Fasting is a kind of strength test that not everyone is able to withstand. After all, there are times when you want something tasty, but you can only cabbage soup and cereal. What to do to calm the raging hunger? Cakes come to the rescue, in which the filling is lean! For pies, it’s not at all necessary to use meat or cottage cheese. As they say, there would be a desire. And, of course, a little imagination won't hurt either. In this article, we will offer lean fillings for pies for the most demanding tastes, as well as provide the option of preparing a suitable test. We hope that with our help the post will not be so complicated, and most importantly - it will be pleasant and varied. And let its zest be the filling for pies. Recipes with photos and toppings in all its variations are at your service!
Lean dough
To prepare a delicious lean dough for pies, we need these products:
- Wheat flour - 800 grams.
- Vegetable oil - 180 milliliters.
- Fresh yeast - 50 grams.
- Water - 1.5 cups.
- Sugar - 0.5 cups.
- Vanilla is on the tip of a knife.
- Salt - 1.5 teaspoons.
To bake lean patties, the filling should be freshly prepared, but the dough is best done in the evening. So it’s better suited, and the baking will turn out magnificent and soft.
Take a large 5-liter pan and pour warm water into it. Then add sugar and yeast there and mix until the yeast is completely dissolved.
Then add oil, vanilla and salt to this mixture, mix and carefully introduce the sifted flour. Knead the dough thoroughly: it should be soft, uniform and slightly sticky to the hands.
We cover the pan with the dough and put it overnight in the refrigerator. In the morning, after preparing lean fillings for pies (preferably a few, for a change), we take out our dough, divide it into equal parts and roll the balls. We lay them on a work surface greased with vegetable oil: for example, a large cutting board, baking sheet or table. At the same time, the room should be warm so that our dough rises a little more. After 30-40 minutes, we form pies from the dough and bake in the oven preheated to 190 degrees for 15-20 minutes until a golden crust is formed.
Rice and Spinach
How to pamper your household to make it tasty? Lenten filling for pies with rice and spinach is not only an interesting combination, but also a storehouse of vitamins. Learn how to cook it.
- Take the frozen spinach and, if necessary, cut. Then stew it in a deep frying pan in vegetable oil until cooked. No salt needed.
- Boil the rice and mix it with the finished spinach, add salt and spices to taste and fill our pies.
Potatoes and green onions
Lenten filling for pies with potatoes and a green onion will not leave anyone indifferent. To cook it, you need:
- Peel the potatoes, rinse, cut into 4 parts and boil until cooked. Drain the water, leaving a cup of broth.
- Turn the boiled potatoes into mashed potatoes using a special pusher or blender, gradually adding the left decoction and salt and black pepper to taste. The consistency puree should be like fat sour cream. Allow to cool.
- Finely chop the green onion feathers and mix with mashed potatoes. Lenten filling for pies with potatoes and onions is ready!
Cabbage and spices
Lean stuffing for pies from cabbage - it is very tasty! To cook it, you need:
- Chop the cabbage, fry in a pan with vegetable oil until golden brown, then reduce heat, add spices and simmer until cooked. By the way, instead of fresh, you can use sauerkraut.
- In addition, the lean filling for pies with cabbage goes well with mashed potatoes when mixed in equal proportions.
Apples and Walnuts
Lean fillings for pies can be not only vegetable, but also fruit, and even berry. We bring to your attention one of the recipes:
- Select apples (preferably sour), wash them and peel and seeds. Do not rub them - it is better to cut into small cubes.
- Remove the walnuts from the shell, lightly fry in a pan without adding oil, then chop.
- Combine chopped apples with walnuts, add granulated sugar and a little cinnamon, mix thoroughly.
Mushrooms and potatoes
Lean filling for pies with mushrooms and potatoes is, so to speak, a classic of the genre. To cook it, you need:
- Peel and wash the potatoes and boil until cooked. Make mashed potatoes.
- Mushrooms (preferably oyster mushroom), wash and cut into strips.
- Peel onions and cut into small cubes.
- Put a frying pan on the fire, pour vegetable oil and fry the mushrooms with onions with the addition of salt and black pepper.
- Combine mashed potatoes and mushrooms fried with onions in one container. That’s all wisdom!
Rice and champignons
Another great flavor combination is a lean filling for pies with rice and mushrooms.
- Boil and rinse with cold water rice, set aside.
- Cut the champignons into plates, pour over boiling water and fry with onions until cooked.
- Add the fried champignons to the rice, salt to taste.
Assorted Vegetables
Very tasty and juicy are obtained lean patties stuffed with various vegetables. Here, for example, is the recipe for one of them:
- Take the leek and cut it into cubes. Then fry in vegetable oil and simmer until cooked with spices.
- Next, cut the bell peppers in short strips and shift to the onion. There you can add quarters of cherry tomatoes, fried mushrooms and eggplant. By the way, lean filling for rice pies will be perfectly combined with the above set of vegetables.
Sweet beans
Lenten filling for bean pies is unusual and original. To cook it, you need to soak 300 grams of beans overnight in water so that it swells, then boil it, and until it has cooled, turn it into a puree with a blender with the addition of juice of half a lemon and 100 grams of sugar.
Dried fruits
Stuffed dried fruits are rarely found in pies - usually they add the usual foods, such as cabbage, rice and potatoes. We offer you to experiment! We need the following ingredients:
- Dried fruits (any) - 400 grams.
- Honey - 0.5 cups
- Lemon zest to taste
- Cinnamon to taste.
First of all, wash dried fruits and steam them with boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse thoroughly again.
Pour dried fruit with water and cook until tender. By the way, a decoction of them with the addition of sugar is very tasty!
Cut the finished dried fruit into small cubes or straws, combine with honey, cinnamon and lemon zest. Mix until smooth, cool and stuff the pies.
Peas, garlic and onions
To prepare a spicy filling for lean pies, take:
- Dried peas - 1.5 cups.
- Vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons.
- Water - 6 glasses.
- Onions - 3 pieces.
- Salt to taste.
- Garlic - 5 cloves.
- Greens to taste.
Pour dried peas into a saucepan, fill with water, put on high heat and bring to a boil. Then reduce the flame to a minimum and cook until fully cooked. At the end of the process, salt.
We peel the onion from the peel, cut it into small cubes and fry it in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil.
Mix boiled peas with onions, let cool and send to the dough.
While our pies are browned in the oven, we prepare garlic sauce, which is in perfect harmony with lean dough and pea and onion filling.
Peel 5 cloves of garlic (as many as possible), cut into small pieces or pass through a special crush. Mix with vegetable oil and salt and spread hot cakes, sprinkle with finely chopped greens on top.
Lentils, Potatoes and Greens
For those who love legumes, we suggest making a filling for lentil pies. To cook it, you will need these products:
- Potato - 2 tubers.
- Lentils - 80 grams.
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
- Olive oil (can be replaced with vegetable) - 2 tablespoons.
- Onions - 1 piece.
- Greens to taste.
- Salt and spices to taste.
First, peel the onions and garlic, finely chop and send to a frying pan with vegetable oil for 3-5 minutes. The main thing is not to bring to a golden color.
We peel and boil the potatoes, knead a crush and mix with pasher onions and garlic.
Cook lentils and mix with mashed potatoes. Add finely chopped greens, salt and spices.
Pumpkin and prune
Sweet cakes stuffed with pumpkin and prunes are very tasty. To enjoy such pastries, we need the following ingredients:
- Pumpkin - about 1 kilogram.
- Pitted prunes - 300 grams.
- Honey - a couple of tablespoons.
- Water is on the eye.
We clean the pumpkin from the skin and seeds, cut into large cubes and simmer in water with honey until tender. Knead into a puree pulp.
Pour prunes with boiling water and set aside for half an hour. Then grind it on a blender or cut into small pieces. Mix with pumpkin puree, taste, add more honey if necessary.
Fruit and berry motifs
In addition to the above products, you can put any fruits and berries in the filling, for example:
- Cherries
- sweet cherries;
- Strawberries
- cranberries;
- blueberries;
- currants;
- gooseberry;
- apricots
- peaches;
- raspberries;
- Blackberry
- plums
- pears.
It is worth considering that most fruits and berries give juice during baking in the oven. Because of this, pies often stick to a baking sheet, even though there is parchment paper.
To prevent this from happening, before putting such a filling into the dough, you should sprinkle it with a small amount of breadcrumbs or starch. Both of these products will play the role of absorbent and absorb excess moisture. On the taste of pies, this will only affect for the better - the juice will magically turn into jam.