Fish is often used for cooking all kinds of dishes. It makes delicious soups, salads and even cutlets. After reading today's post, you will understand how to bake a fragrant homemade mackerel pie.
Yeast Dough Option
According to this recipe, you can quickly bake a soft tender cake, which is not a shame to serve on the festive table. Before you start working with the test, be sure to see if you have at hand all the necessary ingredients. In order not to have to turn to neighbors for a glass of flour or a pack of butter, go to the nearest store in advance and buy everything that is not in your refrigerator. This time you will need:
- Three and a half cups of wheat flour.
- Two hundred milliliters of milk.
- A tablespoon of sugar.
- A bag of fast-acting yeast.
- A pack of butter.
Since the mackerel pie, the recipe of which is considered in this publication, implies the presence of a filling, small changes are made to the above list. As additional ingredients you will need:
- Two mackerels.
- A teaspoon of salt.
- Onion head.
- Half a teaspoon of sugar and ground pepper.
Process description
Since the preparation of the dough takes more time, it is necessary to start with it. Quick-release yeast and sugar are dissolved in a glass of warm milk. All are thoroughly mixed and cleaned to the side. After a fluffy froth is formed on the surface, the liquid is poured into a bowl filled with sifted flour, previously ground with soft butter. The resulting elastic, but at the same time soft dough is removed in a plastic bag and placed in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Washed mackerel is cut into fillets, cut into small pieces and sent to a clean bowl. Salt, granulated sugar, ground pepper and chopped onion are added there. All mix well and clean aside for a quarter of an hour.
Increased in volume dough is divided into two unequal parts. A large roll out and lay on the bottom of a pre-lubricated form. Put the filling on top, cover it with the remaining dough, pinch the edges and pierce in several places with a fork. After that, the future mackerel pie, a recipe with a photo of which can be seen in this article, is smeared with a mixture of water with egg yolk and covered with a clean towel. Fifteen minutes later, he was sent to the oven. Bake the product at one hundred eighty degrees for half an hour.
Kefir Dough Option
This recipe is optimal for housewives who do not have a lot of free time. Using a fairly simple set of ingredients, you can quickly make a soft airy cake. Before you start kneading the dough, see if there is in your kitchen:
- A glass of kefir.
- A pair of chicken eggs.
- A glass of wheat flour.
- One mackerel.
- Leek.
- A tablespoon of sesame seeds and olive oil.
To make you a flavored and satisfying pie with mackerel (a yeast-free recipe), additionally store a mixture of ground peppers, sugar, salt, turmeric, vinegar and soda.
Cooking technology
In one dish, eggs beaten with sugar and salt and kefir are combined. They add soda quenched with vinegar. All mix well and let stand a little. After five minutes, the sifted flour and turmeric are gradually added to the liquid components.
Part of the resulting creamy dough is poured into a mold. Top with a filling made from chopped mackerel fillet, chopped onion, salt and pepper. The future pie is poured with the remaining dough and placed in the oven. After twenty minutes, the product is greased with a beaten egg, sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked for about a quarter of an hour. The browned mackerel pie is taken out of the oven and served.
Option with potatoes
It should be noted that the recipe involves the use of store puff pastry. This saves a ton of time and effort spent on making such baked goods. So that your family can appreciate the mackerel pie, make sure in advance that the shelves on your refrigerator have:
- A kilo of puff pastry.
- Four large potato tubers.
- Two mackerels.
- Five heads of onions.
- Some sugar, salt and ground pepper.
Action algorithm
Since you do not need to knead the dough, you can immediately do the fish filling. For its preparation, the mackerel is cut into fillets, washed well, cut into not too large pieces and put in a suitable container. Shredded onion, sugar, salt and ground pepper are added there. All well mixed and cleaned to the side for twenty minutes.
While the fish is pickled, you can do potatoes. It is peeled, washed and cut into thin slices. In a bowl with potatoes add half rings of onions, one and a half teaspoons of salt and a pinch of pepper.
Thawed dough is divided into two unequal parts. A large piece is rolled out and placed on a baking sheet, not forgetting to make the sides. Pre-squeezed potato-onion mixture and pickled fish are laid on top. Slightly sprinkle the filling with vegetable oil, cover with the remains of the rolled dough and gently pinch the edges. The future mackerel pie is smeared with egg yolk, diluted in a tablespoon of drinking water, then sent to the oven. The product is baked for about forty minutes at one hundred and eighty degrees.