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Puff pastry pies - 7 recipes

Airy, light, melt-in-your-mouth pastries and hot tea are what you can dream of for breakfast, lunch, and even dinner.

Puff pastry pies are not only tasty and nutritious, but also slightly high-calorie pastries. If you think about it, it’s hard to imagine how many different options for such pies you can cook.

What kind of fillings did not come up with cooks for pies. It can be meat filling, and liver and fish, and fruits, as well as jam and nuts with honey.

The beauty of puff pastry and baking from it is that with any filling they remain the most delicious dish due to the tenderness of the texture of the dough itself.

The method of preparation of both options is approximately the same, but there are some nuances.

Puff pastry with meat

For the filling, you can choose absolutely any meat. The meat must be finely chopped or chopped in a meat grinder, turning it into minced meat. In addition, you need to finely chop the onion and add to the minced meat. Next, you should add a little spices and salt to taste and mix the filling thoroughly. In different variations, the meat filling can be mixed with vegetables, eggs, herbs, potatoes or rice. The dough for pies must be rolled out, cut into pieces, sufficient in size to form a pie. The filling is placed in the center of a piece of dough and, in fact, a pie is formed. Bake pies in the oven until done.

Filling Ingredients:

  • 500 g minced meat
  • one third of a teaspoon of sugar
  • 500 g puff pastry
  • salt to taste
  • 2 small onions
  • 2 eggs.

Cooking order:

  1. Minced meat should be defrosted. Bulbs need to be peeled and finely chopped. Mix minced meat, salt, sugar, onion.
  2. Defrost puff pastry. Sprinkle the table with flour and put the dough on it. The layer of dough is rolled out and cut into pieces for pies.
  3. The filling is placed in the middle of one part of the dough, the corners of the part are connected and fixed in the shape of a pie. the filling must be carefully wrapped in the dough so that it does not leak out during the baking process.
  4. Line an oven tray with parchment paper, and then place the pies on it. In a small container, an egg is beaten, pre-salted. This mixture is smeared with each pie. The oven is heated to 180 degrees, and then a baking sheet with pies is placed there. Bake pies in the oven for about 20 minutes until a blush forms on the crust.

Meat pies are ready, they can be served at the table.

Puff pies with cottage cheese

Curd filling for pies is easy to prepare. The main thing here is to choose the right cottage cheese for the filling. You should take hard granular cottage cheese, and not soft, then the pies will be really tasty.

Ingredients:

  • 500 g cottage cheese
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • A little ground cinnamon and salt to taste.

The yolks must be ground with sugar in a container and mixed with butter, which must first be melted. Add cinnamon and salt to the mixture. Cottage cheese should be rubbed well and mixed with the egg mass. Mix all the filling well and put it in the refrigerator for a short while. Further, you can take out the dough and bake puff pastries with cottage cheese already according to a well-known principle.

Puff pastry pies with apples

Apple filling is a little more difficult to prepare than cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg apples
  • Butter
  • Sugar.

Apples are peeled and core and cut into medium cubes. 2 tablespoons of butter are laid out in the pan, and then chopped apples are added there. The filling is fried for about 4 minutes, then 4 tablespoons of sugar are added to it. The filling is fried for another three minutes, and then cooled. It is necessary to drain the juice from the filling, if any, and you can cook, directly, puff pastry pies with apples.

Stuffing for pies with cabbage

Ingredients:

  • 500 g white cabbage
  • 100 g onion
  • 100 carrots
  • half a tablespoon of turmeric
  • 5 g salt
  • 3 g pepper
  • 50 g vegetable oil
  • 100 g of water.

Cabbage, onions and carrots are washed, peeled, finely chopped. Onions are fried in 25 g of oil. When the onion becomes transparent, carrots are added to it and fried for about 4 minutes. Cabbage must be mashed and added to fried carrots with onions. Add salt, pepper and remaining oil. After 5 minutes, it is necessary to pour water into the cabbage and simmer the mass for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. After that, turmeric is added to the filling. The filling is stewed for about two more minutes and removed from the fire. You can start cooking pies with cabbage.

Pies with strawberries

You need to take 250 g of fresh strawberries, 1 tablespoon of potato starch and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Strawberries are carefully washed, dried on paper napkins, peeled and cut into 4-8 pieces. Starch and sugar are added to the filling, and after that it is thoroughly but gently mixed. you need to let the filling stand for a couple of minutes and you can start making puff pastries with strawberries.

Cherry pies

This filling is prepared according to the same principle as strawberry. You will need 250 g of fresh cherries, starch and sugar. Cherries must be washed, cleaned of twigs and seeds, mixed with sugar and starch, and you can bake pastries with cherries.

Pie dough options

There are only two options for dough that can be prepared like puff pastry. This is a yeast puff pastry and yeast-free.

If you want the pies to turn out crispy, but at the same time light, then use yeast-free dough, and if you want airy, tender and soft pastries, then cook yeast.

Puff yeast dough

No recipe for puff pastry puff pastry is complete without the careful preparation of the dough itself.

Products required for this option:

  • 3 cups flour
  • 7 g dry yeast
  • 250 g milk
  • 80 g sugar
  • 250 g margarine

Step by step preparation:

  1. Margarine must be well softened
  2. The milk is heated and yeast is poured into it. The mass is stirred until the yeast is completely dissolved.
  3. Flour, previously sifted, is mixed with sugar.
  4. 50 g of margarine is added to the milk-yeast mass, and then the mass is thoroughly mixed.
  5. Further, flour is gradually poured in there. as the process progresses, it is necessary to stir the mass with a spoon all the time.
  6. The result is a soft light mass. She needs to be left for a while so that she stands and comes up. After some time, the dough should be well mashed and put in the refrigerator.
  7. 200 g of the remaining margarine are laid out on a sheet of parchment in a thin rectangle and put in the refrigerator.
  8. After some time, the dough is taken out of the refrigerator, kneaded well and rolled out with a rolling pin into a rectangle.
  9. Chilled margarine must be laid out on top of a layer of dough and wrapped with dough, or rather, its edge, and then this edge is rolled out again. So you need to repeat several times until the entire layer of dough turns into a kind of stack of bed linen.
  10. The twist of dough and margarine is cooled and the process is repeated 2 more times.

Puff pastry without yeast

The process of preparing such a dough is almost the same as that of the yeast variation, but there are several differences.

  1. Yeast does not need to be added to this version of the test.
  2. You need to knead this dough for a long time until a tight, even almost rigid mass is formed.
  3. The process of twisting, rolling the dough with margarine should be repeated not 3 times, but 5 times, and then leave the dough to rest in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.

The nuances of cooking

Everyone loves puff pastries, but they come not only with different fillings, but also baked or fried in different ways.

Cooking in the oven

Baking in the oven is the easiest option. Pies must be laid out on a baking sheet covered with baking parchment and baked at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Cooking in a frying pan

Puff pastry pies in a pan are, according to many, the most delicious option. But even here there are nuances. You can fry pies in butter, vegetable oil or even lard. Everyone has their own tastes, but the principle of frying is the same. The oil is heated in a frying pan until lightly sizzled, after which the pies are laid there and fried over medium heat until golden brown. It is not worth leaving the stove at this moment, because due to a few extra seconds, the pies can burn.

Cooking in a multicooker

Everything is quite simple here. Any instructions for the multicooker say what time and in what mode baking should be cooked in it. Put the pies inside, set the desired mode and time and wait.

Bon appetit and stay healthy!