Baking from peoples of different countries always has its ownspecial features specific to a particular region: a thin Neapolitan flat cake with a simple filling of tomatoes and cheese has become popular worldwide pizza, a curled Israeli pita or a pita bread with scraped meat and vegetables - no less famous doner kebab or shawarma, and fried in butter pies Tatars - all favorite chebureks. Not less famous in Russia are baked products of Ossetian cuisine, the so-called Ossetian pies. And today they are worthy competition to any baking, whether it's pizza, croissants or our cakes.
What is Ossetian pie?
Traditional baking of the peoples of Ossetia is a round or triangular cake with a thick layer of filling. Try this dish you can even without spending energy on cooking: today you can order both by phone and online.
For the Ossetian pie kneaded dough on yeast, and as filling can act:
- Ossetian cheese and leek,
- cabbage and cheese,
- pumpkin,
- potatoes with cheese,
- beans,
- chopped beef,
- chard and ossetian cheese,
- mushrooms and green onions.
On this list of possible fillings does not end: every year, bakers offer more and more variations for this batch. By the way, not necessarily salty.There are also sweet options - for example, with a cherry. But in any case, there will be a lot of stuffing in such a pie, and the dough should be thin, but it's safe to hide the filling without letting it stick out. This type of baking is called Ossetian in accordance with the type of stuffing used: potato pie with potatoes, zokojin with mushrooms, cabus squid with cabbage.
Ossetian pies: new fast food
Rich and juicy Ossetian pies todaybecome part of the urban culture in Russia: they are easy to satisfy hunger, they have different tastes and at the same time are convenient for an office lunch or a snack in a cafe. Due to such advantages, baking from Ossetia has become one of the modern types of fast food. However, the Ossetians themselves are not enthusiastic about such popularity of their culinary heritage: for them this food has a long ritual character, and many cultural organizations of Ossetia advocate assigning Ossetian pies the status of "specialty" of the region and include them in the list of intangible heritage sites of UNESCO . This will preserve the recipe and ritual value of Ossetian pies intact and will not give the opportunity to sell products that are different from traditional recipes under this name.
