Lenten dishes of Russian cuisine are not only delicious anduseful, but also diverse. In days of fasting, and on ordinary days, products made from a lean home test are always relevant. Especially loved by many different pies with fillings.
Lenten pie with apples or pumpkin - enoughNutritious dish and much more useful for those who follow the calories eaten. And, having prepared it only once for your home, you will forever bring it to the list of favorite family recipes.
How to cook lean pie with apples?
Dough products:a couple of glasses of flour, salt somewhere half a teaspoon, 150 ml of vegetable oil, 120 ml of cold water. Ingredients for filling: 4-5 sweet apples, three st. spoons of honey or sugar, 0.5 tablespoons of tea cinnamon, two st. tablespoons of starch.
Now in order to figure out how to cooklean pie with apples. First we prepare the dough. Sift in a bowl of flour, add salt, then vegetable oil and carefully stir everything. Then add cold water from the fridge, mix it again. The dough should be elastic. To get the right consistency, pour a little flour. Then, dividing the dough into 2 parts (one slightly smaller, and the other larger), put it for an hour in the refrigerator.
We accept the filling.For this purpose, we wash the apples, then, after cutting out the core, cut into slices half a centimeter. Starch is mixed with cinnamon and honey and added to sliced apples. Do this best before we begin to form a cake, to avoid the formation of excess fluid.
Next, a piece of dough that is bigger is rolled outand put in a form, the bottom of which we lubricate with oil and sprinkle with flour. Spread the filling on the dough, distributing it evenly. Then roll out a smaller piece of dough and cover them with apples from above. The edges are tampered and spread with vegetable oil. We pierce the plug in several places to exit the steam.
We bake the cake for about an hour, check the readiness of the test with a match. When the cake is baked, remove from the oven, cover with a towel and leave to walk for fifteen minutes.
How to cook lean pie with pumpkin
Prepare the necessary products:puff pastry - 500 grams, pumpkin pulp - 600 grams, dried apricots - 10 pieces, sugar - 50 grams, a handful of nuts and a teaspoon of cinnamon. We rub the raw pumpkin on a large grater. Soak dried apricots, cut into small slices and mix with sugar and cinnamon. You can put large chopped nuts. Then, rolling the dough, we put it in the mold. We cut off all that is superfluous. And the cuttings are rolled out and cut into strips. Spread a pumpkin on our dough. And from the top crosswise lay out strips. The form is covered with a foil sheet and 40 minutes bake at 170-180 ° C. Our lean pie with pumpkin is ready.
Open pie with apples
Необходимые продукты:flour - 2.5-3 cups, milk - 400 ml, yeast - 30 grams, apples - 2 pcs, sugar brown - 80 grams, butter (can be replaced with margarine) - 120 grams, sugar - 150 grams, a pair of eggs, 1 tsp. vanilla essence, a couple of pinch of salt.
Kneading the dough from these products, it follows itsWell knead to the plasticity and leave until ripe. If the dough increased by 2.5-3 times in volume, then you need to re-knead, and start folding the cake. Part of the test, rolled up in the form of a flat cake, put on the bottom of the mold. From the test, we make two strands. Then they must be intertwined in the form of a pigtail, which should be wrapped around the cake.
We take the stuffing.Cut the apples thinly, sprinkle them with brown sugar and spread on the dough. From the rest of the test roll out the thin strips and lay them crosswise in a cake. You can cut leaflets or other decorative elements. We decorate them with a pie. And from above we lubricate the product with beaten eggs and put it on the oven for 40 minutes, which must be heated up to 180 degrees beforehand. Those who hold fast will certainly appreciate the open pie with apples, and instead of apples you can put a variety of fillings.
Well, now invite guests to tea or coffee, and a lean pie with apples, in the form of a wonderful dessert, believe me, they will appreciate it.