The success of any pie depends not only on the quantity and quality of the filling, but also on the type of dough that was used in the preparation of the product. As an alternative to pastries and pastries, try baking a pie made of yeast-free puff pastry. Moreover, there are a lot of filling options for its preparation. Below are the most popular and uncomplicated recipes.
How to cook a yeast-free puff pastry for a pie?
The process of preparing puff pastry without yeast is quite laborious and takes from 2 to 3 hours. That is why few housewives decide to do it on their own, and most often buy ready-made semi-finished products in the store. But if you want to cook this dough yourself, you can get down to business right now.
To do this, sift flour in a bowl (2 cups) and make a depression in it. Combine in a separate container a beaten egg (1 small or egg yolk), water (160 ml), salt (¾ teaspoon), vinegar (1 tablespoon). Pour the resulting liquid mass into a recess and knead the elastic dough. After that, you need to wrap it in film and leave it in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Now you need to prepare the oil, stirring flour into it (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and forming a square from it. The temperature of the dough and the oil should be the same. After that, take the dough out of the refrigerator, roll it out in the shape of a square, but 2 times larger than an oil piece. Put the prepared oil in the center of the square at an angle and wrap the edges with an envelope. After that, they need to be plucked and you can begin to roll "on your own."
When you get a rectangle with a thickness of 15 mm, the tesla is folded three times (from right to left), covered with a film and sent to the refrigerator for 30 minutes. The chilled dough is rolled out and folded in a similar sequence 3 more times. Do not forget to cool it for 20 minutes. You no longer need to roll out the previously prepared dough, and each time you start rolling out to a thickness of 15 mm right on it. Thus, the necessary layering is formed.
The secrets of making puff pastry pies
It does not matter which puffless yeast dough is used to make a pie, homemade or ready-made. To make the baking successful, you should adhere to some secrets of work.
- Before you put the cake pan in the oven, you must make punctures on the surface of the dough. This will ensure that the steam exits outward, the product is baked evenly, and the surface of the cake will remain flat, without characteristic bubbles.
- Cover with beaten yolk before baking only the top surface of the dough, and not the sides. Otherwise, the pie from yeast-free puff pastry does not rise well enough.
- In addition, grease the baking dish with fat should not be, because there is a lot of oil in puff pastry, some of which will melt during cooking and remain on the baking sheet.
- The optimal temperature for making such a cake is 200 degrees. If the temperature is set below this value, then the oil will simply leak out of the dough. The cake will turn out dry and not lush enough.
- Ready puff pastry (semi-finished product) must be defrosted only on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. To do this, you need to shift it in advance from the freezer. Thawing the dough in a room, warm, or using a microwave oven for this is categorically not recommended.
Puff Puff Pastry Apple Pie Recipe
This is the simplest apple pie of all. The time for preparing it for baking is no more than 10 minutes, and after another quarter of an hour it will be possible to serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
First you need to preheat the oven to 210 degrees. Then roll out a sheet of puff pastry and put it on a baking sheet with baking paper. Top with a thinly sliced apple (peeled and core) and sprinkle with a mixture of brown sugar (½ cup) and cinnamon (¼ teaspoon). After that, a pie made of puff yeast-free dough can be sent to the oven. In 15 minutes he will be ready.
Puff pastry apple strudel
Classic strudel with apples is made from thin and crispy filo dough. But puff pastry also makes a delicious and easy-to-perform apple pie.
Puff yeast-free dough can be prepared on your own according to the above recipe or buy a ready-to-cook semi-finished product in the store. For a small strudel with apples, you need 1 layer of dough.
To prepare the filling, you need to heat butter (50 g) in a saucepan, add a large apple sliced in slices (without peel), powdered sugar (2 tbsp.), A handful of raisins (presoak in warm water), vanilla seeds and cinnamon (¼ teaspoon). Boil the apple mass for 5 minutes, then remove the stewpan from the stove. When the filling has cooled, it must be laid out on the rolled dough sheet in the center. On both sides of the apple mass make cuts. Now the edges of the dough need to be laid on top of the filling and nicely decorated. Grease the cake with yolk and send it to the oven for 35 minutes (180 degrees).
Puff pastry pie with homemade jam
Quick and tasty pastries for tea can be made from jam. Many housewives prepare unexpected apple pie for the arrival of unexpected guests. Puffless yeast dough for it is rolled into a thin layer, and small pieces of apples, passivated in butter, are laid out on top. But a similar pie can be made even easier and faster if you use homemade thick jam instead of fruit filling. To do this, just roll out the dough sheet and put the filling on it. Oven cooking time is 15 minutes.
Puff pastry curd cake
What could be tastier than pastry with cottage cheese! Meanwhile, on the dough without yeast, you can cook a delicious pie (puff pastry without yeast). The recipe for its preparation is presented below.
To prepare a delicious filling, you will need crumbly cottage cheese (0.5 kg), an egg (2 pcs.), Sugar (4 tbsp. Tablespoons) and vanilla sugar. All ingredients must be thoroughly mixed, and if the cottage cheese with a heterogeneous structure, then it will first have to be rubbed through a sieve. On rolled two layers of dough (in comparison with the initial volume, each of them should increase by 2-3 times) lay out and distribute the filling. Roll the first sheet with a tourniquet and lay it, starting from the center of the form, with a snail. Dock the edges of the second bundle with the first and continue to distribute the cake in shape in the same sequence. Pierce the resulting spiral billet in several places with a fork, grease with an egg and send to the oven for 35 minutes or until a beautiful brown crust is formed.
Tiropita - Greek pie made of puff pastry with feta cheese
Despite the salty taste, this cake in Greece is traditionally served for an afternoon snack instead of a dessert for tea or coffee. Brynza is most often used as a filling for it, which can be replaced with cheese - feta or ricotta if desired. Tiropita is always a pie made of yeast-free puff pastry with cheese filling and herbs. Although the amount of the last ingredient can be reduced or increased at your discretion.
Before you start making the pie, you need to preheat the oven to 190 degrees and grease the baking dish. Now you can cook the filling. To do this, beat the cheese with a submersible blender (500-600 g) with cream (75-80 ml). Then add eggs (3 pcs.) And a little fresh mint (or 1 tablespoon dried) to the cheese mass. Next, the filling should be well kneaded and sent to the refrigerator for 25 minutes.
Roll out the finished dough sheet in accordance with the dimensions of the baking dish. Then shift it into shape, distributing it along the bottom and walls. The cheese filling is laid out on top, which is closed by another layer of dough. Before sending the cake to the oven (for 45 minutes), it must be greased with olive oil. Serve to the table by cooling, after decorating it with sprigs of rosemary.
A pie with cabbage
Let's make a pie from puff pastry (yeast-free) with cabbage. As a filling, fried cabbage is traditionally used in combination with red fish, mushrooms and rice. However, you can make the cake budget by adding other fish instead of salmon, or even replacing it with boiled eggs, for example. In Russia, this pie with cabbage and fish is called kulebyaka and is made from yeast dough. But even on the test without yeast, you can make a delicious pie (puff yeast-free dough), the recipe (with photo) of which is presented below.
At the very beginning of cooking, you need to fry the onion in butter, then the mushrooms (200 g), cabbage (700 g) and wine vinegar (1 tablespoon). Stew vegetables for 7 minutes, do not forget to stir. At the very end of frying, you need to salt, pepper, transfer from a frying pan to a dish and cool.
In vegetable oil (1 tablespoon), fry a whole piece of fish (400 g) for 5 minutes on each side. Then cool it and divide it into large pieces. Roll out the dough (1 sheet) according to the size of the mold and distribute it along the bottom and walls. Top with 2 cups of boiled brown rice, boiled egg, fish, breadcrumbs and grated cheese (½ cup each), vegetable filling and pour the cream together (½ cup). Cover with another layer of dough, pinch the edges of the pie, grease with a beaten egg, make a hole for the steam to escape and send the dish to the oven for 45 minutes.
Making Spinach Yeast Puff Pastry Pie
This is a recipe for another Greek Spanakopita cake. Its traditional is cooked with a filling of fresh or frozen spinach. Spanakopita is a pie made of puff yeastless dough with a crispy crust on top and a juicy filling inside.
For this dish you need only 1 sheet of dough (225 g). It needs to be rolled out as thinly as possible, since in the middle of the layer it will be necessary to lay out the filling directly, and close the pie with the edges . It is baked for 45 minutes at a temperature of 175 degrees. For the filling, you need to combine in one bowl 200 g of cottage cheese, parmesan (50 g), salt (½ teaspoon), eggs (2 pcs.), A little nutmeg, as well as thawed and wrung out spinach leaves and onion fried in vegetable oil.
The filling made must be evenly distributed over the dough, and its edges wrap up. You can cut and serve the pie to the table 15 minutes after it is cooked in the oven.
Lazy option for cooking a chicken
Kurnik is a traditional Russian pie with different types of fillings, separated by thin pancakes. You can make this delicious pie from a ready-made yeast puff pastry. In total, two layers of dough will be needed, one of which is laid out at the bottom of the form, and the other covers the filling.
Traditionally, there are 4 types of filling in the henhouse: boiled rice with eggs, mashed potatoes with herbs, chicken, fried mushrooms with onions. Each layer of the filling is smeared with sour cream and covered with a thin pancake prepared according to your favorite recipe (8-10 pieces). When all the layers are laid out, the edges of the puff pastry need to be plucked, and a cake decoration should be made from its scraps.
Fish Pie (puff pastry)
To prepare the filling, you need to take the fish fillet (350 g), salt it and put in a baking dish. Top with milk (225 ml) and send the form to the oven for 10 minutes. At this time, prepare the sauce: fry a little onion in butter, add a tablespoon of flour to it and add the milk remaining after cooking the fish (pre-strain it). Add mustard (½ teaspoon), salt, a little cream to obtain the desired consistency and parsley.
Distribute the dough on the bottom and walls of a small shape, and make sure that it is enough to cover the pie. At the bottom of the form put the filling, pour it with sauce. Then wrap the edges of the dough and pinch them. From above, make a hole for the steam to exit and insert a special funnel (it can be made of foil) into it. It is advisable to grease a pie from a yeast-free puff pastry with a raw egg and send to a heated oven for 20 minutes.
Cooking puff pastry with minced meat
Forcemeat pie is prepared in the same sequence as the majority of the presented products from puff yeast-free dough. Two round sheets are cut from two layers of the finished dough: the first is laid out at the bottom of the mold, and the second is covered with the filling. For its preparation, it is necessary to fry onions and mushrooms (250 g) in one pan, and minced chicken on the other. To make the filling more juicy, add a little water to the stuffing. Then you need to add vegetables to it and you can put the filling in the form with the dough. An oven-baked puff pie with minced meat is cooked for about 40 minutes. And after a quarter of an hour it can be cut and served.