10 delicious and easy pies

Pie is one of the most versatile dishes that can serve both as an additional and basic element. And it's a pleasure to cook them. Today we will develop a hot, aromatic theme with a crispy golden crust - about pies.

Vegetable pies

Boats with spinach and feta cheese

Product set:

for the test

• glass of water;
• a couple of tablespoons of refined oil;
• a large spoonful of sugar;
• a small spoonful of yeast;
• salt to taste;
• about 300 g flour;

filling

• 100 g fresh spinach;
• 200 g feta cheese.

1. Sift flour and add yeast. Then add sugar and salt.
2. Pour warm water into the mixture and knead the dough.
3. After that, pour in the refined oil and knead the dough again. Cover the plate with cling film and leave to rest for half an hour. In the meantime, pay attention to the filling.

Filling

1. Place the cooked spinach in a container and cover with water (cold) - then drain. Do the manipulation until the greens are clean. In general, spinach "clings" a lot of dirt and dust, so rinsing is best done thoroughly.
2. After that, dry the greens with paper towels and chop into strips of 6-7 mm.
3. Crumble the feta cheese with your hands and place it over the spinach.
4. Taste after stirring. Since feta cheese is salted in itself, additional salting may not be required. If salt is not enough for you, add it to taste.

"Assembling" pies

1. Sprinkle flour on the work area and line out the dough that has come up.
2. Form a medium thickness slab (about 5 mm). Cut out the circles with a glass.
3. Place the finished filling in the center.
4. Tie the dough together on both sides as if you were making closed cakes, but leave the center open.
5. Put the finished boats in a "spiral" in a baking dish. For a golden crust, brush the surface with a beaten egg.
6. Bake at 180 ° C for about half an hour.

Berry pies

Product set:

dough

• 150 g sugar sand;
• 50 g of refined oil;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• 0.5 teaspoon of baking soda;
• a small spoonful of vinegar;
• a couple of chicken eggs;
• 3 tablespoons with a slide of sour cream;
• 200 g flour;

For filling

• a couple of glasses of black currant (if you wish, you can take any other);
• a tablespoon of gelatin and sugar.

1. Put the oven to heat up to 180 ° C, and prepare the cake yourself.
2. Beat eggs with granulated sugar, sour cream, vinegar and vegetable oil;
3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
4. Combine both mixtures and knead the dough. The latter will come out thick: a little thicker than for pancakes.
5. Rinse the berries with running water and add sugar and powdered gelatin to them.
6. In a prepared baking dish, greased with butter, pour 1/2 part of the dough. Then lay the berry and place the rest of the dough on top, leveling the latter.
7. The dessert is baked for about an hour. You need to remove the cake from the mold only after it has cooled down, otherwise it will fall apart.

Fruit pies

Pie with apricots and caramel

A set of products:

dough

• 200 g flour;
• 150 g sugar;
• 100 g softened butter;
• 50 g sour cream, at least 15% fat;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;

for making caramel

• 50 g butter;
• 50 g granulated sugar;
• 1/2 lemon juice;
• 1/2 teaspoon of chicken

filling

• 800 g apricots.

1. Rinse the fruit, pat dry with a towel and, dividing it into 2 parts, remove the seeds.
2. Prepare the caramel. In a skillet, preferably one with a non-stick coating, melt the butter and add the sugar.
3. Place the skillet with the contents over medium heat and bring to a brownish color.
4. Reduce heat to lowest heat and place the apricots, cut side down, in the skillet. Pour in lemon juice and cover everything. Continue stewing until the apricots are soft, on average it takes about five minutes. Fruit should not fall apart.
5. Prepare the dough. Whisk butter and sugar with a mixer. Without stopping whisking, add eggs one by one.
6. Add sour cream and stir with a spatula.
7. Mix flour with baking powder and add to the total mass. The dough will turn out to be liquid - that's fine

Assembling the cake

1. Place the apricots in a baking dish, cut to the bottom.
2. Pour the syrup into the mold.
3. Sprinkle with cinnamon if desired.
4. Place the dough on top and flatten the surface.
5. Bake at 180 ° C for about 20-40 minutes, until tender.

Cottage cheese pies

Royal cheese cake

• a glass of flour;
• 100 g butter;
• a pound of cottage cheese;
• a couple of chicken eggs;
• a glass of granulated sugar.

1. Mix the butter and flour by hand to make a crumb.
2. Cover the bottom of the baking dish with some of the crumb.
3. Mix eggs with cottage cheese and sugar. Place the mass on crumb-shaped crumbs.
4. Spread the remnants of the butter-flour mass on top.
5. Bake at 230 ° C until tender, about half an hour.

Pie with a light curd filling

For the test:

• a couple of chicken eggs;
• 150 g granulated sugar;
• a glass of sour cream;
• gram of vanillin;
• 10 g baking powder;
• 3 heaped tablespoons of flour;

filling:

• 200 g of 9% cottage cheese;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• one chicken egg;
• 3 tablespoons of semolina.

1. Combine all the ingredients for the dough and knead the last.
2. Also combine the filling components.
3. Grease a baking dish and pour the dough into it.
4. Distribute the cottage cheese from above, in the center.
5. Bake the dessert for about 40 minutes at 180 ° C.

Cupcake "Curd"

• 150 g margarine;
• 225 g granulated sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• a couple of teaspoons of lemon zest;
• a couple of chicken eggs;
• 250 g of cottage cheese;
• 400 g flour;
• half a teaspoon of baking soda;
• 100 g raisins;
• icing sugar to taste.

1. Rinse the raisins thoroughly under hot water.
2. In a bowl, combine margarine, eggs, and lemon zest. Whisk until firm foam.
3. Add the curd and continue whisking until smooth.
4. Add baking soda. Sift the flour and add to the curd mass. Whisk everything well.
5. Throw raisins into the dough. If you have any suspicions that the mass is dry, you can pour in a little milk or stir in sour cream.
6. Treat a baking dish with butter and a little flour. Lay out the dough and place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.
7. The cake is prepared for about an hour. When serving, the dessert can be sprinkled with icing sugar.

Meat pies

Dough:

• a couple of glasses of flour;
• 6 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 100 g butter;
• a couple of teaspoons of sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• a pinch of baking soda;
• a pinch of citric acid;

filling

• 300 g lean beef;
• 400 g potatoes;
• bulb;
• 50 g butter;
• half a glass of water (it is better to take broth);
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• pepper and spices to taste.

1. In a bowl, combine sour cream, soda, salt, oil, lemon acid, sugar. Stir.
2. Add flour and stir again. Knead the dough.
3. Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut into small pieces.
4. Rinse the meat, dry with a paper towel and also finely chop.
5. Peel and chop the onion.
6. In a hot skillet with melted butter, fry the onion until golden brown.
7. In a bowl, combine potatoes, meat, onions, spices and salt. Stir.
8. Disconnect one fifth of the dough and put it separately, then it will be used to make a "lid" of the pie.
9. Roll out the main dough into a layer, the thickness of which is about 5 mm, and the diameter is such that it covers the bottom and sides of the mold.
10. Grease a baking dish with butter and cover with the prepared layer so that the dough hangs from the sides.
11. Lay out the filling and flatten.
12. Pull the edges of the dough and pin to the center so that a circle is formed through which the filling is visible. The cake itself will take on a spherical shape.
13. From the remaining dough, mold a ball and flatten it to make a lid that can cover the hole in the cake.
14. Bake the dish at 170 ° C for about an hour. After that, remove the edible "lid" and pour the broth (or water) inside. Close the hole and place the cake back in the oven for half an hour.

Fish pie

• 0.5 kg of puff pastry;
• 600 g of fish (preferably salmon or pink salmon);
• 3 eggs;
• 4 tablespoons of rice;
• 0.5 cups of cream, not less than 11% fat;
• juice of half a lemon;
• a couple of tablespoons of olive oil;
• a couple of tablespoons of dry tarragon;
• parsley to taste;
• raw yolk of one egg;
• salt and spices to taste.

1. Boil rice and eggs. Defrost fish and dough. If the fish is skinned, remove the latter.
2. First cut the fish fillet into strips, and then into cubes, about 1-1.5 cm in size.
3. Put cooked fish, tarragon, parsley, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper into a bowl. Stir and refrigerate for a couple of hours to marinate.
4. Divide the dough into two parts, where one will be slightly larger. Roll out the last and cover the mold, oiled. Set the oven to preheat to 190 ° C.
5. To prevent the bottom layer from swelling, do the following: cover with parchment, pour the peas on top and put the form in the oven for 10 minutes.
6. Press down the eggs with a fork and combine with rice, cream and chopped herbs. Stir.
7. Add the resulting mixture to the pickled fish.
8. Place the filling in the grasped bottom layer. Flatten.
9. Roll out the rest of the dough, cut into triangles and cover the top of the pie with them. Lay out the triangles with "tiles".
10. Bake at 190 ° C for 5 minutes, then reduce heat to 160 ° C and continue cooking for another 15 minutes.

Chicken pie

• a glass of fat sour cream;
• a glass of good mayonnaise;
• a glass of flour;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• baking powder packaging;
• a pinch of salt;

filling

• 250 g chicken fillet;
• onion head;
• 200 g of cheese;
• salt and other spices to taste.

1. Prepare all the ingredients described above in advance and let them stand so that each of them reaches room temperature.
2. Stir sour cream with mayonnaise.
3. Add eggs, salt and baking powder to the cooked mass. Mix everything well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
4. Place the pre-sifted flour there. Mix everything again. The dough should turn out like a thick sweetener.
5. Grease the prepared baking dish with butter and sprinkle with flour.
6. Pour the dough and smooth the surface.
7. Cut the chicken into medium-sized squares.
8. Stick the meat into the surface of the dough in the mold.
9. Chop the onion and place on top of the chicken.
10. Sprinkle with your favorite spices on top.
11. Grate the cheese and cover the cake with it.
12. Bake the dish until tender, at a temperature of 180 ° C, for about half an hour.

Minced meat pie

Pie with potatoes and minced meat

• a couple of potatoes;
• a pound of minced meat;
• large carrots;
• fresh herbs;
• large onion;
• four eggs;
• kefir (to dilute the consistency);
• 300 g flour;
• baking powder bag;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• half a glass of sugar.

1. Wash and clean all products.
2. Cut the onion into rings and disassemble into small rings.
3. Cut the carrots into rings of medium thickness.
4. Fry the carrots and onions in a hot skillet.
5. When the vegetables are covered with a golden crust, add minced meat to them. Salt and pepper the filling and continue to fry until tender.
6. Cut the potatoes into thin rings. Chop the greens.

Prepare the dough.

1. Add eggs, baking powder, salt and sugar to flour. Mix thoroughly.
2. After that, pour in kefir. It must be added until the dough acquires the consistency of sour cream. If you suddenly spill liquid, add flour.

Cake preparation

• Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with flour.
• Place 1/2 part of cooked potatoes on the bottom. Then distribute the prepared filling over the form. Sprinkle with 1/2 part chopped greens.
• Put the remaining potatoes on top again and pour in the rest of the harvested greens.
• Pour the dough into a mold and send to bake for 40 minutes. Oven temperature - 180 ° С. After cooking, do not rush to remove the dish from the oven - turn off the device and let the cake brew for 20 minutes, this will make it even tastier.

Potato pie

For the test:

• a kilogram of flour;
• a teaspoon of yeast;
• a teaspoon of granulated sugar;
• a couple of tablespoons of refined oil;
• 150 g of milk;
• a tablespoon (no slide) - salt;

filling

• six large potatoes;
• 0.5 kg of brine cheese, for example, feta, ideally take Ossetian;
• fresh herbs to taste;
• 150 ml heavy cream;
• 3 tablespoons of butter.

1. Prepare the dough: put a teaspoon of flour, yeast and sugar in a glass. Stir.
2. Pour into a glass 2/3 warm water and leave for 15 minutes for the yeast to react.
3. Pour all the flour and prepared salt into a bowl. Stir and form a small depression in the center where you place the dough. Knead gently from the center, gradually add milk (warm!). Then, if necessary, pour in as much water as the dough takes. The latter should be elastic. To prevent the mass from sticking to your hands, add oil. Tighten the bowl with plastic wrap and send the dough to a warm place for a couple of hours, come up.
4. At this time, do the stuffing. Peel and boil potatoes.
5. Drain the water and add the butter. Crush and pour in the cream. Mix thoroughly to avoid lumps.
6. Mash the cheese with your bare hands. Add chopped herbs, peppers and potatoes to it - mix.
7. Divide the finished dough into three parts. Roll each of them into a round layer.
8. Place the filling in the center of each circle and pull the edges of the dough to the center. Fingers, gently, interlock, forming a cake.
9. Take a rolling pin and gently flatten each piece to make it thin. Nothing should stick out from the dough. Bake the tortillas at 220 ° C for about 10 minutes on one side, then turn over and cook the same amount on the other.
10. Grease the finished pies while still hot with butter.

A pie with cabbage

Dough:

• a pound of flour;
• 7 g yeast;
• 150 ml of milk;
• egg;
• 100 g butter;
• a tablespoon of sugar;
• a pinch of salt;

filling

• 300 g white cabbage;
• a couple of units of carrots;
• two onion heads;
• three boiled eggs.

1. In a glass, combine yeast, half a glass of flour and warm milk. Leave the dough to come to a warm place for about forty minutes. Also leave the butter in a warm place to make it very soft.
2. Add this soft butter, salt and sugar to the finished dough. Stir until the salt and sugar are dissolved.
3. Sift flour and gradually add it to the dough. Knead the dough and leave it in a warm place to come up for an hour and a half. Then wrinkle and leave for the same amount.
4. Prepare the filling. Chop the vegetables, without cabbage, and fry in a hot skillet for about 5 minutes. Then chop the cabbage and place it over the vegetables in the saucepan. Simmer for 15 minutes.
5. Chop the boiled eggs finely and add to the vegetables - season with salt.
6. Divide the dough into two parts. Where one will be a little more. Roll out tortillas from them, approximately 0.7 cm thick.
7. Put a smaller layer on a baking sheet, put the filling on top, leaving three centimeters from the edges. Cover the top with a second layer and interlock the edges. Make a hole in the center.
8. Bake at 180 ° C for about forty minutes, until tender.