Pirozhki – this word contains many positive emotions and thoughts, as well as memories. For some people pies are a tasty and nourishing dish, and for others they are an association with carefree childhood in the countryside. Someone sees in pies a distant youth from the Soviet past.
Every country has its own associations with pies
.
For example, samsa is a triangular pie made of puff
pastry
with meat or cheese filling, popular in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Echpochmak is a Tatar triangle-shaped pie filled with meat and potatoes. Parian is an Indian pie with a spicy filling of vegetables and spices.
Let’s bake meat and potato pies ourselves.
Pies with meat
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour – 380 g;
- cottage cheese – 300 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- vegetable oil – 80 g;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- baking soda – 1 tsp.
Ingredients for stuffing:
- cabbage – 300 g;
- minced meat – 300 g;
- onion – 3 pcs.
Preparation of meat patties:
Cut onion into quarter rings, chop cabbage not particularly finely. In a frying pan on butter fry minced meat, add onions to it, mix.
Put cabbage to minced meat, over low heat stew under a lid for 15 minutes. Next, over a slightly higher than average heat, fry the cabbage and minced meat until the moisture evaporates. Do not forget to salt and pepper the stuffing.
For the dough mix cottage cheese with eggs and butter, pour salt and baking soda, beat with an immersion blender until homogeneous. Pour half of the flour into the mixture, knead
the dough. Add the rest of the flour to the dough, form a block. While the filling is cooling, let the kolobok rest under cellophane.
Roll out the dough, divide it into many small pieces. Create a flatbread from each part of the dough, put the filling in the middle.
Seal the mincemeat and cabbage inside the dough.
Put the patties on a baking tray lined with parchment and brush with egg. Bake the patties at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
Potato patties
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour – 360 g;
- kefir – 300 g;
- butter – 50 g;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- baking soda – 1 tsp.
Ingredients for stuffing:
- chicken shanks – 400 g;
- onion – 3 pcs;
- potatoes – 200 g;
- butter – 100 g.
Preparation of potato pies:
For the filling, clean the shanks from the bones and skin, chop finely.
Mix onions
, potatoes
and chicken fillets, pour melted butter into the filling, salt and pepper to taste. For the dough, mix baking soda, butter and salt in kefir
. Add flour to the kefir mixture and knead an elastic dough. Leave the dough to rest, and then knead again.
Divide the dough into 15 parts, roll balls. Roll each ball separately into a flatbread, put it in the middle of the filling. Seal the filling in the dough like a pouch, leaving a small hole at the top.
Place the patties on a parchment-lined baking tray
.
Add a piece of butter to the opening of each pie
. Bake the pies at 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
You get delicious hearty patties. If you add more sugar to the dough, you can combine it with jam, it will be an excellent dessert pastry.
