Pie Dough With or Without Cover

Pie Dough With or Without Cover
Ingredients:

500 grs. flour, sifted250 grs. lard or hydrogenated vegetable fat2 large whole eggs1 teaspoon (tsp) salt4 tablespoons of water ice or the appropriate2 teaspoon (tsp) baking powder (optional)
Filling:
200 chicken breast cooked200 grs. or cream cheese1 large onion, grated1 tomato, peeled, seeded, chopped1 spoon (soup) margarine shallow, or corn oil2 tbsp (tablespoons) chopped parsley with stems2 tbsp (tablespoons) chopped green olives50 grs. grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Other Options for Filling:
200 grs. of thawed crabmeat, or shrimp, or already desalgado cod, or palm, all sauteed with oil, onions, tomatoes and other spices to taste.
How to Prepare the Filling:
Cook the chicken breast covered with water.With a medium carrot cut into thick slices, 1 stalk celery. 1 bunch of parsley (parsley and chives), 1 sheet of blond, 1 sliced ​​onion, 1 clove garlic, whole, 2 slices of ginger.
After the cooked chicken, shred or grind in processor.Sauté with oil, onion, tomato, parsley with stems chopped, sliced ​​green olives, thinly sliced.If you need to add a little cornstarch, dissolved in a little water, to thicken the filling.

Prepare the way of the Pie Dough:
In a large bowl place the flour, lard, egg, salt, baking powder, finally the ice water gradually.
Mix well with your fingertips without kneading.
If kneading the mass rotten she embatuma. (Gets heavy and hard).
Let the dough rest for 30'minutos, inside the refrigerator covered with plastic wrap or clean cloth napkin.
Open the dough thinly. Line the muffin cups patty, place the filling.Make the cover with the same mass. Brush with egg yolk or whole egg beaten.Take to bake in a preheated oven 180 ° C for 10 'to 15'
 minutes or even blush.
Turn out and go for a forminha paper.
Yield: 40 pies give medium and 100 small pies.
To empadinha crab or shrimp:
Cooking 200 grs. potatoes go through the juicer still hot.
Put the butter in a saucepan add potatoes, salt, bring to medium heat stirring constantly, finally the grated cheese, leaving the fire to give consistency of mashed firm.

Separately fry the crab in the oil, add the onion chopped tomatoes, go dripping water until thoroughly steamed, lastly add the parsley salt, chopped green olives, add the puree is still hot.
Fill the pies Siri or shrimp with pasta already cooked.On top sprinkle half of grated cheese and half the bread crumbs.
Bake in the oven to warm for hot 5'minutos.
Note:
If you do not want to put the curd pies can put over mashed potatoes and grated cheese.
There are 200 grs. mashed potatoes, or cassava.
Note:
With the same mass of empathy can make pie.