Traditionally, this rich, truly royal dish was intended for solemn festive feasts. However, today, when salmon (valuable and quite expensive fish) is already quite easy to buy in the supermarket or fish department of any grocery store, the housewives cook it on ordinary days, just for a family dinner. How to make puff pastry salmon pie? Let's talk about this in our article.
General principles for creating a dish
Pie with salmon can be prepared from various types of dough - both fresh and yeast, sour cream, puff, puff and yeast, etc. The exception is sweet and dessert dough - it is not suitable for this baking. How to make salmon pie? Recipes and photo dishes can be found in this article.
First, prepare the fish fillet, removing all bones from it. There are few of them in salmon, because this process usually does not make much work for the hostess. Many add slices of fillet in the filling with fresh finely chopped onions (onions), add potatoes and chopped boiled chicken eggs, cut into thin plastic.
Of course, a delicious salmon pie (we will offer a recipe with a photo below) can be prepared without any additional ingredients, since this juicy, fatty fish is tasty in itself and is considered completely self-sufficient in cooking. Only some spices can be added to it, for example, salt (preferably sea), pepper (ground black), bay leaf. The fillet of fish fillet is placed on a rolled dough, on top they cover with another layer of rolled dough, after which the edges of both dough juices are plucked. From above, make a hole in the pie or chop it in several places with a fork. This is necessary so that during the preparation of baking, the air from the filling freely exits, and the cake does not swell during baking. The dish is greased with an egg (whipped) or oil (vegetable) and put in the oven to bake until a golden crust appears on its surface.
Ready salmon pie (recipes with photos step by step we present below) are served on the festive table as an unsurpassed fish snack. Many people find this dish excellent both in hot and in warm or chilled form.
Cooking does not take long if you use ready-made puff pastry for it. Many housewives often pamper their loved ones with this wonderful dish. The recipe for a pie with salmon from puff pastry (prepared yeast).
About choosing a test
As you know, puff pastry is of two types: yeast and yeast-free. Mistresses choose based on their preferences. To prepare a light thin cake, use dough prepared without yeast. If you want to make more voluminous baking, you should use a yeast product. In this case, we will prepare a pie of salmon from puff pastry namely yeast.
Ingredients
To prepare 6-8 servings of a pie from puff yeast dough with salmon, use:
- 400 g salmon fillet;
- 500 g of dough (puff yeast);
- 2 onions (onions);
- to taste - salt and pepper (ground black);
- three tablespoons of oil (vegetable).
Cooking steps
Puff pastry made from salmon is prepared as follows:
- The dough (puff) is preliminarily laid out to defrost (for this, use room temperature). Since the baking will be closed, thawed dough should be cut into two parts.
- After this, you need to do the filling. Dice the onion, fry it for 6 minutes until soft. Cut the salmon into small squares, salt, pepper and send to the onion to fry.
- Next, put the dough on the oiled form (if necessary, pre-roll it), put the onion and salmon filling on top of it.
- The second layer of dough is rolled out, the filling is covered with it, then the edges of this fish pie are plucked. The main thing is to leave a small hole on top.
The cake will be ready in 35 minutes, which can be found out by its golden crust and wonderful aroma.
"Goldfish" (holiday pie with salmon)
To prepare 8 servings of the dish use:
- 450 g of dough (puff yeast);
- 300 g of salmon;
- eggs (chicken): 3 pcs. (2 pcs. For filling, 1 pc. For lubrication);
- pepper and salt to taste;
- greens (parsley, onion, dill) - to taste;
- mayonnaise.
How to cook step by step?
Cooking takes 45 minutes:
- The dough is rolled out and divided into 2 parts (equal). An oval is cut out in one part of the dough (a fish will be made of it) and several strips up to 1.5 cm wide
- Spread the dough on a baking sheet, fix the strips along the edges with a beaten egg. Bake in the oven at 200 ° C for about 10 minutes.
- While one side of the "golden fish" is baked, you can do the cooking of the filling. Boiled eggs, fresh salmon and greens ripple finely, add pepper and salt and season with mayonnaise.
- In the rest of the puff pastry, a triangle is cut out - it will be the head of a "goldfish", 2 identical figures in the shape of a fish tail, as well as several circles with a diameter of 3 cm - to create a "scale".
- In the form of the dough spread the filling. A triangle cut out of dough is placed on top, on the other hand a two-layer “tail” is attached, and starting from it, lay out circles.
- To make the filling better baked, you need to leave a small hole in the pie. The surface of the product should be greased with a beaten egg - then the “fish” will turn out to be truly “golden”. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C for 10-15 minutes.
Cottage cheese fish pie
You can also cook pastry with puff pastry and salmon pie. As ingredients use:
- 900 g of dough (puff yeast);
- 600 g - salmon (steaks);
- 200 grams of cottage cheese (granular);
- dill - one bunch;
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- 2 table. tablespoons of capers or pickled gherkins;
- 200 g of mozzarella (mini or regular, cut into cubes);
- 1 egg (chicken);
- 200 ml cream (better - 10% fat content);
- 100 g cream cheese.
Cooking method
Prepare the dish like this:
- Grind salmon fillet, chop the greens (parsley and dill). Granular cottage cheese is thrown on a sieve, capers are crushed, mozzarella (mini) is cut into circles.
- Puff pastry spread on the size of the form, not forgetting to form the sides.
- Cottage cheese (granular) is distributed over the entire surface of the dough (you must first fold it onto a sieve, squeezing out the moisture well, otherwise the bottom of the baking will turn scummy).
- The second layer is put chopped greens (parsley and dill), mixing them with capers.
- The third layer is laid salmon fillet. Salt, pepper.
- The final layer spread mozzarella circles.
- Top the pie with a second layer of dough and pinch the edges.
- The surface is greased with an egg (whipped) and incisions (cruciform) are made for the free exit of steam.
- Then the cake is put in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 190 ° C and baked for 25-30 minutes, until a golden crust appears.
The finished cake is removed from the mold, cooled on a wire rack, after which it is laid out on a dish and served on the table.
Salmon pie with cottage cheese and cheese sauce
This cake will be very tasty if served with cheese sauce. To prepare the sauce, use 10% cream (200 ml), bring to a boil, then add cream cheese (100 grams) and one tablespoon of finely chopped dill. The density of the sauce is adjusted to taste by either reducing the amount of cheese or increasing the amount of cream. The composition is mixed until smooth. A piece of cake is poured with cheese sauce and enjoy its taste. The sauce used for this pie can also be served with fish, sausages, fish or as a bread spread. And if you give another cup of broth (fish) to a piece of the pie, you can have lunch or dinner quite thoroughly.
Puff pastry pie made from salmon and spinach
This recipe uses yeast-free puff pastry (ready-made), as well as a filling of salmon (smoked), spinach and cheese. It turns out a very delicate cake with an indescribable creamy taste. The ingredients used are:
- yeast-free puff pastry (one layer);
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cream - 150 ml;
- cheese - 150 g;
- slightly salted salmon - 300 g;
- dill - one bunch;
- garlic (chopped) - 2 cloves;
- salt and pepper - to taste;
- spinach (frozen) - 300-400 g.
From the presented number of products, 6 servings of the dish are obtained.
How to cook?
It takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to create a dish:
- The dough is rolled out and laid in a form covered with parchment, so that the edges hang slightly from the sides.
- To prepare the filling, beat the eggs, add the cream, whip again. Add cheese (grated), diced fish, garlic and dill.
- Thin the spinach and lay it in a colander, the excess water is drained. Fresh spinach is poured with boiling water.
- First, spinach is laid on the dough, then the fish filling.
- The edges of the dough are wrapped, but closing the cake completely is not recommended. The edges are greased with butter (creamy) egg (whipped).
Bake for half an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C. Enjoy your meal!