Both adults and children like pies. What can you bake pies with in Lent?
Lenten pies are a great idea for a weekend snack or dinner.
Here are some recipe ideas that you and your family will love:
· Pumpkin and onion filling. Peel the pumpkin and cut it into cubes. Chop the onion finely. There should be a lot of onions, so the cake will be tastier. Mix vegetables, salt and pepper to taste. This filling can be used for closed cakes or for grilled pie.
· Pie with dried fruits. Soak dried fruits in a little boiling water. When they are tender, grind them using a blender and add some jam.
· Onion pies. Finely chop the onion, fry it in vegetable oil. With such a filling, it is good to sculpt small pies and serve them with lean cabbage soup or borscht.
· Pea filling. Rinse the peas, soak them in plenty of water. Boil until soft, season with salt. The resulting puree should not be runny. Chop the onion finely, fry in oil until golden brown.
· Filling with carrots and dried fruits. Cut carrots into thin strips, soak dried fruits in boiling water and cut. Stew the carrots in a little water, add dried fruits. Allow excess liquid to drain.
· Potatoes with mushrooms. Boil and mash the potatoes. Chop the onion finely, sauté in oil and add the chopped mushrooms. Stew the mushrooms and add the potatoes to the filling.
· Apples with nuts. Peel and dice sweet and sour apples. Add chopped walnuts, cinnamon and sugar to taste, stir.
· Sweet bean filling. This unusual filling is very popular in Japan. Soak red beans in water, boil until soft. Mash the beans and add sugar to taste. Add a teaspoon of vegetable oil to the finished filling.
· A good idea for a festive table is a kulebyak with several fillings. Prepare several fillings, for example, rice (boil until tender), oyster mushrooms (finely chop mushrooms and onions, stew) and cabbage (chop, stew until tender). Bake thin, lean pancakes. The diameter of the pancakes should be the same as the diameter of the cake. Roll the dough onto a pie and place the driest filling (in our case, rice) on it, cover it with a pancake, on which place the second filling. Also cover it with a pancake. Cover the pancake with the third filling, the juiciest one. Cover the cake with dough and bake. During baking, the juice from the top fillings will saturate the whole kulebyaka, making it tender and juicy.
Use these filling recipes and you are sure to get delicious pies.
