Potatoes have been used for a very long time as a filling for various pastries. And in the crisis of the 90s, when it was among the available products, for many it became a real salvation. Knead the dough from boiled potatoes, and lay the raw one as a filling.
There are many ways to make a delicious pie with potatoes and cheese. It can become a hearty addition to lunch or dinner or a real treat on the festive table and amaze with its excellent taste and incomparable aroma.
Some secrets and principles of preparation
Closed, open, half-closed - they can be made any to the taste of the hostess.
When it is an open pie with potatoes and cheese, it resembles the pizza so popular today.
For a closed cake, you need to divide the dough into two parts, lay the filling between the rolled layers and pinch the edges.
A semi-closed cake is usually decorated with a grid of dough or patterns of plaits on top. For this pie use any kind of dough. Someone simplifies the process and uses pita bread.
You don’t even have to knead the dough. In any supermarket you can buy fresh or frozen.
Stuffing Options
For the filling, raw potatoes are used in the form of thin plates, boiled, grated, sliced or in the form of mashed potatoes. And cheese, depending on the recipe, can be added to the minced meat, sprinkled with layers or added to the fill.
Someone uses soft cheeses like suluguni, and someone prefers hard ones. But you can use whatever is found in your refrigerator.
A closed and half-closed pie with potatoes and cheese, before being sent to the oven, is usually greased with an egg. But for open you can use another way. If you grease the cake with sour cream, and sprinkle a little soda on top, then you will get an unusually beautiful culinary product from the oven.
A cake is baked at 180-200 º for an hour with raw filling and half an hour with boiled potatoes.
Simple pie
You don’t need yeast for the test, but butter, sour cream and an egg. Pound butter and flour into crumbs. Will you chop it with a knife or rub it with your hands - it does not matter. The main thing is that the resulting fatty crumb.
Beat the egg with sour cream, salt, and extinguish the soda in this mixture. And now you mix everything and make the dough. It must stand in the cold for half an hour.
Now roll out two layers from it, the shape of which depends on the pan. On the first cake, put the potato filling in two layers, between which you rub the cheese. One hundred grams is enough for this recipe, but every housewife uses cheese exclusively to his taste, someone puts less, and someone more.
Put the second cake on top and pinch the edges. Remember to make cuts on top and grease the cake.
Now send the pie with potatoes and cheese to the preheated oven and after about 20 minutes the most delicate crumbly treat will be on your table.
Updates to the recipe number 1
For the test, the hostess will need: half a glass of sour cream, 100 g butter, two glasses of flour, soda - half a teaspoon and an egg.
Sour cream, butter, egg and soda - mix everything thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Add flour and knead elastic dough. Roll into one layer.
Make the filling from boiled potatoes (4 potatoes are enough), cut into cubes, salted and mixed with chopped herbs. By the way, you can use a grater if desired.
Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese recipe
This is just one of many recipes. There is much debate about what a proper Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese should be. Many housewives, calling it their signature dish, use their own and such different recipes. But almost all have one thing in common - yeast dough, which is exclusively used with hands. A good housewife has the same amount of dough and filling, and a pie ready for baking should not be thicker than a centimeter.
Make yeast dough. Mix half the flour, yeast and sugar with kefir - and in heat for an hour. Instead of kefir, you can use milk or yogurt. The dough will always turn out soft and pliable.
And now you can add the remaining flour, egg, butter and water and knead the dough.
Every old country woman will tell you that the best yeast dough is obtained if you knead it in a wooden tub and only with your hands. They say that you need to knead it at least a hundred times. But now is another time. And few will begin to trouble themselves like that when there are bread machines and other household appliances that will do this for you.
But this is a retreat, and you divide the finished dough into three parts and leave it to rest under the towel.
Meanwhile, prepare the filling.
Next cooking step
After half an hour, with each ball of dough, do the following. Mash the ball into a medium-sized circle and lay out a third of the filling in the center. Collect the dough into a ball-shaped nodule, shift it into a round shape and begin to gently knead your hands in a flat thin disk. And be sure to leave a small hole in the center. Remember to grease the pies.
Bake in a very hot preheated oven until golden brown, especially without frying, no more than 15 minutes. Three pies stacked on top of each other look like a cake. In this form, serve them on the table.
Such pies and in cold form remain very tasty.
Try this recipe for an Ossetian pie with potatoes and cheese and make sure that it is one of the best.
Updates to the recipe number 2
For the test: kefir 250 ml, 20 g fresh or 7 g dry yeast, sunflower oil one and a half tablespoons, half a glass of water, an egg, a teaspoon of sugar, a pound of flour.
Make the filling of mashed potatoes (400 g of potatoes), mushrooms fried in sunflower oil (100 g) and grated suluguni (300 g).
About mushrooms. Any here are suitable: champignons from a nearby supermarket or forest, preferably fresh. When frying mushrooms, add a little butter.
Layer cake with potatoes and cheese
This is an open cake, so it is better to grease it with sour cream. You can easily use the frozen, yeast-free puff pastry from the store.
For the filling, fry a pound of mushrooms, do not forget to add a little butter and salt. Thinly sliced potatoes should be put in a pan with milk and cream, brought to a boil. Add crushed garlic. Cook over low heat for about fifteen minutes. Remove from heat and add salt and pepper, if there is nutmeg, it will not spoil the taste.
Place the dough in a low, greased form so that the sides form. First, shift the potatoes, mushrooms on top, and grated cheese on them , and sour cream - only at your request.
Bake a pie with potatoes and cheese in the oven for about half an hour. Usually this cake is eaten warm. That is how it is especially tasty. And you can add fried minced meat to the mushrooms.
For the filling: a pound of mushrooms, a glass of milk and 2/3 glasses of cream (20%), 350 g of potatoes.
Enjoy your meal! And let your culinary delights do not cease to please and surprise the household.