Fillings for pies are sweet, meat, fish, vegetable, cheese, mushroom - you can use almost any product. With a little improvisation, you will get a tasty and original treat from ordinary products.
Sweet pie fillings
Fillings for sweet pies can be made with curd, berry, fruit. For the cottage cheese filling you will need 500 g of cottage cheese, 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, add sugar, an egg and mix. With this filling, pies are made from puff or yeast dough.
Pies with apple filling are loved by many. Peel apples (500 g) from the core and peel, cut into pieces, preferably smaller, cover with sugar (100 g), add a little water and boil until soft. Add cinnamon to taste.
In May – June, you can make pies with vitamin sorrel and rhubarb filling. Take 1 kg of rhubarb stalks, 1 tbsp. sugar, ½ teaspoon of cinnamon. Peel the stems, rinse, cut into cubes. Place on a sheet and place in the oven to soften. Wipe the finished rhubarb, combine with sugar, put in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. The filling should resemble jam.
Have you tried sweet bean pies? Prepare, you will not regret it. Boil beans (200 g), grind in a meat grinder or blender. Add 3 tbsp. tablespoons with top sugar, 50 g cream, 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed poppy. Mix everything thoroughly. Fancy fillings aren't just sweet.
Original fillings from simple products
For those who like to experiment in the kitchen, a recipe for tomato filling. Remove the seeds from the tomato (300 g), cut them into small cubes. Add 1 large onion, salt and pepper to the tomatoes. With filling, both fried pies and a closed pie baked in the oven are good.
Pies stuffed with fried pickles turn out to be awesomely tasty. It is very simple to prepare: cut pickled cucumbers into strips or cubes and fry with onions. You can add potatoes or rice porridge, or eggs to cucumbers.
Hearty pies stuffed with buckwheat porridge with beef or pork liver. You will need ½ cup of cereals, 300 g of liver, 100 g of ghee, 2 onions, salt, pepper. Rinse buckwheat and cook porridge. Chop the liver and fry for 2-3 minutes. Fry the onions separately. Make minced meat from liver and onion. Mix porridge with minced liver, season with melted butter, salt and pepper.
Egg and onion pies are good. In winter, green onions can replace onions or leeks. Cut 200 g of onion and fry until you have a characteristic aroma. Stir with crushed breadcrumbs (2 tablespoons), add finely chopped hard eggs (3 pcs.), Salt, herbs, pour 3-4 tablespoons of broth so that the filling becomes plastic.
Having mastered these fillings, you can pleasantly surprise both family and guests.
