Mushrooms are a delicious and satisfying filling for pies. They go well with vegetables, herbs, meat, different types of dough. Therefore, lovers of these gifts of the forest can change baking recipes every time and delight themselves and loved ones with new tastes. To make the pies a success, it is important to select high-quality raw materials and properly prepare the filling.
How to cook mushrooms for pies
During the quiet hunting period - from spring to autumn - freshly picked forest mushrooms will be the best filling for pies. The best option would be filling from selected raw materials of the same type. You can mix different lamellar mushrooms for one baking (for example, honey mushrooms, chanterelles, russula), or only tubular (white, boletus, boletus). In winter, buy greenhouse mushrooms, oyster mushrooms.
The raw materials must be immediately sorted out, all debris removed, and washed. Most often, forest mushrooms are fried, stewed or boiled before filling the pies. It is also recommended to sauté greenhouses to make the cake more flavorful.
Dried mushrooms must be soaked, boiled and squeezed. Raw materials are cut into strips, mixed with onions and other vegetables to add juiciness to the filling. You can add calories, satiety to baked goods by mixing mushrooms with meat, sausage or ham, cheese.
Most often, yeast dough is made for closed pies according to the classic recipe, for open ones - shortbread or chopped. You can also make delicious mushroom puffs, quick jellied pies.
Yeast dough mushroom pie
Dissolve a pack of active dry yeast and a teaspoon of granulated sugar in 220 ml of warm milk. Add a pinch of table salt, half a cup of loose butter and a tablespoon of sunflower oil. Stir everything well.
Sift 3.5 cups of flour and gradually add small portions to the dough while stirring. Put the dough on a floured board, knead so that it does not stick to your hands, but remains soft and elastic. Leave warm for 45 minutes.
Peel 250 grams of selected mushrooms, rinse, dry and cut into slices of the same size. Chop the large onion freed from the husk into rings.
Heat a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil in a cast-iron pan, sauté the onion for 2 minutes, then combine it with the mushrooms. Fry the food, stirring it until the mushroom juice and oil have evaporated, then add spices to taste. Turn off the stove.
Roll out the dough into 2 layers, put one in a greased form and make the sides. Place the filling in the middle, smooth with a spoon and cover with a second circle of dough. Pinch the cake around the edges, you can make a round hole in the middle. Grease the pie with yolk, place in the oven heated to 190 ° C and cook for 40 minutes.
Simple mushroom pie
Greenhouse champignons can be easily obtained and processed quickly. For a simple mushroom pie, knead a dough of 250 grams of sifted flour, 150 grams of loose butter, a pinch of table salt and a couple of raw yolks. Put in the refrigerator compartment for a couple of hours, covered with cling film.
Peel a pound of champignons, wash, chop and mix with a couple of chopped onions. Simmer in melted butter over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Finely chop a bunch of fresh dill, mix with mushrooms. Add paprika and curry to taste.
Set aside a small amount of dough, roll the rest into a layer. Put in a dish lined with baking paper, cover with paper and put in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10-12 minutes.
Beat a couple of chicken eggs into a bowl, beat lightly with a broom, then mix with a glass of sour cream. Add salt and pepper to taste. Remove the baked dough from the oven, sprinkle with a layer of bread crumbs. Lay out the mushrooms, smooth with a spoon, cover with eggs and sour cream. Finely chop the set piece of dough by hand and sprinkle it over the top of the pie. Hold in the oven for another half hour.
Open shortcrust pastry pie with mushrooms
Sift one and a half cups of wheat flour into a bowl, mix with a pinch of salt. Put 90 grams of butter and finely chop with a knife, then manually mix very well with flour. Separate a couple of egg yolks, put them in a clean container and add three glasses of ice water. Beat.
Introduce the diluted yolks in a thin stream into a bowl of flour and butter, then knead the dough until it is smooth. Roll into a ball, put in a plastic bag and send to the refrigerator compartment for half an hour.
Peel, rinse with 350 grams of forest mushrooms, cut into strips. Simmer 2-3 chopped onions in a skillet under a lid in butter for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add mushrooms, a little thyme, simmer for another 15 minutes. Turn off the fire.
Roll out the cooled dough in a circle. Grease a form or baking sheet with vegetable oil, lay out a dough layer and make sides. Put baking paper on top. To keep the cake in shape, you can use a culinary trick: pour dry beans on the paper. Place the base of the pie in the oven at 190 ° C and bake for 25 minutes.
Remove the cake, remove the beans and baking paper. Set the oven temperature to 180 ° C, and hold the baked pie base in the room until it becomes warm. Place the stewed mushrooms on the cake.
Beat the egg into a separate container and add a couple of raw yolks, half a glass of 33-35% cream, salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything and pour the mushroom filling with the resulting mixture. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
Pizza pie with mushrooms and vegetables
Pour 125 ml of milk heated to 35 ° C into a small enamel saucepan or bowl. Stir a couple of tablespoons of sifted flour with a bag of dry yeast, pour into milk while stirring and keep the dough warm for 15 minutes.
After that, while stirring, sift 250 grams of flour into the dough, put 5 grams of granulated sugar, a pinch of salt. Pour in 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Beat the egg separately with a broom or fork, then add it to the dough and mix everything. Cover with a clean towel and let stand for half an hour.
Peel, wash, chop a pound of mushrooms and a couple of onions. Fry mushrooms in vegetable oil separately, onions - separately, then salt all the ingredients. Grease a baking sheet with oil and stretch the dough layer on it. Place the mushroom filling on it, then fry the onion.
In a bowl, beat a couple of eggs, mix with three tablespoons of sour cream and 0.5 cups of grated hard cheese. Season with salt to taste and pour the mixture over the pizza-pie.
Wash the pod of red bell pepper, remove the stalk and the middle with seeds. Grind into mugs. Cut 100 grams of sausage or ham into thin slices, then put together with pepper on the egg mixture. You can decorate baked goods with olives or olives. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C until golden brown, this is about half an hour.
Pouring pie with mushrooms and jerky
Peel the onion, 3 tomatoes, zucchini and carrots. Rinse well with 150 grams of champignons. Cut 200 grams of jerky into strips, chop the onion and sauté in olive oil for 5 minutes.
Chop zucchini into cubes, carrots - in semicircles, put in a roast. Add salt and pepper to taste and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes until vegetables are soft. Add mushrooms, cook with stirring for another 15 minutes. Allow the pie filling to cool.
Beat a couple of raw eggs into a bowl, mix with 0.5 cups of granulated sugar, a glass of 30-35% sour cream and 1.5 cups of sifted flour. Add 0.5 teaspoon of baking soda, slaked with vinegar. Knead the dough until smooth, similar to thick sour cream.
Grease a baking dish with oil, put the prepared filling in an even layer and pour over the dough. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
Mushrooms are successfully combined with rice, buckwheat, a variety of vegetables and spices. Specialized culinary magazines and websites, step-by-step recipes with photos and videos on the Internet will help you get new culinary skills. You can master many more interesting recipes for mushroom pies, including coming up with your own branded baked goods.
