Pink salmon pies - the dish is very tasty, beautiful and truly Russian. This treat is served in the best restaurants around the world, along with sterlet soup and pancakes with red caviar.
Today, on the shelves of shops there are many varieties of red fish. Pink salmon is perhaps the most affordable option. Therefore, it will not be difficult and will not entail any special expenses at home preparing this treat, which will perfectly complement the most solemn feast, for example, a birthday, New Year's or Easter.
A dish with history
Pies stuffed with noble red fish served to the table of the princes back in the days of Kievan Rus. Ordinary people, of course, feasted on baking simpler during the holidays - with ordinary fish, and not pink salmon or salmon.
If you want to arrange a holiday in a folk style or among your guests there will be foreigners to whom you want to show how wonderful Russian cuisine is, pies with pink salmon filling can be an excellent choice. Believe me, they will not leave anyone indifferent.
Making dough in a bread machine
Pink salmon pies are made from different types of dough, but the most popular is yeast. If you have modern equipment at your disposal, use it to prepare.
Beat a couple of yolks with a fork. Preheat a glass of milk to 25 degrees and pour into a bowl of a bread machine. Add a couple of tablespoons of homemade sunflower oil and whipped yolks. Pour a tablespoon of sugar and a little salt.
Sift flour 2 times, measure 400 g and send to the bowl. Pour 5 g of dry yeast on top. It is important that before the process begins, the yeast does not come into contact with the liquid, they must lie strictly on top of the flour.
Select the “Knead” mode. Preparing the dough will be about an hour and a half. The time depends on the model of your equipment.
Homemade Pie Yeast Dough
If you don’t have a bread machine, you can make the dough in the usual way - in a bowl. You will need the same products. You will get the same lush and rosy pies with pink salmon from yeast dough.
Dissolve yeast and sugar in warmed milk. Pour a handful of flour and leave it in a warm place for 40 minutes. Then add the yolks, butter, the rest of the flour and salt. Give the dough proofing time again. When it increases in size and becomes magnificent, you can begin to sculpt. Try not to add too much flour so that the dough does not lose splendor. Instead of mixing an extra portion, it is better to simply grease your hands, dough and table with refined vegetable oil.
Puff pastry pink salmon pies
Usually this delicacy is prepared on the eve of the holiday. But it happens that time is sorely lacking. In this case, you can use the purchased puff pastry for pies. By the way, such baking will be easier, because its calorie content is lower than that of yeast.
You only need to defrost the dough and form pies from it. Since it is not intended for repeated rolling, it is better to cut it not into circles, but into squares or rhombuses so that there are no scraps.
Laying pies on a baking sheet, leave enough free space between them, because when baking, puff pastry increases in size.
Stuffing for fish pies
Before you make pies, you need to do fish. There are relatively few bones in pink salmon, but still they are. However, getting rid of them is easy, because they are quite large.
Scales can be easily removed with a special fish cleaner, and the skin can not be removed - when cooking it becomes soft.
Pink salmon can be ground into minced meat or cut into cubes. Before the formation of pies, many housewives fry pink salmon in butter. If you use puff pastry, be sure to do it, because it cooks very quickly (this time may not be enough for the fish). And you can put raw pink salmon in yeast pies, it will be completely baked.
The indicated amount of food will need about a pound of fillet.
Tasty supplements
You can add onions to pies. But it is advisable not to cut it into cubes and not to pass through a meat grinder, but rub it on a grater - so it will remain juicy. With pink salmon, you can combine other fish, such as pike. The taste of such a filling will be more expressive and interesting.
Pink salmon is a low-fat, dry fish. You can add a small piece of salmon or pangasius fillet to it. To increase fat content, you can use the usual fat, chopped into small pieces.
In Russia, fried mushrooms were often added to fish pies. They go well with any fish, including pink salmon. A cheese wrapped inside will create a unique texture, melted and mixed with a fish base.
For emphasis, do not forget about spices. A mixture of fragrant herbs or allspice of different varieties is ideal for a delicious expressive pink salmon. You can use the ready-made spice mix “For fish dishes”.
How to make pink salmon pies
Usually this baking is formed in the form of oblong pies with a window on top. It looks like a classic pink salmon pie. Triangle is another popular shape. In fact, this is the same pie, but not with two tips, but with three.
To form, cut round dough pieces of the same size from the dough. Lay on each tablespoon of the filling. Pinch the edges, leaving a hole in the middle.
Decor
If you are using yeast dough for pies, grease it with yolk. But it is better to process puff with strong tea leaves - it will give color, but will not be too heavy for delicate layers.
A sprinkling of sesame seeds or flaxseeds looks very nice on the ruddy surface.
You can form curly seams with a pigtail, this will greatly decorate your pies. The curly edge looks especially impressive on festive pastries.
Baking
How to cook pies in the oven? First warm it up to almost 200 ° C. Let the formed products stand near a warm oven for about 20 minutes and only then send them to bake. On average, it will take about half an hour for yeast pies to bake completely. Puff pastries bake much faster - in about 15 minutes. The time also depends on the size of the pan, as well as on the features of the oven.
Serving to the table
Pink salmon pies are laid out in a row or slide on large flat plates. They look especially impressive in dishes similar to old: clay, wooden with painting, and porcelain.
This baking is served as an independent snack, and as a complement to the ear or yushka. Pies are delicious both hot and cold. Devices for pies are not required, they are eaten, simply taking in hand.