Pirozhki with cabbage - fragrant baking with your own hands

Fragrant, nourishing and such beckoning with the blush pies with cabbage always were a favorite dish in my family. Every week, as soon as Saturday came, we gathered in the kitchen and started to create together. My sister kneaded the dough, my dad shredded cabbage, only he knew how to do it quickly and thinly, my mother was stewing cabbage, and I cooked eggs and made pies, only I could do so that during cooking they did not burst open from the heat. Surprising were the times, the whole family in the kitchen is busy with their own business, each contributes its own feasible contribution to the creation of delicious pies for tea, which then were woven for a sweet soul on the first day.

Pies with cabbage we have always been different. We made them from different varieties of cabbage, with the addition of eggs or onions, laid carrots and fish, mushrooms and cranberries, used potatoes, meat, made wonderful pies with sauerkraut. We also did the dough differently: on water and yogurt, on milk, with yeast and without them, flaky and sandy. Patties we not only baked, but also fried in oil and on cracklings. Many years have passed, and it is still difficult for me to find more tasty pies with cabbage than we baked then, the whole family.

Of course, every landlady has his own recipe, but I'll tell you how we did it. Maybe someone will like it, and pies with cabbage will become someone's family tradition. After all, during the cooking the whole family will be assembled, but is it not the main thing in our time, when everyone tries to close in their own world, hammered into a deaf case?

To get fragrant patties with cabbage, you need to properly prepare the filling. To do this, you need to choose fresh cabbage (it is juicier), chop it very finely and put it down with cream, adding it according to preference. When the cabbage is extinguished, it is necessary to throw it into a colander and shake it several times to drain all the juice, add a fresh white butter and pepper. If desired, you can put a finely chopped large egg or fresh green feather on a cabbage. Cabbage can also be stewed with onions, but add it very little, so that it does not interrupt, and complement the flavor.

For modeling pies, you can choose or make a puff pastry, before you start working with it you need to let it stand warm under a thick towel to make the dough "come to life." Then knead and roll in a not very thin layer. The resulting layer is cut into squares or a cup with wide edges cut in it circles. The prepared filling should be put on the middle of the prepared dough and, having raised the edges, snap them from above. The dough should densely "embrace" cabbage, but it is undesirable that it breaks. To protect the cracks, they can be slightly twisted.

The resulting pies with cabbage should be covered with an egg on top, put into an oven, heated to 200 ° C, and baked until golden. While the pies are prepared, cook creamy white butter and a pinch of sugar and melt on the fire. Finished puff pastry with cabbage, taken out of the oven, cover with the resulting mixture, then cover them with a thick towel and let stand a little. They will not only be juicy and fragrant, but also soft.

Patties with sauerkraut are done on the same principle, only the cabbage in the beginning is washed in boiling water so that excess salt and acid are gone. Stew it should be in butter with the addition of a pinch of sugar and a drop of pepper. Separately, you need to thin the onion with thin petals and fry until brownish, then combine it with cabbage, sprinkle with chopped boiled egg. These pies are obtained unusually delicious in both baked and fried form. To fry pies with cabbage is better in butter, it gives a unique aroma to baking, and pies to make miniature, then they are better roasted.

Also, cabbage is combined with mushrooms, it is better, of course, that these are not champignons, the smell of which can never be compared with the aroma of forest handsome men: a boletus, a podereozovik, chanterelles and others.