Airy, light, thawing pastries and hot tea - this is 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 variants of such pies you can cook.

Options for pies with different fillings

What kind of fillings did not come up with a chef 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 because of the tenderness of the texture of the dough itself.

The cooking method 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, it is necessary to finely chop the onion and add to the minced meat. Next, add some 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 large enough to form a pie. A filling is placed in the center of a piece of dough and, in fact, a pie is formed. Bake pies in the oven until cooked.

Ingredients for the filling:

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

Order of preparation:

  1. Stuffing should be thawed. Bulbs must be peeled and finely chopped.Stir minced meat, salt, sugar, onion.
  2. Defrost puff pastry. Sprinkle flour on the table and put the dough on it. The dough sheet 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 wrapped in the dough carefully so that it does not leak out during baking.
  4. The baking sheet for the oven must be covered with parchment, and then put the pies on it. In a small container, beat the egg, pre-salt. Each pie is greased with this mixture. The oven is heated to 180 degrees, and then a baking tray with pies is placed there. Cakes are baked in the oven for about 20 minutes until a crust forms.

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

Puff pastry 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 grained cottage cheese, not soft, then the pies will be really delicious.

Ingredients:

  • 500 g of cottage cheese
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon of 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 mass. The cottage cheese should be well wiped and mixed with the egg mass. All the filling must be mixed well and put briefly in the refrigerator. Further, you can get the dough and bake puff pastries with cottage cheese according to a well-known principle.

Puff pastry pies with apples

 

Apple filling is a little harder to prepare than cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg of apples
  • Butter
  • Sugar.

Apples are peeled from the skin and core and cut into medium cubes. 2 tablespoons of butter are laid out in a 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 about three minutes, and then cooled. It is necessary to drain the juice from the filling, if there is one, and you can cook, directly, pies from puff pastry with apples.

Stuffing for pies with cabbage

Ingredients:

  • 500 g cabbage
  • 100 g onion
  • 100 carrots
  • half a tablespoon of turmeric
  • 5 g of 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 butter. When the onion becomes transparent, carrots are added to it and fried for about 4 minutes. Mash the cabbage and add to the fried carrots with onions. Add salt, pepper and remaining oil. After 5 minutes, pour water into the cabbage and simmer the mass for about 20 minutes, sometimes stirring slightly. After that, turmeric is added to the filling. Stuffing is stewed for about two minutes and removed from the fire. You can start cooking pies with cabbage.

Strawberry Pies

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

Cakes with cherry

 

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

Pastry Dough Options

There are only two options for the test, which can be prepared by the type of puff. This is yeast puff pastry and yeast free.

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

Puff yeast dough

No recipe for pies from puff yeast dough is complete without 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
  • Salt

Step by step cooking:

  1. Margarine must be well softened
  2. Milk is heated and yeast is poured into it. The mass is stirred until the yeast is completely dissolved.
  3. The flour, previously sifted, is mixed with sugar.
  4. 50 g of margarine is added to the milk-yeast mass, and after that the mass is thoroughly mixed.
  5. Further, flour is gradually poured there. during the process 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 needs to be wrinkled well 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 away in the refrigerator.
  8. After some time, the dough gets out of the refrigerator, mixes well and rolls into a rectangle with a rolling pin.
  9. Chilled margarine must be laid on top of the dough sheet and wrapped in dough, or rather, its edge, and then again this edge is rolled out. So you need to repeat several times until the entire layer of dough turns into a kind of pile of bed linen.
  10. The spin of the dough and margarine is cooled and the process is repeated 2 more times.

Puffless yeast dough

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

  1. No yeast should be added to this type of test.
  2. Knead this dough for a long time before forming a tight, even almost hard mass.
  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 8 hours at least.

Cooking nuances

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.

Frying pan

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

Multicooking

Everything is very simple here. In any instruction for the multicooker it is written what time and under what mode baking should be prepared in it. Lay the pies inside, set the desired mode and time and wait.

Enjoy your meal and be healthy!

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