Ossetian pies: recipes with photos

Ossetian pies are a traditional dish of the inhabitants of North Ossetia. The recipe and cooking secrets are strictly guarded within the family and transmitted from mother to daughter (among the indigenous population). Products for the dish are exclusively local and the best.

And there are innumerable varieties of recipes for Ossetian pies. Basically, this applies to fillings.

Currently, this dish is quite popular in the Russian Federation. Ossetian pies can be ordered ready-made (in special bakeries in the country) or made at home. Although a real dish can only be tasted in the Caucasus.

Description

The Ossetian pie is a flat cake made of thin dough (displays the degree of mastery of the hostess!) - round or triangular in shape, the total thickness of which is up to 20 millimeters (diameter - up to 40 centimeters).

The filling of this dish can be absolutely anything: meat, cheese, mushroom, potato, onion, bean, also berry, pumpkin and so on.

Such pies are prepared both salty and sweet, both meat and vegetarian.

History

Ossetian pies - as a national dish of Ossetian national cuisine - have been for centuries.

The traditional culinary culture of the peoples of Ossetia was formed thanks to the nomadic way of life of their ancestors (Sarmatians, Scythians, Alans), who initially preferred simple dishes - from meat, cheese and milk. And for the first pies, the dough was made fresh.

Currently, Ossetian pies are baked by women in all corners of Ossetia. And, although the recipes are almost identical, each has its own secrets that are transmitted in the family - from generation to generation. This is part of the culture of the Caucasian people.

Lean pie

Usually a traditional dish consists of at least 3 pies. And this recipe for the Ossetian pie suggests just such an amount. Therefore, if you want to bake a larger amount of finished flour products with filling, you just need to proportionally add the amount of ingredients.

Tasty, delicate and juicy Ossetian pie is prepared as follows:

1. Grind fresh yeast (15 grams) into crumbs, add 180 milliliters of warm water and 40 grams of flour.
2. Mix the mixture and set aside for 30 minutes in a warm place - until the yeast is completely dissolved and the volume is increased.
   
3. Then pour 400 grams of flour and 6 grams of salt, knead soft and sticky dough.
4. To make the kneading process easier, it is recommended to add 30 milliliters of vegetable oil.
5. After 20 minutes, close the bun in the container with polyethylene and remove for 1.5-3 hours in the heat - for the approach (you can knead several times).
6. Prepare the filling of carrots (100 g), cabbage (400 g), onions (100 g), walnuts (100 g) - chop finely.
7. Stir the vegetables and then stew in vegetable oil (30 milliliters), add nuts and salt (20 grams) at the end of the process, mix the mixture.
8. When the dough comes up, divide it into 3 buns.
9. Sprinkle the work surface with flour and knead the round billets with your hands. In the center of each, add the filling and connect all the edges into a knot, which, with the help of flour, is crushed into a flat cake.
10. Gently knead each workpiece with the filling into the pie with your hands, make holes in the center and put into a mold or on a baking sheet, previously sprinkled with flour.
11. Cook Ossetian pies (according to the recipe) at home for 15-20 minutes - at 240 degrees, then grease the surface with vegetable oil.

Chicken and Cheese Pie

A very tasty and satisfying dish, the filling of which is prepared from boiled chicken meat, fresh herbs, spices and brine cheese.

Making Ossetian pies (step by step recipe with photos) and ingredients:

1. Combine dry yeast (10 grams), flour (500 grams), milk (180 milliliters), water (180 milliliters), vegetable oil (50 milliliters).
2. Add salt and knead yeast dough (soft, slightly sticky consistency). Cover the container with the bun with plastic wrap and set aside for 1.5-2 hours.
3. Prepare the filling: cook 400 grams of chicken (fillet or chicken legs), add finely chopped onions (80 grams) and carrots (80 grams) to the broth
4. Grate the brine cheese (Adyghe, Brynza or Ossetian), add chopped meat and fresh herbs (parsley, dill).
5. Pour salt (15 grams) into the filling, spices (5 grams), paprika (3 grams) - mix by hand.
6. Prepare the work surface - sprinkle with flour, lay out the dough - divide into 3 blanks.
7. Knead the cones by turns, put 1/3 of the filling in the middle of each and connect the dough along the edge into a knot.
8. Manually roll out a round cake and put on a baking sheet with flour, make holes on top (so that the air comes out).
   
9. Bake the dish at 240 degrees - 20 minutes, grease the surface with butter.

If the filling is rather dry, it is recommended to add a few tablespoons of the broth.

Pie with cottage cheese and herbs

The most delicate dish that you can feed the whole family, as well as treat family and friends. Soft and juicy dough, delicious filling of cottage cheese and fresh herbs, as well as grated pickled cheese - what could be better!

By the way, in Ossetia, the housewives bake this dish on weekdays (instead of bread) and on holidays.

To cook an Ossetian cheese pie with a recipe at home, you must:

1. Knead 700 grams of yeast dough (400 grams of flour, 200 milliliters of milk, 20 grams of fresh yeast, 6 grams of salt and 50 milliliters of melted butter).
2. Leave to approach 2 hours.
3. To prepare the filling: put 0.5 kg of fat cottage cheese in a deep container, add grated hard cheese (100 g) and chopped dill (100 grams) - grind.
4. Drive 1 chicken egg into the filling and pour salt (20 grams), mix everything.
   
5. When the dough is ready, divide the entire volume into 3 or more parts, roll a thick pancake with your hands and lay out the filling.
6. Gather the edges and “knead” the top of the nodule into the workpiece, sprinkled with flour.
7. On a work surface with a small amount of flour, put the bag and roll the pie with your hands.
8. Put in a baking dish and make a small hole, cook for 20 minutes - at 200 degrees.

When the pies are ready, grease the surface of each with butter (it is recommended to do this immediately after the oven).

Ossetian cheese pies (a recipe with a photo is in the article) are ready to be served.

Pie with potatoes and cheese

An original recipe for a flour dish, the filling of which consists of mashed potatoes and cheeses (suluguni and feta).

Ingredients and Preparation:

1. Boil peeled potatoes (1 kilogram), grind in mashed potatoes (add 80 milliliters of milk and 50 grams of butter).
2. Grind Suluguni cheese (200 grams) with a grater.
3. Soften manually feta cheese (200 grams), add to suluguni.
4. Combine potatoes and cheeses, add salt (20 grams).
5. Divide the prepared yeast dough (1 kilogram) into balls, and divide the filling into the corresponding number of koloboks.
6. Sprinkle the desk with flour.
7. Take a ball in the center, lay out the filling and, collecting the edges, make a “bag”, which you press and smooth into a flat round cake with filling.
8. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown, then grease with melted butter (60 grams).

Serve a dish for tea or for lunch - instead of bread (sandwich).

Multicooked Cheese Pie

Ossetian pies are baked according to recipes with photos in the oven, oven, pan, and also in the slow cooker.

How to manage a modern housewife without this assistant in the kitchen? It can also bake a delicious national dish of Ossetia.

Ingredients and cooking steps:

1. For the test, take 100 milliliters of milk and pour into a bowl, add salt (10 grams) and sugar (5 grams).
2. Put fresh yeast (15 grams) into the mixture, grind.
3. Add flour (40 grams) and knead the dough, set aside.
4. Melt the butter (30 grams), cool and pour into another container.
5. Add kefir (100 milliliters), sour cream (20 milliliters), egg (1 piece) to the butter, stir.
6. Combine the mixture with dough and flour (400 grams), knead soft dough.
7. Leave to come up for a couple of hours.
8. Make a filling of suluguni cheese, crushed with a grater (300 grams).
9. When the dough is ready (increase in volume by 2-3 times), divide into koloboks.
10. Knead, put the filling and cook flat round pies (the diameter of the bowl).
11. Bake for 45 minutes in the Baking program (turn it 180 degrees in the process).
12. Grease a ready-made dish with melted butter (20 milliliters).

Meat pie

These are hearty Ossetian pastry cakes without yeast - with minced pork and beef. Men and all lovers of rich meat filling and dough will like it.

Components and preparation:

1. Kefir (400 milliliters) to heat in a container on the stove.
2. Pour soda (5 grams) and stir.
3. Add flour (700 grams) and salt (2 grams), knead the dough.
4. Prepare the filling from a mixture of minced pork and beef (0.5 kilograms), add finely chopped onions (150 grams) and seasoning (5 grams).
5. Roll out the dough pieces from the dough, lay out the filling, pinch and roll out manually.
6. Bake until browning - at 220 degrees.
7. Grease the finished dish with butter.
   

Summary

According to the folk traditions of North Ossetia, only women can cook the best pies (“this is not a man’s business”).

Just working with the dough does not endure fuss, but requires a careful and accurate attitude, softness (especially when rolling pies manually). All this can only be a woman.

Each family recipe is passed down from generation to generation through the female line. Dishes are prepared skillfully and tasty - because they have all the culinary experience of their ancestors.

Ossetian pies are baked daily - for everyday needs and for the holidays.

Buying a finished dish for women of North Ossetia is a great shame and disrespect for yourself as a hostess.

And therefore, using the recipes for making Ossetian pies described above, you can bake at home this excellent dish with a variety of fillings, which will become a favorite treat for households.