Rosy, fragrant and easy to prepare, especially if you use ready-made puff pastry. Meat pie with minced meat will decorate a festive table or just become a wonderful dinner.
General principles for making puff pastry with minced meat
To buy frozen puff pastry today is easy, both yeast and yeast-free. The main thing - do not forget that before using it, you must first remove it from the freezer so that by the beginning of work it becomes soft. If time permits and culinary skills, you can make puff pastry yourself. The process is quite lengthy and time consuming. But there are simplified recipes, here's one of them: you need a pack of butter, two thirds glasses of water, two glasses of flour, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt and a spoonful of sugar. The butter is chopped with a knife together with flour until crumbs are obtained. Salt and sugar are diluted in cold water, which is then poured into a mixture of butter and flour. The dough is quickly kneaded, it is covered with a towel and put on a cold for two or three hours. After this, the dough is rolled out twice, each time folding it into three or four layers.
For stuffing, almost any stuffing is suitable: beef or pork, chicken or turkey. More succinctly and tastes best, if you take pork and beef in equal shares. Juiciness also gives minced onions. Fragrant spices will bring different flavors. They can be chosen according to their preferences, but the classics of the genre - ground black pepper - will suit any kind of minced meat.
What else can diversify the filling? Potatoes and cabbage are very tasty with minced meat, nourishing is obtained with the addition of mushrooms, the pie with boiled eggs looks unusual, the open pie from puff pastry with minced meat and cheese looks original.
Puff pastry meat pie with minced meat and eggs
This variant of the cake is not only delicious, but also very beautiful, especially in the section. Boiled eggs are stacked in halves and visible in each piece. Ingredients
Half a kilogram of yeast puff pastry (2 layers per package);
bulb;
700 grams of a mixture of beef and pork mince;
four eggs;
two cloves of garlic;
two tablespoons mustard;
spice.
Method of preparation
Of the three eggs indicated in the recipes, three must be boiled hard boiled.
Shred the onion, just do the same with garlic. First fry the onion in a pan until golden, then pour the garlic in there, hold together for another minute and remove.
In the stuffing add spices and salt. We mix. Now there will be onions with garlic, as well as mustard. After mixing all the ingredients, we make a small hole in the stuffing, pour one raw egg into it. It remains to mix everything thoroughly again, and the filling is ready.
Priprashivat table flour. Lay the dough on each other, roll out. We get a fairly large rectangular sheet of dough.
We distribute mincemeat on it, laying it out in the middle of the rectangle. Eggs cut in half. We put them in the center of the stuffing stuffing.
To close the cake, we cut the sides of the dough into stripes a couple of centimeters wide, the cuts are placed at an angle of 45 degrees. Now weave like a pigtail, putting the dough strips overlapped on top of the filling. We pinch them together. Grease the cake with whipped yolk on top.
We shift the product on the baking sheet. Let stand with a quarter of an hour, and then you can send in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Then we get, give a little cool, you can cut and serve.
Meat pie puff pastry with minced meat, bacon and mushrooms
Bacon will add a bright piquant flavor to the cake. And you can take any mushrooms - even forest mushrooms, even.
Ingredients
400 grams of minced meat;
a pound of puff pastry;
onion;
100 grams of bacon;
two eggs;
300 grams of mushrooms;
Bell pepper;
spice;
cream;
Tabasco sauce.
Method of preparation
We cut the mushrooms, onions and pepper into small cubes, and bacon into thin strips. Bacon fry first. As soon as its fat is melted, we put onions, brown. Then add the peppers and mushrooms, simmer together. When all the ingredients are fried, turn off the flame, let this part of the filling cool. We break eggs into mince, add just a few droplets of “Tabasco”. Mix well. Now put the cooled contents of the pan. Salt, seasoned with spices, are well suited, for example, ground pepper and oregano.
Set the oven to 180. Divide the dough into two unequal halves. That, which is slightly more, we roll out for the bottom of the cake. We put in a greased form so that the edges are hung from the sides. Distribute the filling.
Roll out the remaining dough so that it covers the form by a couple of centimeters. Close out of the pie, cut off the excess around the edges. We pinch the edges. From above we grease with a small amount of cream, we sprinkle with ground pepper. Fork a few holes. In the oven send about 50 minutes.
Puff pastry meat pie with minced meat and two types of cheese
A variation on the theme of the Greek puff pie. One of the cheeses will be cheese, and you can take any semi-solid variety, for example, the Russian one, into the company.
Ingredients
Kilogram of yeast puff pastry;
half a kilo of minced meat (pork with beef or chicken);
300 grams of semi-hard cheese and cheese;
two onions;
a bunch of parsley and dill;
two eggs;
spices: paprika, ground pepper, Italian herbs (ready mix).
Method of preparation
Put the minced meat in a frying pan and fry in vegetable oil for about ten minutes. We salt, we add also all spices. Then we cover with a lid. Stew on low heat until the meat is cooked. Now you can put the stuffing in a bowl and let it cool.
For the filling of the cake, you must grate the cheese. Do it on a coarse grater. We do the same with cheese.
Chop the onion finely. Fry it in butter until soft.
To the cooled meat lay out the cheese, then cheese and onions. We mix. Beat eggs. We leave a little bit in order to lubricate the cake from above, and pour the main egg mass into the filling. Well all mix. At this stage it is worth a little to try the filling and, if necessary, add salt and spices.
Thawed puff pastry split in two. We roll one piece to the size of the baking sheet on which we are planning to bake a pie. We shift on a baking sheet, made by parchment. We place on the dough filling in an even layer. Top - chopped fine greens. Roll out the remaining dough so that they can cover our cake. Spread over the filling. Edges pinch. Lubricate the egg, make a piercing on the surface of the cake with a fork — steam will flow through them.
In the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, the cake will hold up to readiness for about half an hour.
Puff pastry meat pie with minced meat and potatoes
For the pie with potatoes, minced pork or mixed with beef is well suited.
Ingredients
Kilogram of puff pastry;
200 grams of potatoes;
half a kilo of minced meat;
salt;
200 grams of onions;
spice;
egg.
Method of preparation
Grind onions, you can make it a blender, and add to the minced meat.
Clean the potatoes, cut into fairly thin straws. Mix it also with minced meat, season to taste with salt, spices.
Roll out two layers of dough. One is placed on a baking sheet, buttered, on a dough - stuffing. Close the other layer of dough, connect the edges. It remains to smear the egg, make punctures for steam to escape with a fork and bake - 170 degrees, half an hour before rosy.
Puff pastry meat pie with minced meat and cabbage
Cabbage and mince can be put in the filling raw, as is done in the recipe. But you can fry them, then the cake will hold in the oven for a quarter of an hour less than the specified time.
Ingredients
700 grams of puff pastry;
350 grams of minced meat;
onion head;
300 grams of white cabbage;
ground black pepper;
salt;
egg.
Method of preparation
Cabbage chop melenko. Onions are also chopped. Add vegetables to the stuffing. Season with pepper. We salt.
Divide the dough in half. Roll out two layers. One put on the buttered baking sheet. We spread on it the stuffing so that along the edges there is a place for the sides of the cake. We cover with the second rolled sheet of dough. We pinch the sides. It remains only to smear the top of the cake with whipped yolk, chop holes with a fork and into a hot oven (180 degrees) for 40 minutes.
Open meat puff pastry cake with minced meat
Cheese and mushrooms, which can also be used for decoration, will be an addition to the meat filling in this pie. Ingredients
250 grams of puff pastry;
a pound of minced meat;
100 grams of sour cream;
two onions;
egg;
400 grams of mushrooms;
70 grams of grated cheese;
two cloves of garlic;
salt, spices;
fresh greens.
Method of preparation
The oven is set at 180.
For the filling, you must first fry the minced meat. Put it on the plate. And in the pan send the onions and also fry them to become golden. Mix onions and meat.
Washed and peeled mushrooms cut into thin strips. Fry slightly. Then add to them sour cream, finely chopped garlic. Stew for 5 minutes.
We add to the stuffing mushrooms and grated cheese.
We choose the form for the pie and roll out the dough in its size, do not forget to take into account the sides.
We put and distribute the dough in shape, form the bumpers, make a couple of pricks on the bottom with a fork. Carefully lay out the filling.
Beat the egg. Pour it over the filling. You can also decorate the cake with halves of small mushrooms. Bake until ready for about 40 minutes. Sprinkle the finished cake with greens.
Meat puff pastry cake with minced meat - secrets and tricks
· Pie with minced meat will be more satisfying if you add boiled rice to the filling.
· A light and spring-like fresh version of the cake can be made by adding green beans to the minced meat, carrots or other vegetables, as well as greens.
· If you put the stuffing in the filling raw, the cake will be more juicy. And pre-frying ingredients shortens the baking time by about 15 minutes.
