This article will focus on cranberry pies and how diverse they are. Cranberries are good because it can be used to cook desserts and meat dishes with equal success. Pie with cranberries can also be sweet and not sweet.
Perhaps you should start with the meat pie, since sweet pies with cranberries are much more common. It’s very easy to prepare a puff pastry with cranberries if you use a commercial puff pastry. For half a kilogram of puff pastry, you need to take 300 g of minced pork, mix with one hundred grams of finely chopped mushrooms, chopped green onions, add half a glass of dried cranberries and a teaspoon of dried sage leaves. It remains only to break two eggs into the dishes and mix the minced meat well.
Now you need to cut the dough into two identical layers: put the stuffing on one of them, and cover the top with the other and wrap the edges. You can put the cake in a preheated oven for 30 minutes.
Now we will talk about sweet cranberry pies. For example, a pie with cranberries and meringues. It cooks as fast as the previous dish, but the dough for this pie is quite easy to make yourself. For it you will need a pack of butter, 3 yolks, 2 cups of flour and 50 g of sugar. First, yolks are ground with sugar, and flour with butter, then the two mixtures are combined to knead the dough.
From the dough you need to bake a basket for the pie. To do this, take a form or a frying pan, dough is distributed on the bottom and sides. A lot of holes are made in the dough with a fork. The form must be put for 10 minutes in a preheated oven.
During this time, you need to make the filling. For her, you will need 2 cups of cranberries, 3 protein and a glass of sugar. Sugar needs to be halved. Grind the first half with cranberries. Then we prepare the meringues: the proteins are whipped with sugar until a stable white foam is formed.
Cranberries with sugar are laid on the bottom of the mold with dough, and meringues are laid out on top with a spoon or pastry bag. Now the cake is put in the oven for another 10 minutes. The pie turns out to be tasty and beautiful, and does not require much time for cooking.
Another very interesting recipe: a pie with cranberries and nuts. You can take any nuts for this pie that you like best. The only condition is that large nuts, such as hazelnuts or cashews, will need to be chopped, and pine nuts can be strewed whole. The peculiarity of this pie is that it is inverted, that is, when baking, the filling is laid down under the dough. Thus, after cooking and turning the mold, the filling immediately appears on top.
First you need to cook the dough. To do this, mix 3 eggs, half a glass of sugar, a bag of baking powder, 4 tablespoons of sour cream and a glass of flour. You can add vanillin. The output should be a liquid sweet dough. The next stage is the preparation of the form. In it you need to put baking paper or foil, greasing them with butter. Then a handful of nuts are poured to the bottom, a glass of cranberries is placed on top, and sprinkled with sugar. Next, the dough is poured into the mold.
It remains to put the cake in the oven for half an hour. And then remove it from the handicap and carefully remove the foil or paper. Cranberries and apples are a favorite combination for sweet cakes in England. It was from there that an open pie with cranberries and apples came to us.
Cooking such a pie takes a little longer than all the other recipes in this article. Mainly due to the fact that you first need to prepare a yeast dough. However, the result is worth it.
The following ingredients are necessary for the test: a glass of flour, an egg, about 20 g of yeast, half a glass of milk, a spoonful of sugar, 30 g butter, zest of half a lemon.
You need to take two-thirds of all flour and sift it. In the resulting slide, make a recess, put yeast there and pour warm milk. Further, the flour is slowly mixed into milk. The resulting sponge is covered with a towel and left for a while to fit. When cracks appear on it, add the egg mixed with melted butter, sugar, spices and zest to the dough. Then pour the remaining flour and knead the dough. After that, he is again left to approach.
While the dough is suitable, you need to make sour cream. Take 400 g of sour cream and add 2 yolks, 3 tablespoons of starch, zest of half a lemon. Mix all the ingredients, and put the cream on low heat. It must be brought to a boil, while stirring constantly. Then it is removed from the fire and cooled.
Now you can begin to form a cake. Knead the dough thoroughly, then roll it into a thin rectangular plate and transfer to a greased baking sheet. Do not need to make beads. To avoid the formation of bubbles, you need to pierce the dough in several places with a fork.
Then spread the cream on the dough. The layer should be uniform. On top of the cream, pre-peeled apples are laid out, cut into circles. In the middle of each circle put one teaspoon of cranberries. Before putting the pie in the oven, you can sprinkle it with grated almonds. And so that a beautiful crust appears on the cake, approximately in the middle of baking it is taken out of the oven and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Bake a cake in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes. Then the pie with cranberries and apples needs to be cooled and only then removed from the pan.