Pies are considered an unprecedented culinary heritage of all mankind. The fact is that the history of pies began from time immemorial. In fact, after bread, people began to master baking with the addition of filling inside.
At first, the filling of pies was simple – pieces of meat. Spices, vegetables and other delights were not put in the filling. Probably, at that time mankind had not yet discovered flavor enhancers.
As time passed, pies began to take on different guises. Now there are more than 1000 different kinds of pies all over the world. We will tell you about simple pies with potatoes.
Ingredients for potato pies:
- kefir – 300 ml;
- onion – pcs.;
- egg – pcs;
- potatoes – 600 g;
- salt – tsp;
- leavening agent – tsp;
- sugar – tsp;
- flour – 500 g;
- vegetable oil – 20 ml.
Preparation of pies with potatoes:
Potatoes are peeled and boiled until ready. At this time mix in a bowl with kefir egg, salt, granulated sugar and vegetable oil.
Sift flour with baking powder into the kefir mixture and form a dough
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Leave the lump of dough to insist under a towel for 15 minutes.
Cut the onion into half-rings, fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until golden. Turn the potatoes into mashed potatoes, integrate the fried onions, salt and spices to taste, mix the products together.
Divide the dough into 12 equal parts, form small lumps
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Roll out the lumps into tortillas with a diameter of 7-8 cm. Put a spoonful of filling in each flatbread, seal the mashed potatoes in the dough.
On the heated vegetable oil in a skillet, fry the patties until golden on all sides.
As you can see, you can cook delicious pies without using the oven.
In this case, you get a puffy thin dough with a lot of juicy filling.
