Homemade pies are always a tasty and satisfying treat that will be enjoyed by all family members. However, in addition to the usual filling - potatoes and meat, you can experiment and cook something new. For example, supplement the recipe with fish. And in order not to worry about readiness, it is best to use canned food.
Puff pastry pie with canned fish
Products required for the pie:
- Canned saury in oil - two jars.
- Puff pastry - one kilogram.
- Eggs are two.
- Onions - two pieces.
- Rice of long varieties - two hundred grams.
- Refined oil - seventy milliliters.
- Green onions - six stalks.
- Dried thyme - one and a half bunch.
- Flour - half a glass.
Cooking fish cake
Before you begin the process of making a pie of puff pastry with canned fish, you must initially prepare all the necessary products. First you need to boil until cooked rice. Sort the grains, rinse the right number of times and pour into the pan. Pour in cold water twice as large as rice. Pour a small amount of salt, and spices can also be added to taste. When the water with rice boils, twenty minutes of cooking will be enough for the rice to fully cook. Turn off the heat and leave the rice in the water under the lid for another ten minutes. Then shift in a colander and leave to drain all the water. Rice for fish cake from puff pastry is ready.
Now it's the turn of the onion. Peel, rinse and chop onions with thin half rings. The washed feathers of green onions are also finely chopped. Heat the pan with refined oil poured into it on a stove and put finely chopped onions and green onions. You need only to soften the onion for the fish pie from the puff pastry, you do not need to bring the onion to a dark color. Lightly passerized onions in a bowl.
Next, following the step-by-step recipe for fish pie from puff pastry, you need to open jars of canned saury in oil. From the jars, immediately transfer the fish to a colander and wait until the oil drains. Now, in a bowl with sautéed onions, add the long rice boiled until tender and canned saury. Knead everything with a regular table fork. Thyme leaves are added to the resulting mass. If necessary, you can still salt. Then be sure to mix everything well so that the mass of products becomes uniform. The filling for the puff pastry fish pie is ready.
Cake making
During the time it took to prepare the filling, the puff pastry completely thawed, and it can already be rolled out. Sprinkle plenty of wheat flour on the kitchen table. Place half of the dough on it and roll it into a layer, a little larger than the size of the pan in which the cake will be baked. Lubricate the pan with refined oil and place a rolled layer of puff pastry in it. Spread the filling evenly on top. Add more flour to the table and roll out the second half of puff pastry.
Place a layer of dough on the filling, connect the bottom layer with the top and pinch the edges. Break two eggs into a small bowl and beat them. The resulting egg mixture is good to lubricate the entire surface of the fish pie. Such a cake is baked in the oven for only fifteen to twenty minutes at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees. It cooks so fast, because the puff pastry is quite thin and does not bake for long, and the filling in the pie was ready even before it was sent to the oven. Recipe canned fish pie in puff pastry leave a little to cool. Then cut it into pieces of suitable size and treat them to friends at the festive table.
Pie filled with tuna, eggs and green peas
List of needed ingredients:
- Canned tuna - five hundred grams.
- Puff yeast dough - one kilogram.
- Eggs - six pieces.
- Frozen peas - half a glass.
- Rice - six tablespoons.
- Butter - forty grams.
- Green onion - ten pieces.
- Flour - two tablespoons.
- Salt is a third of a teaspoon.
- Milk - one glass.
Cooking process
Puff yeast dough fish pie is a fragrant and delicious homemade pastry. In addition to the fact that the fish pie, without a doubt, will occupy a central place on the table, it is also a rather satisfying treat. Having bought all the necessary products for fish pie from puff yeast dough in advance, you can start cooking it. Rice is well reviewed for garbage, small pebbles and damaged grains. Then rinse it to clean, not cloudy, water and put in a small saucepan. Pour cold water and cook rice until cooked. Water, of course, must be drained, and rice temporarily set aside.
Next, place the frozen peas in a pan, add water and cook after boiling for four minutes. Throw in a colander, and then place in a small bowl. Four chicken eggs, dip in slightly salted water and cook for nine minutes after boiling over moderate heat. Drain boiling water, instantly refill the dishes with eggs with running water. Leave them in it until completely cooled. Then it is easy to peel the shell from them.
The main ingredient of the filling is tuna. According to the recipe for fish pie from puff yeast dough, you must first put it in a colander. Wait until all unnecessary oil drains and transfer to a separate container. Continuing the cooking process, you need to take the stewpan and put a piece of oil in it. Melt over very low heat. Add flour and mix well to avoid lumping. Pour hot boiled milk into a mixture of flour and oil. Without ceasing to stir, cook the sauce for four minutes.
After that, add boiled green peas, finely chopped green onion to the stewpan and cooked rice until cooked. All the components of the filling of the fish pie, mixed together, until put aside and do the dough.
Preparation of the test and the formation of the pie
The dough will need to be cut into four equal parts. And then roll out on a table sprinkled with flour, each of them in the shape of a rectangle. The filling is also divided into four servings. On a rolled rectangle of dough, spread the fourth part of the tuna along the center. Then lay a portion of the filling on top of the fish, onto which place the sliced chicken eggs.
Next, cut the edges on both sides with a well-ground knife at an angle into strips one centimeter wide. From the resulting strips it will be necessary to weave a pigtail, closing it with the filling inside. Wrap the edges on both sides and pinch a little. Also form three more fish pies from the remaining dough and toppings. Smear two baking sheets with oil and lay baking parchment on their bottom. Place two cooked fish pies on each baking sheet. From above it is good to grease with two beaten chicken eggs with salt.
During the preparatory process, the included oven of the gas stove was heated to one hundred and ninety degrees. Place both baking sheets in it and bake pies for thirty to forty minutes. If desired, before sending the pies to the oven, they can be sprinkled with sesame seeds. Ready-made, toasted, crispy pies with delicious fish filling are perfect for dinner as a main dish. Also, such a delicate pie can be served as homemade cake for tea.
Fish pie with potatoes
Required Products:
- Fillet of sea fish - three hundred grams.
- Potato - eight hundred grams.
- Puff pastry - eight hundred grams.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Ground pepper - a couple of pinches.
- Onions - three hundred grams.
- Oil - a third of a glass.
Cooking a simple fish pie
It would seem that fish, potatoes and onions are so simple ingredients that one can doubt the taste of the future pie. But do not rush to draw conclusions, but using a step-by-step recipe in cooking a fish pie from puff pastry, bake a juicy and delicious home-made pie. In this pie, you first need to get the dough out of the freezer so that it completely thawed. Then, dividing it in half, roll one half the size of the pan. Using a brush, put oil on the bottom of the pan and lay the baking paper on top.
Lay the rolled out half of puff pastry on a baking sheet and gently press it with your hand. The dough should also close the walls of the pan. Next, we will lay in layers our filling, consisting of simple products. The first layer will be from peeled and thinly sliced potatoes. They need to cover completely the entire surface of the dough. Potatoes must be sprinkled with ground pepper and salt. The peeled onion rings will go the second layer in our puff pastry fish pie. And the final layer will be from diced pangasius fillet.
The end of the formation and baking
Do not forget to sprinkle the fish with black pepper and salt. Next, you need to roll out the second half of the puff pastry and cover it with the filling laid in layers. Connect the ends of the upper and lower halves of the dough and pinch them well. Place the baking tray with the future fish cake in the center of the oven and bake for fifty minutes at a temperature of one hundred and ninety degrees. Remove the baked goods from the oven and cool slightly. Cut into portions and serve it still warm. Fish cake made from puff pastry and in cold form remains as tasty.
A delicious and satisfying dish, prepared with your own hands, always causes a storm of emotions. And the reviews about the dish can be found different. Some people like pies with fish, someone thinks that the smell and taste of marine life are not suitable for puff pastry. But for the most part, reviews of fish pies are positive. Mistresses note that cooking them is quite simple. At the same time, a wide variety of canned food allows you to choose the fish to your taste.