Potatoes have long become one of the main products in the kitchen of a Russian person. With it you can cook salads, and boiled, and fried, and baked dishes. Potato pie is one of the best cooking options for this root crop. But you can’t do one with potatoes, so you have to invent more and more new recipes with additional ingredients for this dish.
Preparation
What does it take to make potato pie? First of all, this is the potato itself. If you need to cook a dish for four people (2 times), then about 2 kilograms is enough. Before buying, you need to consider that a lot depends on the quality of the potato itself and how it is cleaned.
If you pre-harvest large volumes of potatoes in the basement, then it is better to take 2.5-3 kilograms for a pie.
When buying a young potato, you should definitely consider the way to clean it. If you use the "peeler", then you can lose 200-300 grams of product on the peel. And if you clean with a knife, and even not very sharp, go to the bin to a pound of ingredient.
Seasonings
Another important item in the preparation of potato pie is the spices used. Professional chefs themselves prepare seasonings, however, a housewife can be content with ready-made mixes both from branded manufacturers and those bought in the market. What spices are best for potato pie? Here is the list:
- salt;
- sugar in small quantities;
- parsley;
- dill;
- black pepper;
- oregano;
- turmeric;
- basil;
- thyme.
You can also prepare some vegetables - carrots, paprika, onions.
First recipe
To cook potato pie in the oven, you can use different methods. You can start with the following procedure.
- Cooking dough. You need to mix 150 grams of flour, 2 grams of salt and 100 grams of melted margarine. For taste, 100 grams of cream cheese is also added. Everything is kneaded and sent to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preparation of the filling. A pound of potato is boiled with seasoning to taste. In this case, it is better to limit yourself to salt and pepper. You can add a bouillon cube. After that, you need to make mashed potatoes by adding 1.5 cups of hot milk. Then 250 grams of sausage cheese is thinly sliced. Next, add 3 beaten eggs and mix all the ingredients.
- A baking dish with a width of 24 centimeters is greased with 30 grams of butter. Closely need to be carefully rolled out and laid out in a form so that the part rises above the edges. Surplus is cut off.
- The dough is pierced with a fork in several places. Then the filling is laid out and leveled. From above everything is poured with another beaten egg.
- Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour.
This recipe for potato pie is very simple and does not even require a trip to the store. In the absence of some products, they can simply be replaced.
With vegetables
The following recipe will require the chef a little more ingredients and effort.
To cook a delicious potato pie in the oven, the recipe for which includes vegetables, you will need:
- 12 medium potatoes (about 1 kilogram);
- 400 grams of wheat flour;
- a glass of kefir;
- 4 eggs of the zero category (or 5 pcs. Of the first);
- onion head;
- one carrot;
- parsley to taste;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda;
- 20 grams of vegetable or olive oil;
- 1 teaspoon of vinegar.
What can be done with this messy set of products?
- First you need to cook the dough. Soda is quenched with vinegar, and then mixed with eggs, kefir and flour. While the cook whips the dough, you can add a little salt there.
- Carrots and onions are chopped and fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. If something starts to burn, then the vegetables are already overexposed, but they can still be used.
- Next, lubricate the mold with oil. The dough is not laid out completely, but only 1/3 of its part. Top is the filling - thinly chopped potatoes, vegetables, parsley.
- From above everything is covered with the remnants of the dough. A smaller part is from below due to the fact that the greatest heat from the oven is distributed on the upper surface.
- Bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven to 200 degrees.
Dough
What else can you make potato cakes with? The photo above demonstrates the most delicious dish with minced meat. You can use chicken, pork or ground beef, bought in the store, chopped yourself or “ready-made mixture”. The main feature of the recipe will be that potato dough will be cooked.
- First you need to peel and boil two potatoes. When ready, they need to be crushed in mashed potatoes, but you do not need to add milk or water.
- Salt, add 80 grams of butter.
- Gradually adding flour, a soft, buttery dough is rolled out, which can be used immediately.
With minced meat
The dough is ready, now you can talk about another filling. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:
- a pound of minced meat;
- one tomato;
- 80 grams of cheese;
- one onion;
- frozen vegetable mix (corn, peas, green beans, carrots), or fresh vegetables;
- salt, pepper, ground paprika - to taste.
The rest of the recipe is not that complicated. The cook will only have to perform a number of familiar actions, which were described above. What needs to be done to make potato pie with minced meat?
- Peel and finely chop the onion. After that, it should be fried until a golden hue appears.
- After you need to add minced meat to it. It should also be fried, but not completely, but until the excess liquid evaporates and becomes white.
- Salt, pepper, add paprika. Report about 80 grams of the vegetable mixture on top. Its amount depends on the preferences of the cook.
- Fry the mixture.
- Put the dough into a mold with a diameter of 22 centimeters, make a side 2-3 cm high.
- Transfer minced meat with vegetables to the dough.
- Cut the tomatoes on top.
- All this is decorated with cheese and sent to the oven for 30-40 minutes.
- By readiness, you can decorate with greens.
Mushroom filling
Potatoes with mushrooms - one of the most common combinations of products for pies. The dough can be used the same as in the previous recipe. For the filling, it is best to use champignons. These mushrooms can be consumed even raw, so if the cook makes a mistake, then the chances of poisoning are minimal.
There are two uses for this ingredient.
- Frozen. If a housewife purchases a package of mushrooms in a store, then all she has to do is first defrost the product and drain the excess liquid.
- Fresh mushrooms need additional processing. First they must be washed under running water, then gently, so as not to fall apart, wipe with a clean sponge to remove the skin.
Thanks to one of these actions, you will prepare the mushrooms for use in the pie recipe.
With mushrooms
How to get a dish, as if in a photo? The recipe for potato pie with mushrooms is simple and elegant. You will need very few products and potato dough prepared in the above way. For the pie you need:
- 2 onion heads;
- salt to taste;
- 2 tablespoons of flour;
- 50 ml of natural cream with a fat content of 20-25%;
- 5 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of mushrooms (ceps or champignons).
Further, everything goes according to a known pattern. You need to start cooking with the filling.
- Finely chop the mushrooms and onions after cleaning.
- Heat butter in a pan.
- Fry the cut. This can be done both in one vessel, and in different, and then mixed.
- In a separate clean skillet, lightly fry the flour.
- Add to it mushrooms with onions, as well as cream and salt and pepper.
- Keep the mixture on fire for 2 minutes and remove.
- Roll out the prepared dough on a board and put in a mold.
- Trim the excess and make a sausage out of them. Shift it into shape to get an extra side. Also, the dough can be re-rolled and cut into strips, so that after adding the filling, fill it with a basket.
- Put the stuffing.
- Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees.
- Bake the cake for 15-20 minutes, until the dough and the egg "clutch". The rest of the ingredients are already ready.
The finished dish can be additionally decorated with herbs, favorite spices, sour cream and other components that do not require heat treatment.