Blueberries are one of the most delicious, delicate, sweet and fragrant forest berries. The pies from it are simply amazing! Especially good is a blueberry pie made of puff pastry.
Berries can be used both fresh and frozen. Those who deal with this berry know that it gives a lot of juice. How to prepare a blueberry pie so that it does not drip and turn out to be divinely tasty, we will tell in this article.
The main secrets of puff pastry
We will make the dough with the addition of cottage cheese. This is a classic puff pastry, the layered structure of which is based on the fact that in the test there are a lot of un-melted pieces of butter, which create numerous bubbles from high temperature. Bubbles and give the impression of a multilayer texture. All ingredients must be cold during cooking. Oil - only softened. This is one of the key ingredients to the success of a good puff pastry. The blueberry pie made of puff pastry, prepared independently, and not bought at the store, turns out to be especially tasty. The fact is that we use only 100% natural butter and not a drop of margarine. Curd is better to take the driest and most fresh. Before adding to the dough, it should be wiped through a sieve.
Make the dough
130 grams of flour, butter and cottage cheese should be broken into a homogeneous crumb using a food processor, molded into a bowl, wrapped in polyethylene and put in the refrigerator for two hours. A blueberry pie made of puff pastry is cooked quickly, but it takes a long time to structure and stabilize the components of the dough. After all, it should turn out elastic, and in the finished form - layered, brittle, but well-kept in shape.
After the set time has passed, the dough should be removed from the refrigerator and rolled into a layer about 5-6 mm thick, transferred to a mold using a rolling pin and laid, crushing it with your fingers. The edges protruding beyond the shape of the crop. Trimming put in the refrigerator. At the bottom, so that it does not rise with a hump, put paper and pour beans. Put in a hot oven and oven at maximum temperature for six to seven minutes. Remove and cool.
Fill with the filling
Especially tasty blueberry pie will turn out if you make it with custard. At the bottom of the baked basket, you need to put custard with a layer of one and a half to two centimeters. On it are berries. So that the juice is not too liquid, the berries must be mixed with sugar, to taste, and one or two tablespoons of starch. Berries put on the dough.
Remove the remaining dough from the refrigerator, roll it out in a thin layer and cut into strips. Put these strips in the form of a lattice on blueberries. Now you can put the cake in the oven again for a few minutes. Exactly until the moment when the blueberries start the juice and the starch forms a jelly-like consistency with it, and the lattice from the dough is browned. The temperature in the oven should be average - degrees 180-200. This is how open blueberry pie is made. Instead of a grill, it can be covered with a shtreyzel. This sprinkle will absorb excess juice and add charm to the cake.
Custard
2 eggs need to be ground with half a glass of sugar and a tablespoon of flour. Add vanillin and a glass of warm milk. Stir everything well and put in a water bath. Stir all the time. When it thickens and bubbles begin to rise from the bottom, the cream is ready. It should be cooled. It should be quite thick. Blueberry pie made from puff pastry with custard is not a very simple dish, but deserves to be served.
Streisel
This wonderful sprinkle for open cakes is very simple. Scraps of dough should be mixed with a lot of sugar - half a glass - and rub between palms into small balls of crumbs of different sizes - as it turns out. This is the famous sprinkle for open sweet cakes. It must be poured onto blueberries and sent to the oven. When it turns red, the cake is ready. Sprinkling shtreisel always turns rosy, sweet, crispy on top and saturated with juice from below. Many people think that this is the most delicious piece of cake. Try to cook it, and you will understand everything.
Now you know how to make blueberry pie. We have revealed all the secrets of making a good puff pastry, custard, non-leaky filling and tasty topping, because these are the main questions that arise for chefs who have tried to make berry pies and failed. You can invite guests to a tea party. Success guaranteed!