Pie with fish and sauerkraut

For a feast, it is better to serve this cake warm. Cold, it will be ideal for a treat during a country trip or a snack at work or school. The filling can be from any red fish species. This pie is made with salmon. It is a juicy fish, which, when stewed and baked, releases fat, soaking sauerkraut and saturating it with a wonderful fishy aroma. And yeast dough gives the cake splendor, softness and excellent taste.

Ingredients

• Filling: 500 g sauerkraut
• 80 g butter
• 50 ml boiling water
• pepper to taste
• 400 g salmon (you can take chum salmon, trout, etc.)
• 1 egg to cover the cake
• sesame or poppy seeds for sprinkling (optional)
• sunflower oil for frying
• 1 large onion head
• Dough: 50 ml warm water (35-40 С)
• 1 tsp dry yeast
• 500 g flour + 1 tsp. flour for dough
• 120 g butter at room temperature
• 140 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp. l. sour cream
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 50 g sugar + 1 tsp. dough sugar

Directions

1. Mix 50 ml of warm water + 1 tsp for dough. yeast + 1 tsp. flour + 1 tsp. Sahara.
2. Leave the steam for 20 minutes
3. Leave the dough for 20 minutes.
4. Mix the egg with sugar
5. Mix the egg and sugar.
6. Add the egg mixture to the dough
7. Add the egg mixture to the dough and mix well again.
8. We mix dough, butter, sour cream, salt
9. Take a larger dish and mix in it - dough, butter at room temperature, sour cream, salt. Mix well.
10. Add half the flour to the dough
11. Pour half the flour (250 g) into the dough.
12. Add milk to the cake dough, knead
13. Pour in milk and knead.
14. Leave the dough warm for 40 minutes, then add the remaining flour, knead, put in the heat
15. Cover the dough with foil with a small hole and leave the dough for 40-45 minutes in a warm place to rise. Knead the dough and knead with the remaining flour (250 g). Leave on for another 40 minutes.
16. Fry cabbage in a pan, then pour in water, stew
17. Squeeze the cabbage, fry in sunflower oil, pepper, add boiling water and, stirring with a spatula, simmer for 10-15 minutes over medium heat.
18. Add butter to cabbage, then onion, simmer
19. Add butter, stir well to melt completely. Add finely chopped onions and simmer for 10-15 minutes over medium heat.
20. Add fish to cabbage, simmer
21. Add finely chopped fish and simmer together with cabbage for 10-15 minutes.
22. We spread one part of the dough into the form, distribute the filling over it
23. Divide the dough into 2 parts, roll out. Put one part in a mold (I have a d = 26cm shape) and distribute the filling.
24. Close the cake with the second half of the dough, pinch the edges
25. Close with the second part and pinch the edges.
26. We grease the fish pie with an egg, make punctures
27. Grease the cake with a beaten egg. Chop the top of the pie with a fork to let air out.
28. We decorate the pie with fish and sauerkraut with sesame seeds
29. Sprinkle sesame or poppy seeds on top, if desired.
30. We bake the cake for 40-45 minutes
31. Bake the cake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 40-45 minutes.