Have you ever cooked potato pies? Only so that the potato does not act as a filling, but as one of the main components of the dough? If not, then read our article, where we will talk in detail about the preparation of delicious pies, zraz and zeppelins.
Potato Pies with Brynza
Prepare this original treat for breakfast - and your family will be very grateful to you. We will prepare potato cakes with feta cheese and beetroot sauce as follows:
- Grate boiled beets and one clove of garlic on a fine grater, add salt, pepper, a couple of spoons of sour cream to them and mix thoroughly.
- While the sauce is infused, make potato dough for pies. To do this, boil four medium-sized potatoes in salted water, peel them and crush them. Add 150 grams of flour, one chicken egg, salt and ground pepper to the potatoes. Stir the ingredients with a spoon, and then knead the elastic dough with your hands. Wrap the finished product in cling film and leave it alone for a while.
- To prepare the filling, mash 150 grams of feta cheese with a fork, and then mix it with chopped dill, green onions, parsley and a clove of garlic.
- Roll out the rest of the dough into a layer two millimeters thick and use a glass to cut out the circles. Put a teaspoon of the filling on each workpiece and pinch the edges.
- Fry the mini pies in vegetable oil on both sides.
Put the finished treat on a plate, transfer the beetroot sauce to the sauceboats and serve the dish to the table with hot tea or milk.
Potato patties with minced meat
You can not only prepare this hearty dish for ordinary family tea drinking, but also serve it to the festive table. To make potato mince pies, you will need:
- 500 grams of boiled meat (you can take pork, chicken or beef) scroll through a meat grinder.
- Boil until tender, and then peel one kilogram of potato. Until the vegetables have cooled, chop them with a meat grinder, mix with two chicken eggs, salt, spices and four tablespoons of white flour. Knead a thick dough with your hands. If in this process it sticks to your hands and table, add some more flour to it.
- Peel two large onions, chop and fry with minced meat in vegetable oil until golden brown. Season the filling with salt and ground pepper to taste.
- Divide the dough into small balls, form a cake from each piece, lay out the filling and pinch the edges.
- Fry the pies in a preheated pan until cooked on both sides. After that, put the treat on paper towels and wait until they absorb excess fat.
Fried potato patties can be served with sour cream sauce and fresh vegetables.
Lenten pies on potato broth
If you are fasting, then this is not a reason to deny yourself small gastronomic pleasures. However, not every housewife boasts the ability to cook dough on a potato broth for pies. Therefore, carefully read our recipe and prepare delicious pastries with us:
- Peel the four medium potatoes, fill with four glasses of water and boil until cooked. Pour one glass of broth into a deep bowl, and transfer the rest to a pan.
- Push the potatoes to a puree state and transfer to the broth.
- Dissolve four teaspoons of dry yeast in a bowl with a cooled broth, and then pour the resulting mixture into a pan.
- Add four tablespoons of sugar, two teaspoons of salt and ten tablespoons of vegetable oil to the ingredients. Sift flour (as needed for a tight dough), add ground bran or fiber.
- Knead the dough with your hands, cover it with a towel and place it in a warm place so that it can rise. Do not forget to knead the dough with your hands, and in the end it should be mixed again.
Lenten pies on potato broth can be prepared with a variety of fillings. For example, with stewed cabbage, apples or jam. Note that with this recipe you will get a lot of dough, so you can wrap part of it in polyethylene and send it to the freezer until next time.
Potato zrazy in the oven
Potato pies, zrazy, cartoplans and zeppelins are names that different peoples gave to the same dish. Therefore, we will leave the subtleties of their decoding to linguists and move on to the description of the recipe. To cook potato cakes in the oven, you will need:
- Put the stewpan on the fire, pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into it, pour in a glass of hot water and lay out 500 grams of sour cabbage.
- Stew the filling under the lid until it is soft enough. At the very end, add a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of tomato paste to it.
- Boil six medium-sized potatoes until cooked, peel and crush them. Add salt, ground pepper and a spoonful of flour.
- Knead a thick dough and divide it into equal balls (approximately 50 grams).
- Flatten each piece, place one teaspoon of the filling in the center and form round pies.
Bake zrazy in the oven on a baking sheet covered with parchment. When they are ready, serve them with sour cream sauce. To prepare the sauce, mix sour cream, chopped garlic, salt, pepper and fresh herbs.
Green onion and egg stuffed pies
Few can resist this delicious and satisfying dish. It is especially tasty in the middle and end of summer, when the time comes for new potatoes. Recipe:
- Make potato dough for pies from 600 grams of boiled potatoes, two chicken eggs, two tablespoons of wheat flour, salt and ground pepper. Combine these ingredients, and then mix them with your hands on the work surface of your kitchen table.
- For the filling, chop three boiled eggs, chop with a knife a bunch of green onions and dill. Salt and mix the ingredients.
- Form pies and toppings from the dough, roll them in flour and fry in a pan on both sides.
Serve the finished dish to the table with kefir or sour cream.
Potato pies with mushrooms
If you like fragrant forest mushrooms, then be sure to try cooking them according to this recipe:
- Make potato dough according to one of the recipes described above.
- For the filling, take 250 grams of peeled, chopped and fried forest onions with onions.
- Form small cakes from the dough, put the minced meat in the center and form pies out of them.
Fry the potato pies in vegetable oil and serve hot.
Apple-Filled Potato Pie
This dish is prepared very simply and quickly, but it turns out very tasty. His recipe is this:
- Mash 450 grams of boiled potato until mashed . Add salt, pepper and two tablespoons of melted butter to it. After that, combine the potatoes with a glass of wheat flour and knead the dough not too tight.
- Peel the three apples, remove the core, cut them into thin slices and sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Divide the dough into four parts and roll each in a circle.
- On a baking sheet covered with baking paper, put two pieces, put on them butter, cut into thin slices, and apple filling. Sprinkle the workpieces with sugar, cover them with the remaining circles and pinch the edges.
Bake the pies until cooked, pre-piercing each in several places with a fork.
Zeppelins
This dish of Lithuanian cuisine will certainly be enjoyed by your family as well. To properly prepare it, carefully read the instructions:
- Take two kilograms of potatoes, peel them and divide into four parts. Boil one part until cooked and pass through a meat grinder. Rub the remaining three parts on the finest grater. Squeeze the raw potatoes and combine them with boiled.
- Wait for the potato juice to settle, and then drain the liquid from the pan without touching the remaining starch.
- Combine the starch with minced potato, mix, add salt and ground pepper. If you did everything right, then the result is a dense and elastic dough.
- For the filling, combine the scrolled meat, chopped onions, garlic, pepper and salt to taste.
- Moisten your hands in cold water, take a handful of potato mass and form a tortilla one and a half centimeters thick from it. Put the filling in the center and pinch the edges.
- Boil water in a roomy bowl, add bay leaf and a few peas of hot pepper to it. Gently lay the zeppelins inside and cook them for half an hour.
- To prepare the sauce, take 250 grams of smoked brisket (or lard), and then cut it into cubes. Fry the meat with chopped onions, and at the end add a little sour cream.
Arrange the finished dish on plates and pour before serving with meat sauce.
Conclusion
Potato pies are a wonderful treat that all members of your family will love. Read our recipes and cook them with delicious and satisfying dishes.