Not everyone loves sweet-sweet pastries, and in this case, a pie with lemon filling would be an ideal dessert option. To prepare such a treat, various bases are used: sand, yeast or puff. Consider the popular lemon pie recipes.

Shortcake with lemon filling

Shortcake with lemon filling will remain fresh for a long time and will not become stale.

To make such a dessert, you need the following products:

  • 250 g of flour;
  • 1/2 packet of butter;
  • 2-3 lemons;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 10-15 g of starch;
  • a pinch of salt and soda;
  • sugar to taste.

How to make a delicious pie:

  1. Divide the lemons into slices, take out the seeds, put in a blender.
  2. Add starch and granulated sugar to the crushed citruses, grind until smooth.
  3. In a deep bowl, combine the butter, flour, soda, salt and egg yolks.
  4. Knead shortbread dough and divide it into 2 parts, and one of them should be slightly larger.
  5. We roll out a larger piece, put it in the form, make the sides.
  6. We put the filling inside, cover with a second piece of dough and grease the cake with whipped proteins, and then pierce it with a fork in several places.
  7. Put in a dish in the oven and bake until a golden crust appears.

Attention! If the lemons for the filling are taken together with the peel, so that it does not turn out to be bitter, they will need to be soaked in warm water for half an hour.

From puff pastry

When there is not so much time, and you want to make dessert quickly, you can make a pie with lemon filling from puff pastry by buying a ready-made semi-finished product in the store.

For such a dessert, only three ingredients are needed:

  • a pack of puff base;
  • a few lemons;
  • sugar.

How to make puff pastries:

  1. Defrost the dough, divide into 2 parts and roll it to the desired size.
  2. Cut lemons, remove the seeds and grind in a meat grinder or in a blender bowl.
  3. Add sugar to the citrus pulp and put the mixture on fire.
  4. We warm the filling, stirring constantly, for a quarter of an hour, until it thickens a little.
  5. We put one layer of dough on a baking sheet, raise the sides and lay out the filling.
  6. We cut the other part of the base into strips and cover them with a pie so that we get a lattice.
  7. We bake a treat in the oven until tender.

Tip. So that the puff pie does not crumble during slicing, it is better to divide it into portions immediately after it is removed from the oven and slightly cooled.

Delicious pastries from Julia Vysotskaya

It is not difficult to make a pie according to the recipe of Julia Vysotskaya, it will not take much time, and the result will be amazing.

To make a lemon pie, you need such components:

  • 1/2 cup wheat flour;
  • 1/2 cup cornmeal;
  • a pack of butter;
  • 3 eggs;
  • culinary baking powder;
  • a few lemons;
  • nuts
  • a pinch of salt and sugar.

How to make a dessert:

  1. Remove the zest from the lemon with a fine grater, squeeze the juice from one citrus.
  2. Soften the butter and grind with sugar until smooth until the mass becomes airy.
  3. Add eggs to the butter-sugar mixture, and you need to do this one at a time.
  4. Grind nuts with a rolling pin and pour into a dish.
  5. Enter the zest, pour in the juice, add flour and baking powder, slightly add salt.
  6. We mix the mass so that it becomes homogeneous, after which we place it in a greased form and send it to the oven.

Important! To make the cake tender and not to fall off during the baking process, the oven must be warmed up in advance by turning on the fire about 30 minutes before placing it in the baking dish.

Lemon Filled Yeast Tart

To prepare a yeast cake, you need to devote a lot of time, because the dough needs to be well suited.

To make dessert, you need the following products:

  • 2 cups of milk;
  • egg;
  • flour;
  • salt and sugar;
  • sachet of yeast;
  • some lemons.

How to make a yeast cake with lemon:

  1. Pour a little sugar and yeast into a glass with milk, mix and leave to come.
  2. Beat the egg with a small amount of salt, and then pour the dough to it.
  3. Mix the mass, adding flour a little, then leave it to approach for an hour and a half.
  4. Grind the lemons with a meat grinder or blender, put it in a pan and boil with sugar until the mass thickens, then cool.
  5. Knead the approached dough, roll out two layers of it, put one in a greased form.
  6. We distribute the filling, cover the pie with the second part of the dough, pinch the edges.
  7. We pierce the top with a fork in 4-5 places and put the form in the oven.

To make the pastries beautiful, before placing them in the oven, you can grease them with a beaten egg.

With the addition of oranges in the filling

This is another sand-based cake recipe.

To make delicious pastries, you will need the following products:

  • a pack of butter;
  • 450-600 g of flour;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • egg;
  • lemon;
  • orange;
  • cottage cheese of any fat content.

How to make a shortbread cake stuffed with lemon, orange and cottage cheese:

  1. Soften the butter, rub it with sugar.
  2. Add the egg, mix thoroughly and begin to pour the flour.
  3. Knead shortbread dough, and then separate about a fifth of it and hide in the freezer.
  4. Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve, add the citrus pulp and add sugar to taste.
  5. Roll out the base, lay on a baking sheet, apply the filling on top.
  6. We take out a piece of dough from the freezer, three on a coarse grater and sprinkle the pie with this crumb, and then set to bake.

The dish will be ready when the crumb turns golden brown.

Tasty recipe:cottage cheese pie

Cooking with apples

Incredibly delicious is a pie with lemon and apples.

For such a dessert, the following products will be needed:

  • a pack of butter;
  • 4 eggs;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • flour;
  • soda;
  • apples
  • lemon;
  • cinnamon and vanilla.

How to make a pie stuffed with lemon and apples:

  1. Soften the butter, grind with sugar.
  2. We drive in the eggs and mix the mass until smooth.
  3. Pour the flour so that the dough turns out semi-liquid, then put a little soda and vanilla, mix.
  4. We cut apples into slices, remove the zest from the lemon.
  5. Pour 2/3 of the dough into a greased form, spread apple slices on top, sprinkle with lemon zest and cinnamon.
  6. Distribute the rest of the dough on the surface, send the dish to the oven.

The readiness of such a cake is determined using a match or a toothpick. If after piercing the surface there are no pieces of dough left on it, the dessert can be taken out.

Open pie with lemon filling

For such a pie, puff pastry is best.

To make dessert, you need to take these products:

  • a pack of puff warp;
  • some apples or pears;
  • lemon;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • nuts.

How to make an open lemon pie:

  1. We take out the puff pastry from the packet and leave it to defrost.
  2. We chop the lemon pulp in a blender, and then put it in a pan, add sugar and simmer on the fire until the sand has completely melted.
  3. We roll out the base layer to the size of the pan, leaving a small margin at the edges.
  4. We spread the cut fruit on the dough, distribute the lemon syrup from above, wrap the hanging edges inside the pie. This will help the filling not to spread.
  5. We put the cake in the oven, and when it is ready, take out and sprinkle with crushed nuts.

On a note. Instead of nuts, you can use coconut or grated chocolate.

Secrets of making perfect toppings

To always make lemon pie delicious, you must adhere to the following rules when cooking:

  • use only ripened citruses, without signs of spoilage and rot;
  • rinse the lemons thoroughly, then soak in warm water before chopping them;
  • remove dough oil from the refrigerator in advance so that it can thaw naturally;
  • put a little bit of cinnamon and vanilla in the pastry, since lemons themselves have a bright taste and aroma;
  • Preheat the oven for at least a quarter of an hour before placing the pie in it.

Mistresses who will prepare lemon pie for the first time, it is better to strictly adhere to the recipe. And later you can make your own adjustments, and experiment with the ingredients, each time getting a new dessert option.

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