Potato pies are prepared by many housewives all over the world. It is difficult to understand who owns the idea of baking dough with potatoes inside. This vegetable used to be forbidden. He could poison an entire family. The fact is that most of the inhabitants of Europe did not know how to properly eat potatoes.
When the secrets of potatoes were revealed, gastronomic experiments were conducted with this vegetable. The combination of potatoes with meat is considered successful. No less popular is the recipe for potato pies. Such pastries managed to become the food of the poor in the XX century.
Now potato pies are a nostalgia for the village and childhood.
Let’s prepare homemade potato pies
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Ingredients of the dough for potato patties:
- Kefir – 300 ml;
- Salt – 1 tsp;
- Sugar – 1 tsp;
- Egg – 1 pc;
- Vegetable oil – 20 ml;
- Flour – 500 g;
- Baking powder – 1 tsp.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Potatoes – 600 g;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Parsley;
- Salt – ½ tsp.
Preparation of potato patties:
Boil the peeled potatoes until tender. In a bowl with kefir break an egg, pour salt and sugar, pour vegetable oil and mix thoroughly.
Sift flour and baking powder into the mixture, knead the dough with your hands
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Cover the elastic and not sticky dough with cellophane and leave it for 15 minutes.
For the filling, mashed potato the potatoes, salt them. Chop onions finely and fry in a frying pan. Add the onions to the potatoes along with the chopped parsley and mix.
Knead the dough and divide it into 16 parts, form rolls. Roll out the rolls with a rolling pin into thick tortillas, put the stuffing. Seal the mashed potatoes inside the dough, place the patties seam-side down.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan halfway, heat it up. Put the patties in the oil, fry over medium heat until golden on both sides.
The result is flavorful patties made of thin dough with a juicy filling.
You will not need an oven for these patties.
