Yeast pie with carrots
Description
Perfect with tea and coffee. Baking a carrot cake is very easy if you follow the step‑by‑step instructions in the recipe. Add your own “notes” to this cake – you can use raisins, nuts, cinnamon, or any other flavors and aromas; the cake will then have only your original look and taste.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the ingredients.
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Step 2
For the starter, mix warm water, milk, 1 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp flour, let stand for 15 minutes.
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Step 3
Mix in a separate bowl the egg, salt, melted margarine, and 1 tablespoon of sugar.
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Step 4
Add the egg mixture to the starter.
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Step 5
Sift the flour, replace the dough.
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Step 6
Add vegetable oil to the dough and mix it until fully incorporated, then place it in a warm spot to ferment for 1.5 hours.
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Step 7
Grate the carrot, then place butter, carrot, vanilla, a pinch of salt, and the remaining sugar into a skillet.
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Step 8
Sauté the carrots until partially cooked, then add a teaspoon of rum at the end (rum is an optional ingredient, but it gives the filling a luxurious note).
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Step 9
Dust the tabletop work surface with flour, place the dough on it, and divide it into two unequal parts.
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Step 10
Roll out most of the dough into a sheet, transfer it onto a baking sheet, and create small edges.
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Step 11
Spread the filling and level it across the entire surface.
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Step 12
Roll out the second portion of the dough; if you have a patterned roller, use it to imprint marks on the dough. If you don’t have a roller, you can simply make punctures with a fork, but do this later, on the pie.
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Step 13
Place the top layer of dough, beautifully shape the edges using the tip of a fork, pinching with a finger and fork in a wave pattern.
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Step 14
Whisk the egg yolk with a tablespoon of milk.
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Step 15
Brush the pie before baking with a mixture of egg yolk and milk, bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
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Step 16
The pie turned out elegant and very tasty, and thanks to the addition of rum, the filling acquired an extraordinarily refined flavor. Put the kettle on and invite your relatives to the table!