Ossetian pies with potatoes and cheese Kartofdzhin

Ossetian pies are a traditional dish of the inhabitants of North Ossetia. The recipe and cooking secrets are strictly protected within the family and passed on from mother to daughter (among the indigenous population). The ingredients used for the dish are exclusively local and the best.

And there are countless varieties of recipes for Ossetian pies. This mainly applies to fillings.

Currently, this dish is quite popular in the Russian Federation. Ossetian pies can be ordered ready-made (in special bakeries in the country) or made at home. Although this dish can only be tasted in the Caucasus.

Description

Ossetian pie is a flat cake made of thin dough (reflects the degree of skill of the housewife!) - round or triangular in shape, the total thickness of which is up to 20 millimeters (diameter - up to 40 centimeters).

The filling of this dish can be absolutely anything: meat, cheese, mushroom, potato, onion, bean, berry, pumpkin, and so on.

Such pies are prepared both salty and sweet, both meat and vegetarian.

Story

Ossetian pies - as a national dish of Ossetian national cuisine - have been around for centuries.

The traditional culinary culture of the peoples of Ossetia was formed thanks to the nomadic way of life of their ancestors (Sarmatians, Scythians, Alans), who initially preferred simple dishes - meat, cheese and milk. And for the first pies, the dough was prepared unleavened.

Currently, Ossetian pies are baked by women in all corners of Ossetia. And, although the recipes are almost identical, each has its own secrets that are passed down in the family - from generation to generation. This is part of the culture of the Caucasian people.

How can you decorate a pie?

Ossetian meat pies can be decorated with anything. It could be:

• parsley;
• basil;
• dill;
• cilantro;
• sesame seeds, etc.

You can make something interesting from the dough itself. Step-by-step recipes for Ossetian meat pies prepared at home do not always include instructions on how to make decorations. You can make a braid, triangles, flowers, etc.

Sometimes cheese is added for decoration. It melts and turns brown, which looks quite attractive.

It was already written above in the recipes for Ossetian meat pies that it is advisable to grease the top of the pie with butter. This will make it shiny. The yolk of an egg has the same effect. They smear it on the top before putting the pan in the oven.

Lenten pie

Usually a traditional dish consists of at least 3 pies. And this recipe for Ossetian pie assumes just such an amount. Therefore, if you want to bake a larger quantity of finished flour product with filling, you simply need to add the amount of ingredients in proportion.

A tasty, tender and juicy Ossetian pie is prepared as follows:

1. Grind fresh yeast (15 grams) into crumbs, add 180 milliliters of warm water and 40 grams of flour.
2. Stir the mixture and set aside for 30 minutes in a warm place until the yeast is completely dissolved and volume increases.

3. Then add 400 grams of flour and 6 grams of salt, knead into a soft and sticky dough.
4. To make the kneading process easier, it is recommended to add 30 milliliters of vegetable oil.
5. After 20 minutes, cover the bun in the container with polyethylene and put it in a warm place for 1.5-3 hours - for approaching (you can knead it several times).
6. Prepare the filling from carrots (100 g), cabbage (400 g), onions (100 g), walnuts (100 g) - chop finely.
7. Saute the vegetables and then simmer in vegetable oil (30 milliliters), at the end of the process add nuts and salt (20 grams), stir the mixture.
8. When the dough has risen, divide it into 3 koloboks.
9. Dust the work surface with flour and knead the round pieces with your hands. Add the filling to the center of each and connect all the edges into a knot, which is pressed into a flat cake using flour.
10. Gently knead each piece with the filling into a pie with your hands, make a hole in the center and place it in a mold or on a baking sheet, previously sprinkled with flour.
11. Cook Ossetian pies (according to the recipe) at home for 15-20 minutes at 240 degrees, then coat the surface with vegetable oil.

Dough recipe for Ossetian pies

Opara:

• Dry yeast - 2 level teaspoons (check that it is fresh, otherwise the dough may not rise)
• Sugar – 1 tablespoon
• Flour - 2 tablespoons (I put it without top)
• Water – 100 ml warm water

Mix and wait for bubbles/foam to appear on the surface.

Dough:

• Flour – 4 cups
• Milk – 1 glass (warm)
• Water – 200 ml (warm)
• Salt – 1 teaspoon
• Sunflower oil – 3 tablespoons

Preparation

Pour the prepared dough into a bowl, add warm water and milk, salt, stir. After this, we begin to add flour and knead the dough. The recipe I'm making from said ten minutes, so I kneaded it for about that long, first with a spoon, then with my hands.

It turned out runny, stuck to your hands, and the ball did not form. At the end, add sunflower oil, mix, smooth (it has become smoother, does not stick to your hands, but is still very soft).

Cover with a towel, place in a warm place, wait until it doubles in size at least. After forty minutes, I lightly “kneaded” it again, that is, I shuffled it with my hands several times.

I don’t know what the problem is, but it only started coming to me after two or three hours, and very slowly. I placed it next to the radiator, on the other side at a distance - a heater. Meanwhile, night came. So put the dough in the refrigerator and bake the pies tomorrow, Saturday morning.

Filling:

• Mushrooms from a jar, homemade - about 1-1.5 l
• Potatoes – 5 medium pieces
• Onion – 1 large onion

The dough has risen a little more in the refrigerator. For the first three pies, I made the filling like this: I chopped the onion finely, fried it, and added washed mushrooms (homemade from a jar).

It was decided to make the second batch of homemade Ossetian pies with potatoes. I cooked the puree and mixed it with fried mushrooms and onions.

Chicken and cheese pie

A very tasty and satisfying dish, the filling of which is made from boiled chicken meat, fresh herbs, spices and pickled cheese.

Making Ossetian pies (step-by-step recipe with photos) and ingredients:

1. Combine dry yeast (10 grams), flour (500 grams), milk (180 milliliters), water (180 milliliters), vegetable oil (50 milliliters).
2. Add salt and knead the yeast dough (soft, slightly sticky consistency). Cover the container with the bun with plastic wrap and set aside for 1.5-2 hours.
3. Prepare the filling: boil 400 grams of chicken meat (fillet or leg), add finely chopped onions (80 grams) and carrots (80 grams) to the broth
4. Grate brined cheese (Adyghe, feta cheese or Ossetian), add chopped meat and fresh herbs (parsley, dill).
5. Also pour salt (15 grams), spices (5 grams), paprika (3 grams) into the filling - mix with your hands.
6. Prepare a work surface - sprinkle with flour, lay out the dough - divide into 3 pieces.
7. Stretch the balls one by one, place 1/3 of the filling in the middle of each and connect the dough along the edge into a knot.
8. Roll out the round cake by hand and place it on a baking sheet with flour, make holes on top (to allow air to escape).

9. Bake the dish at 240 degrees for 20 minutes, grease the surface with butter.

If the filling turns out to be dry, it is recommended to add a few tablespoons of broth to it.

Ossetian meat pie

The recipe for Ossetian pie at home uses lamb filling. In total, the dish contains 2200 kcal.

Ossetian meat pie takes 2 hours to prepare. Makes 3 pies in total, 4 servings each. The dough is prepared with kefir.

Required ingredients:

• a glass of kefir;
• half a kilo of flour;
• 20 g tremors. alive;
• half stack milk;
• egg;
• l. tbsp sugar;
• spices;
• two tbsp. rast. oils;
• tbsp cilantro;
• kilogram of lamb;
• 220 g onions;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 100 ml. broth.

Preparation:

1. Add a spoonful of flour, sugar and milk to the defrosted yeast. Stir the dough and leave. After 20 minutes bubbles will appear.
2. Add the dough to the flour, pour in kefir, two pinches of salt and an egg. Knead the dough, pour in the oil at the end. Leave it to come.
3. Squeeze the garlic and pass the meat and onions through a meat grinder.
4. Add salt and pepper, cilantro to the minced meat. Pour in the broth.
5. Divide the minced meat and dough into 3 parts.
6. Roll out the dough into a flat cake and place the minced meat in the middle.
7. Gather the ends of the dough at the top, covering the filling. Close well.
8. Level and flatten each cake: first with your hands, then with a rolling pin. Make a hole in each pie.
9. Place the pies on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes.

Choose fatty meat for the filling or add a piece of lard to the minced meat. Serve pies with broth or tea.

Pie with cottage cheese and herbs

A most delicate dish that can feed the whole family, as well as treat relatives and friends. Soft and juicy dough, delicious filling of cottage cheese and fresh herbs, as well as grated pickled cheese - what could be better!

By the way, in Ossetia, housewives bake this dish both on weekdays (instead of bread) and on holidays.

To prepare an Ossetian cheese pie recipe at home, you need:

1. Knead 700 grams of yeast dough (400 grams of flour, 200 milliliters of milk, 20 grams of fresh yeast, 6 grams of salt and 50 milliliters of melted butter).
2. Leave to rise for 2 hours.
3. Prepare the filling: place 0.5 kilograms of fatty cottage cheese in a deep container, add grated hard cheese (100 g) and chopped dill (100 grams) - grind.
4. Beat 1 chicken egg into the filling and add salt (20 grams), mix everything.

5. When the dough is ready, divide the entire volume into 3 or more parts, roll out a thick pancake with your hands and lay out the filling.
6. Gather the edges and “knead” the top of the knot into the workpiece, sprinkle with flour.
7. Place the bag on a work surface with a small amount of flour and roll out the cake with your hands.
8. Place in a baking dish and make a small hole, cook for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

When the pies are ready, grease the surface of each with butter (it is recommended to do this immediately after the oven).

Ossetian pies with cheese (the recipe with photos is in the article) are ready to be served.

Ossetian pie with herbs

This is a delicious recipe for Ossetian pie filled with fresh herbs and cheese. Makes 9 servings in total. It takes 2 hours to cook. The calorie content of the pie is 2700 kcal.

Required ingredients:

• a bunch of greenery;
• tsp trembling dry;
• 650 g flour;
• per tsp. salt and sugar;
• half stack rast. oils;
• 300 g Ossetian cheese;
• one and a half stack. water.

Cooking steps:

1. Mix sugar and yeast, pour in a little warm water and leave for a few minutes.
2. Gradually add flour and salt, add oil and the rest of the water. Leave the dough to rise.
3. Wash, dry the greens and chop finely. Stir in mashed cheese.
4. Divide the dough into three parts and roll out thin.
5. Lay out some of the filling. Gather the edges of the pie into the middle and seal. Gently stretch the cake.
6. Place the pie on a baking sheet and make a hole in the middle.
7. Bake for 30 minutes. Brush hot pie with butter.

Potato and cheese pie

An original recipe for a flour dish, the filling of which consists of mashed potatoes and cheeses (suluguni and feta).

Ingredients and preparation:

1. Boil peeled potatoes (1 kilogram), grind into puree (add 80 milliliters of milk and 50 grams of butter).
2. Grind suluguni cheese (200 grams) using a grater.
3. Soften feta cheese (200 grams) by hand and add to suluguni.
4. Combine potatoes and cheeses, add salt (20 grams).
5. Divide the prepared yeast dough (1 kilogram) into balls, and divide the filling into the appropriate number of koloboks.
6. Sprinkle the work table with flour.
7. Press the ball in the center, lay out the filling and, gathering the edges, make a “bag”, which you press down and smooth into a flat round cake with filling.
8. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown, then brush with melted butter (60 grams).

Serve the dish for tea or for lunch - instead of bread (sandwich).

Recipe for Ossetian pie at home step by step

If you are planning a small family event, or you are going to meet friends outdoors, then you will probably need this step-by-step recipe for Ossetian pie at home. I generally love these pies and quite often I make them even for no reason, just for dinner. Why not? The dough is quick-cooking, although it is yeast, the filling is very tasty and piquant, making such pies is also not difficult. So while the main course is being prepared, I already have Ossetian snack pies baked in the oven. I once read the history of this dish, it is quite interesting. Like most dishes of Caucasian cuisine, such pies have their own characteristics, which are quite difficult to completely replicate in our kitchen. But, nevertheless, I still learned how to cook them, maybe not even exactly the way they do it in the mountain villages, but my family really likes it, and I suggest you try making such an appetizer for dinner today. The dough, as I already said, we make quick yeast dough, but for the filling we will take several types of cheese (you can use feta cheese, mozzarella, cottage cheese and hard cheeses), as well as fresh herbs (parsley, cilantro, basil). After we form the flatbreads - this is exactly what a traditional Ossetian pie with cheese and potatoes looks like, brush the recipe with egg and bake in the oven.

The above recipe makes 3 small pies or one large one.

— whole wheat flour – 300 gr. - fresh yeast - 20 gr. - water (warm) - 200 ml. - vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. – fine crystalline salt – ½ tsp. - granulated sugar - 1.5 tbsp. - egg for greasing pies - 1 pc. — Mozzarella cheese – 150 gr. — “Brynza” cheese – 150-200 gr. - greens (dill).

At the first stage, we prepare a lazy dough from yeast. It’s quite simple: first pour warm (about body temperature) water into a bowl, add salt and sugar, and then yeast. Stir and wait until they react and the process begins.

Next, pour the sifted flour into this mixture (sifting is a mandatory process, otherwise the flour is not saturated with oxygen) in parts, while kneading the dough with a spoon.

Finally, pour in the oil (the original recipe calls for olive oil, but it can be replaced with any other).

Knead the final soft dough with your hands.

And put it to rest in a warm place, covered with a napkin for about half an hour.

The second stage is preparing the filling. Everything here is also simple: we chop the mozzarella using a grater, you can mash the cheese just with a fork. We sort through the greens, wash and dry, then finely chop and mix with cheese.

Knead the dough again and move on to the next stage - forming the pies. To do this, knead it with your hands into a large cake. Place a ball made from cheese filling on it. You can also make Ossetian pie with cabbage and mushrooms.

And we collect the dough as if in a bag.

Then, turn the stuffed flatbread over with the seam side down and press it down very carefully, preferably with your hands.

And we make a small hole in the middle for the hot air to escape.

Then brush with beaten egg and transfer to a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Bake the pie in the oven at 200 degrees for about half an hour until they are nicely browned. Now you know how to cook Ossetian pie.

Pie with cheese in a slow cooker

Ossetian pies are baked according to recipes with photos in the oven, oven, frying pan, and also in a slow cooker.

How can a modern housewife manage without this kitchen assistant? You can also bake a delicious national dish of Ossetia in it.

Ingredients and preparation steps:

1. For the dough, take 100 milliliters of milk and pour into a bowl, add salt (10 grams) and sugar (5 grams).
2. Add fresh yeast (15 grams) to the mixture and grind.
3. Add flour (40 grams) and “knead” the dough, set aside.
4. Melt butter (30 grams), cool and pour into another container.
5. Add kefir (100 milliliters), sour cream (20 milliliters), egg (1 piece) to the oil, stir.
6. Combine the mixture with the dough and flour (400 grams), knead into a soft dough.
7. Leave to rise for a couple of hours.
8. Prepare the filling from suluguni cheese, crushed using a grater (300 grams).
9. When the dough is ready (increases 2-3 times in volume), divide into koloboks.
10. Knead, add the filling and prepare flat round pies (according to the diameter of the bowl).
11. Bake for 45 minutes in the “Baking” program (turn 180 degrees during the process).
12. Grease the prepared dish with melted butter (20 milliliters).

With cabbage, carrots and walnuts

To fill the Lenten Ossetian pie with cabbage, you will need the following ingredients:

• 400 grams of fresh cabbage;
• 1 medium carrot;
• 1 onion;
• walnuts - at your discretion;
• salt, pepper and other necessary spices;
• sunflower oil.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Chop the cabbage into thin strips. Try not to get any large pieces of greenery into the filling.
2. Three carrots on a coarse grater.
3. Peel the onion and cut it into cubes.
4. Grease a frying pan with vegetable oil and heat it.
5. Stew chopped onions, cabbage and carrots. Salt and pepper to taste.
6. We peel the walnuts and chop the kernels.
7. Pour the chopped nuts into the filling, mix well and wait until everything cools down.

Place the cooled filling on the rolled out dough. We form the cake and send it to bake in the oven.

Pie with meat filling

These are hearty Ossetian pies made from dough without yeast - with minced pork and beef. They will appeal to men and all lovers of rich meat filling and dough.

Ingredients and preparation:

1. Heat kefir (400 milliliters) in a container on the stove.
2. Pour in baking soda (5 grams) and stir.
3. Add flour (700 grams) and salt (2 grams), knead the dough.
4. Prepare the filling from a mixture of minced pork and beef (0.5 kilograms), add finely chopped onion (150 grams) and seasoning (5 grams).
5. Roll out the dough into pieces, lay out the filling, pinch and roll out by hand.
6. Bake until browned - at 220 degrees.
7. Grease the finished dish with butter.

Necessary ingredients for pies

• Warm water or whey – 0.5 l;
• One egg;
• Half a teaspoon of salt;
• Sugar – 2 tbsp;
• Butter or margarine – 100 grams;
• Flour (highest grade) of proven quality – 1 kg;
• To lubricate your hands you will need a little vegetable oil.

Potato and cheese filling for Ossetian pie

• Mashed potatoes – 700 grams;
• Ossetian brine cheese (can be replaced with feta cheese, suluguni, Adyghe cheese) – 700 grams;
• Melted butter – 2 tbsp;
• Sour cream – 1 tbsp;
• Salt - to taste (based on the salinity of the cheese);
• Ground pepper - to taste.

Filling for Ossetian cabbage pies:

• Fresh cabbage - 1 kg;
• 3 large onions;
• Vegetable oil for frying onions – 130 ml;
• Ground black pepper;
• Red pepper (paprika);
• Salt – 1 tsp. (taste);
• Basil;
• Ground walnuts.