Russian Pirozhki

Description

Pirozhki are little pies with savoury or sweet fillings. They can be served with a soup, as an appetizer or just with a cup of tea or coffee. "Pirozhki" is a plural form. The singlular form is "pirozhok". There are many recipes of pirozhki. Here is one of them.

Ingredients

For 16-18 pies
280 g flour
100 g butter or margarine
125 ml milk (cold or warm)
2 tsp dry yeast
1,5 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt 

Instructions

Put the flour into a bowl. Add softened and cut into small pieces butter, mix thoroughly. Dissolve the yeast, salt and sugar in the milk and add to the flour and butter mixture. Form a dough. Roll the dough into a ball, place into container with lid and put into the fridge for 4 hours or overnight.
Roll out the dough until 3 mm thick on a lightly floured surface. Using a 8-10cm round pie cutter, cut out rounds of the dough. Place some filling mixture (see recipes below) into the middle of the each dough round. Fold the edges together to encase the filling. Put the pies onto a baking tray, covered with parchment paper. Brush each pie with lightly beaten egg white and bake for 15-17 minutes at 180C.

Variants of fillings:
1) Cut 3 skinned apples into small cubes. Sprinkle with sugar (2-3 tablespoons). Add vanila extract.
2) Any jam you like.
3) Finely chopped boiled eggs , green onions, 1-2 tbsp melted butter. Season with salt.
4) Chicken Liver Pâté. See the recipe here.
5) Chop cabbage and simmer in some butter. Add chopped boiled eggs.
6) Fry chopped mushrooms and sliced onion in olive oil.