When the blueberry season begins, many housewives are in a hurry to make preparations from these berries for the winter. However, there are many recipes where fresh fruit is required. Not only dumplings and yogurt are made with blueberries, but also delicious cakes. It takes a little time to cook them and, of course, a minimum of products. So how to make blueberry pies? Recipes will be considered in this article.
Pastry dough
Dough plays a special role in baking. The taste also depends on its quality. For cooking you will need:
- Sunflower oil - 1 cup.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Cold water - 0.5 liters.
- Salt is a pinch.
- Yeast - 50 grams.
- Wheat flour - how much dough will take.
How to knead the dough?
From this test very tasty pies with blueberries are obtained , the recipe of which is very simple. In a separate container, mix sunflower oil, sugar, salt and water. The resulting mass should be put on fire and brought to a boil. The composition must be boiled for five minutes. After this, the mass should stand and cool to room temperature. After that, add yeast and flour to the future dough. If you do not like too sweet pies with blueberries, then you can pour only half of the indicated sugar.
Now you can knead the dough. To begin with, the composition should be like a pancake: a little liquid. Gradually add flour to the dough. In the end, it should not be very cool. After kneading, the dough should be left for a while, so that it fits. After that, you can start cooking pies.
We form pies
For the filling, prepare the products in advance. To do this, you will need:
- Fresh blueberries - 400 grams.
- Sugar - 100 grams.
- Potato starch - 100 grams.
First you need to divide the prepared dough into small pieces and roll out neat cakes from them. It should be noted that when baking, fresh blueberries give off a lot of juice. Therefore, in this case, starch is needed to retain the liquid inside the pie. So, how to make beautiful blueberry pies? For starters, you need to put starch on each cake. 0.5 teaspoon will be enough. The powder should be carefully distributed throughout the cake.
On a layer of starch, lay the berries. Each pie requires 2 to 3 teaspoons of blueberries. After this, the berries should be sprinkled with sugar. Its quantity depends on which pies you like: sweet or not.
Cakes can be made of any shape. Baking in the form of triangles looks original. Spread workpieces up seam. This will prevent the filling from flowing onto the baking sheet. After the blueberry pies are laid out, it is worth leaving them for 40 minutes, so that they grow a little more.
When the baking increases in size, you need to grease it with a beaten egg. Blueberry pies are baked, the recipes of which even inexperienced housewives can afford to sell for about half an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C. Finished products should be greased with butter.
Yeast dumplings with blueberries
This cooking recipe has been familiar to many since high school. To knead the dough you will need:
- Warm milk - 0.5 liters.
- Salt - 0.5 tablespoon.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Butter or lard - a tablespoon.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
- Flour - how much will take the dough.
- Dry yeast - a dessert spoon without top.
For filling:
- Frozen blueberries.
- Sugar.
- Starch.
Cooking process
The listed components must be mixed. First you need to pour warm milk into a separate container and add yeast. When they dissolve, you can add the rest of the ingredients. It is better to introduce flour with the composition at the very end. Knead the dough very well so that all the components are mixed. Now the composition should be left for a couple of hours. The container with the dough should be placed in a warm place and covered with a damp towel. This will prevent the top from drying out.
After this, flour should be added to the dough to achieve the necessary consistency. The finished composition should be placed in a plastic bag, previously lubricated with vegetable oil from the inside. The dough should be put in the cold of hours at 12. This can be done at night, and in the morning you can cook yeast pies with blueberries. It is worth noting that such a dough is stored for about two days in the refrigerator.
How to bake pies?
If frozen blueberries are used to make pies, then it should first be thawed. This will drain excess fluid. Berries should be mixed with sugar to make the filling sweet.
The dough must be divided into small pieces, approximately 70 grams each. This will make the pies with blueberries the same size. Each cake needs to be rolled out and put the centerpiece in the center. To begin with, put a little starch on the workpiece, and then lay out the berries.
After that, you should form a pie and place it on a baking sheet, pre-oiled. When the form is filled, you need to leave the baking for a while. When the dough increases in size, it is necessary to grease each pie with a beaten egg. Bake a treat for half an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.