Baking is not only a way to surprise children with a delicacy or guests with some delicious dish. Often, she can provide the family with a delicious and quick enough dinner to cook. For example, a puff pastry pie with minced meat completely replaces meat with a side dish, and is prepared with less labor. Especially in modern times, when ready-made dough is easy to buy in the nearest store.
Interestingly, experienced chefs recommend using frozen dough to work with minced meat. Up to the point that they advise those who make the foundation on their own to freeze it.
Minced meat only
The simplest pie from puff pastry with minced meat and is prepared in an elementary way, without additional culinary “squats”. A pound of minced meat is mixed with chopped cloves of garlic (a couple of pieces are enough) and a head of onion. An egg is driven into a bowl with it, pepper, seasonings that you like most, and salt are poured. The mass is mixed again. The packaging of puff pastry is thawing; if there are two sheets in it, they are rolled separately, if one - it is divided in half. The greased form is lined with one sheet of dough, and it should also cover the sides. Inside the resulting bowl, the filling is evenly laid out, closed with the second part of the dough, and the edges of the pie are plucked. The top is smeared with yolk from another egg, and a pie of puff pastry with minced meat is placed in the oven for about twenty minutes. The readiness will be obvious: the top of the baking will turn golden brown.
Pie with minced meat and mushrooms
You can not be limited only to the meat component. Everyone knows that any meat goes well with vegetables. So, for example, mushrooms can be safely added to a puff pastry pie with minced meat. Try to cook it according to this recipe.
A small piece of bacon, 100 grams in weight, is cut in strips. 300 g of mushrooms (can be replaced with Polish or other forest mushrooms, but not mushrooms), two bell peppers and onion finely crumble. On fat, leaked from bacon, onion is browned, after which mushrooms with pepper are added to it. All components are stewed until excess water is gone, and the mushrooms get a nice brownish tint. Two eggs are driven into 400 grams of minced meat, a tablespoon of your favorite tomato sauce and half-hourly - very spicy, like Tabasco, are poured. After kneading, mushrooms, salt, oregano and pepper are added. A half kilogram of puff pastry is divided into two parts, a closed cake is formed, a hole is made in the “lid”, steam will escape through the kotor, and into the oven. At 180 degrees, a puff pastry pie with minced meat and mushrooms will stand in it for about 50 minutes.
Stuffing with minced meat and potatoes
One of the most successful for savory pastries! The subtlety lies in the fact that in a pie of puff pastry with minced meat and potatoes, it is better to put not chopped, but finely chopped meat. Thin slices of raw potatoes are first placed on a rolled dough sheet, laid out in a form, which are salted and pepper. Shredded onion is poured on top, and already on it - minced meat, seasoned at its discretion. The cake closes, the edges are carefully blotted out, a hole is made for steam to escape, the top is smeared with yolk or cream and into the oven. How long your puff pastry pie with minced meat and potatoes will stay in it depends on the size of the mold and the amount of filling. Tentatively - 50 minutes.
Diverse filling
If you’ve already had enough of the usual puff pastry pie with minced meat, the recipe can be enriched with additional ingredients. It takes half a cup of Savoy cabbage, parses it into leaves, cuts into squares and slightly blanches. The chopped onion is fried in sunflower oil, 150 g of bacon and 350 g of minced meat (again not ground but chopped) are added. For about five minutes, they are fried together, after which it is mixed with cubes of four boiled potatoes and cabbage. All the filling is distributed according to the dough laid out in the mold and poured with a mixture of an incomplete glass of sour cream, 100 g of grated cheese and two eggs. Since this is an open pie from puff pastry with minced meat, it will be baked in less than half an hour.
A hearty recipe for a multicooker
It’s not difficult to cook baked goods in it, those who have owned such a machine for at least a month have already seen this. There is one trick to how to get the cooked pie out of puff pastry with minced meat in a multicooker: cross the bowl with the strips of food parchment. Lifting the tape by the ends, the baking is removed from the bowl without disturbing its shape.
To make baking take less time, chopped onion and 300 g of mushrooms are pre-fried; the same applies to a third kilogram of salted and seasoned minced meat. The formation of the cake is no different from the process of preparing it for the oven. When it is ready for baking, the multicooker enters the baking mode with the lid closed, but with the valve open - pressure is useless here. After half an hour, the cake is removed, turned over, and the device at the same time starts in the same mode. If you are not too lazy to turn it over, your pie from puff pastry with minced meat from all sides will become rosy, and the filling will definitely bake.