Potato patty is a lighter and healthier meal than a similar dish made from meat ingredient. It is also worth noting that such fried products are prepared quite easily and simply.
How to cook potato patties : a step by step recipe
Ingredients for the dish:
- standard size chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- medium potato tubers - 6-7 pcs.;
- sea salt, black pepper - add to taste;
- odorless sunflower oil - for frying vegetable products (take at personal discretion);
- fat milk for mashed potatoes - 1 cup;
- large onions - 2 pcs.;
- white wheat flour - 4-5 large spoons;
- fresh butter for mashed potatoes - 65 g;
- crushed crumbs crumbs - 1 glass for breading.
Cooking basics
Potato cutlet is prepared in several stages. First you need to process all purchased tubers. To do this, peel the vegetables, place them in salted boiling water and cook for 30 minutes. Next, drain the whole broth from the dishes, and add the melted butter, fresh fat milk, allspice and beaten chicken to the hot ingredients. As a result of crushing by a pusher, air mashed potatoes should be formed without a single lump.
Cooking dressing
To make the potato patty more aromatic and tasty, it is recommended to add an ingredient such as onions to it. But before that, the vegetable should be definitely fried in a pan. For this, the component must be cleaned, chopped and put in a saucepan with sunflower oil. In this composition, onions need to be cooked until it is covered with a delicious crust. At the end, the fried vegetable should be poured into mashed potatoes along with wheat flour and stir well.
Semi-finished products
Potato cutlet is formed quite easily. To do this, moisten the palms in vegetable oil, and then pick up 2 or 3 full large spoons of mashed potatoes and mold a neat little cue ball out of them. Next, the vegetable product should be crushed in crushed breadcrumbs (if such a breading was not at home, then you can use wheat flour). Similarly, all the other meatballs are performed.
How to make potato patties in a pan
After all the semi-finished products are ready, you should put the stewpan on a gas stove, pour in sunflower oil and heat it. Next, in a pan, you need to place 5 or 6 potato chops and fry on low heat from 2 sides. When the products are well browned, they must be laid out in a deep plate using a fork or a cooking spatula.
How to serve vegetables properly for dinner
Potato patties with fried onions should be presented to the table in a hot condition. It is worth noting that in this case, such a dish acts as a side dish. That is why it is recommended to present any meat ingredient (fried bird, boiled beef, sausage, sausages, etc.) or goulash with aromatic gravy to vegetable products.