Russian cuisine is simply impossible to imagine without pies with a variety of fillings. The pie is a small pie stuffed with meat, fish, berries, jam and jam, vegetables and fruits. A huge number of options. The pie is a great snack. You can grab it on the run, throw it in your mouth and not feel hunger for quite a long time. Unsweetened pie can be served for lunch or dinner. This is a great alternative to bread.
But one of the most popular and favorite is a pie with potatoes. The calorie content of this dish, as well as other "cookies", of course, scares those who follow proper nutrition or "sit" on a strict diet. But, as nutritionists say, pie pie is discord. Everything will depend on the method of preparation.
So let's see what kind of baking is more healthy, tasty. What to choose for yourself a pie with potatoes, the calorie content of which would not frighten and not give the next morning negative emotions when looking at the scales.
Pie - a treat for children and vegetarians
In the world there are thousands of recipes for making pies. Sweet cakes are certainly a favorite treat for kids. In childhood, the question is not so important for us: “Can I eat a pie with potatoes for dinner ? Calorie 1 pc. - how much is? Would it hurt the figure? ” Children do not care, and the children need calories, because they spend a lot of them, unlike some adults.
Pies with vegetable fillings are perfect for those who follow a diet or adhere to vegetarianism. If you prepare the dough correctly and add not fatty meat filling, but, say, stewed cabbage or boiled potatoes, then the pies will be a very affordable dish for the diet.
The composition and method of cooking pies
As we have already said, depending on the type of dough and the composition of the filling, the calorie content of the dish will also change. If you follow proper nutrition, then be sure to consider this fact. People with obesity should give up pies with fatty meat fillings and yeast dough. In addition, do not eat fried baked goods in oil.
The average calorific value is 250 kcal per hundred grams of baking. If this is a pie with fruit filling - calories 240 kcal per hundred grams. If this is a pie with potatoes - a calorie content of 235 kcal. For pies with meat filling, calorie content will be increased by at least ten kilocalories per hundred grams - 260-276.
The difference will be quite significant depending on the type of preparation. Take for example pastries cooked in an oven. Pies with potatoes in the oven - calories 230-235 kcal, pies with apple filling in the oven - 175 kcal, with cottage cheese - 206 kcal, with fish filling - calories 176-180 kcal.
Now compare the same pastries, only prepared by immersion in liters of boiling oil. Fried pies with cabbage - 263 kcal. Cooked pies with potatoes by frying - calorie content per 100 grams 276. Even the calorie pies with berry or fruit fillings increases significantly. If the baked pie with apples is 175 kcal per hundred grams of the dish, then the fried version will be an order of magnitude larger - 207 kcal. Feel the difference.
Pastry dough
Affects the calorie pies and dough, which is wrapped in the filling. Butter and puff pastry are, of course, considered the most high-calorie ones. In one there is a lot of flour and yeast, sugar, in the other - flour and butter, without which it is simply impossible to cook a delicious puff pastry. Also, pies can be made from unleavened, shortbread, custard dough.
Refuse fried pies
No matter how tasty the patties fried in butter may seem to you, any dietitian will recommend that you refuse them. Delicious? Yes. Is it helpful? Of course not!
In addition to the fact that the use of fried pies will negatively affect the state of your figure, it will also respond to the state of your health. Not only is the calorie content of the baked potato pie lower, but the health benefits of using such baked goods are also greater.
Fried pastries should not be consumed for several reasons:
- As a result of frying, free radicals are formed that harm our body, leading to heart problems, causing atherosclerosis of blood vessels.
- Fatty foods will always have a negative effect on the gastrointestinal tract. Constant heartburn, constipation and heaviness in the stomach, a feeling of bloating and pain in the stomach.
- Even cancer can only develop from the fact that you often consumed fried pies in butter. It is especially scary when oil is used repeatedly, as is done in most roadside cafes or low-quality food service centers.
Replace fried pastries with baked ones. What will happen?
- As a result of the effect of heat on the yeast, energy is released, which later the pies will "share" with you. A yeast stick is able to normalize digestion. It also contributes to the normalization of the intestines, improves the state of microflora in the stomach and intestines.
- For example, a baked pie with potatoes, whose calorific value will be low, will never negatively affect the figure. The nutrients found in potatoes or any other vegetable fillings will only be beneficial. When frying pies in the oven, nutrients are not lost. The body feels only good, immunity improves and resistance to various colds increases.
- Baked cake is an excellent means of snacking or even a full meal for schoolchildren, active children and adults involved in sports. These are the right calories that are quickly spent and give energy.
Pie instead of bread
Do you think it is unrealistic to replace high-calorie brown bread with the same high-calorie pies? As it turned out, nutritionists are even advised to do this. If you choose the “right” low-calorie dough and add the “right” healthy stuffing there, then the pie can easily replace the bread on the table. And it will be, it must be said, an order of magnitude more useful.
For example, in the autumn period, in order to increase immunity, experts advise eating pies with pumpkin, lemon filling or berry (black currant, lingonberry). For people who lead an active lifestyle, bread can be replaced with pies with protein filling. This can be a boiled chicken egg, low-fat cottage cheese, boiled chicken meat.