The unique taste of sweet and sour sorrel pies will leave few people indifferent. Healthy greens with a characteristic taste are especially relevant after a long winter, when a new harvest of vegetables and fruits has not yet ripened in the beds. Anyone, even an inexperienced cook, can pamper home-made fragrant pastries. There are various sorrel pie recipes, and you can master some of the quickest and easiest to get started.
Lazy Sorrel Pie
Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 ° C. Prepare sorrel (200 g): rinse it in running water and hold it in a colander to glass the liquid. After that, chop the greens without stalks and transfer to a baking dish, having previously greased it with vegetable oil.
Whisk 3 eggs and 200 g granulated sugar to create a fluffy, stable foam. Introduce a glass of sifted wheat flour in a thin stream with constant stirring and add a tablespoon of brandy. Knead the dough well and pour over the filling.
This sorrel pie recipe is really quick - just hold the baking dish in a preheated oven for half an hour (by this time the baked goods will brown) and the dish is ready! Place it upside down on a low plate and serve with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
Quick sorrel patties
A simple recipe for yeast dough for sorrel pies will help you quickly cope with cooking and delight your family with a delicious dinner. To do this, prepare a dough: dilute a tablespoon of fast-acting yeast in 300 ml of warm, but not hot milk (34-40 ° C). Dissolve 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar in this mixture, then add 3 tablespoons of sifted wheat flour while stirring.
Keep container warm for 15 minutes. When the dough for sorrel pies rises, add 5 g of table salt and 7 tablespoons of vegetable oil to it. Add flour in small portions (about 3 cups total) until the dough sticks to your hands. However, it shouldn't be too cool!
Keep it for 15-20 minutes. warm, and while it rises, finely chop the washed sorrel. When baking, the greens will boil down a lot, but it is not recommended to specially reduce the filling volume by pouring boiling water over it - sorrel pies will not be so juicy.
Form the tortillas to be the same size. Pinch each on one side and stuff with sorrel, gently crushing the greens with your fingers. Add a pinch of sugar to the filling and fasten the edges of the blanks very tightly so that the juice does not leak out and burn during the baking process. Sorrel pies prepared according to this recipe can be fried on both sides in vegetable oil until golden brown or put in the oven (temperature 200 ° C) on a greased baking sheet for 30 minutes.
