Pies for many peoples, especially ancient ones, have quite a great cultural significance. As a rule, baking was a ritual food, which was prepared for special holidays.
For example, pies with potatoes in Slavic tribes were baked for the Maslenitsa holiday. This symbolized the departure of cold weather and the beginning of a new season of planting crops.
In addition, there are traditional Chinese pies – Zongzi. These are baked for the Lunar New Year festival. In such pies cooks put vegetables symbolizing the new year. In
addition,
in
many countries potato pies are relevant. The recipe for such a popular pastry is worth repeating at home.
Ingredients for potato pies:
- potatoes – 350 g;
- potato broth – 200 g;
- salt – tsp;
- sugar – tbsp;
- dry yeast – tbsp;
- egg – pcs;
- vegetable oil – 20 ml;
- flour – 550 g;
- green onion – bundle;
- dill – bundle.
Preparation of potato patties:
Boil potatoes until ready, peel and knead to a mashed state. Pour salt, dry yeast and sugar to the potatoes, break an egg, pour in the potato broth
. Thoroughly mix the components in the mashed potatoes
.
Shinkle finely green onions and dill, add to the potato mixture.
Sift flour into the potato
mixture
, knead a non-sticky and elastic dough
.
Grease
the dough with vegetable oil.
Grease the container with vegetable oil and leave the dough inside, seal it with food film. After 30 minutes, knead the dough again.
Divide the dough into 16 equal portions, form small rolls. Leave the rolls under the cling film for 10 minutes.
Place the dough rolls in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil. Fry the dough rolls on both sides until browned.
In this way you can easily prepare potato patties. They can be used separately or with soups, meat dishes.
