Lazy pie with fish and rice filling
8 servings
180 minutes
Lazy pie with fish and rice filling is a cozy dish of Estonian cuisine, infused with the spirit of home warmth. Its roots trace back to traditional recipes where tender fish, aromatic onion, and soft rice are enclosed in airy yeast dough, creating a harmony of flavors. This pie is perfect for leisurely family dinners when you want to enjoy the juicy filling and crispy golden crust. Its simplicity makes it accessible even for novice cooks. It's especially pleasant to eat on cool evenings with a cup of hot tea. The taste of halibut with light spicy notes of black pepper and creamy tenderness of the dough evokes nostalgia for cozy childhood moments. Such a pie can be served as a standalone dish or as an addition to a vegetable salad, enhancing the contrast of textures and aromas.
1
Prepare the filling for the pie. For this, boil the rice until half-cooked.
- Rice: 1 glass
2
Fry the onion.
- Onion: 3 pieces
3
Cut raw halibut fillet into pieces, salt and pepper.
- Halibut fillet: 1 kg
- Salt: to taste
- Ground black pepper: to taste
4
Prepare the dough. Soak the yeast in water and add 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- Fresh yeast: 10 g
- Sugar: 1 glass
5
Beat the eggs with sugar and butter (or margarine).
- Chicken egg: 2 pieces
- Sugar: 1 glass
- Butter: 100 g
6
Mix the eggs and yeast. Then pour in the sour cream.
- Sour cream 20%: 200 g
7
Add baking soda dissolved in vinegar.
- Soda: 0.5 teaspoon
- Vinegar: 0.5 teaspoon
8
Add vanillin and salt.
- Vanillin: to taste
- Salt: to taste
9
Add flour and knead the dough.
- Wheat flour: 550 g
10
Divide the dough into 2 parts and roll it out with a rolling pin.
11
Place one flatbread on the baking sheet, add the filling, and cover with the second flatbread.
12
Place the ready pie in a warm place for 2 hours.
13
When the dough rises, bake the pie after brushing it with egg.