Echpochmak is a traditional dish of Tatar cuisine. It is similar to pies with meat, prepared from fresh soft dough, with various stuffings: lamb, potatoes and onions. Let's find out the recipes for cooking echpochmak with you.
Echpochmak and chicken recipe
Ingredients:
- For the test:
- flour - 4 items;
- water - 1 item;
- dry yeast - 10 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
For filling:
- chicken fillet - 800 g;
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- butter - 50 g;
- broth - 1 item;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
How to cook echpochmak? First, mix all the ingredients and knead a homogeneous yeast dough, which we put in a warm place for 1.5 hours to go.
Then we prepare the filling. To do this, take the chicken fillet, cut into small cubes along with the peeled potatoes. Onions are cleaned and finely shredded. Mix everything, salt, pepper to taste and mix. Approached dough knead, cut into slices and roll each into a small round layer. We spread the filling and splinter the edges so that the triangles are formed. A small hole must always remain in the middle. Transfer the Tatar pies echpochmak to a greased baking sheet and send it to the oven heated to 200 degrees for 35 minutes. Then we take them out, pour in a little broth, grease the egg and bake it for another 20 minutes. We serve ready echpochmaki with chicken in a hot form!
Echpochmak on yogurt
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 3 items;
- butter - 250 g;
- kefir - 200 ml;
- soda - 0,5 tsp.
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 600 g;
- meat - 600 g;
- onion - 3 pcs.
Preparation
The recipe for cooking echpochmaka fairly simple. Take the cooled butter, cut into pieces and knead with wheat flour until a homogeneous coarse crumb is obtained.
In a separate bowl, whisk a good egg, adding just a little salt. Pour kefir and put a little soda, not slaked with vinegar. The resulting mixture is added to the flour with butter and knead the dough. It should turn plastic and soft, but do not stick. We put the finished dough for half an hour in the refrigerator. And by this time we are preparing the filling.
To do this, we take any meat, best beef, and cut it together with potatoes into small cubes. Onions are cleaned and rubbed on a large grater. We mix everything, salt, pepper to taste! We take the dough out of the refrigerator, cut it into the same small balls and roll them into round thin layers. In the middle, put the filling and tear it, forming triangles and leaving a small hole on top. Then we shift cooked echpochmaki to a baking sheet, grease with beaten egg and send for 30 minutes in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. After half an hour we get pies and put a small piece of butter in each hole. We send it to the oven and bake for 30 more minutes!
Ready echpochmak before serving, lubricate with melted butter.
Echpochmak from cottage cheese pastry - recipe
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- soda - 0,5 tsp.
- sugar - 100 g;
- flour - 2 tbsp.
Preparation
We put butter in a bowl, put on a weak fire and warm it up to a warm state. Then pour it into the cottage cheese twisted through a meat grinder
By preparing echpochmaki, you can find the strength for a new beginning. You can, for example, organize a day of Tatar cuisine and make fried peas , well, or take as a basis the recipe for gubadia and bake a dessert.