Russian Cuisine: Pies. How to cook patties stuffed

Pies - an old Russian, and not only Russian, the dish. True, Russia did not get along without pies ever. Pie filling - an indispensable accessory of the Russian desk since time immemorial. One problem - the secret of its preparation for many is the elusive miracle.

There is a category of people who do not quite know how to cook flour dishes. For example, in our family - it is something inherent and not otherwise. Meat, fish, vegetables - whatever, this culinary imagination can build such fireworks that any chef elite restaurant obzaviduetsya. But how it comes to flour dishes - how to cut. Maximum achievement - pancakes with kefir (flour, eggs, yogurt, a little salt, stir until the consistency of thick cream). Everything. But pies too want.

On the revenue comes native food industry, which offers a fascinating product as frozen puff pastry. This - the salvation for those who do not have their own culinary talents to cook like dough with his hands.

So the pie, you might say, almost there. It remains to devise a stuffing. Here begins the stretch of imagination!

Beautiful and do not require special time-consuming pies are obtained, if the fillings used ham, pickles and cheese. To make such a pie plate, two pastry roll out "thinly". Then one rolled out the plate is spread a thin layer of sliced ham. Top - tiny cubes of pickled cucumbers (hold to so little, cucumbers - is just a nice addition, they should not become dominant).

After this, stuffing smeared mayonnaise (if liquid, you can just pour, also without bigotry, as with the cucumbers, but without much savings). On top of mayonnaise - grated or sliced cheese plates. Then the whole structure is covered with a second plate is rolled out dough, edge zaschipyvayutsya, and the pie is placed in the oven, where it is maturing at a low flame until ready test.

Instead of ham you can use any meat, including the rest eaten after the chicken broth. Instead of pickled cucumbers can take salty. Not bad substitute cucumbers pickled zucchini. You can also use fresh tomatoes, but in this case, the mayonnaise need to add a little grated garlic - the taste of the cake will be more spicy.

As the filling can be used in general almost all edible. Wonderful cakes obtained with sauerkraut and mushrooms, only pre cabbage and mushrooms to fry (each ingredient separately, then mix), and top the filling - a layer of mayonnaise, for tenderness.

Cool cakes obtained from canned fish. Bank of saury or mackerel in oil or brine, a couple of boiled eggs, one large or two small onions, mayonnaise and grated garlic, cheese - and you will have a cake, which is not even ashamed to decorate the holiday table.

To make this cake canned fish are ground into a homogeneous mush (with butter or own juice), eggs - cut into small pieces, onion - also into small pieces, garlic is added to mayonnaise, well, and cheese - traditionally rubred on a coarse grater. Each ingredient is spread on a plate rolled out the dough layers, each layer - watered or smeared with mayonnaise and garlic (without fanaticism!), Completes construction of the grated cheese. Then - a second plate test, and the pie is ready to proceed into the oven, where - right on the table.

Bank of jam and two plates will test a magnificent cake. The remnants of potatoes, boiled sausage, mushrooms and pickles - is also the potential pie.

Time for making these cakes require nothing at all. The result - definitely not commensurate with either the time nor the cost of ingredients (usually, or very cheaply, or simply the remnants of that and throw a pity - the products are good, and there is ridiculous - it's too small).

You can use not only the frozen puff pastry, and yeast - this joy, too, is sold in cooking and shopping. As a result, the hostess, which does not know how to handle the test and not in a position to prepare itself, can even pass for masters of pies. And, incidentally, not without reason. Tarts it turns very tasty. Besides, they can have both hot and cold.