Pie with fish 'Don Cossack'

Probably, it's not worth telling about what it is yummy. On the table, a pie with a fish usually does not lie. If you do not believe, you can experiment. I offer you the following recipe for baking this miracle. So:

Fish cake «Don Cossack»

The dough for it should be yeast. You obviously know that the yeast dough can be cooked in an odd and unpaired way. For a fish pie , a saffron is more suitable, and it is better to leave a spoonful for baking sweet and goodies.

Preparation of the test: for half a liter of regular milk, you need only a half-pint of margarine or butter, a spoon (table) of sugar, one and a half tablespoons (tea, of course) of salt and a kilogram of flour. Yeast can be taken dry, fast acting. With them, our pie with fish will be ready much sooner.

In the heated milk (its temperature should not be too high, since the yeast will otherwise die!) Pour out the sugar and salt, put the yeast previously dissolved in water or milk, add the flour, and roll up the sleeves and knead the dough.

At the end of the batch, add melted butter or margarine. You can replace the named fats with a gram of vegetable oil. But, based on experience, I advise you to take margarine. With him, the dough is always more magnificent!

The dough is kneaded until it finally stops clinging to the hands. After kneading the dough, cover it and put it in heat. When it rises well, you need to lightly squeeze it and let it go up again. While the dough is suitable, let's deal with the filling. On the Don it is customary to cook a cake with a red fish or with a river in which there are fewer bones. It can be a pike-perch, which they call suloma, or, better, carp. You can use bream, but in this case you have to tinker with bones, choosing them.

Preparation of the filling

Mistresses on the Don understood that river fish in a pie should not be damp, it is not safe for health. Therefore, it was preliminarily cut into pieces and brewed to such an extent that it would well depart from the bones. After that, the fish bones were carefully chosen. The fish was crushed with a knife or hands. How much fish do you need? At least, for a dough from a kilogram of flour you need to take it about a kilogram. The more, the more delicious will be the fish pie on your table.

Even for the filling it will take several (3-4) large bulbs, two or three carrots and several (3-4) roots of parsnip (by the way, on Don carrots and parsnips are called red and white roots). Onions and "roots" are finely chopped, fried separately in vegetable oil and mixed with crushed river fish. Yes, do not forget to salt and pepper the filling. Cossacks on Don usually pepper pity. If you have few fish, you can boil rice until half-ready and add to the filling.

The dough is divided into approximately two parts. The one that goes to the top crust should be a bit smaller. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm and put it on a greased baking sheet. Spread our stuffing, the future top crust and tear the pie. In the top crust makes 3-4 small holes with a knife, grease a pie with fish from above with oil or egg and let it rise for 20 minutes or more. We put in the oven and bake at 200 degrees for about 20-30 minutes.

When the cake zamyamyanitsya from all sides, we get it, sprinkle it lightly with water, cover with a thick towel and put it limp. After 20 minutes, when the bottom crust is pulled soft, we grease the pie top with butter. Now you can serve it on the table.

Can I make a cake with canned fish in a similar way? Can. For the filling, you need to take canned food in natural juice or in oil. Well suited for this purpose sardine. The filling can be made as described above, only necessarily with the addition of rice. You can put canned fish in pieces, not crushing. The preparation of the dough and baking are no different. This pie also gets delicious, although to the first it is far.

Successful pies and a pleasant appetite!