Mashed potato pies. Potato pies and zrazy stuffed Delicious potato pies

Usually on weekends, when we have free time, we make delicious pastries for our family: pies, pies, and also indulge them with unusual dishes. These unusual dishes, which are always very pleasant to cook, and even more delicious to eat with the family, include potato pies. Agree, you do not cook this often. But sometimes I think you can treat yourself and make unusual pies, the basis for which is prepared from our second bread - potatoes. Today my sister Ekaterina pampers us with this delicious pastry.

Would need:

• Lean pork - 500 gr.
• Potatoes - 1.5 kg.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Flour - 1/2 cup
• Vegetable oil - 100 ml. for frying
• Salt and pepper - to taste

How to cook potato pies with meat:

We pass the meat through a meat grinder, salt and pepper to taste. Add vegetable oil to the pan and fry the minced meat until tender with the addition of chopped onion. Separately, boil the potatoes, adding a little salt to the water and make dry (cool) mashed potatoes. In puree, add butter, spices to taste and flour. The main thing is that the flour must be mixed into the potato dough evenly to prevent the formation of lumps. The potato base should be smooth. From the cooled potato dough we make blanks, the size of a palm. In the middle of the tortillas we put the cooled minced meat and form pies.

As soon as all the pies are ready, put them in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil and fry on both sides until a beautiful golden crust appears.

It remains only to call all the family to the table and say - Bon appetit! Although, everyone is already there, waiting for potato pies!

According to this recipe, you can cook pies with absolutely any filling: with boiled eggs and green onions, rice, stewed cabbage, mushrooms, or maybe with cheese, choose for yourself, but with meat, potato pies are probably the most delicious.

Pies in a pan can be prepared not only from the usual yeast or yeast-free dough, but also on the basis of mashed potatoes. The finished potato dough will have the consistency of potato zrazy. You can cook pies with stewed cabbage or any meat fillings. I made with fried cabbage, and they turned out very tasty and satisfying.

To prepare potato dough, I do not recommend taking yesterday's mashed potatoes, but cook fresh, without adding milk and butter. See the recipe with photos step by step.

Ingredients:

• potatoes (peeled) - 600 grams;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• table salt - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• wheat flour of the highest grade - 80 grams.

How to cook potato dough for pies in a pan

Peel and wash potatoes.

Cut each potato into several pieces, depending on their size. Transfer to a saucepan, cover with water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt and put on fire. After boiling, cook for 25 minutes until the potatoes are fully cooked.

Then drain the water.

Crush the dry potatoes with a potato masher into a puree.

Allow the mashed potatoes to cool slightly, then beat in the chicken egg, add a pinch of salt and add the flour one tablespoon at a time.

Mix well and add 1 tablespoon of flour again, and so on until all the flour is gone.

Mix the potato dough well and you can form pies. The dough will be slightly sticky to your hands, this is normal, you do not need to hammer it heavily with flour. To form pies, you just need to sprinkle your hands with flour, and it will not stick to them at all. Form balls of dough, then flatten each one into a cake, put the filling inside and cover with dough. Fry in vegetable oil, over low heat.

Universal potato dough for fried pies in a pan is ready.

Fragrant pastries, especially with delicious filling, well, what could be better. Of course, not every hostess can afford to enjoy such a dish from the heart, but still, she is simply obliged to pamper her relatives. An example of such a treat is mashed potato pies. This is a great option for a hearty and tasty snack. It is especially pleasant to eat hot baked pies with potatoes on a cold winter evening, enjoying the pleasant taste and aroma of fresh pastries. We will consider all the secrets and nuances of cooking in a simple recipe that will help demonstrate the best qualities of the hostess.

So, for starters, let's consider not just how to cook pies with potatoes in the oven, but what we, first of all, need for this.

Product set

This is a list of ingredients that will help us prepare the dough for potato pies:

• 1 liter of water;
• 3 teaspoons of salt;
• 2 packs of yeast;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• 3.5 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1.5 kg flour.

Consider what we need for a delicious filling:

• Onion;
• Potato;
• Salt;
• Vegetable oil.

Step by step recipe

This recipe does not provide for the smallest number of pies, on average you should get about 50 pieces, which means that you can feed even the largest family. However, if you don't need that much, feel free to cut back on the ingredients. For example, by halving the amount of water, you can confidently reduce the amount of other products in the same proportions.

Before proceeding directly to cooking, we will reveal another little secret that will help you cook delicious baked potato pies now and in the future. Stuffing for pies with potatoes, for convenience, prepare in advance. This is due to the fact that the potatoes were cooled.

1. So, let's use good advice, so as not to waste time later on for the filling to cool down, let's start making it right now. We take the prepared potatoes, send them to cook, as you know, this will not take much time. Do not forget to salt and leave it on the fire until it is ready. While the potatoes are languishing, let's take care of the onion, another important component of the filling. We fry the onion well in vegetable oil, it turns out we have golden and fragrant. You do not need to fry it for a long time so that it does not burn.
2. At this time, the potatoes were cooked. We knead it with a fork, what would we get, such a kind of puree. After that, we send the cooked onion to the potatoes, mix well and the potato filling for pies is ready.
3. Now we can start preparing the dough. We take a convenient and most importantly rather big bowl or any other container. Keep in mind that the dough will grow significantly in size. The water for the test should be warm. We send it to our bowl. Next, add yeast. Let's give them some time to disperse.
4. Add sugar and salt to the yeast mass. After we send the prepared vegetable oil. All this must be thoroughly mixed.
5. Next, sift the flour so that our yeast pies with potatoes turn out to be tender and fluffy. Add the sifted flour gradually while stirring. Add only half of the prepared flour so far, knead it well and let the dough grow a little. After that, add the second half of the flour in the same way.
   
6. We leave the dough to rise, but we don’t go far, since the dough must be kneaded during this time, you need to do this several times so that it starts growing again. We follow our lush dough so that it does not crawl out of the container.
7. When we kneaded the dough for the second time, we can safely lay it out on the surface for work, while sprinkled with flour. This means that we can start making pies with potatoes and onions. If you are not quite comfortable working with a large amount of dough, you can take it in parts.
   
8. We take the dough, cut off a part from it, from which we tear off small pieces to form balls - our future pies. We put the learned ball on the work surface and roll it out.
9. When the dough is rolled out into pieces, we put the filling on it, which we prepared at the very beginning. We do not save the filling, as you know, the more the pie is saturated with the filling, the tastier it turns out. After the filling is in place, we form already full-fledged pies, for this we simply pinch them by connecting the edges.
   
10. We prepare a baking sheet, for this we grease it with vegetable oil or, if available, baking paper, use it, spreading it around the entire perimeter of the baking sheet. Check out our adorable pies. In order for them to turn out not only very tasty, but also beautiful, put them seam down. We spread them at a small distance from each other, as they, of course, will increase during baking.
    
11. We do not forget to heat the oven to about 180 degrees and after that we send a baking sheet with pies into it. Baking pies with potatoes in the oven will be about 15 minutes.
    
12. Follow the baking process a little and when the pies are browned, you can safely take them out, put them on a dish, but at the same time cover them a little with a towel.
    

Potato pies in the oven turned out very tasty, fragrant and tender. Of course, the dough itself plays a significant role in such pastries, but the filling is also important here. For example, onions added to potatoes gave a pleasant smell and interesting taste.

As it turned out, preparing such culinary delights is not so difficult, you just need to follow a good recipe, make a little effort, well, without the desire to go anywhere, the desire to pamper your loved ones with a variety of pies, experimenting with delicious toppings, which will allow you to find your favorite recipe , which will become your signature dish. Such pies are very tasty and with a cup of hot tea or coffee, as well as a glass of milk will be an excellent component of the overall taste picture.

fried

Undoubtedly, each of us keenly remembers the aroma and taste of grandmother's potato pies, which disappeared from the plate in a matter of seconds. It is the taste that we remember from childhood that is still preserved in our memory, and now, when we have become adults, we can easily make this delicacy on our own, just as tasty and fragrant. The only negative of this great and inexpensive delicacy is the time spent on cooking pies with potatoes. But, as we know - "the game is worth the candle."

Ingredients

For filling

Our recipe for making potato patty dough is very simple, and, moreover, reliable.

This recipe for pie dough is suitable for frying patties both in a pan and for baking in the oven. From this dough, you can bake not only pies, but also meat, vegetable pies, as well as rolls.
The dough made according to our recipe does not require a lot of time for the growth and proofing of the dough, so we will use it immediately after we knead and knead well.

For the test

Recipe

All the ingredients are collected and are in front of us. We begin to prepare the filling for our pies with potatoes.

Why do we start cooking with the filling - you ask? And because we will start using the dough immediately after its preparation.

While the finished filling is cooling, we will prepare the dough.

The secret of the elastic soft dough is that it needs to be beaten, as if throwing it on the table. Due to this manipulation, the dough becomes much softer. During impacts on the table, the existing air is released from the dough, due to which the dough receives a uniform and smooth structure.

The last, decisive step is the preparation of the potato pies themselves.

The history of the "birth" of potato pies.

In general, potato pies were very popular even in ancient times. The very first writing about such pies was found in the diary of an overseas wanderer, who called pies with potatoes biscuits with a filling resembling pate in consistency and said that in White Russia they were treated only to the most welcome guests, i.e. those whom they were glad to see in their home.

What products will we need for our recipe for making potato pies?

Only by the name “potato pies” it becomes clear from what we will make our pies. In general, the standard filling for potato patties is mashed potatoes mixed with onions. But this delicacy has several of its secrets, knowing about which, you can make the filling for pies much tastier and more appetizing.

Before you mix the onion with mashed potatoes, it must first be fried in vegetable oil.

During cooking, salt and pepper the potatoes, this will give it a more pronounced taste and aroma. Also, while boiling potatoes, you can add a couple of bay leaves.

Remember that while shaping the pies, the potato dough should be warm and without lumps.

Potato pies are products in which the usual and beloved filling plays the role of a “dough”. Such a replacement gives a simply amazing result. The finished product is tender, fragrant and very tasty. However, the technology for preparing such a dish has its own characteristics and secrets, which should be discussed in more detail.

Meat pies

Experienced chefs say that potato pies are only a small part of what can be made from the most popular vegetable in the world. There are hundreds of options for their preparation, which can be classified according to several criteria:

1. The composition of the "dough" (from mashed potatoes, in broth, with yeast).
2. The content of the filling (with mushrooms, meat, fish, vegetables, cheese and mixed).
3. Method of preparation (frying, baking).

Those who wish to try to master this difficult science can be invited to try making potato pies with meat.

The following products will be needed as initial components:

For "test":

1 kilogram of potatoes, 200 grams of flour, 4 raw chicken eggs and salt.

For filling:

0.3 kilograms of boiled beef, salt, 200 grams of onions, ground black pepper and one boiled egg.

The technology is simple:

1. First, the potatoes need to be boiled, and then passed through a meat grinder.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and knead the "dough".
3. For the filling, first of all, boiled meat must be chopped in a meat grinder.
4. Finely chop the onion and lightly sauté, and crumble the egg arbitrarily.
5. By combining the components provided for in the recipe, prepare minced meat for the filling.
6. Roll out the “dough” into a layer, and then divide it into pieces (squares or circles).
7. Put the filling in the center of each blank and carefully close it, connecting the edges.
8. Fry in a frying pan on both sides in boiling oil.

Before serving, pies can be poured with warmed butter or put a spoonful of sour cream next to them.

With mushroom stuffing

A good option for a full dinner would be, for example, potato pies with mushrooms. In the people they are still called zrazy. The method of preparing such a dish is very similar to the one described earlier. To work, you will need the following ingredients:

800 grams of potatoes, 2 raw eggs, 300 grams of boiled mushrooms, an onion, 10 grams of salt, ½ cup of vegetable oil, 5 branches of green onions and 9 tablespoons of breadcrumbs.

The preparation of such pies includes the following steps:

1. First, the potatoes must be washed and peeled, and then boiled, not forgetting to pour a little salt.
2. At this time, you need to fry the mushrooms in oil, adding the chopped onion to them.
3. Mash boiled potatoes, salt, add 1 raw egg and make “dough” from all this.
4. Grind the fried mushrooms in a meat grinder, and then add finely chopped green onions to them. The filling is ready.
5. Now you need to form a pie. To do this, you need to take part of the “dough”, roll it into a ball, and then flatten it into a cake. Place some filling in the middle and carefully fold over the edges. Spread the blanks on the table and let them cool.
6. Separately, beat 1 egg in a bowl and add a quarter cup of water. Pour breadcrumbs into another bowl.
7. Now you can proceed to the last stage. Each workpiece must first be dipped in the egg mass, then rolled well in breadcrumbs and only then carefully put in a pan with boiling oil and fry on both sides.

It is interesting that such pies will be tasty not only hot, but also cold.

Experienced housewives know that potato dough for pies will be better if flour is added to the bulk. This will allow:

• make the mixture stronger and more elastic;
• after frying, get a pleasant golden crust on the surface.

The simplest potato "dough" recipe provides for the following ratio of products:

for 7 potatoes 1 raw egg, 30 grams of butter, 120 grams of flour and a little salt (to taste).

It is easy to prepare such a semi-finished product:

1. First, the potatoes must be peeled, and then boiled with salt.
2. Drain the broth, and mash the vegetables together with the oil in a puree.
3. As soon as the mass has cooled, beat in the egg, pour in the flour and mix it all well. To facilitate the work, you can use a mixer.

Now from the finished "dough" you can safely sculpt pies. To get the desired result, you need to take into account some subtleties:

• eggs should always be added only to the cooled mashed potatoes;
• before frying, it is better to roll the workpiece in flour so that the potato mass does not absorb too much oil;
• to preserve the integrity of the elastic "dough" it is better to cut it with your hands;
• after frying, the pies must first be laid out on a napkin to remove excess fat from them.

Thanks to these rules, products from such a test will turn out not only beautiful, but also very tasty.

miraculous decoction

Some chefs prefer to make pies on potato broth. True, here, too, has its own characteristics. First you need to collect the following products on the desktop:

potatoes, 280 grams of flour, 150 grams of sunflower oil, 160 grams of sugar and a pack of yeast (dry).

It doesn't take long to make such a "dough":

1. First, peeled potatoes must be boiled. For this, it is better to salt the water a little.
2. Dissolve dry yeast in a glass with water and add sugar.
3. Pour the flour into a bowl and pour in the broth.
4. After that, you need to add 150 g of sunflower oil and sugar.
5. Introduce yeast into the cooled mass and knead the steep "dough". You can do this in any way.
6. Gradually adding flour (150 g), conduct a good punch. After that, the dough will become noticeably softer. The prepared mass must be transferred to a saucepan, wrapped tightly and put in a warm place.
7. The formation of blanks must begin immediately after the ripening and cooling of the semi-finished product.

With such a "dough" you can use almost any, even sweet fillings.

lazy pies

The recipe for potato pies can be chosen so that the “dough” in them is also a filling at the same time. Such products are designed for the laziest or very busy housewives who simply do not have extra time to work in the kitchen. To prepare these pies, you first need to collect all the necessary products:

for three medium potatoes 1 egg, 50 grams of sunflower oil, one and a half cups of flour, 5 grams of salt and any spices.

The whole process consists of several mandatory sequential steps:

1. Raw potatoes must be chopped using a meat grinder, food processor or an ordinary fine grater.
2. Alternately add the remaining ingredients in the following order: egg - oil - salt and spices - flour. After each ingredient, the mass must be thoroughly stirred.
3. Roll out the “dough” into a pancake with a thickness of 1-2 millimeters, and then, using a special mold or a regular glass, cut out blanks in the form of circles from it.
4. Pour more vegetable oil into a saucepan and bring it to a boil.
5. Deep-fry the blanks in batches of 5-6 pieces, and then lay them out on a napkin to remove excess fat.

These pies are commonly referred to as "bombs" because they puff up during cooking. Sometimes they are also made even with a vegetable filling.

Sour-milk filling

Mashed potato pies will be more fluffy if you add a little kefir to the "dough". Due to the unique features of this fermented milk product, the finished product is soft and airy. To prepare such a miracle, you must additionally use:

1 raw egg, 0.5-1 cup of kefir (as you like), flour and a third of a teaspoon of soda.

Everything is done very quickly:

1. Transfer the puree that remained uneaten after dinner into a deep bowl.
2. Add to it all the ingredients provided for in the recipe, and mix it all well. In this case, there should be enough flour so that the mass becomes thick and reaches for a spoon. If desired, you can also add a little onion or green onions.
3. With the help of a tablespoon dipped in water, put the prepared mixture into a pan and fry in vegetable oil on both sides.

These pies give potatoes a second life. Now any housewife will know that the remains of ordinary mashed potatoes can become the basis for a very tasty and healthy dish.

Stuffed with cabbage

Potato pies with cabbage are very tasty. To prepare them, you need to collect the following ingredients on the desktop:

For test:

4 potatoes and 2 eggs.

For filling:

onion, 300 grams of white cabbage, salt, 2 eggs and 40 grams of butter.

In addition, 60 grams of flour will be required for breading, and 70 grams of vegetable oil for frying.

The entire cooking procedure can be divided into 4 successive stages:

1. For the “test”, the potatoes boiled in their skins must first be peeled, and then mashed and mixed with raw eggs.
2. For the filling, fry the chopped cabbage and onion separately in oil, and then combine them together, adding the rest of the ingredients.
3. From the potato mass, make a round cake with your hands, put part of the filling on it, and then carefully wrap the edges.
4. Bread each piece in flour and fry in boiling oil.

Delicate pies with juicy and fragrant filling are good to eat hot with sour cream. If desired, the dish can be sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Alternative option

Dough on potato broth for pies can be made without adding eggs. At the same time, its quality will not become worse. To prepare such a semi-finished product you will need:

50 grams of sugar, 350 milliliters of still warm potato broth, a small piece of butter, 30 grams of yeast (fresh), 10 grams of salt and flour.

You can make such a "dough" simply and quickly. It is literally made in one go. You just need to mix all the ingredients and put the finished mass to rise. Everything happens in minutes. Thanks to fresh yeast, the “dough” grows right before your eyes. After that, it remains only to prepare some kind of filling, form the blank, and then fry it in boiling oil until a characteristic golden brown. This is also done very quickly. And as a filling, you can use the same potato, the decoction of which has already found its use in the “dough”. You just need to mix it with fried onions and add a little chopped greens for flavor.

Baking in the oven

It is much easier to bake potato pies in the oven. At the same time, it does not matter at all what filling will be used in them. As an example, consider one very interesting recipe. We need a modest set of products.

For "test":

12 potatoes, 200 grams of flour, a little salt, 1 egg and 1 protein.

For filling:

300 grams of cottage cheese (dry), salt, 30 grams of flour, 1 yolk and a little sugar.

In addition, you will additionally need to take:

for cutting - 60 grams of flour, for lubricating products - 1 egg, for processing a baking sheet - 40 grams of butter.

According to the cooking technology, this method is not much different from the previous options. To make such pies, the hostess needs:

1. Boil peeled potatoes. The water does not need to be salted.
2. Drain the broth, and cool the potatoes.
3. At this time, you can make the filling by mixing all the ingredients at once.
4. For the “dough”, the potatoes must be chopped on a grater, and then add everything that is supposed to be according to the recipe, and mix well to get a homogeneous thick mass.
5. Sprinkle a cutting board with flour and roll out the “dough” on it.
6. Cut out of it with a regular glass blanks in the form of circles.
7. Put a teaspoon of the filling in each of them and carefully wrap it, forming an oval semi-finished product.
8. Treat the baking sheet with oil.
9. Distribute blanks on it, smearing their surface with an egg.

After that, it remains only to send the pies to the oven and wait until they are browned.

The modern rhythm of life very often leaves no time even for preparing the most ordinary and simple dishes, forcing the hostess to dodge and come up with new recipes. Thanks to courage and resourcefulness, dishes such as potato broth pies, potato pies and other lazy delicious recipes have appeared. The preparation of these dishes is not a time-consuming process, but, on the contrary, very interesting and exciting, because here everything is done in a completely different way. So it's definitely worth a try.

Time: 60 minutes

Servings: 10–12

This dish is made much easier than everyone is used to: you don’t have to make a dough, wait for it to rise, mix all the ingredients and you don’t even need to make yeast dough on potato broth, it’s even easier. And yet, how to cook potato pies at home so as not to spend a lot of time and effort? One has only to follow the recipe points, select high-quality vegetables and potato dough pies will definitely work out.

Product set

• 100 grams of any salted mushrooms;
• 100 grams of breadcrumbs;
• 50 grams of bacon (smoked lard);
• 1 egg;
• 1 onion;
• 25 grams of butter;
• 2 tablespoons of premium flour;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• fresh herbs - to taste;
• vegetable oil (for frying);
• Spices (salt, black pepper, red pepper) - to taste.

Cooking method

This recipe for potato pie, hardly anyone will refuse to try this pastry, because it is really special.

Potato patties stuffed with mushrooms

Time: 50 minutes

Servings: 8–10

As in the previous recipe, there are also no pitfalls here. No yeast is used, no special lean dough is made on potato broth. Only natural ingredients, delicious toppings and 50 minutes for all the culinary magic.

A set of products for the test

• 1 egg;
• 25 grams of butter;
• 1 kilogram of selected potatoes;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• salt - to taste.

A set of stuffing products

• 250 grams of salted mushrooms;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 bunch of any greens.

Cooking method

For this recipe, you can use another filling, the main thing is to remember about the combination of products, because only then you can make something uniquely tasty, as well as beautiful.

A hearty and nutritious delicacy will not leave indifferent any picky guest, and besides, it will incredibly make it easier for the hostess to create a delicious lunch or dinner.

Cook delicious and bon appetit!