Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese: recipe. Ossetian pie with herbs. Stuffings for Ossetian pies

What is an Ossetian pie? This is a very tasty national dish. The cake is always in the shape of a circle. Perhaps it symbolizes the sun. After all, with proper preparation, the baked goods are warm, aromatic and sunny.

The dough for the Ossetian pie may be different. Having found your ideal recipe, you can experiment with toppings.

Varieties of Ossetian pies

The fillings for Ossetian pies can be very different, which means there are a lot of options for making pies. The most popular types are:

1. Pie with Ossetian cheese. It resembles a khachapuri.
2. Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese is the most common and everyday option.
3. Ossetian pie with mushrooms and chicken - French version.
4. Ossetian meat pie is the most nutritious and satisfying.
5. Ossetian pie with herbs. Different greens are used for its preparation: from parsley with onions to spinach.
6. Ossetian bean pie is a more vegetarian option.
7. Ossetian pie with fresh pumpkin is the brightest and sunniest.
8. Ossetian stewed cabbage pie and many other options.

Dough for Ossetian pies

First, let's figure out which dough for the Ossetian pie to cook. There are a lot of recipes. However, in our opinion, the most correct is yeast, if you, of course, have time to mess with it. Such dough is made on a dough. It is very supple and soft, but it keeps its shape remarkably. Real Ossetian pies are made with just such a test. They call it long. This name suggests that it is long and well stored in the refrigerator. It is quite possible to knead it in advance, and bake the pies after a while. It is very convenient and practical. In addition, this makes it possible to always prepare fresh pies for lunch or dinner, rather than storing previously baked ones.

For dough, you need the following ingredients:

1. Flour - 1 tsp.
2. Dry yeast - 1 tsp.
3. Sugar - 1 tsp.
4. Milk - 50 g.

Yeast must be mixed with flour and sugar. Pour warm milk into the dry mixture, mix and put in the warmest place, wrapping a blanket. Let's wait until the foam grows up.

For the test itself you will need:

1. Heated milk - 100 ml.
2. Kefir - 260 ml.
3. Opara.
4. Flour - 0.6 kg.
5. Salt.
6. Butter - 40 g.

In a large bowl, such as a bowl, sift the flour. In the middle we make a hole and add dough, melted butter, the rest of the milk, salt, kefir. Mix it all very carefully, cover with a new towel and place it in a place where the dough can rise quickly. You can even wrap the dishes with something warm. The fact is that the rate of rise directly depends on temperature. On average, it will take one to two hours.

Ossetian dough

We want to talk about another recipe. The dough based on it is prepared a little easier, and the pies are so tender that you begin to believe that there is nothing more delicious in the world ...

Ingredients:

1. A tablespoon of sugar.
2. Salt - 1 tsp.
3. Dry yeast - 2 tsp.
4. Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l
5. A glass of milk.
6. One and a half glasses of water.
7. Flour - 4 cups.

First, put a light dough, mixing half a glass of warm water with dry yeast, sugar and a few tablespoons of flour. When the first bubbles appear, the dough should be poured into a bowl and add still warm water and the same milk. All components are mixed. And begin to slowly add flour, kneading a fairly liquid dough. The process itself will take us at least ten minutes. At the very end, add vegetable oil. Mix again and level the surface. Next, cover the dough with a towel and let it rise.

The finished dough should double and become elastic. But it will still stick to hands. Do not rush to mix flour. The dough should be light. It must be divided into three parts and, well powdered with flour, form the pies themselves.

Stuffings for Ossetian pies

You can put anything in the Ossetian pie. It can be vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts. The most important thing is to observe the basic rule: in the pie, the fillings should be twice as much as the dough. And this is an invariable rule. An interesting fact is that Ossetians call their pies depending on the filling. Each cake has its own name. All of them are very tasty and worthy to try.

Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese

There are a lot of cooking options for this filling. In general, each housewife cooks in her own way, observing the necessary proportions. We want to talk about how to cook a traditional Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese. This, so to speak, is a basic recipe, and you can make your own adjustments. You can take different varieties of cheese, experiment with spices. Here there is where to go for a fantasy. So, how are Ossetian pies made? The step by step recipe is in front of you.

Ingredients:

1. Three potatoes.
2. Ossetian cheese - 0.5 kg.
3. Milk - 1/3 cup.
4. Pepper and salt are laid exclusively to taste.

Ossetian cheese has a pronounced salty flavor. We cut it into cubes and put it for soaking in water for several hours. Then drain the liquid and knead the cheese with your hands or a fork.

Boil the potatoes in advance, drain the liquid and prepare the mashed potatoes. Mix cheese with potatoes, add milk and mix thoroughly. If necessary, then salt and pepper. So the filling is ready. Next, from the dough we form an Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese.

Stuffed with cheese and beet tops

You may be a little surprised by such an unusual filling. In fact, beet tops does not have any interesting and bright taste. Rather, it is a little neutral. But its value lies in the trace elements and vitamins contained in it. Combining together, cheese and tops turn into a magnificent juicy stuffing, which you will certainly enjoy.

Ingredients:

1. Ossetian cheese (salted) - 270 g.
2. Beet tops - 270 g.

Fresh tops are thoroughly washed under running water, and then slightly dried. We collect it in bunches, cutting off the cuttings. We cut the greens very thinly. It turns out a large bowl of chopped leaves. They need to be lightly crushed with your hands.

Cheese is grated coarsely and added to greens. All ingredients are mixed. Here is the filling and ready. Then you can fill the pie with it. As you can see, Ossetian pies are easy to make at home.

Greens and potatoes for toppings

Delicious Ossetian pies are made with a filling of potatoes and greens. By the way, greens in this case is the main and main component.

Ingredients:

1. A few bunches of green dill, parsley, cilantro, etc.
2. Half a kilogram of mashed potatoes.
3. Salt, spices to taste.
   

The greens must be washed well, then dried and chopped, removing the cuttings. Next, mix the mashed potatoes with herbs, adding ground pepper, salt, and other spices. The filling is ready.

Pumpkin and Cheese Filling

This filling is not as often prepared as other options. But believe me, once you have tried such a pie, you will want to cook it again.

Ingredients:

1. Pumpkin peeled - 250 g.
2. Ossetian cheese - 250 g.
3. Pepper and salt.

Grind cheese and pumpkin and mix. Here, in fact, our filling is ready. It is very tasty in itself, and in combination with aromatic dough, the taste is simply divine.

Ossetian veal pie

Veal makes a wonderful juicy filling. To prepare it, you will need three hundred grams of tenderloin and three large onions. You can add herbs and garlic.

Chop the onion very finely. Next, mix the stuffing, pepper, onion and salt. The filling is ready.

How to make a pie?

The dough needs to be divided into 3-5 parts. Each such ball is placed on the table, sprinkled with flour, and kneads in the form of a circle with his hands. In the center is the filling. We recall the basic rule, which states that there should be a lot of fillings. Next, the dough needs to be assembled in the form of a kolobok, pull its edges to the center and couple them. Get a kind of ball. It needs to be turned upside down and put on a baking sheet with parchment, kneading with your hands in a cake.

This is not as easy as it may seem. Real craftsmen do this so that the ratio of the thickness of the dough and the filling over the entire volume of the pie is the same. You can learn this only by gaining experience. The cake should turn into a circle. In the center of it you need to make a hole so that the steam can escape and the dough does not burst.

Bakery products

The real Ossetian pie is baked in the oven, on coals. To do this, use a special round cast-iron shape. It is clear that we do not have such an opportunity. Cooking at home, bake a pie in a conventional oven, on a baking sheet. The process itself will take about fifteen minutes, only the oven should be well preheated to two hundred degrees. The finished cake is very plentifully greased with butter. Around each circle an oil puddle should form. This will give an indescribable taste to baking. The resulting cakes are stacked one on top of the other. They are served on the table with just such a slide, previously cut into portions. Traditionally they eat the pie with their hands.

Instead of an afterword

Pie is a visiting card of all Ossetia. Once you try this miracle, you will love it forever and understand why Ossetians are so kind to cakes. After all, the history of this dish goes far into the centuries ...

In general, in Ossetia, a mistress who knows how to bake wonderful pies is considered good. It is for this reason that girls from early childhood are taught this art. Of great importance in preparation is the mental attitude, purity of thoughts.