Pygody - that's what steamed pies with cabbage and meat are called. They are traditionally cooked in Korea. However, they are very tasty and original. For this reason, every housewife can easily surprise her home with such a dish.
What is needed for pies? Ingredients
To prepare the dough for steamed pies, you need to take:
- 600 grams of flour;
- 20 grams of raw yeast;
- 330 ml of water;
- a tablespoon of sugar;
- a teaspoon of salt.
For the filling leave:
- 450 grams of chicken;
- onion head;
- a small head of cabbage;
- a tablespoon of ground paprika;
- vegetable oil;
- favorite spices;
- soy sauce.
You can also add Korean carrots, but this is optional. With her, Korean cabbage pies for a couple are more savory.
Cooking pies
Water is slightly heated, it should be warm. Pour it into a bowl. Yeast is added and the mass is stirred until it dissolves. Add sugar. Combine flour and salt separately. The dry mass is sieved and added in portions to water, knead the dough. It must be elastic. It is likely that part of the flour will remain, you need to look at the consistency of the dough. After it add a little vegetable oil, knead again. The finished dough is covered with a towel and left for an hour in a warm place.
For the filling, the cabbage is chopped, the chicken fillet is washed and cut into cubes. Peel and finely chop the onion. Slaw cabbage is crushed by hands so that it releases juice.
Heat oil in a pan. First, fry the onion on it, then add the meat. When the ingredients are slightly browned, add cabbage to them. All stew until tender, add spices. Cover the dish and hold for a few more minutes. After cooling, stuffing for steamed pies with cabbage.
The dough is laid out on the table, divided into about 12 parts. The lattice of a double boiler is greased with oil so that the pies do not stick. The dough ball is rolled out, the filling is placed in it, and closed like ordinary pies. Lay the product on the grate of a double boiler. So do with all the pies. Leave them covered for another ten minutes so that they rest. It is better to lay out the pygody at a distance from each other.
Steam the cakes for 45 minutes. After the time has expired, they do not immediately open the double boiler, but let the pies stand for another five minutes so that they do not fall. They are served both hot and cold.
Delicious Beef Recipe
To cook steamed meat patties, you need to take:
- Two kilograms of yeast dough.
- 500 grams of cabbage.
- The same amount of beef.
- Three onion heads.
- Some salt and black pepper.
- A tablespoon of vegetable oil.
Also, various spices, for example, ground coriander or smoked paprika, are suitable for this recipe for steamed pies.
How to make pies: step by step description
The meat is washed, cut into small pieces. By the way, you can use minced meat, but then you should calculate the cooking time, because the meat takes longer to cook.
Peel and cut the onion into small cubes. Shredded cabbage, removing the stump and thick veins on the sheets. Shredded cabbage is salted, slightly creased so that it is juicier. The resulting liquid is drained. Add a little oil to the pan, and then lightly fry the cabbage on it. They try to really have little oil. The main thing is that the cabbage does not burn.
In a deep bowl put meat, chopped onions, cabbage. Salted and seasoned with your favorite spices. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients.
From the dough make cakes the size of a pancake. In the middle of each lay the filling, fasten the edges. Place the pies in a mantovark, oiled. The dough in the process of making pies for a couple will rise, so it is worth laying out the pastries at a distance from each other. Cooking cakes for about 45 minutes. Cooking takes about thirty minutes with minced meat. Steamed Korean pies with meat served with sour cream sauce, as well as vegetables.
Another delicious and easy recipe.
For this option of pies, you need to take the following ingredients:
- head of cabbage;
- any meat, preferably with fat;
- four bow heads;
- salt and cilantro seeds.
The dough is allowed to take ready-made, but you can do it yourself. To do this, take:
- 500 grams of flour;
- 300 ml of water;
- a teaspoon of dried yeast;
- a tablespoon of sugar;
- a teaspoon of salt.
You can also use any spices to taste.
Recipe Description
To begin with, the water is heated to 30 degrees so that it is warm. At this temperature, the yeast feels comfortable. Salt, sugar and yeast are added to the water, mixed to dissolve all the ingredients. Pre-sifted flour is added. Knead the dough, which is very soft. It is put in a large bowl. Immediately it is worth considering that it will increase in size, so you should choose more dishes.
The surface of the dough is greased with a small amount of vegetable oil. This simple action helps to avoid clogging the dough. Cover the blank with a towel, leave it for two hours. When the dough rises, it is slightly wrinkled, and then left for another hour.
For the filling, the onions are peeled and cut into small cubes. Chop the cabbage. It is slightly salted, crushed. When the juice is formed, it is drained. Finely chopped meat, onions and cabbage are fried over medium heat. You can add oil so that the ingredients do not burn. As a result, the excess liquid from the ingredients should evaporate. Season the finished filling with salt and cilantro seeds, leave it to cool.
The finished dough is cut into pieces, each rolled to a thickness of about a centimeter, put the filling in the middle and close the pie in any convenient way. The pies are laid out in a pressure cooker, at a certain distance from each other. The surface itself is best lubricated with oil. Leave the pygody for fifteen minutes to insist. Steamed pies are cooked for about 40 minutes. Served with salads, light vegetable dishes.
Interesting serving of pies
What is needed for a beautiful serving? Often they mean sauces. But you can also decorate the pygody with carrot salad. To do this, take:
- a couple of carrots;
- two cloves of garlic;
- seasoning for carrots in Korean - to taste;
- on a tablespoon of vegetable oil and vinegar.
Carrots rub on a grater. Garlic is peeled, chopped finely. Combine seasoning, garlic and carrots, mix. Heat the oil, and then pour vinegar into it. Immediately pour the carrots with the mixture and stir. Leave in the refrigerator for an hour.
Ready cakes are cut lengthwise, put in the middle of a carrot salad. Served in portioned plates.
Delicious chicken pies
In this embodiment, already boiled fillet is used. For example, the rest from dinner. For this dish you need to take:
- 1.5 kilograms of yeast dough;
- a kilogram of cabbage;
- 200 grams of boiled fillet;
- a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- some salt and pepper.
The dough can be bought or prepared in advance according to any of the recipes.
Chilled chicken breast cut into strips. You can also disassemble it into fibers. Cabbage is finely chopped. Oil is poured into the pan, heated. Fry the cabbage on it, add spices. They look to taste, many prefer spicy pies, add red pepper. The cabbage is cooled and chicken fillet is added to it. The steamer trays are oiled to prevent the patties from sticking.
Cut the dough into small pieces, crush each of them with your hands, and then roll out. They put the filling in the middle, fix it. Place the pies in a double boiler, at some distance from each other. Leave for ten minutes. After cooking the steamed pies for about 40 minutes. Appetizing pygodies served with sauce or vegetable salad.
Korean yeast pastry cakes with various fillings are gradually entering the lives of residents of other countries. There are many recipes for their preparation. Delicious pies with cabbage and meat can replace a full dinner. Since they are not fried, but steamed, they turn out to be much more healthy and less high in calories than the usual baking options. Also, in some recipes, the filling is not even fried, which reduces the already low calorie content. In addition, you can safely experiment with spices, getting new tastes.