Pies with meat is an original Russian dish, which is a symbol of family comfort and well-being. They can be eaten on the road, eat as an independent dish or snacks for hot drinks and first courses.

Classic oven-baked meat pies

Pies are considered ideal, which retain splendor even after cooling.

To create a culinary product with a crisp and juicy filling, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

  • flour - 650 g;
  • water - 200 ml;
  • lard - 100 g;
  • oil (drain) - 250 g;
  • vinegar - 15 ml;
  • egg - 3 pcs.;
  • meat (optional) - 600 g;
  • onions - 150 g;
  • sugar - 10 g;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

The preparation of beautiful golden-colored pies consists of the following stages:

  1. The flour is sieved in a deep dish and mixed with softened butter.
  2. The dough is kneaded until smooth with 2 eggs, sugar, salt, water and vinegar.
  3. The finished mass is wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  4. The washed pulp is boiled and chopped into small pieces.
  5. Chopped onions are fried and mixed with meat and finely chopped pieces of lard.
  6. Everything is salted and peppered.
  7. The dough is divided into equal pieces, which are rolled into thin cakes.
  8. The filling is laid out on one half, and the second is covered.
  9. The formed pies are greased with an egg and laid out on a greased baking sheet, which is sent to the oven for 30 minutes with a temperature of 200 ° C.

Add rice to the filling

 

Pies with meat and rice are no less tasty, but much more satisfying. When cooking, you can use the basic recipe, supplementing it only with the introduction of 200 g of boiled rice into the filling.

In a slow cooker

There are times when there is no oven at hand, but I really want to treat yourself and your household to homemade meat pies. A multicooker will come to the rescue. Pies are prepared according to the basic recipe, just baking is carried out in a greased bowl of the multicooker in the “Baking” mode for 30 minutes, while after 15 minutes the products turn over.

Butter dough option

 

Another way to give meat patties a special twist. Butter pies with meat, which are prepared according to the same algorithm as described in the basic recipe, can become a favorite breakfast or snack during the work day. With a standard filling, only the dough changes - when creating a culinary product, a rich yeast dough of 750 g flour, 250 ml milk, 2 eggs, 100 g butter, 200 g sugar, 10 g dry yeast and a pinch of salt is used.

How to cook in Tatar

A distinctive feature of oriental pies is the filling, which is never thermally processed before laying, which makes the product more juicy. Regardless of which dough is used for the Tatar dish - rich, yeast, fresh, the main requirement is softness.

To get 12 pies you will need:

  • dough - 500 g;
  • meat - 400 g;
  • onions - 150 g;
  • potatoes - 100 g;
  • oil (drain) - 50 g;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

To cook Tatar pies with meat and potatoes:

  1. Washed meat is chopped.
  2. The peeled onion is divided into 4 parts, each of which is cut into strips.
  3. Potato slices are also cut into strips, from which small cubes should then be made.
  4. All components of the filling are mixed, salted and seasoned.
  5. The sausage-shaped dough is divided into equal pieces of 50 g, each of which is rolled out.
  6. The filling is laid out in the center, after which the edges are glued together.
  7. Products are formed in Tatar - with a hole in the middle.
  8. The formed pies are laid out on a baking sheet and sent to the oven preheated to 190 ° C.
  9. After 15 minutes, the pan is removed.
  10. A piece of oil is laid out in the hole of each product, and 1 teaspoon of water is poured.
  11. The baking sheet returns to the oven, where the pies are baked until cooked for about half an hour.

Advice! If you need to get more filling, then you can increase the volume fraction of potatoes to a ratio with meat 1: 1.

Pan-Fried Pies

Tasty and very tasty pies are obtained in a pan. Fried in large quantities of oil, they perfectly satisfy hunger without additional dishes.

Prepared from a standard patty food set:

  • yeast dough (uncooked) - 400 g;
  • minced meat - 200 g;
  • onions - 100 g;
  • oil (pods.) - for frying;
  • salt, pepper - to taste.

The cooking process is simple:

  1. Chopped onions are sautéed in sunflower oil until transparent, after which minced meat is laid out in the pan.
  2. The filling is fried until cooked, salted and seasoned.
  3. After the filling has cooled, flat cakes are formed from the dough, in the center of which it is placed.
  4. The pies are molded in the form of dumplings and slightly flattened.
  5. Products are laid out in hot oil with a seam down and fried on both sides for 2-3 minutes.

Puff pastry recipe

Puff pastry with meat is cooked very quickly.

The main thing is to have at hand:

  • puff pastry - 900 g;
  • meat - 600 g;
  • onions - 150 g;
  • oil (pods.) - for frying;
  • salt, pepper - to taste.

To treat yourself to pastries and not spend a lot of time on its preparation, you must:

  1. Chopped onions are fried until tender, salted, peppered and laid out in a bowl.
  2. The meat is passed through a meat grinder, salted, seasoned, fried and placed after being prepared for onion.
  3. After mixing, the filling is obtained.
  4. Circles with a diameter of 8 cm are cut out of the rolled dough.
  5. The filling is placed on one circle, and it is covered by the second.
  6. After the edges are well plucked, the pies are ready for frying in boiling oil.
  7. After frying, the items are laid out on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

With the addition of cheese in a pan

 

Thanks to the cheese, the traditional taste of meat pies can add juiciness, aroma and spicy flavor notes. To achieve this, it is enough to include in the meat filling from a basic recipe 200 g of hard grated cheese.

Potato pies with meat

An economical, nutritious and non-standard dish that is served as an independent second.

To surprise family members with an unconventional dish, you need:

  • potatoes - 800 g;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • onions - 200 g (2 pcs.);
  • flour - 70 g;
  • meat - 500 g;
  • oil (pods.) - for frying;
  • breadcrumbs;
  • salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Potatoes are boiled together with a whole onion.
  2. From the prepared potatoes, onions, flour and eggs, a dough is prepared, which is then salted and seasoned.
  3. The chopped second onion and minced meat with salt and pepper are fried in a pan.
  4. When the filling is ready, flat cakes are formed from potato, in the center of which the filling is placed and wrapped.
  5. Products are rolled in breadcrumbs, laid out in hot oil and fried in a pan until golden brown.

So, meat pies are made from yeast, puff and even pastry. They can be baked or fried in a pan. And each housewife, experimenting with different cooking ideas, eventually creates her own recipe.

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