Rasstegay with fish - traditional Russian snack pie

Each people has its own culinary traditions. Cuisines of the peoples of the world have their own peculiarities of cooking. Small snack pies-pies - one of the traditional dishes of Russian cuisine. In pre-revolutionary Russia they enjoyed great popularity. They were served both as an independent dish, and together with other dishes. Especially delicious was a pie with fish. It could be eaten at any tavern.

To prepare this pie, an uncomfortable yeast dough was used. This baking received an unusual name from the way it was prepared. A pie with different fillings should be necessarily open, as if unbuttoned. In the open middle was added melted butter or a warm broth.

A pie with fish can be prepared at home. An ordinary yeast dough is suitable for this baking. To make it, you will need: a glass of milk, 25 grams of yeast, 600 grams of flour, 70 grams of butter, 25 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt. Of the listed ingredients, knead the dough. Covering with a napkin, they give him to come up. At this time, prepare the filling for pies.

A pie with a fish should be juicy. For the filling take a rather greasy red fish - salmon, trout or other. Also for the filling you need two bulbs, dill greens, ground white pepper and salt. While the dough is suitable, prepare the filling.

Cut into strips of sunflower on a sunflower oil. Peeled and well washed raw fish are cut into small squares. Then the cooled onion, finely chopped dill and fish cut are mixed, salted and peppered.

From the finished dough form small portioned flat cakes. They roll them out with a rolling pin and put stuffing in the middle of each. The pie with the fish is tied in such a way that the middle part remains open. The edges of the lozenges can be braided in a pigtail. The filling should be enough. She looks out of the formed envelopes.

Prepared patties are distributed on a baking sheet and left in a warm place for 30 minutes. During this time they increase slightly in volume. Before baking in the oven, the surface of the patties is smeared with a beaten egg. A pie with fish is cooked at a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius. Ready-made pastry should be well bruised.

A tray with prepared pies is taken from the oven. Rasstegay with fish slightly sprinkled with cold water and cover with a clean cloth. After a little respite under the napkin, the pies become soft enough, with a ruddy, shiny crust. Before serving the dish, in each pie with fish add a little oil or 2 teaspoons of fish broth. Decorate cakes with a slice of lemon and greens.

In the past, any feast could not do without rasstegaychikov. In fiction, when describing the meal, you can very often find mention of them. In our time, this is a truly Russian dish, we cook at home with pleasure. Culinary recipes for cooking pies have not lost their popularity. They are baked not only with fish. The filling can be meat, mushroom, combined.

A pie with fish is served to the usšice. And transparent broths are well combined with pies, the filling of which is meat or mushroom. If there is soup in the lunch menu, it will not be superfluous to bake with rice and onions or eggs and carrots.

Young housewives, who do not have experience in baking, may find that they can not cope with the preparation of traditional Russian patties. But there is cooking for teapots, the tips of which will help to prepare your own yeast dough for pies. If you fail, and the test can not cope, it can be purchased at the store.

Let the first pies will not be as beautiful as the experienced professionals. But this dish is very tasty and satisfying. And every housewife wants to pamper pies for their own household cooking.