Mince pies - 167 cooking recipes

The classic recipe for minced meat pie is included in the base of national Russian cuisine and is usually prepared with yeast dough. It can be open or closed. When open, the filling is laid out on top of the crust and covered with a mesh of dough on top. When closed, it is located in the middle, between two cake layers. The dough can be liquid - in this case it is a jellied pie

But not only our kitchen is famous for mince pies recipes. This dish is popular in Europe, Asia, the Caucasus, and America (it’s just sometimes called differently). Quiche pies are popular in France, in which the filling remains the main thing in the entire dish, and the dough is just a thin basket filled with it. Bulgarian snail-shaped pies, where the dough is rolled out thin, filled with filling, rolled into a tube and then into a spiral, are also very good. They are called banitsa.

The filling for meat pies can include not only pure minced meat or fish, but also additional products mixed into it: potatoes, rice, boiled eggs, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, pumpkin, apples, and so on. In addition, minced meat can be either raw or boiled. For the latter, they take boiled meat and grind it in a meat grinder. You can also pre-fry raw minced meat in vegetable oil with onions.

Typically, baking a meat pie takes longer than baking the same sweet pastries. Only because raw meat takes longer to cook. By the way, the dough for the pie can be mixed not only with flour, but also with mashed potatoes, you get a very tasty potato pie with meat filling - a ready-made simple second course.