Mushroom pies - 8 step-by-step recipes

Pirozhki are a classic of Russian cuisine. A festive feast is not complete without them; such pastries are a tasty and satisfying everyday dish. Every housewife can boast of her own recipe for her favorite pie filling. A significant proportion of them will be occupied by various combinations of mushrooms and potatoes.

Pies stuffed with mushrooms and potatoes make a great dinner.

Recipes for fillings with mushrooms and potatoes

Its main ingredients are already listed in the name, but the methods of preparation and additives vary.

Classic potato and mushroom filling

For it you need:

• 3-4 potatoes;
• 0.5 kg of mushrooms;
• bulb;
• 50 g butter;
• salt pepper.

You can take any mushrooms: champignons, boletus, boletus, boletus, oyster mushrooms. With each type of mushroom it will have its own taste. Frozen mushrooms, salted and pickled, are suitable for filling.

How to cook:

1. Potatoes need to be boiled until tender. Salt the water. Drain it, turn the potatoes into mashed potatoes in a convenient way, add half the butter, knead well.
2. We cut the washed mushrooms into fairly small pieces, and also cut the onion. Fry everything in the remaining oil until done.
3. Mix all ingredients, season with pepper and salt. Let it cool completely.

To this filling you can add a couple of tablespoons of grated cheese, preferably hard cheese, the same amount of finely chopped fresh dill or 2-3 chopped hard-boiled eggs. You need to add these products while the filling is still hot, otherwise it will be difficult to mix the products so that they are distributed evenly.

Fried pies with potatoes (video)

Mushroom and fried potato filling

For this version of the filling, it is better to choose juicy mushrooms - boletus, boletus and not fry them, but stew them.
The ratio of products is the same, only you will have to take 2 times more onions and replace the butter with vegetable oil, but we will prepare the filling a little differently.

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How to cook:

1. Cut the peeled potatoes into very small cubes with a side no larger than 0.5 cm. Cut half the onion in the same way. Fry them together, adding vegetable oil, until cooked. You need to fry under the lid, then the potatoes will not turn out too dry.
2. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions, simmer them under the lid until tender. It is advisable to save some mushroom juice in the pan.
3. Combine everything together, mix, add salt and, if desired, pepper.

It is better not to add anything else to this filling option. The only exception is a couple of tablespoons of chopped green onions.

The filling is ready - you can start baking the pies. Housewives often have no time to prepare yeast dough. An excellent alternative is unleavened dough with sour cream or rich yogurt. It makes delicious fried pies.

Mushroom and fried potato filling

With added cheese

When there is no time to cook, quick and delicious pies made from store-bought puff pastry with the addition of cheese can be a way out of the situation.

Required Products:

• 0.5 kg puff pastry;
• 300–400 g crushed potatoes;
• 250 g champignons;
• 120 g cheese;
• 1–2 medium onions.

Cooking process:

1. Remove the dough from the freezer. Let him warm up.
2. Finely chop the peeled onions and fry until transparent.
3. Add chopped mushrooms to the frying pan. Bring to readiness.
4. Combine the resulting mixture with mashed potatoes. Salt and pepper, add a little nutmeg. Mix the products.
5. Roll out the prepared dough. Spread the filling evenly. Sprinkle it with grated cheese.
6. Roll the workpiece into a roll. Pinch the edges.
7. Cut the dough into portions about 4 cm wide.
8. Place them on a large baking sheet lined with parchment.
9. Bake for about 20 minutes at 220 ⁰C.

Delicious snack pies will especially help if unexpected guests arrive.

How to cook yeast-free pies with potatoes and mushrooms in a frying pan

For the test:

• 1/2 cup yogurt or sour cream or kefir, even unsweetened yogurt will do;
• 2-3 tbsp. spoons of melted butter;
• about 2 cups of flour, depending on the gluten content in it;
• a teaspoon of sugar and salt;
• Art. spoon of vinegar;
• 0.5 teaspoons of soda;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking steps:

1. Pour sugar into the fermented milk product, add salt, melted butter, soda, quenched with vinegar, mix, add flour little by little, kneading the dough. It should be kneaded for about 7 minutes.
2. Cover the dough with cling film and let rest for about half an hour. The gluten contained in the flour will swell and the dough will become more pliable.
3. Meanwhile, prepare the filling according to the previous recipe.
4. Sprinkle the table or cutting board well with flour, lay out the dough, and cut it into balls. Their size depends on the size of the pies we are going to get. Roll out balls, sprinkle them with flour.
5. Place the filling in the middle of the flatbread and make pies.
6. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and place the pies. They should not touch each other, otherwise they may stick together. Let's fry. Don't forget to turn them over. Cover the pan with a lid.

They should be prepared immediately before serving. Once cooled, they lose their taste.

There are recipes for dough without yeast and using water.

Yeast-free pies with potatoes and mushrooms in a frying pan

From curd dough

Fried pies made from curd dough go well with both fruit and berry, meat or mushroom fillings. At the same time, the finished dish turns out to be very satisfying and easier on the digestive system than the yeast version.

Required ingredients:

• 250 g fat cottage cheese;
• 2 large chicken eggs;
• 2–2.5 tbsp. premium wheat flour;
• 2–3 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• 1 tbsp. l. crystal sugar;
• 1 tsp. table salt;
• 2 tbsp. l. refined sunflower oil;
• 0.5 tsp. baking soda.

Preparation:

1. Pour cottage cheese into a deep container.
2. Add eggs, salt, soda, granulated sugar, sour cream and refined vegetable oil. Mix the composition.
3. Add the sifted flour and knead into a soft elastic dough.
4. Form it into a sausage. Cut into pieces and roll them into circles.
5. Fill each tortilla with filling (for example, potato and mushroom, as in the previous recipe). Pinch the edges.
6. Fry until beautifully golden brown in a frying pan.

Ready-made pies can be served hot or cold. And for storage they should be packed in a cellophane bag and put in the cold.

Lenten pies with mushrooms and potatoes

For the dough: a glass of water, 100 ml of vegetable oil, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, the same amount of sugar.

How to cook:

1. To make the dough airy, sift the flour using a sieve. Combine it with the rest of the ingredients. Knead the dough. It should not stick to your hands.
2. While the dough is resting, prepare the filling.
3. Place the dough on a floured board and break it into pieces. Roll out or stretch each piece very thinly with your hands to form a flat cake.
4. We form a pie by placing the filling on the cakes and pinching the edges.
5. Fry the resulting products in oil in a hot frying pan.

Fried pies made from yeast dough are good.

Open pies

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry dough – 250 gr.
• Potatoes – 400 gr.
• Champignons – 100 gr.
• Dried boletus mushrooms – 40 gr.
• Onion – 1 piece, medium size.
• Cheese – 50 gr., hard varieties.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc., highest category.
• Flour – 2 tbsp. spoons.
• Vegetable oil, pepper, salt, parsley - to taste.

Cooking:

• First rinse the dried mushrooms by pouring clean water for 10 minutes, then drain the water, pour in new water and soak the fruiting bodies in it for 3 hours.
• Boil the potatoes in their skins until tender, cool and peel.
• Boil the swollen mushrooms in the same water for 20 minutes.
• Cut the onion into small cubes and fry in oil in a frying pan until transparent, then add both types of mushrooms, cut into pieces, and fry until cooked - the liquid has completely evaporated, for another 8 minutes.
• Combine chilled roast, potatoes cut into small cubes and cheese grated on a coarse grater in one container. Mix everything thoroughly, adding pepper, salt and finely chopped herbs.
• Divide the puff pastry into strips 10 cm wide.
• Roll each strip into a layer and cut it into squares with a side of about 13 cm.
• Break the egg into a small container and brush the surface of each square with it using a pastry brush.
• Place 2 tbsp. spoons of filling onto each square diagonally.
• Roll the squares into cones and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Then brush their surface with egg again and leave the pieces to soak for about ten minutes.
• Bake the pies at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. The finished horns will take on a juicy caramel color.

The pies are ready!

Classic recipe for fried yeast pies with potatoes, mushrooms and onions

Ingredients:

• half-liter carton of milk;
• dry yeast - 2 teaspoons;
• 0.25 cups vegetable oil;
• a tablespoon of sugar and a pinch of salt;
• about 4 cups flour.

Mushrooms, potatoes, onions for filling.

How to cook:

1. Warm the milk a little. Pour everything into it except flour and butter. Stir well.
2. We begin to gradually add the sifted flour, mixing well each time. We should get a soft dough, plastic, slightly sticking to our hands at the end of kneading. Pour vegetable oil into it, knead hourly for 15 minutes. During the kneading process, it will take in air and will continue to rise well.
3. Place in a warm place, covered with a towel.
4. While it is rising, prepare the filling according to one of the above recipes.
5. Divide the risen dough into pieces. This is easy to do if you wet your hands in vegetable oil.
6. We turn the pieces into flat cakes, from which we make pies.
7. Fry until golden brown in vegetable oil.

Using potatoes, you can make dough for mushroom pies and bake them in the oven.

Classic yeast fried pies with potatoes, mushrooms and onions

Recipe for making potato pies with mushrooms in the oven

The filling is purely mushroom with a small amount of onion.

For the test:

• 750 g potatoes;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 tbsp. heaped spoons of flour;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of butter;
• a glass of sour cream.

For filling:

• 250 g champignons;
• bulb;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of butter.

Any mushrooms are good.

How to cook:

1. Drain the boiled potatoes and turn them into puree.
2. Salt, beat the eggs, add flour, knead the dough.
3. To make the filling, cook the mushrooms. They must be completely ready. Chop the strained mushrooms and finely chop the onion. Fry everything together a little.
4. We make flat cakes from the dough and put the filling on them.
5. Grease a baking tray with oil. Lay out the formed pies. To make them golden brown, coat them with lightly beaten egg.

Not everyone can eat fatty foods, and fried pies cannot be called dietary food. There is another frying method in which the dough does not absorb fat.

Potato pies with mushrooms in the oven

What mushrooms to use

Any to your taste. Most modern recipes, including those presented below, immediately indicate that purchased champignons must be used, but this is mainly due to the general availability of these mushrooms, which are grown annually on special mushroom farms in huge quantities and are therefore sold , now, in almost any store. However, you can easily use any mushrooms to suit your taste, and, naturally, each specific type of mushroom will give your pies its own special flavor.

How to cook pies with mushrooms and potatoes in a dry frying pan

The mushrooms for these pies need to be cut very finely; you can grind them in a meat grinder.

Ingredients for the dough:

• low-fat kefir - 0.5 l;
• flour - about 700 g;
• egg;
• 150 g butter;
• 1/2 teaspoon of soda.

We make the filling according to any of the above recipes. She must be completely ready.

How to cook:

1. Add soda, salt, egg to slightly warmed kefir, mix.
2. Adding flour in parts, knead the dough. It should turn out plastic and soft. Let the dough rest under cling film for about half an hour. Knead again.
3. After rolling the dough into a sausage, cut it into pieces.
4. We form flat pies with filling.
5. Carefully roll each pie into a thin flat cake. You need to start rolling from the middle. Prick them with a fork in several places.
6. Heat a dry frying pan, lay out the resulting cakes, shaking off excess flour.
7. Fry on both sides until lightly browned.
8. Immediately grease the pies with butter and stack them like pancakes.

It happens that there are no fresh mushrooms in stock, but there are quite a few jars of pickled mushrooms in the pantry. They can make an excellent filling for pies, especially if you combine them with potatoes.

Pies with mushrooms and potatoes in a dry frying pan

How to prepare mushrooms

Store-bought champignons are almost ready to eat - just unpack them and rinse them a little under running water. After this, you can safely cook them. Another thing is fresh mushrooms, recently collected from the forest. To begin with, they need to be cleared of various forest debris, including using a soft brush. Then, areas damaged by insects or rot, if any, must be removed from the fruiting bodies. Finally, the mushrooms should be thoroughly rinsed under running water, paying special attention to the space under the cap. At the same time, you should not immerse the fruiting bodies in water for a long time, otherwise they will swell and lose their taste. After washing, the mushrooms need to be dried briefly in a colander.

Recipe for pies with potatoes and pickled mushrooms

We will make the dough from raw potatoes and fry breaded products.

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kg;
• a couple of eggs;
• 1/2 jar of mushrooms;
• bulb;
• breadcrumbs;
• oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Strain the mushrooms from the marinade, wash, chop, fry with onions until they are ready.
2. Three large raw potatoes, add salt and mix with egg.
3. With wet hands, cut the pies with mushroom filling.
4. Bread in breadcrumbs, first dipping each pie in a beaten egg.
5. Fry until golden brown

Baking made from puff pastry always has an exquisite taste. Let's try to make baked mushroom pies from puff pastry.