenient. For example, on Sunday evening you can knead the dough, and on Monday or Tuesday after work, fry hot fresh pies. If you plan to store the dough for several days, when mixing, add an incomplete teaspoon of soda to it, then sourness will not be felt. If you will add soda, first stir it in sour cream. The number of products is indicated per liter of milk. If your family is not too big, you can halve the ingredients.
Ingredients: a liter of milk, 100g sour cream, wheat flour, a couple table. l vegetable oil, yeast - 100 g fresh or 25 g dry, 70 g melted margarine or butter, 2 eggs, a teaspoon of salt, 4 tbsp. sugar, wheat flour.
Cooking method
Stir the yeast with a little warm water (a quarter cup) and a couple of teaspoons of sugar. Let it stand for about 15 minutes until a cap of foam appears, i.e. yeast will begin to ferment. At this time, warm the milk, not more than 36-37С and melt the margarine.
In a bowl, grind eggs, sugar, pour in vegetable oil, add sour cream, salt, milk and margarine. Mix the ingredients, at the end, add the raised yeast and pour in the flour. Knead the dough. It should turn out soft, cool. Do not beat him with flour so that it is not hard. Dough, especially yeast, must always be thoroughly kneaded. Let the mass rise, hug it, i.e. mix, freeing from the bubbles and you can mold and fry the pies. They do not need to part, like blind, you can immediately fry, they will rise in a pan.
Recipe 3: Cottage Cheese Pie Dough
Pies from cottage cheese dough are airy and lush, with a delicious ruddy crust. The dough is made very quickly; yeast is not needed for cooking. For kneading, it is not necessary to specially buy fresh cottage cheese, it can be used with an expiring shelf life or with the fact that it has been in the refrigerator for several days. You can take any filling - an egg with green onions, fish, cabbage or make sweet cakes, for example, with apples, jam. Fry them in vegetable oil or bake in the oven.
Ingredients: cottage cheese - 0.4 kg, 3 eggs, wheat flour, ½ tsp. soda, a pinch of salt and granulated sugar.
Cooking method
Knead the cottage cheese - with your hands, spoon or fork. Add sugar, salt, beaten eggs. Beat them with a fork.
In a mug, pay off the soda. Just not with vinegar, but with boiling water, literally a couple of spoons. As it cools down, pour into the curd and pour in the flour. Flour is added gradually. It is necessary so much that the mass does not stick to hands, but at the same time, it is not clogged with flour, i.e. solid. Knead the dough well, divide it into equal slices, stuff with minced meat and fry or bake.
Recipe 4: Kefir Pie
This recipe is for those who don’t really like to mess with yeast dough, but who loves lush fried whites or pies. For the test using the most common products, it is done very quickly. For the filling, you can take minced meat, liver, cottage cheese, cabbage, potatoes.
Ingredients: 0.5 liter of kefir (or yogurt, sour milk), 2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon soda (all without a slide), 1 egg, a couple of tablespoons of melted or vegetable oil margarine, 600 g of flour + on powder, how much will take.
Cooking method
Pour soda into kefir, mix, beat in an egg, salt, add oil. Stir the mixture until smooth and add flour. When you knead the dough, it is difficult to predict how much to a gram of flour will need to be put. Therefore, you should focus on the consistency of the test. It should be soft, moderately elastic and not sticky. At the beginning of the kneading, the dough is always sticky, but the longer it is kneaded, the better it will be and will not stick to your hands. Put the finished dough in the cold so that it sets, it becomes harder and easier to cut. This can take from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours.
Patty dough - useful tips from experienced chefs
- To make the pies more airy, it is necessary to sift the flour, enrich it with oxygen.
- If you add 2 small finely grated boiled potatoes (per 1 kg of flour) to the yeast dough before roasting or baking, the cake will become softer and tastier.
