It is very pleasant to feel the aroma of baking at home. It is especially nice when it smells of freshly prepared fish pie. His recipes are quite simple and should be noted by any housewife, moreover, the cooking process will not take her much time.
Classic fish and potato pie recipe
The cake consists of two parts conditionally - this is the filling and the dough. Each part needs its own ingredients.
Necessary components for the test:
- Half a liter of clean water.
- Wheat white flour - about two mugs.
- Yeast - about five grams.
- Sugar with salt (in equal proportions) - five grams.
- Sunflower oil - four tablespoons.
For internal filling, you should take these components:
- Onion head.
- White fish fillet (pangasius, pollock, perch) - 2-3 pieces.
- Potato - seven medium pieces.
- Pepper and salt.
Stages of cooking:
- Pour water into a deep dish, add salt and sugar. Stir and add more flour, butter and yeast. After these actions, the resulting dough must be set aside, it should rise.
- While the dough is growing, you can cook the filling. White fish should be properly chopped, and potatoes cut into circles, preferably thinner. You should also chop large onion, mix all the components with salt and pepper.
- When the dough rises, you need to take part of it and roll it out to create a base that you need to put in a special baking dish or on a baking sheet. Place the filling on top and spread over the entire surface.
- Also put a rolled dough sheet on top and fasten it around the edges. In the center, you need to make a hole so that the steam can escape from the cake.
- Place everything in an oven heated to 180 ° C for an hour. If the potatoes are young, then the cooking time can be reduced by 15 minutes.
- When no more than 5 minutes remain before cooking, cover the entire surface with an egg to obtain a golden and shiny crust.
- After you get the cake, you need to cover it with a towel and let it brew.
A simple fish and potato pie is ready! It can be served with tea or as a main course.
Which fish to use?
For the preparation of such pies, white fish is well suited. It is quite cheap and tasty. Mostly pollock, hake or pangasius is used for these purposes. If the cake is served at the festive table, then you can take red fish - it is more dense and satisfying.
Pie dough
Pie is made only from yeast or sour cream dough. When using its lean version, the cake is tasteless and tough. In addition, he stale faster. Also, the dough can be purchased at the store, if there is no time left to prepare a pie with fish and potatoes.
Jellied cake
To make such a pie, sour cream dough is used, it is with it that the crust of the pie will be very rosy and fried. In addition, the dough cooks much faster. You can even use canned food, such as saury, as fish.
Necessary components for making jellied cake with fish and potatoes:
- Three eggs of category C1.
- White baking flour - one and a half cups.
- Half-liter mayonnaise with sour cream in equal proportions.
- Onion head.
- Fried or boiled fish - 300 grams (or canned food - 2 pcs).
- Potato - 250 g.
- Soda, salt and pepper to taste.
Pie preparation steps:
- First you need to cook the dough. To do this, mix three eggs and flour.
- Pour mayonnaise with sour cream and mix again, adding salt, pepper and soda. You can diversify the mixture with herbs, then the cake will be different originality and special taste.
- The baking sheet must be prepared in advance for baking, greased with oil. Pour the dough and put potato slices into circles on the bottom of the mixture. They should be no more than a millimeter thick. If the layer is thicker, then nothing will be baked. You can use the culinary trick by boiling the potatoes in advance and then cutting it.
- From above, lay out the selected fish with onions. Onions can be pre-fried to enhance palatability.
- Pour the rest of the dough on top and put everything in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C. Bake until the crust becomes rosy.
Your pie with fish and potatoes is ready, and now they can please relatives and guests!
Whip recipe
It happens that the guests are already on the doorstep, and the main dish has not yet been prepared. For such situations, you can use the recipe for a quick pie with fish and potatoes.
For him you will need:
- a can of canned salmon, coho salmon or pink salmon;
- onion head;
- large potato;
- a glass of flour;
- a pinch of soda;
- kefir - 300 grams;
- eggs - 100 grams.
Cooking Option:
- Mix kefir thoroughly with flour. Then add eggs with soda and mix thoroughly again. If desired, soda can be repaid with citric acid or squeezed out a little lemon juice.
- The resulting dough should resemble sour cream in structure and not be very elastic or liquid. Most of all, it should be like a fritters mixture.
- Washed potatoes cut very finely. Pour about a third of the dough into a baking dish and lay the potatoes. Chop the onion too finely and fry over high heat for about five minutes until a beautiful golden crust forms.
- Put fish and prepared onions on top of the laid potatoes. Pour on top with the remaining dough. Put everything in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 40 minutes. Take out as soon as the crust of the pie with fish and potatoes is browned.
In structure, it will look very much like a casserole.
As a result, the preparation of this dish will take no more than an hour. This recipe must be kept on hand in case of unforeseen circumstances in the form of unexpected guests.
Cooking tricks
In order for you to get a finished onion without the use of oil, you can cut it and put in the microwave for one minute at maximum power. Then he will cook on his own, and there will be no need to spend energy on frying. You can do the same with raw fish by putting it in the microwave for about 15 minutes. By structure, it will resemble boiled.
Fish and Potato Pie
Photo, unfortunately, will not convey all the beauty of this dish, nor will it convey its delicate taste and smell. Creating it, you can use various options for making dough and toppings. But the most delicious fish, according to numerous reviews, was saury and pink salmon. It was with them that the taste of the cake became rich and saturated.
We present you another recipe for a pie with fish and potatoes, but already in the slow cooker. With this device, cooking becomes more convenient, and almost everyone can use this recipe. In addition, cooking time is noticeably saved.
For the pie you will need:
- Butter - 5 g.
- Half a teaspoon of soda.
- A tablespoon of salt.
- Eggs - 100 g.
- A glass of flour.
- Sour cream with a fat content of 20% - about 200 g.
- One big potato.
- Onion head.
- Bank of canned fish.
Pie preparation steps:
- Finely chop the onion and mix. Fry in oil at high power for about five minutes.
- Cut the potatoes into circles and lower them into water so that it does not darken.
- Mash the fish thoroughly to a paste and lay on a plate.
- For the test you need to mix sour cream with salt and soda, add it to mayonnaise with an egg and mix thoroughly. Pour flour gently. The result should be a dough that resembles a thick sour cream.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil and pour a little dough there. Put the potatoes. There should be a layer of fish and onion on top. Pour the rest of the dough.
- Turn on the baking mode for one hour. Upon completion, open the cooker lid and allow the dish to cool.
The pie is ready to serve.
Puff pastry dish
In some cases, you can make a pie using puff pastry. But often this leads to an overdrying of the dish, and it turns out to be a bit fresh. Therefore, it is better to use the dough, which is described in the recipes above. Bon Appetit!