Puff pastries come with different fillings, but for some reason cheese is universally loved. This product is ideal for a dry dough, combined with a variety of ingredients, allows you to get amazing pastries.
Cheese puff pastries - general principles of preparation
For pies, you can take puff pastry without yeast or yeast. It’s really easy to choose. Take the one you like best. Cheese for pies is also used differently, depending on personal preferences and possibilities. The product can be used alone or with the addition of other ingredients.
How to sculpt cheese pies
Since the puff pastry is quite dry, it is advisable to moisten the edges before gluing. Use water, milk or an egg.
What can you make pies:
• Triangular. The layer is cut into squares.
• Square. The dough is cut into rectangles or overlap two squares on top of each other.
• Rectangular. The layer is cut into squares or rectangles.
• Envelopes. The dough is cut into squares.
Cheese pies made from puff pastry in the oven. The optimum temperature is 200-210 ° C. Time depends on the type of filling. Since ready-made ingredients are mainly used, it rarely exceeds twenty minutes.
Oven puff pastry with cheese
The recipe for the simplest cheese puff pastries that you can have. We take a pack of dough in the store, a piece of any cheese and go to the kitchen!
Ingredients
• 500 g of dough;
• 200-250 g of cheese;
• 1 egg;
• greens, oil.
Cooking
1. Let the dough thaw on the roofing paper while the filling is being prepared.
2. Rub the cheese coarsely. We add greens to taste, you can chop a clove of garlic or not put anything else.
3. The dough needs to be rolled up to three millimeters.
4. Cut into rectangles. The size of the pies will be half as much. We make such pieces as we want.
5. Beat the egg, brush the edges of the rectangle with a brush, put a filling of grated cheese on one half.
6. Cover with the free side and pinch the edges together. Since they are oiled, they should stick together without any problems.
7. Transfer the pies onto a baking sheet.
8. Before baking, top with a testicle.
9. Send to the oven. Bake to a delicious crust.
Puff pastry with ham and cheese
This is a very famous cheese and ham puff recipe. Pies are also prepared simply, but they turn out to be incredibly tasty, satisfying and fragrant. The quantity of all products is arbitrary.
Ingredients
• puff pastry;
• cheese;
• ham;
• egg or water.
Cooking
1. Leave the dough warm. After thawing, we roll out a little and also cut into rectangles.
2. Ham and cheese should be cut into plates, a little less than half (about a centimeter on each side) of the rectangle from the dough.
3. Put a piece of cheese on the formation, then a piece of ham.
4. Lubricate the edges with an egg or just soften with water.
5. We make pies, move on a baking sheet. Lubricate with an egg if desired.
6. They are baked in just 10-15 minutes. No longer needed. Since the filling is ready, we look at the test.
Puff pastry with cheese, egg and onion
A variant of summer cheese pies, for which minced green onions are also added. To increase the amount of filling and dilute the taste, you will also need a couple of boiled eggs.
Ingredients
• puff pastry 0.4 kg;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 1 bunch of onions;
• 1 raw egg.
Cooking
1. First of all, you need to chop onions. We do this on the dock in the usual way.
2. Then add a pinch of salt, you can immediately and pepper. We crush greens with our hands to remove the volume.
3. We chop two boiled eggs into cubes, place in a bowl to the onion.
4. Grate coarsely cheese, also add to them. Stir. If you want to make the filling juicier, you can throw a spoonful of mayonnaise or sour cream.
5. Roll out the dough with a layer, cut into squares.
6. We lay out the filling, fold each square in half. You can make triangular pies by folding the opposite corners together.
7. Smear the puffs laid out on a baking sheet with an egg on top.
8. We put in a preheated oven, bring to readiness.
Puff pastry pies with cheese and cottage cheese
A variant of amazing cheese filling for puff pastries. You can sculpt products of absolutely any shape, but they must be closed. The test will take about half a kilogram.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of cheese;
• 0.2 kg of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 3-4 branches of dill;
• salt pepper;
• 500 g of dough.
Cooking
1. Grind the cottage cheese. It is better to take a product with a fat content of at least 9%.
2. Add raw egg and sour cream to the curd, do not immediately salt, especially if the cheese is salted. Stir the cottage cheese with additives.
3. Now you can chop dill and also pour it into the cottage cheese.
4. At the end, rub the cheese, transfer to the curd. Stir together, try.
5. We get the dough, which should be thawed by this time. We roll out, cut the necessary pieces, sculpt the cakes of the desired shape.
6. We shift to a greased sheet, bake for 12 minutes. We set the temperature to 200 degrees.
Puff pastry with cheese and spinach
Spinach makes this filling in puff pastry pies with cheese very juicy. To make the stuffing delicious, you need to cook it right.
Ingredients
• 500 g of dough;
• 2 bunches of spinach;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 2 onions;
• vegetable oil, butter;
• seasoning.
Cooking
1. Cut the onion heads into small cubes. Fry in oil for about three minutes.
2. Spinach needs to be sorted, cut and also sent to the onion. We pass a couple of minutes, stir, turn off. Let this part of the filling cool down for now.
3. Rub cheese or cut into cubes. You can use pickled, processed or hard cheese in these pies.
4. Mix the cheese with spinach, put the seasonings: allspice, black, garlic, you can add dill. Solim.
5. Roll out the dough. Cut with a sharp knife into small squares.
6. We spread the filling between all.
7. Glue the edges, bake in the oven until cooked. Ready patties with spinach can be greased with butter on top.
Puff pastry pies with cheese and tomato
A variant of very juicy pies, for which you need to take a solid tomato. You can use a slightly unripe fruit.
Ingredients
• 1 pack of dough;
• 200 g of cheese;
• 1-2 tomatoes;
• 1 egg;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 bunch of dill.
Cooking
1. Start with garlic. We clean the teeth, chop. Add chopped dill to it. You can cook such puffs with parsley. Stir.
2. We cut the cheese into ordinary plates, we do not make thick pieces.
3. Tomatoes strip thin circles. If the vegetable is dense, it will be easy to do.
4. Square cut the layer of dough. Its thickness should not exceed three millimeters. If necessary, then roll up.
5. Throw pieces of cheese.
6. We put tomato circles on them. If the tomatoes are small, then you can put in two pieces. If the tomatoes are large, then we cut the circle in half.
7. Sprinkle a tomato with a fragrant mixture of garlic with dill.
8. We pinch the edges of the pies, poison the bake.
Cheese and Chicken Puff Pastries
In general, you can make such pies with raw chicken. But it is better to pre-fry the fillet in order to reduce the baking time, not to dry the dough.
Ingredients
• 300 g chicken fillet;
• 180 g of cheese;
• 1 onion;
• ground pepper, salt;
• egg;
• butter;
• any puff pastry (0.7 kg).
Cooking
1. Pour the oil into the pan, three spoons are enough. Put on fire.
2. While it is warming, peel the onions and crumble them into cubes. Transfer to a skillet, fry for two minutes.
3. During this time, cut the chicken into cubes and fry for another ten minutes.
4. Season the filling with salt and pepper, turn off.
5. Cheese must be grated or cut into cubes.
6. Combine the cooled chicken with cheese, stir.
7. Optionally, in such a filling, you can add greens, fresh tomato, garlic, bell pepper.
8. We take out the dough, roll out and make pies. We look at modeling methods at the very beginning of the article.
9. Grease with an egg, set to bake. Since the chicken is fried, just hold the product in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
Double puff pastry pies with cheese
A variant of double cheese pies that have an amazing crust. For the filling, you can take any cheese. For sprinkling, suluguni and parmesan are best.
Ingredients
• 500 g of dough;
• 250 g of cheese in the filling;
• 50 g of cheese topped with;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 1 spoon of sour cream;
• 1 egg.
Cooking
1. Grate the filling cheese with large chips.
2. Add the chopped dill to it, throw a spoonful of sour cream and stir.
3. Cheese for sprinkling must be grated with fine chips.
4. Add a teaspoon of milk to the egg, whisk.
5. Roll out a layer of puff pastry. Cut into pieces. It is better to sculpt such pies with squares or rectangles. Triangles are not so convenient to sprinkle.
6. Lubricate the edges of the pieces with an egg, lay out the filling with dill, form pies.
7. We shift to a baking sheet.
8. Grease the top with an egg and sprinkle with a second cheese, which is rubbed finely.
9. Put the baking sheet in the oven. Bake until the top cheese is browned to a beautiful crust.
Cheese puff pastries - useful tips and tricks
• The cheese filling will not crumble and will easily lie in the pie if you add a spoonful of sour cream to it. You can also use cream, mayonnaise, any prepared sauce.
• Not enough cheese for pies? Dilute the filling with cottage cheese. Good weight gain, chicken eggs have a relatively neutral taste. If the yolk confuses, then you can put only boiled proteins.
• Puff pastries can not only be baked, but also fried in a pan in hot oil.
• No time for making pies? Make one big cake. Lay the filling between two pieces of dough, poke holes on top and send into the oven.
