If we want to cook something delicious for dinner, then puff pastry pies are just what we need. Everyone loves hot, aromatic and delicious pastries. And the pies are just like that. And each time they can be prepared with different fillings. These are meat, and vegetable, and mushroom, and fruit - you can safely choose any. With any of them, they turn out to be very, very tasty.
And if there is also ready-made, store-bought in the refrigerator, then you also do not need to waste time preparing it. After all, it's not a secret for anyone that this is what takes the longest time. And the point is not even that the dough is kneaded for a long time. And the fact that it always takes time to insist. And here I bought a ready-made one, thawed it, prepared the filling, and bake whatever you want.
The shops sell yeast puff pastry and yeast-free. What is their difference, and which one is better to buy for baking.
The yeast-free version has more layers than the yeast version. And since there are more layers, then there is more oil between the layers. That is, it is more fatty and there are twice as many calories in it. In terms of taste, both options are practically the same. But yeast-free dough is somewhat dry, and yeast dough is softer, baking from it turns out to be more fluffy.
Therefore, the yeast-free version is used for baking pastries with sweet fillings - puffs, croissants. it is made from it .. And yeast is just good for not sweet options, as well as for pizza.
Therefore, today we use a yeast base. It must be properly defrosted. This is best done at room temperature. But we must remember that puff pastry contains butter, and if you defrost it hard, the butter will also melt, and the baked goods will not turn out to be layered and tasty.
I try to defrost it in the refrigerator. Knowing that I will bake today, I move it from the freezer to the refrigerator in advance. If I put it in in the morning, then by the evening it is already defrosting, and you can immediately roll it out and cook pastries.
I'll tell you how to cook pies with different fillings. Someone in our house is a meat eater, and someone is a vegetarian. And everyone wants baked goods! Therefore, we will cook for different tastes.
We need (for 16 pieces):
Preparation:
1. Pour potatoes with water, bring to a boil, salt and boil until tender.
2. Now you need to decide what kind of filling you would like to make. There are two options, the first is to use only mashed potatoes for this. The second is to make the filling from mashed potatoes with fried onions. Today I follow the simplest path and choose the first option.
If you want to choose the second option, then cut the onion into small cubes and fry it until golden brown in a little vegetable oil.
3. Potatoes pour over, add butter, potato broth, or milk. When the consistency is desired, add the egg white. Leave the yolk, we need it. For the potato filling, mashed potatoes are better done a little thicker than we do for a side dish.
If you are stuffing with onions, puree before filling. In this case, you can not add butter at all or add less. Taste salt, if it is not enough, then salt to taste.
4. The filling should be allowed to cool down.
5. Grease the table with vegetable oil, and roll out one layer of dough on it. It should be rolled in one direction, away from you, so as not to break the layers. You do not need to press hard on the rolling pin, roll out evenly.
6. Cut the workpiece into 4 pieces. Spread over each significant portion of the filling. In order for the finished products to turn out delicious, there should be a lot of fillings in them.
7. Roll up with an envelope or a triangle.
8. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, grease it with oil or use a silicone mat, and place the pieces on it. Do the same with the other three layers.
9. Brush with yolk. Thanks to him, the products will turn out to be rosy and appetizing. And sprinkle them with sesame seeds on top for beauty. After all, a dish is first of all determined by its appearance, so we will make it attractive.
10. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake for 30 minutes. The finished baked goods should acquire a beautiful golden brown crust.
11. Remove the baking sheet, remove the pies and place in a large, flat dish. Let cool slightly, serve with hot tea.
Similar to the previous recipe, but only in the filling we add mushrooms fried with onions.
We need (for 16 pieces):
Preparation:
1. Boil potatoes. Grind it in mashed potatoes, add a little potato broth and egg white.
2. While the potatoes are boiling, cut the onion into cubes and lightly fry it in vegetable oil.
3. Finely chop the mushrooms, any - both forest and store-bought, for example champignons, and pickled and salted, will do. Add them to the onion and fry for 5-7 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. Add mushrooms to mashed potatoes, mix.
5. Roll out the layer, divide it into 4 parts, and put on each filling. Fold up with an envelope or a triangle. Do the same with the rest of the test.
6. Place on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and lined with baking paper, or on a silicone mat placed on top of it. Brush with yolk and sprinkle with black or white sesame seeds.
7. Bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Take out, put on a dish, let cool slightly, and serve with hot tea.
If you prepare minced meat in advance and defrost the dough, then in an hour the whole family will be able to enjoy delicious, aromatic pastries with meat.
We need (for 16 pieces):
Preparation:
1. Cut the onion into small cubes and add to the minced meat. You can, of course, twist it in a meat grinder, but not worth it. The ground onions are very runny and the minced meat will also be runny. But when we cut it, the minced meat will be the consistency we need. In addition, during the cooking process, the onion will gradually exchange juice with meat, and the filling will turn out to be much tastier from this.
2. Add spices and dried herbs to the minced meat. Ground coriander, rosemary and cumin are good spices. They will give our products a divine scent. You can add any dried herbs, but I add basil and parsley, as well as oregano.
3. Salt and pepper to taste. And add the egg white. We need the yolk to lubricate the baking surface. During the preparation process, it will acquire a beautiful golden color.
4. Thoroughly mix the minced meat until smooth.
5. Roll one layer on an oiled table. Do not forget that we are rolling it in one direction so as not to break the layers. Cut the layer into four parts.
6. Place a significant portion of the filling on each part of the dough. Fold up with an envelope or a triangle. Place on a greased baking sheet or lined with silicone mat.
7. Do the same with the rest of the parts. Grease the finished blanks with yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
8. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes. The pies will brown and become beautiful and very appetizing.
9. Take them out and place on a large flat dish. let cool slightly and serve with hot tea.
With the onset of spring and summer, we all feel a lack of vitamins. And by that time, the first "green vitamins" appeared in our summer cottages - and onions took pride of place among them. We are happy to eat it with a bite to various dishes and with no less pleasure we make a variety of pastries using it. Puff pastries are one of them.
We need (for 16 pieces):
Preparation:
1. Boil eggs, cover them with cold water and peel them. Cut into small cubes.
2. Chop green onions 0.6-0.8 cm thick.
3. Mix onion with eggs, add sour cream or mayonnaise. Or both in equal proportions. The filling should not come out thin or thick. In the first case, the finished products "float", and in the second they will turn out to be dry and tasteless.
4. Lubricate the table with vegetable oil and roll out the first layer. Cut it into four pieces and place the filling on each piece. We do not regret it, we put more. Fold the blanks with an envelope or triangle. Place on a greased baking sheet or lined with silicone mat.
5. Do the same with the remaining three parts. Brush the pies with yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
6. Bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. They will brown and become beautiful and of course delicious.
Here we have got products with the most popular and favorite fillings. As you may have noticed, the work with the test is the same everywhere. Well, this is if you use it ready-made.
If you want to make the dough yourself, here is the recipe.
We need:
Preparation:
1. Sift flour 2-3 times, for better oxygenation. Set aside 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour in a separate bowl.
2. Put the rest of the flour in a bowl, add salt.
3. Dissolve sugar in 1/2 part of milk and add to flour. Mix.
4. Dissolve the yeast separately in warm milk. Let stand for a while so that they separate and add the mixture to the flour and sugar.
5. Add the butter softened at room temperature beforehand. Knead the dough, it should be steep enough and well out of hand.
6. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate, preferably overnight, but not less than 4 hours. During this time, it will double in volume.
7. Take out the finished dough and roll it into a layer 0.5-0.6 mm thick.
8. Spread oil on the rolled layer, leaving 1/3 of a part. Do not smear to the very edges, leave about 1 cm from the edges unlubricated.
9. Screw the unlubricated part onto the greased one. And then cover it with the rest. This will create three layers. Using a rolling pin, roll it without pressing very hard along the entire length of the layer. In order not to break the layers, roll out only in one direction.
10. Then sprinkle the top of the layer with lightly remaining flour and fold it back into three layers. Roll out lightly and refrigerate again for 40 minutes.
11. This procedure should be repeated four times. Only four times. Then we will get the required number of layers.
The finished dough can be stored in the refrigerator for three days and in the freezer for 1 month.
This is not the fastest cooking method. There is a faster way, described in my other post, how to cook
And in conclusion, one little secret of making delicious pastries. The word itself comes from the word "feast". To feast is to celebrate. And for the celebration, we spare nothing. See how our tables are bursting for all the holidays. Therefore, do not spare the filling! There should be a lot of it in pies! The dough is smaller, and the fillings are larger. That's the whole secret!
Enjoy your meal!
3 servings
40 minutes
235 kcal
5 /5 (1 )
Many people love light and crunchy puff pastry, and the pies from it are simply amazing. They are prepared very quickly, since the dough, most often, is used ready-made.
Puff pastry pies can be pan-fried or oven-baked, and any ingredients you like to make classic pies can be used for the filling.
Inventory: board, knife, fork, rolling pin, parchment, baking sheet, frying pan, silicone brush.
Since we will use ready-made dough, let's move on to preparing the filling.
Since the dough is yeast, it can rise even when wrapped, so get to work while it is still cold.
Watch the video on how you can quickly make pies from ready-made puff pastry.
Time for preparing - 35 minutes.
Servings – 4.
Caloric content per 100 g - 259 kcal.
Inventory: board, knife, rolling pin, parchment, baking sheet, stewpan, silicone brush.
Try to keep the filling in the center and not fall on the edges of the dough, otherwise they will not pinch well.
With this recipe, you can make pies with apples, cherries or cottage cheese. Serve this wonderful treat with tea or coffee.
To see all the stages of making sweet pies, watch the proposed video.
Time for preparing - 55 minutes.
Servings – 4.
Caloric content per 100 g - 260 kcal.
Inventory: board, knife, rolling pin, baking sheet, fork, silicone brush, parchment paper.
Another easy way to make such pies is shown in the video. Please note that it is proposed to cook the filling here all at once in a pan, and the method of forming the pies is also quite interesting.
Every forward-thinking housewife should have frozen puff pastry in the freezer. It helps out all the time, but is quite inexpensive. Very quickly, you can make a dessert in the form of bows sprinkled with powdered sugar from it - five minutes in the oven and you're done. Or you can bake pies with various fillings. Puff pastry with meat fillings goes especially well. Even chicken breast pies will turn out juicy, and if you add cheese, green onions or ham to the chicken fillet, then the pleasure of eating such pies will certainly increase. Since the title of the recipe states that the dish will cook quickly, that is, in a hurry, along with the presence of puff pastry in the freezer, it is useful to keep a pre-cooked chicken breast cut into small pieces. It is not forbidden to add other parts of the chicken to the chicken breast - the pulp from the thighs and legs. As for cheese, it is better to take it from hard varieties. If you use blue cheese, then the pies will only benefit from this in terms of flavor. The filling is prepared by mixing chicken, cut into small pieces, and grated cheese.
The frozen dough must be removed from the freezer in advance. If you have time, you can defrost it directly in the package at room temperature. This natural defrosting will take an hour or more, depending on the ambient temperature.
The dough can also be defrosted in the microwave if it is packed in a plastic bag. If the dough is packed in a foil container, then it must be removed from the package onto a plate sprinkled with flour and thawed at minimum power.
The defrosted puff pastry should be rolled out in a thin layer, trying to do it in the form of a square. Be sure to sprinkle the table with flour and make sure that the dough does not stick during rolling. Cut the uneven edges of the dough with a knife.
And put the filling on each square - this is about a heaped tablespoon.
For each square, connect the edges in the form of a triangle. It will be convenient to connect the edges of the pie with a fork, passing along them with teeth.
Put the prepared pies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Beat an egg in a separate container with a fork and brush the surface of each pie with it.
Quick pies are baked in the oven for 10 minutes, the baking temperature is not higher than 170 degrees.
Ready-made puff pastries with meat are juicy, tasty, and therefore fly away in an instant.
Enjoy your meal!!!
Puff pastry pies are deservedly popular in many families, including mine. And this is no coincidence, because they are particularly tender, they can be quickly prepared from purchased dough.
Another plus: pies can be combined with any filling, and this makes it possible to use products that are found in the kitchen at the right time. Today I would like to tell you how to make puff pastry pies filled with meat and more.
If you have prepared puff pastry in advance or bought a ready-made one, then the pies can be made in 15 minutes!
I will share with you a recipe for baking, in which the filling is not minced meat, but minced meat mixed with carrots and onions. You can serve such puff pastry pies to the table as an appetizer or as an independent dish.
To make the pastries tasty and crispy, you will need the following ingredients:
350 g of dough from a package purchased in a store; half a kilo of beef; 2 onions; 1 carrot; 30 ml of vegetable oil (preferably olive oil); 300 ml of meat broth; a large spoonful of flour; 1 egg; salt and ground black pepper.
Pies from purchased dough are made according to a recipe, namely:
We form pies:
The puff pastry pies according to my recipe should be in the oven for 20 minutes. This is enough for the surface of the baked goods to brown, and the filling has already passed the heat treatment and does not require a lot of time to reheat to a high temperature.
I want to note that you can make pies with chicken from puff pastry, it is also fried with onions and carrots, finely chopping it. Now let's learn how to make another puff pastry pies with apples.
The sweet filling makes pies a dessert dish, and for it you can use various fruits, berries, both just picked and in the form of jam. This time, we will consider the option of making puff pastry with fruits, or rather apples, sprinkled with granulated sugar.
Ingredients for baking:
puff pastry packaging (500g); 2-3 apples (depending on size); a glass of raisins; 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar; 50 g unsalted butter; a teaspoon of ground cinnamon; lemon fresh and a little flour for the tanning.
Stages of baking puff pastry:
Sweet apple and raisin pies can be served after brushing them with melted butter and crumbling with ground cinnamon.
Pies with jam or jam are prepared in the same way, but they bake a little faster. After 25 minutes, remove the pies from the oven and, after cooling down, treat your friends to delicious homemade pastries.
Take: one pack of puff pastry; 0.3 kg of hard cheese (like Russian) and an egg.
Step-by-step recipe:
Puff pastry pies with boiled eggs and cabbage should be made from the following ingredients: half a kilo of cabbage; standard packaging of puff pastry; three chicken eggs, salt and ground pepper.
The cooking steps are:
Then:
And who doesn't really like cabbage, let's cook:
To do this, you must have products such as:
0.3 kg of potatoes; medium-sized onion; seasonings and salt and, of course, puff pastry packaging.
Let's start the cooking process:
Use cottage cheese as a filling, grated through a sieve and mixed with granulated sugar. The so-called puff cheesecakes are baked in the same way as in the previous recipe.
Making meat pies is not difficult at all. You will be surprised, but the recipe does not require a solid set of ingredients, plus everything, you can always experiment with the filling, for example, you can take meat of the same type or combine several types at once.
Components: 500 gr. meat or minced meat; 2.5 tbsp. flour; ¾ Art. St. milk; 1 PC. chickens. egg; baking powder; 150 g sl. oils.
Cooking Algorithm:
Pies can be baked with a sweet filling. They will turn out to be very delicate. Plus, goat cheese can be used as a filling.
It will take about two hours to cook them. Pies will be a great addition to tea, and if guests come, they will be delighted with your treat.
Components: 800 gr. flour; 1 tbsp. sour cream or whey (take low-fat foods); 3 pcs. chickens. eggs; half tsp soda; 2 tsp Sahara; salt. Take ½ tbsp for the filling. gr. nuts; melted sl. butter, melted honey and 2/3 tbsp. Sahara.
Cooking Algorithm:
Feel free to use my recipes while experimenting with toppings. Pies can be made with berries or fruits, supplemented with dairy products, meat, cottage cheese.
In general, in this case, rely solely on your taste, and you will certainly be satisfied.
These pastries will go well with herbal tea for breakfast, or will be a great addition to your dinner. Even children are delighted with homemade cakes, and you will get an unforgettable pleasure when the treat flies off the table in no time.