Rosy, aromatic and easy to prepare, especially if you use ready-made puff pastry. Meat pie with minced meat will decorate the festive table or just become a wonderful dinner.
General principles for the preparation of meat pie from puff pastry with minced meat
To buy frozen puff pastry is not difficult today, both yeast and yeast-free. The main thing - do not forget that before using it you need to remove it from the freezer in advance, so that by the beginning of work it becomes soft. If time and cooking skills allow, you can make puff pastry yourself. The process is quite lengthy and time-consuming. But there are simplified recipes, here is one of them: you will need a pack of butter, two thirds of a glass of water, two glasses of flour, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt and a spoonful of sugar. Butter is chopped with a knife along with flour until crumbs are obtained. Salt and sugar are diluted in cold water, which is then poured into a mixture of oil and flour. The dough is kneading quickly, it is covered with a towel and set in the cold for two to three hours. After this, the dough is rolled out twice, while each time folding it into three or four layers.
Almost any stuffing is suitable for the filling: from beef or pork, chicken or turkey. It turns out juicier and tastier if you take pork and beef in equal proportions. Minced onions also give juiciness. Fragrant spices bring different shades of taste. You can choose them according to your preference, 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, it is hearty 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 with minced meat and eggs
This version of the cake is not only tasty, but also very beautiful, especially in the context. Boiled eggs are stacked in halves and visible in each piece.
Ingredients
Half a kilogram of yeast puff pastry (2 layers per pack);
bulb;
700 grams of a mixture of ground beef and pork;
four eggs;
two cloves of garlic;
two tablespoons of mustard;
spice.
Cooking method
Of the four eggs specified in the recipes, three must be boiled hard-boiled.
Grind the onion, do the same with garlic. In a frying pan, first fry the onions until golden, then pour the garlic there, hold together for another minute and remove.
Add the spices and salt to the minced meat. We mix. Now onions with garlic, as well as mustard, will go there. Having mixed all the components, we make a small hole in the minced meat, pour one raw egg into it. It remains again to mix everything thoroughly, and the filling is ready.
Sprinkle the table with flour. Lay the dough on top of each other, roll out. We get a fairly large rectangular sheet of dough.
We distribute the minced meat over it, laying it in the middle of the rectangle. We cut the eggs in half. We lay them with a path in the center of the stuffing from the stuffing.
To close the pie, we cut the sides of the dough into strips a couple of centimeters wide, we cut the cuts at an angle of 45 degrees. Now weave a semblance of pigtails, laying overlapping stripes of dough on top of the filling. We pinch them together. Grease the cake on top with whipped yolk.
We shift the product to a baking sheet. Let it stand for a quarter of an hour, and then you can send it to the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Then we get it out, let it cool slightly, you can cut and serve.
Puff pastry with minced meat, bacon and mushrooms
Bacon will add a bright spicy aroma to the cake. And you can take any mushrooms - even forest ones, even champignons.
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.
Cooking method
We cut mushrooms, onions and pepper into a small cube, and bacon into thin strips. Fry the bacon first. As soon as its fat is melted, put the onion, brown. Then add pepper and mushrooms, simmer together. When all the ingredients are fried, turn off the flame, let this part of the filling cool down.
Break the eggs into the minced meat, add just a few drops of Tabasco. Mix well. Now put the cooled contents of the pan. Salt, season with spices, for example, ground pepper and oregano are well suited.
We put the oven at 180. We divide the dough into two unequal halves. The one that is slightly larger is rolled out for the bottom of the pie. We put it in a greased form so that the edges hang from the sides. We distribute the filling.
Roll out the remaining dough so that it overlaps the form by a couple of centimeters. Close the cake, cut off the excess on the edges. We pinch the edges. Lubricate the top with a small amount of cream, sprinkle with ground pepper. We pierce several holes with a fork. We send to the oven for about 50 minutes.
Puff pastry with minced meat and two types of cheese
A variation on the Greek puff cake theme. Brynza will be one of the cheeses, and any semi-hard variety, for example, Russian, can be taken to the company for it.
Ingredients
A kilogram of yeast puff pastry;
a pound of minced meat (pork with beef or chicken);
300 grams of semi-hard cheese and feta cheese;
two bow heads;
a bunch of parsley and dill;
two eggs;
spices: paprika, ground pepper, Italian herbs (ready-made mixture).
Cooking method
Put the minced meat in a pan and fry in vegetable oil for about ten minutes. Salt, add all the spices as well. Then cover with a lid. Stew on low heat until the stuffing is cooked. Now you can put the minced meat in a bowl and let it cool.
To fill the pie, you need to grate the cheese. Do it on a coarse grater. We do the same with feta cheese.
Chop the onion finely. Fry it in oil until soft.
We put the feta cheese to the cooled meat, then cheese and onions. We mix. Beat the eggs. Leave a little to grease the cake on top, and pour the main egg mass into the filling. Mix everything well. At this stage, it is worth trying a little stuffing and, if necessary, add salt and spices.
Thawed puff pastry in two. We roll out one part to the size of the baking sheet on which we plan to bake the pie. We shift to a baking sheet covered with parchment. Place the filling on the dough evenly. Top - finely chopped greens.
We roll out the remaining dough so that they can cover our pie. Spread on top of the filling. Pinch the edges. Lubricate with an egg, make punctures with a fork on the surface of the pie - steam will escape through them.
In the oven, heated to 200 degrees, the cake will hold until ready for about half an hour.
Puff pastry with minced meat and potatoes
For a pie with potatoes, pork minced meat or half mixed with beef is good.
Ingredients
A kilogram of puff pastry;
200 grams of potatoes;
half a kilogram of minced meat;
salt;
200 grams of onion;
spice;
egg.
Cooking method
Grind onions, you can make it a blender, and add to the minced meat.
We clean the potatoes, cut into rather thin strips. We also mix it with minced meat, season to taste with salt and spices.
Roll out two layers of dough. One is placed on a baking sheet, smeared with oil, on the dough - filling. We cover with another layer of dough, connect the edges. It remains to grease with an egg, make punctures for the steam to escape using a fork and bake - 170 degrees, half an hour until golden brown.
Puff pastry with minced meat and cabbage
Cabbage and minced meat can be put in the filling raw, as is done in the recipe. But you can fry them, then the cake will spend in the oven 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.
Cooking method
Chop cabbage finely. We also chop the onion. Add vegetables to the minced meat. Season with pepper. Solim.
Divide the dough in half. Roll out two layers. We put one on a greased baking sheet. We spread the filling on it so that at the edges there is space for the sides of the pie. Cover with a second rolled sheet of dough. We pinch the sides. It remains only to grease the top of the cake with beaten yolk, chop the holes with a fork and into the hot oven (180 degrees) for 40 minutes.
Open meat puff pastry pie with minced meat
In addition to the meat filling in this pie will be cheese and mushrooms, which can also be used for decoration.
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.
Cooking method
We set the oven to 180.
For the filling, you must first fry the minced meat. Put it in a plate. And we will send the onions to the pan and also fry them to become golden. Mix onion and meat.
Washed and peeled mushrooms cut into thin strips. Lightly fry. Then add sour cream, finely chopped garlic to them. Put it out for 5 minutes.
Add mushrooms and grated cheese to the minced meat.
We select a cake mold and roll out the dough according to its size, do not forget to take into account the sides.
We lay and distribute the dough in shape, form the sides, make a couple of pricks with a fork at the bottom. Gently spread the filling.
Beat the egg. Pour it over the filling. You can also decorate the cake with halves of small mushrooms. Bake until cooked for about 40 minutes. Sprinkle the finished pie with herbs.
Puff pastry with minced meat - secrets and tricks
· Pie with minced meat will become more satisfying if you add boiled rice to the filling.
· A light and spring-like fresh version of the pie can be made by adding green beans, carrots or other vegetables, as well as greens to the minced meat.
· If you put the stuffing in the filling raw, the cake will come out more juicy. And pre-frying the ingredients reduces baking time by about 15 minutes.
