Having at hand a package of puff pastry , the number of baking recipes that can be cooked on its basis can be estimated in dozens. One of the variants of recipes is a layered pie with cheese, which can be supplemented with a huge variety of ingredients: meat, poultry, greens, everything goes to play.
Puff pastry with chicken and cheese
In order to shorten the cooking time of the pie, we use ready-made smoked chicken, but you can fry the pieces of the bird with onion or boil the flesh, and then disassemble it into fibers.
Ingredients:
- packing puff pastry;
- smoked chicken - 265 g;
- hard cheese - 240 g;
- onion - 65 g;
- egg - 1 pc.
Preparation
Roll out two layers of puff pastry and lay one of them in the base of the cake, on a sheet of parchment. Spasseruyte onion and mix it with chicken and cheese pieces. Distribute the filling over the first layer of the dough, from above place the second and connect the edges together. Cover the future cake with egg and leave to bake for half an hour at 200 degrees.
Such a layered pie can be made with any meat and cheese, save with beef or pork onions, add to mushrooms mushrooms, favorite spices or greens - the number of variations is determined only by the breadth of your fantasy flight.
Snail pie made of puff pastry with cheese
Puff cakes in the form of a spiral are the property of Greek cuisine. As a rule, as a filling, the Greeks use brine cheese, like feta, and add spinach greens to it. The basis can lie both the usual puff pastry, and the sheets of traditional Greek filo.
Ingredients:
- spinach (thawed) - 420 g;
- Feta cheese - 165 g;
- hard cheese - 55 g;
- grated Parmesan - 35 g;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- egg - 1 piece;
- butter -15 g;
- sheet of puff pastry.
Preparation
Start with the preparation of the filling for which the defrosted spinach should be thawed, squeezed, drained and cut. Finished leaves mixed with grated hard cheeses and feta, season with all the nutmeg and beat the egg.
The defrosted layer of dough should be rolled out as thinly as possible, literally to translucence. Then it is covered with a thin layer of melted butter and spread the filling from one of the edges. Carefully picking up the dough, roll it into a roll, and then fold it in a spiral, with a snail. Place the layered cake with cheese and spinach greens in a 200-degree oven preheated for 20-25 minutes.