Yeast Pies “Piglets”

Small snack pies decorated in the form of funny pigs – a symbol of the upcoming New Year. Such pies can not only decorate the New Year’s table in 2019, but also please the little ones at a children’s party.

Ingredients

For the dough:

• Flour – 300 g
• Water – 150 ml
• Butter – 50 g
• Sugar – 2 tbsp
• Salt – 0.5 teaspoon
• Dry fast-acting yeast – 1 teaspoon

For filling:

• Chicken liver – 250 g
• Bulb onions – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper (optional) – to taste

Additionally:

• Chicken egg (for greasing pies) – 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil – for frying and greasing the baking sheet
• Black peppercorns – for “eyes”

Directions

1. Prepare food for piglet patties. It is not necessary to use liver as a filling. You can make such yeast pies with potatoes or meat, for example.

   

2. Peel the onions and carrots. Dice the onion and grate the carrots.
3. Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil until golden brown.
4. Wash the chicken liver, add water and put on fire. When the water boils, skim off the foam, season with salt and cook from the moment of boiling over low heat, covered for 15 minutes. The liver should be soft.
5. Grind the liver with fried onions and carrots using a blender or meat grinder.
   The filling for the pies is ready, you can pepper if desired.
6. Prepare yeast dough for pies. To do this, stir salt and sugar in warm water. Melt the butter. Mix flour with yeast.
7. Pour oil into the water. Gradually adding flour, knead the dough.
8. Knead the dough with your hands until it becomes homogeneous, smooth and stops sticking to your hands.
9. Place the dough in a dry, clean bowl, cover with a towel and put in a warm place to rise for 1 hour.
10. Then knead the dough and leave for another 20 minutes.
11. Transfer the finished pie dough to a cutting board or table.
12. Divide the dough into several equal parts (by the number of pies). Leave a little dough to decorate the “piglets”, “ears” and “tails” of piglets.
13. Knead the dough for the pie with your hands in a circle. Put the filling in the center, raise the edges of the dough and fasten.

    

14. Roll the pie with your palms, giving it a round or oblong shape. Thus, blind all the pies. Let the liver pies rise for 10-15 minutes. Break the egg into a bowl and shake with a fork. Grease the pies with an egg.
15. Knead the remaining dough with your hands into a layer. Using available tools, cut out small circles for “patches”. Cut the rest of the dough into strips.
16. To decorate the pies in the form of pigs, attach the “patches” with toothpicks. Make small “pig eyes” from black peppercorns. “Ears” should also be small, made from pieces of dough.
17. Attach thin “pig tails” in the form of dough flagella at the back.
18. Place the “Piglet” pies on a greased baking sheet.
19. Bake the pies in an oven heated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes, until the pies are golden brown.
20. Transfer the finished pies to the wire rack, remove the toothpicks. Cool until warm and can be served.

    

Piglets with chicken liver are very tasty and soft. Bon Appetit!