How to make a pastry for pies? In the preparation, classic recipes based on water, flour, eggs and salt, express recipes (for example, sour cream), complex and multicomponent recipes for making tasty and unusual baked goods in conditions when the hostess is in no hurry are distinguished.
The ability to make delicious pies at home is a sign of the hostess's high skill. The process requires patience, care, accurate adherence to the ratio of ingredients, and performing actions in strict sequence. One of the most difficult moments during the preparation of home baking is the preparation of the test base.
Calorie Dough
The calorie content of the test for pies depends on many factors: the cooking technology (in a pan, in a bread machine, in the oven), the ingredients used (in sour cream, margarine, milk, water), the amount of sugar, etc.
How to make yeast dough for pies - 4 recipes
In milk
- milk 300 ml
- flour 600 g
- yeast 20 g
- vegetable oil 3 Art. l
- sugar 2 Art. l
- salt 1 tsp
- I put the milk to warm on the stove. 3-5 minutes on medium heat are enough. I put the yeast in a little warmed milk, add 4 tablespoons of flour (not the whole volume from the recipe). To the salt.
- Mix thoroughly. Leave the mixture alone for 20-25 minutes. I wait until the dough begins to bubble, as in the preparation of the pancake dough.
- Gradually add vegetable oil without stopping kneading. You should get a soft base that does not stick to your hands.
- The last time I gently mix. I leave it in a warm place for 60 minutes, covering it with a kitchen towel. As the dough rises, I proceed to prepare the pies.
On kefir
A simple recipe for yogurt and vegetable oil with the addition of dry yeast that does not require prior activation.
- Flour - 3 cups,
- Kefir - 1 glass,
- Sugar - 1 large spoon
- Salt - 1 teaspoon,
- Vegetable oil - half a glass,
- Dry yeast (“high-speed”) - 1 sachet.
- In a saucepan I mix kefir with vegetable oil. Send to the stove for 3-4 minutes. I bring the liquid to a warm state, remove from the stove, put sugar and salt.
- Mix flour and yeast in a separate bowl. I pour the heated mixture of oil and kefir.
- I start kneading. I form a spherical mass, leave it to rise in a warm place. To prevent the dough from weathering, I cover it with a plastic bag (cling film or towel).
- The speed of raising the base for baking directly depends on the temperature in the place where it will be left. At 35-40 degrees, 30-40 minutes are enough, as for sausages in the dough.
To make the pies even tastier, leave the blanks on the baking sheet for proofing (additional fermentation) for 15 minutes in a warm place. The absence of drafts is a necessary condition.Cover blanks on top with napkins to prevent them from weathering.
On the water
- Premium wheat flour - 500 g,
- Warm boiled water - 250 ml,
- Salt - 1.5 teaspoons,
- Dry yeast - 1 small spoon,
- Sugar - 1.5 teaspoons,
- Vegetable oil - 1 large spoon.
Sift the flour before preparing the dough.
- Pour warm water (leave 100-120 ml) in a batch dish. I put granulated sugar and salt, as in sculpting dough recipe. I am mixing.
- I brew yeast in a separate bowl. Dissolve in a 100 mm volume of warm water.
- I pour the yeast into the sweet-salty water. Gradually pour in the grain processing product. Gently stir, do not allow the formation of lumps. The finished mixture (at the third stage of preparation) by consistency should resemble thick sour cream.
- I close the blank with a clean kitchen towel or gauze. I leave in a warm, unventilated room for 40-45 minutes.
- Add oil, mix gently. Leave alone for half an hour. In the allotted time, homework should increase in volume by 2-3 times.
Done! Feel free to start the process of making pies.
On sour cream
- Sour cream 15 percent fat - 125 g,
- Fresh yeast - 15 g
- Flour - 500 g
- Margarine - 60 g
- Sugar - 3 teaspoons
- Salt - 1 small spoon
- Water - 180 ml
- Vegetable oil - 1 large spoon.
- I take large dishes. Pour warm boiled water (60 ml). Dissolve sugar (1 small spoon) and yeast. I put 2-3 large spoons of sifted flour. I close with gauze. Install in a warm place without drafts for 20 minutes.
- In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and melted margarine. Add warm water (120 ml), mixed with sugar and salt. I put flour on top (almost the entire remaining volume). Gently mix so that the bottom layer does not mix with the top.
- I pour vegetable oil. Now gently and thoroughly mix all the ingredients.
- Sprinkle flour on a kitchen board. I spread the blank for baking. Knead with my hands until flour is completely absorbed.
- Cover the mass with a kitchen towel. I leave it in the kitchen (in a warm place) for 35 minutes. After I crumple the workpiece. In addition, I wait half an hour.
For baking sweet buns and pies, it is better to increase the volume of sugar to 3 large spoons.
How to make dough for pies without yeast - 2 recipes
In milk
- Butter - 150 g,
- Flour - 600 g
- Water - 400 ml
- Soda - half a teaspoon,
- Salt - 1 large pinch.
- In warm boiled water I dissolve the salt, put the butter and mix.
- Add 300 grams of the product obtained from grinding grains (half of the total volume). Thoroughly interfere. I extinguish soda so that the pies turn out to be magnificent. Gradually add the remaining 300 grams of flour.
- Thoroughly knead the mass until smooth. To simplify the process making pies, send the dough into the freezer for 8-12 minutes.
- I am waiting for the "ripening" of the base for the pies. I am preparing the filling.
- I roll out the finished test base into a layer with a thickness of not more than 4 mm. I make a round shape using a large mug or a special mold.
Kefir Recipe
- Flour - 4 cups
- Kefir - 1 glass,
- Margarine - 200 g,
- Sugar - 4 large spoons,
- Eggs - 2 pieces
- Soda - 1 teaspoon,
- Vinegar - 1 large spoon.
- Sifting flour in a large and deep bowl. Add sugar and mix.
- I cut margarine from the refrigerator into small pieces. Add to flour, gently rub with my hands into small crumbs.
- I break eggs. I pour the soda quenched with vinegar.
- Gradually add kefir. I knead a dense mass that does not stick to my hands. When adding kefir I do not forget about flour. I introduce the ingredients gradually, mixing to the desired consistency.
Use the rest of the margarine (50 grams from a standard 250-gram packet) to grease the pan when baking pies.
Puff pastry recipes for pies
Lean Puff Pastry
- Flour - 330 g
- Water - 1 cup,
- Vegetable oil - 150 g,
- Citric acid - half a small spoon.
- Add citric acid to a glass of boiled water. Putting it in the freezer.
- I put salt in a dish with 2 cups of sifted powder product (300 grams).
- Gradually add cooled water with citric acid. Gently stir for 5-7 minutes. I achieve a homogeneous mass that does not stick to the hands or edges of the dish.
- I'm rolling a big ball. I put it in a clean bag made of polyethylene. I send it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- I mix the remaining flour (30 grams) with vegetable oil. I put it in the refrigerator for 20-25 minutes.
- Roll out the chilled dough (large ball) with a thin 1.5 mm layer.
- Top grease with a mixture of flour and vegetable oil. I carefully roll it into a roll. I close it with a damp cloth. I put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- I take out the blank, roll it out in a thin layer. I curl weight 4 times. I wrap in a dampened napkin. I put it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. I take out and start the baking process.
In milk with yeast and butter
- Butter - 250 g,
- Sugar - 80 g
- Milk - 250 ml
- Flour - 500 g
- Dry yeast - 7 g
- Salt - 1 pinch,
- Vanilla - 1 pinch
- Lemon zest - 1 small spoon.
- Soften butter.
- I put milk on the stove. I warm up a few minutes. I dissolve yeast in warm milk.
- Sift the flour in a separate bowl. Pour vanilla and granulated sugar. I am mixing.
- In milk with yeast, add softened and melted butter (50 grams). I stir.
- Gradually add flour, not forgetting to stir.
- Knead until a thick yeast dough. I let you come, I’m crushing. I clean in a cold place.
- I spread the parchment paper on the kitchen board. Spread the rest of the butter. I roll it into a rectangular layer of uniform thickness. I put it in the refrigerator so that the temperature of the oil and the dough are the same.
- Knead the workpiece. Gently roll out. I put a layer of butter on top so that the edges of the dough can be wrapped.
- I close the butter with dough, roll out and fold the resulting billet for pies 3 times. I put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- I repeat the processes of rolling and folding 2 times. I put in the refrigerator for 20-25 minutes.
- I cut the dough for cooking pies.
The fastest recipe for the test
A very simple technology for making dough based on kefir. Perfect for baby baking, as it does not contain excess fat, like cheese casserole. The only remark is that the filling should be tight. Jam or jam may spread.
- Kefir - 200 ml,
- Flour - 1 cup
- Eggs - 2 things,
- Soda - 1 teaspoon,
- Salt is half a small spoon.
- I quench soda with kefir.
- I break eggs. Add salt. Gradually spread the flour.
- Thoroughly and slowly kneading.
- I start cooking delicious homemade pies.
How to make a delicious pastry for pastries in the oven
- Premium flour - 500 g,
- Fresh yeast - 30 g
- Sugar - 3 large spoons
- Salt - 1 teaspoon,
- Chicken egg - 2 pieces,
- Butter - 100 g
- Vegetable oil - 3 large spoons.
The better you choose the yeast, the faster the fermentation process will begin. A good dough will instantly “bubble” and increase in volume.
Add eggs at room temperature. Otherwise, a cold animal product will slow down fermentation.
- I warm fresh milk on the stove. Pour into a deep bowl. I brew yeast. I put sugar (1 tablespoon), a glass of powdered cereal product. I am mixing. I cover the dish with a towel. I clean in any warm place where it does not blow, for 30 minutes.
- I put salt in the mixture (1 small spoon is enough), the remaining sugar, I break 2 chicken eggs.
- I pour vegetable oil into the mixture, put the melted butter.
- Mix thoroughly, add 2 cups flour. In no hurry, pour the ingredient in parts to mix with the liquid.
- I spread the resulting dough for pies on a kitchen board previously sprinkled with flour.
- I knead. Gradually pour the flour. Dough should not stick to hands and a wooden kitchen board.
- The workpiece will be soft and viscous, which will simplify the rolling process as much as possible.
If you are going to bake pies with a sweet filling, increase the volume of sugar to 5-6 tablespoons.
Have a nice cooking!
Dough for pies in the bread maker
- Water - 240 ml
- Vegetable oil - 3 large spoons,
- Chicken eggs - 2 pieces,
- Flour - 500 g
- Milk powder - 2 tablespoons,
- Sugar - 1 large spoon
- Salt - 1 small spoon
- Dry yeast - 2 teaspoons.
- Add the ingredients to the bread machine. I start with warm water, vegetable oil and 2 chicken eggs whipped with a whisk.
- Sift the ground grain product. I pour it into the tank for cooking. I make 4 indentations for the remaining components: sugar, salt, yeast and milk powder.
- Add ingredients. I put the bucket in the bread machine. I close the lid. I turn on the program "Dough".
- After completing the work of the bread machine (standard time is 90 minutes), a sound signal will sound.
- The blank for pies will be tender and magnificent. I put it on a large board, the surface of which is sprinkled with flour.
- I divide the workpiece into 12-14 equal parts. I cover with cling film or a cut plastic bag.
- I start cooking homemade pies.
Dough for open pies in a pan
A quick recipe for making a base for sour cream pies. If desired, you can make cakes or pizza.
- Sour cream - 4 large spoons,
- Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons,
- Eggs - 2 things,
- Flour - 9 large spoons,
- Salt - 1 pinch.
- I mix mayonnaise and sour cream in a deep container. I get a homogeneous mass.
- Beat eggs with a pinch of salt in a separate plate. Add to the sour cream-mayonnaise base. I am mixing. Gradually add flour, without stopping to interfere. I get a thick and lasting mixture.
- Cooking pies in a pan. It is better to take a hard filling.
What to cook from the remaining dough?
- Leftover dough
- Sausages - 5 pieces (focus on the volume of the remaining workpiece),
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
- I roll the rest of the dough into several strips.
- I wrap the sausages nicely, leaving the ends open.
- I pour vegetable oil into the pan. I spread sausages. I fry on all sides on medium heat until golden brown.
Making dough for pies at home is an important and responsible procedure in creating baking. Even the most delicious and mouth-watering filling can be spoiled due to a failed base from the dough. Be careful and scrupulous about cooking, use recipes checked by time and a large number of housewives, and everything will certainly work out! Good luck