Pies made from curd dough are very tender and airy. As a filling, you can use an egg with herbs, minced meat, boiled rice, apples (and other fruits). Pies can not only be baked in the oven, but also fried in a skillet.
To make a dough for pies, you will need: 300 g of cottage cheese, 2, 5 tbsp. flour, 4 tbsp. sour cream (10%), 1 egg, salt, 2 tbsp. rast. butter, 1 tsp. soda. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, add soda, sour cream, salt, stir thoroughly. Then pour in the vegetable oil, egg, a glass of flour and mix everything again. Add the rest of the flour gradually, kneading the mixture with your hands. The resulting dough should be soft and slightly sticky to your hands. Cover it with a towel and let it sit for 30 minutes.
If the dough is very sticky, add a little flour, if it is not elastic enough, add a little sunflower oil.
Try making puff curd dough. Products: 300 g flour, 300 g cottage cheese, 200 g margarine, salt. Rub the cottage cheese until smooth, chop the margarine with a knife, mix with flour, salt and knead the dough. Roll it into a ball, place in a bowl and refrigerate overnight. Roll the dough into a layer before baking, roll it several times and roll it out again. Repeat 3-4 times. Then you can shape the patties.
It is convenient to cook puff pastry from cottage cheese in the evening in order to bake pies for breakfast in the morning.
To make a dough from cottage cheese for fried pies, you will need: 500 g of cottage cheese, 40 g of sugar, 4 eggs, 500 g of flour, salt, 0.5 tsp. soda, slaked with vinegar. Beat eggs with sugar, add salt and stir. Grind the curd through a sieve or beat it with a blender and combine with the eggs. Add the soda quenched with vinegar, add flour and knead the dough. Leave it on for 40 minutes, covered with a towel.
For fried pies, you can make kefir curd dough. You will need: 200 g of cottage cheese, 2 eggs, 500 g of flour, 1 tbsp. sugar, 200 ml of kefir, salt, 2 tbsp. sunflower. butter, 1 tsp. soda. Combine cottage cheese with eggs, pour in kefir, butter, add sugar, salt. Whisk until smooth. Sift flour into a bowl, add soda, combine it with curd-kefir mass, replace the dough. Cover it and let it sit for 15 minutes.
Make an egg and green onion pie filling. You will need: 5 eggs, dill, green onions, spices, salt. Boil hard-boiled eggs, chill, peel and chop finely. Add finely chopped dill and onion, salt, black pepper and mix well. To prepare a sweet filling you will need: 2 tbsp. sugar, 30 g raisins, 2 apples, vegetable oil. Wash apples, peel and seeds, cut into small pieces. Rinse the raisins, pour boiling water over and let stand for 10 minutes. Drain water, add sugar and apples, stir.
Shape the patties. Divide the dough into small pieces. Mash each piece into a small round cake, put the filling in the middle. You can roll a "sausage" from the dough and cut it into pieces of the required length. Hold the edges of the dough together. Place the patties on a greased baking sheet. Grease the top of the pies with yolk. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and place the baking sheet with pies for 20-25 minutes. Cook fried pies in a skillet heated with vegetable oil. Lay them seam down, fry on 2 sides until golden brown.
