Salted puff pastry envelopes with cottage cheese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. As a filling, you can use cottage cheese, minced meat, apples, cherries, jam, cheese, mushrooms, sausage and other products to taste. It can be sweet pies or snack "envelopes". I have a salty curd filling. Puff pastry is removed from the freezer in advance and allowed to defrost in natural conditions (at room temperature), usually an hour is enough.

2. Step 2:

   

   While the dough is defrosting, prepare the cottage cheese filling. Put cottage cheese in a bowl or bowl of a blender, add a spoonful of sour cream or cream to make the filling juicier and more tender, add salt to taste. Thoroughly mix or rub the cottage cheese, if it is coarse, so that the curd mass becomes homogeneous in consistency.

3. Step 3:

   

   We spread the dough layer on the work surface sprinkled with flour, roll it out a little with a rolling pin, but not very thinly, otherwise the envelopes will not turn out puff and airy. You can try to roll out both layers at once, sprinkling them with flour and putting them on top of each other, you will immediately get the upper and lower side of the pie, then you will have to cut the dough into squares, stuff and fasten the edges.

5. Step 4:

   

   Cut the layer of puff pastry into squares or rectangles, as it turns out, the same size. Put the curd filling in the center of each square of dough. We fasten the edges of the dough to make an envelope, you can use the teeth of a fork to walk along the edge of the "envelope" to make it more beautiful.

6. Step 5:

   

   Envelopes come in different shapes: square, rectangular or triangular, so you can safely give the pies any shape you like. it does not affect the taste. We put them in a greased baking dish. In a bowl, beat the yolk of a chicken egg. We lubricate the billets of puff pastry envelopes with it. If desired, you can sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the envelopes.

7. Step 6:

   

   Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. We send the blanks to the oven for 15-20 minutes. You need to focus on the work of your oven. The pies should be well browned and rise. We take the pies out of the oven and serve them to the table, with tea, coffee or milk. Bon appetit!