Every national cuisine has its own recipes for pies. They are prepared from yeast, fresh, puff, chopped dough, are closed and open, with a variety of fillings, ranging from meat and ending with fruits and berries.
Pie with herbs and cheese is present in the cuisine of each country. But everywhere he has his own cooking features.
Ossetian pies with cheese and herbs: a recipe for cooking at home
Ossetian pie looks like a round cake with a lot of juicy filling inside. It can be prepared from a variety of ingredients, the only component required is Ossetian cheese (you can replace young cheese or Adyghe cheese).
Ossetian pie with cheese and herbs is made from yeast dough, without preliminary preparation of dough. To do this, a little less than a kilogram of flour is sifted immediately into a deep bowl, then an egg is driven in, 500 ml of milk is poured, ½ teaspoon of salt, a large spoon of dried yeast, melted margarine (100 g), sugar (2 tbsp.) Are added. While the dough for three pies is suitable in a warm place, you need to prepare the filling.
Grind Ossetian or Adyghe cheese, brynza or suluguni on a grater or with a knife, add a large bunch of any greens, add salt if necessary. Form three flat cakes from the dough, put the filling on top to form a flat cake. Bake at 220-230 degrees for 20 minutes until golden brown. Grease the finished pie with herbs and cheese with butter. Leave for 10 minutes to absorb the oil, and you can try.
Ossetian beetroot cheese and greens pie
A delicious and healthy Ossetian pie with cheese, herbs and beetroot leaves is called "Saharajin". To prepare it, you will need a minimum of ingredients, and the taste can conquer even the most demanding gourmets.
Pie with cheese and herbs with beetroot leaves is made from yeast dough, as in the previous recipe. But the filling is prepared from finely chopped young tops (a tamped glass), green onions and dill (in a small bunch), Ossetian cheese and spices to taste. All the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, after which the cheese-green mass is laid out in the center of the dough cake. The baking time of the cake is 20 minutes at 210 degrees.
Achma with cheese, sour cream and herbs
Achma is a multi-layer cheese-filled pie. It is a national dish of Georgian cuisine, therefore, traditionally used for its preparation is suluguni - salted pickled cheese.
Achma in the modern interpretation is made from different types of cheese. The main requirement is that it be brine and have a salty taste. For example, a pie filling made of suluguni with feta cheese or Imereti cheese is equally tasty.
At home, Achma is a pie with cheese and herbs. It makes the taste of baking more saturated, and the cake itself is very fragrant and healthy. Achma filling is prepared from the following ingredients: Suluguni cheese (Suluguni and Brynza, Suluguni and Imereti cheese) - 0.5 kg; 200 ml of sour cream; a bunch of greens (parsley, dill, cilantro). The dough in consistency and composition resembles the one used for dumplings and dumplings. To prepare it you will need: 125 ml of water; 350-400 g flour; 3 eggs, ½ teaspoon of salt.
Knead a thick dough. Wrap it in cling film and leave it on the table to “rest” for 40 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the filling: grind the cheese, melt the butter in a water bath. Combine cheese, butter, sour cream and herbs, mix well.
Cook two pots with water: boiling water and cold. Form nine balls from the dough. The first should be slightly larger than the rest, it must be rolled out to the size of the baking sheet and laid so that the sides protrude beyond the edges of the form. Spread a portion of the filling on top. The remaining balls are also rolled out thinly, but before they are laid out in the form, they need to be boiled alternately for a minute. After that, each layer of dough is quickly lowered into ice water and only then goes to the baking sheet. The upper layer of dough does not need to be boiled. The greens and cheese pie is greased with butter and put into the oven at 200 degrees for 40 minutes.
Grease the hot achma with butter and leave it under a towel for 15 minutes. After that, the dish can be served at the table.
Tiropita - Greek layer cake with feta cheese and herbs
To make a pie you will need puff pastry (2 layers of 250 g each). It needs to be rolled out according to the size of the form and sent to the oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. While the dough is baking, you need to prepare the filling for the pie.
Fry the onion and two cloves of garlic in a pan. Remove from heat and combine vegetables with herbs (over a bunch of parsley, cilantro and dill). Add the feta cheese, finely chopped with a knife, two raw eggs and a little cream of any fat content. Mix the mass thoroughly.
Remove the cakes from the puff pastry from the oven, divide them lengthwise into two parts and form a pie with greens and cheese: the 1st layer is the dough, the 2nd is the filling, etc. In total there will be 4 cakes and between them 3 layers of filling . Grease the last cake with yolk and put in the oven for 20 minutes. Cool ready-made puff pie with cheese and greens and serve. It is equally good both as an appetizer and as an independent dish.
Spinach and Cheese Pie
This cake can be prepared from any dough, but most delicious it is obtained from puff or filo. When choosing any of the options, the principle of pie formation is the same: on top and bottom - dough, in the middle - juicy filling. The cooking time is 35 minutes (15 minutes at 220 degrees and 20 minutes at 180).
For the filling, a bunch of green onions is first fried in vegetable oil. Then 2 bunches of spinach are added to it. Cool the resulting mass, add dill and parsley, 500 g of brine cheese and 3 beaten raw eggs.
Now you can form a pie with cheese and herbs. This recipe is simple, and the taste of baking is amazing. A healthy cake can be a great breakfast or snack.
Quiche with green onions, cheese and eggs
Quiche is an open pie with a chopped pastry base and juicy filling. It is a dish of French cuisine. The filling for quiche has a liquid consistency and looks like an egg fill for an omelet. It can be very diverse.
At home, you can prepare a delicious French pie with cheese and herbs. The recipe provides the following ingredients for the filling: a lot of green onions (300 g), 100 g of salted pickled cheese, 50 g of butter and four raw eggs. Quiche dough is kneaded from cold products: 220 g flour, 110 g butter, 1 egg. All the ingredients right on the table need to chop into crumbs, and then combine into a ball and knead. If necessary (if the dough is very steep) add a couple of spoons of cold water.
First, cake is baked in the oven at 200 degrees 15 minutes. At this time, you need to slightly let the green onions in butter. Cool, add cheese, beaten eggs and salt. Pour the filling onto the cake and send the mold to the oven for 20 minutes (220 degrees).
Kutaby with herbs
Kutaby is a dish of Azerbaijani cuisine that looks like chebureks or crescent-shaped pies. In Azerbaijan, they are prepared as often as Ossetian cheese and greens pies (the recipe of which is presented above) in Ossetia.
Kutaby are made from unleavened dough from water, flour, salt and a spoonful of sunflower oil. For the filling, a large amount of various greens (400 g) and a little salty cheese (feta cheese, suluguni - 150 g) are used. Pies from thinly rolled dough with filling inside are fried in a dry frying pan until golden brown and smeared with butter while still hot.
Sorrel and cheese pie
To bake this pie, you will need a traditional yeast dough in milk, cooked in a steamed way. The filling is made on the basis of sorrel (500 g) with the addition of 2 teaspoons of sugar and 100 g of goat cheese. All ingredients must be crushed and mixed thoroughly.
Divide the dough into two halves. Distribute the first part in shape, lay out the filling and cover the second. Pinch the edges, and make a small hole on top for steam to escape. Bake at 190 degrees 45 minutes or until golden brown.