Pie represents baked or fried dough product of the small size with a stuffing. Such dish was baked in Russia for a long time and today it is also popular, despite the caloric content. Pies differ not only in the test and a stuffing, but also the form.
What form it is possible to make pies
The round or oval shape is suitable for pies from yeast dough more. It is the simplest to make the first – for this purpose roll dough in not too thin sausage and divide it into identical balls. Flatten everyone a palm that flat cake turned out. Lay out a stuffing in its middle, and then collect edges of flat cake to the center, displacing pie like a sack. Then flatten a palm a little the small knot created from above pie that it didn't stick out.
To make an oval form, lay out a stuffing also on the center of flat cake, then connect its opposite edges in the center so that in the middle of pie at you a peculiar seam turned out. It is possible to put on a baking tray such pies as a seam up, and on it.
It is better to make pies for frying in the form of vareniki – for this purpose flat cake needs to be picked up, then to put in it a stuffing, and then to zashchipnut two opposite edges so that the seam turned out on the one hand. Pies can be made of puff pastry in the form of a square or a triangle. For preparation of square pies roll dough in layer 5-8 mm thick and cut it on squares of the identical size. Then lay out a stuffing in the center of everyone and put edges so that the envelope turned out. Zashchipnite the seams created as a result of such manipulations. For preparation of pies of triangular shape put a stuffing in a square, then just connect two opposite edges and a zashchipnita. Fry ready pies in vegetable oil in a frying pan or put on the baking tray oiled vegetable and bake in an oven. In the latter case they can previously be greased with a frothed eggs – then the crust will turn out ruddier. And ready sweet pies can be strewed with icing sugar, but to do it it is necessary, they still hot so far.
Different stuffings for pies
For preparation of sweet pies it is possible to use the cottage cheese, jam, jam, nuts cut on pieces fruit or berries with granulated sugar. And that in the course of preparation juice from berries didn't flow, dough can be powdered with a small amount of gentle corn starch. Unsweetened pies can be cooked with a chopped eggs stuffing with green onions, cheese with greens, mincemeat, chopped chicken meat, mushrooms, potato, peas or cabbage. However, all listed products, except greens and cheese, have to be subject to preliminary heat treatment.