Home baking is not only with fruits and jam, but also with a delicate and aromatic meat filling. As an additive to the main ingredient, you can use stewed cabbage, mushrooms, potatoes, chicken eggs, garlic and fresh herbs. Each woman in stock has her own unique and signature way of preparing this dish.
Today we’ll talk about simple and quick recipes for an open mince pie. In addition, we will tell you about the nuances of making dough, how to properly prepare the filling and how to decorate the finished dish. In most cases, for unsweetened pies, either yeast or puff pastry is used.
Recipe for open mince pie
Required Products:
- finished yeast dough - 450 grams;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- minced chicken - 350 grams;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- vegetable oil - 20 grams;
- ketchup or tomato paste - 100 grams;
- sour cream 20% - 125 grams;
- hard cheese - 200 grams;
- milk - 50 grams;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
This open mince pie is quite easy to prepare and does not require additional efforts from you.
Step cooking
Our steps are as follows:
- Peel the onion and finely chop it.
- We heat the vegetable oil in a pan and fry the minced meat until tender.
- Add onion, salt and spices to it.
- Simmer for about 5 minutes and remove the pan from the heat.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and mix with sour cream in a separate bowl.
- Break the egg into a glass, pour a little milk and beat the resulting mixture with a whisk.
- Combine grated cheese, sour cream and a beaten egg with milk.
- Defrost the packaging of the finished dough. We roll it on the work surface and sprinkle it with flour a little.
- We put parchment baking paper on a baking sheet and transfer our dough to it.
- Gently bend the edges, giving the rolled dough the necessary shape.
- Grease the sides thoroughly with the remaining mixture of milk and egg.
- In the middle we add ketchup or tomato paste, evenly distribute it over the entire surface of the future open meat pie with minced meat.
- Then pour the minced meat with onions, add the cheese mass and leave the cake to come for 15-20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven and send the baking to it for half an hour until cooked.
Before serving, open mince pie should be decorated with finely chopped herbs and chopped garlic. If desired, add spicy sauce and a bunch of green onions. Such pastries are suitable for use both in hot and in cold form.
Open mince pie in the oven
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 250 grams;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
- butter - 100 grams;
- water - 50 grams;
- white cabbage - 200-250 grams;
- pork or ground beef - 250 grams;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- cream 20% - 125 grams;
- processed cheese - 50 grams;
- salt;
- pepper;
- dried greens.
If desired, cream can be replaced with sour cream or mayonnaise.
Cooking method
To prepare an open mince pie, you need to do the following:
- Melt the butter in the microwave.
- Sift the flour and mix it with oil in a separate bowl.
- Add salt and one egg.
- Knead a tough and elastic dough, wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Finely chop the cabbage.
- We heat the vegetable oil in a pan and fry the minced meat.
- Pour the cabbage and simmer under a closed lid for about 15-20 minutes until tender.
- In a deep bowl, beat the remaining eggs and cream.
- Grate the cheese on a medium grater, pour into the egg mixture and beat all the ingredients with a blender.
- Add spices, salt and dried herbs.
- Dip the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin and cut into small cubes about 1 cm thick.
- We take a baking dish and carefully lubricate it with sunflower oil.
- We roll out our dough, shift it into a mold and make small sides.
- Pour stuffing with minced meat and cabbage.
- Pour over the egg-cheese mass, first leave a little for decoration.
- On top of the future pie, spread the tomatoes and distribute the remaining cheese mixture.
- We send the pastries to the oven for 40-45 minutes.
To decorate such a tasty and juicy meat pie, you can use a thinly cut bunch of green onions, a couple of sprigs of parsley or basil. You can play with the toppings and add some mushrooms, bell peppers or boiled eggs. Due to the variety of products, this dish is always relevant and popular.