How to cook delicious oven pies?

The history of home baking dates back hundreds of years. During this time, many delicious dishes and interesting recipes were invented. Among all this diversity, air cakes are of particular interest. What are they and how to prepare such a miracle? It is worth talking about this separately and in more detail.

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Cakes have been baked in Russia since time immemorial. They were cooked in an oven and made with different fillings. Pies were one of the most popular dishes.

These small fragrant products were prepared for the holiday, and also taken on the road as a convenient and compact meal. These days, little has changed. True, now no one is using Russian stoves. There are new modern devices for cooking. In every house, the hostess for baking now has an oven. Therefore, the name of the dish has become more specific. It specifically indicates the place where the products were prepared. Now these products are called nothing more than oven pies. It's no secret that the same flour products with filling can be cooked on the stove, frying them in a large amount of fat. But, taking into account the specifics of the old technology, it’s still better to use pastry pies for the role of dishes from the past. Already in the name itself lie their two distinguishing features. Firstly, these are pies cooked in the oven. And, secondly, only such a cooking method is able to preserve their unique spirit.

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To cook delicious oven pies you need to know:

• product recipe;
• rules for kneading dough;
• molding technique;
• baking options.

Each of these indicators is important in its own way. Take, for example, the stage of formation of the semi-finished product. There are several options for sculpting, with which you can make the right pie. Depending on this, the following product forms are distinguished:

1. Oval. It is found most often. A piece of dough must first be kneaded into a cake about half a centimeter thick. Then center the filling and gently wrap the edges with an overlap. The junction can simply be kneaded or gently nibbled with your fingers.
2. Round. Collect the edges of the cakes around the filling in the form of a bag, and then lightly take the resulting bundle inward.
3. Triangular. First, the two adjacent sides of the tortilla should be folded to the floor at an angle of 45 degrees such as a children's paper airplane, and then carefully put the opposite edge.
4. Embossed. The edges can be plucked in the form of a bow or by swaddling.
5. Curly. Cover the filling cake with thin flagella from the dough, giving them a certain shape.

Knowing all these secrets, it’s not difficult to make beautiful pies.

Simple option

As an example, consider the simplest recipe for oven pies with cabbage.

This will require the following products:

For the test:

300 milliliters of kefir ½ cup sugar, a teaspoon of salt, 2 yolks, 300 grams of flour, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil and ½ teaspoon of soda.

For filling:

carrots, cabbage, greens (dill), salt.

For lubrication:

milk and egg yolk.

Everything is prepared very simply:

1. To prepare the dough, combine all the components and mix them well. Add soda and flour last. Roll up the mass in the form of a ball and immediately put in the refrigerator for ripening for 30 minutes.
2. At this time, you can do stuffing. First of all, you need to chop the vegetables. To do this, it is better to use a shredder and a coarse grater. Salt the prepared foods, put in a pan and lightly fry. Then add some water and simmer under the lid until the moisture evaporates.
3. Divide the dough into pieces and roll each of them into a cake.
4. Put a little filling in the middle, and then form the product using any of the methods described above.
5. Coat each semi-finished product with the prepared mixture.
6. Cover the baking sheet with parchment and place the blanks on it.
7. Put them in the oven for half an hour, preheating it to 180 degrees.

This recipe for oven pies can be used at least every day. It takes very little time for this, and the pleasure of getting everything.

Meat pies

In order for the product to be more airy, you can make oven pies on dry yeast. In this case, it is better not to use liquid fillings.

A variant of the following products is perfect:

370 grams of flour 1 onion, a teaspoon of salt, 250 milliliters of kefir, 2 eggs, 10 grams of salt, a tablespoon of sugar, 250 grams of meat, 100 milliliters of vegetable oil, 11 grams of yeast (dry, instant) and a little dill.

The cooking process will be slightly different:

1. In a separate container, combine kefir, salt, sugar, butter and yeast. Stir until sugar dissolves.
2. Add flour and knead the dough gradually. Roll it in the form of a ball, cover with a napkin and set to ripen in a warm place for an hour and a half.
3. Peeled onions with meat grind in a blender. To cook the minced meat you just have to add the egg and chopped dill.
4. Divide the finished dough into portions, and then form pies from separate cakes and minced meat.
5. Grease semi-finished products with yolk using a brush.
6. Place them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and put in the oven. First, make sure that the temperature in it has already risen to 18 degrees.

Dry yeast cakes will be ready as soon as the appetizing crust is browned on top.

Similar option

Many housewives love to pamper their household pastries. You can use different recipes for this. For example, cook oven buns with yeast, but not dried, but pressed. There are some subtleties.

The following components will be required for operation:

For the test:

half a liter of milk, 2 eggs, a kilogram of flour, 50 grams of yeast, a pinch of salt, 70 grams of sugar and 20 milliliters of vegetable oil.

For filling:

Fresh apples, sugar.

For spreading:

an egg and some butter.

The cooking method is very similar to all the previous ones:

1. Pour warm milk into a bowl. Put sugar, salt, yeast there and leave for a few minutes.
2. As soon as the bubbles appear, add the eggs and beat well.
3. Introduce the flour gradually, each time thoroughly mixing everything. Lastly add oil.
4. Cover the dough ball with a towel and leave at room temperature for 1 hour.
5. Divide the mass into parts and roll each into a ball shape. Leave on for 15 minutes.
6. Grate the apples and then mix with sugar.
7. Mash each ball in the palm of your hand, put a few apples on it, and then gently wrap the edges.
8. Place the billets on a baking sheet and cover with a beaten egg.
9. Send them to the oven for 40 minutes at 165 degrees.

Before serving, gently grease the prepared pies with butter and let them stand for a while.

Unique dough

Some housewives do not make pies, believing that a long fuss with dough takes a lot of time. For them, you can offer a great option. It turns out that the dough for the pastry can be done in an accelerated way. And even without the use of eggs.

You only need:

4 cups flour half a liter of water (or milk), 2 tablespoons of sugar and vegetable oil, dry yeast (11 grams) and 5 grams of salt.

The cooking method is very interesting:

1. Pour flour into a clean, dry container.
2. Add salt and sugar.
3. In the center, make a depression and pour in oil.
4. Add water and mix everything.
5. Make the final kneading with your hands, and then wrap the ball tightly in film and put it in the refrigerator.

After two hours, the product can be delivered, but before starting work, it should be additionally washed with the addition of a small amount of flour. The pies should be tender, soft and airy. Moreover, this time you can take any filling.