Fried in a pan or pastries is a favorite treat for many, which can be cooked by almost any housewife. They are made from different types of dough, with the addition of a variety of fillings. Consider below a few step-by-step recipes for meat pies, which can be put into practice in ordinary home cooking with minimal baggage of cooking skills. However, before this, we will first study some of the features of preparing this type of snack.
Features of the preparation of the filling
In various recipes for meat pies, the use of either pre-processed or fresh toppings is suggested. Which one is better to use in practice? When choosing a solution to this issue, you should pay attention exclusively to your own taste preferences. As practice shows, pre-cooked and minced meat for filling is very tender. In that case, if it is fried with spices or any vegetables, then the stuffing will turn out to be spicy and very fragrant.
What type of meat is better to use? Individual preferences are also of great importance in this matter. In order to cook meat pies according to the recipes proposed here, you can use pork, lamb, beef, rabbit or poultry, if the specific type is not indicated in the list of ingredients. In addition, you can also use liver - stuffing made from various offal. Among other things, the contents can always be varied with fruits and vegetables.
Oven pies
Below is a simple recipe for meat patties in the oven. The photo with the finished product is submitted below. Such a dish will undoubtedly appeal to all the housewives who wish to surprise their household with a delicious appetizer of pastry and aromatic minced meat. To prepare it, you need to prepare a special dough, which is ideal for baking in the oven.
To create a dough, you need to dilute one and a half teaspoons of yeast in a glass of warm milk and let them stand for 10-20 minutes. After this period, gradually add 300 g of pre-sifted flour to the milk. After this, the mass should be properly salted (to taste) and add three tablespoons of vegetable oil. When the dough acquires the consistency of thick sour cream, it is necessary to send another 350-400 g of flour and knead it so that a thick mass is obtained. After that, put the bowl with the dough in a warm place and cover it with a clean towel. In this form, the ball made should “fit” for a couple of hours.
While the dough is preparing, you need to do the cooking of the filling for future meat patties in the oven. A step-by-step recipe is presented below. Take boiled chicken fillet (300 g) and onions. These ingredients must be crushed using a meat grinder, and then fry in a hot pan using vegetable oil. In the process of cooking the minced meat, it is necessary to salt, pepper and, if desired, add a small amount of spices. After this, the filling must be cooled.
When the dough is ready, you need to form small pies in any convenient way, carefully laying them on a baking sheet, oiled. After all of them have been made, the sheet should be put in a warm place for 15-20 minutes so that the products rise again. At this time, you can set the oven to warm up to 200 degrees.
After 15-20 minutes, the product must be placed in the oven for baking. This step-by-step recipe for pies with meat in the oven provides for the duration of this procedure for about 20 minutes.
Fried pies
It's no secret that fried pastry with delicious filling is a great addition to the dining table. The recipe for meat pies fried in a pan is a real find for housewives who want to pamper their loved ones with fragrant, tasty and hearty products.
Instruction:
- For this type of pies, it is recommended to use dough. To prepare it, you need to take 500 ml of pre-warmed milk, add a glass of sifted flour, 50 g of yeast, as well as a couple of tablespoons of sugar. All ingredients must be thoroughly mixed, covered with a towel and left in a warm place for 40-50 minutes.
- While the dough is preparing, you can do the preparation of the filling for the meat patties (pictured below). Their recipe involves the use of a mixture of beef and pork for this purpose. To create the filling, you need to take 250 g of one and the second type of meat, chop the pieces with a meat grinder, and then add a large head of onion to the resulting minced meat. To the components you need to add 60 g of white loaf, which must first be soaked in kefir. In addition, the mass must be pepper and salt to taste, then mix thoroughly until smooth.
- When the dough is ready, you need to add about 800 g of sifted flour, a small packet (200 g) of melted but cooled margarine, as well as a couple of eggs. All components must be thoroughly mixed, and then knead of them cool dough. After that, it is necessary to form pies from it and minced meat and fry them in a pan in boiling vegetable oil. There should be a lot of oil in the frying process - only in this case the products turn out to be lush and very ruddy.
Puff
Below is another step-by-step recipe for meat pies. The photo with the finished dish excites appetite. Pies made in puff pastry is a dish that can only be prepared by an experienced or very zealous hostess. However, all efforts are worth it, because the output is real works of art: soft, airy and, most importantly - delicious cakes that will melt in your mouth.
Cooking process (step by step):
Step number 1. The dough is not easy for them. To prepare it, you need to acquire dishes on which there is a dimensional marking. A chicken egg should be broken into it, add a small amount of salt, as well as a tablespoon of vinegar (7%).
Step number 2. All components must be thoroughly beaten until uniform. After that, cold purified water should be added to the total mass until the mark of the total amount of mass reaches 250 ml. After this, the components must be mixed again and put in the refrigerator for a while.
Step number 3. While the mixture is infused, you need to sift 500 g of flour on the table and rub 400 g of margarine into it, using a coarse grater for this purpose. For the convenience of the procedure, some culinary experts recommend dipping margarine in flour during the procedure. After the action is completed, the components must be mixed. After that, the whole mass must be spread out with a uniform slide, make a recess in it and pour in it a liquid made from eggs, water and vinegar.
Step number 4. From the resulting mass, you need to cook the dough, and then send it to the refrigerator for several hours.
Step number 5. While the dough is infused, you can prepare the filling, following our recipe for meat pies. The photo with the finished dish looks appetizing. The recipe provides for the preparation of fillings from boiled chicken fillet (whole breast or two separate halves) and onions. These ingredients must be crushed using a meat grinder or knife, and then fry in a hot pan with the addition of vegetable oil. At the very end of the frying process, the products must be salted, add a mixture of peppers to taste and finely chopped greens.
Step number 6. After the dough is ready, it is necessary to form small pieces (round or square) from it, fill them with cooked and cooled minced meat, and then grind it. Products should be laid out on a baking tray covered with parchment.
Step number 7. Now you need to bake meat pies in the oven. The recipe provides for the completion of this process under conditions of a temperature of 180 degrees until an appetizing golden crust is formed.
Juicy Cakes
In this recipe, we will consider how to make pies not only with aromatic, but also with very juicy meat filling. To create them, make a dough. For this, 25 g of pressed yeast should be diluted in half a glass of warmed milk. There, you should add a couple of tablespoons of sugar and leave the mass for a while (about 30-40 minutes). Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, you need to combine melted, but cooled to 30 degrees, butter, as well as a couple of eggs. Beat the mixture thoroughly and add to the sponge after it is infused. Now in the total mass you need to add a little more than half a kilogram of flour and knead a dense and very elastic dough. Upon preparation, a ball of dough should be left in a warm place, under a towel. "Fit" it will be at least an hour.
While this process is happening, you need to start preparing juicy toppings for meat patties in the oven. The recipe for such an appetizer involves the use of any meat with lots of onions for the filling. To create it, pass through a meat grinder 350 g of fillet, as well as the onion. In addition, egg white, as well as salt and pepper to taste, should be added to the bowl with the future filling. And in order for the minced meat to turn out to be especially juicy, 10 ml of milk must be added to it.
After the dough “fits”, it is necessary to form pies from it and cooked minced meat, place them on a baking sheet previously covered with parchment and send to bake in the oven, heated to 190 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Some chefs recommend lubricating them with egg yolk before this process.
Yeast cakes
A recipe for yeast meat pies is considered especially easy to use. A photo with the finished product is presented below.
To prepare the dough for them, you need to combine in one dish a couple of teaspoons of dried yeast, 300 g of sifted flour, as well as three tablespoons of sugar. In another bowl, mix three chicken eggs, a glass of milk, a pinch of salt, and 6 tablespoons of vegetable oil. After thoroughly mixing, the ingredients must be combined with the flour mass, mixed thoroughly until smooth, add another 400 g of sifted flour and knead the dough. After the process, the lump should be left for an hour in a warm place, covered with a towel.
While the dough "fits", you need to do the preparation of the filling for such yeast meat patties. The recipe suggests using ordinary mincemeat for it, which can be purchased at any butcher's shop. It should be taken half a kilogram, add finely chopped or minced onion to it, add salt, pepper and knead well until smooth.
After all the components are ready, you need to form pies from them, grease each with beaten eggs and send to bake in the oven.
With meat and rice
If you want to somewhat diversify the filling for flour products, you can use this recipe for meat pies. The photo with the finished dish is presented below. The recipe involves the use of a harmonious mixture of meat and rice as a filling.
The preparation of such pies should begin with the creation of the dough. It is made on the basis of a glass of warm milk, in which you need to dilute a couple of teaspoons of yeast. There, you need to add 200 g of sifted flour and 3 tablespoons of sugar. After stirring, the mass must be set aside for a while. While it is insisting, in a different bowl, combine a couple of eggs and three tablespoons of sunflower oil. After that, both mixtures should be combined, salt to taste, add half a kilogram of flour and, thoroughly kneading the steep dough, leave it for an hour and a half in a warm place, previously covered with a clean towel.
While it will fit, you should start preparing the filling for the pies. It is made from 250 g of minced pork, which should be fried in a pan without adding vegetable oil (if any other type of meat is used, its use is mandatory). When it is completely ready, in the forcemeat you need to crush one bouillon cube and pour a small amount of warm water into the mass. Covering the mixture, simmer the mixture for three minutes. When this procedure is carried out, 250 g of pre-boiled rice should be added to the meat, salt, pepper to taste, combine with a finely chopped onion head and, after mixing well, set aside for cooling. You can add carrots to taste.
After the dough and minced meat are ready, you need to form pies from them, spread them evenly on a baking sheet covered with parchment, grease each egg and send to the oven for cooking for 40 minutes (at a temperature of 180 degrees).
Tatar meat patties
The recipe for such products involves preparing them in the open form using meat fillings. They are made on the basis of yeast dough.
To prepare the dough, you need to dilute a couple of teaspoons of dried yeast in a glass of warm milk, add a tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, as well as previously melted but cooled margarine (125 g). Stir the ingredients thoroughly, add 600 g flour to them and knead the steep dough. In order to make the products as fluffy and soft as possible, most cooks recommend using exclusively sifted flour.
After the dough is ready, it should be covered with a clean towel and set aside in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours. While it "fits", you should start preparing the filling.
To prepare the minced meat, you need to take 600 g of lamb or pork meat, half a kilogram of potatoes, as well as a couple of large onion heads. All of these ingredients must be crushed using a meat grinder, add 100 g of melted butter to them, pepper and salt to taste, then mix well and set aside to cool.
When the dough is ready, you need to make small round billets from it. In each of them it is necessary to spread the filling on them, and then slap the products in such a way as to make open pies with a hole in the middle. Products should be laid on a baking sheet previously covered with parchment. Each of them must be greased with egg mass, and then sent for baking in the oven. This recipe for pies with meat from yeast dough involves baking them at a temperature of 180 degrees for 45 minutes.
There is a certain trick regarding how to preserve the juiciness of the ingredients inside the pie. To do this, many culinary experts advise making circles from the dough, which will serve as a kind of "lids" for each pie. Before baking, they must cover the holes. After 30-35 minutes from the moment of sending to the oven, the pan must be removed from it, open the “lids” from the dough and pour a small amount of meat broth into each Tatar pie. Thanks to this simple manipulation, the finished products will be incredibly juicy.
Kefir fried pies
This recipe (with photo) of fried meat patties based on kefir dough is a wonderful find for those who want to pamper their households with a simple but very tasty dish of dough and juicy toppings.
In order to make dough for such pies, you need to take 600 g of pre-sifted wheat flour, pour it on a table with a slide, make a depression in the middle. It is necessary to fill in a mixture made from one and a half glasses of kefir, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of sugar, 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil. After that, from the components you need to knead the steep dough. If necessary, a small amount of water can be added to it.
In this recipe for meat pies, ordinary pork or ground beef is used as a filling. To prepare the filler, you need to take 500-600 g of ready-made minced meat, add the onion head chopped in any convenient way, salt, pepper and mix it thoroughly.
After all the preparations have been made, it is necessary to form small round pies from the dough and minced meat and fry them on both sides in a pan with a copious amount of hot vegetable oil.
With meat and cabbage
Any recipe for meat pies in a pan can always be varied by adding cabbage to their filling.To prepare such products, you should prepare a classic dough on kefir, as suggested in the previous recipe. After it is done, you should begin to create a delicious and very juicy filling.
To prepare the filling, you need to take 250 g of minced pork (it is advisable to take just this kind, since this variety is especially fatty meat). Instead, you can also take a piece of meat and chop it yourself with a knife. Chopped pork must be fried in a pan with the addition of onions. At the last stage of frying it should be combined with pre-stewed cabbage (250 g). After the filling is ready, it should be salt and pepper.
From the existing elements, it is necessary to form pies and fry them in a large amount of oil in a pan.
As practice shows, such a recipe for dough products becomes especially handy when a small amount of stewed cabbage remains.