How to learn how to cook delicious apple pies

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• oven;
• a baking sheet;
• 2 deep bowls or bowls with a capacity of 4 liters or more;
• cooking mat for cutting dough;
• cooking scales;
• beaker;
• sieve;
• cooking vane;
• culinary whisk;
• cling film;
• parchment paper.

Ingredients

Step cooking

How to make a dough

1. Crush pressed yeast (18 grams) into a deep bowl. When buying yeast, pay attention to the release date. The fresher the yeast, the better the dough.
   
2. Add 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar, mix a little.
   
3. Pour 120 ml of warm milk into a bowl (temperature 36-37 ° С). Shuffle.
   
4. Pour 4 tablespoons of pre-sifted flour. Stir the composition with a cooking spatula until smooth.
   
5. Tighten a bowl of dough with cling film, place in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours. Opara should rise with a cap of foam.
   

Cooking dough

1. Pour 5 tablespoons of granulated sugar into another deep bowl, add vanilla sugar (8 grams).
   
2. Break 2 chicken eggs into the sugar mixture.
   
3. With a whisk, beat the mixture of sugar and eggs well.
   
4. Stir the dough, add the mixture of sugar and eggs to it.
   
5. Pour in the remaining milk (130 ml), before adding heat it to 36-37 ° С.
   
6. Melt the butter (100 grams), cool to a warm state, add it to the bowl with the dough being prepared.
   
7. Put 0.5 teaspoon of fresh lemon zest in a bowl. To obtain the zest, grate the yellow peel of a previously washed lemon on a fine grater. The zest gives the pastry a pleasant aroma. Mix well.
   
8. For a tablespoon, add the sifted flour (remaining from the total amount of 600 grams), kneading the uncooked dough. Flour may need a little more or less, it depends on its quality. While the mass is liquid, stir it with a culinary spatula, whisk or spoon.
   
9. Knead a thick dough for 10-15 minutes. The mass will stick a little to the hands and the bowl, but it should be so. Form a ball.
   
10. Lubricate a clean, deep bowl with vegetable oil (20 ml). Put the ball in a greased bowl, tighten with cling film. Put in a warm place.
    
11. After 40-45 minutes, knead the dough. Tighten again with foil and return to heat.
    
12. Repeat warming after another 40-45 minutes. Leave to approach for another 1-1.5 hours. This dough is called Viennese.
    

How to cook apple filling

1. Wash and peel apples (1, 3 kg), cut out the core. Cut the apples into small pieces (approximately 0.7 cm × 1 cm × 1.5 cm). For the filling, it is better to take apples of hard varieties.
   
2. Melt in a pan 30 grams of butter.
   
3. Add granulated sugar (4 tablespoons), mix the mass.
   
4. Put the sliced ​​apples in the pan. Fry over high heat, gently mixing, 3-4 minutes. Pieces of apples should retain their shape (therefore, it is advisable to use hard varieties).
   
5. Put the apples in a sieve, let the liquid drain. Put on a plate, cool the filling to room temperature.
   

Cooking and baking pies

1. Take the approached dough from the bowl onto the cutting surface (table, silicone, plastic mat), knead.Divide the ball into 22-23 parts, weighing approximately 50 grams each.
   
2. Mash a piece, give it a round shape. Make balls from all the pieces. Put the blanks on the mat, tighten with cling film. Let rest 10-15 minutes.
   
3. Sprinkle the cooled apple slices to taste with cinnamon, mix.
   
4. Free the blanks from the film. Stretch each piece of dough with your hands in a circle with a diameter of about 10-12 cm. Put a tablespoon of the filling in the center of the cake.
   
5. Pinch the edges of the pie well. Smooth the resulting seam.
   
6. Lay the pie seam down on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Form all the pies in this way. Transfer products to a baking sheet.
   
7. Cover the baking sheet with cling film. Leave it in a warm place for 40-45 minutes so that the patties come up. Peel off the film.
   
8. In a deep plate, beat with a whisk 2 chicken eggs until smooth. Brush the patties with the egg mixture using a cooking brush.
   
9. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 ° C for 30-35 minutes, until golden brown.
   

Video recipe

One of the best videos on this topic is extremely simple and clear about all the stages of making dough, filling, the formation of pies, and their baking. After explaining the excellent cook, you will have no questions about making delicious apple pies.

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