It is hard enough to imagine Russian cuisine without pies, they are small but very active ambassadors of our cuisine in foreign countries. Tiny, small and large, with eggs, mushrooms, cherries, meat and cabbage - they are so diverse that there are thousands of recipes. However, as they say, all the pies are good, but the most delicious are those that the grandmother baked.
Cakes are not only tasty, but also very convenient dish. When I cook borscht, soup or just broth for my family, I’m sure to bake pies for them. And we can already say with a clear conscience that a delicious and satisfying dinner is ready.
You always want to please loved ones with delicious pastries. I propose to try my pies with mushrooms, the recipe for which I will gladly tell you. I prepare the dough for pies as follows: I add yeast, a little flour and a teaspoon of sugar to warm milk. Leave the dough under the lid for an hour. And I’m preparing the filling myself at this time. My family loves pies with mushrooms, so every summer we harvest enough mushrooms for the winter so that we can enjoy delicious pastries. The filling for pies with mushrooms is easy to prepare: fry the onions in butter, add mushrooms, salt and a little sour cream. That's all - the filling is ready.
So the dough came up. Now we add one hundred grams of butter, one egg, two tablespoons of sugar and three glasses of flour to it. Knead all the ingredients well. The pastry for pies should not stick to your hands. We shift it into a basin and cover it with a towel. If the filling has cooled, then you can start sculpting pies with mushrooms.
I usually fry pies with mushrooms in vegetable oil, but many people like to bake them in the oven. So choose for yourself how you will cook. Both options are good. For frying, you need to take a sufficient amount of vegetable oil so that the pies are fried quickly and do not have time to soak in oil. Another secret: the oil must be very hot - it needs to be heated very much and only then start to fry.
For my baked pies, there is my grandmother's recipe, according to which she made potato pies with mushrooms. I will share it with pleasure.
For the test you need one kilogram of potatoes, three eggs, four tablespoons of sour cream, four tablespoons of flour and 50 grams of vegetable oil. The potatoes are boiled, then cooled and passed through a meat grinder. Sour cream, eggs, salt, vegetable oil and flour are added to it. Potato dough is ready.
For the filling, of course, you need mushrooms, onions, a little white bread, herbs, vegetable oil. Soak the bread in milk in advance, fry the onion in vegetable oil, turn all the ingredients through a meat grinder and add to the onion, salt and pepper.
The dough needs to be divided into two parts, roll each of them into a strip. On the first strip, lay out the filling in the form of balls with a step of three centimeters. Cover the first with the second strip, cut them with a knife and fix the resulting patties on the edges. Then you need to put the pies with mushrooms on a metal sheet, grease them with an egg and bake.
Of course, any home-made cakes are an indispensable dish for both everyday and festive tables. And there is hardly anyone who says that he does not like homemade pies with various fillings. Although, unfortunately, many housewives consider the cooking process a long and troublesome affair, especially if they work on other days. In this case, I suggest you buy ready-made dough, puff or yeast in the store, and for the filling you can use everything that is at hand - meat, chicken, mushrooms, cabbage, apples and even olives. The main thing is that the pies for your family were made with love. After all, nothing is more important for the hostess than to see a satisfied smile on the faces of their household.