Blueberry pie - general principles and methods of preparation
The Russian table has always been famous for its abundance. And you won’t find such magnificent pies like ours! The list of original Russian dishes includes pies of various shapes and consistencies. The variety of fillings is also surprising: fish, meat, vegetable, fruit, potato and, of course, berry. It is not for nothing that the Russian proverb says: “Everything can be wrapped in a pie”. In our article today, we wrap blueberries in it.
Blueberries have a lot of advantages, it is tasty and incredibly healthy. It has long been proven that blueberries are a biogenic stimulant: they cleanse the body of toxins, significantly reduce blood sugar and have a beneficial effect on the visual system. Therefore, blueberry pies, which have retained practically all the useful properties of fresh berries, are a great way not only to follow a healthy lifestyle, but to improve your health to what extent.
Also good are products with priceless fruits, cooked according to the cheesecake principle, which, in addition to blueberries, contain unsalted cream cheese or fat cottage cheese and are almost entirely composed of toppings.
Blueberry pies are made closed, half-closed (trellised) or open, large or small, rectangular, triangular or round, and regardless of the chosen shape, they will always delight the sweet tooth with its original taste and aromatic smell. As for the test, almost any one is suitable for a blueberry pie: whether it is yeast or sand, or fresh, or puff - there are no strict criteria.
The only thing to remember is that the berries on the sides should be surrounded by dough, the so-called "sides". With the addition of sugar, you should also not overdo it, since it provokes the release of juice. The best alternative to sugar in this situation is icing sugar, which is sprinkled on open cakes a few minutes before being cooked.
Blueberry Pie - Food Preparation
If you decide to bake a juicy blueberry pie, of course, you should first purchase it, clean it of unnecessary particles, sticks, thoroughly sort it out, rinse it in cold running water, and then rinse it with boiling water and dry it in a colander until draining of unnecessary moisture. By the way, frozen berry pies are no less tasty and aromatic. The main thing is to prepare them correctly: we lower the frozen fruits in a colander and leave them there until completely thawed. So we will keep their shape, and let the excess juice drain.
In addition, for the test, we most likely will need chicken eggs, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, a baking powder (or soda) and the most important ingredient is premium flour, which must be sifted without fail.
Blueberry Pie - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Summer Blueberry Pie
Summer berries, especially blueberries, are a storehouse of vitamins and useful elements. So why not seize the moment and use them with maximum health benefits! You can, for example, bake a delicious, light blueberry pie, the name of which we gave is “Summer”.
Ingredients:
- 50 gr. butter
- half a glass of powdered sugar
- two eggs
- vanillin to taste
- one and a half cups of fine flour
- baking powder 1.5 teaspoon.
- a pinch of salt
- a glass of milk (fat content 3.2%)
- one and a half glasses of blueberries
Cooking method:
1. Beat the butter until the air mass, pour the powder into it, without stopping whipping until the sugar dissolves. Next, add eggs to the mixture and continue to beat at a low speed mixer, and at the end pour vanilla. Mix everything and divide into two parts.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Pour the flour into half a creamy egg mixture, mix and pour a glass of milk. Grind into a homogeneous mass and put into the dough the remaining half of the egg mixture. We start a thin dough. It should be very tender after baking.
3. Lubricate the mold and pour the dough into it, and evenly distribute the berries on top. We send to the oven for forty minutes and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees, preheating the oven. We take out the finished cake from the oven, after cooling, remove it from the mold and, sprinkled with powdered sugar and garnished with blueberries, serve it to the table.
Recipe 2: American Blueberry Pie
For lovers of American cuisine, we present a recipe for an amazing pie made from a mixture of two berries - blueberries and cherries.
Ingredients:
- 180 gr. flour
- a pinch of salt
- 15 gr. sugar (for dough)
- butter 110 gr. (for the test)
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of water
- five glasses of pitted cherries
- lemon juice three table. l
- one stack. sugar (for filling)
- one stack. blueberries
- 50 gr. corn starch
- two teaspoons of oil (for filling)
Cooking method:
1. Mix flour, sugar and salt, add softened butter and three tablespoons of water. Mix everything and start a soft dough. Then we roll it into a whole ball and, wrapping it with cling film, remove it for an hour in the refrigerator.
2. After an hour, take out the dough and roll it. After that, we lubricate the round shape with oil and put the layer into it. Carefully cut the edges according to our shape. From the remnants of the dough we cut out asterisks and several strips to decorate the cake, put the figures aside for a while.
3. In one bowl, mix the flesh of a cherry with two tablespoons of lemon juice, in the other - blueberries with the remaining spoon of lemon juice. Separately, mix starch with sugar and distribute it into berries (1 cup per cherry, the rest to blueberries).
4. On the form with the dough, first spread the cherry filling evenly, and then the blueberry filling. Grease with melted butter on top and put stars with stripes, as if imitating the American flag. Preheat the oven and send the pie into it. Bake at 200 degrees. Within one hour. After 30-40 minutes, cover the pie with foil and again into the oven until tender. Ready American pie is served on the table with creamy ice cream.
Recipe 3: Closed Blueberry Pie
What is a closed cake? This is a flour product in which all the filling is covered with dough. We will prepare such a pie. It will turn out very tasty: a thin layer of crispy dough and a lot of sweet blueberries inside. Worth trying.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- two glasses of flour
- 50 gr. Sahara
- a pinch of salt
- 200 gr. butter
- 10 drops of cold water
For filling:
- 900 gr. blueberries
- two tbsp. l topioca or starch
- two table l. flour
- 1 table. l Sahara
- 30 gr. butter
- whipped cream
Cooking method:
1. To prepare the dough, mix all the dry ingredients, chop with soft butter, add water and knead a coarse dough. We divide it into 2 parts (the first is larger, the second is slightly smaller). We roll out most of it into a layer and put it on a greased baking sheet.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients for the filling. We wash the berry, let it drain excess moisture. Then mix blueberries with a mixture of dry ingredients and spread evenly on a layer of dough. Sprinkle with grated or chopped butter on top. We roll out the second layer of dough and close the filling with it, pinching the edges well. On the surface of the pie (in the middle) we make a small hole for the steam to escape.
3. We heat the oven to 180-200 degrees and send the pie into it for 30-45 minutes, adjusting the temperature as necessary. Cool the finished cake and decorate with whipped cream on top. If desired, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Recipe 4: Cheesecake with Blueberries
The blueberry curd pie prepared according to this recipe turns out to be very tasty, magnificent and beautiful. The perfect dessert for any occasion. We use cottage cheese only fatty, not dry and not sour, otherwise the product will simply lose in taste.
Ingredients:
- 150 gr. butter
- 150 gr. sugar (can be less)
- a bag of vanilla
- one egg (for dough)
- 230 gr. flour
- 2 tsp baking powder (if not, use slaked soda with lemon juice)
- 600 gr. cottage cheese
- four eggs (for filling)
- 150 gr. sugar (for filling)
- 100 gr. potato starch
- 350 gr. blueberries
- icing sugar
Cooking method:
1. Rub the softened butter with sugar and vanilla, add the egg, mix everything. Pour flour mixed with baking powder and knead the dough not too steep. Lubricate the form, lay out the dough, attach the sides.
2. Make the filling. Separate the yolks and squirrels. Grind the yolks with sugar, pass the cottage cheese through a sieve to destroy the grains. Mix yolks and cottage cheese, add starch to the mixture. Next, beat the whites until lush foam and spread them in a curd-yolk mass. Mix with a broom or spatula without using a mixer. Grind blueberries with sugar in a blender. We leave some fruits for decoration.
3. We spread the curd mass on the dough and level it, lay the blueberry puree on top with an even layer and also level it. We heat the oven (180 gr.) And send the pie there. Bake for about an hour, after 40 minutes, if the top starts to burn, cover the dessert with foil. Sprinkle the finished cake immediately with powder and decorate with blueberries. Cool and serve. Good appetite!
Recipe 5: Chocolate Cake with Blueberries
Ingredients:
- four eggs
- 150 gr. dark chocolate
- 250 gr. Sahara
- 180 gr. butter
- an incomplete glass of orange juice
- 350 gr. flour
- one spoon of cocoa
- baking powder (pinch)
- a pinch of salt
- zest from two oranges and two lemons
- 500 gr. blueberries
Cooking method:
1. Melt butter and chocolate. Beat eggs with sugar, add chocolate, butter, baking powder, salt, grated zest of oranges and lemons, and orange juice to the mixture. Mix and add flour in portions. We start the dough, let it brew for fifteen minutes.
2. Next, grease the form, put the dough into it, and distribute the berries gently on top. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees and send the pie there for 40-60 minutes. Readiness is checked by a match (if it is clean - the pie is ready). We leave the finished dessert in the oven (naturally, turn it off first) until it cools. Then we get it, sprinkle powder on top and decorate at our discretion. Enjoy the pleasant chocolate taste of blueberry pie!
Blueberry pie - tips from experienced chefs
- For an additional taste and aroma of the cooks, I advise you to add a little lemon or orange juice, rum or liquor to the blueberry filling;
- The amazing taste of blueberry pie is emphasized: whipped cream, ice cream, as well as sour cream, whipped with sugar;
- To avoid excessive leakage of juice under the influence of high temperature, add starch to the filling. You can save the situation with the help of egg white, which grease the dough before laying berries on it. Moreover, ordinary crumbs from cookies, added to blueberries, can very effectively eliminate this flaw.
