Originally, pies in our country were considered a festive dish. The word “pie” in our language has a root with the words “feast” and “feast”. This means that pies used to be quite a significant dish at weddings, at pagan celebrations
. For each certain holiday it was customary to cook a certain pie, hence the variety of fillings and dough.
Let’s talk about how you can cook not quite ordinary pie with minced meat
.
Ingredients for the dough:
- Warm milk – 250 ml
- Yeast – 6 g;
- Sugar – 20 g;
- Eggs – 1 piece;
- Butter – 80 ml;
- Flour – 480 g;
- Salt – 0.5 tsp.
Ingredients for meat stuffing:
- Ground meat – 330 g;
- Onion – 1 piece;
- Bulgarian pepper – 1 piece;
- Carrots – 1 piece;
- Dill – 30 g;
- Salt, black pepper, red paprika – to taste.
Preparation of mincemeat pie:
To prepare the dough in a bowl with milk combine yeast, sugar, egg white and melted butter, mix the ingredients with a whisk.
Pour to the milk mixture flour and salt, knead the dough with your hands
.
Leave the dough in a warm place for 20-30 minutes under a food film.
Onions and bell peppers cut into small cubes, grate carrots, add the vegetables to the minced meat. Add chopped dill, spices and salt to the minced
meat. Divide the dough into 4 parts, form lumps. Roll out the lumps into tortillas with a diameter of 20-24 centimeters. Then roll out the layer to a thickness of a centimeter
. Smear the surface of each layer with vegetable oil and stack them on top of each other. Cut the layers into two halves
. Each half is divided by length into 3 parts.
Put the filling on the puff pastry billet, pinch the edges, place the pies on a baking tray.
Grease each pie with a mixture of egg yolk and milk.
In the oven bake the pies at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
In the end, the pies are great for a festive table. Puff pastry combined with meat filling will be able to surprise.
