Potato pies are an iconic dish of Soviet cuisine. Of course, before the USSR, potato pies were also known to the people. However, it was in the Soviet Union that this pastry was elevated to a cult.
Pies are prepared with the addition of different components. For example, fried onions or green onions, eggs are added to mashed potatoes.
The dough also plays a big role in cooking pirozhki. It should be soft and fluffy. If the pies are cooked in a frying pan, the dough should not absorb a lot of oil into itself.
Let’s prepare delicious potato pies in a frying pan.
Ingredients of the dough for potato patties:
- Kefir – 250 ml;
- Egg – 1 pc;
- Salt – 1 tsp;
- Sugar – 1 tbsp;
- Vegetable oil – 30 ml;
- Flour – 400 g;
- Baking powder – 1 tsp.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Potatoes – 400 g;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Dill – a bunch;
- Salt – ½ tsp.
Preparation of potato patties:
In a bowl with kefir pour salt, sugar, beat eggs and mix thoroughly until the grains of sand dissolve. Pour into the kefir vegetable oil, sift flour and leavening agent, gather and knead elastic soft dough.
Leave the dough under cellophane for 15 minutes
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In the meantime, mashed potato the pre-boiled peeled potatoes
, chop the onion finely and fry in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Chop a bunch of dill, add it to the mashed potatoes, salt and mix.
Divide the dough into 16 rolls, leave them under cellophane for 10 minutes
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With your hands roll out each dough roll into a flatbread, where you put a tablespoon of stuffing.
Seal the filling inside the dough, placing the patties seam side down. In a skillet in hot vegetable oil, fry each patty until golden on both sides.
Place the patties on the frying pan seam side down.
After cooking, place the patties on a paper towel to drip off the oil.
