Puff pastry pies on the festive table. How to make puff pastry pies

Step 1: prepare the filling.

Step 2: prepare the dough.

Step 3: form the pies.

Step 4: Bake the pies.

Step 5: serve puff pastry pies with apples.

If you have brown sugar, then white can be replaced with it. Apples fried together with such sugar turn out to be more saturated in color.

To get a golden crust on baking, pies can be greased not only with cream, but also with raw eggs.

Try to cook immediately from the purchased semi-finished product, as the dough is yeasty and can even rise in the package.

If you make too small squares, the filling may tear the dough and spill out during baking.

For lovers of cinnamon, you can add a little of this fragrant spice to apples.

If you do not have baking paper, you can grease a baking sheet with ordinary vegetable or butter.

Delicious toppings for yeast and puff pastry pies
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Once upon a time, pies were displayed only during feasts. That is why the word that means a festive feast and the pie have the same root. Now every self-respecting housewife knows firsthand what filling for pies is and can please her household, as well as guests with an interesting and tasty dish.

Pies can be divided into three types: closed, open and semi-closed, that is, lattice. Depending on the type of pie, you need to choose the filling. For example, cabbage, cottage cheese, fruit or jam fillings (which contain a lot of moisture) are commonly used to make semi-closed and open pies.

But closed pies are very tasty if they have a filling of cereals, eggs, mushrooms, fish or meat. By following this rule, you will prepare delicious and juicy pies that will not fall apart during baking.

How to make pie filling

The filling for pies can be very diverse. If initially in Russia the filling was prepared from only one product (from porridge, cabbage, apples, mushrooms, etc.), then modern housewives are not afraid to experiment and make a variety of complex fillings, which can include a lot of components.

Since the dough is baked quite quickly, but this cannot always be said about the filling, it is preliminarily subjected to heat treatment. This is especially true for meat pies. And the filling with any kind of porridge will not have time to cook properly if the cereal is not pre-cooked.

Fish can also be put raw in a pie. However, it will take much longer to bake.

The taste of fillings for pies should be a little richer than for ordinary dishes. So, if the contents of the pie are sweet, then there should be plenty of sugar in it. Fillings for savory pies should be slightly salty, spices should be well felt in them and do not forget about fat. This is because the dough will pick up some of the salt/sugar etc. during baking and your pies may seem tasteless.

During the preparation of the filling for sweet pies, it is recommended to add a little starch to it. Thanks to this trick, the filling will not flow out of your product.

Yeast cake filling

A variety of toppings can be used for a yeast pie. But cabbage, potatoes and liver go very well with yeast dough.

Try making a yeast pie with stewed cabbage. For this filling, chop and fry a couple of onions, then add carrots and shredded cabbage to the pan. They will not spoil the taste of the pie at all, crushed boiled eggs added to the filling.

By the way, you can use not only raw, but also sauerkraut. It is necessary to wait until it drains or squeeze it out, and then stew it with onions and carrots.

If you want to make pies with potatoes, then it can be used raw, but then it must be cut quite finely so that it has time to bake. Most often, boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes are put in pies. You can add fried or fresh onions and greens to the potato filling.

To make a yeast cake with liver, you will need half a kilogram of the latter. The liver, lung and heart must be boiled, usually they are pre-cut so that the cooking time is reduced. Then the liver must be passed through a meat grinder. After that, fried onions and spices are added to it.

Puff pastry filling

Despite the fact that the so-called “live dough” is usually used for Russian pies, that is, yeast on kefir, beer, sour cream, whey, etc., excellent pies are made from puff pastry.

Try to make a puff pastry pie with a complex and very tasty filling. For it you will need: about 300 g of any minced meat, 150 g of cheese and hard cheese, onion, 2 eggs (raw) and parsley, basil, dill, spices.

Onions with minced meat must be fried until tender. When it cools down, grated cheese and cheese, as well as chopped greens, must be added to it. Salt all this, season with your favorite spices, add eggs and mix. Puff pastry pie with such a filling turns out to be very tasty.

If you have 400 g of puff pastry and you have not yet decided what to do with it, you can make a pie stuffed with minced meat and mushrooms.

Fry 400 g of minced meat with onions. Thoroughly wash the whole mushrooms and boil them without adding salt to the water. Already boiled mushrooms should be cut and stewed with minced meat. Dice a medium tomato and add it to the minced meat.

The filling is spread on the dough, after which 2-3 small tomatoes are cut, and the filling is covered with them, the next layer is grated cheese.

Sweet stuffing for pies

Sweet pies make a wonderful dessert. They can be served both hot and cold. As a sweet filling for pies, fruits, berries, jam and cottage cheese can act.

In order for a sweet fruit pie to not only have excellent taste, but also look aesthetically pleasing, it is better to use apples, plums, dense peaches and pears as fillings. Since these fruits have a fairly firm flesh, they do not become mashed during baking and have a very beautiful appearance.

Add regular starch to berry fillings for pies. This will not affect the taste of the pie, but the dough inside will not turn out wet. From cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, etc. bones should be removed.

There are usually no problems with jam or marmalade, but it is advisable to drain the syrup from the jam so that the filling does not spread.

The curd filling will not be dry if you add a little sour cream or melted butter to it. By the way, do not forget to grind the cottage cheese through a sieve or beat it in a blender. Dried fruits, nuts, apples and bananas go well with cottage cheese in the filling for pies.

Pie Filling Recipes
Meat fillings for pies

Fry any minced meat with onions, add boiled eggs, herbs and spices. If the filling turned out to be rather dry, you can dilute it a little with meat broth.
Fry small pieces of game. When it cools, it is separated from the bones and finely chopped. In the pan in which the game was fried, you need to add a teaspoon of flour and 1/3 cup of milk. The resulting sauce is added to the meat. Then everything is mixed with herbs and spices.
Boiled and chopped chicken is mixed with boiled rice and chopped boiled eggs. In addition to the usual spices, you can add a little nutmeg to this filling, the taste of the pie will only benefit from this.
Boil chicken meat and chop it, add mashed potatoes, chopped sweet peppers, green peas, corn and a raw egg for a bunch. Don't forget the salt and spices.
Beef lovers can boil (not until fully cooked) this type of meat. Then cut it into fairly large pieces and fry in animal fat along with onions. The cooled meat is chopped with a knife. In order for the filling for the pie not to be dry, in this case it is better not to use a meat grinder. You can add a couple of spoons of meat broth, herbs and boiled eggs to the filling.

Fish fillings for pies

Whisk cream cheese, dill and lemon juice in a blender. Spread this mixture over the dough. On top of it will be lightly salted salmon or salmon.
Boil or fry the fish fillet. Then fluff it up with a fork. Add green onions and dill, salt, sprinkle with ground pepper.
Boiled fish in a pie filling goes well with rice and herbs. Add fish broth for juiciness.
Raw fish fillets should be minced. The same is done with onions. Mix these two ingredients, add salt, pepper and a raw egg. This filling must be kneaded with a pusher (preferably wooden).

Mushroom and vegetable fillings for pies

Boil fresh mushrooms and pass them through a meat grinder. Put a couple of tablespoons of animal fat and chopped onion into a heated pan. When the onion becomes transparent, add a teaspoon of flour, mix everything thoroughly. The flour should darken. Then add mushroom broth and spices to the pan. This sauce should thicken a little. Before you add sour cream to the sauce, wait until it cools down. Mix mushrooms and sauce - your filling is ready.
Soak dried mushrooms, boil and cut them. Combine with pre-chopped onion and fry. For this, it is better to use butter. Buckwheat porridge can be added to this filling.
Chop pickled mushrooms and onions. Mix all this and add vegetable oil.
Boiled carrots are crushed, mixed with chopped boiled egg, a tablespoon of butter and salt. The pie will be juicy.
Chop green onions, dill and boiled eggs. Add raw eggs, salt and pepper, then mix everything thoroughly. Sometimes I add boiled rice to this stuffing.
Fry dry mushrooms with onions in butter. In another pan, do the same with the squeezed sauerkraut. Mix the finished ingredients, salt and add spices.

Recipes for sweet pies

Peeled and seeded apples cut into slices and sprinkle with lemon juice. Then sprinkle them with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, you can add vanilla and ground ginger for spice.
Stew grated carrots, apples and pears. At the end of this process, sugar and cinnamon are added.
Small pieces of pumpkin are poached in butter. When it becomes soft, rub the pumpkin through a fine sieve. At this time, you need to pour boiling water over the prunes and after 15-20 minutes finely chop them. Mix prunes with pumpkin and add sugar. Boiled rice will not spoil this stuffing.
Rinse and pour boiling water over raisins, prunes and figs for 5 minutes. Place chopped dried fruits in a saucepan, add 2 tablespoons of honey, a couple of tablespoons of wine, cloves and cinnamon. This mixture should be on low heat for 3-5 minutes. You can add crushed nuts.
Crush 200 g of walnuts, add vanilla sugar, a glass of milk, a tablespoon of breadcrumbs, lemon zest, a glass of water and 50 g of raisins. This mixture is boiled in water. As a result, it should thicken.

The filling for pies can be very diverse. It all depends on the imagination of the hostess and the products that are present.

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Puff pastry is a godsend for those who love baking, but do not like to mess around with it for a long time. It makes excellent pies, bagels, pizzas, hot dogs and even pasties. How to cook all this - we will tell further.

Classic puff pastry is quite difficult to prepare. It's easier to buy ready-made, and get it when you want to bake something. But, if you are a supporter of everything homemade, look on the Internet for simplified ways to make puff pastry. The recipes below assume you already have it.

Ingredients:

• 200–300 g puff pastry;
• chicken eggs;
• bacon slices;
• Parmesan;
• salt, pepper and herbs (parsley, dill, basil).

Cooking

Roll out the dough and cut it into squares 7–10 centimeters wide. Lay them out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Make borders about 1 centimeter high along the edges of the squares.

Break one egg into each of your squares and lay out a few slices of bacon. Salt, pepper and sprinkle with chopped herbs and grated Parmesan (can be replaced with other cheese).

Preheat oven to 200°C. Bake puffs for 10-15 minutes. The dough should turn golden brown. But you can take the puffs out early if you want the egg to stay runny.

Ingredients:

• 400 g puff pastry;
• 200 g sausage;
• 200 g cheddar;
• 4 eggs;
• 1 tablespoon ranch sauce;
• 3 tablespoons of salsa sauce;
• Parmesan.

Cooking

Roll out the dough to make a circle with a diameter of about 30 centimeters. Place a glass in the center of this circle and cut out another circle. Cut the resulting ring into triangular wedges. It should look like a flower.

You can also cut the dough into triangles and shape into a ring as shown.

Brush the ring with ranch sauce. If it is not there, then simply mix equal proportions of sour cream and mayonnaise with various spices (dried parsley, dried dill, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and so on).

Cut the sausage and lightly fry. Then break the eggs into the pan and fry, stirring constantly. At the end, add three tablespoons of salsa.

Spread the filling around the ring so that later it is convenient to bend the “petals”, and after cooking, cut the puff. Close the ring by bending all the "petals" and sprinkle it with grated parmesan. Bake the puff in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 200°C. Serve hot for breakfast.

Ingredients:

• 400 g yeast-free puff pastry;
• 250 g cream cheese;
• 150 g sugar + 2-3 tablespoons for sprinkling;
• 80 g butter;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar.

Cooking

Roll out the dough into two large layers. Put one of them on a round or rectangular baking dish. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until smooth. Pour the mixture into the mold.

Lay the second layer of dough on top. Seal the edges. If desired, you can make braids or a lattice from the rest of the dough and decorate the cheesecake with them. Sprinkle the top of the cake with sugar. If you like cinnamon, then you can sprinkle it with it too.

Bake the cheesecake for half an hour in an oven preheated to 180 ° C until golden brown. When it cools down, send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and then cut and serve.

Ingredients:

• 500 g puff pastry;
• 130 g butter;
• 1 small fork of cabbage;
• 7 eggs;
• 3 teaspoons of salt.

Cooking

Finely chop the cabbage and sprinkle with salt. Leave for 15-20 minutes for it to give juice. Boil the eggs and chop finely too.

Squeeze cabbage and combine with eggs. Melt the butter and pour into the filling.

Roll out the dough to the size of the pan. You should have two identical layers. Line a baking sheet with one of them and lay out the filling. Place the second layer of dough on top. Pinch the edges. Lubricate the surface of the pie with a beaten egg and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Ingredients:

• 100 g puff pastry;
• 100 g cream cheese;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice;
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest;
• fresh or frozen berries.

For glaze:

• 1 glass of powdered sugar;
• 1-2 tablespoons of milk.

Cooking

Using a mixer, mix cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and zest until smooth. Roll out the dough and brush it with the butter mixture. Spread the berries on top and wrap the roll. Cut it into small pieces and transfer them to a round baking sheet.

Bake the rolls for 15-20 minutes at 180°C. While they are baking, prepare the glaze. To do this, mix a glass of powdered sugar with 1-2 tablespoons of milk. Let the mixture stand for a while so that the powder is completely dissolved. If the frosting is too thick, add another tablespoon of milk. You can also add a pinch of vanilla if you like.

Take the rolls out of the oven and brush them with glaze. Can be served both hot and cold.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg puff yeast-free dough;
• 500 g pork or ground beef;
• 50 g butter;
• 2 onions;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• salt, pepper, spices to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking

Grind the onion with a blender or meat grinder, mix it with minced meat. Salt, pepper, add minced garlic and spices that you like.

Cut the dough into small balls, roll each of them. Put a couple of tablespoons of minced meat and a small piece of butter on one half of the circle. Cover the minced meat with the second half of the dough and pinch it.

Fry pasties in hot vegetable oil until golden brown on both sides. After frying, lay the pasties on paper towels to remove excess fat.

Ingredients:

• 200 g puff pastry;
• 2 bananas;
• "Nutella";
• sugar;
• cinnamon.

Cooking

Roll out the dough and cut into triangles. Brush the base of each with Nutella (about half a tablespoon per triangle). See how to make this chocolate paste at home.

Peel bananas and cut into quarters. Divide the banana pieces into triangles. Roll up the puffs, seal the open edges so that the filling is not visible. It should be something like pies. Roll each of them first in sugar, and then in cinnamon. Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Bake puffs for 10-15 minutes at 190°C. Best eaten hot so Nutella flows like hot chocolate.

Ingredients:

• 220 g puff pastry;
• 100 g mozzarella;
• 1 teaspoon chopped parsley;
• 1 clove of garlic.

Cooking

Roll out the dough and cut it into triangles. Place a slice of cheese (if you don't have mozzarella, use any other softer variety) at the base of each triangle and fold over the bagels. Brush them with a mixture of melted butter and minced garlic and parsley.

Preheat oven to 190°C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bake the bagels for 10 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 500 g puff pastry;
• a can of canned pineapples (rings);
• powdered sugar.

Cooking

Remove pineapple from jar and pat dry on paper towels. Cut the rolled out dough into strips 2-3 cm wide. Wrap each pineapple ring with a strip of dough (much like we did with bacon) and spread on a baking sheet (don't forget the baking paper).

Bake the puffs in the oven at 180°C for 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle the baked goods with powdered sugar. You can also use sesame seeds or poppy seeds as a topping.

Ingredients:

• 250 g puff pastry;
• 200 g feta cheese;
• 200 g frozen spinach;
• 4 tablespoons of olive oil;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 1 onion;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• parsley, dill and green onions to taste.

Cooking

Spanakotiropita is a traditional Greek spinach and feta pie. To make portioned spanakothyropites, defrost, dry and chop the spinach. Fry the onion in olive oil (two tablespoons) until golden brown. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and combine them with the feta. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth. Add the fried onion, remaining olive oil, finely chopped herbs and garlic.

Roll out the dough thinly and cut into squares 10-12 centimeters wide. Put two tablespoons of filling on each of them. Wrap the pies in triangles. Lay them out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake the pies in an oven preheated to 180°C for 20-25 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 250 g puff pastry;
• 100 g of powdered sugar;
• 100 g fresh strawberries;
• 3 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 4 tablespoons of strawberry jam;
• 2 bananas;
• 1 apple;
• 1 kiwi.

Cooking

Roll out the dough into a layer about 0.5 cm thick. You can make small bumpers around the edge.

Spread the dough first with sour cream (it is better to take fat), and then with strawberry jam. If there is no strawberry, you can take any other of your choice. Arrange thinly sliced ​​fruit on top. Fantasize to make it not only tasty, but also beautiful.

Send the dish to the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle the finished biscuit with powdered sugar.

Ingredients:

• 400 g puff pastry;
• 200 g of ham;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• greens (dill, parsley, basil).

Cooking

Roll out the dough into a rectangle measuring approximately 30 x 45 centimeters. Cut the ham (you can use doctor's and any other sausage of your choice) and cheese into thin slices.

Chop the herbs and garlic, mix them with mayonnaise and spread this layer of dough, retreating 3-5 centimeters from the edge. Spread the ham and cheese evenly over the dough. Leave the ungreased edge free. Roll up the roll so that this strip of dough is on the outside. It can be moistened with water to seal the roll tightly.

Cut the roll into pieces 4-6 centimeters wide. Lay them out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. From above, the roll can be greased with yolk and sprinkled with poppy seeds or sesame seeds. Bake the rolls in the oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 6 sausages;
• 100-150 g of hard cheese;
• 1 egg;
• sesame seeds, sauce and spices to taste.

Cooking

Roll out the dough and cut into strips 3-4 centimeters wide. Grease each of them with your favorite sauce, sprinkle with spices and finely grated cheese. Wrap the sausages in the dough strips and place the hot dogs on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush the top with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds (optional).

Bake the sausages in the dough for 20 minutes at 180°C.

Ingredients:

• 200 g puff pastry;
• 200 g of chocolate;
• 50 g of powdered sugar;
• 1 chicken egg.

Cooking

Roll out the dough no more than 0.5 cm thick and cut into triangles. Place 1-2 pieces of chocolate at the base of the triangles. Roll up the triangles, place on a parchment-lined baking sheet and brush with the beaten egg.

Bake the croissants in the oven for 20 minutes at 220°C.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of yeast-free puff pastry;
• 300 g smoked chicken breast;
• 200 g of hard cheese;
• 1 egg.

Cooking

Roll out and cut the puff pastry into strips about 2 centimeters wide. Take one strip and put finely chopped chicken breast and grated cheese on it. Cover with another strip, fasten them together at the base. Carefully twist the puff in a spiral. Repeat the same for all remaining strips.

Put the finished pigtails on a baking sheet (do not forget about baking paper!) And put in the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

• 250 g puff pastry;
• 2-3 apples;
• 5 tablespoons of cane sugar;
• 3 tablespoons of regular sugar;
• 2 tablespoons of butter;
• 2 teaspoons of cinnamon;

For glaze:

• ½ cup powdered sugar;
• 2-3 teaspoons of milk;
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract.

Cooking

In Denmark, puff pastry apple pie is popular. We suggest you make its variation in the form of braids.

To do this, apples need to be peeled, core removed and cut into cubes. Then they must be caramelized over low heat: cook them in a saucepan along with cane sugar, vanilla extract and a teaspoon of cinnamon for 5 minutes.

Roll out the dough, grease it with melted butter, sprinkle with regular sugar and the remaining cinnamon. Lay out the apples and cover with another layer of dough on top. Then cut it into strips, put them on a baking sheet with parchment and carefully twist each of them in a spiral.

Bake the pigtails for 10-15 minutes in the oven at 180°C. While they are baking, make the glaze. Combine powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract. You can adjust the thickness of the glaze by adding either powder or milk.

Pour the finished braids with glaze and serve.

Ingredients:

• 400 g puff pastry;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 100 g salami;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 egg;
• olives;
• spices to taste.

Cooking

If you are a fan, then you will surely like these pies. Their filling goes well with foam. Salami, cheese, tomato and olives should be finely chopped and combined with an egg. If you want, you can add your favorite spices and herbs to the filling.

Roll out the dough, cut into squares and spread the filling. Blind pies. Bake at 180°C until golden brown.

Ingredients:

• 500 g of yeast-free puff pastry;
• 400 g of cottage cheese;
• a glass of sugar;
• 3 eggs.

Cooking

Using a mixer, beat two eggs with a half cup of sugar and cottage cheese. When the mass becomes homogeneous, add the remaining sugar and beat again.

Roll out the dough and cut into circles or squares. Put 1-2 tablespoons of curd mass on each of them. Wrap the edges of the cheesecake like pies. Place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet and brush with beaten egg.

Bake for 30-40 minutes at 180°C.

Ingredients:

• 400 g yeast puff pastry;
• 200 g mozzarella;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
• greens and seasonings to taste;
• salt and pepper.

Cooking

Roll out the dough, make sides around the edges. If desired, you can make portioned mini-pizzas. Brush the dough with olive oil and tomato paste, sprinkle with seasonings to your liking.

Lay out the filling. Thinly sliced ​​tomatoes and mozzarella are enough for a Margarita pizza, but you can use any and all toppings (bacon, mushrooms, olives, and so on).

Sprinkle pizza on top with fresh herbs and bake for 20–25 minutes at 200°C.

Tarte Tatin

Ingredients:

• 250 g yeast puff pastry;
• 150 g butter;
• 150 g cane sugar;
• 6 sweet and sour apples;
• a pinch of cinnamon.

Cooking

Tarte Tatin is a French apple pie where the filling is on top. Let's make a reservation right away: instead of apples, you can use pears, mangoes, peaches or pineapples.

Grease a baking dish well with butter and sprinkle with sugar. Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into slices. Arrange them in a baking dish and sprinkle with cinnamon. Cover the apples with a layer of rolled puff pastry.

Bake the cake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C. When the finished tart has cooled slightly, invert the form onto a plate or tray so that the apples are on top. Serve warm. Maybe with ice cream.

If you have your own signature puff pastry recipes, then welcome to the comments. Let's share our culinary secrets with each other!

From time immemorial in Russia they baked pies with a variety of fillings. In their honor, the people even came up with a proverb that says: "If there were pies, there would be friends." This dish was served during the holidays, so its name originates from the word feast. Pies are baked and fried, and they are also made with a variety of doughs: yeast, puff, made on sponge or kefir. Unfortunately, history has not preserved to this day the exact name of the culinary specialist who first cooked pies, but through the centuries it has carried a wide variety of recipes for this wonderful dish.

Puff pastries - general principles and methods of preparation

A feature of the preparation of puff pastry pies is its rolling into several very thin layers. In order for such a dough to be more elastic, food acid is added to it, which helps to increase the viscosity of flour and proteins. The finished dough is rolled out into a rectangular layer, the thickness of which should not exceed ten millimeters. It is necessary to roll out the dough very smoothly and slowly, equally in all directions, otherwise the baking will not rise well. The finished dough must be left in the refrigerator for forty minutes. Baked products should be ruddy, golden and when pressed with a knife should rise without deflection.

Puff pastries - food preparation

Puff pastries can be served as a separate dish or as a hot appetizer. Meat, vegetables, eggs, fish, cottage cheese, as well as all kinds of sweet jams or jams are perfect for their filling. They can be baked in the oven or deep-fried in well-heated vegetable oil. You can buy puff pastry at the store or make your own, it does not require any special culinary skills. Puff pastry needs flour, water and salt. The ball formed from these products must be put in the refrigerator for a day, and the next day add a little butter and roll it out. Do not press hard on the dough, otherwise the pies will be hard and not airy. And in order for the pies to turn out to be more ruddy, it is necessary to grease them with fresh egg yolk before baking.

Puff pastries - the best recipes

Recipe 1: Puff pastries with meat

Such pies are easy and quick to prepare, and a minimum amount of products is required to create them. In addition, you can safely experiment with the filling. Inside the dough, you can put meat of one variety or mix several types of it.

Ingredients: 500 grams of meat or minced meat, 2.5 cups of flour, three-quarters of a cup of fresh milk, 1 egg, a pinch of baking powder, 150 grams of butter.

Cooking method

Grind butter with flour into crumbs, add milk mixed with baking powder and a slightly beaten egg to the resulting mass. Salt everything and make a ball of dough. You can’t knead it, you just need to fasten it into a homogeneous mass and leave it for ten minutes. After that, the dough must be divided into two equal parts, rolled out and brushed with melted butter. Next, the dough rolls into a roll, from which a bun is made, which should cool in the refrigerator for about half an hour.

At this time, the filling is being prepared. Twist the meat in a meat grinder, fry with onion in butter, add salt and pepper to taste.

Next, you need to get the dough, roll it thinly, use a glass to make the same round blanks for pies, in the middle of which put the minced meat. Gently pinch the edges of the pies, grease them with an egg on top and put in the oven, heated to 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Recipe 2: Sweet puff pastries

These tender pies can be made with both sweet filling and goat cheese filling. Their cooking time is one hour and forty minutes. Such pies will be a great addition to a homemade tea party or will be an ideal solution for treating guests.

Ingredients: 800 grams of flour, 1 cup low-fat sour cream or whey, 3 eggs, ½ teaspoon of soda, 2 teaspoons of sugar, salt to taste. For the filling, you will need half a glass of walnuts, melted butter, 2/3 cups of sugar and liquid honey.

Cooking method

In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour with soda and salt, make a small depression, break an egg into it and pour sugar. Knead the dough well and leave it for ten minutes to make it soft. Next, cover the dough, put in a warm place and leave for another thirty minutes.

While the dough is resting, you can prepare the filling. It is necessary to crush the nuts mixed with sugar well in a mortar.

Divide the dough into six even pieces and place on a floured surface. Roll out each piece thinly and brush generously with butter. Then put 1/6 of the nut-sugar mixture in the middle. Using a pastry wheel, cut out a rectangle measuring 7 by 8 centimeters and pinch the corners so that the top edges remain open.

Put the pies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, which is put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake until golden brown for fifteen minutes. Cool the pies a little and sprinkle with honey.

Recipe 3: Puff pastries with apples

Such pies can be prepared at any time of the year, they are unusually tasty, sweet and fragrant.

Ingredients: For the dough you will need 400 grams of sifted flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of citric acid, 180 milliliters of water and 350 grams of softened butter. The filling will require 500 grams of ripe apples and 80 grams of sugar.

Cooking method

4-5 tablespoons of flour mix well with butter. Roll out the mixture into a square layer, the thickness of which should not exceed 2 centimeters. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, then remove and place on a floured surface. Next, you need to make a recess in the mixture, into which pour water, add salt and citric acid. Immediately knead the dough, it should be soft and thick.

Then you need to roll the dough into a ball and let it stand for another half hour. Then roll the ball into a square and put chilled butter on it and sprinkle with flour. Roll out into a layer, one and a half centimeters thick and again put in the refrigerator for thirty minutes. This process will need to be repeated four more times and each time the dough needs to be cooled for fifteen minutes.

While the dough is chilling, prepare the filling. You need to wash the apples, remove the core from them, peel the skin and cut into small cubes, which are mixed with sugar.

After that, it is necessary to mold triangular pies, put them on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for twenty minutes.

Puff pastries - useful tips from experienced chefs

In order for the pies to acquire a beautiful shiny and ruddy color, you need to grease them with a chilled egg, and after baking, put a piece of butter on them. When frying pies in deep fat, you can add a piece of carrot to the oil - this will give them a more beautiful color.

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Puff pastry pies are the perfect solution if you need to quickly cook something delicious, and there is a package of blanks in the refrigerator. You can use any filling for such baking - sweet or satisfying, in any case, the treat will turn out delicious.

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If there is a package of a semi-finished product in stock, then the filling for puff pastries can be completely different. Sweet fillings are more often used, but satisfying ones will also be very appropriate. They can be served with the first course instead of bread or taken with you to work or school for a snack. As a filling for such baking, you can take any fillers:

1. Sweet puff pastry pies are often filled with jam, jam, fruit or chocolate.
2. Delicious products are obtained with cheese or cottage cheese: sweet or salty with herbs.
3. Puff pastry snack pies are filled with different types of meat, vegetables or mushrooms.

Puff pastry pies with apples

The simplest and most affordable will be puff pastries with apples. This filling can be made from fresh fruits, crushed with a little sugar, but the filling will be much tastier if the apple slices are fried a little in butter with the addition of sweeteners and fragrant additions - cinnamon, cloves and vanilla.

Ingredients:

• layers of puff pastry - 500 g;
• sour apples - 3 pcs.;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp;
• honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon, cloves and vanilla.

Cooking

1. Defrost the dough.
2. Cut the apples into small cubes, pour over the lemon juice.
3. Melt a piece of butter in a frying pan, throw in the apple cubes and fry until translucent.
4. Add honey, add seasonings, stir and let the filling cool completely.
5. Divide the dough into rectangles, put the filling in the center of the workpiece and form pies, prick the surface with a fork and grease with yolk.
6. Bake for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.

Puff pastry pies with cottage cheese

To make puff pastries with cottage cheese tasty and juicy, you can add a little steamed raisins to the filling, it will add sweetness. If that's not enough, add your other favorite dried fruits and vanilla. From this amount of ingredients, you can make 6 large pies or 8 medium ones.

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese - 500 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• raisins, dried apricots and nuts - 50 g each;
• yeast dough - 500 g;
• yolk.

Cooking

1. Defrost the dough.
2. Steam the raisins, cut the dried apricots into cubes, chop the nuts.
3. Pour sugar and nuts with dried fruits into the cottage cheese, mix well.
4. Divide the dough into 6 blanks, distribute the filling, fasten the edges.
5. Lubricate the surface with yolk, prick the surface and bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Puff pastry pies with cherries

Pies made from puff pastry are prepared with different fillings, but the most delicious are berry fillings. Cherries can be used fresh (pitted), frozen or canned in their own juice. In any case, the berries must be filtered and dried, sprinkled with starch. A delicious delicacy does not require a long preparation of ingredients, so it will be ready in 40 minutes.

Ingredients:

• cherry - 300 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• starch - 100-150 g;
• dough - 500 g;
• yolk.

Cooking

1. Strain the cherries from excess juice, sprinkle with starch.
2. Roll out the thawed layer a little, divide into 6-8 rectangles.
3. Distribute the cherries among the blanks, sprinkle each with sugar.
4. Form from puff pastry, grease with yolk and bake for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.

Puff pastry pies with jam

The best way to use a jar of jam is to bake puff pastry pies in the oven. This is the easiest option for a treat that does not require special ingredients and tedious preparation of the filling. You can diversify the filling with chopped walnuts. An important point - the jam should be thick or with whole slices, in this case it is better not to use syrup.

Ingredients:

• dough - 500 g;
• jam - 250 g;
• yolk;
• chopped nuts - 1 handful.

Cooking

1. Roll out the thawed dough sheet a little, divide into 8 pieces.
2. Spread over a spoonful of the filling on the blanks, put chopped nuts on top.
3. Press the puff pastry together firmly on all sides, using a fork to seal the edges together to be sure.
4. Lubricate with yolk, prick and bake for 25 minutes at 185 degrees.

Puff pastry is a good option for a quick snack that you can take with you on the road, to work or to school. Any minced meat is used as filling: chicken, pork, beef or a mixture of different types. Complement the filling with cheese, mushrooms and your favorite spices. Baking will cook faster if you use already prepared meat.

Ingredients:

• dough - 500 g;
• minced meat - 500 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• cheese - 200 g;
• salt, pepper, dry herbs;
• yolk.

Cooking

1. Spasser finely chopped onion, add minced meat and fry until tender. Season with spices, cool the filling.
2. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
3. Roll out the defrosted layer, divide into 6 pieces.
4. Spread the meat filling in the center of each blank, add a generous pinch of cheese, fasten the edges.
5. Lubricate the surface with yolk, prick with a fork and bake meat pies from puff pastry for 25 minutes at 190 degrees.

You can also fill pies from ready-made puff pastry with vegetables, such as cabbage, which is prepared by stewing and with the addition of other ingredients. In this case, you can supplement the filling with mushrooms and a boiled egg. The treat will turn out to be insanely tasty and satisfying. You can serve these puff pastry pies with the main course, instead of the usual bread.

Ingredients:

• white cabbage - 600 g;
• boiled egg - 2 pcs.;
• champignons - 200 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• yolk;
• dough - 700 g.

Cooking

1. Spasser the onion, throw in the chopped mushrooms, fry until the liquid evaporates.
2. Finely chop the cabbage and send it to the mushroom fry, sweat for 15-20 minutes, salt, pepper, cool.
3. Throw the diced eggs into the cabbage filling, mix well.
4. Divide the defrosted layer into equal portions, distribute the filling in the center of each blank and fasten the edges.
5. Lubricate the surface with yolk, prick with a fork and bake for 30 minutes at 185 degrees.

Puff pastry with cheese

Cheese puff pastries are a simple and hassle-free option for making delicious and original pastries. They can also be served with tea and with the main course. You can use any cheese that melts well and has a pleasant slightly salty aftertaste. Products with suluguni inside will be very unusual.

Ingredients:

• suluguni 300 g;
• yeast-free dough - 500 g;
• yolk,
• sesame.

Cooking

1. Defrost the semi-finished product layer, roll it out a little.
2. Cut the dough into strips, put a slice of cheese in each and fasten the edges.
3. Lubricate with yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
4. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.

Pies from can be made more original by changing the usual molding of products by rolling them into small rolls. Such a delicacy is very convenient to eat, the dough does not crumble and the filling does not fall apart. You can use melted toast cheese, it is better to take high-quality ham, without streaks.

Ingredients:

• dough - 400 g;
• toast cheese - 6 pcs.;
• ham - 250 g;
• yolk, sesame.

Cooking

1. Roll out the dough and divide into long strips, slightly wider than the cheese.
2. Spread a thin slice of ham on the edge of the workpiece, cheese on top and roll up, fastening on the sides.
3. Lubricate the surface with yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake for 30 minutes at 185 degrees.

When there is no time or opportunity to bake products, you can cook a treat in a pan. from puff pastry with chicken are insanely delicious and cook very quickly. The result is a delicious treat with a juicy filling and a deliciously fragrant crispy shell.