It would seem what kind of cake can be obtained from onions, bitter and tasteless. In fact, onion filling is considered ideal for savory pastries. Thanks to a juicy vegetable, such a pie will never turn out dry, and bitterness is not felt at all. And if there is a question about preparing snacks for the festive table, feel free to choose onion pie with melted cheeses. A recipe with a photo and several options for its preparation are presented in our article. Such a pie is made from shortbread and puff pastry, and in addition to onions and processed cheeses, you can add mushrooms and other vegetables to the filling.
French Pie "Onion" with processed cheese
A delicious onion pie can be prepared based on shortcrust pastry. To do this, you must adhere to the following sequence of actions:
- From a glass of flour and butter (125 g) crumbs are formed by hands. Next, sour cream (70 ml), soda and salt (Β½ teaspoon each) are added to it. Mixes soft and elastic dough. It must be wrapped in film and sent for 1 hour in the refrigerator.
- Meanwhile, the filling is preparing. Onions (3 pcs.) Are cut in half rings and fried in vegetable oil until cooked, after which they are removed from heat until completely cooled.
- Processed cheeses (200 g) are grated and mixed with eggs (3 pcs.). Cool onions, salt and pepper are added to your liking.
- The chilled dough is rolled out and laid out in a mold. It must be evenly distributed along the bottom and walls of the mold. The filling is laid out on top.
- Onion pie with melted curds is baked in the oven for 40 minutes. The temperature should be set at 180 degrees.
Puff pastry onion recipe
From the finished puff pastry, the onion pie turns out to be no less tasty. In the oven, it is baked for only 30 minutes. You can prepare an open or closed onion pie with melted curds.
The recipe for baking is as follows:
- In a frying pan with vegetable oil, onion sliced ββin half rings (0.5 kg) is spread. In the process of roasting, you need to salt it, add pepper and other spices as desired.
- While the onion cools, a fill is prepared. For this, processed cheese (1 pc. Weighing 100 g) and hard cheese are grated, mixed with beaten eggs (3 pcs.) And sour cream (4 tbsp. Tablespoons).
- Ready puff pastry (500 g) is divided into 2 parts weighing 200 and 300 grams, respectively. Most are thinly rolled out, laid out in a baking dish and distributed on the bottom and sides.
- The onion filling is laid out, the filling is distributed on top, after which the cake is covered with the remaining dough.
- Onion cake is baked at a temperature of 190 degrees.
Onion cake in a multicooker
Itβs not difficult to cook a pie with onion filling in a slow cooker. The dough for it is kneaded with a liquid consistency, like on a pancake, so that it turns out not a dry, but a pleasantly moist onion cake with melted curds.
A step-by-step recipe consists of the following steps:
- First of all, the filling is prepared from onion (1 kg), previously sliced ββin half rings. In a pan with vegetable oil, it is fried until cooked, salt and pepper are added to taste.
- While the onion cools, you can cook the dough. To do this, eggs (5 pcs.) Are driven into melted butter (125 g), a small can of sour cream, sugar (50 g) are added, flour (1 Β½ tbsp), salt (Β½ tsp) and soda (1 h) are sifted . the spoon). The dough should not be thick.
- Half of the dough is poured into the greased bowl of the multicooker, followed by a spoon, the onion filling is laid out, pieces of processed cheese (100 g) are distributed on it. The remaining dough spills on top.
- The dish is prepared in the "Baking" mode 1 hour 10 minutes. At the end of cooking, it is necessary to set the program "Preheating" and only after 15 minutes you can get the cake from the bowl.
Onion pie with processed cheese and mushrooms
The dough for this pie is made from cold margarine (200 g), flour (400 g), salt (Β½ teaspoon), eggs (1 pc.) And sour cream (1 tablespoon). At the time of preparation of the filling, it goes to the refrigerator.
For the filling, mushrooms (250 g) and onions (400 g) are fried in vegetable oil. When it has cooled, grated cream cheese (200 g) and 2 eggs are added. Most of the dough is distributed along the bottom and walls of the mold. Then the whole filling is laid out, after which the cake is closed on top with the remaining dough. Onion pie with melted curds is baked for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. To leave the steam, before sending it to the oven, it is recommended to make holes in the dough with a fork.