Cheeseburger Pie

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. For the dough, use premium flour, category C1 egg, fast-acting dry yeast. For the filling, take ground beef, as in a real cheeseburger, but if desired, it can be replaced with pork. Hard cheese is used: Russian, poshekhonsky and similar types of cheeses. Do not use parmesan, grana padano and cheeses that have a very bright unusual taste, they will not be appropriate. White sesame seeds are used for sprinkling.

2. Step 2:

   

   Preheat the milk to a warm state (approximately 30oC) and pour it into a bowl for kneading dough. To activate the yeast, the milk must necessarily be warm, but not hot, otherwise the yeast will die. Next, pour dry high-speed yeast and sugar into a bowl, and, stirring, dissolve the bulk ingredients in warm milk. Note that there should be no grains or lumps left in the milk. Set the bowl aside for 10-15 minutes to ferment.

3. Step 3:

   

   After the time has elapsed, beat a chicken egg into a bowl, add salt and pour in odorless vegetable oil, which will give the dough elasticity. Whisk the contents of the bowl with a whisk.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift the flour through a sieve. Due to this, the flour will be filled with oxygen, which will make the dough more tender and soft, and it will also remove unnecessary impurities that may be in the flour. Begin to introduce the sifted flour in parts into the milk-egg mixture.

5. Step 5:

   

   First, knead the dough with a spoon in a bowl, and when the mass is compacted and assembled, with your hands on the desktop for 7 minutes, adding flour. But do not clog the dough with flour. The dough should become soft and not stick to your hands. Depending on the quality and grinding of flour, you may need a little less or a little more flour than indicated in the recipe. Assemble the dough into a ball, return to the bowl, cover with a clean towel and put in a warm place without drafts for 40-60 minutes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the minced meat in a preheated frying pan and, breaking up the lumps, fry the meat in vegetable oil until the entire liquid is completely evaporated. Then set the strongest fire on the stove and fry the minced meat for 1-2 minutes, stirring it all the time. In the process of frying, add salt and pepper to the meat filling. When the filling is ready, remove the pan from the stove and leave aside to cool.

8. Step 7:

   

   Peel the onion, rinse under water and cut into small cubes. Pour boiling water over the onion cubes to remove the bitterness. Flip into a colander and let all the liquid drain. Having cooked the onion in this way, in the finished pie, as in a cheeseburger, it will crunch. If you prefer a softer onion, you can fry it in a frying pan until soft.

9. Step 8:

   

   During this time, the dough should have grown up. Knead the rested dough and divide it into 2 parts in the following proportions: 1/4 and 3/4. Take a large part and roll out a large circle from it. Carefully transfer the dough into a greased form with vegetable oil, forming the bottom and sides of the future pie. To do this, pies need a small shape with a diameter of 20 cm.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the cooled minced meat in the first layer, smooth it out. Grease the meat filling with a layer of ketchup. Next, lay out the prepared onion, evenly distributing it throughout the pie.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cut the pickled cucumbers into circles and place them around the entire diameter of the pie in one layer.

12. Step 11:

    

    Grate the cheese coarsely on a grater and also distribute evenly over the entire diameter. It is not necessary to rub the cheese finely, since at high temperature in the oven it will melt in any case, regardless of the selected fine or coarse grater.

13. Step 12:

    

    Roll out the smaller part of the dough into a circle, cover the pie with it and, turning up the sides, fasten the joints. Brush the top of the pie with a pastry brush with milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Use a fork to make several punctures in the pie. Bake the pie in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 30-40 minutes. The duration and temperature of baking may vary depending on the temperature and design of the oven.