Before the holiday, every housewife puzzles, choosing a menu. How to surprise guests? You can bake a crocodile pie. Everyone will appreciate the unusual shape, but the children will be especially happy. An interesting pie is suitable for everyday menu. Many housewives have the ingredients for its preparation, and exotic products are not needed for this recipe. How to make a crocodile pie? Learn from this article.
Ingredients
Crocodile pie products must be fresh. It is recommended to purchase milk fat, preferably farm. Yeast for dough can be used both dry and raw. Experienced housewives recommend buying high-speed, as it is easier to cook with them. Use room temperature foods for the recipe.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 550 g of flour;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1 pack of dry yeast;
- 260 ml of warm cow's milk;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- 60 ml of sunflower oil;
- salt to taste.
The filling can be any, but the most popular is the one prepared from cabbage and minced meat. Some housewives prepare sweet cakes in the form of a crocodile, for example, with apples or with plums.
Cooking dough
Pour milk at room temperature (or slightly warm) into an enameled pan. If the liquid is too hot, then quick-acting tremors will not work. Add salt and sugar to the milk and stir until they are completely dissolved. After that, you can add an egg, sunflower oil and dried yeast. Stir the liquid again, it should become homogeneous.
Then measure the required amount of flour. Do not take the bag with loose ingredient far away, it may still be needed. In flour, add the flour in small portions until you get a dough that does not stick to your hands. After that, you need to form a bun, cover it with a towel and put it in a warm place. Experienced housewives recommend greasing the top of the dough with vegetable oil so that it does not dry out. For the same purpose, some women sprinkle flour on top of the bun. After an hour or a half, the dough increases significantly in volume, carbon dioxide is released from it, that is, crushed. Then you need to wrap the pan again and leave it for 2-3 hours.
Cooking toppings
Inside the Crocodile pie, you can put any ingredients, including sweet ones. The most popular filling is made from meat, cabbage and onions. For minced meat, buy pork and beef so that the latter is a little more. Fillet is more suitable for cooking, there will be less fuss with it. Experienced housewives recommend purchasing chilled meat, as it tastes better than frozen.
Pork and beef through a meat grinder and knead the minced meat well. Salt and pepper the rolled meat, and then fry it. Finely chop the cabbage, salt and send to another skillet. Then chop the onion. Some housewives cut it into cubes, while others cut it in half rings. For crocodile-shaped pie, both options are acceptable. Fry the onion in vegetable oil. Then mix all the ingredients and the filling will be ready.
Cooking and baking a pie
Roll out the dough and cut the edges evenly. After that, place the layer on a baking sheet covered with foil or baking paper greased with vegetable oil. Place the filling in a slide in the very center of the rolled dough. Then start on the sides to cut the boards into strips, from which the body of the crocodile will be formed. It will not be possible to quickly prepare a dish with a recipe for cabbage pie in the oven, but efforts will be rewarded with praise from guests.
Spread the obtained strips of dough with a pigtail. Then form the face of the predator and its tail. Put the alligator in a predatory pose, so it will look more impressive when served. From the dough left after trimming, form paws, nose, eyes. Use scissors to cut the fangs to the predator. Crocodile pie must be baked in the oven at 200 degrees. After the alligator has browned, grease it with yolk. In 10-15 minutes after that the cake will be ready.
Tips from experienced housewives
The Crocodile pie recipe may seem complicated, but it is quite feasible if you know some subtleties. When baking, the yeast dough always increases, so make the muzzle longer, so the dish will look more advantageous. You can make any filling, and replace dry yeast with live ones.