Lenten dishes of Russian cuisine are not only tasty and healthy, but also diverse. On fasting days, and on ordinary days, products from lean home dough are always relevant. Various pies with fillings are especially loved by many.
Lenten pie with apples or pumpkin is a fairly satisfying dish and much more useful for those who follow the calories eaten. And, having prepared it only once for your family, you will forever add it to your favorite family recipes list.
How to cook lean apple pie ?
Products for the test: a couple of glasses of flour, salt somewhere half a teaspoon, 150 ml of vegetable oil, 120 ml of cold water. Composition for the filling: 4-5 sweet apples, three tbsp. tablespoons of honey or sugar, 0.5 tablespoons of tea cinnamon, two tbsp. tablespoons of starch.
Now, in order, we’ll figure out how to cook a lean apple pie. First, prepare the dough. Sift the flour into a bowl, add salt, then vegetable oil and mix everything thoroughly. Then add cold water from the refrigerator, mix again. Our dough should be elastic. To get the desired consistency, sprinkle with flour a little. Then, dividing the dough into 2 parts (one slightly smaller and the other larger), put in the refrigerator for an hour.
We are taken for the filling. For this purpose, we wash the apples, then, having cut out the core, cut into slices half a centimeter. Starch mix with cinnamon and honey and add to chopped apples. This is best done before we begin to form a cake, in order to avoid the formation of excess fluid.
Next, roll out a piece of dough, which is larger, and put it into a mold, the bottom of which is greased with oil and sprinkled with flour. We spread the filling on the dough, distributing it evenly. Then we roll out a smaller piece of dough and cover them with apples on top. Pinch the edges and spread with vegetable oil. We pierce with a fork in several places for the release of steam.
We bake the cake for about an hour, check the readiness of the test with a match. When the cake is baked, remove from the oven, cover with a towel and leave to walk for about fifteen minutes.
How to make lean pumpkin pie
We will prepare the necessary products: puff pastry - 500 grams, pumpkin pulp - 600 grams, dried apricots - 10 pieces, sugar - 50 grams, a handful of nuts and a teaspoon of cinnamon. Rub the raw pumpkin on a coarse grater. Soak dried apricots, cut into small slices and mix with sugar and cinnamon. You can put coarsely chopped nuts. Then, having rolled out the dough, we put it into the mold. We cut off all excess. And the scraps are rolled out and cut into strips. We spread the pumpkin on our dough. And from top to top we lay strips crosswise. Cover the form with a sheet of foil and bake for 40 minutes at 170-180 ° C. Our lean pumpkin pie is ready.
Open pie with apples
Necessary products: flour - 2.5-3 cups, milk - 400 ml, yeast - 30 grams, apples - 2 pcs., Brown sugar - 80 grams, butter (can be replaced with margarine) - 120 grams, sugar - 150 grams, a pair of eggs, 1 tsp. vanillin essences, a couple of a pinch of salt.
Kneading the dough from these products, it should be well kneaded until plastic and leave until it ripens. If the dough has increased 2.5-3 times in volume, then you need to re-knead, and begin to fold the cake. Part of the dough, rolled out in the form of cakes, is laid on the bottom of the mold. From the dough we make two tows. Then they must be intertwined in the form of a pigtail, which should be entwined around the tortillas.
We take on the filling. Cut the apples thinly, sprinkle them with brown sugar and spread on the dough. Roll out thin strips from the remaining dough and lay them crosswise on the cake. You can cut leaflets or other decorative elements. We decorate the cake with them. And on top, grease the product with beaten eggs and put in the oven for 40 minutes, which must be preheated to 180 degrees. Those who hold the post will undoubtedly appreciate the open apple pie, and instead of apples you can put a wide variety of fillings.
Well, now call the guests for tea or coffee, and the lean apple pie , in the form of a wonderful dessert, believe me, they will appreciate it.