Blueberries are one of the brightest fillings for pies.
The berry is tasty, juicy, affordable and asks for the dough itself.
Baking with it will delight not only in season but also in winter.
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Blueberry pies - general principles of preparation
The basis of any pie is the dough. More often it is cooked using yeast. This option allows you to get a magnificent, porous product, regardless of the method of preparation. For baked pies, the dough is given good acidity and rise twice. Fried products can be sculpted a little earlier, just one full rise and rest on the table during formation.
Many hold on to puff pastry, which is sold in the store. Convenient and simple product, which can also be put on pies. Products from it often have a square or rectangular shape. This is done out of savings to avoid scraps and excessive consumption of dough.
Blueberries for the filling do not have to use fresh. Frozen berries will also work. Sugar, cinnamon, cottage cheese, and other products are added to the product. Often this is cottage cheese, fruit.
Recipe 1: Baked Blueberry Pies
A variant of ordinary blueberry pies that are baked in the oven. Yeast dough is started on a mixture of milk and water.
Ingredients
• 150 ml of water;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 11 g of yeast;
• 60 ml of oil;
• egg;
• flour;
• 0.2 tsp vanilla.
For the filling, blueberries and sugar.
Cooking
1. Dilute milk with hot water to make the liquid warm. Add sugar with yeast and pour a glass of flour. Leave the dough in a warm room for forty minutes.
2. Beat with a fork a protein and a half teaspoon of salt.
3. Add protein to the dough, add flour and add vegetable oil. Pour flour to the desired density of the dough, the mass should not creep on the table. We shift into a large pan.
4. Cover with a napkin. After an hour, you need to look at it, hug it and leave it for another twenty minutes.
5. Blueberries are simply sorted, washed and mixed with sugar to taste.
6. We leave the left yolk with two tablespoons of milk and mix well.
7. Divide the dough into pieces of 100 grams, roll out a small cake from each bun. We spread the berries with sugar and sculpt the pies in a classic shape.
8. We shift to a baking sheet. Be sure to leave a distance so that during the rise the pies do not stick together.
9. Let’s get a little closer. Using a brush, grease the cooked yolk.
10. We bake at 190 ° C for about 15 minutes, we focus on the appearance.
Recipe 2: Puff Pastry Blueberries
A variant of quick pies for which you can take both yeast and regular puff pastry. The product is usually frozen, you need to get it out of the freezer in advance.
Ingredients
• dough sheet;
• 0.35 kg of blueberries;
• 0.1 kg of sugar;
• 1 egg;
• 1 spoonful of starch mountain.
Cooking
1. Mix the berries with granulated sugar and immediately add starch to them. Stir.
2. Roll out the dough to a thickness of three millimeters. We squeeze into squares of 10-15 centimeters, depending on the desired size of the pies.
3. Beat the egg, take a brush and grease all the edges of the squares that will stick together.
4. We lay out the berries in equal amounts on all the squares.
5. We pinch the edges of the pies. You get the rectangles. You can make triangles.
6. Lubricate with the egg that remains after processing the edges.
7. Bake, temperature 200 ° C.
Recipe 3: Quick Blueberry Pies (Fried)
An option for quick and easy dough for fried blueberry pies. It does not require rest in warmth, and you can enjoy fragrant products in half an hour.
Ingredients
• 500 ml of kefir;
• 1 tsp salts;
• a spoonful of sugar;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 550 grams of flour;
• egg;
• 20 ml of oil.
Blueberries and sugar for toppings. You can take blueberry jam or thick jam.
Cooking
1. We throw prescription soda with warm kefir.
2. Beat the egg with salt and combine with the previous mass.
3. Add flour and butter and the dough is ready. Knead thoroughly, put in a bag and keep on the table for a quarter of an hour.
4. While you can sort out the berries and season with sugar. Or mash jam, pour jam.
5. We make pies, do not roll the dough thickly.
6. Slightly flatten before frying.
7. Fry on both sides until golden brown. Cool before serving.
Recipe 4: Yeast pies with blueberries and kefir
Another version of kefir dough for blueberry pies, but this time the recipe contains dry yeast. A standard small bag is used.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of flour;
• 200 ml of kefir;
• 70 grams of butter;
• yeast;
• salt;
• 2 eggs;
• 60 grams of sugar;
• 100 grams of water;
• 0.5 kg of blueberries;
• sugar in the filling.
Cooking
1. Dissolve a small bag of yeast in the recipe water, let stand for a while, so that the grains swell.
2. Add sugar, throw eggs, leave one yolk to grease the pies. Stir.
3. Add an incomplete teaspoon of salt, pour kefir.
4. Melt the butter and also pour into the future dough.
5. Knead everything together with flour, cover and let go two times. After the first lift, the mass should be slightly kneaded.
6. Combine blueberries with sugar. Berries do not need to knead.
7. We make pies, let’s go up on the sheet and put in the oven. Before baking, grease the top with the previously set yolk. For better fluidity, add some milk or water to it.
Recipe 5: Puff pastries with blueberries and cottage cheese
A variant of amazing filling for puff pastry pies. It is important not to use liquid and weak cottage cheese, it should have an average consistency, but not be dry.
Ingredients
• puff pastry;
• an incomplete glass of blueberries;
• 300 grams of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 120 grams of sugar;
• 1 bag of vanilla;
• 2 tablespoons butter.
Cooking
1. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, you can beat it with a food processor.
2. Add sugar and melted butter, pour vanilla and mix everything again.
3. Add the dried blueberries at the very end, stir gently and try not to stretch the berries.
4. Expand the dough layer on a powder-dusted table, roll up the rolling pin. Divide into squares with sides of 10 centimeters.
5. We spread the filling on half the pies.
6. Grease the empty squares with the egg, turn over and cover the dough with the filling, pinch the edges.
7. We send to bake, but before that, unusual pies can be greased with the rest of the egg.
Recipe 6: Fried Blueberry Pies in a Skillet
To prepare these pies, the dough is prepared yeast on the water. It is good because it is suitable for different fillings: sweet and salty. You can knead, divide into several parts and cook several types of pies.
Ingredients
• 500 ml of water;
• 1 tsp salts;
• 1.5 tablespoons of yeast;
• 0.5 cups sour cream;
• 0.5 cups of any oil (melted margarine can be);
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• flour.
Blueberries with sugar for filling.
Cooking
1. Heat the water. Make a little warmer than body temperature. We launch yeast, sugar, throw a glass of flour. Stir and let stand for about fifteen minutes to activate the yeast.
2. Add salt, add any oil and add flour. Knead the soft dough. Let’s rest. It is advisable for the mass to come up twice and only after that proceed with the manufacture of pies.
3. Divide the dough that has reached the readiness into pieces, roll out the cakes and lay out the blueberries, sprinkle with sugar.
4. We pinch the edges in the usual way, forming a classic closed pie.
5. Deep-fried in a skillet. Remove excess oil from finished cakes with paper towels.
Recipe 7: Pies with Blueberries and Apples
A variant of fragrant pies that are made from any yeast dough. You can use a purchased product or cook according to the above recipes.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of dough;
• 3 apples;
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup blueberries;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 30 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the apples into slices. They should be some of the biggest blueberries.
2. Heat the oil in a pan, add apples, fry a little, evaporate the juice. We make the maximum fire. Cool down.
3. Add blueberries to the apples, previously sorted and washed.
4. Fill the filling with sugar, cinnamon.
5. We make pies of any size and shape. By the way, with this filling you can cook half-closed products with flirty looking filling.
6. Let stand on a baking sheet, grease and bake in the oven.
7. Either form closed pies, flatten in the palms and fry in a pan.
8. With this filling, you can also make one big cake, then bake.
Blueberry Pies - Useful Tips and Tricks
• Instead of fresh blueberry fillings, jams, jam, and jam are often used. But such products are too sweet, and to put in a product a lot does not work. The solution is to dilute with fruit. Ideal for this purpose are apples, pears, berries, cherries, petioles. Blueberries combine well with pumpkin.
• The cake will shine with amazing gloss if you grease it with a mixture of yolk, a spoonful of milk and a pinch of sugar before baking. Beat everything thoroughly. For even application, it is better to use a brush.
• If the dough dried up from above, a dry crust appeared, no need to rush to sculpt something from it. It is better to sprinkle the pieces with ordinary water, you can spray from a spray bottle, cover with a towel and let the crust disperse.
• The dough with butter is tastier, but with vegetable fat it does not get stale longer and turns soft. Ideally, you can mix both types.
• It is important not to put a lot of sugar in the dough. Such baking will be heavy, quickly burn out and will not bake inside. Ideally, no more than 5 tablespoons of sugar per kilogram of dough. Additional sweetness will give the filling.
