A popular dried fruit like prunes can be used in both sweet and savory pies. Let's make a sweet prune and chocolate pie, as well as a prune and rabbit pie.
Pie with prunes and chocolate
You will need:
- butter - 300 g;
- wheat flour - 250 g;
- sour cream - 200 ml;
- sugar - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc;
- rum - 1, 5 tsp;
- vanilla extract - 1.5 tsp;
- self-rising flour - 50 g;
- cocoa powder - 1.5 tsp;
- prunes - 1 handful;
- walnut - 70 g.
First, you need to prepare a sour cream cake: for this, combine flour, 200 g of cold butter and grind into crumbs, then add 120 ml of sour cream and form a small ball out of the dough, which must be wrapped with cling film and sent to the refrigerator for 25-30 minutes.
After the indicated time, remove the dough, remove the foil and roll the ball over the entire area. It is necessary to bake this dough base in the oven at 200 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
At the time when the sour cream cake is baked, it is necessary to prepare the filling. For the filling, take 100 g of butter, a chicken egg and 80 ml of sour cream, also add rum, vanilla extract. To prevent the filling from being too watery, you need to add a little self-rising flour and cocoa powder.
The prepared sour cream base must be combined with chopped walnuts, and then poured into the cooled shortbread cake from above.
Spread the well-washed prunes on the cake.
Pie with prunes and chocolate should be baked in the oven at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
Pie with prunes and rabbit
You will need:
- rabbit - 2 kg;
- prunes - 1 handful;
- lemon - 2 pcs.;
- butter - 30 g;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- wheat flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
- puff pastry - 1 pack;
- thyme - 2 tbsp. l.;
- olive oil - 30 ml;
- pancetta - 3 slices;
- chicken broth - 250 ml;
- parsley.
Rinse the prunes, then pour over the lemon juice squeezed from two lemons, put in the microwave for 2 minutes.
At this time, cut the rabbit carcass and cut into small pieces, pour the rabbit meat with olive oil, add salt, pepper, thyme and lemon zest.
Fry the pancetta and meat, finely chopped onions in a frying pan.
Then combine the ingredients of both frying pans, pour it all over with broth and simmer until the liquid has evaporated by half.
Next, you need to add flour, chopped prunes and parsley. You have prepared the filling.
Take the puff pastry base, lay out the filling and cover with the second half of the dough on top, brush with butter and send to the oven for 30 minutes to bake at 200 degrees.
