Pies with meat - general principles and methods of preparation
In our country, even in ancient times, the hostess was evaluated by the ability to make dough and bake pies. If you learn how to cook breathtaking pies with a divine taste and aroma, the honor and respect of the family and guests is guaranteed. Every housewife has her own secrets, but it's nice to share them in a close circle, treating honest company with fresh hot cakes. This is especially true for meat pies, because meat is precisely the product that, for example, is the easiest way to pave the way to a man’s heart. In the cuisines of the peoples of the world, there are different variations of meat patties: kulebyaka, samsa, white meat, zrazy and so on. All of them are related by the basic principle of preparation: in the middle of the test, the meat filling is placed, the edges are plucked. The resulting pies are fried in oil or baked in the oven.
Pies with meat - preparation of products
Any meat suitable for pies is necessary, without bones: beef, pork, any poultry, as well as offal or cooked meat leftovers. The most important thing is to form the forcemeat so that it is not too wet, otherwise when cooking or baking a damp layer of dough may remain around the filling. But too dry dough will make pies difficult to digest. So - we get the correct consistency when performing all technologies. And, of course, the flour for pies must be of the highest grade.
Pies with meat - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Squish from batter with soda or baking powder
Belyashi are pies with meat (beef or lamb), which are fried from yeast dough. But if you want to cook them much faster, try an early baking soda dough. On sour cream, it turns out to be very soft and tender, and time for its preparation is spent several times less. Out of this amount of dough, you should get about 20 whites.
Ingredients:
Dough: flour (half a kilogram), sour cream (1 cup), egg (1 pc), soda (a third of a teaspoon), salt.
Filling: fat beef or mutton (400 grams), onions (2-3 pcs.), Salt, ground pepper, zira.
Cooking method
Mix finely chopped onion with ground meat, add pepper and salt. Add some water - the filling should not be too dry. The pie dough should be soft and not stick to your hands. So that the carbon dioxide formed during the reaction of soda and acid does not evaporate, knead the dough quickly. Mix the ingredients and immediately proceed to the cutting. Turn the dough into a tourniquet and divide the sausage into 10 equal parts. Each part is rolled into a cake of 0.5 cm thick. In the middle we put a tablespoon of minced meat and connect the edges to the center. In the middle, leave a small hole. Put the belyashi in the pan with the hole down. For frying, take a mixture of vegetable and ghee. Serve rosy hot cakes with hot tea or broth.
Recipe 2: Baked Pastry from Butter Yeast Dough
A great recipe for a solid serving of meat patties. We use raw minced meat and the usual technology for preparing yeast-free yeast dough.
Ingredients: wheat flour (470-780 gr.), butter (65 gr.), salt, sugar (2 tbsp.), pressed yeast, ground black pepper, eggs (3 pcs.), milk 100 grams.
Cooking method
Prepare a rich yeast dough. We breed yeast in warm water with milk, add dissolved butter, leave for 15 minutes. For mixing eggs, butter, milk, use a deep bowl. We mix all the products and add the flour in parts. Mesim about 15-20 minutes, in the combine 8 minutes. The dough should be soft, slightly sticky to the hands. Sprinkle it with flour and leave it to rise for an hour and a half, during which time it will double.
Cut circles of the desired diameter from the rolled cakes and spread the filling on the surface. On the baking sheet, we lay out the ready-made pies at a distance of 3-4 cm from each other, Leave to "part" for 15-20 minutes. We grease each pie with a brush with a beaten egg and send it to the oven. Bake at 200 degrees. After 15 minutes, a whole baking sheet of ruddy soft and breathtakingly delicious meat pies awaits you.
Recipe 3: Meat Pies
In this recipe, you don’t have to bother with the dough at all. We use ready-made waffle cakes, and at the same time we can surprise guests with our skill.
Ingredients: ready-made waffle cake (2 pcs), minced meat (half a kilogram), onions (1 pc.), eggs (2-3 pcs), ground pepper, salt, frying oil.
Cooking method
Pass the minced meat through a meat grinder, mix it with onions, pepper, a small amount of water and fry in a pan until half cooked. We lay out the stuffing on a waffle cake, cover with another. Three minutes later, cut into squares with a side of 5 cm. Beat the eggs in a cup and add salt. Dip each pie in the egg mixture and fry in oil. Savory snack cakes will be a great addition to any table, even a festive one!
Recipe 4: Puff pastry meat cakes
This is perhaps the simplest dish for lazy people or busy ladies. If you still have to feed your family, and you yourself love to eat well - this recipe is for you! Puff pastry is very moody in cooking, so we’ll use a ready-made store option. For the filling, meat from the legs with the addition of various spices is suitable (just do not overdo it).
Ingredients: puff pastry (1 kg), chicken legs (2 pcs.), onions (1-2 pcs.), parsley, sour cream (100-150 gr.), zira, salt, pepper, 1 egg.
Cooking method
Finely chop the meat, parsley and onion, mix, pepper and salt, add a pinch of zira. We cut the dough squares into triangles diagonally, in the middle we spread the filling and a teaspoon of sour cream on top. Fold in half the long side, pinch the edges. Make sure that the filling juice does not leak. Grease the prepared puffs with a beaten egg and send to the oven for 25 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees.
Recipe 5: Potato Meat Pies
These pies are made from a special dough. In fact, these are potato zrazy with meat. The best combination will be potatoes and beef. Cooking them is not at all difficult, the whole problem is to boil the meat to get the filling.
Ingredients: veal (100 grams), potatoes (3 pcs), garlic, carrots (1 pc), parsley, vegetable oil for frying, allspice, salt, pepper.
Cooking method
Stuffing: put vegetables in the pan - potatoes, onions, carrots, add veal and spices. Boil until tender. We pass the meat, onions and carrots separately through a meat grinder, mix well.
Dough: mashed potatoes, salt. We form a plump cake from the mass, put a spoonful of minced meat in the middle, and close it with the same cake on top. Roll the potato pie in flour and fry in vegetable oil. Soft zrazy are like pies, but softer and have a slightly different potato flavor. Try it and you will also fall in love with them as a family.
Pies with meat - useful tips from experienced chefs
- To make lean meat more saturated, you can enhance its taste with the help of the bouillon cube. Dissolve the cube in a small amount of water and pour into the minced meat, the filling will turn out not only saturated, but also more juicy.
- Often boiled beef is taken for the filling. To make it soft and tender, you can wipe a raw piece of meat with dry mustard in advance (for example, the night before). Before cooking or frying, wash the meat under a tap.
