How to bake pies with potatoes in the oven? A step-by-step method of cooking is needed for every housewife. What good is this baking? To begin with, it’s delicious and familiar to everyone. There is no disappointment: pies with potatoes in the oven, the step-by-step recipes of which are varied and also simple, will appeal to all eaters almost without exception. In addition, today's selection will shed light not only on the preparation of the pies themselves, but also on the competent preparation of the products used for the filling.
Dough is one of the important components of a delicious pie
We will also learn or remember from which dough you can make this simple and quick-eaten pastry. The fact is that there is not one option for cooking pies with potatoes in the oven. A step-by-step recipe for the test also plays an important role: a lot depends on the filling, but, fortunately, not all. The shell of homemade pies can consist of its various types. Let's try to cover them all. We will do this so that all household members like homemade cakes. They will have a choice of what kind of pies they want - puff, yeast, kefir or prefer other variations. Well, let's get started.
Classic potato pies
A step-by-step recipe for pies with potatoes in the oven will begin with the preparation of classic pastries. Milk, butter and other products make our dough incredibly satisfying. Here is a list of components required for it:
- Milk - 1 cup. It is better to take a high fat product. For this step-by-step recipe for potato pies in the oven, high-calorie foods are needed, so a 1.5% fat content is not at all our case.
- Butter - 50 grams.
- A tablespoon of vegetable oil.
- A pack of dry yeast - 7-10 grams.
- Whole egg and one yolk.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
- 1 egg for greasing blanks.
- Flour - 2.5-3 cups. The exact amount will depend on the quality of the ingredient.
Filling
Before you start making pies with potatoes in the oven, a step-by-step method of cooking is also needed for a delicious filling. Here is what it consists of in this case:
- 4 large potatoes;
- spices and herbs in the finished puree - optionally and according to the personal taste of the eaters;
- milk - 1.5 cups;
- 70 grams of butter;
- salt to taste;
- water - so that a millimeter hides raw potatoes in a pan.
Set the dough
Mix the melted butter with warmed milk. Do it in the dishes where you plan to put the dough. Pour sugar and yeast into this bowl. Stir, let the yeast disperse. It will take 7-15 minutes. When the mixture begins to hiss inaudibly, we continue to make the dough. Pour here a spoonful of vegetable oil, which does not have aroma. Now enter the egg and yolk. We complete the procedure by pouring flour in portions and mixing with other components. Finish yeast dough. We will bake potato pies in the oven after the dough rises twice, doubled in volume.
Preparing the filling
In the meantime, the dough has not risen, without interfering, we will prepare the potato filling. To do this, boil peeled potatoes in salted water until fully cooked. You can even slightly digest the tubers - the mashed potatoes will be more tender. And for a faster process, we cut the tubers into two or four parts. Before you make mashed potatoes with milk, drain the water from the finished potatoes.
We will crush the hot tubers with any crush that you have available. We spread the butter here, pour out our favorite seasonings and, pouring with warmed milk, continue to mash the filling. Homogeneous mashed potatoes are an indicator that everything turned out right. It remains to cool the delicate filling of potatoes and proceed to the most interesting and artistic process - the molding of bakery blanks.
Pie making
During the creation of the filling, the yeast dough has ripened. Before baking pies, they must be nicely adhered.
We will knead the dough on the table, adding flour, so that it does not stick to your fingers much. Do not abuse flour if you do not want to spoil the airiness of home baking. Cut the dough into several pieces. Three to four segments will suffice. Roll these parts into thick bundles. Each harness is divided into several pieces. The size and quantity depend on the estimated size of the finished product. Remember that the yeast dough during baking doubles in volume.
Using a rolling pin, we turn the pieces of dough into flat cakes and lay out a teaspoon (with a slide) of mashed potatoes in the middle of each piece. Gently pinch the edges.
How to bake pies
Having greased the baking sheet with vegetable oil, we spread the future pies on it. We do it with a seam down. Shake the egg in a separate cup. Dip in the culinary brush and dab the workpieces on all sides. The more thoroughly this is done, the more beautiful the baking will be. Now we give 15-25 minutes to proof. After the workpieces rise, we will send them to the hot oven (180-200 degrees) for 12-15 minutes. The exact time depends on the capabilities of your oven. But the reference will be a pleasant golden color of products. We take out the rosy pies and serve with tea or milk.
On a yeast-free test (on kefir)
Perfectly obtained kefir pies with potatoes in the oven. This option is for those who, for whatever reason, prefer not to use yeast-based pastries. In addition, kefir dough to cook faster and easier. The recipe saves if you are not quite friends with yeast. What you need for kefir dough:
- kefir - 1 cup (homemade pastries will be tastier if you use a more fatty product);
- premium flour - 2-2.5 cups;
- vegetable oil, without aromatization - 100 milliliters;
- a pinch of salt and sugar;
- soda - 1/3 teaspoon;
- 2 eggs - one will go to the dough, the second - to grease the blanks for pies.
Pour kefir into a bowl. Add soda to it. The fermented milk product extinguishes the soda and at the same time bubble will be visible. Now add the egg, salt and sugar. Mix everything thoroughly. Add the flour in portions. The dough will be elastic, but not sticking to the fingers. The dough is ready. Cover the bowl with a clean towel and let it rest for at least 20 minutes.
We will form the products, as described above in the article. Take the filling that is described above. Lubricate the blanks with a beaten egg and after 10 minutes send them to the oven. Delicious pies with potatoes are ready when they become rosy.
Yeast Lean Patties
And here is a great option for lean products. We list which components are needed to prepare the dough:
- warm water - 0.5 liters;
- sugar - 1 tablespoon;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- dry yeast - 10 grams;
- vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
- flour - 3-5 glasses (the exact amount depends on the quality of the ingredient).
Cooking method
Soluble in slightly warmed water yeast. Pour sugar to them and, after mixing, leave for 10-20 minutes. Yeast will wake up and rise with foam. Now you can continue to cook the dough for lean patties with potatoes in the oven. Pour salt, pour vegetable oil. In several stages, add flour, previously sifted through a fine sieve.
The dough is smooth and uniform. We will set it for half an hour in order to rise.
Lenten Mashed Potato Filling
The filling of such delicious pies with potatoes and onions in the oven to match the basis should be lean. Name of products and their quantity:
- potatoes - 1 kilogram;
- salt to taste;
- seasonings and spices to taste;
- vegetable oil - 50 milliliters;
- onions - 1-2 heads.
Cooking stuffing
Rinse the potatoes well and peel them off the peel. Rinse the peeled root vegetables again. To speed up the process, cut the tubers into large pieces. Pour them with boiling water so that it covers the root crops by 2-5 millimeters. Salt and send to the stove until boiling. After the potatoes boil, reduce the temperature. Cook until tender.
While the root vegetables are boiling, let's take onions. We clear it of everything inedible and also rinse it in cool water. Cut finely. In a frying pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the vegetable until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Some like a barely noticeable gold, while others prefer to fry more - choose your favorite option. Ready onions leave to cool.
The potatoes are cooked. We merge the broth from it in a separate bowl. We root mashed potatoes. Gradually pour the broth and add the fried onions. Now we optionally introduce greens or other aromatic seasonings that we prefer into the composition of the filling. Mix the resulting mashed potatoes again. We cool it and begin to sculpt pies.
We bake finished preparations in a hot oven for 10-13 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
Puff pastry pies
Dough for them is better to buy in the store. This significantly reduces labor costs and saves nerves. But if you know how to cook yeast-free puff pastry, then cook it. Before you try the recipe for puff pastries with potatoes in the oven, you need to create a filling. So, the components are designed for 1 package of finished dough:
- mashed potatoes - 300 grams (choose any recipe for this mashed potatoes);
- fresh or dried greens - according to personal taste and in the quantity necessary for you;
- 2 eggs.
Mix mashed potatoes and greens and completely cool. Defrost the packaging of the dough. Deploy it on the surface where the pies will be formed.
The dough needs to be rolled slightly. Cut it into identical squares. Now put a small amount of the finished filling on each square. Fold the square with the filling so that we get a triangle. In fact, if you get a different look for the pies, then this will not affect their taste.
Shake two chicken eggs until smooth. We lay the billets on a baking sheet. You can cover it with baking paper, but you can lightly grease the bottom of the sheet with vegetable oil and lay out future cakes. Do not forget that between the blanks you need to leave 2-3 centimeters. Puff pastry increases significantly during baking, and pies may stick together. After the blanks have been laid out, they need to be coated with beaten egg mass.
Preheat the oven to a value of 180 degrees. We put the future pies inside. As soon as the products are browned, remove them and very carefully remove from the surface of the baking sheet.
Options for additives in potato filling and the nuances regarding its preparation
If desired, any of the recipes can be adjusted to your own taste preferences. Pies with potatoes turn out to be very tasty if you add a little ready-made liver or liver filling to them. Potato pies with mushrooms are also popular. This option is good in post. Also, pies will be delicious, in the filling of which mashed potatoes and pieces of boiled chicken are used. By the way, for the filling, it is best to use not young potatoes. It would be better if the tubers were aged for at least a couple of weeks. Fresh young potatoes can give a grassy taste, which not every cook and eater likes.
You can quickly make pies from yesterday's mashed potatoes (its leftovers). We make the dough and use mashed potatoes as a filling. As a result, we feed the household tasty and save food.
Other recommendations
If you are going to bake lean cakes and you do not really like that they turn out not so ruddy, you can correct the situation. Before sending ready-made pies for proofing, their surface can be greased with very strong tea leaves.
Water dough can be made with eggs. Then it will not be a lean option, but the pies will be even tastier and rougher. It is also quite acceptable to cook the dough on a warm potato broth. They calmly replace milk or water in any of the recipes. However, it is worth remembering that the broth already has salt in its composition. Therefore, exclude its additional introduction in the recipe.