Serve ready-made potato zrazy or pies according to this recipe with sour cream or sour milk, i.e. with kefir.
Bon Appetit!!!
Many thanks to Galina for a delicious and simple potato recipe, it would seem that it uses such affordable and quite ordinary products, and the dish tastes excellent!
I would like to give advice on how to make the recipe for potato zraz or pies more festive, for example, make them baked in the oven in the form small potato pizza with cheese.
We offer you to watch the video recipe
from Julia, on YouTube her channel is called YuLianka1981:
Different nations have your traditional potato recipes, for example
which are prepared in the form of airships, from potato dough with minced meat, these are such boiled potato zrazy, you need to know the secret so that they do not fall apart during cooking and retain an interesting shape, how to do this, you can learn from the video recipe about Ksenia Strizh's trip to Lithuania. Looking ahead, I will tell you this secret, they boil zeppelins in water with the addition of potato starch, and serve boiled potato zrazy with fried cracklings and onions, well, are we looking?
Another recipe on the topic: what to cook from potatoes?
My assistant Svetlana Burova suggests making round potato pies stuffed with stewed cabbage and eggs. In shape, they are very reminiscent of zrazy (cutlets with filling). From her the following step-by-step photo recipe for cooking:
Many of you love and bake delicious fluffy homemade cakes.
Someone from yeast dough, someone from puff, with a sweet or savory filling, in the oven or fried. But today I want to invite you to cook unusual pies - from boiled potatoes stuffed with stewed cabbage.
They turn out to be something like cutlets or zrazy - tender, soft, very tasty.
You can prepare a wide variety of filling for them: from fried mushrooms and onions, from cabbage and mushrooms. My choice fell on cabbage, onions and eggs.
Potato pies can be served as a separate dish with sour cream.
Wash the potatoes, boil "in their uniforms" in slightly salted water until cooked.
While the potatoes are cooking, you can do the cabbage filling.
We send chopped cabbage and finely chopped onions to a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. When stewed cabbage has reached readiness, add a raw egg to it and mix. The filling is ready.
Cool boiled potatoes slightly, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Add raw egg, knead thoroughly. Add finely grated cheese to the potato dough. Knead again.
We spread the resulting potato dough on a work table, sprinkled with sifted flour. We make a sausage from the dough, cut into portioned pieces and roll out into round cakes of small diameter. Put 2-3 teaspoons of cabbage filling on each cake.
We pinch and form a pie of any shape. My mom made them round.
This is how we make all the blanks of potato pies, put them on a table or a wide dish and then begin to fry in a hot pan with vegetable oil until a golden crust is obtained.
Put the finished potato pies on a kitchen paper towel first so that it absorbs the excess oil.
Then we put the pies on a plate and serve them with sour cream.
The pies turned out to be very tasty, they flew very quickly. Liked by both adults and children.
Fragrant pastries, especially with delicious filling, what could be better. Of course, not every housewife can afford to enjoy such a dish from the heart, but nevertheless, she is simply obliged to pamper her relatives. An example of such a treat would be mashed potato pies. This is a great option for a hearty and tasty snack. It is especially pleasant to eat hot baked pies with potatoes on a cold winter evening, enjoying the pleasant taste and aroma of fresh baked goods. We will consider all the secrets and nuances of cooking in a simple recipe that will help demonstrate the best qualities of the hostess.
So, to begin with, let's consider not just how to cook pies with potatoes in the oven, but what we first need for this.
This is a list of ingredients that will help us prepare the dough for patty and potatoes:
Consider what we need for a delicious filling:
This recipe does not provide for the smallest number of pies, on average you should get about 50 pieces, which means that you can feed even the largest family. However, if you don't need that much, you can safely reduce the amount of ingredients. For example, by halving the amount of water, you can confidently reduce the amount of other products in the same proportions.
Before proceeding directly to cooking, we will reveal another little secret that will now and in the future will help you prepare delicious baked pies with potatoes. For convenience, the filling for pies with potatoes should be prepared in advance. This is due to the fact that the potatoes are cooled.
Potato pies in the oven turned out to be very tasty, fragrant and tender. Of course, the dough itself plays a significant role in such pastries, but the filling is also important here. For example, onions added to potatoes imparted a pleasant smell and interesting taste.
As it turned out, preparing such culinary delights is not so difficult, it is enough just to adhere to a good recipe, make a little effort, well, without the desire to go nowhere, the desire to pamper your loved ones with a variety of pies, experimenting with delicious fillings, which will allow you to find your favorite recipe which will become your signature dish. Such pies are very tasty and with a cup of hot tea or coffee, as well as a glass of milk will be an excellent component of the overall taste picture.
Undoubtedly, each of us keenly remembers the aroma and taste of grandmother's potato pies, which disappeared from the plate in a matter of seconds. It is the taste that we remember from childhood that is still preserved in our memory, and now, when we have become adults, we can easily make this delicacy on our own, just as tasty and aromatic. The only downside to this great and inexpensive treat is the time it takes to make the potato pies. But, as we know - "the game is worth the candle."
Our recipe for making potato pie dough is very simple and reliable too.
This pie dough recipe is suitable for frying pies in a pan or for baking in the oven. This dough can be used to bake not only pies, but also meat, vegetable pies, and rolls.
The dough made according to our recipe does not require a lot of time spent on the growth and proofing of the dough, so we will use it immediately after kneading and kneading well.
All ingredients are collected and are in front of us. We begin to prepare the filling for our pies with potatoes.
Why do we start cooking with the filling - you ask? But because we will begin to use the dough immediately after preparation.
While the finished filling is cooling down, let's start making the dough.
The secret of elastic soft dough is that you need to beat it, as if throwing it on the table. Due to this manipulation, the dough becomes much softer. When hitting the table, the existing air is released from the dough, due to which the dough gets a homogeneous and smooth structure.
The last, decisive step is the preparation of the pies with potatoes themselves.
In general, potato pies were very popular even in ancient times. The very first writing about such pies was found in the diary of an overseas wanderer, who called the pies with potatoes cookies with a filling resembling pâté in consistency and said that in White Russia they were served only to the most welcome guests, i.e. those whom they were glad to see in their home.
What products do we need for our recipe for making pies with potatoes?
Only one name "pies with potatoes" makes it clear what we are going to make our pies from. In general, mashed potatoes mixed with onions are considered the standard filling of potato pies. But this delicacy has several secrets of its own, knowing about which, you can make the filling for pies much tastier and more appetizing.
Before you mix onions with mashed potatoes, you must first fry them in vegetable oil.
During cooking, salt and pepper the potatoes, this will give it a more pronounced taste and aroma. Also, while cooking potatoes, you can add a couple of bay leaves.
Remember to keep the potato dough warm and free from lumps when shaping the patties.
Everyone loves pies. But it takes a lot of time to make dough pies: you need to put a dough, knead the dough, which inexperienced housewives do not always succeed in. And potato pies can be quickly cooked, even a young, inexperienced housewife can handle them. Potato pies can be made with any filling: with meat, with cabbage, with onions and eggs, with mushrooms, and they are very tasty even without filling.
Try to cook and you will not regret it. Potato pies will appeal to you and your household.
Potato patties. Recipe:
Potatoes - 1 kg
- bacon or smoked bacon - a small piece,
- salted mushrooms - 100 grams,
- 1 onion,
- egg - 1 piece,
- garlic - 1 clove,
- a little greenery,
- flour - 2 tablespoons,
-breadcrumbs,
- vegetable oil,
Salt, black pepper - to taste.
Potato pie dough
First, let's prepare the dough for our pies. To do this, you need to peel the potatoes, rinse them well and boil them, salt to taste.
In boiled potatoes, add a piece of butter, finely chopped herbs and garlic.
Grind the potatoes with a crush. Mix everything well.
Peel the onion, wash, chop finely. Cut the bacon or bacon into small pieces, finely chop the salted mushrooms.
Fry bacon, onion and mushrooms and add to mashed potatoes. If you need to salt and pepper puree. Mix the mixture well, add 2 tablespoons of flour and an egg, and mix again.
Form pies from mashed potatoes. Pour bread crumbs on a saucer and roll the pies in them.
Pour vegetable oil into a deep frying pan, heat and fry the pies on both sides until golden brown.
Potato pies with mushrooms
To make potato pies with mushroom filling, we need the following products,
for the test:
- potatoes -1 kg,
- 1 egg,
- 2 tablespoons flour,
- a small piece of butter,
- salt to taste.
For filling:
- mushrooms,
- 1 onion,
- 1 carrot,
- greens - dill, parsley, green onions - a small bunch.
And also - 1 egg for greasing pies, bread crumbs, vegetable oil for frying.
How to make potato pies
First, we need to boil the potatoes from which we will make the dough for pies.
While the potatoes are boiling, prepare the mushroom filling. Fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil, add the carrots cut into strips and the onions, cut into half rings, salt to taste and fry until tender, not forgetting to stir.
Finely chop the greens and add to the mushrooms. Cool the filling.
Add 1 egg and a slice of butter to the boiled potatoes. Grind the potatoes with a crush, add 2 tablespoons of flour. Mix the whole mass well.
Make small cakes from mashed potatoes, put mushroom filling on the cakes.
Form the patties by pinching the edges.
Lubricate the pies with a beaten egg.
If you have unclaimed, already cooled down after dinner or a feast, then you can make incredibly tasty potato pies from it, which will undoubtedly please even the most fastidious. We offer several options for such a dish below in our recipes.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Add the egg, flour, ground pepper and, if necessary, salt to the mashed potatoes and knead well. The amount of flour depends on the density of the mashed potatoes, the thinner it is, the more flour will go for the potato dough.
For the filling, saute peeled and medium-sized onions in a frying pan with refined vegetable oil until transparent, and then add the minced meat and fry, stirring and kneading the lumps, until tender. At the end of the frying process, season the mass to taste with salt and ground black pepper.
We form a cake from potato dough with moistened hands, put a minced meat filling on it in the center, form a round or oblong cake, bread it in breadcrumbs and brown to a beautiful brown color over medium-intensity fire on both sides.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Add egg yolks, soft butter to mashed potatoes and mix thoroughly. If dry mushrooms are used to prepare the mushroom filling, rinse them thoroughly, boil them in a little salted water, then drain the water, let it drain, and place the mushroom mass on a cutting board and chop with a sharp knife until small slices are obtained. First fry the peeled and chopped onions in a frying pan, and then add boiled or, if fresh mushrooms are used, fresh chopped mushroom mass and brown everything together for a few minutes or until tender.
We form a cake from the potato mass with moistened hands, put the mushroom filling in the center and, turning the edges, give the cake the shape of an oblong pie. We soak it first in slightly beaten egg whites, and then bread thoroughly in breadcrumbs and place in refined butter heated in a frying pan. After browning the products on both sides, remove them on a napkin for a few minutes, and then transfer them to a plate and serve.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Add three quarters of the oil to the mashed potatoes and mix thoroughly. In lukewarm milk, dissolve yeast and granulated sugar and leave until a frothy cap is formed for a few minutes. Beat egg whites with salt until dense foam, mix with yeast mixture and potato mass, and then, gradually adding sifted flour, knead the dough. It should be soft, pleasant to the touch and not cool at all. We place it in a container smeared with vegetable oil and leave it warm until it doubles in volume.
After that, we form pies from the approached potato dough in the traditional way. We roll up balls, form cakes from them, fill them with filling and sculpt pies. We place the products on a baking sheet, having smeared it with refined oil in advance, let it distance for some time, and then coat it with yolk and place it in a preheated oven. Set the temperature for baking at 190 degrees. As soon as the pies are browned, you can remove them from the oven and, covered with a towel, let stand for ten minutes.
Potato pies with cheese. The cooking time is 15-20 minutes, provided that the potatoes are already cooked.
Very often during the preparation of salads, where potatoes boiled in uniforms are required, a few potatoes remain. And the housewives think where to apply it so that the product does not disappear. We bring to your attention a very simple, but such a delicious and aromatic recipe for potato pies with cheese. Prepares in a matter of minutes, and brings a lot of pleasure.
This recipe will not require large costs.
Boiled potatoes in uniforms. The amount is arbitrary, most often as much as is left after the preparation of the main dishes;
Hard cheese. For 6 potatoes - a slice 7 cm long, 5 cm wide, 2 cm thick;
Flour - 2 tablespoons;
1 chicken egg;
Salt to taste;
Vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking potato pies will take you 20 to 30 minutes.
First you need to boil the potatoes in their uniforms until cooked. Cool down. After that, peel and rub on a coarse grater.
We also rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
The potatoes are ready, add 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of flour, salt.
Mix well. In order to better knead the dough, you can do it with your hands.
Put some of the potato dough on your hand. On top of it, generously lay grated cheese.
We pinch the edges of the pie. We spread in a frying pan well heated with vegetable oil.
Fry until golden brown. The pies are ready.
Potato pies with cheese are distinguished by the fact that they melt in the mouth, and a very tasty stretching mass is obtained from the cheese.
By the way, such pies can also be made from the remains of mashed potatoes - it turns out also delicious and appetizing!