What can you make pies with? With almost anything, they can be sweet or savory. Stuffings differ not only in composition, but also in the way they are connected to the dough. For example, they can be prepared separately, then laid out on a bed of tough dough, or laid out in a mold and poured with a liquid base, or covered with crumbs.
What can you make pies from dough
They are very different in shape, size, way of pinching. They are baked from yeast and unleavened dough, including puff and shortbread. The basis is prepared on water, milk, kefir, sour cream, mayonnaise, vegetable or butter. Quick and easy to prepare jellied pies, as well as bulk ones made from dry crumbs, are popular.
Sweet products are often baked large - in the whole baking sheet or in the form. The dough sheet is laid out on a baking sheet, forming the sides, the filling is laid out, the top is closed with the second layer, pinching it to the edge of the sides. Instead of the upper layer, you can cut strips, make cuts along their edges and lay out in the form of a lattice.
Large closed cakes are baked with onions, cabbage, fish, meat and other fillings. A very popular open pie with cottage cheese, which is known as cheesecake. Cheesecakes are both large and small. Hungarian cheesecakes are made from puff pastry.
What can be done with jellied cake? Often it is cooked with any fruits and berries. The consistency of the dough should resemble sour cream and be sweet. Slices of fruit (often apples) or berries are laid out in a mold, poured with dough and sent to the oven. The cake is tender, lush, airy. Jellied cake is not necessarily sweet. The filling can be onions with eggs, cabbage, canned fish with potatoes or rice, vegetables with herbs, cheese, potatoes with minced meat, liver, chicken, mushrooms, greens with eggs and much more.
Bulk pies are baked with jam, apples, cottage cheese, pumpkin filling. First, crumbs of dough are poured onto the bottom of the mold, crushed filling is placed on it, and on top is the remaining crumb. Layers may be more.
What pie can be made from minced chicken? Ingredients such as potatoes, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese are well suited to chicken. Pie can be cooked both closed and open, sprinkled with grated cheese. This filling goes well with puff pastry yeast. A good option is a product from several layers or a pie.
What pie fillings can you make
Sweet is made from the following ingredients:
- Fruits, berries, dried fruits: apples, cherries, apricots, raspberries, plums, pears, strawberries, currants, lemon, sorrel, raisins, dried apricots, rhubarb and others.
- Jam, jam, jam, marmalade, confiture.
- Curd mass.
- Nuts, poppy.
Unsweetened cakes are baked with toppings from a wide variety of products, such as:
- Meat, liver, chicken.
- Fish.
- Sausage, sausages, ham.
- Cheese, cottage cheese, feta cheese.
- Fig.
- Egg.
- Mushrooms.
- Vegetables: cabbage, carrots, potatoes, onions, pumpkin, etc.
Often, the filling is a mixture of several ingredients. Chicken with mushrooms, potatoes with mushrooms, cabbage with egg, green onions with egg, rice with egg, nuts with honey, cottage cheese with herbs, apples with cinnamon and others are well combined in pies.
Berry and fruit
Fillings for pies from berries and fruits are very common. They can be used in fresh, dried, frozen form. Any edible fruit is suitable for this.
In the summer, cakes with fresh fruits and berries are baked. These are closed or open large pies or small pies.
The simplest consist of berries / fruits and granulated sugar. For a kilogram of fruit you need to take 300 g of sugar. Such fillings tend to leak out. To prevent this from happening, you can do the following:
- Before putting the berry filling on the dough, sprinkle it with grated cookies or breading, then lay the berries and sprinkle them on top with semolina.
- Prepare crumbs from flour, sugar and butter and sprinkle on the surface before spreading the filling.
Filling for berry pies can be prepared in different ways:
- With the addition of starch. For a pound of berries, take six tablespoons of sugar and a half tablespoon of starch. Mix the components, put on fire and heat, not bringing to a boil. Another option is to mix the berries with sugar and starch without heating.
- With flour. The berries are spread on a greased frying pan, sugar is added after a few minutes. When the mass begins to boil, pour the flour roasted to golden color.
To prepare the filling for pies from dried berries, they need to be washed, pour cold water so that it slightly covers them, and put on fire. Cook for about a quarter of an hour, cool, wipe and mix with sugar. To make the filling thicker, add starch.
Now a few recipes for fruit and berry fillers for baking.
Apple pie filling traditionally includes the following ingredients:
- 4 large-sized fresh apples (it is recommended to choose juicy sweet and sour or sour fruits);
- two tablespoons of sugar;
- cinnamon
- 50 g of butter.
Peel the apples, core, cut into thin slices, put in a bowl and put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. Put oil in a pan and put on fire. When it melts, put the apples and lightly fry. Then add sugar, mix and continue to fry until caramelized apples. Add cinnamon to taste in the finished filling. Knead dough and bake open or closed pie.
What can I make a layer cake with? Lemon filling, which will require the following ingredients, is well suited for this type of dough:
- three fresh lemons;
- 300 g of sugar.
Lemons need to be washed in an ode and pour boiling water for five minutes. Then cut into slices together with the peel and remove the seeds. Grind lemons with sugar in a blender or chop in a meat grinder. The filling is ready. You can stuff puffs, roll or open pie.
A cake with berries or fruits like strudel is very popular. This national Austrian dish is prepared from exhaust dough with fillings from apples, plums, cherries, pears and others. To prepare the filler for strudel, the following ingredients will be required:
- 400 g of fresh cherries;
- 100 g shortbread cookies;
- 50 g almonds;
- 70 g of butter;
- four tablespoons of sugar.
First you need to remove the seeds from the cherry and place it in a colander to stack the extra juice. While it is draining, melt the butter over low heat or in the microwave. Fry the almonds in a pan and chop in a blender. Turn shortbread cookies into crumbs. Place the filling on the rolled dough layer in the following order: grease with oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and almonds, lay the cherries and roll the roll.
Jam, jam or jam
How can I make a sweet cake in winter? Fresh fruits in fillings in the cold season are often replaced by jam, jam, jam and other fruit and berry products.
It is advisable that the jam is quite thick. If it is liquid, the syrup needs to be decanted, leaving only a thick part. To prepare the filling you will need:
- 250 g of jam;
- half a tablespoon of starch.
The jam must be combined with starch, mix and let stand for 30 minutes. Then put on fire, bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook for two to three minutes to make it thick. The filling is ready. Similarly, make the filling of jam or jam.
With nuts and raisins
For those who love nutty fillings, enjoy this simple recipe. It will take 400 g of pitted raisins and 200 g of walnuts. Wash, dry, mix raisins with chopped nuts. If desired, a little natural honey can be put in the nuts passed through the meat grinder.
Carrot with almond
This jellied cake is cooked very quickly. The filling is initially mixed with the dough and poured into the mold. To prepare it, you will need ingredients such as:
- two eggs;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- half a teaspoon of grated lemon peel;
- two tablespoons of lemon juice;
- 2/3 cup almonds;
- a teaspoon of baking powder without a slide;
- a quarter cup of flour;
- one and a half medium carrots;
- butter;
- powdered sugar;
- salt.
The oven must be heated to 160 degrees, grease the form and sprinkle with flour. Break the eggs, separating the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolks with a mixer with sugar. Grate carrots and mix with yolks. Add flour, crushed almonds, lemon zest, baking powder. Then pour in lemon juice, toss a pinch of salt and mix. Beat squirrels in thick foam. Add one spoonful of them to the prepared dough and gently place. Transfer the resulting mass to a mold and put in the oven for 45 minutes.
From cottage cheese
What pie fillings can be made from cottage cheese? The filling for cheesecakes is very easy to prepare: mix fat cottage cheese with sugar, and if desired add pre-soaked raisins to it.
For the preparation of savory fillings, the following ingredients will be required:
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- a small bunch of parsley and dill;
- 50 g of cheese;
- one egg;
- salt to taste.
Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, break the egg into it, add the grated cheese, salt, finely chopped greens and mix. Thin fried pies from unleavened dough on fermented baked milk are especially tasty with such a filling.
From feta cheese with greens
This filling is well suited for puff pastry yeast pies. The following ingredients will be required:
- 300 g of feta cheese;
- a bunch of dill;
- two eggs.
Mash feta cheese, break an egg into it, pour out chopped greens and mix. Spread the finished stuffing on the dough and pinch.
With green onion and egg
A wonderful filling for pies from yeast and unleavened dough is prepared from the following products:
- three eggs;
- 150 g of green onions;
- 40 g butter;
- a bunch of greens (dill, parsley);
- salt to taste.
Hard-boiled eggs, cool and cut into small cubes. Finely chop green onions, chop greens. Melt the butter. Combine the eggs, onions, herbs, butter, salt and mix. The filling is ready.
With chicken and mushrooms
This is a very delicious filling for puff pastry or phyllo dough pies fried in vegetable oil in a pan.
For the filling you need to take:
- 250 g chicken fillet;
- one onion;
- 150 g of champignons;
- a tablespoon of vegetable oil;
- 10 g of parsley fresh;
- salt pepper.
Boil the chicken in salted water until tender (cooking time - about 25 minutes) and allow to cool. Cut onions and mushrooms into small cubes. Pour the vegetable oil into the pan, put the mushrooms and onions and fry, stirring, for about 15 minutes. The liquid should completely evaporate. Dismantle the chicken or cut into small pieces. Put the meat in a pan with onions and mushrooms, salt, pepper, mix, add chopped herbs and mix again. The filling can be laid out on the dough and wrapped.
Fresh cabbage
What else can I make a pie with? Of course, with cabbage! For such a filling, you need the following set of products:
- 0.5 kg of fresh white cabbage;
- one onion;
- one carrot;
- pepper, salt;
- 100 ml of water;
- 30 ml of vegetable oil.
Chop the cabbage, then cut the resulting strips no more than 3 cm long (you can chop the cabbage right away). Then it needs to be salted and mashed with hands. Cut onion into small cubes, grate the carrot. Heat the oil in a frying pan, put onion, fry until golden brown, add carrots and continue to fry for another two to three minutes, stirring. Then put the cabbage and cook for another two to three minutes with stirring. After that pour water, cover and simmer for a quarter of an hour. Five minutes before being ready to salt, pepper. Cool the prepared filling and use to fill the pies. You can make one large pie from yeast or unleavened dough.
From mushrooms
This filling with mushrooms is suitable for pies, as well as casseroles and small pies. To prepare it, you will need products:
- a kilogram of fresh mushrooms;
- two onions;
- 100 g butter;
- pepper, salt.
Rinse mushrooms, put in a pan, pour cold water and put on fire. After boiling, cook for 20 minutes. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry in butter until golden brown with stirring (about 7 minutes). Throw the mushrooms in a colander to glass the water, then put them in the onion and simmer for 10 minutes together. Add salt and pepper to taste.
From fish
Fish pie filling is prepared both from fresh raw materials and from canned food.
The first option is from canned saury. In addition to a saury can, 120 g of rice, one onion and salt will be required. Boil rice until cooked in salted water (it should turn out friable). Divide the saury into small pieces, cut the onion into cubes. Yeast dough is being prepared. The cake is baked closed, the size of the entire pan. The filling is laid out on the dough layer in the following order: rice in an even layer, then onion and saury. It is covered with a top layer and plucked.
Another fish pie filling is fresh salmon. To prepare it you need to take:
- 300 g of red fish;
- 30 g of onions;
- lemon;
- 60 g zucchini;
- salt to taste.
Zucchini in the filling makes the fish juicier. It must be cut into thin slices, onions - into thin quarters of rings. Cut the fish in portions, grate with salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice. Cut the dough into rectangles, put a layer of onion, slices of zucchini and a piece of salmon on one half of each. Cover with the second half of the dough and pinch on three sides.
Chopped meat
What can I make a pie with, if not meat? It is hard to deny that this is one of the most delicious toppings. To prepare you need to take:
- 1.5 kg of beef tenderloin;
- two onions;
- 80 g of butter;
- four teaspoons of flour;
- fresh herbs - to taste;
- pepper and salt to taste.
Minced meat can be prepared in two ways: from boiled meat and from fried.
In the first case, you need to put the meat in a pan and fill it with water in a ratio of 1: 1.5. Cook until boiling, then reduce heat to a minimum and cook until cooked without boiling. Then pass the beef and sauteed onions through a meat grinder, pepper, add salt, chopped fresh herbs and mix.
For the second option, you need to cut the meat into cubes of 40 g and fry in a hot pan in oil over high heat until a brown crust appears. Scroll the finished meat in a meat grinder. In the oil remaining from the meat, fry the flour over medium heat until light cream in color. Pour the hot transparent meat broth into the sauté from flour with stirring constantly in one direction. It should be sauce in consistency, like thick sour cream. Pour in more broth and mix thoroughly until smooth. Dice the onion, finely chop the greens. Pass the onion until golden brown for about three minutes. Then add sautéed onion, sauce, herbs, pepper, salt to the minced meat and mix well.
With potato
Potato pies can be fried in a pan or baked in the oven. For such a filling, you can prepare a yeast or unleavened dough. The following products will be required for the filling:
- three potato tubers;
- 100 g of cheese.
Boil and mash potatoes to make mashed potatoes. Grate the cheese without grater and mix with potatoes. Roll out cakes from the dough, put the filling on them and pinch them to make pies.
With sorrel
What can I make a cake in early summer? For example, with sorrel. Well-known and beloved by many, the cake will delight you with freshness and a pleasant sweet and sour taste. For the filling you need the following products:
- 300 g of sorrel;
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 50 g of cream.
Rinse the sorrel, finely chop. Rub the cottage cheese with sugar and cream, but do not beat. First put sorrel on the dough, curd mass on it, then close the filling with another layer of dough and pinch.
The amount of sugar can be changed depending on the taste. You can put only sorrel and granulated sugar in the pie - it will turn out very tasty. To prevent filling, starch is added. So, for 300 g of sorrel, you need 5 tablespoons of sand, two tablespoons of starch, vanilla on the tip of a knife. Rinse the sorrel and cut into thin strips, then fill it with sand, vanilla and starch, mix well, and you can begin to prepare the pie itself.
Curd softens sorrel sourness well, and together they give a harmonious taste.
Now you know what to make pies with. Fillings - a huge amount. Therefore, diversity is ensured, and there is more than enough space for imagination. Cook pies with any fillings and delight loved ones.