Baking has long been considered the most delicious dish in the Russian feast. Especially everyone likes pies with eggs and green onions. To prepare this dish, there are many recipes: in the oven, in a pan, in a slow cooker. Knowing its basis, you can cook them with different tastes and in different ways.
Onion and Egg Patty Recipe
Among all the recipes for pies, the main cooking methods are distinguished: frying in a pan and baking in the oven. The quality of finished products will depend on the following components:
- the dough should be kneaded according to the rules and to the desired consistency;
- Products for filling and dough must be fresh.
Typically, onion filling with an egg for pies is prepared from green onions mixed with dill or other herbs. In order to make the dough products very tasty, you need to choose young and fresh onions in the store. Many housewives prefer eggs for filling from domestic chickens, as their yolk is brighter, which makes the incision of pies very beautiful, and the taste more saturated.
Pies in the pan
Fried pies with onions and eggs, according to many, are deservedly considered the most delicious, but high-calorie dish. Their caloric value is increased due to the use of vegetable or butter for frying. But the great fat content of the product is compensated by satiety, a divine taste, appetizing and ruddy golden pies.
The best dough for cooking is kefir, as it is very lush, tender, and also universal, suitable for any baking with savory filling.
Ingredients for cooking
To prepare pies with onions and eggs in a pan, you will need the following ingredients:
To knead the dough, you must:
- 400 ml of milk;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 40 g butter;
- 10 g dry yeast;
- 20 ml of olive oil;
- 1 chicken egg;
- a pound of wheat flour;
- 1 teaspoon of salt with a slide or 2 without a slide.
To prepare the filling, you will need:
- boiled chicken eggs 6 pcs.;
- packaging of young green onions 1 pc.;
- salt to taste;
- other spices are also to taste.
When all the necessary products are bought and ready, you can proceed to cooking.
Making pastry dough
To prepare tasty and mouth-watering pies with onions and eggs, it is recommended to follow the following instructions:
- The first step is to put the milk on the fire, but do not bring it to a boil. Then you need to cool it to about 40 degrees (slightly warmer than room temperature).
- In sugar, add sugar, salt and yeast. Mix well and leave for about 25-30 minutes until a large number of bubbles appear on the surface.
- Beat the chicken egg with a little sugar, gradually adding soft butter.
- Combine the resulting egg-butter and yeast mixture. Stir until smooth.
- Sift flour through a sieve in a container with a deep bottom (leave a little for mixing). In the middle of the mountain of flour, make a hole and pour the mixture obtained earlier.
- Start kneading. This process must be carried out carefully so that the dough ultimately has a smooth structure without lumps. Add olive oil at the end of the batch.
- After kneading the container with dough, cover it with a cotton cloth or a film with small openings so that it can rise and not wind off.
Stuffing for pies with onions and eggs
While the dough is infused, you can prepare the filling for the pies.
- Boil the eggs until cooked (so that the yolk is dry).
- Cut cooled eggs into small cubes. Cut green onions into small rings and combine with eggs, salt and spices.
- For taste, you can add melted butter.
After the filling is cooked, you can begin to form pies with onions and eggs and fry them.
- The dough is divided into small pieces, which are rolled out in a thin layer.
- On the rolled "cakes" the prepared filling is laid out in the middle.
- The edges of the pie are plucked and laid out on a hot frying pan.
- It is better to take a thick-walled pan, and use sunflower and butter for frying.
- Products will be ready when covered with a delicious golden crust.
Oven baked pies
Baking in the oven is considered the classic method of making pies. It is more effective and less high-calorie. A large number of onion-egg delicacies are prepared immediately, which do not require individual frying on each side.
To prepare the test you will need:
- 200-300 ml of fresh milk;
- 20-30 g of yeast in powder form;
- 3-4 eggs;
- 60-80 gr of butter;
- 3-4 teaspoons of granulated sugar;
- salt to taste;
- 500-600 grams of flour.
The filling for pies with onions and eggs will be prepared from:
- 4-5 large stalks of green onions;
- 5-6 pieces of chicken eggs;
- salt and other spices.
The process of cooking pies in the oven
- Pour the entire amount of dry yeast into the milk warmed up and cooled to room temperature. It cools to ensure that the yeast comfortably reproduces and releases a lot of gas for the splendor of the dough. In too hot or cold milk, yeast will not produce the desired effect.
- Add sugar and half the whole flour to the yeast mixture.
- After thoroughly mixing the resulting liquid, cover the dishes with a towel or napkin and wait until the sponge has risen.
- While the dough is being prepared and the yeast is waking up, beat eggs in a separate container (whites and yolks should be beaten separately) with butter and salt.
- Mix the egg and yeast mixture. Add the second part of flour and knead the dough. It should turn out smooth in texture and plastic in feel.
- Divide the resulting dough into small pieces (approximately 50 g). Each of them must be rolled out to a size of 0.3-0.5 cm.
- The filling should be prepared by this moment: the boiled eggs, cut into small cubes, are combined with salt and finely chopped greens.
- In the middle of each rolled piece of dough, a tablespoon of the filling is laid out. The edges of the onion and egg pie are plucked.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil so that the products do not stick or burn during baking. Put prepared semi-finished products with the seam down on the baking sheet. Grease on top with yolk, thoroughly whipped to a liquid consistency, so that the crust of pies acquires a golden hue.
- Cover future baking with a towel made of cotton material and let it brew and rise. Approximate waiting time is 30 minutes.
- While the pies are infused, the oven warms up to 180 degrees. Place a baking sheet with dough products in a preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes. In order for the baking to turn rosy, not to burn out and not to burn in the baking process, you must constantly inspect it. To do this, it is better to have an oven with a glass door.
Put the prepared pies on a dish and leave them to cool slightly.