Даже начинающие кулинары знают, что готовить из puff pastry is easy and simple. There are many recipes for traditional and modern dishes that do not require special knowledge or skills. From our article you will learn how to make puff pastry cake with cheese and other fillings.
Khachapuri
Georgian cuisine is widely known throughout the world, andher dishes are very popular. Khachapuri are puff pastry cakes, the recipes of which in different parts of the country can differ greatly from each other. Sometimes the usual yeast dough is taken as a basis, and fish or meat is used as a filling. Interestingly, such baking may differ not only in composition, but also in form. We suggest that you make a classic puff pastry pie with cheese:
- Take 500 grams of suluguni or a mixture of cheese (feta, mozzarella and cheese), chop them with a grater. If you wish, you can always add some fresh cottage cheese to the filling.
- Разбейте в сыр одно яйцо и добавьте ложку melted butter. If you want the puff pastry cake with cheese to be fragrant, then add to the same grated garlic, greens and a little salt.
- Roll out the dough on the table not too thin, and then cut the squares 15 by 15 cm with a knife.
- Put the stuffing in the middle - do not be stingy and remember that the more cheese is in the pie, the tastier it will turn out.
- Fold the dough in an envelope and fasten it in the middle.all four corners. Then again take the corners of the square and pull them to the middle. In the end, you should get a small round cake. Roll it upside down and carefully roll it out with a rolling pin.
- Before cooking, you need to pierce the cake several times with a fork and make a small hole in the center.
- Fold the cakes on a baking sheet, add them to the yolk and send them to bake until golden brown.
Pie from the finished puff pastry with onions and cheese
Even a beginning hostess will be able to cope with the preparation of this fragrant baking, and the time spent on its preparation will take very little.
- Сначала приготовим начинку:finely chop two large onions and fry them in a drop of vegetable oil, grate 150 grams of hard cheese, chop a large bunch of fennel and beat a chicken egg in a separate bowl.
- Roll out two sheets of ready-made puff pastry and place one on a baking tray previously covered with parchment.
- The filling should be laid out in such a sequence: first onion, then cheese, egg and greens.
- Cover the future cake with a second sheet of dough, tweak the edges and cut them smoothly with a pizza knife. Do not forget to make punctures with a fork and sprinkle your baking sesame seeds.
When the cake of puff pastry with cheese and onions is ready, cut it into triangles and serve hot to tea.
Open mushroom pie
The guests will especially remember the taste of this treat if you use real forest mushrooms for the filling. To make puff pastry pie, you need:
- Cut 350 grams of mushrooms and the same number of peeled potatoes into small pieces.
- Налить в кастрюльку 200 граммов молока и 140 grams of heavy cream, put them on fire. When the liquid boils, add the potatoes, chopped garlic clove, and cook until tender. At the very end, the filling should be salt, pepper and season with spices (for example, nutmeg).
- Fry mushrooms with butter, salt.
- Roll out the dough and place it on the parchment. Pinch the edges so that its shape resembles a basket.
- The filling is laid out as follows: potatoes, mushrooms, grated cheese. So that the cheese does not burn, it is better to put it five minutes before readiness.
After 15 minutes, you can invite relatives to try the fragrant pie with potatoes. Puff pastry is prepared very quickly, so that a tasty treat will not be long in coming.
Closed Mushroom Pie
If you want to eat something tasty,then nothing is easier - make a simple puff pastry cake. Fillings for it can be very different, but the mushroom is considered one of the most delicious:
- Fry finely chopped onions (two heads) and a mixture of forest mushrooms (300 grams) in a pan. In the end, be sure to salt and pepper.
- 100 grams of any hard cheese rubbed on a fine grater.
- Roll out two sheets of dough. On the first lay out the filling and sprinkle with cheese, and the second close the cake.
- Baking should be cooked in the oven until the puff pastry is browned.
Mushroom pie can be neatly cut into squares or triangles. Serve it with tea or as an addition to the first dish.
Pie from ready puff pastry with cheese and greens
It will take you very little time to create this crunchy and nourishing cake, and your loved ones will remember its pleasant taste for a long time.
- Grate hard and soft cheese (each you need to take 150 grams).
- Crush dill, parsley and green onions. Mix together all the products.
- There are enough fillings for two cakes, so you should roll out four sheets of ready-thawed dough.
- Form closed pies, pierce them with a fork, brush with yolk and send to bake until done in the oven.
"Snail" with cheese
The unusual form of this treat will surely attract the attention of your guests and deserve many compliments. However, you will have to spend a little more time in the kitchen than usual:
- For the filling, grate 200 grams of hard cheese (Parmesan or Dutch) and 100 grams of soft (cheese or Adygei) grated on it.
- Dough defrost, roll out and cut intolong strips in width from five to ten centimeters (it depends on your desire and on the height of the finished cake). We recommend using ready-made yeast-free dough, which is not sold in sheets, but in roll.
- We spread the cheese along the entire length of the strip and pinch the edges so that we get a straw. Perform this operation with other parts.
- Lay a paper or silicone baking mat on the baking tray. We lay out the finished harnesses of dough in the middle and twist in a spiral, tightly pressed to each other.
- Grease the "snail" with yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
For making this original treat youYou can also use puff yeast dough. Recipes (pies) are easy to change according to personal preferences. For example, add spinach, chicken or mushrooms to the filling.
Rolls
Вареная колбаса – это продукт, который активно used for the preparation of festive dishes by many citizens of our country. That is why we could not ignore puff pastry pies (recipes with sausage):
- Roll out thawed sheets and grease them with sour cream and mustard sauce.
- Grind sausage and cheese (the amount of products you can at your discretion) on a coarse grater and mix with chopped greens. Do not forget to salt and pepper.
- Put the stuffing on a sheet in an even layer, roll up and roll around the edges. If desired, you can cut it into portions of a width of ten centimeters.
- Before sending the rolls to the oven, they should be smeared with yolk diluted with a little water.
Cheese and Spinach Pie
Many people know about the beneficial properties of spinach, butfew people use it in their menu. Prepare a simple pie for this recipe and make sure that the filling is tasty. It is perfect even for the holiday table.
- Fry finely chopped onions (one head) and spinach (300 grams) in a pan. Salt and pepper to taste.
- 150 grams of cheese and the same amount of grated cheese grate.
- Combine all the products together, add two raw eggs to them and warm them in the pan for a few minutes.
- Put the stuffing on the puff pastry, close the second sheet and tweak the edges. From above make several punctures with a fork and send to be baked until done.
Laurent cake
This traditional dish of French cuisine can be prepared in many ways. But we decided to dwell on the version in which cheese and frozen spinach are used for the filling:
- Roll a sheet of dough. Use a pizza cutter to give it a round shape. Put it on a baking tray covered with baking paper.
- Warm up frozen spinach in a frying pan, then squeeze out excess water through a sieve. Mix it with grated cheese (feta or cheese).
- In a separate bowl, beat two eggs, add a glass of milk. Salt and pepper.
- Cover the dough with a thin layer of cheese, then lay out the spinach, pour, and again a layer of cheese. From above beautifully spread out thin slices of fresh tomatoes.
This cake is baked first at a high temperature (20 minutes), and then at a minimum (another half hour).
Samson from puff pastry
Delicious triangles can be made in minutes, if you use ready-made puff pastry for their preparation. To do this, you must:
- Take two or three large chicken breasts, remove the skin, remove the meat, cut it into small cubes and fry until half cooked.
- Two large onions also cut into cubes. Mix them with chicken, salt, add cumin, cinnamon and ground pepper.
- Cut out squares from the rolled out dough, place them in the center of each filling (it should be with a slide) and pinch them so that they are triangles.
- Put samsa on the baking sheet with the seam down, brush with egg, sprinkle with sesame and bake in the oven until done.
В оригинале эта восточная выпечка делается из fat lamb and yeast dough. Perhaps most men will strongly reject this recipe and prefer its classic execution. However, the ladies, watching the figure, will be happy to know the light version, and certainly will take it to the note.
Strudel
Popular in our country, apple pie can be prepared in various ways and from different dough. Those who prefer to save their time, we suggest using puff, bought in the store:
- Peel a kilo of green apples andcut into small pieces. Put them in a large bowl, add sugar and ground almonds. Shake the filling several times and put in the fridge for half an hour.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out a sheet of dough, put it on a towel and brush with olive oil.
- Take the apples with your hands, squeeze tightly so that the excess juice flows out and form a hill along the edge of the leaf.
- Using a towel, roll the roll, brush it with oil and send to bake until done.
Puff pastry pies, the photos of which you saw in this article, can be prepared by everyone. We hope that our recipes will be useful and diversify your usual menu.
