Homemade pies are always delicious and satisfying pastries that can be made both sweet and savory. For example, the filling can be varied with canned fish, rice and eggs. Thanks to these ingredients, the pies are very satisfying.
Cakes with canned fish and rice
Required Products:
- Butter - 150 grams.
- Flour - 5 glasses.
- Fresh yeast - 50 grams.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
- Milk - 2 cups.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Canned pollock - 300 grams.
- Rice - 300 grams.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Onion - 2 heads.
How to cook canned fish pies
Such homemade pies are lush, ruddy and very delicious. Their preparation must begin with the test. To do this, measure the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe and let the products stand in a warm room for about an hour. Then you need to take the pan and heat the milk in it. Then pour one glass into two cups, and leave the rest in a saucepan. Dissolve yeast in one of them and salt in the other. It is important not to overheat the milk, it should be slightly warm.
Then, to make pies with canned fish and rice, you need to cut into pieces one hundred grams of butter and dip it in a pan with milk. Pour sugar there too. Place on the smallest fire and stir until dissolved. Then slowly pour half a glass of wheat flour into an almost hot mass and mix. Ready tea leaves turn out similar in density to sour cream. When it becomes warm, add all remaining flour and mix a little. Then pour in two cups of dissolved yeast and dissolved salt. Now you need to rather intensively knead a non-steep dough, which will stick slightly to your hands. But the pies made from it with canned fish and rice will be very lush.
Cooking toppings
The pan with yeast dough must be covered with cling film or bag and sent to the refrigerator for thirty-five minutes. After the specified time, you can see what magnificent mass it will turn into, and see how easy it will be to work with it. Thanks to this method of preparing dough, pastries from it remain fresh and airy for a long time. Once the pan is placed in the refrigerator, you need to start preparing the filling for the canned fish pies.
First you need to boil the rice, which is previously well sorted and thoroughly washed. Boil in slightly salted water until tender. Strain in a colander and let cool. Then peel the onions, rinse it and chop on the cutting board first with very thin half rings, and then cut them again in half. After that, heat the pan on the stove and on two tablespoons of vegetable oil lightly fry it until transparent.
Next, open jars of canned pollock and drain all the oil from them. Place the fish in a bowl and knead it well with a fork. Add a little fried onion to it. Then, after cooking, put the rice in a bowl, salt to taste and mix well. As soon as the dough is suitable, you can start cooking pies with canned fish and rice.
Baking
The table must be sprinkled with flour and put on it from the pan the dough that has come up. Cut it with a knife into pieces, preferably a small size. Then roll out of all the resulting pieces of kolobok. After that, each kolobok must be shaped like an oval cake. In the center, place the fish filling with rice and carefully pinch the edges. Spread all the formed pies on a baking sheet, which must first be covered with parchment and a little greased with vegetable oil.
Baking pies
Place the baking tray with the future pies laid on it in the oven, in which at a temperature of one hundred and seventy degrees they will be baked for about thirty-five minutes. During cooking, they will rise a little and become rosy. By the time you finish cooking, you need to melt the remaining fifty grams of butter. As soon as the pan is removed from the oven, grease all the pies well with oil and allow them to cool slightly. Then shift in a salad bowl or on a large plate and serve still warm.
Puff pastry with pink salmon
However, not only rice can be added to canned fish in pies. The filling is very tasty, if you mix pink salmon, eggs and a little greens.
The list of ingredients for the test:
- Margarine - 300 grams.
- Flour - 700 grams.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Salt - 3 pinches.
- Water - 150 milliliters.
List of ingredients for the filling.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
- Natural pink salmon - 2 jars.
- Dill - 5-6 branches.
- Onion - 2 pieces.
Cooking dough
Puff pastries with canned fish with the addition of eggs and herbs are very popular. Delicious and nutritious filling airy dough is the perfect combination for home baking. First you need to cook puff pastry. This recipe makes it a lot easier. It is necessary to take a deep bowl, with a larger volume, and sift wheat flour into it. Add salt and mix. Then make a hole in the middle and break the chicken eggs into it. Pour in two hundred grams of melted margarine and heated water. Knead the soft dough, cover it and let it rest for about twenty-five minutes.
Stuffing Formation
While the kneaded dough is resting, you need to prepare for him a fish filling with egg and herbs. Why do you need to take a small iron dish and boil hard-boiled chicken eggs in it for eight to nine minutes. Then cool them in cold water, remove the shell and grate. You also need to peel, chop and lightly pass the onion heads. Rinse fresh dill and chop finely. Open canned goods with natural pink salmon and drain all liquid from them. Mash the fish with a fork well. Then combine the eggs, onions, dill and fish and stir. The filling for the pies is ready and now you need to complete the process of preparing the dough.
First melt the remaining margarine, and then cut the dough into four parts. Each of them is subsequently rolled as thin as possible and greased well with margarine. On the first prepared sheet, lay the second on top, and then the third and fourth. Further, all rolled out, greased with melted margarine and stacked in a stack of sheets, neatly and not tightly, roll in the form of a roll. After which it must be cut into ten approximately equal pieces. Then, without much pressure, you need to roll each piece into a cake, the thickness of which should be about two millimeters, and a diameter of 10-12 cm.
Forming and baking pies
Now it remains to form pies with canned fish, eggs and herbs. This is done as follows. Flip the rolled cake and put the prepared filling in the center. Pinch the edges like dumplings, and then put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper with the seam down.
Send canned fish pies to the oven for thirty minutes and cook at two hundred and ten degrees. Then get a baking sheet, grease the baking with egg yolk and return it to the oven for another ten minutes. Serve slightly cooled.
Delicious and hearty homemade pies with canned fish are prepared quite simply. But you can make the cooking process even easier. To do this, it is enough to replace the home-made puff and yeast dough with a ready-made one bought in a store.