Kubete (meat pie).
I learned the original recipe for this meat pie when I got married. My husband's grandmother showed it to me.
Composition:
Dough:
- water
- flour
- pork fat
- salt
stuffing
- meat
- potatoes
- salt, pepper
Cooking kubete meat pie:
You need to knead a dough of flour and water, salting it. The dough should be soft and elastic, like dumplings or dumplings, but not too "battered". Let the dough stand for a while, divide it into 2 or 4 pieces (you need 2 pieces of dough for a pie, respectively, if you are making 2 pies, then 4 pieces of dough).
Then roll out one part of the dough, put 1-2 tbsp of lard (melted pork fat) in the center, and start spreading it from the center to the edges with your hand, so that the entire layer of dough is smeared completely. Don't be afraid that it will be greasy - it won't be!
Wrap the dough into a roll, and then roll that roll into another spiral (snail).
Put the dough in a bag and put it in the fridge. Follow the same procedures with all the parts of our dough.
While the dough is chilling, prepare the filling. For the stuffing we take approximately the same amount of meat, potatoes and onions (although the proportions can be changed to suit your taste). Cut all the ingredients into straws. One more little tip: peel and cut the potatoes last, so they don't have time to darken.
The pan or tray in which the pie will be baked should be greased with vegetable oil (but it is better to cover with foil). Take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll out into a layer. Take a baking tray or a pan so that the rolled out layer of dough would be 0,5-0,8 cm thick and the edges would be a little higher than the edges of the container. Place the potatoes on the dough, then the meat, then the onion, salt and pepper everything.
Roll out the second layer of dough and cover the filling on top. If you have leftover dough scraps, you can use them to decorate the top of the pie. Make a circular or cross-shaped cut in the center, tuck the edges in and fasten in the form of a flagellum.
After that, pour water into the cut in the center (for a medium pan, somewhere around 200-250 ml of water; for a baking tray, up to 0.5 liters of water). Put the pie in an oven heated to 200 degrees Celsius and bake until the smell of the filling spreads in the kitchen and the crust on top of the pie is browned.
Hopefully our family recipe will become one of your family recipes!
