Surely every housewife and family was ever fed up with the usual diet. If you are just now in search of new interesting recipes, then this article will help you diversify your holiday or everyday table. Surprise your loved ones with simple and tasty dishes. Today we will learn how to cook various broccoli pies.
What is broccoli?
Broccoli is a type of cabbage. For the first time, Italians began to eat it. It was they who brought this product to America in 1724. This cabbage used to be called Italian asparagus. By the way, the stem and inflorescences are edible.
The benefits of broccoli
Broccoli contains vitamins of groups B, K and C. Moreover, the latter in broccoli is much more than in orange or lemon. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron, calcium, zinc - surprisingly many minerals in this vegetable. It also contains beta-carotene, which helps young and beautiful girls stay long. B and K vitamins improve the functioning of bone tissue as well as the kidneys.
By the way, broccoli can remove all the bad cholesterol from your body. This reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks. Moreover, if you eat this cabbage regularly, this way you contribute to the normalization of the cardiovascular system and heart.
If you suffer from diabetes mellitus of the first or second type, then broccoli is an ideal product for you, normalizing and stabilizing blood sugar levels.
Calorie content per 100 grams - 28 kcal. Can you imagine how much broccoli you can eat? Therefore, it is an ideal product for people who want to lose weight. True, there is not enough protein there - only 3 grams per 100 g of product. Therefore, athletes whose goal is to gain muscle mass do not prefer broccoli.
Now let's move on to recipes from this vegetable, namely to pies.
Puff pastry pie
We will use ready-made pastry from the store for this broccoli puff cake. We will refine the recipe and add cauliflower, eggs, ham and cheese. In general, let's get started.
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of puff pastry;
- 150 grams of broccoli;
- 150 grams of cauliflower;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 150 grams of ham;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 150 grams of cheese;
- 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
- salt pepper.
Cooking the pie:
- We cook broccoli and cauliflower 10-15 minutes after boiling water. Do not forget to add salt.
- We cut ham into small cubes.
- Break eggs into any container and mix them with mayonnaise and crushed garlic in the press.
- We rub the cheese.
- On a baking sheet greased with butter, lay out the rolled dough. We form small sides.
- We put broccoli, cauliflower, ham on the dough. Fill everything with egg mixture and pepper. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake a pie for only 20 minutes.
The recipe is designed for ten people.
Broccoli Jellied Pie
It's time for jellied pies. Mistresses adore them, because the main advantage is the speed of preparation of the dough. No need to suffer from baking cakes or worry about the fact that the dough may not work at all. Let's look at the recipe together.
Ingredients:
- 500 ml of kefir;
- one chicken breast;
- 250 grams of broccoli;
- 250 grams of onions;
- 350 grams of flour;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 1/2 tsp soda;
- 1 tsp Sahara;
- any greens;
- 3 tbsp. l oils;
- salt pepper.
Cooking a pie with broccoli and chicken like this:
- Boil Chicken Breast. Just half an hour in boiling water. Add salt.
- Finely chop or chop the chicken into fibers.
- We clean and fry onions in sunflower oil. Add our assorted breast to the onion and darken a little. It is not worth frying much. Add greens.
- We sort broccoli into inflorescences. Stew in a pan for about 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper.
- Pour kefir into a container, add soda and leave for five minutes.
- Beat eggs with salt and sugar and add to kefir.
- Sift flour and add to our batter.
- Pour half the dough into the cake pan. Put our chicken stuffing with herbs and onions. Then lay the broccoli. Pour the remaining dough.
- Bake the cake at 180 degrees in the oven for about 30 minutes.
This dish can easily afford even losing weight. After all, the dough is made from kefir, there is no mayonnaise in the recipe. Fat and calories are much less than in a regular cake.
Broccoli and cheese pie in a slow cooker
Every housewife must have a slow cooker. After all, this technique helps to reduce cooking time and greatly facilitate the process of cooking. Let's make another pie.
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of flour;
- 400 ml of kefir;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 300 grams of broccoli;
- 150 grams of cheese;
- 1 onion;
- 3 tbsp. l oils;
- 1 tsp baking powder.
Cooking a pie with broccoli and cheese as follows:
- Peel the onion and chop finely. Fry in a pan in oil for about five minutes.
- Disassemble broccoli into inflorescences. Simmer for about three minutes in a pan. Grate cheese and add to cabbage. Add salt and pepper.
- Break the eggs into the container and pour the kefir. Add a little salt and beat with a mixer.
- Sift flour into the dough, add baking powder. Mix.
- We grease the slow cooker with oil. Pour half the dough. We spread the filling. Add the second half of the dough.
- We put the slow cooker on the "Baking" mode and cook for about an hour.
The slow cooker gives us confidence that the cake will be cooked in the best possible way and will never burn. Enjoy broccoli with a touch of cheese flavor!
Pie with broccoli and crab sticks
The next pie is more like pizza due to thin pastry or casserole due to mixing various interesting ingredients. Serve as an independent dish or prepare a light salad for it.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of flour;
- 50 grams of butter;
- egg;
- 0.5 tsp salts;
- 400 grams of broccoli;
- 250 g of crab sticks;
- 3 eggs;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 100 ml of mayonnaise;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- salt pepper.
Cooking method:
- Boil broccoli in boiling water for 15 minutes. Salt the water.
- Free crab sticks from the film and cut into strips.
- Beat eggs with sour cream and mayonnaise with a whisk. Mix the salt and pepper.
- Next, rub the cheese.
- Making the dough: mix flour, butter and salt. Add the egg and some cold water. Knead the dough.
- Roll out the dough. Spread on the bottom of the mold. Form the sides.
- Mix broccoli, crab sticks and egg-filled cheese with sour cream and mayonnaise. Put the filling on the dough.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese again.
- We put in the oven for 180 minutes at 180 degrees.
It can be served both cold and warm. He is always delicious!
Optimum heat treatment of broccoli
By the way, did you know that most of the beneficial properties are preserved in this cabbage when consumed in its raw form? If you want to get as much useful as possible from broccoli, it is better to choose the following types of heat treatment: cooking, steaming and baking. Avoid frying this vegetable, especially with plenty of oil. Indeed, broccoli will definitely lose all its useful qualities.
Conclusion
Today we have examined several recipes for broccoli pies: with cheese, with crab sticks, with ham, with cauliflower, and also with chicken breast. Choose any recipe you like, make it more interesting, change the ingredients to your taste, bring something of your own into it. You will definitely get a tasty, interesting, and most importantly - a unique dish of excellent quality that will be enjoyed not only by you and your loved ones, but also by guests, friends and neighbors. Do not be afraid to experiment and improvise in the kitchen. We hope the article was useful to you. Enjoy your meal!