During fasting, many try to refrain from bad habits, evil deeds, swear words. Culinary wisdom gives way to simple food. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, mushrooms - these are the fasting menus. In Lent, people refuse both fish and vegetable oil, and generally try not to talk about food.
For those taking the first steps along this path, it is difficult to abandon at once everything that is familiar. It is necessary to take on feasible obligations, those that you can fulfill. For those who decide to refrain from meat and dairy products, as well as eggs, but consume vegetable oil, there is the opportunity to cook fried.
Lean potato patties are a delicious, simple dish. There are many different recipes for their preparation. Below are some of them. The basis in all cases will be potatoes boiled in their skins.
Chilled potatoes are peeled and passed through a meat grinder. This mass sticks well, holds the desired shape, so you can cook potato patties without eggs. The word "stuffing" is usually applied to meat products, but in this case it turns out another option. The easiest way to cook lean potato patties is to salt, pepper the resulting mass, form flat cakes and fry it. Before you put the cutlets in the pan, they must be rolled in breadcrumbs. You can fry in any vegetable oil, but it tastes better in corn and olive.
The following recipe is on how to make
potato patties with onions. The onion slicing method does not matter, it must be fried until golden brown. The most important thing is how to pass it through a meat grinder. Several potatoes are loaded into it, then onions in a small portion. This alternation allows you to maximize the adhesive properties of the potato mass. Salt and pepper are added to taste. Stuffing is well kneaded. Roast quickly over high heat.
You can cook lean potato patties with herbs. Such a dish is better without fried onions, and with the addition of garlic or green onions already to the finished product. Using a meat grinder from a potato in a uniform, a homogeneous mass is prepared into which finely chopped greens are added. It can be dill, parsley, wild leek, young nettle, green sprouted cereals - everything that is tasty, healthy and likes. The ratio is determined by taste, but you need to remember that any additives reduce the adhesive ability of potatoes.
If you put too much, the patties will fall apart when frying. The best ratio per pound of potato is one tablespoon of chopped greens.
To make it easier to work with minced meat, hands should be slightly damp. Usually they are moistened with running water. Lean potato patties are fried over high heat for just a few minutes. The finished dish goes well with salted vegetables - eggplant, cucumbers, sauerkraut , pickled and fried mushrooms. They can be served with garlic sauce or mustard.