It’s hard to find someone who wouldn’t like pies. If before, a traditional Russian dish was cooked in an oven, now modern ovens and slow cookers come to the aid of the housewives, in which you can make beautiful baked pasties.
Dish history
Since ancient times, pies have been prepared in Russia. We are all in childhood if grandmother baked goods with a variety of fillings. No wonder baked pies were so popular in ancient times among our ancestors. They are very satisfying, you can take them with you on the road and have a meal anywhere.
By the way, in Russia they treated the most dear guests with pies. With what only fillings did not bake in those days! Even the royal meal could not do without pies. Baking was in every home every day, as it was an important part of people's diet. Moreover, baked pies consumed all classes. Not all recipes have survived to this day. In addition, they have undergone significant changes. But from this, the pastries did not become less beautiful. If earlier baked pies regularly, then modern housewives pamper their relatives infrequently due to lack of time.
Dough recipe
Let's talk about how to make baked pastry dough.
Ingredients:
- a quarter cup of water (warm),
- fresh yeast (25 g),
- flour (580 g),
- sunflower oil (120 g),
- salt (two tsp),
- sugar (tsp).
Preparation of the dough for baked pasties will begin with the preparation of the dough. We pour yeast, sugar and a few tablespoons of flour into a glass of warm water. Stir the mass and leave for 15 minutes. After 25 minutes, it will increase in size and begin to foam.
To prepare the dough, prepare a convenient dish. A basin with wide edges is best suited. Sift the flour into it and add salt. Pour the yeast into the dry mass. Also pour a little warmed vegetable oil. Gradually add warm water. We do it in such a way as not to overdo it. The consistency of the test should not be too viscous, but not liquid. Knead it with your hands until it stops sticking. After we cover the basin with a clean towel. It must be put in a warm place for an hour. You can even in the oven preheated to 30 degrees. Dishes with dough should not be pulled and opened.
After an hour, the mass must be washed and again left to approach. And only after an hour you can start sculpting pies.
While the dough is suitable, you can start preparing the filling. We transfer the finished mass to the table and knead again. Next, we form a tourniquet from it. Divide it into equal parts and roll it into balls, roll in flour. Next, cover the blanks with a dry towel and let them come up for five to ten minutes. After we roll out each ball and lay out the filling. We fasten the edges of the dough and spread the pies on the baking sheet with parchment down the seam. Baking should be a little infused. Twenty minutes later, it can be put in the oven. Previously, the patties on top are greased with egg mass with a brush. Bake them for 10-15 minutes.
Pie toppings
We already mentioned that baked pies are cooked with a variety of fillings. We give only the most popular options:
- Mushrooms. Any mushrooms, including forest mushrooms (ceps, honey mushrooms, chanterelles, champignons and others) can serve as the filling. The main thing is to bring them to full readiness before putting them into the dough. Be sure to add onions to the mushrooms. In addition, they can be mixed with meat, potatoes, eggs or beans.
- Sausage, meat, ham. Baked meat pies - a delicious and satisfying dish. Add fried onions to the filling. You can also lay eggs, sweet peppers, cheese and other components. By the way, meat goes well with all cereals, so they can also be added to the filling.
- Baked egg pies is a classic. Fried or green onions are usually added to such a filling. The most popular are pies with rice, onions and eggs. And you can diversify the filling by adding fish, vegetables, meat, bacon.
- Liver. Tasty baked pies with liver are loved by many. True, if you use homemade filling.
- Potatoes. Boiled potatoes are mashed and mixed with fried onions, cracklings and pepper. Everyone likes this filling. Baked pies with potatoes are stored for a long time and are not stale. You can add mushrooms, cheese, meat, vegetables, and liver to the potato filling.
- Braised cabbage is incredibly tasty in pies. Perhaps this option is the most popular. You can also add slices of bacon, sausages, and prunes to the filling.
- Sauerkraut is also used for topping. Only pre-rinse and stew in a pan, adding vegetable oil, lingonberries and eggs.
- Fish. For the filling, you can use mackerel or hake. Boil the carcasses and cut on the fillet. After the meat is fried with onions and spices. The filling can be seasoned with sour cream or cream. In addition, eggs, dill, green onions, rice, spinach are perfectly combined with fish.
- Canned fish.
- Pea mash.
- Spinach and greens.
- Cheese. It is not only used as the main component for the filling, but is combined with other products: sausage, onion, eggs.
- Rice alone is not consumed. It is good as an additional ingredient. Greens, onions, and meat are usually added to it.
- Beans are delicious in pies. In addition, it is complemented by meat and mashed potatoes.
- Buckwheat is also good if you add fried onions, eggs, spices and herbs to it.
Sweet toppings
Sweet toppings for pies are no less in demand than salty. Among them, it is worth highlighting pastries with cottage cheese. She turns out incredibly gentle. You can add cottage cheese with apples and raisins.
In addition, baked pies in the oven are prepared with jam, marmalade and jams. True, you need to be able to work with such a filling, since it is quite liquid.
But the most delicious can safely be called baked pies with apples. They exude an amazing aroma. If you like cinnamon, then you can add it to the filling. From this, it will only become tastier. You can also add pears, lemon, cherries, plums, apricots, ginger and more.
Pies with nuts and dried fruits are very tasty: prunes, dried cherries, raisins, etc. Fruits are ground in a meat grinder and using a blender.
Baking is also prepared with bananas, custard, poppy seeds, chocolate and condensed milk.
Pies with eggs and cabbage: a recipe for cooking
Baked pies with cabbage and eggs - this is one of the most beloved and delicious options for baking.
Ingredients:
- sugar (140 g),
- milk (1/2 l),
- kg of flour
- tsp salt
- four eggs
- sunflower oil (210 ml),
- yeast (20 g).
For filling:
- head of cabbage,
- four eggs
- pepper,
- salt,
- yolk.
Most often, housewives cook baked yeast pies. We will also make yeast dough.
Pour heated milk (1/2 tbsp.) Into a large container. We add yeast and sugar to it. Mix the mass and cover with a towel on top. Leave it for 20 minutes.
Beat eggs to room temperature and pour in the remaining milk. We mix the mass with a whisk and add it to a liquid dough.
After adding salt, sugar, vegetable oil. Mix everything thoroughly.
Next, sift the flour and pour it in parts, kneading the dough. The result should be a mass that easily lags behind the hands and holds the shape of a ball. We shift the dough into a deep container, cover with a towel and leave it in a warm place for 1.5 hours. After some time, you need to knead him. And again, wait another forty minutes until it fits.
Since we were going to make baked pies with cabbage, we need to prepare the appropriate stuffing.
Shred the cabbage and transfer it to a preheated pan. Add salt, pepper and simmer over low heat. Depending on the variety of cabbage, it can cook up to 25 minutes. If necessary, water can be added to the cooking process.
Hard boil the eggs and chop them as small as possible. After the cabbage is ready, add the egg mass to it.
After all the components are ready, proceed to modeling. We put the finished pies on a baking sheet with parchment, grease them with a yolk on top of them with a brush. Billets must be infused for at least 30 minutes. After we send the pan to the oven. Baked yeast pies are cooked for 35-45 minutes.
Jam pies
Baked pies in a jam oven are always delicious.
Ingredients:
- Art. milk
- flour (580 g),
- 2 eggs,
- fresh yeast (30 g),
- oil drain. (85 g)
- salt (1/2 tsp),
- sugar (1/4 cup),
- jam or jam (350 g).
We drown the oil on the stove. We will prepare the dough for baked pies in the oven without dough. We heat milk to 30 degrees and breed yeast in it. Add sugar, salt, heated butter and eggs. The resulting mass is mixed well. Pour the sifted flour into it.
Knead the dough with your hands. After we put it in a basin and cover with a towel. In order for the mass to fit better, it can be placed in a steam bath. After an hour, crush the dough and leave to insist for another 60 minutes.
We divide the finished dough into pieces, each of which is rolled out and put the filling from thick jam inside. We place the pies on a baking sheet with parchment. Grease them with egg yolk and let them come up for 15 minutes. After baking them for at least 20 minutes.
Pies with cottage cheese
Baked yeast cakes with cottage cheese can be made salty and sweet. There are a variety of options for such baking. We offer to cook open pies with cottage cheese. Fragrant, soft and airy pastries will appeal not only to adults, but also to children.
Ingredients:
- sugar (120 g)
- kefir,
- milk or whey (0.5 L),
- vanilla sugar (pack),
- tsp salt
- 2 eggs,
- dry yeast (15 g),
- Art. l vegetable oil
- flour (850 g),
- oil cl. (90 g).
For filling:
- cottage cheese (850 g),
- sugar (to taste),
- vanilla.
Baked yeast pies with cottage cheese is the best treat.
Dissolve the yeast in the heated milk and add a couple of tablespoons of sugar and as many tablespoons of flour. Mix the whole mass and give it time to brew. After 15 minutes, the entire surface is covered with bubbles. After that, you can add sugar, eggs, salt, vegetable oil and vanilla. Mix the mass again and add the sifted flour. Next, knead the dough with your hands. At the very end, add the melted butter and knead the mass again. The dough should be soft and not stick too much to your hands. Now we transfer it to a deep container lubricated with vegetable oil. We cover it with a towel from above and put it in some warm place.
The dough may be suitable for two hours. After it we crush and divide into equal parts. We roll out each of them, put the filling and fasten the edges.
By the way, it is better to prepare the filling itself immediately before the formation of the pies. This is due to the fact that the sugar in the cottage cheese gradually begins to melt, the filling becomes more liquid. An egg and vanilla can be added to the mass, then mix thoroughly. As you can see, the filling is prepared in a matter of minutes.
With cottage cheese, you can cook closed or open pies like cheesecakes. In any case, the pastries are beautiful and tasty. Put the pies on a baking sheet with parchment and grease the surface with an egg. Within twenty minutes they should come up. After we send the pan to the oven. They are baked from 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the temperature of the oven. Ready-made pastries become rosy, which means that you need to get it.
Apple Filled Pies
Baked pies (product photos are given in the article), of course, are delicious with any filling. In the summer, you should definitely cook pastries with seasonal fruits and apples. You can use strawberries, currants, pears, cherries, apples and more. Modern housewives have long learned to freeze fruits and vegetables for the winter, so in the cold season you can please yourself with pastries. Pies with apples are very tasty. You can cook them almost at any time of the year, as they are always available.
Ingredients:
- milk (550 g)
- yeast (60 g)
- a glass of sugar
- margarine (55 g),
- 1.5 kilograms. flour
- three large apples, two or three eggs,
- vegetable oil (1/2 tbsp.).
Patties with apples are incredibly fragrant. Their advantage is that you can feast on them in the summer, autumn, winter and spring. Using different varieties of apples, you can get the filling of different consistencies. Summer varieties easily melt and turn into sweet mashed potatoes, while winter varieties have a more elastic consistency. Experienced cooks recommend putting cinnamon in the filling. Its unique flavor combined with apples is something amazing. By the way, the filling of apples and cinnamon is widely used not only for making pies, but also for any other baking.
To obtain a yeast dough, we dilute the yeast in the heated milk. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, vegetable oil. After falling asleep flour and knead the dough. It must be left for a while to make it fit. After an hour, we crush the mass and again leave it to insist.
While the dough is coming, we’ll make the apple filling. There are several options here. You can use raw fruits by adding sugar to them. And you can slightly let them on the stove. To do this, peel the apples from the skin. Dice and fill with sugar. The mass should be infused for ten minutes. Next, pour the apples into the pan and simmer on the very minimum heat for ten minutes. After some time, our filling will begin to caramelize and acquire a golden hue. To make it thicker, you can add a little starch.
Now back to our test, knead it and divide it into equal parts. Roll round billets, put in the middle of each filling and fasten the edges. Leave the baking to proof, greasing the surface with yolk. Fifteen minutes later, we put the pies into the oven and bake them for thirty minutes. Delicious sweet cakes are ready.
Meat pies
Minced pies - a classic baking recipe. We suggest using the simplest recipe for cooking.
Ingredients:
- butter (320 g),
- milk (220 ml),
- yeast (45 g)
- minced meat (580 g),
- tomato paste (two tablespoons),
- flour (four tbsp.),
- two onions
- 1 tsp Sahara.
Dissolve yeast in milk. Mash ghee, salt, sugar and flour. Mix the mass thoroughly and leave for an hour and a half.
For the filling, you can use any stuffing. Fry chopped onions in a pan, add tomato paste and simmer the products together. The resulting mass is transferred to the stuffing. Also salt and pepper the filling.
Roll the dough into a long mass, which we divide into parts and roll out the blanks for pies. In each we lay out the filling and fasten the edges. Lubricate the pies with egg mass and leave alone. After 15 minutes, send them to the oven. Baking takes 18 minutes.
Cakes with cherries
In the summer, you can treat yourself to pies with different fruit and berry fillings. In winter, frozen foods will come to the rescue, which are no less tasty in baking than fresh ones.
We offer a recipe for cakes with cherries. Perhaps such pastries are the most delicious. Lovers of these berries will appreciate it.
Ingredients:
- sugar (two tablespoons),
- warm milk (230 g),
- vanillin,
- salt (tsp)
- 2.5 tbsp. flour
- cherry (450 g),
- soda (tsp),
- butter (30 g),
- dry yeast (tsp).
Stir the yeast in warm milk. And drown butter in a water bath. In a separate bowl, mix the egg, ghee, sugar, vegetable oil and salt. Whip it with a whisk. Next, fill a glass of flour in a bowl with yeast. Mix everything and add a lot of eggs and sugar. At the same time, add the flour again. Knead the dough with your hands and transfer it to a pan greased with oil. Cover the container with a towel and leave for an hour.
And we ourselves begin to prepare the filling. We wash the cherries and remove the seeds from them. The process is troublesome, but to eat pies without pits is much more pleasant. Next, we divide the dough into parts and roll it into blanks. From them we form pies. Inside each, you need to put not only berries, but also add sugar. So the baking will turn out more sweet and tasty.
Instead of an afterword
As you can see, pies can be prepared with a variety of fillings. All of them are very tasty and good in their own way. Very often, housewives prepare a dish by mixing different ingredients. So, for example, you can use a mix of several fruits and berries, add dried fruits to the curd, and rice to the meat. There are many such options. In addition, no one forbids making their own adjustments and coming up with something new. In general, pies are the most delicious dish from childhood. From them blows warmth and love. And all the best is immediately remembered. Delight loved ones with pies, and you will get a lot of compliments.