We all sometimes want some delicious pastries, but often the contents of our refrigerator do not always correspond to our desires, and fussing with dough is not everyone's admiration. However, we hasten to please you: there are recipes that do not need long preparation and are not very expensive.
There is also an opinion that baking is not very useful. This, of course, is true, but sometimes, in order to maintain a good mood, we just need a piece of a delicious fragrant cake that returns us to a carefree childhood for a moment. And if you put a useful filling in it, then such pastries can hardly be called harmful.
Today we’ll talk about such culinary delights as minced fish pie.
What is good baking with fish?
So, let's discuss the benefits of fish pie.
- Fish is very healthy, but not everyone loves it. In a tandem with delicious dough, even the most picky gourmet will not refuse it.
- In the pie, fish can be combined with other nutritious products, so with one dish you will provide a gourmet dinner for the whole family.
- If you have uninvited guests on your doorstep and you don’t know what to treat them to, you will be saved by puff pastry or yeast dough prepared for future use and canned fish: you will be able to reproduce such a culinary miracle as minced fish pie (a recipe with a photo of which you will find) in this article).
- For most fish pies you can use inexpensive products, which significantly reduces the cost of such baking.
- Some recipes described in our article are so quick and unpretentious in execution that even a novice will cope with them.
You can vary the ingredients in the fish cake according to the set of products in your refrigerator.
In this article, we will provide you with several baking recipes for every taste. Following our master classes, you can prepare a pie with minced fish of any complexity.
Fish pizza
Pie with minced fish, the recipe of which will now be described, is called "Fish Pizza." Of course, such a product has little to do with real pizza. Most likely, he was so named only because of the similarity of forms with his Italian namesake, but be sure: such a pie will delight you, your guests and members of the household.
By the way, this is one of the five-minute recipes that will save you if suddenly the guests suddenly come.
The ingredients that you will need for such a "pizza":
For the test (the number of products is two to three times higher than the required minimum for one fish pizza, the rest of the test can lie for three days in the refrigerator and twelve weeks in the freezer):
- Wheat flour - 1 kg.
- Fat milk - 1.5 tbsp.
- Fast yeast - 1 small bag.
- Baking powder - 1 sachet.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Sugar ordinary - 2 tbsp. l
- Coarse salt 1.5 tsp.
By the way, this dough can be used for real pizza or for any other savory pastries.
For filling:
- Canned fish in oil (for example, mackerel or horse mackerel) - 1-2 cans (depending on what size you want to get fish pizza).
- Large onion - 1 pc.
- Mayonnaise - 1 pack
- Sunflower refined deodorized oil - 2-3 tbsp. l
- Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
- Any milk - 2 tbsp. l
- Coarse black pepper to taste.
Cooking!
- Preheat milk to 40 degrees.
- Pour sugar and yeast into it.
- Leave the yeast to interact with milk and sugar for 5 minutes.
- In a separate container, mix the sifted flour, salt and baking powder.
- Add dry ingredients to the milk mixture and beat the egg.
- Knead the dough until it no longer sticks to your hands, has a thick but not clogged consistency.
- Let the dough stand in a place without drafts for 40 minutes, after covering it with a kitchen towel.
- Knead again.
- Place the dough in the mold, spreading it with a sufficiently thin layer, while raising the sides by 2 cm (if you do not have a round shape, use a frying pan with a metal handle).
- Put the canned fish in a bowl with the liquid and mash with a fork to the state of mincemeat.
- Cut the onion into a small cube.
- Pour the vegetable oil into a skillet and pass the onion in it until golden brown.
- Mix onions with canned fish and black pepper.
- Put the filling on the cake and brush it on top with a not very thick layer of mayonnaise.
- Beat the egg and milk and grease the pie with this mass (both the dough and the filling).
- Put the pizza in the oven heated to 180 degrees for about 30 minutes (you can check the readiness of the dough by piercing it with a match or a toothpick, if the match is dry - the dough is ready).
Pie with minced fish from yeast dough is ready! Of course, you can use purchased dough, but made with your own hands, with love, it is always tastier and healthier.
Puff pastry fish mince pie
Who does not like tasty, crunchy, multi-layered dough? There are many recipes for its preparation, however this is a rather complicated and lengthy process, therefore, we advise you not to suffer and buy a ready-made product in the store.
Having a couple of packages of this semi-finished product in the freezer is a very clever decision, because you can make a lot of delicious pastries in a matter of minutes from puff pastry, including a pie with minced fish.
- Puff pastry - 0.5 kg.
- Fish 0.5 kg (it is advisable to take one that does not contain very many bones, but for lack of it any other will do).
- Boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Large onion - 1 pc.
- Raw Egg - 1 pc.
- Lemon pepper - 1 tsp. (not necessary).
- Salt - to taste.
- Coarse black pepper - to taste.
- Mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l
- Vegetable oil.
Cooking method
- Finely chop or grind the fish in a meat grinder, cleaned of bones, skin and viscera.
- Cut the onion into a small dice.
- We pass the onion cubes until they acquire a golden brown hue, add them to the minced fish.
- We fry everything on high heat (you need to stir constantly).
- Cut finely boiled eggs and add to the fish with onions.
- We send mayonnaise, salt and spices there (if you want to save, you can take 300 g of fish and 200 g of boiled rice).
- Mix the filling well.
- We lay the puff pastry so that a quarter of one sheet lies on the second.
- In the middle we spread the filling with a strip so that the width of the strips of free dough on one and the other side is equal to the width of the filling.
- Cut the free parts across, about 5 mm short of the filling, into strips of 2 cm.
- We bend them over the minced meat to get a pattern that looks like a braid.
- Grease the dough with a beaten raw egg.
- We put the pie with minced fish in the oven heated to 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes (check the readiness of the test with a toothpick).
- We take out the finished baked goods and give it a "rest" for about 10 minutes.
By the way, such a layer cake with minced fish can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from the remains of boiled or baked fish.
On your table, amazingly beautiful and very tasty pastries, the preparation of which took quite a bit of time.
Jellied fish mince pie (with photo)
Here is another recipe for baking fish, which can be done very quickly. This dish from batter is easy to prepare, and it is also inexpensive and very nutritious, because in addition to canned fish, it also includes potatoes. Jellied pie with minced fish will certainly surprise your family and friends.
Ingredients:
Dough:
- Low-fat sour cream - 250 g.
- Wheat flour 6 tbsp. l
- Fat mayonnaise - 250 g.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Soda - half a teaspoon.
- Raw eggs - 3 pcs.
For filling:
- Saira - 2 cans.
- Potato - 3 medium tubers.
- Large onion - 1 pc.
Cooking process
- Beat 3 eggs with a pinch of salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and mayonnaise.
- Pour the sour cream-mayonnaise mixture to the eggs.
- Add flour and soda to it.
- Mix everything well with a whisk or fork.
- Peel and grate the potatoes.
- Mash canned fish with a fork until minced.
- Cut the onion into a small dice.
- Wipe the form with a piece of butter.
- Pour half the dough into it.
- Lay the grated potatoes evenly on top of the dough.
- Pour onion layer.
- Lay a fish filling on a layer of potatoes and onions.
- Fill everything with an even layer of leftover dough.
- Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
So you have prepared a tender and very tasty pie with minced fish and jellied dough, which will surely become your signature dish in case of unexpected arrival of guests.
Another recipe for puff fish pie
We offer you one more way how to make minced fish pie . This dish will decorate any festive table, and your guests will definitely ask you to share the recipe.
This dish is more refined than the previous ones, but no less easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
- Fish - 0.5 kg.
- Puff yeast-free dough - 0.5 kg.
- Boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- Raw Egg - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 100 g.
- Nuts (walnuts are best suited) - 3 tbsp. l
- Butter is a third of a pack.
- Salt pepper.
- Flavourless sunflower oil.
- Salted crackers - 5 pcs.
Action algorithm
- Twist peeled and milled fish in a meat grinder.
- Add black pepper, half the butter and a raw egg to the ground meat.
- Cut the onion into half rings.
- Strain the onion until it has a golden brown tint.
- Finely chop the boiled eggs.
- Mix eggs with fried onions.
- Grate the cheese and add it to the onion and egg mixture.
- Using a rolling pin, turn the dough into an even square 0.5 cm thick.
- Squeeze the edges and lay the cake on a baking sheet.
- Place the cake in an oven heated to 180 degrees for half an hour.
Today we have described several options for how to make a fish pie, so detailed that even a person who is far from cooking, step by step following our master classes, can prepare his own culinary delight.
We hope that after reading this article, you understand that storing canned fish and frozen dough is a very good solution, because these are the products that will allow you to cook a festive dinner in a hurry.
Cook with love and pleasure!