Fried meat pies is an easy to prepare, but very satisfying and tasty dish, which is suitable not only as a supplement to the first or second, but also as an independent snack with any drinks. The ingredients used in cooking are popular and easy to find in any store nearby.
Fried meat patties: a quick and tasty recipe
To make pies, you will need the following ingredients:
- 150 ml of milk;
- 150 ml of sparkling mineral water;
- 1 tablespoon of dry yeast for dough;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper;
- 60 ml of sunflower or olive oil;
- 3-4 cups of wheat flour;
- 1 onion;
- two chicken eggs.
These foods are enough to cook 20-22 fried meat patties. Such pastries will please not only family members, but also any guests. The golden color of the crust gives palatability, so it will be difficult to resist this dish.
Fried Pies: Meat Filling Recipe
Since the filling for the pies is meat, the choice of minced meat, a whole piece of beef or pork (depending on what you will use to prepare the filling) must be approached with all seriousness. It should be fresh, without a lot of fat and films. How to prepare the filling for fried meat patties?
- Boil the meat until cooked. Then you need to grind it in a meat grinder, adding onions. If you boil a whole piece, it will take at least 20 minutes, and if minced meat is used, then you can form it in the form of meatballs, and cook for about 10 minutes.
- Eggs must be cooked until cooked. To do this, wait 10 minutes from boiling water. After they must be chopped and mixed with meat.
- The onions need to be chopped and fried in oil in a preheated pan until golden brown, and then added to the rest of the ingredients.
- The final step in preparing the filling for the meat pies fried in a pan is to add spices to taste.
Useful advice for hostesses! It is best to cook the filling while the dough rises. Thus, it will be possible to save a lot of time.
Cooking dough
To prepare a good magnificent dough for fried meat pies, you must do the following:
- Heated milk and sparkling water must be mixed in one deep and wide container. The mixture should be warm, but not hot, so that the microbacteria in the yeast do not die.
- Add sugar and yeast for dough there. All this must be thoroughly mixed and left for 10 minutes. If everything is done correctly, a cap of bubbles and foam will appear.
- Three glasses of flour should be sifted through a sieve into an empty bowl with a deep bottom. Once the dough is ready, it must be poured into the flour, while starting to knead the dough. Oil for elasticity and salt for taste are added to it.
- Knead the dough until it no longer sticks to your hands. Perfect condition - soft and supple.
- The resulting lump of dough needs to be covered with a film or cotton towel and left in a warm, dry place for 30-40 minutes. When it is infused, its volume will increase by 1.5 - 2 times. This is necessary in order to make fried meat patties more magnificent, and not "rubber".
Useful advice when preparing the dough! It is better to mix milk or kefir not with ordinary water, but with soda. So the dough will be enriched with oxygen and better rise.
Cooking secrets
Without even knowing any secrets, you can well cook the meat pies fried in a pan. But why not get to know them, and not to please your near and dear ones with an even more delicious treat.
- Ideal flour for dough - the highest grade and white. But how to check it? It is enough to drop a couple of drops of water on a certain amount of white flour and monitor the change in its color. If the color has acquired a reddish tint, this means that the flour contains an excessive amount of bran. If a bluish tint, then the flour is made from unripe wheat grains or from other crops.
- When touched, fresh flour settles on the fingers with a thin layer, and when compressed, emits a small crunch. If it is collected in lumps, this means increased humidity in the room. Under such conditions, the flour will deteriorate faster and become unsuitable for baking pies.
- Kefir fried pies with meat will retain their softness a little longer than in milk.
- To obtain a more magnificent dough, flour is sifted through a sieve.
- The infusion time should not exceed 2 hours, otherwise the mass for pies can simply turn sour.
- Ready kneaded dough for fried meat patties must be covered with a cloth or film, greased with oil so that it does not become crusty. Otherwise, the process of increasing the volume will not proceed.
Pie making
First of all, you need to decide on the desired size of pies and tear off the right amount of dough. In subsequent times, we must try to form the same pieces for the blanks. About 20 medium-sized pies will come from the amount of ingredients presented. When the dough is divided into portions, you can start rolling out balls from them, which then need to be rolled out with a rolling pin into a cake of equal thickness. It is necessary to put the filling in the middle and connect the opposite edges of the pie well so that they do not spill out during baking and the filling does not fall out.
How to fry pies
You need to prepare a frying pan. It is better to use stainless steel. Dry it thoroughly and warm it up. In a pan, pour oil evenly over the entire surface area. When it is heated to the desired limit, you can spread the prepared pies for 3-4 pieces at once. It is necessary to fry them on both sides until golden brown.
Helpful advice! Ready-made pies are best laid out on parchment, which absorbs excess oil. Once they have dried, they can be served at the table.
Calorie content
Everyone knows that a dish fried in oil has a high calorie content. Bakery products are no exception. The calorie content of fried meat patties is as follows:
- There are 342 kcal per 100 g of product.
- 1 pc - approximately 257 kcal.
If you compare the fried version with the baked one, you can notice tangible differences in the numbers. So, in the first case, the calorie content of pies from the oven is less by almost 100 kcal, and in the second case by 65 kcal.
How does fried food (including pies) affect the human body:
- the appearance of free radicals caused by the process of fat oxidation can lead to the development of diseases such as atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases.
- Carcinogens that evaporate from hot oil cause cancer.
- Fried food greatly affects the work of not only the gastrointestinal tract, but also the liver, creating a feeling of heaviness in the stomach, worsening the general condition of a person.
Based on these facts, we can conclude that it is necessary to limit the amount of fried foods consumed.
What is better to eat pies
Very often pies are used instead of bread, snacking on the first and second courses. For soup, borsch, pickle, okroshka, unsweetened pies with potatoes, cabbage, egg, fish and meat are best suited. It is also very good to have a snack with them and drink tomato juice, compote, tea, kissel, sour-milk drinks, kvass.
Sweet cakes, for example, filled with jam, apple, cherry, cottage cheese, raspberries and other berries, are better for dessert with unsweetened drink.
To get not only the pleasure of eating delicious pastries, but also the benefits in the form of vitamins and minerals, they prepare the pumpkin filling:
- unsweetened option - with onions and meat;
- the sweet option is with honey or sugar.