How to make the dough for pasties

Pasties – a kind of cakes made from thin and unleavened dough with various fillings. For the filling use not only the meat but also cabbage, cheese, mushrooms and potatoes. For making pasties is especially important to use the right dough recipe, then pasties will turn out delicious and soft. Surprise your household appetizing and hot pasties before which no one can resist.

You will need

- 1.5 cups hot water
- 4 cups flour,
- salt,
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 8 tbsp vegetable oil.

Instruction

For the dough you will need a bowl. Pour it in 1.5 cups boiled hot water, add a couple pinches of salt and one teaspoon of sugar. Mix everything carefully.

Measure a little more than four cups of flour and sift through a sieve. Slides in the center of flour make a well and pour in the hot water with dissolved salt and sugar.

Add one teaspoon of vodka and eight tablespoons of vegetable oil, knead the dough. Cover the dough with a clean cloth or towel and allow it to rest a little.

After some time again Pomezia dough and cover with a cloth and let it lay. Knead, so the dough 3 times.

Left to roll out the dough in a layer thickness of 3 mm, cut out circles with a saucer. Put on each circle of dough a little minced meat and combine the edges. Make a border with a fork, pressing the teeth to the edges of the dough, and fry in deep fat with a large amount of vegetable oil.

Note

During cooking, dough, egg laying is not necessary, as they reduce the softness and plasticity. The dough for pasties need to brew, so it should be kneaded in boiling water, this will give the dough a special lightness and delicacy that is the main component of tasty pasties. Vegetable oil added during kneading, will help give the finished pasties particular bubble. Added to the batter vodka makes it a little crispy and receivemy frying.

Useful advice

During lent, you can cook the pasties with cabbage filling. You can try to cook the dough for pasties with the addition of beer. For this you will need one glass of light beer in which you want to add salt, sugar, one egg. Stir in desired amount of sifted flour. The dough some time must lie under a towel, regularly knead. The dough should be not less than one hour. Instead of beer you can add mineral water, with gas bubbles, it will be more tender.

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