Coulibiac - the best Russian tradition for your table

Flour products in Russia has always been held in high esteem, without them does not do any celebration. Today, many of the traditional Russian cuisine undeservedly forgotten. But it is worth remembering that they exist and cook, as a compliment immediately begin to pour in the river. So, prepare pie.

Coulibiac - is closed with a large number of pie fillings, over 50% of the total weight of the product. In Russia, this kind of cake especially revered, it ate everything from peasants to kings. The main difference from other pie pies - the number of toppings, and often multi-layered pie made (up to 12 layers), shifting the different types of minced fresh pancakes, so the second difference was the difficulty of filling.

With regard to such an interesting name, the version number of its origin. According to one of them, the name of the cake comes from the word "Kolob" means "small bread", as the other is derived from the verb "kulebyachit" means "to knead, cook, sculpt, play the hand, bending, pass the buck." Specify the exact version of the name or the date when the pie was invented, it is impossible. We only know that the pie adored Turgenev, Gogol, Vyazemskij and many other celebrities.

How to cook a pie

Preparation of the pie - the science is not simple. First, prepare the yeast dough for the pie and fresh crepes for shifting the different types of toppings. Also, the dough may be fresh or flaky, kind of test determines the thickness of the reservoir, which is laid out stuffing - too thick it should not be, because after baking in a pie filling should be more than half the total weight.

Beef, whatever it was, before the collection of the pie should be made available to half or fully cooked. As a rule, the maximum stuffing is ground to the consistency of paste or slurry - so different ingredients as close to each other as, as well as an effect of "melting" cake in his mouth.

Stuffing should be built on the basis of one main product - it can be cabbage, mushrooms, meat, fish. Under the "main" will adapt other types of stuffing - rice, onions, eggs, etc. Traditional fillings options:

• Meat with rice, onions and chopped eggs;
• Fresh cabbage, Refried with eggs, hard boiled, mushrooms and onions;
• Red fish with buckwheat and onions;
• Fish with rice and onions.

Coulibiac should have elongated - oval loaf shape or form, it is believed that the best way stuffing baked through, but, of course, every woman can give the cake the form that considers suitable to your taste.

Recipe pie with meat

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Need: 600 g of flour, 500 ml of milk, 500 g of minced beef, 50 g of vegetable oil, 20 g of yeast, 2 eggs, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon sugar, black pepper, salt.

Preparation of the pie. Flour, 1 egg, yeast, sugar and milk yeast dough making. Onions fried in butter, put in ground beef, pepper and salt the well to mix things up. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm boards, cut into strips of 12-15 width. Put one band, it put the stuffing, cover with second strip test zaschipnut edge, seam side down on a greased pie shell out a baking coat with beaten egg and bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven. Kulebyaka served with meat hot.

Kulebyaka recipe with cabbage and eggs

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You will need: 30 grams of butter, 4 eggs, 1 pack puff pastry, 1 kg of cabbage, salt.

How to cook cabbage pie. Finely chop the cabbage, blanch for 5-7 minutes, allow to cool. Hard-boiled eggs peel, finely chopped, mixed with cabbage, add butter, pepper and salted. Roll out the dough thin layer, put the stuffing, zaschipnut edge. Pie with cabbage lay down the seam on the laid oiled parchment sheet, coat with beaten egg and bake for about 20 minutes in the preheated oven.

Pie recipe with fish and rice

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You will need: 800 g of flour, 250 g butter, 20 g of yeast, 5 g of vanillin, 6 eggs, 1 cup milk 4 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1 tsp citric acid, fat to lubricate, for filling - 500 g of fresh fish, 4 eggs, 3 bulbs? cup of rice.

How to cook a pie with fish and rice:

Sift the flour mound, make a center groove, add to it salt and citric acid, to drive an egg, add a little water and knead the dough, knead it for 15 minutes, remove the cold.

Softened butter and mix with vanilla, a large reservoir roll out the dough, brush with butter, then roll all the corners to the center, roll again, leave for 5 minutes, again grease, roll into 2-3 times, roll, cover with a cloth and leave.

Divorced from the yeast in warm water, 1 cup flour, melted butter, milk and eggs cook 2 dough consistency like thick cream, heat the pan, grease it with bacon, cook crepes.

Boiled eggs chopped, cook crumbly rice, mix it with eggs.

Fish boil, remove the seeds, onion twist in a meat grinder.

Roll out the dough into a formation, cut two long strips of 10-15 cm wide. Sheet wet with water, put one strip, it put a few pancakes on them - rice with eggs, cover with a few pancakes, put minced fish, cover it with the remaining pancakes, top lay a second strip of dough zaschipnut edge, place pie dough figurines.

Coat with egg pie, prick with a fork in several places and bake in preheated oven until browned.

How to choose a meat grinder. We will tell.