Russian hospitality is famous all over the world. For a long time, the housewives were famous for their ability to bake pies. It is not for nothing that a popular proverb says: "Not a hut is red in corners, but red in cakes."
There are many recipes for making pies: large and small, one bite, fried in a pan and baked in the oven, open and closed, various shapes (classic, triangular, round).
The main thing that distinguishes different recipes is the composition, the method of preparation of the dough and the filling. Today we consider how to cook your favorite cakes in the oven yeast.
Types of Yeast Dough for Pies
Yeast dough, depending on the composition and method of preparation, is rich, ordinary and puff. Butter dough is characterized by a high content of eggs, butter, sugar and sour cream. It is mainly used for making pies with fruit or sweet curd filling.
There are lovers who cook pastry pies with cabbage or potatoes. The combination of sweet dough and salt filling is unusual.
Each housewife has a recipe for yeast pies in the oven . Consider the most common.
Preparation of Stew Yeast Dough
To get a rich yeast dough, you must first cook the dough. To do this, 40 g of fresh yeast or 14 g of dry yeast are dissolved in a glass of warm milk with a tablespoon of sugar. Then add 3 tablespoons of flour with a slide.
After mixing, the dough must be left in a warm place, where there are no drafts, for 20-30 minutes. When you see that the dough “approached”, which is noticeable by the way the “hat” grew and the bubbles appeared, you can start making the dough.
To do this, take:
• 100 g of sugar (for sweet cakes, you can add a little vanilla);
• several eggs (the more rich the dough, the more), for a simple test three are enough;
• half a pack of butter;
• a pinch of salt;
• 3 cups flour;
• a tablespoon of any vegetable oil.
If desired, a little turmeric is added to the dough to give a more beautiful color. Milk can be replaced with kefir or sour cream. In this case, yeast for dough is diluted with warm water. Butter is optionally replaced with margarine or a vegetable-creamy mixture.
All components are mixed in a separate bowl, the oil is pre-softened, the flour is sifted to enrich the air and eliminate lumps. It must be added gradually and stirred in one direction.
The dough is laid out for kneading on a dry board or table, lightly sprinkled with flour. After greasing your hands with vegetable oil, to avoid sticking, you need to carefully knead a piece of dough until it becomes plastic and homogeneous.
So that the dough does not run away when it begins to grow, it is placed in a large pan, lightly sprinkled with flour and, covered with a clean, dry towel, placed in a warm place for 1-2 hours.
When you see that the dough has risen and is almost coming out of the dishes, it is necessary to knead it and leave to go again. This can be done a couple of times, after which the dough is laid out on a cutting table for making delicious pastries.
Varieties of Yeast Dough Pies
A variety of products can be made from dough prepared using yeast dough. It can be buns, coulibia, cheesecakes, cakes and, of course, pies. Baking varies in shape, size and filling.
Large pies are prepared according to the size of the sheet or the form for the oven, the filling is located between the lower and upper layers. Sometimes open cakes are found. Usually they are cooked with fruit and covered with a decorative lattice of dough. When serving, they are cut into portioned pieces.
Small pies differ in size and shape and are molded in the form of boats, koloboks and triangles. When the hostess prepares pies with different types of toppings at the same time, often a different form is used for each of them.
Pies with apples
Many children and adults love sweet cakes. In order not to be tormented by the question of how to cook yeast pies with apples in the oven, a recipe with a photo is offered below.
The dough for pies is prepared according to the classic recipe or with an increased amount of baking. Many love a softer and sweeter foundation.
To prepare the filling, it is best to take sweet and sour apples. They are peeled and sunflower seeds, cut into small pieces or tinder on a coarse grater. So that the filling does not darken, it must be sprinkled with lemon juice. Cinnamon is good for apples. Some housewives like to add lemon zest, cloves, cardamom.
The process of making pies with apples
The finished dough is cut on a table or board into small identical balls the size of a chicken egg. Then, with a rolling pin or hands, the lumps are kneaded into cakes, the thickness of which depends on your preference. Some people like more dough, others like toppings.
Do not make the cakes too thin so that the filling does not leak and the cakes keep their shape. So that the pies do not soak, you can lightly sprinkle the cake before applying apples with wheat crackers or semolina. The filling is placed in the middle of the circle so that the edges are dry.
The ends of the workpiece are joined by hands, sprinkled with flour or greased with vegetable oil, an oval pie is formed and laid on a prepared baking sheet for baking with the seam down. The sheet for the oven can be pre-greased with vegetable oil or lined with parchment for baking.
The pies are located at a distance from each other, so as not to stick together when growing up. The sheet with the products is put in a warm place for 10-15 minutes. Then, when the pies rise a little, they should be greased on top and on the sides with whipped yolk to give a golden crust.
Features of baking in the oven
To get delicious yeast pies in the oven, you must follow several requirements. The baking sheet is set in a preheated oven, the products are baked at a temperature of 180 degrees at an average level for 30-40 minutes, depending on the size of the pies.
It is advisable not to open the door at the beginning of cooking, so that our boats do not sink.
The baking process is best seen in the window of the oven. With uneven cooking along the edges, when the pies are already crusted, you can swap them. After some time, the fragrant smell of apples with cinnamon will show that the pies in the yeast oven were a success!
The sheet with the finished products must be covered with a clean, dry cloth and let stand a little. Pies with apples are delicious and immediately after baking, and when cold.
Traditional yeast pastry stuffed pies
Yeast pies with cabbage in the oven are baked from traditional yeast dough in the same way as in the previous section.
The filling can be prepared from fresh or from kale. Finely chopped fresh and stew until half-prepared with a small amount of sunflower or olive oil. Salt and black pepper, sometimes dill, are added to taste.
When the filling has cooled, boiled chopped eggs are mixed into it. 3 eggs are usually placed on one small head of cabbage.
Such pastries are tasty both hot and cold. You can heat yeast pies with cabbage in the oven or in a pan with a little oil.
Pies with potato filling
The easiest and cheapest to prepare are yeast pies with potatoes in the oven. In this case, a little less sugar can be added to the traditional dough.
For the filling, peeled potatoes must be cut into pieces and boiled as for mashed potatoes. Milk should not be added so that the filling does not leak. Butter, dill, salt and pepper are added to the crushed potatoes.
Separately, onions are golden on a small amount of sunflower oil and added to our filling. If someone, for example, a child, cannot eat onions, it will be tasty without him.
For 1 kg of potatoes, 100 g of butter, a small onion, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt and pepper, as well as herbs to taste, are needed. You can also add the yolk of one egg to the minced meat. Lubricate the pies before baking with whipped yolk or butter, which will give them a flavor and gloss.
Yeast pies with potato filling are baked at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. This type of pies is the tastiest when it’s hot.
Yeast pies with meat filling
When you want to fill your men to the fullest and give them something tasty from home-made food to work, the best choice is yeast pies with meat baked in the oven . The choice of meat fillings depends on your preferences. They can be prepared from any kind of meat or poultry, previously boiled and rolled through a meat grinder. You can use ready-made meat or pate.
A classic recipe for yeast pies in a meat-filled oven includes meat with onions. For a pound of boiled meat, several onions are taken, which are cut into small pieces and passerized to a golden color. Salt and spices are added to the filling to taste.
Superimposed cold in the middle of the dough cake, the edges are plucked to create the desired shape, which can be classic, triangular or round.
Pies are baked in the oven in the usual way - at a temperature of 150-180 degrees, about half an hour.
Yogurt pies on kefir
If you do not want to bother with dough and bake yeast pies, on kefir in the oven they will turn out gentle and airy!
To prepare the test you will need:
• 0.5 kg of flour;
• egg;
• teaspoon of salt;
• a glass of kefir;
• Art. a spoonful of sugar;
• a pinch of soda;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons margarine, butter or vegetable oil.
The eggs are ground with salt and sugar, oil is added. The mixture is stirred until a homogeneous composition is obtained. Sifted flour is poured gradually, in small portions. Then added soda, extinguished with vinegar.
When the dough stops sticking to your hands and becomes elastic, you need to cover it with something and set it aside to fit. After half an hour, you can start sculpting pies that will be delicious with any filling. The resulting products will be soft, airy and, importantly, less high-calorie.
All recipes reviewed are recommendatory in nature. Each housewife chooses what is best suited to her and her family members. In addition, in the kitchen, as in everything, there is a place for creativity. Changing the composition of the test, inventing your fillings, you can endlessly surprise your household and friends.