A wonderful recipe for baking pastry with a filling of cheese, herbs, ham, minced meat, mushrooms should be mastered by every housewife.
Envelopes with cheese will help out when guests are on the doorstep or need to quickly prepare an express version of breakfast (dinner).
This is a great option for a hearty and tasty snack at school or at work.
Puff pastry is ideal for making cheese envelopes, although you can take simple yeast, shortbread, kefir dough and even thin ready-made pita bread.
You can wrap almost any filling in envelopes with cheese: ham, minced meat or mushroom, cottage cheese, eggs, fish, greens. Very tasty, for example, puffs with fish and cheese or pita bread envelopes with cheese and herbs.
Cheese Envelopes - General Cooking Principles
Dough envelopes can be fried or baked. Cooked in a pan, they turn out to be more high-calorie and crispy. Baking in the oven will slightly reduce the calorie content of the dish. The average temperature for baking products from puff pastry is 180-190 degrees, the time is about 20 minutes (if the dough is rolled very thin, then 10-15 minutes are enough). For a yeast dough that is more dense in consistency, a mode of 200-210 degrees is suitable, the baking time is about half an hour.
The ingredients for the filling must be finely chopped. Fry mushrooms, onions and meat, boil potatoes. Cheese is best grated, although for a quick option you can cut into thin slices. It is tasty to mix different varieties of cheese, add cottage cheese, cream cheese to taste to the filling.
Envelopes with cheese fried from simple kefir dough
A simple dough on kefir is a real salvation for the hostess. It is prepared in a matter of minutes, it turns out to be tender and very tasty. Beginning housewives need to take note of the recipe for delicious crispy envelopes with cheese. Enjoy a delicious breakfast with a cup of coffee and a delicious afternoon dessert with a cup of green tea.
Ingredients:
• a glass of kefir;
• two to three glasses of white flour;
• half a teaspoon of salt;
• a teaspoon of sugar;
• a teaspoon of soda or baking powder;
• two hundred grams of semi-hard cheese or suluguni;
• two tablespoons of cottage cheese (optional);
• one egg;
• four tablespoons of sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
Pour kefir into the mixing bowl.
Add salt with sugar, soda or baking powder, mix.
Mix the flour gradually. Ready dough should be soft, non-sticky, stretch well. During the batch, you need to monitor the amount of flour, since the quality of gluten affects the result. You may need less or more than three glasses indicated on the recipe.
Form a ball from the dough, cover with a film and leave it alone for 40 minutes.
Grate the cheese piece on a medium, coarse grater or cut into small cubes.
Mix the cheese crumbs with cottage cheese.
If desired, fresh chopped greens to taste can be added to the filling.
Drive the egg into the cheese and cheese filling, mix well.
Salt if the filling seems to be fresh, and the cheese is taken unsalted. You can add your favorite spices.
Put the rested soft dough onto a work surface sprinkled with flour and roll it into a 1 cm thick layer.
Divide the dough into two parts, each roll up in the form of a roll, then cut into small pieces.
Kneading a piece of text with your hands, form a circle, put a spoonful of cheese filling in the middle.
Blind the edges with an envelope.
Heat oil in a frying pan, reduce heat to medium and fry envelopes with cheese on both sides.
Put on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat.
Envelopes with cheese and puff pastry salmon
The cheese and fish filling of the envelope pies from the finished puff pastry gives an incomparable taste. Especially if this fish is fatty salmon, and cheese is lean feta. Instead of salmon, you can take any red fish, for example, trout or salmon, and replace feta with suluguni or other young cheese.
Ingredients:
• a pound of finished puff pastry;
• half a kilo fillet of chopped salmon;
• two hundred and three hundred grams of feta;
• one bell pepper;
• salt;
• half a tablespoon of dried thyme (or two sprigs of fresh);
• ground pepper to taste;
• a tablespoon of olive oil;
• one yolk.
Cooking method:
From the washed piece of salmon, cut the flesh, take out the bones and cut into large pieces.
Dissolve oil in a frying pan, fry salmon over medium heat for five minutes. At the end, salt and sprinkle with pepper. Put in a large bowl.
Paprika cut into small cubes, previously cutting the stem and removing the septum with seeds. Fry in the same pan, adding a spoonful of olive oil, for five minutes.
Mash the fried salmon with a spoon or fork and mix with slices of fried pepper and dried thyme (wash and pick up fresh twigs).
A piece of cheese is pretty coarsely chopped.
Roll out the puff pastry on a flour dusted working surface with a layer no thicker than half a centimeter.
Cut the stratum into rather large squares (12-15 cm), prick every 2-3 times with a fork.
Put the fish filling on the dough square, put a piece of cheese on top.
Pinching the edges, form a envelope.
Separate the yolk from the protein and beat slightly by dropping a spoonful of water.
Lubricate the envelopes with cheese and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
The oven is about half an hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Lavash envelopes with cheese and herbs
Thin Armenian pita bread allows you to cook wonderful envelopes with cheese filling. They turn out to be especially tasty if the cheese is mixed with seasonal herbs. Fried in oil, pita bread envelopes with cheese and herbs will crunch appetizingly from the outside. Two sheets of pita bread are enough for two adults.
Ingredients:
• two sheets of thin Armenian lavash;
• one hundred grams of cheese;
• one egg;
• two tablespoons of starch;
• one hundred grams of mixed greens;
• a spoon of mayonnaise;
• vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking method:
Wash greens, dry with a napkin and finely chop.
Cheese cut into thin slices.
Cut thin pita bread into four parts using kitchen scissors.
Sprinkle each piece of pita bread with herbs, put a piece of cheese in the center and fold in the form of an envelope.
Mix the egg with starch and mayonnaise.
Heat vegetable oil in a skillet.
Dip envelopes of pita bread with cheese and herbs in batter and fry on both sides until crisp.
Lavash envelopes with cheese, herbs and tomatoes
Another option for a deliciously delicious breakfast is especially good in the summer-fall season. To prepare pita bread envelopes with cheese and herbs, you will need fleshy, sweet and sour tomatoes.
Ingredients:
• two sheets of fresh pita bread;
• one hundred grams of low-melting cheese;
• two eggs;
• a bunch of greenery;
• two small or one large tomato;
• pepper and salt to your taste;
• vegetable oil for the pan.
Cooking method:
Slice pita bread into squares or rectangles.
Wash the tomatoes, pat them dry with a napkin and cut into circles.
Grate a piece of cheese on a coarse grater.
Finely chop the greens with a knife.
Put cheese, tomato, greens in the middle of pita bread.
Glue the envelopes with cheese by wetting the edges of the dough with water.
Salt the egg, add pepper and beat.
Dip the envelopes with cheese and herbs in the egg mixture and fry in a pan.
Puff envelopes with cheese in the oven
The simplest recipe for instant baking will help out when there is no time for breakfast at all. The main thing is that puff pastry is not frozen. Quick cheese envelopes turn out very tasty and do not cause trouble.
Ingredients:
• a pound of yeast puff pastry (you can take ready-made yeast-free);
• three hundred grams of cheese (you can take different and mix);
• one yolk;
• a tablespoon of sesame seeds.
Cooking method:
Grate the cheese coarsely.
Roll out the dough and prepare the basis for puff envelopes with cheese - squares with a side of 10 cm.
Turn on the oven.
Put the filling in the center of the squares from the puff pastry and pinch the edges in the form of envelopes.
Grease the tops with whipped yolk, sprinkle each with a pinch of sesame.
Put envelopes on a greased sheet and bake for ten to twenty minutes.
Puff cheese and ham envelopes
You can pamper yourself and your family on Sunday morning with simple but very tasty puff envelopes with cheese and ham. Simple cooking and great results!
Ingredients:
• a pound of puff pastry;
• three hundred grams of ham;
• two hundred grams of cheese;
• egg;
• two tablespoons of flour.
Cooking method:
Grate a piece of cheese.
Cut the ham into fairly small cubes or thin cubes.
Sprinkle flour on the table and roll the puff pastry very thinly.
Turn on the oven to preheat to 180-190 degrees.
Cut the dough into rectangles.
Place the finished filling on the edge of the rectangle, cover with the free part of the dough and make tucks around the perimeter.
Grease puff envelopes with beaten egg cheese, bake for ten to fifteen minutes.
Puff envelopes with cheese and minced meat
A rich breakfast can be prepared with a simple recipe for puff envelopes with minced meat. It is convenient to cook such baked goods if there is a small piece of minced meat left and it is not clear what to do with it.
Ingredients:
• a pound of any (yeast or yeast-free) puff pastry;
• 200-200 grams of minced meat;
• 150 grams of semi-hard cheese;
• two tablespoons of sour cream;
• medium onion;
• two cloves of garlic (or half a teaspoon of dried, granulated);
• two tablespoons of dried parsley;
• chicken yolk;
• one to two tablespoons of oil for the pan.
Cooking method:
Finely chop the peeled onion, crush the garlic and chop with a knife.
Fry the onion in a well-heated pan, add minced meat after three minutes.
Fry the minced meat for seven to eight minutes, add pepper and salt, chopped or granulated garlic.
Put on a plate to cool faster.
Grate the cheese.
Mix the cheese crumbs with minced meat, sour cream, egg and dried parsley.
Cook envelopes from cheese and meat filling and puff pastry as described above, and bake until a pleasant blush.
Puff envelopes with cheese, potatoes and mushrooms
This recipe for puff envelopes with cheese can be used as an on-duty version of a hearty dinner. The filling of cheese, potatoes, mushrooms gives the pastry an incomparable taste. Envelopes are obtained open, which gives the dish a very appetizing look.
Ingredients:
• a pound of puff pastry;
• four medium potatoes;
• one hundred grams of cheese;
• two hundred grams of forest mushrooms or champignons;
• salt;
• clove of garlic;
• a mixture of peppers;
• a spoon of vegetable oil.
Cooking
Cook potatoes, cool and cut into small cubes (you can grate coarsely).
Chop onions, chop mushrooms.
Heat oil in a pan, fry onions and mushrooms.
Finely grate cheese and a clove of garlic.
Mix mushroom roast with cheese, garlic and potatoes.
Form envelopes, filling them with a hearty filling, and bake.
Cheese Envelopes - Tips and Tricks
Puff pastry can be frozen for future use. On the taste it does not affect.
You do not need to defrost envelopes. They should immediately be sent to the oven, increasing the baking time by half an hour.
