The article contains recipes for the most delicious pies for a lean menu.
Fasting prohibits many foods and dishes. It may seem that the lean menu is bland and tasteless food. But not for those whose fantasy refuses to stop at tasteless food.
It turns out that fasting is not a reason to give up baked goods, including sweet ones. We will tell you how to make a truly lean dough, and bake delicious pies based on it.
You will need:
Pass the flour through a sieve. Pour water into it a little at a time, stirring immediately so that there are no lumps. Add oil, add salt. You will end up with a not very tight mass. Cover it with a piece of cloth and let it rise at room temperature for a quarter of an hour.
IMPORTANT: Do not be intimidated by the presence of vegetable oil in the recipe. In small quantities, it is allowed during the fast, if you are not associated with the ministry.
After a quarter of an hour, roll out the dough with a rolling pin, reassemble it in a lump and let it "rest" for another 15 minutes. The lean dough is now completely ready for making the pie.
The following recipe is an instruction for making a classic unpaired yeast dough, which is suitable for any baking: pies, pies, dumplings, dumplings, pancakes, etc.
You will need:
400 ml of boiled water, which is equal to 2 glasses, heat in a saucepan to 40 degrees. Dissolve a bag of yeast in this water. Sweeten with sugar and season with salt.
Once you've prepared the flour and passed it through a sieve, place it in a large bowl and add the yeast mixture. Combine everything thoroughly into a homogeneous composition, and then add vegetable oil.
Grease your palms with butter and knead the dough for a few minutes. Cover the dough with a cloth and leave on the table for an hour.
IMPORTANT: Be careful when leaving the dough, as thanks to the yeast it will approximately double its mass in 60 minutes.
When the dough is right, knead it again for a few minutes. Now you can go directly to baking fragrant pies.
You will need:
Chop the carrots using the finest grater. Combine carrots with sugar, butter and lemon. You will need some time to knead the mass thoroughly with a spoon until it lets out the liquid.
When the carrots have given up a little of the liquid, start gradually adding flour and baking soda to it. The result is a patchy orange dough with carrot pieces.
Wipe the baking dish with oil, put the dough in it and send it to the oven to cook at a temperature of 220 degrees. When the cake is browned and hardened on top, you can take it out.
IMPORTANT: If desired, brush the pie crust with natural liquid honey. This will turn your dish into a real sweet treat that can be served with tea.
IMPORTANT: Optionally, you can add walnut crumbs, chocolate crumbs, or both.
IMPORTANT: For a lean pie, you can take any jam, but it is better if sourness is present in it. Currant, cherry, peach, etc. will do.
Pass one and a half to 3 quarters of a glass of wheat flour through a sieve, put 2 tablespoons in it. sugar, a pinch of salt, a little vanillin, 5 tbsp. vegetable oil and enter 6 tablespoons. cold water. Grind another 50 g of wheat flour with a pinch of baking soda and also send to a common container.
From all the ingredients, a rather tight dough will turn out, which must be divided into two unequal parts, each wrapped in plastic and sent to the refrigerator for about an hour.
IMPORTANT: In this recipe, you can use both fresh cherries and frozen ones, after defrosting them.
IMPORTANT: During this time, the mushroom liquid is unlikely to boil away, so drain it from the pan.
First, prepare a dough for the dough. To do this, combine 20 g of fresh yeast with 1 tbsp. sugar, then dilute all this with half a glass of heated water. Add a little wheat flour to the water, mix everything well and send to infuse in a warm place.
IMPORTANT: In order not to look for a warm place in the apartment for a long time, use a lidded bowl with warm water, on which you can place the dough.
IMPORTANT: To make the cake more ruddy, brush it with strong tea leaves, then put it in the oven for another 5 minutes.
IMPORTANT: A few dough scraps can successfully turn into beautiful cake decorations. Imagine!
Bake the pie at 180 degrees for about half an hour - until golden brown.
IMPORTANT: For taste and beauty, sprinkle cinnamon on top of the cake while still raw.
Lean dough for pies, prepared according to any recipe, will provide an opportunity not to indulge in the pleasure of enjoying your favorite pastries during the fast. A similar basis is also suitable for decorating products from a vegetarian menu, since it does not contain prohibited products.
Any recipe for lean pastry dough must be compiled taking into account the established requirements, which are decisive for obtaining the correct composition and excellent taste characteristics of baked goods.
Lean, yeast-free dough for pies is prepared with the addition of soda, which must be extinguished with vinegar or lemon juice. You can also use a baking powder, increasing the rate of the product by one and a half times. If desired, you can add a little vanillin or vanilla sugar to the base, which will enrich the taste of the finished product.
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Lean pie dough with dry yeast is an excellent base for oven baked items. The main thing is not to oversaturate the mass with flour, so that it remains soft and plastic, even a little sticky, then the products will turn out to be lush and will delight you with an excellent taste, which will practically not be inferior to products with a large amount of baking.
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Unleavened, lean pastry dough prepared according to the following recipe does not require long proofing and is suitable for decorating fried foods. In this case, vodka is used as a baking powder, which can be replaced with cognac, rum, brandy, which will give the baked goods an additional taste and aroma.
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Lean will become the basis of surprisingly soft and fluffy products that can be decorated with any filling. The unconventional technology for preparing the base gives an excellent result that will appeal to even the most demanding and fastidious connoisseurs of homemade baking.
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Lean dough for pies on mineral water turns out to be fluffier and softer than usual. The miraculous effect of gas bubbles has a beneficial effect on the structure of the base, additionally loosens it and allows the finished product to remain soft and appetizing longer. This dough is perfect for decorating bread, flat cakes and large portioned pies with filling.
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Lean puffy pastry dough can be cooked on a mature one. Products in this composition are not only tasty and soft, but also extremely useful, which will be especially appreciated by supporters of a healthy diet. They can be baked on a baking sheet in the oven or deep-fried.
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Lean for pies is going to be one of the best basics for fasting baked goods. Using a decoction of potatoes as a liquid base in combination with vegetable pulp gives an incredible result: the products are not only lush, soft and airy, but also more tasty and aromatic.
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The following recipe takes just a few minutes to prepare the lean pastry dough for pies, and the result will surprise you with the excellent taste of the finished products. In this case, the soda is quenched by the acid present in the brine and does not require additional use of vinegar. From the specified amount, you get about 20 medium-sized pies.
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It is most convenient to knead lean in a bread maker. In this manner, you can not only save time and effort, but also improve the taste of finished products. After all, a well-mixed base will always give the desired result, which is much easier to obtain with the use of kitchen appliances.
Lean dough for pies is made with yeast or without yeast, in the oven or in deep fat. The baked goods are so fragrant, ruddy and tasty that, without knowing the recipe for lean pies, it is difficult to believe that they do not contain eggs and milk.
Lean dough can be used to make bread, oven pies, pies in a pan, cookies, pancakes, dumplings, strudel, pita bread, pizza base and even cake. But let's dwell only on pies. For baking pies in the oven, not only lean yeast dough is suitable. You will learn an interesting recipe for Moldovan cuisine. Moldavian lean pies in the oven with sauerkraut are made from unleavened dough. Such pies can be made with a variety of fillings, delighting relatives with delicious pastries without compromising the family budget.
The fried pie dough in this recipe is only suitable for deep-frying baked goods in a deep-fried pan. Instead of peas, put potatoes with onions or mushrooms, liver or stewed cabbage inside.
This is a Moldovan national dish. The dough is traditionally rolled out very thinly. Plachinda is baked in the oven and in a pan. Various fillings are added: pumpkin, cottage cheese, feta cheese, potatoes, berries and fruits. This recipe is slightly different from the traditional one. The finished baked goods have the shape of a cheburek, and the dough does not roll out thinly. But it turns out delicious.
The dough is prepared with the addition of a flock of rice and soy sauce instead of water. It does not dry out for a long time and is perfect for pies. The recipe contains whole grain flour, you can skip it and bake only with wheat flour.
Unusual yeast dough, which, instead of being placed in the heat, is placed in cold water, can be cooked without baking. Its advantage over conventional yeast dough is that it cooks quickly.
Good appetite!
In this article, I'll show you how to make lean pie dough in several variations.
After all, many hostesses love to cook pies for their family, and this article will help you with this.
Enjoy your reading.
Lean pie dough is actually not difficult to prepare, and there are many recipes for making it, so you can choose the one that suits you best.
This dough is suitable for various delicacies during the fasting period. Now we will consider with you the easiest recipe for lean apple pie.
So, for the easiest recipe for this dough, we first need love for cooking, because the most delicious dishes are those that are prepared with love.
To prepare the dough, we need:
First you need to sift the flour.
After you have mixed the dough, you need to knead it, if the dough sticks to your hands, then add a little more flour, and if the dough, on the contrary, is too dry, then add a little water.
When you finish kneading the dough, then divide it into two parts, so that it is a little larger, put in a bag or wrap with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
Ingredients for the filling:
So, first we remove the seeds from the apples, for this we cut them in half and cut off the part where the seeds are. Next, simply cut the apples into thin slices. Sift the flour and add sugar and cinnamon, mix everything. Add this flour mixture to the apples and mix. Our delicious filling is ready.
It's time to get the dough out of the refrigerator, we are preparing a baking dish in advance, previously slightly greased with oil. We distribute a larger piece of dough throughout the mold, making small sides on the sides, on top of the first layer of dough, we distribute our filling. After all this, we take a piece of dough, which is smaller and fix our pie (so to speak, we make a hat), cover our future pie with this piece of dough.
Next, preheat the oven to 180-190 degrees, put our pie in the oven and bake for 50-60 minutes. While the pie is being prepared, make yourself and your family some delicious tea. As the pie is ready, we take it out of the oven, cut it and serve it to the table. Well, that's all, we have such a quick and tasty recipe, bon appetit.
And now I will tell you a recipe for a lean dough for dry yeast pies.
We will need:
To begin with, we take yeast and sugar, mix and add warm water and mix everything thoroughly (foam should appear). In a separate bowl, we must sift the flour and add our mixture of water, sugar and yeast there. All we have to do is add salt and knead the dough very well.
Heat the vegetable oil a little in the microwave or in a water bath, then add it to the dough. Our dough must be homogeneous, and without any lumps. As you finish kneading the dough, cover it with a towel and start preparing the filling.
Ingredients for the filling:
So, we begin to cut the cabbage into small pieces, that is, we chop it. We heat up the frying pan, add vegetable oil and start frying the cabbage, you can also add the spices that suit your soul. Fry until our filling is cooked.
By this time, our dough has already risen. Take a plate sprinkled with flour and put the dough there. Next, we divide our dough into small balls, which we will roll out. After all the balls have already turned into small cakes, we begin to fill our future cakes with filling. Next, we form the patties.
The next step is to put the pies on a baking sheet and hide them in a warm place.
To make the pies even tastier, you can take tea leaves and grease our
pies (the main thing is that the tea leaves are not strong).
After all this is done, we preheat the oven well to about 180 degrees, and send our pies to bake. We bake until fully cooked.
Well, now we will proceed with you to the recipe for a delicious yeast-free dough.
And as always, first we need to sift the flour. Next, gradually pour water and sunflower oil into the flour (without stirring) and immediately add the rest of the ingredients, and only then move everything. Then we knead the dough and let it stand for 20-30 minutes, after which we preheat the oven and bake our pie.
To prevent the cake from looking boring, you can make it with jam, just after making our cake, brush it with delicious jam on top.
Well, now let's get down to the sand dough.
All we need is:
It is advisable to add a couple of ice cubes to the water so that it becomes even colder. Add oil and salt to the water and beat everything until frothy (IF THE WATER IS NOT ICE WILL NOT HAVE ANYTHING). Next, mix the sugar with flour, and pour our mass into the flour in the form of a foam, mix.
Well, now we knead the dough, adding a little flour, until the dough stops sticking to our hands. Well, that's all the dough is ready for use. Further, as your imagination decides what to do with the dough, pies or a pie, and if you did not add sugar, you can even make a pie with fish.
Well, here we come to the last recipe, and this, or as it is also called choux pastry
Ingredients for lean bulk dough:
We mix the salt with flour and baking powder, make a small depression in the middle, where we pour boiling water and oil, mix, and let the dough cool. After the dough has cooled, boldly knead it and let it rest for about 15 minutes. Well, our dough is ready. Preheat the oven and bake the dough until cooked through.
It is Great Lent in the courtyard, and if you decide to fast, you need to follow its rules by eating lean food, but at the same time, sometimes you really want something tasty, some kind of pastry, so much so that I just don't eat with myself. What to do? First of all, do not bring yourself to the point where appetizing buns and pies begin to dream even in a dream. Even though most of our favorite sweets are prohibited during fasting, this does not mean at all that we need to give up baking altogether. Do not sacrifice yourself, fasting is a voluntary and conscious abstinence from the main habitual foods, but in no way a hunger strike or torture of oneself.
During the fasting period, you can cook delicious bread, and great pies and pies, and wonderful buns, cheesecakes, pies, pasties, dumplings ... One condition - all this must be cooked on lean dough, which, as you know, does not contain eggs or milk and butter. But believe me, dough that can be mixed with water, baking soda or yeast makes great baked goods. And tasty, and healthy, and no remorse.
There are several types of lean dough. This is unleavened dough, both puff pastry and yeast. Making lean dough is not at all difficult, but some of its features need to be borne in mind. Due to the lack of baking, this dough rises faster, so you should not leave it unattended for a long time. Lean dough products are baked much faster than pastry ones, and they turn stale very quickly, so they need to be stored in a plastic bag, previously wrapped in a linen towel. You do not need to tie the bag, it is advisable to leave it open.
Yeast dough
Ingredients:
1 kg of flour
2 stacks water,
150 g vegetable oil
2 tsp Sahara,
40 g yeast
salt to taste.
Preparation:
Add salt, yeast, and sugar to a bowl of warmed water. Stir until the yeast is completely dissolved in the water. Add whipped yeast to the flour and add vegetable oil. Knead the dough and leave in a warm place for 1 hour to rise. When it rises, knead it and repeat this procedure again. The dough is ready. Form products from it and bake.
Yeast dough with vodka
Ingredients:
4 stacks flour,
1.5 stack. water,
2 tbsp vodka,
2 tbsp vegetable oil,
100g melted lean margarine
1 tsp Sahara,
1 tsp salt,
1 bag of dry yeast.
Preparation:
Pour water and vodka into the sifted flour, then vegetable oil and melted margarine, add salt, sugar and yeast. Knead a light dough and leave warm. To prepare pasties, the dough should stand in a warm place for 1 hour, and to prepare pizza it will take 3 hours.
Yeast choux pastry
Ingredients:
1 kg of flour
3 stacks water,
1.5 stack. Sahara,
150 g vegetable oil
100 g lean margarine
100 g of regular yeast (or 1 sachet dry),
salt to taste.
Preparation:
First, boil water with sugar, salt and vegetable oil. Cool to steamed milk temperature and add margarine and yeast. Gradually adding the sifted flour, knead the thin dough. It is advisable to knead the dough for at least 30-45 minutes. Then put the dough in the refrigerator for 3 hours. This dough can also be used to bake plain buns sprinkled with sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and cocoa, and buns with sweet and savory fillings. If the filling is supposed to be savory, add less sugar to the dough.
Yeast cold dough for pasties
Ingredients:
1 kg of flour
300 ml of cold water
1 tsp Sahara,
1 sachet of dry yeast,
a pinch of salt.
Preparation:
Add yeast, salt, sugar, water to the flour and knead the dough as thick as for dumplings. After covering, put the finished dough in the refrigerator. You can start cooking pasties in 2-3 hours, but it is better for the dough to stand in the refrigerator overnight. This dough can be kept in the refrigerator for several days (it will make it even better), so you can take some part and leave the rest for later.
Puff yeast dough
Ingredients: the same as in recipe # 1.
Preparation:
Prepare yeast dough, knead it well and leave it warm for 1-1.5 hours. When the dough rises, knead it once, then another. Roll out the resulting dough in a very thin layer, coat with vegetable oil, sprinkle with sugar and fold in the form of an envelope. Repeat these steps 4 times. Sprinkle the dough with flour. Lean puff pastry is ready for further use. Using molds, cut buns of various shapes, or use a sharp knife to cut the dough into bundles and twist buns from them into rings or strings.
Sweet yeast dough (recipe from the monastery)
Ingredients:
900 g flour
2.5 stack. water,
⅓stack. vegetable oil,
¼ packs of fresh pressed yeast,
½ stack. Sahara,
1 tsp dry hop cones,
½ tsp salt.
Preparation:
Prepare the hop infusion first. To do this, pour 1 cup of boiling water over the hops and let it brew for 30 minutes. Then strain and add 1 tsp to the infusion. granulated sugar. Prepare the dough: dilute the yeast in half a glass of warm water, add 1 tsp. sugar and 2 tbsp. flour, mix well and leave to rise for 20-30 minutes. Pour the hop infusion into a deep bowl, add a glass of warm water, salt, the remaining sugar, matched dough and flour. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Gradually pour in the vegetable oil and stir into the dough. Flour the work surface, place the dough on it and knead well. Form the dough into a ball and leave to rise for 1.5 hours or until it nearly doubles. From such a dough, you can make many small pies with different fillings, a large open pie with jam or a roll. Before baking, the products must be allowed to space on the baking sheet until they have almost doubled in volume. After baking, grease the warm pies with vegetable oil.
Yeast dough for savory pastries (recipe from Richard Bertinet)
Ingredients:
500 g wheat flour
320 ml of water,
20 g semolina
50 g olive oil
15 g fresh pressed yeast,
1 tsp salt.
Preparation:
Combine flour with semolina and sift into a deep bowl. Using your fingertips, rub the yeast into the semolina flour until finely crumbled. Then add olive (vegetable oil), salt, and warm water. Knead the dough with a scraper, then place on a work surface and knead until smooth. Try not to add flour, the excess flour will make the product thick and heavy. Soon the dough will be saturated with oxygen and will stop sticking to your hands. Roll the finished dough into a ball and place in a warm place for 1 hour to rise.
Potato yeast dough
Products from it come out soft, delicate. This dough is perfect for baking pies and pies with lean filling.
Ingredients:
2 stacks wheat flour,
100 g potatoes
20 g fresh yeast
1 tbsp Sahara,
a pinch of salt.
Preparation:
Mash the yeast with sugar and place in a warm place for 10 minutes. Mash the boiled potatoes until cooked, be sure to save the broth. Add 150 ml of warm potato broth, mashed potatoes, 2 tablespoons to the yeast. flour, stir and put in a warm place for 20 minutes. During this time, the dough should come up. Stir in flour gradually and knead into a soft dough. Cover it with a towel and let it warm for 45 minutes. During this time, knead the dough 2 times, which should double in volume.
Unleavened dough
Ingredients:
1 kg of flour
250 ml of water,
3 tbsp vegetable oil,
salt to taste.
Preparation:
Sift flour and pour warm water into it. Pour in salt and add oil. Knead the dough. Cover it with a towel and place in a warm place for 15 minutes. Then roll out with a rolling pin, cover and leave for another 15 minutes. The dough is ready.
Choux yeast-free dough
The dough got its name due to an unusual method of preparation.
This type of dough is perfectly molded, rolled and cooked. With its help, you can cook not only wonderful lean pies and pies, but also dumplings. The advantage of this type of dough is the variety of fillings from a wide variety of fruits in pies, since it can withstand even wet filling, and after baking it becomes dense, but soft.
Ingredients:
2 stacks flour (with a slide),
1 stack boiling water,
2 tbsp vegetable oil,
½ tsp salt.
Preparation:
Pour flour into a deep bowl. Pour vegetable oil into the center and add salt. Then slowly pour boiling water into the center of the slide, constantly stirring the flour with a spoon so that it is evenly brewed. Put a tablespoon of flour on a board, lay out the dough and knead it well with your hands. The dough before the eyes becomes pliable and elastic, does not crumble, does not stick to the surface. Roll the finished dough into a ball, cover it with a hot bowl and leave it alone for 1 hour, after which you can start cooking products from it.
Cold yeast-free dough
Ingredients:
1 stack ice water,
1 tbsp vegetable oil,
a pinch of salt,
a pinch of sugar
a pinch of baking soda
flour - optional.
Preparation:
Pour a glass of cold water into a bowl, add butter, sugar, salt, soda. Gradually add flour and stir first with a spoon, and then with your hand until such a consistency is achieved that the dough does not stretch when trying to separate a small part, but is immediately separated by a piece. During the preparation of the dough, a different amount of flour is consumed each time, it depends, first of all, on the stickiness of the flour. Roll the finished dough into a ball, cover with a warm bowl and leave for 30 minutes. As time passes, the dough will become more elastic.
Lean shortbread dough
This lean dough variation can be used for sweet or savory pastries, or as a base for savory open pies. If you add vanilla, orange or lemon zest to the dough, then excellent cookies come out of such a dough. The finished cookies will need to be sprinkled with powdered sugar on top.
Ingredients:
300 g wheat flour
120 g vegetable margarine
2 tbsp ice water.
Preparation:
Sift the flour twice, cut the margarine into cubes and add to the flour. Rub the margarine and flour with your hands until smooth. Then add ice water and knead the dough. Put the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, and then use it as directed.
Unleavened dough on mineral water
Ingredients:
2.5 stack. wheat flour,
250ml sparkling mineral water,
2 tbsp refined vegetable oil,
2 tsp Sahara,
1 tsp salt.
Preparation:
Pour mineral water into the container where you will knead the dough, add sugar, salt, vegetable oil and mix everything thoroughly. Then sift flour there and knead a thick dough so that it does not stick to your hands.
Pumpkin lean dough
This bright, amazing dough is perfect for lean steamed pies or dumplings. The pumpkin taste is practically not felt in the dough, although it acquires a slight sweetness. But this only adds a touch of piquancy to the finished dish.
Ingredients:
400 g wheat flour
300 g pumpkin puree
½ tsp salt.
Preparation:
Peel the pumpkin and seeds, cut into slices and bake in foil in the oven until soft. The main thing is that the pulp does not dry out, but remains juicy. Rub the prepared hot pumpkin pulp through a sieve until smooth (you can use a blender). Add salt to warm pumpkin puree and sift flour. Knead the dough. The amount of flour can depend on both the quality of the flour and the juiciness of the pumpkin. The finished dough should be soft, pliable and not sticky to your hands. Immediately put the finished dough in a plastic bag or wrap it in a towel so that it “rests” a little, and you yourself can start preparing the filling.
Swiss lean shortbread dough
Ingredients:
2 stacks wheat flour,
125 ml cold water
125 ml of refined sunflower oil,
½ tsp salt.
Preparation:
Sift flour. In a blender bowl, combine ice water, vegetable oil and salt and beat until a white fluffy foam forms. Pour in the flour and knead the dough. It turns out to be soft and elastic.
In fact, the usual lean dough is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Choosing a recipe to your liking, you can make dozens of delicious, nutritious, healthy dishes from any type of lean dough, and there is no need to say how many original recipes you can come up with.
Creative inspiration, successful dishes and bon appetit!
Larisa Shuftaykina