What do you know about zraz? Many, of course, hear about it for the first time. But this is not a problem, because now we will tell everything in detail to everyone who has not tried them yet in their life.

What are zrazy in general? Basically, this is a potato dough. It consists of 80-90% potatoes. Flour, eggs and spices give it the consistency of the dough. A kind of cutlets are made from such dough, which are filled with different fillings. It can be meat, as in our case. Or vegetables, rice, eggs, cheese, herbs, mushrooms, root vegetables and so on. They are served as a full-fledged dish with the addition of sauce or as a side dish.

You can cook zrazy both in a frying pan and in the oven. But the first option is still more common. Probably because it's faster.

Zrazy are similar to large cutlets, as they are also ruddy, round and quite thick. Only here inside them is not pure juicy minced meat, but first potatoes.

Today we will cook zrazy with mushrooms, cheese and cabbage. All of them will also be with the addition of meat. In addition, we will cook ordinary meat zrazy and zrazy in the oven. If any of this interests you, we will be glad to have your company.

General cooking rules

To prepare delicious zrazy, you need to purchase tasty, good, high-quality products in advance, from which we, accordingly, will cook. You will need to choose minced meat and potatoes. With the second product, everything is, of course, easier, so let's deal with minced meat then.

How to choose minced meat:

1. Pay attention to the light first. It should be bright - both for pork and beef. If the mince is chicken, then its color will be pale pink;
2. Minced meat should shine, dullness means staleness of the product;
3. Liquid trays. Often we see bloody puddles under the minced meat. You can be calm about them, as this is normal. Dry pallets, on the other hand, should be alarming. This means that the minced meat is made mainly from the tendons;
4. The smell should be pleasant, without the addition of spices, etc. If you feel the aroma of spices, then they have already tried to correct the spoiled smell of meat.

Potatoes, however, need to choose the one that is white. This also applies to the peel and the tuber itself inside. Such potatoes are crumbly and perfect for mashed potatoes, as they boil well.

Potato zrazy with meat

Time for preparing

calorie content per 100 grams

How to cook:

Tip: ready-made zrazy can also be rolled in flour, but this will make them less crispy.

Oven recipe

Many people believe that dishes that are baked in the oven are much less nutritious than those that are fried on the stove. Let's try?

It will take 25 minutes to cook.

Calorie content - 104 calories.

How to cook:

1. Peel the potatoes, wash them, rinse them from starch and put them in a saucepan;
2. Next, pour the potatoes with water to cover, add three pinches of salt and put them on the stove;
3. Cook until soft and easy to insert a knife;
4. Drain the water from ready-made root crops and skip the potatoes in a blender or meat grinder;
5. Heat oil in a frying pan, add finely chopped onion and add minced meat;
6. Cook minced meat until cooked;
7. Combine potatoes with yolks, starch and flour, mix until smooth. The dough should become elastic;
8. Divide the dough into balls of the same size;
9. Form cakes from balls, into which put the filling;
10. Pinch the edges of the cakes, forming oblong zrazov. It will turn out like cutlets, but more voluminous;
11. Preheat the oven to medium heat and bake the zrazy for twenty minutes.

Tip: To avoid washing the dish or baking sheet once again, you can cover the bottom with parchment paper.

Mushroom potato zrazy with meat

From such nourishing three ingredients, you will no longer get just a snack or an appetizer, this can even be called a dish. Be sure to try it, it's delicious!

It will take 1 hour to cook.

How many calories - 125 calories.

How to cook:

1. Peel the caps and legs of the mushrooms, cut them into cubes or slices;
2. Wash the potatoes well, you can even use a dish brush to wash off all the dirt;
3. Dry the potatoes with napkins and put them in a greased baking dish or baking sheet;
4. Send the potatoes to bake for thirty minutes at 180 Celsius;
5. Remove the thin peel from the onion, cut off the roots and wash it;
6. Then cut the onion into small cubes;
7. Combine mushrooms with onions and minced meat, mix well;
8. Pour oil into a frying pan and put mushroom stuffing there;
9. Fry the meat, breaking the lumps;
10. Close the minced meat with a lid and simmer until the ingredients are fully cooked;
11. Remove the finished potatoes from the oven and let them cool;
12. Peel the potatoes, process with crush and add yolks, spices to it;
13. Bring the mass to homogeneity and form cakes;
14. Put a little filling in the center of each, wrap it at once and fry in a pan with butter until tender.

Tip: If your dough is loose, you can add a little flour.

Add cheese to the zrazy

Imagine still hot zraz that you bite off and not only does it drive crazy with its crunch, but also the cheese stretches from the inside.

It will take 40 minutes to cook.

How many calories - 123 calories.

How to cook:

1. Peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes and rinse them from starch;
2. Next, pour the potatoes with a sufficient amount of water, salt and remove on the stove;
3. Cook the potatoes until cooked;
4. Next, grind the potatoes into a paste (or, as they usually say, mashed potatoes);
5. Peel the onion and cut into cubes, cut the roots and wash the head. If you do not rinse the onion with running water at the point where the roots are cut, the released juice will begin to bake your eyes, which will cause tears later;
6. Peel and chop carrots with a grater;
7. Grind the cheese with a grater;
8. Heat a frying pan with oil and fry the onions and carrots until soft;
9. Give salt, pepper and minced meat to the ready-made root vegetables;
10. Cook the meat by breaking the lumps. Minced meat should become crumbly;
11. Simmer under the lid until cooked;
12. Combine potatoes with flour and egg, stir until smooth;
13. Form cakes from potatoes, the center of which is filled with minced meat with carrots and cheese;
14. Fasten the cakes so that the filling stays inside;
15. Fry potato zrazy until golden brown on both sides in a frying pan preheated with oil.

Tip: to make the grains richer, you can fry them in butter.

Delicious potato zrazy with meat and cabbage

Cabbage, meat and all this in a hot, and even crispy potato shell. Sounds like a gourmet restaurant meal, right? It's worth a try!

It will take 45 minutes to cook.

How many calories - 128 calories.

How to cook:

1. Peel the onion, cut off the roots and wash the head;
2. Then cut the onion into half rings;
3. Wash, peel and grate carrots;
4. Rinse the cabbage and chop finely, finely;
5. Heat oil in a frying pan and put onion there. Fry it until soft and add the cabbage. Put it out until al dente;
6. Add minced meat and bring it to a crumbly state and cover with a lid, continuing to cook;
7. When the minced meat is almost completely ready, add the carrots;
8. And now stew everything together until fully cooked;
9. Peel, boil and puree the potatoes with the addition of milk;
10. Add flour and egg to the potatoes, bring the mass until smooth;
11. Form cakes from potatoes with wet hands, spreading the filling in the center;
12. Pinch the edges, form oval zrazhenie. Fry each until golden brown.

Tip: so that the filling does not have to cook for so long, you can take sauerkraut.

Cooking features and tricks

Zrazy is a fairly simple dish, snack, snack. It is not at all difficult to prepare it, especially since it does not take much time. But even for such simple preparations, you need to know the secrets.

1. To prevent the potatoes from cooling too quickly, pour in warm milk for mashed potatoes;
2. To make the potatoes more tender, add a piece of butter in addition to milk;
3. You can also fry zrazy in butter or a mixture of butter and vegetable. It will be tastier this way;
4. You can add fresh herbs to the filling, it will also be tastier;
5. It is better not to make zrazy from young potatoes, it will be too hard, and the taste is not at all the same.

Cooking zraz is a pleasure. Firstly, it is fast, and secondly, it is simple. Well, we are also preparing a completely new dish from familiar ingredients. So it's not only delicious, but completely new.

Potato zrazy with minced meat, my favorite dish since childhood, although in our family they were called cartoons. Zrazy is prepared with different fillings - with meat, mushrooms, eggs and onions, cheese, sauerkraut, fish, and in general with whatever the heart desires, the filling is inside the mashed potatoes. Zrazy is a delicious, economical and nutritious dish, try it and your whole family will love it.

Zrazy is found in almost every national cuisine, regardless of which country a person lives in. They can consist not only of potatoes, but also have a completely different base. Only part of the products that make up the dish and the principle of preparation can be similar.

It is quite difficult to say unequivocally in which country the zrazy was first prepared. The original recipe is attributed by many to Polish chefs, others to Lithuanian ones, some believe that the ancestors of this dish are Belarusians, the rest assumes that they are Ukrainians. But no matter which country opened this recipe to the world, its popularity speaks of clear success.

Zrazy was originally prepared only from minced meat, which was thinly rolled out and wrapped in a vegetable filling, less often eggs or porridge. Mushrooms and cheeses were also very common stuffing. And only over time, they began to prepare zrazy from potatoes, which is incomparably in harmony with any types of meat, mushrooms, vegetables, cheeses, etc.

Cooking recipes have a lot of variations, you can experiment with the flavor palette every time and find the perfect dish that your whole family will love. And if a dish is cooked with love, then it will certainly turn out great and relatives will appreciate it, and the praise of loved ones is a reward for every hostess.

This recipe is simple to execute, and connoisseurs of economy will surely like it. The dish turns out to be incredibly tasty, and the products necessary for cooking are inexpensive.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - kilogram.
• Selected egg - 1 piece.
• Wheat flour - 100 grams.
• Butter - 40 grams.
• Breading - 2 tablespoons.
• Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup.
• Minced meat - 300 grams.
• Bulb onion - head.
• Champignons - 6 pieces.
• Salt and spices according to preference.

The dish is for 6 persons.

Cooking process:

1. Pre-peel and wash the potatoes. Be sure to cook from the old one, because it contains more starch. We cut into four parts, pour water and put on the fire to cook until fully cooked.

2.Clean the onion and chop it into small pieces.

3. Thoroughly wash the mushrooms and cut into small cubes.

4. Put a frying pan on the fire, add vegetable oil and fry until golden brown.

5. Then add the mushrooms to the onion and simmer over low heat until all the liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated.

6. Add fatty minced meat and mix continuously until the ingredients are fully cooked.

7. When the potatoes are boiled, you need to drain all the water and crush.

8. Let the potatoes cool slightly, then drive in the egg, add the butter and continue kneading until a dense, homogeneous and smooth mass.

9. Add salt and pepper to taste.

10. Add 2 tablespoons of wheat flour to the resulting puree and knead the potato dough. The flour will add stickiness to the mashed potatoes and make it possible to form zrazy of the desired size.

11. Wet hands in water, then make a plump cake from potato dough. Put the cooled stuffing of minced meat, mushrooms and onions in the middle. Carefully close the filling on all sides and form a pie.

12. Roll the potato pie in breadcrumbs.

13. Pour vegetable oil into the pan and heat until boiling. Fry the pre-formed zrazy until cooked over low heat until cooked.

Do not cover the skillet with a lid for a golden brown crust.

14. Before serving, place potato zrazy on a platter and add sour cream and garlic sauce.

Watch the video recipe:

So our complete dish is ready, which can act as lunch or dinner. It remains only to add vegetable salad with a light dressing.

Enjoy your meal!

Quick zrazy with minced meat

Surely everyone has situations when there is very little time for cooking, and they want to pamper their relatives with a delicious and satisfying dish. The proposed recipe will significantly speed up the process and simplify tasks, as well as help feed even the most demanding connoisseurs of cooking.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - kilogram.
• Bulb onion -3 heads.
• The selected egg is a piece.
• Minced meat - 450 grams.
• Wheat flour - glass.
• Vegetable oil - 12 cups.
• Spice.
• Salt.
• Breadcrumbs - pack.
• Sauce.

The dish is designed for 7 persons.

Preparation:

1. Peel potatoes, fill with water and cook until cooked. Salt and add the bay leaf.

2. Knead potatoes with a crush. Add flour, vegetable oil, drive in an egg and pour in a little potato broth.

3. Chop the onions and send them to the minced meat and mix. Preheat the pan, add vegetable oil and spread the minced meat. Fry until cooked, adding spices to taste.

4. Pour the breadcrumbs into a plate.

5. We prepare the work surface.

6. Put the potato base on top of the breadcrumbs. We form a cake.

7. Put the minced meat in the middle of the flat cake.

8. Close the edges, forming a cutlet.

9. Put the pan on the stove, pour in the oil, heat it up and place the zrazy so that they do not touch each other. Fry them on both sides until golden brown.

10. Remove from heat. We lay out on plates, pour sour cream or sauce if desired and sprinkle with herbs on top.

Cooking this dish is a pleasure, because it does not require special skills and tweaks. Zrazy melt in the mouth and give a unique taste. You can cook them both on ordinary days and for the festive table.

Oven Potato Zraz Recipe

This recipe will appeal to those who adhere to proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. It tastes unbeatable and contains fewer calories. Anything can be used as a filling.

Ingredients:

• Potato tubers - 1.2 kilograms.
• Flour is a glass.
• Choice egg.
• Water.
• Breadcrumbs.
• Nutmeg.
• Vegetable oil.
• Minced meat - 450 grams.
• Onion.
• Pepper and salt.

The dish is for 5 persons.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the onion and rinse it in water. Grind and fry until golden brown. Then add minced meat to it and fry until a uniform gray mass appears.

2. Transfer the meat filling to a blender, beat. Minced meat turns out to be homogeneous and tender.

3. The next step is to make mashed potatoes. Cut the peeled and washed potatoes in water into four parts and send them to the pan. Pour water into it and put it on the stove to cook.

4. Cool, knead the potatoes, add flour, egg and nutmeg and knead the potato dough well.

5. Stir the mashed potatoes several times so that it is homogeneous and very sticky.

6. Lubricate hands with vegetable oil. We take a few tablespoons of potato mass and make a thick cake. Put the filling in the center and close up the zrazy from all sides.

7. Roll the blanks in breadcrumbs and put on a baking sheet, previously covered with parchment.

8. Preheat the oven and send our blanks for 30 minutes. During this time, the zrazy must be turned over once or twice to obtain a crispy golden crust on all sides.

An excellent addition to this dish will be low-fat sour cream and chopped greens. The puree comes out of the most delicate consistency, thanks to a small amount of flour in its composition. This dish will satisfy even the most demanding culinary critics.

• To prevent the potato dough from sticking when forming, brush your hands with sunflower oil or soak in cold water.
• Use coarse flour for a crispy crust in breading.
• Another way to get a crispy crust is to coat the blanks with an egg first, and then roll in breadcrumbs.
• You can not crush potatoes, but grate them.
• A lot of filling is inappropriate for this dish, since the zrazy will simply fall apart and instead of appetizing cutlets, it will turn out to be a potato and meat mass.

With simple products at hand, making a culinary masterpiece is easy and simple. These are exactly what the zrazy belong to. Seasoning them with sour cream sauce, you get an incredibly tasty dish at the exit, from which your whole family will be delighted.

Enjoy your meal! Enjoy your meal!

Potato zrazy, the recipe for which is quite simple, are cutlets made from potatoes or mashed potatoes with a filling, often containing some kind of minced meat. In general, the filling for potato cutlets can be any, either just meat, vegetables and fish, or combined.

Mixed filling tastes better and allows you to add variety to your meals. In our step-by-step recipe for potato cutlets, we will prepare the filling from minced meat and pickled cucumbers.

Potato zrazy is traditionally served with sour cream or mayonnaise, but if there is only meat or mushrooms in the filling, a special one is prepared.

Mashed potato zraz recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• spice;
• 10 g butter;
• 2 eggs;
• 4-5 Art. l. flour;
• bulb;
• vegetable oil;
• 300-350 g minced meat or chicken;
• 2 pickled or pickled cucumbers.

Preparation:

1. Peel and boil the potatoes; during cooking, you can pour a spoonful of caraway seeds into the water. Mash hot potatoes with a fork or meat grinder in mashed potatoes, mix with butter, cool.

2. Eggs loose, pour into mashed potatoes, stir. Spoons, stirring, add flour until a homogeneous thick mass is obtained, you can mix with an immersion blender at low speed. Salt and pepper the dough.

3. Chop the onion, fry in oil, put the minced meat on it and fry until cooked. Refrigerate.

4. Finely chop the cucumbers, drain the brine, mix with chilled minced meat. Chopped garlic, a handful of chopped dill and parsley can be added to the minced meat. Pickled / salted forest mushrooms can be used instead of cucumbers.

5. On a cutting board sprinkled with bread crumbs, spread the mashed potatoes into balls with a tablespoon. Knead each ball into an oval cake.

6. Spread the filling on the flat cakes, make cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs.

7. Fry the zrazy in hot oil with medium heat until crusty on both sides. To make the crust strong and crispy, it is better to roll the cutlets in large breadcrumbs or bread crumbs. For a soft and tender crust, at the end of frying, splash a drop of water on the edge of the pan, close it, make the smallest heat, remove after a couple of minutes.

But last time our dish was more complicated, recall that we baked according to the classic recipe.

Zrazy are products similar in shape to oval cutlets, but always filled with specially prepared minced meat. The stuffing can be mushrooms, ground fish and meat, cottage cheese, eggs, vegetables, etc. The stuffing is also wrapped in a different mass: meat, fish, potato. Meat zrazy stuffed with mushroom filling is very common.

Potato zrazy with minced meat is no less tasty. Cooking potato mass has its own characteristics. Potato dough consists of boiled mashed potatoes and grated raw potatoes. For minced meat, you can take any meat: pork, beef, lamb, chicken, rabbit, etc.

I wanted to make pork zrazy. The dish turns out to be very tasty, satisfying and high in calories. Such zrazy are eaten only hot and always with sour cream. It's worth trying!

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Ingredients

• Potatoes - 12 pcs.;
• Pork fat melted - 2 tbsp. l .;
• Minced meat:
• Pork (pulp) - 300 g;
• Onions - 2 pcs.;
• Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp;
• Salt to taste.

How to cook potato zrazy with minced meat

Wash the meat, dry and cut into small pieces. Peel the bulbs.

Pass the meat together with onions through a fine grinder, pepper and salt.

Mix the minced meat thoroughly.

Peel and wash the potatoes. Pour half of the tubers with hot salted water, boil until soft and rub hot through a sieve or pass through a fine wire rack. You can use a special wiper.

Grate the remaining potatoes raw on a fine grater.

Put the potato mass on the cheesecloth folded in half and squeeze out the juice. Drain the liquid from the juice, and add the remaining starch to the squeezed potato mass.

Combine mashed potatoes and squeezed potatoes.

Knead the "dough" well.

From the resulting potato mixture, make cakes with a diameter of about 12 cm with your hands and put 1 teaspoon of minced meat on them.

Connect the edges of the flatbread and give the zrazy an ovoid (oval) flattened shape (length about 12 cm, width - 5.5 cm, thickness 1.5-1.75 cm)

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Put the zrazy immediately in a pan with heated pork fat and fry until golden brown, then turn over and continue frying.

Put the fried zrazy in a fireproof dish and, without covering, keep in a preheated oven for 5-7 minutes. Serve hot potato zrazy with minced meat with sour cream.

Potato zrazy with minced meat and mushrooms with gravy

In our family, potato zrazy is always eaten quickly and with pleasure. Especially when I serve them with everyone's favorite sour cream gravy. It is versatile, good for many dishes, but potato zrazy with minced meat and mushrooms with gravy get a delicious festive taste. If you want to delight your household with little expense, try this simple recipe.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 1 kg;
• Eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Any mince (I have pork or chicken with lard, as we like fatter) - 300 g;
• Any mushrooms: fresh, dried, frozen (I prefer fresh champignons) - 200 g;
• Onion - 2 heads;
• Carrots - 1 large;
• Vegetable oil for frying - about 50 ml;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

• Fatty sour cream or cream - 100 ml;
• Flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
• Fresh or dried dill to taste;
• Cheese and garlic - optional.

Preparation:

1. First, let's put the potatoes to boil. While the water is heating, we clean, wash, cut the potatoes into 4 parts so that they cook faster. Dip in boiled water, salt and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
2. At this time, we are engaged in minced meat and mushrooms. Peel, wash, chop onions, carrots, mushrooms. Put the onions and carrots in a preheated pan with a little oil, quickly fry them and put the minced meat. Fry all together for 5 minutes, then add finely chopped mushrooms. For about 5 minutes more, everything is fried. Do not forget to stir in time.
3. Now add salt, pepper, cover and let simmer for another 10 minutes over low heat.
4. The potatoes should just be ready. We drain all the water, crush the potatoes and let it cool slightly. Break eggs into warm potatoes and mix thoroughly. Add some salt if you wish, but I don't, since the potatoes have already been salted, the minced meat too, and the gravy will be quite salty.
5. While we were preparing the base for zraz, minced meat was prepared. We open the pan, if there is liquid left, we evaporate it or, squeezing it out well with a spoon, put the minced meat with mushrooms on a dry plate. Let it cool so that your hands are not hot.
6. We take a little potato mass, like a dough for pies, knead the cake right on the hand (so as not to stick, we moisten our hands with water). Put the filling there with a teaspoon. We fix the edges (also like pies) and crush.
7. We spread the potato zrazy with minced meat in a preheated pan with oil and fry over high heat until golden brown on both sides.
8. When all the zrazy with potatoes and minced meat have been removed from the pan, pour the flour directly into the same oil, fry it and pour out the sour cream, having salted in advance. Leave on low heat, covered for 5 minutes. If there is cheese in the house, I definitely add it. I put 1 chopped clove of garlic in the sour cream, and 1 minute before turning off I rub the cheese on a fine grater (you don't need much so that the gravy doesn't thicken too much, just for taste). Immediately after turning it off, pour finely chopped fresh dill into the pan with sauce, mix and leave to stand for another minute or two.

Pour our sauce over potato zrazy with minced meat and mushrooms. Delicious, nourishing, fragrant zrazy ready to eat!

Potato zrazy with minced meat and cheese

I love pampering my family with zrazami on weekends. It seems that the dish is both simple and at the same time not everyday. With us, it has already become a symbol of family weekends. We almost always have cheese, and I cook potato zrazy with minced meat and cheese. This is my favorite recipe especially. Try it yourself. I think you will have such a dish too often on the table.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 1 kg;
• Flour - 100 g;
• Eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• Minced pork (or whatever it is) - 500-600 g;
• Onion - 2 heads;
• Cheese - 100 g;
• Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Preparation:

1. We clean the potatoes, wash them and set them to cook, salting the water.
2. We clean and wash the onions, cut them into small cubes. In a preheated frying pan with butter, fry it until golden brown, lay out the minced meat, let it brown a little over high heat, preventing it from burning. We reduce the heat, add salt and pepper to taste and, covering with a lid, leave the minced meat to simmer for another 10 minutes.
3. Remove the potatoes from the heat and knead them well, draining all the water. When the potato has cooled down a little, break the eggs into it and add flour. Mix thoroughly and add a little more salt (you don't have to do this, to taste).
4. Let us cool the minced meat a little and start sculpting it at once. While it cools down, you can finely grate the cheese and chop the herbs. I love adding dill and green onions to the filling, but if you don't like that, then this step is optional.
5. We take a ball of potato dough to fit in the palm of your hand. We turn it into a cake and put a little minced meat on it, sprinkle with herbs and grated cheese, pinch the edges and give the shape of an oblong pie.
6. Immediately put the potato zrazy with minced meat in a preheated pan with vegetable oil and fry on both sides until a beautiful golden crust.
7. It is better to serve such zrazy warm and you can even without sour cream, since thanks to the melted cheese inside, they are already juicy and tasty.

Potato zrazy with minced meat in the oven

It seems to me that everyone loves potato zrazy. Only those who have never tried them can dislike them. Delicious, aromatic, nutritious and at the same time, absolutely simple to prepare and in composition. Almost everything that can be found at home can be used as a filling. I prefer to cook potato zrazy with minced meat. You can feed your family and treat your friends with them. Zrazy can be simply fried, but I love to bake them in the oven, in my opinion, this is much healthier.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 1 kg;
• Flour - half a glass (less or more - adjust according to the thickness of the potato dough);
• Eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l. for frying minced meat + 1 tbsp. l. for greasing a baking sheet;
• Minced meat - 500 g;
• Onion - 2 heads;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Peel and wash the potatoes and onions. Put the potatoes to boil in a saucepan.
2. Finely chop the onion.
3. Pour oil into a frying pan, heat and pour the onion into it, fry it for about 1 minute over high heat, then put the minced meat and, stirring it, fry it over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat to a minimum and let the minced meat stew for another 15 minutes. Then turn it off and let it pause.
4. At this time, the potatoes were already cooked. It will need to be ceilinged, after draining the water. We also cool a little and add 1 egg, flour and a pinch of salt. We knead well and proceed to the formation of zraz.
5. In the palm of your hand, knead a ball of dough, put the minced meat filling, pinch the edges (this must be done very carefully so that our creations do not creep in the oven).
6. We turn on the oven and heat it up to 180 °. While it is warming up, grease the baking sheet with oil, if there is parchment, we line it. We spread the zrazy, grease their top with egg yolk.
7. We bake potato zrazy with minced meat in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

Such zrazy are good warm and cold, with and without sour cream.

Cooking tips:

• If the dough is made from potatoes boiled in uniforms, it will hold together better.
• To prevent the potato dough from sticking to your hands, you need to moisten them with water.
• It is advisable to minimize the amount of flour in the dough, as its excess will make the grain rough.

Potato zrazy with meat has everything that a hospitable hostess can wish for: inexpensive ingredients, excellent taste and even juicy filling as a "highlight". In fact, these are the same potato cutlets, but with a rich inner content. They are a little more difficult to prepare, but it is worth trying. Especially if a saucepan with yesterday's mashed potatoes is idle in the refrigerator, which, as practice shows, no one will eat, but it's a pity to throw it away. Isn't this a reason to cook golden potato zrazy with minced meat? A step-by-step recipe with a photo will not only tell and show how to form "pies" from a stubborn "dough", but also which potatoes are better to choose so that there are no unpleasant surprises.

Required products:

For potato base zraz:

For filling:

How to cook potato zrazy with minced meat (simple step-by-step recipe with photo):

To make a smooth and airy "dough" without potato lumps, use tubers with a high starch content. Such potatoes boil quickly and well. It makes a smooth, fluffy puree, not a viscous mass. The core of such potatoes is usually yellowish and friable. Wash the tubers well. Peel them. Cut into small pieces. Place in a saucepan. Pour in just enough clean, cold water to completely cover the potato slices. Put on fire. After boiling, reduce the heating intensity. Cook the potatoes until cooked through. This usually takes 30-40 minutes.
This time is just enough to prepare the minced meat filling and even rest a little. Peel a medium onion. Cut into small cubes. If you don't like onions, you don't need to put them. But it will make the filler more juicy and tasty.
Together with onions, you can put carrots on the meat. You will get a standard and tasty set. But I, as always, "distinguished myself" and forgot that I ran out of carrots. But champignons "were found". And I decided to put some mushrooms in the potato zrazy. It turned out delicious too. If you have carrots, cut them into strips or grate them on a coarse grater. If mushrooms, chop them into small cubes.
In well-heated oil, save the onion until transparent.
Add mushrooms to it. Fry over medium heat until all liquid has evaporated.
Then add the minced meat. As an avid meat-eater, I believe that there is no better filling for potato spikes - satisfying, tasty and simple. I had a combined mince - pork and beef in equal proportions. You can only take pork. But I do not advise putting minced meat from lean beef or chicken breast into the zrazy - it can turn out a little dry. Stir the contents of the pan. Fry until the meat is tender. When the minced meat becomes grayish, add salt and pepper. You can add one or two minced garlic cloves or a pinch of other spices to taste. Previously, you cannot salt, because the minced meat will take in lumps and become tough. Cool down the filling for the zraz.
When the potatoes are boiled, drain the water completely. Push it up.
Beat in an egg and add a lump of butter. Mash the potatoes into a smooth, uniform puree. If you have a blender with a special attachment, you can use that too.
Season the potato dough with salt and pepper.
Add a few tablespoons of sifted wheat flour. Stir. The potato mass should be moderately dense and not too sticky, so that you can carefully "pack" the minced meat inside.
When forming zraz, you can moisten your hands in cold clean water, then the potatoes will definitely not stick to your palms. Take a small amount of potato "dough". Make an oblong (or round) flat cake. Place some filling in the center. Cover the minced meat with a potato mass and blind with your hands a neat small patch.
Dip the blanks in flour or unsweetened crushed crackers so that a crust appears during frying.
Fry the zrazy until golden brown in sunflower oil. To prevent the tender potato mass from sticking to the bottom of the pan, heat the vegetable fat well before cooking. Fry the zrazy over low heat so that they bake well inside. And to get a delicious golden crust, do not cover the pan with a lid.
Serve the blush warm. Delicate mashed potatoes perfectly complement minced meat. And if you serve your favorite sauce (tomato, sour cream, yogurt-based) with the dish, it will be perfect.

Enjoy cooking!