Pies are available in all countries of the world, but each country has a different recipe. Accordingly, the trends for pie fillings are also different. For example, in America, apple pies are very popular.
In Eastern countries people are fixated on pies with meat.
In our country, pies are treated with special love and respect
.
Both meat pies and vegetable pies are baked
. Let’s tell you how to cook a flavorful pie with potatoes.
Ingredients for potato pie dough:
- egg – pcs;
- warm milk – 80 ml;
- sugar – tbsp;
- yeast – 4 g;
- flour – 250 g;
- salt – tsp;
- butter – 30 g.
Ingredients for the filling:
- boiled potatoes – 400 g;
- milk – 4 tbsp;
- cheese – 140 g.
Preparation of potato pie:
In a bowl break an egg, pour warm milk, pour granulated sugar and yeast. Thoroughly mix the ingredients until the grains of sand are dissolved.
Pour flour and salt into the mixture of milk and eggs, knead the dough. Add the soft dough to the formed lump and continue kneading the soft lump
. Cover the dough
with cling
film and leave it warm for an hour. In the meantime prepare the filling – combine peeled potatoes with salt, ground pepper and milk.
Knead the potatoes until they are mashed
. Divide the dough into two equal parts. Roll out both layers into large diameter thick cakes. Put the mashed potato filling on one flatbread.
Grate cheese on a coarse grater and put it on the surface of the potato layer.
Cover the filling with the second flatbread, seal and fold the edges inside.
Transfer the pie to a parchment-lined baking tray, cover with cellophane and leave for 15 minutes. Grease the pie with milk and use your fingers to lightly knead the surface, creating a relief on the pie.
Bake the pie at 160 degrees in the oven for half an hour.
After cooking, grease the pie with butter. The pastry has a lot of filling inside and a very thin soft dough.
