Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- electric or gas stove;
- oven with temperature control;
- cutting board;
- knife;
- pan;
- scapula;
- a baking sheet;
- baking paper;
- confectionery brush;
- fork.
Ingredients
| Ready Puff Pastry | 2 sheets |
| Bell pepper | 300-400 g |
| Onion | 250-300 g |
| Homemade cottage cheese | 150-200 g |
| Olive oil | for frying |
| Salt | taste |
| One egg yolk | for greasing dough |
Did you know? Puff pastry can be prepared according to your favorite recipe. But it is much easier to buy frozen, taking it out of the freezer about 1-1.5 before cooking. Cottage cheese is suitable and shop, any fat content. The main thing is that it should not be curd or curd, namely crumbly curd. Sunflower oil can also be used, but on an olive dish it will come out much tastier and more aromatic.
Step cooking
Prepare the filling
- Cut 250-300 g of onions into small cubes (these are approximately 3 medium onions).
- Fry it in a pan in a small amount of olive oil until soft.
- Cut 300-400 g of sweet pepper into medium-sized cubes.
- Add it to the onion pan, mix.
- Fry the onion and pepper until soft, but so that the pepper retains its shape. This will take about 7-8 minutes if fry over medium heat, stirring constantly.
Collect the pie
- Put one sheet of finished rolled puff pastry on a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
- On top of the dough, lay out the pepper and onion filling, leaving 1.5-2 cm of the free edge. If necessary, the filling can be slightly salted.
- Brush the edges of the dough with yolk using a pastry brush.
- Put 150-200 g of cottage cheese on top of the pepper, placing it in small islands.
- Cover the pie with a second sheet of dough, pinch the edges. This is convenient to do by pushing them with a fork.
- Make some cuts on the surface of the pie, you can in the form of rhombs. This will further decorate the dish and prevent the cake from flowing.
- Lubricate the entire surface with yolk.
- The edges of the rhombuses can be plucked, turning the cuts into the original pattern.
- Place the pie in the oven, heated to 210-220 ° C for 15 minutes.
Such a cake can be served in a warm or completely cooled form. But cutting it is more convenient while it is hot. This snack can be a great addition to tea or coffee. It can also be cooked and served with chicken broth as a light lunch.
Video recipe
This video demonstrates the process of making unsweetened puff pastry pie with vegetable filling and cottage cheese. One of the options for decorating such a light, fragrant and mouth-watering snack is demonstrated.
So you got a light, fragrant and beautiful unsweetened cake. Puff pastry goes well with any salty fillings, so you can experiment by adding not only peppers and onions, but also other vegetables, pre-steaming them in a pan. Cottage cheese can be replaced with cheese, even soft, even grated hard. The main thing is that to cook such an appetizer simply and quickly is the power of every housewife. Did you like the recipe for unsweetened cake? What ideas arose about the toppings for such baking? Share your thoughts in the comments, it is interesting to other readers!
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