Meat pies are a maximally popular dish literally everywhere. It is difficult to find a country that does not have its own recipe for cooking meat pies. This is a hearty dish that is relevant always.
However, not everyone likes to cook pirozhki. You have to knead the dough, wait for it to rise, make the filling, form the pies and fry, bake them. It’s much easier to buy patties at the store. Then the pies will not be as juicy, flavorful and lush as homemade. Puff
pastry will help to solve this problem. With the help of store-bought dough you only need to quickly make a filling.
Let’s tell you how to prepare quick meat pies.
Ingredients for meat patties:
- yeast-free puff pastry – 1 kg;
- minced meat – 500 g;
- onion – 1 pc;
- tomato paste – 1 tsp;
- salt – ½ tsp;
- ground black pepper;
- paprika;
- dried garlic;
- cold water – 50 ml;
- egg – pcs.
Preparation of meat patties:
Pass through a meat grinder onion, mix with minced meat. Add tomato paste, salt, ground black pepper, paprika and dry garlic to the mince
. Gradually pour cold water into the mince, mix thoroughly with your hands and beat. Divide the puff pastry into rectangles and
place the stuffing on a part of each rectangle.
Cover the stuffing with the second part of the rectangle and pinch all the edges.
Place the patties on a baking tray, smear with egg.
You can make triangular patties. Divide the dough into squares, roll out slightly. In one of the corners diagonally put the filling, cover the opposite corner and seal the edges.
Bake the patties in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
These pies can also be baked with cherry filling. The main thing is not to forget to sprinkle the base with starch and powdered sugar before laying the filling.
