Pie with minced fish: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

We all sometimes want some delicious pastries, but often the contents of our refrigerator do not always meet our desires, and not everyone admires the fuss with the dough. However, we hasten to please you: there are recipes that do not need long preparation and are not very expensive.

There is also an opinion that baking is not very he althy. This, of course, is true, but sometimes, in order to maintain a good mood, we just need a piece of fragrant delicious cake, which for a moment returns us to a carefree childhood. And if you put a he althy filling in it, then such pastries can hardly be called harmful.

Today we will talk about such a culinary delight as minced fish pie.

What's good about baked fish?

So let's discuss the benefits of fish pie.

• Fish is very he althy, but not everyone likes it. In tandem with delicious dough, even the most fastidious gourmet will not refuse it.
• In a pie, fish can be paired with other nutritious foods for a gourmet dinner for the whole family in one dish.
• If you have uninvited guests on your doorstep, and you don’t know what to treat them to, you will be saved by puff or yeast dough prepared for the future andcanned fish: from them you will be able to reproduce such a culinary miracle as minced fish pie (the recipe with a photo of which you will find in this article).
• Most of the fish pies can be made with inexpensive ingredients, greatly reducing the cost of these baked goods.
• Some of the recipes described in our article are so quick and simple to perform that even a beginner can handle them.

You can vary the ingredients in the fish pie according to what you have in your fridge.

In this article we will provide you with several baking recipes for every taste. Following our master classes, you will be able to cook minced fish pie of any complexity.

Fish Pizza

Pie with minced fish, the recipe of which will now be described, is called "Fish Pizza". Of course, such a product has little in common with real pizza. Most likely, it was named so only because of the similarity of forms with its Italian namesake, but rest assured: such a cake will delight you, your guests and household members.

By the way, this is one of the “five-minute” recipes that will save you if guests suddenly suddenly appeared.

Ingredients you will need for this "pizza":

For the dough (two to three times the minimum required for one fish pizza, the leftover dough can lie in the refrigerator for three days and freezer for twelve weeks):

• Wheat flour –1 kg.
• Fat milk – 1.5 tbsp
• Instant Yeast - 1 small sachet.
• Baking powder - 1 sachet.
• Egg – 1 pc
• Regular sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Coarse s alt 1.5 tsp

By the way, this dough can be used for real pizza or for any other savory pastries.

For stuffing:

• Canned fish in oil (such as mackerel or horse mackerel) - 1-2 cans (depending on how big you want the fish pizza).
• Large onion - 1 pc.
• Mayonnaise – 1 pack
• Sunflower refined deodorized oil - 2-3 tbsp. l.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc
• Any milk - 2 tbsp. l.
• Coarsely ground black pepper to taste.

Cooking

• Heat the milk to 40 degrees.
• Pour sugar and yeast into it.
• Leave the yeast to react with milk and sugar for 5 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour, s alt and baking powder.
• Add dry ingredients to milk mixture and beat in egg.
• Knead the dough until it no longer sticks to your hands, has a thick but not clogged consistency.
• Let the dough rest in a draught-free place for 40 minutes, covered with a kitchen towel.
• Knead again.
• Place the batter into the tin, spreading it in a fairly thin layer, while raising the sides 2 cm (if you don't have a round tin, use a frying pan with a metal handle).
• Put the canned fish into a bowl along with the liquid and mash with a fork until minced.
• Cut the onion into small cubes.
• Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and saute the onion in it until golden brown.
• Mix onions with canned fish and black pepper.
• Put the filling on the pie and brush it on top with a thin layer of mayonnaise.
• Beat the egg and milk and brush the pie (both the dough and the filling) with this mass.
• Place the pizza in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes (you can check the readiness of the dough by piercing it with a match or a toothpick, if the match is dry, the dough is ready).

Yeast dough minced fish pie is ready! Of course, you can use store-bought dough, but homemade dough with love is always tastier and he althier.

Puff Pastry Minced Fish Pie

Who doesn't love delicious, crispy, layered dough? There are many recipes for its preparation, but this is a rather complicated and long process, so we advise you not to suffer and buy a ready-made product in the store.

Having a couple of packs of this semi-finished product in the freezer is a very smart decision, because from puff pastry you can cook a lot of delicious pastries in minutes, including minced fish pie.

• Puff pastry - 0.5 kg.
• Fish 0.5 kg (it is advisable to take the one that does not contain very many bones, but forin the absence of one, any other will do).
• Boiled eggs – 3 pcs
• Big onion - 1 pc
• Raw egg - 1 pc
• Lemon pepper - 1 tsp. (optional).
• Cooking s alt - to taste.
• Coarse black pepper - to taste.
• Mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil.

Cooking method

• Finely chop or grind fish in a meat grinder, cleaned of bones, skin and entrails.
• Cut the onion into small cubes.
• Sweat the onion cubes until they turn golden brown, add them to the minced fish.
• Fry everything on intense fire (you need to stir constantly).
• Cut finely boiled eggs and add to the fish with onions.
• We also send mayonnaise, s alt and spices there (if you want to save money, you can take 300 g of fish and 200 g of boiled rice).
• Mix the stuffing well.
• Lay the puff pastry so that a quarter of one sheet lies on the second.
• In the middle, lay out the filling in a strip so that the width of the strips of free dough on one side and the other is equal to the width of the filling.
• Cut the free parts across, about 5 mm short of the filling, into 2 cm strips.
• Bend them over the stuffing to make a braid-like pattern.
• Brush the dough with a beaten raw egg.
• Put the pie with minced fish in the oven heated to 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes (we check the readiness of the dough with a toothpick).
• We take out the finished pastry and let it “rest” for about 10 minutes.

By the way, such a puff pastry with minced fish can be prepared not only from fresh, but also from the remains of boiled or baked fish.

Amazingly beautiful and very tasty pastries are on your table, the preparation of which took very little time.

Jellied minced fish pie (with photo)

Here's another quick fish recipe. This batter dish is easy to prepare, inexpensive and very nutritious, as it includes potatoes in addition to canned fish. The aspic pie with minced fish will no doubt surprise your family and friends.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• Low-fat sour cream – 250g
• Wheat flour 6 tbsp. l.
• Fat mayonnaise – 250g
• S alt - half a teaspoon.
• Soda - half a teaspoon.
• Raw eggs - 3 pcs

For stuffing:

• Saira - 2 cans.
• Potato - 3 medium tubers.
• Large onion - 1 pc.

Cooking process

• Beat 3 eggs with a pinch of s alt.
• In a separate bowl, mix sour cream and mayonnaise.
• Pour the sour cream-mayonnaise mixture over the eggs.
• Add flour and soda there.
• Mix everything well with a whisk or fork.
• Peel and grate potatoes.
• Mash canned fish with a fork until minced.
• Cut the onion into small cubes.
• Wipe the mold with a piece of butter.
• Pour half of the dough into it.
• Lay grated potatoes in an even layer on top of the dough.
• Spread onion layer.
• Place the fish filling on top of the potato and onion layer.
• Pour everything in an even layer of leftover dough.
• Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

So you have prepared a tender and very tasty pie with minced fish and jellied dough, which will surely become your signature dish in case of an unexpected arrival of guests.

Another layered fish pie recipe

We offer you another way to make minced fish pie. This dish will decorate any festive table, and your guests will definitely ask you to share the recipe.

This dish is more refined than the previous ones, but no less easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• Fish - 0.5 kg.
• Puff yeast-free dough – 0.5 kg.
• Boiled eggs – 3 pcs
• Raw egg - 1 pc
• Cheese - 100g
• Nuts (walnuts are best) - 3 tbsp. l.
• Butter - a third of a pack.
• S alt, pepper.
• Sunflower oil, odorless.
• S alty crackers - 5 pcs

Action algorithm

• Twist the cleaned and filleted fish in a meat grinder.
• Add black pepper, half the butter and a raw egg to the minced meat.
• Cut the onion into half rings.
• Sauté the onion until golden brown.
• Chop boiled eggs finely.
• Mix eggs with fried onions.
• Grate the cheese and add it to the onion-egg mixture.
• Use a rolling pin to turn the dough into an even square 0.5 cm thick.
• Fix the edges and put the cake on a baking sheet.
• Place the cake in an oven heated to 180 degrees for half an hour.

Today we have described several options for how to cook a fish pie, and in such detail that even a person who is far from cooking, following our master classes step by step, will be able to prepare his own culinary delight.

We hope that after reading this article, you understand that storing canned fish and frozen dough in reserve is a very good decision, because these are the products that will allow you to whip up your holiday dinner.

Cook with love and enjoy!