How to make dough for pies with potatoes

Traditional Russian cuisine pies cooked in almost every home, with different fillings. Very popular in this capacity, rich mashed potatoes, especially during lent. An important role in the cooking of meals plays his base. Try different types of dough for pies with potato – yeast-free, yeast and vegetable.

Unleavened dough for pies with potatoes

Ingredients:
- 300 ml of kefir 3.2% fat;
- 400 g flour;
- 1 tsp of baking soda, salt and sugar;
- 80 ml vegetable oil.

Remove the yogurt from the refrigerator 40 minutes before cooking. It needs to be at room temperature so the dough faster and better will rise. Stir in the soda, salt and sugar and add a third of the vegetable oil. Stir well until a uniform distribution of ingredients. Without ceasing to stir, gradually stir in the flour.

Start to knead the dough by hand as soon as it will be difficult to do with a spoon. At the end stir in the remainder of the vegetable oil. The basis for pies potatoes should be elastic and not sticky. Wrap it in plastic wrap to not dry out) and leave it for half an hour.

Yeast dough for pies with potatoes

Ingredients:
- 1 kg of flour;
- 1 tbsp of dry yeast;
- 500 ml milk 2.5% fat;
- 2 chicken egg yolk;
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp of sugar;
- 2 tsp of salt.

Sift the flour several times through a sieve and pour into a deep container. Make a leaven from 2 tsp flour, 100 ml warm milk, sugar and yeast. Let it stand for at least 15 minutes before doubling in volume.

Heat the remaining milk and pour it into the flour together with egg yolks. Sprinkle salt and place approached starter. Mix all until smooth in a blender or food processor on low speed, then enter a thin stream of vegetable oil.

Knead the dough for 10-15 minutes until a ductility and a light behind the hands or the walls of the cookware. Collect the data, place it into a bowl or container, sprinkle with flour, cover with a clean towel and soak an hour in a warm place without drafts. If such a space in your kitchen, place the yeast dough in a heated to 30-35oC oven.

Lean dough for pies with potatoes

Ingredients:
- 450 g of flour;
- 2 tbsp of dry yeast;
- 2 cups of water;
- 2 tsp of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- 80 ml vegetable oil.

Heat a glass of water to 40-50oC, dissolve in it the yeast, salt and sugar and wait until the surface appears high cap of foam. Mash in a separate metal bowl 3 tbsp flour vegetable oil, dilute with glass of boiled water, cool a little and pour in the yeast mixture. Add to the flour and knead the dough. Put it to heat for 15 minutes, wrapped the bowl a bit dense tissue.