Hearty pies: recipes with photos

Not sure what to cook for lunch or dinner? Or want to surprise your guests? How about hearty pies? This is a universal bakery, which is an ideal snack after there is no more strength left to try the main dishes. Or, if your guests are not particularly hungry, you can drink tea in the bite with a pie. Nobody has ever given up on such yummy!

Why pies?

This is a versatile dish for the joy of the hostess. This is a completely fantasy flight, because you can take absolutely any dough (yeast, shortbread, puff or even pita bread) and use any filling, starting from meat and fish and ending with fig jam.

And how many variations of cooking the pies themselves? They are both closed and open, and decorated with a lattice or crumbs of dough, with or without potatoes. In general, it all depends on you! And of course, you must consider the taste preferences of your guests. Find out in advance if anyone is allergic to fish or sweets.

In addition, pies are usually insanely nutritious and nutritious, so they can even be used as a main dish. Especially if it consists of meat and potatoes.

Now it's time to consider some recipes of hearty pies with various fillings and different dough.

Yeast dough pie

This cake will be open. Tomatoes should be added to it to make it more juicy. Let's learn the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 packs of yeast dough;
• 4-5 medium tomatoes;
• half a kilo of any stuffing;
• 50 grams of butter;
• about 300 grams of potatoes;
• 2 pcs. onions;
• 100 grams of hard cheese.

Cooking the pie:

1. Put the dough out of the freezer 2-3 hours before cooking. If you forgot to lay out the dough or it did not have time to defrost, then you can do it in the microwave. Set the mode "Defrost" for 2.5 minutes.
2. Defrost minced meat.
3. We put foil on a baking sheet and roll out our dough. We make small sides.
4. Wash and peel the onion. In a frying pan, fry it in butter.
5. Wash the potatoes thoroughly under running water, clean, remove the eyes. We cut the plates very thinly. Now salt and pepper.
6. We wash the tomatoes, remove the stalks and cut into plates.
7. Cheese must be grated.
8. We collect the pie as follows: first, a layer of potatoes, then a layer of minced meat (spread throughout the baking sheet with a spoon), lay the tomatoes on top. Sprinkle cheese with tomatoes.
9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and set to cook for 40 minutes.

Our hearty meat pie is ready. The filling will be juicy, and the crust should crunch. Serve it better hot.

Pancake with meat

Let's look at another very satisfying meat pie. It consists of pancakes and layers in the form of minced meat. Let's find out how to cook it.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of flour;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 5 chicken eggs;
• liter of milk;
• 60 ml of vegetable oil;
• a pinch of salt;
• 800 grams of minced meat;
• 150 grams of hard cheese;
• onion;
• 100 ml cream;
• butter.

Cooking pancakes and then stuffing:

1. We make pancake dough: beat eggs with sugar. Introduce gradually sifted flour, stirring the dough. Add milk there. Whisking with a whisk, pour the vegetable oil.
2. We take a ladle, scoop the dough and fry in a pan, greasing the bottom with vegetable oil with each new pancake. Fry pancakes in literally a minute on each side over medium heat.
3. Minced meat we fry in a pan with onions. Add two boiled eggs, previously chopped.
4. Using a blender, we make a paste of our minced meat fried with egg and onions.
5. Take a grater and three cheese.
6. We break the rest of the eggs and beat together with the cream in a blender. You can add some salt.
7. In a deep baking dish we put in layers: pancake, minced meat - several times. We coat each layer with butter.
8. As soon as our pancake floors are over, we pour our egg and cream mixture on our cake. Sprinkle the top with grated cheese.
9. Then we cover the pie with foil and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Then we remove the foil and cook another ten minutes.

Our interesting pie is ready to serve. We hope that it will surprise your guests not only visually!

Potato pie with meat

For lovers of potatoes, this cake is almost sacred. On the table it is taken apart in a flash! It must be prepared as follows:

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of pork;
• 100 grams of potatoes;
• 50 grams of green onions;
• 150 grams of sour cream (non-greasy);
• 70 ml of milk;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• a pack of butter;
• 2 cups of flour;
• a bunch of dill;
• pepper and salt.

Cooking our potato pie:

1. Break the egg into a bowl with sour cream.
2. The butter cooled in the freezer is grated in a bowl. Now stir everything.
3. We gradually introduce the flour, continuing to stir. Pour in salt.
4. Knead the dough, put in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
5. We boil the pork and cut it into cubes.
6. Rinse and peel potatoes thoroughly. Cut into small cubes.
7. Combine potatoes, onions and meat. Salt and leave.
8. Preparing the fill: take another container and mix milk, sour cream, eggs there. This mixture must be salt and pepper, then add chopped dill. Stir gently.
9. Put parchment paper in the baking dish. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and distribute along the bottom of the mold, forming high sides. We put our stuffing from meat and potatoes and fill it with a liquid mixture (pouring) of sour cream, milk and eggs.
10. We put the oven at 200 degrees and cook for about an hour.

It needs to be cooked for about two hours. An hour will be spent only on baking. But believe me, it's worth it! Your guests will be crazy about this hearty potato pie.

Ossetian meat pie

Everyone should try this pie. It is prepared on kefir or ayran. Choose a dairy product for the test according to your taste preferences.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of flour;
• a glass of kefir (ayran);
• 2 teaspoons of dry yeast;
• soda;
• 3 tablespoons rast. oils;
• butter;
• salt;
• 400 grams of ground beef;
• 1 PC. onions;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• pepper;
• 5 sprigs of cilantro.

Cooking Ossetian hearty kefir pie:

1. We make the dough: add soda to kefir (extinguish it with kefir).
2. Add yeast and salt to the flour. Pour kefir with soda.
3. Add vegetable oil.
4. Knead the dough, cover with a towel and leave it for half an hour until it suits.
5. Now we are preparing our meat filling. Add the pepper, onion, coriander, garlic to the minced meat. It should turn out sharp with us.
6. Divide the dough into five parts. We roll each into a round layer. In the center of each of them we lay out the filling and pinch the edges. We roll it so that we get round cakes, inside of which there is meat. In the center, be sure to pierce the dough so that the steam can escape.
7. In the oven at 180 degrees bake about 40 minutes of tortilla.
8. Each cake is put on another after we get them out of the oven. Lubricate with melted butter.

Fish pie

Now we will tell you how to cook a hearty fish pie from yeast dough. And it is nutritious because it also includes potatoes.

Ingredients:

• 2 packs of yeast purchase dough;
• 2 cans of canned fish;
• 2 pcs. potatoes;
• 150 grams of hard cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 1 PC. onions;
• salt pepper.

We prepare our dish as follows:

1. Rinse and peel the potatoes. Cut into thin slices. Pour boiling water over them for three minutes. Then drain and pour cold. Potatoes will not have time to change their color.
2. Defrost the dough 2-3 hours before cooking. If you forget about it, then you can heat it in the microwave in the “Defrost” mode for about two and a half minutes.
3. Roll out the dough and place in a baking sheet, previously greased with vegetable oil. Do not forget to make sides.
4. Open canned fish and drain excess liquid. Mash fish with a fork.
5. Chop onion and combine with fish. This spread is spread over the whole dough.
6. Next we have to lay a layer of potatoes.
7. Break the eggs into a container. Three cheese on a medium grater and add to the eggs. Mix.
8. Pour the cheese mixture over the pie.
9. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the cake to cook for forty minutes.

Hearty fish pie made from yeast dough is ready. You don’t even have to cook something extra for him. You and your guests are definitely fed up with even one middle bite!

Ham and cheese pie

It's time to make a hearty puff pastry ham pie. It is very similar to the taste of puffs with the same ingredients that can now be found in almost every cafe, bakery, supermarket or hypermarket. Let's make our pie from the purchased dough:

Ingredients:

• 2 packs of puff pastry (from the store);
• 200 grams of cheese (hard or semi-hard);
• 200 grams of ham;
• pepper.

Cooking our pastries:

1. Thaw the dough at room temperature in advance (or do it with a microwave). Roll it and divide into two equal parts.
2. We cut the cheese into strips.
3. Grind the ham in the form of sticks.
4. We grease our baking sheet with vegetable oil and put the first layer of dough there, distributing it around the entire perimeter.
5. Spread the ham and cheese, pepper.
6. Cover the filling with a second layer of dough and pinch the edges.
7. In some places it is better to pierce the dough so that air can escape. You can do this with a toothpick.
8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Cooking the cake for about 25 minutes. Check the readiness of the dough by piercing it with a toothpick. If it came out dry, then you can take out the cake.

The pie will especially appeal to children and those who love cheese and everything related to it.

Pita pie with mushrooms and cheese

Did you know that you don’t have to worry about making dough, but make pita bread, which you can buy at almost any grocery store. So, we are preparing our interesting pastries:

Ingredients:

• 2 large sheets of pita bread;
• 500 grams of any mushrooms;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 200 ml cream (non-greasy);
• 200 grams of cheese (solid or semi-solid);
• pepper, salt;
• 2 cloves of garlic.

The cooking method is as follows:

1. Wash and peel the onion. Cut it any way you like.
2. Mushrooms cut. Now you need to fry them with onions for about 5 minutes until golden brown.
3. Break eggs in a bowl, add seasoning and cream. Whisk everything with a whisk.
4. On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, we first put one layer of pita bread, and then another on it, but turning the sheet 90 degrees. So that they lie perpendicular to each other.
5. Put some mushrooms right in the middle, sprinkle them with cheese now. Water a little with our egg-cream mixture.
6. Wrap the top sheet of pita bread with an envelope (in any way, but so that the filling is not visible).
7. Then put the remaining mushrooms on the top pita bread. Sprinkle with cheese and water the filling a little again with filling. Wrap the second (lower) pita bread.
8. Pour the top of our pie with plenty of fill.
9. Put in the oven at 180 degrees for half an hour to bake.
10. In the context, it looks like a regular layer cake. Serve hot so that the cheese does not have time to harden.

Agree, a very original recipe for a hearty pita pie. He will especially enjoy those who like to eat mushrooms in combination with cheese.

Puff pastry pie with tomato and brie cheese

If the brie cheese is cooked, it will become very tender and melted. It makes the cake deliciously delicious! And tomatoes give the pastries juiciness. In general, let's quickly consider the recipe and prepare a hearty pie:

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of brie cheese (whole head);
• 250 grams of cherry tomatoes;
• a pack of puff pastry (without yeast);
• green onions;
• 1 egg
• salt pepper.

Cooking the pie:

1. From the rolled dough, cut 2 circles with a plate. Moisten a baking sheet with cold water and put one of the circles there.
2. We put brie cheese in the center. Around it we lay cherry tomatoes around the perimeter.
3. We put any greens directly on the cheese (onion, parsley, cilantro).
4. The second layer of dough we cover cheese with tomatoes.
5. Fasten the edges of the dough. Beat the egg in a bowl and beat with a fork. Lubricate the top layer of the pie.
6. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees and set the baked pie for 20 minutes. Serve necessarily hot!

Life hacks when baking

To make the baking perfect, you must follow these recommendations:

1. To make the baking more magnificent, sift the flour through a sieve.
2. When making pancake dough, be sure to add a little vegetable oil directly to the liquid mass. So you do not have to grease the pan with oil every time.
3. To prevent yeast dough from sticking to your hands, grease them with vegetable oil or roll in flour.
4. Make sure that the dishes in which you make the dough are absolutely clean. So that it does not absorb other odors.

conclusions

So, we have reviewed step by step recipes with photos of hearty pies. I hope you enjoyed them. Do not be afraid to experiment in the kitchen. Diversify the diet of your family!