Favorite Retro Pies - Subtleties In Preparation

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Do you miss home-cooked meals from childhood? No matter how wide the range of goods in the shops, they are not exactly as we remember them from the past. And what about your favorite pies? We can try them less and less.

And while you can still find them here and there in various dineries that continue to prepare them, the recipe for retro pies it must remain a family value.

With its traditional elongated shape, with a pleasant tan on the outside and a fluffy texture with filling on the inside, fluffy homemade pies are something you should not deprive your children and loved ones of.

There is a solution - make retro pies yourself!! It's not as hard as you think.

The dough for retro pies

Products:

milk - 300 g

May - 11 g dry

salt - 1/2 tsp.

sugar - 1 tsp.

flour 3 tsp.

oil - 50 ml

Method of preparation:

Photo: Iliana Dimova

Heat the milk to 40 ° C. Add yeast, salt, sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour. Mix well and set aside for 20 minutes.

Then pour the oil and add all the remaining flour.

The dough should be firm but not firm. Add a little more flour if necessary.

Cover the dough with cling film and set aside for 40 minutes. Knead the dough once more and cover again for 40 minutes.

Then roll out the dough into circles, fill with filling, fasten the edges.

The pies can be fried or baked in the oven. If you choose the second option, leave them for 20 minutes, then spread with egg yolk and bake for 30 minutes at 180 ° C.

Stuffings for retro pies

Photo: Hristinka Koleva

The filling must be added to the dough necessarily cold. The filling is the same for both fried and baked pies. There are sweets (with fresh fruit, chocolate filling, jam and jams, vanilla cream) and savory pies (potatoes, meat, fish, chicken, rice, eggs, etc.)

Ideas for retro pies

Pies with egg and green onions

Boil 7 hard-boiled eggs (10 minutes after boiling). Peel and cut into cubes. Chop a few green onion stalks. Mix them and season with salt and pepper

Pies with minced meat

Grate 1 carrot and chop 1 onion. Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil. Add 500 g of minced meat and fry until soft. Season with salt and pepper. When the pies are full, add a piece of butter to each one to make them juicy.

Potato pies

Boil potatoes (4-5 pcs.). Mash them in mashed potatoes. Fry a head of finely chopped onion in vegetable oil, add a little oil and mix with the puree.

Apple pies

Cut the apples into small pieces (4-5 pcs.). Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Stir well.