Fish pie is a hearty appetizer or main dish

Pies - an integral part of traditional Russian cuisine in Russia only what pies were not prepared, but one of the most popular and always had pies with fish. How to prepare a delicious fish pie - read about it in our article.

Savory pies with various fillings, our ancestors cooked for centuries, but traditionally, the most common in Russia were krnik and Rybnik - pies, respectively, with chicken and fish filling. Such pies baked on holidays and celebrations, making them extremely beautiful, decorating them with pieces of dough in the form of flowers, figures, one was his own way! And today they remain very popular, so the ability to cook a delicious cake is a real advantage for any chef.

Fish pie, made from all types of dough - yeast, fresh, flaky, and even sand. Most of these cakes make closed (this is done to ensure that the filling does not dry out), sometimes in the upper part of the pie leave holes, braiding the dough on top in the form of a lattice or simply making holes in a continuous layer of dough. Very rarely fish cakes make open.

As a stuffing for fish cakes traditionally used not only fish, but also all kinds of vegetables - potatoes, cabbage, mushrooms and so on, is often added to the stuffing rice, boiled chopped eggs.

Of course, the taste of the fish pie is determined, first of all, do not test or additional toppings, and most fish. Therefore, the choice of fish for fish pie - the most important step in the whole process. You can select both the red and white fish, the main thing that it was more oily, malokostnoy - so the dough can have a good soak fish juice, and cake will be more juicy. Perfect salmon, trout, sturgeon, salmon, halibut, sturgeon, whitefish, however, are used for making pies and cod, burbot, bream, catfish, perch and other fish species in every corner of our country usually cakes were prepared from the fish, which there is widespread, trying to combine it with the extra filling so that the cake turned out as tastier and juicier.

Preparation of the fish before cooking fish cakes

It is very important fish right not only to choose but also to prepare.

Before you clean the fish, put it on half an hour in cold water, then clean the scales, cut the belly, trying not to hurt the gallbladder, remove the entrails and gills, cut off the fins, head and tail, wash the fish, cut the spinal bones and cut the fillets into small pieces. Traditionally prepared fish is salted for 1-2 hours.

If the cake will be used frozen fish, it is necessary to defrost the cover with cold water. Salted fish is soaked for a day in cold water during this time the water should be changed 3-4 times, then be prepared as fresh.

The next step after preparing fish - dough for the pie, as already noted, this dough can be anything: just prepare yeast, pastry, fresh or dough according to standard recipes and proceed to the collection of the pie.

Forming a pie - moment creative. The filling if desired can be stacked layers, or stir ingredients, in the form of a pie can be made square, rectangular or round, and if put on molded dough figurines or flowers, the cake will not only delicious, but also very elegant like old times. Fish pie can be made in the form, of course, fish - so often did our ancestors and adorned their tables very elegant dishes!

Recipe yeast fish pie with cod and eggs

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You will need: 1.5 kg cod, 5 boiled eggs, 1 bunch green onions, spices to taste, ready-made dough.

How to make a cake with fish. The fish is cut into fillets, cut it into medium-sized, marinate in lemon juice, seasoned with spices and herbs to taste - black pepper, nutmeg, etc. to Clean boiled eggs and chop, mix with chopped onions. Divide the dough into 2 unequal parts, a big roll out and place in the baking dish, greased. Layer put the fish on top lay egg additive, cover rolled lower layer of dough, prick the cake top with a fork, place in a preheated 180 to 200 degree oven for 40-50 minutes

To the aroma and the warmth of the pie remained longer, wrap it after cooking with a towel and leave at room temperature for some time. Cod in this recipe can be replaced with any other fish, eggs - boiled until soft rice, etc. at your discretion. And you can just use a good red fish with onion and don't add anything extra. Use your favorite food and your fish pie is the most delicious just for you!

Very tasty fish pie with puff pastry.

Recipe flaky pie with fish and potatoes

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You will need: 500 g of ready made puff of fresh or dough 400 g potatoes 200 g fish fillet (pangasius, salmon, perch, or other), 150 g onion, pepper, salt.

How to make a cake with fish. Small cut fish fillets, finely chopped onion. Thin plastics to slice the potatoes. Roll out a layer of dough in a rectangle with a thickness of about 5 mm and a size of about 40 to 25 cm (if you roll out the dough on baking paper immediately, then the cake will be easier to transfer to the baking sheet). To put the length of the test, from the edges of greater length withdrawing at 6-7 cm, potatoes, pepper it, and salt. The top lay the onions, then the fish, add salt and pepper. The remaining free edges to make diagonal cuts in the center will turn out the dough and laid out the stuffing, and the edges - such a fringe cut into test strips, these strips between a twist and you get a beautiful braid. Put the pie on a paper on a baking sheet, put the cake in the oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for 40-50 minutes

To subscribe so can any fish pie - surprise home not only fabulous taste traditional dishes, but also its appearance! By the way, if a little more to retreat from one of the smaller edges, spreading the filling and cutting the dough into strips also to retreat and not to cut the dough at a greater distance from the top and a smaller bottom, in exactly the same way you can make the dough a real fish.

And finally here is another popular recipe fish pie with cabbage.

A cake recipe with fish and cabbage

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You will need: 500 g fish (hake or other), 500 g sauerkraut, 1 egg, 1 onion, 3-4 tbsp vegetable oil ? tsp. cumin, pepper, salt, ready-made dough.

How to make a pie with fish and cabbage. Cabbage put out until Browning (as cabbage stew?), allow to cool. To cut the fish into fillets, finely to chop, chop onion and mix with the fish, add the cumin, pepper and salt. Divide the dough into 2 unequal parts, roll out a large, put it into a form that is greased with butter, put the cabbage, then the fish with onions, cover with the rolled out dough, sumipntg edge, to cover the cake top with beaten egg. To prepare the cake before Browning in a preheated 200-220 degree oven.