Pears are often used in cooking. One of the most common options is pies. To prepare them, various types of dough are used, and honey, nuts, poppy seeds, and cinnamon are added as filling. We bring to your attention several recipes for pear pie. All of them are quite simple to prepare and do not require the use of rare or expensive ingredients.
Instructions
First, turn on the oven and set the temperature at +190 °C. Mix flour with salt, baking powder and vanilla. Beat the eggs until foamy. We begin to gradually add sugar. Beat the mixture for about five more minutes. Melt the butter, cool and add to the egg mixture. Then mix carefully from bottom to top. After this, add half the flour, stir and add part of the milk. Then add the remaining flour and milk again. At the next stage, add chocolate and vanillin, previously chopped into small pieces, to the dough.
Wash the pears. If you want the pie to be tender, like a soufflé, then you should peel the fruits and cut them as thin as possible. Add pears to the dough and mix well. The fruit mass should be evenly distributed.
Grease the baking pan with butter and lightly sprinkle with flour. We put the resulting dough into it and send it to the already preheated oven. The pear pie will bake for about an hour. The dessert should have a golden brown crust. When the cake is ready, remove it from the oven and let it sit for another fifteen minutes before removing it from the pan. The dessert is very tasty both hot and cold. Bon appetit!
Cooking process
First of all, it is necessary to separate the whites from the yolks. Then beat the latter until white with sugar. Add flour and vanillin, previously sifted with baking powder, to the yolks and mix. It should be a stiff dough. In a separate container, beat the whites with salt until a thick foam forms. Then add the resulting mass into the dough in parts and knead thoroughly. This must be done carefully, trying not to precipitate the whites.
Grease the multicooker bowl with oil. Now we need baking paper. It is necessary to cut a circle from it, the diameter of which is equal to the diameter of the bottom of the bowl. Place it on the bottom and grease it with oil. Then sprinkle the paper with sugar and cinnamon.
Let's start with the filling. Wash the pears, peel them and cut out the core. Cut some of the fruit into slices and place in circles on baking paper. Chop the remaining pears into small pieces and add to the dough. Mix carefully. Now the dough can be placed in the multicooker bowl. Close the lid and set the “Baking” mode for 60 minutes. Remove the finished dessert from the bowl, turn it over, remove the parchment and leave to cool. Pear pie in a slow cooker turns out very airy, tender and tasty. Enjoy your tea!
Puff pastry “Pear”
4 ingredients
Egg yolk – 1 pc.
Pear - 2 pcs.
Puff pastry without yeast - 500 g
Brown sugar - to taste
Core the pear and make cuts, but not completely, as in the photo
Roll out the dough lightly and divide into 2 parts, put half a pear and use a knife to make a pear-shaped outline, as in the photo, stepping back 2 cm from the edge of the dough...
Puff pastry dessert
Despite the speed of preparation, such a pie turns out not only very tasty, but also original in appearance. Note to housewives: they will not be ashamed to treat even guests. To prepare the dessert, we need 400 grams of puff pastry, 250 ml of water, 180 grams of sugar, a kilogram of pears, an egg, a tablespoon of starch.
Making the pie is very simple. First you need to defrost the finished puff pastry. Next, boil water, add sugar and stir. Peel and seed the pears, cut them into small pieces and place them in the resulting syrup. Leave to cool. Divide the dough into two parts. We roll out one of them or stretch it with our hands and line the baking dish. Sprinkle with starch. Then lay out the pears in circles (without syrup). Cover the fruit with the remaining dough. We pinch the edges. Decorate the top of the pie with strips of dough cut from the edges of the pan. Brush the dessert with beaten egg. Now you can send the puff pastry pie to the oven preheated to two hundred degrees. It will bake for about forty minutes. When the dessert is almost ready, sprinkle it with coarse granulated sugar and place it in the oven for another five minutes.
Shortcrust pastry pie
We offer another option for preparing dessert. As ingredients for the dough, we will need 100 grams of sugar and butter, one egg and two yolks, 250 grams of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, the zest of half a lemon and vanillin. For the filling we will use three pears. Also, this recipe for shortbread pear pie involves decorating it with meringue. We will make it from two proteins and 100 grams of granulated sugar.
Let's start preparing shortcrust pastry. To do this, beat the butter with sugar. Then add baking powder, a whole egg, two yolks, vanillin and lemon zest. Stir well. Add flour and knead the dough. Immediately place it in a baking dish. The dough should be distributed evenly and sides should be made. Place the form in the refrigerator for half an hour. After this time, take out the dough and place pre-peeled and chopped pears on it. Place the form in an oven preheated to standard +180°C. The cake will bake for about half an hour. Now you can prepare the meringue. To do this, beat the whites with sugar until a strong foam forms. Remove the pie from the oven and spread the meringue over its surface. Reduce the temperature to +150 °C and continue baking the dessert. The pie can be removed when the meringue turns golden. Now all that remains is to cool the dessert and you can serve it on the table.
with pear filling
We bring to your attention a recipe for making another delicious dessert. Thanks to the use of cottage cheese, a delicious pear pie will turn out to be very tender and aromatic. Such a culinary product would not be a shame to serve not only for a home tea party, but also for a holiday table.
So, the recipe for this dessert involves using the following ingredients: two pears, three eggs, 300 grams of flour, a bag of baking powder, a teaspoon of vanilla, a little powdered sugar, a glass of sugar, 200 grams of cottage cheese and 110 grams of butter.
So, let's start making cottage cheese pie with pears. Beat butter and sugar. Without ceasing to beat, add eggs one at a time, and then cottage cheese and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the sifted flour and baking powder. Gradually add dry ingredients into the dough, stirring constantly. Carefully cut the pears into circles, removing the seeds. Pour the resulting dough into a baking dish. Add pieces of fruit on top, placing them at equal distances from each other. Our curd pie with pears will bake for about an hour at 170 degrees. The finished dessert just needs to be cooled and sprinkled with powdered sugar. All! A delicious pie can be served!
Pear pies are not prepared as often as, for example, apple pies. Somehow it happened like that! But they turn out no less tasty than all other fruit baked goods. I wondered why? And to find the answer, I spent several days preparing different versions with these fruits.
I cooked until everyone in my household asked for mercy. The main burden fell on them - tasting and sharing impressions. And if they coped with the first part of their mission quite easily, so easily that the pie did not even have time to cool down, as it was eaten almost at lightning speed!
But the second part was more difficult to cope with, because after the next piece they ate, everyone said out loud: “It’s delicious, but you can’t eat it like that!”, and asked not to cook them anymore.
But the next day came, someone went to the store to buy bread and brought pears again. And everyone asked: “What kind of pie will there be today?” Then everything repeated itself, and this happened for several days in a row.
I never found the answer to why pear varant is cooked less frequently than apple varant, but I fed everyone with pies! And today I am happy to share recipes with you. Maybe you can find this answer.
All recipes come with step-by-step descriptions and lots of photographs. This will help you easily prepare any of the proposed pear desserts.
We will need:
- pears - 3-4 pcs (depending on the size of the fruit and the baking dish)
- flour - 2 cups
- sour cream - 300 gr
- egg - 4 pcs
- sugar - 150 g (6 tablespoons)
- vanilla sugar - 10 g (sachet)
- baking powder for dough - 1 tbsp. spoon
- lemon - 0.5 pcs
- butter - 0.5 tbsp. spoons
Preparation:
For baking, I use a silicone mold 22 cm in diameter. But you can also use a springform pan and a frying pan.
1. Wash the pears and remove the skin if desired. This time I have them with thin skin, and I didn’t peel them. If the skin is rough, then it is better to peel it, so the baked goods will turn out more tender.
2. First cut the pears into two halves, and then into small slices no more than 1 cm thick. This will make them easier to fit into the mold.
3. Grease the mold with butter; grab both the bottom and sides. In principle, the pie turns out to be “unpretentious”, and even without oil it can be easily taken out after baking. But I still lubricate it a little; it seems more tasty to me that way.
4. Lay out the slices overlapping, with the sharp end down. You can post them in any order. But you still need to try to do it as carefully as possible. We will turn the finished baked goods over, so to make the picture please us, we will try to do it beautifully.
5. Grate half a lemon on a fine grater, removing only the yellow part - the zest. Sprinkle the remaining peeled lemon over the pear slices, squeezing it directly with your hands. We use a medium-sized lemon.
6. Let’s immediately prepare all the necessary ingredients for the dough so that everything is at hand. We will make the dough quickly.
7. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them into foam using a mixer.
8. Add sugar and vanilla sugar and continue beating until sugar is completely dissolved, about 2 minutes.
9. Add sour cream and lemon zest, and continue beating until smooth.
10. Sift flour and baking powder in advance. Start gradually introducing them into the mixture, continuing to beat. The dough should be free of lumps, uniform in consistency, moderately liquid and viscous.
11. Pour the dough over the pears, let stand for 2-3 minutes so that it is distributed in the mold.
12. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 10 minutes.
13. Then reduce the temperature to 150 degrees and bake for another 50 minutes. During the entire baking process, try not to open the oven so that the dough does not fall off. In this case, the cake will turn out tall and airy.
14. Take out the finished pie and let it cool slightly. Then turn it out onto a large flat plate. Cut into triangles and serve with tea or coffee.
Enjoy eating! Usually such a pie is eaten immediately, which is called “hot, hot.” No one is waiting for it to cool down, but otherwise, there’s no reason to wait. It's delicious when it's warm. Or maybe it’s delicious cold too? But there is no way to verify this.
Recipe
Combine yeast with a teaspoon of sugar. Fill with warm boiled water and leave for a quarter of an hour. Pour the flour into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and margarine (it should be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that it softens). Grind the ingredients until crumbly. Add yeast. Mix the dough. It should be cool. Form it into a ball, lightly sprinkle with flour and leave for 20 minutes.
Divide the dough into two parts. Roll each of them out to a thickness of half a centimeter. Line the pan with baking paper. Place one of the resulting layers of dough on it. We form small sides. Spread the pear jam filling onto the dough. It should be thick. If the jam is runny, then first place it in a colander and allow the excess syrup to drain. Sprinkle the filling with a small amount of flour on top. Now you can turn on the oven to heat it up. Place a second layer of dough on top of the filling. We pinch the edges. Using a knife, make several small cuts across the entire surface of the future pie.
Take an egg and separate the white from the yolk. Mix the latter with a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Lubricate the surface of the dessert with the mixture. By the way, instead of yolk you can use sugar syrup. Now the pie with pear jam, the recipe for which we are considering, can be sent to a preheated oven. It should be baked until golden brown. Readiness can be checked in the traditional way using a toothpick. Then the dessert needs to be allowed to cool slightly and you can cut it into portions and serve. Pear is a wonderful ingredient for baking. It not only gives a piquant taste, but is also very healthy.
Pear strudel
We love to eat this pie with apples, but as an experiment, I decided to make it with pears. At the end of the experiment I will share my impressions.
We will need for the test:
- sour cream – 100 gr
- egg – 1 pc.
- sugar – 2 tbsp. spoons
- butter – 2 tbsp. spoons
- flour – 1.5 – 2 cups flour
For filling:
- pears – 4 -5 pcs.
- sugar – 1 glass
- butter 80-100 g
- walnuts – 2 handfuls
Preparation:
To prepare baked goods, you need a not very tall mold with a fairly large diameter. During the entire baking process, we will take out the cake and do some manipulations with it. Therefore, it must be accessible from all sides of the form.
1. Knead the dough. To do this, you need to beat the egg with sugar, you can use a mixer, or you can beat it with a whisk. There is only one egg, and it will be done quite quickly.
2. Continuing to beat, add sour cream, soft butter, which must be taken out in advance and let it lie at room temperature.
3. Then slowly stir in the sifted flour. Place flour by eye, 1.5 or 2 cups, depending on the size of the egg and the thickness of the sour cream. Knead the dough until it is quite soft and elastic.
4. Roll it into a ball, then cover it with a napkin and let it lie for 10-15 minutes. You can also keep it in the refrigerator. But then it will be more difficult to roll it out. So I leave it lying on the table.
5. In the meantime, let's start with the filling. Wash the pears, peel and cut into small pieces. If their skin is rough, it is better to peel it. There is no need to chop very finely so that the pie contains pieces and not pear puree. Cut only 4 pieces at first. Then we'll see if we need another one.
6. Chop the nuts by rolling them with a rolling pin, but not very finely, the pieces should remain tangible. If you can’t find nuts, you can do without them; the baked goods will also be very tasty. But with nuts it will be simply tastiest.
By the way, you can use any nuts.
7. Now it’s time for the test. We need a lot of free space on the kitchen table. We will roll out the dough in a very large layer and very thin.
8. To prevent it from sticking to the table and rolling pin, grease the table with vegetable oil. Knead the dough again, and then begin to roll it out into a wide, long oval.
Rolling out the dough will be quite easy. It's okay if the oval isn't the perfect shape. But do not forget that you need to roll it out thinly.
9. Now place the chopped pears on the rolled out layer of dough. Now look. If you think there is not enough filling, cut more.
10. Then sprinkle evenly with nuts, then sugar and finally cut the butter into cubes. It is better to cut it by taking it out of the refrigerator. I missed this moment. And I left the butter on the table, so it melted for me, and I had to cut it a little coarsely.
You can add either 100 grams or 80 grams of oil, depending on how dietary option you choose. I add 80 grams, this is quite enough for us.
11. Roll the dough with the filling into a roll. Try to do this carefully so that it does not tear. But even if this happens by chance, don’t despair, it’s okay. Everything will work out!
12. Roll up the roll and carefully move it into the mold. I use a large silicone mold with low sides. I place the roll in it in such a way that its edges do not fit tightly to the walls. There must be free access from all sides. Do not pinch the edges to allow access to the filling.
13. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place our workpiece in it.
14. After 15-20 minutes, the butter will melt and melt the sugar, and meaty caramel will begin to flow out of the edges. When there is enough of it to scoop with a spoon, you will need to take out the mold every 5-7 minutes and pour the top with this caramel.
15. Bake until the top crust is cooked and browned. This will take about 60 minutes, but it all depends on the features of the oven. It may take a little more or a little less time.
16. When the pie is hot, pick it up on both sides with large wide spatulas and transfer it to a dish. If you wait, then it will be more difficult to do it later, the caramel will harden.
The caramel left in its form can be eaten, it is delicious.
17. Let it cool a little and cut into pieces. Eat with tea or coffee.
This pie is also always eaten hot, so we have never been able to try what it tastes like cold.
It should be noted that the same option with apples is. Moreover, everyone loves him without exception. And if there is cake and it on the table, guess what gets eaten first? It's always missing. And that’s why, when I’m expecting guests, I bake them 2 at a time so that everyone is full.
What can we say about this pie? It did not disappoint, and turned out to be no worse than the apple one. Therefore, the experiment was a 100% success, and the conclusion is - let’s cook!
Now it’s time for the next option, which can be considered a work of culinary art.
