Suluguni cheese pies are extremely popular in the Caucasus. As a rule, they are prepared from puff pastry. The advantage of this type of cheese is that you don't need to add anything else to the filling. It has enough salt and spices add nothing to its characteristic taste.
It is necessary
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- flour;
- water;
- sulguni cheese;
- butter;
- oven and kitchen utensils.
Instructions
Step 1
To make pies with suluguni cheese, you can, of course, buy puff pastry in the store. But it's better to do it yourself. For classic puff pastry, use flour and butter in a 1: 1 ratio. Knead flour with water to make a soft dough. The oil should be kept in the refrigerator at this time.
Step 2
Roll out a thin cake. The thinner the sheet is, the more layers you can make, and the quality of the puff pastry is determined precisely by their number. Virtuosos of the culinary arts manage to make up to two hundred layers and more. In an ordinary kitchen, it is unlikely that it will be possible to create such a masterpiece, but try to ensure that the cake is thin and approximately the same thickness over the entire area.
Step 3
Place a piece of butter in the middle. Wrap the edges of the cake over it on all sides. Roll everything together into a rectangle. Better to make it thinner. Fold what you get three times. Divide the rectangle into 3 pieces in width by eye. Fold one side over the middle, then the other. Fold the resulting strip in half, also in width. Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour.
Step 4
Remove the strip and place it on the table with the short, open cuts to your right and left. Roll out the layer across the width, then along the length. You will get a long rectangle, which you need to fold again in three times, then in half, cool and roll out. Repeat the procedure 3-4 more times. In this form, the dough can be stored for several days.
Step 5
Before baking the pies, roll out what you have done into a cake of the desired thickness. Cut it into squares. Prepare the suluguni cheese filling - just rub it. The amount of cheese is equal to the amount of flour. If you add 1-2 raw eggs to the filling, it will be softer and more tender. It is more convenient to grate cheese on a coarse grater.
Step 6
Stick pies. They can be made both in the form of classic pies, sealed with a "pigtail" on top, and in the form of small triangles. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour to prevent the baked goods from sticking, and place the patties. Bake them in the oven at 230 ° C for 15 minutes.
