Step-by-step recipe for gates: how to make a delicious Karelian dish

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

Almost every resident of Karelia knows the recipe for gates. After all, such products with tasty and delicate filling are a traditional dish of this republic. For those who don't know how to make Karelian pies, below is a step by step way to make them.

Detailed recipe for gates stuffed with potatoes

Required ingredients for the dough:

• sifted rye flour - 1 cup full (can be a little more);
• table soda - a small pinch;
• high grade wheat flour - ½ faceted glass;
• curdled milk or slightly sour milk - 1 cup;
• fine sea s alt - add at your own discretion;
• egg yolk - for lubrication of finished products.

Preparing dough

Karelian gates, the recipe of which we are considering in this article, are made on the basis of a simple test using yogurt. In order to knead a thick mass, you need to pour sour milk into a metal bowl, warm it up slightly, and then extinguish a pinch of baking soda in it. On to the milk drinkit is necessary to add sea s alt, rye and wheat flour. As a result, you should get a cool base, almost like for manti. It should be covered with cling film and kept in this position for 30-55 minutes.

Also, the recipe for wickets with potatoes involves the use of the following ingredients (for the filling):

• chicken medium egg - 1 pc.;
• medium potatoes - 6-8 pieces;
• table s alt - add to taste;
• fat milk - 1 cup;
• butter - 250 g (for puree and coating finished products).

Vegetable filling process

It is worth noting that the recipe for gates can include not only potato filling, but also boiled rice groats. However, we decided to bring to your attention a method for making minced vegetable pies. After all, such products are much tastier and more satisfying.

To make mashed potatoes, take a few tubers, peel them thinly and boil them in s alt water. Next, the vegetable needs to be deprived of all the broth, pour fat milk into it, put the butter and break the chicken egg. All of the above ingredients should be mashed into a fluffy and airy puree using a pusher.

Shaping the dish

After the dough and filling for the dish are ready, you should start sculpting the gates. To do this, you need to take a small piece of the base and roll it into a thin oval shape. Next, in the middle of the layer, you need to put 1 or 2 large spoonsmashed potatoes, and then pinch the edges of the dough nicely so that the filling is open. After all the semi-finished products are decorated, they should be moved to a greased sheet, and chicken yolk should be applied on top of the pies.

Heat treatment

Such Karelian pies should be baked for no more than 20 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees. After all the products are cooked, they should be generously brushed with butter or dipped in melted margarine mixed with milk.

How to serve dinner properly

As you can see, the gate recipe does not include expensive and rare components. It is desirable to serve such a Karelian dish to the table along with hot sweet tea.