We know quite a few modern dishes that are made from potatoes. It is the main side dish for most meals. All popular appetizers are also created from potatoes, whether it is chips, French fries and country-style potatoes.
Everyone knows about the relevance of potatoes now. But, in the distant XVIII century, this vegetable was not much loved. The fact is that it was even dangerous to consume potatoes. Uninformed peasants ate the flowers of the vegetable, which led to poisoning.
Catherine the Great used potatoes as humanitarian aid for Finland. “Earth apples” it was decided to transport by ships to this country to overcome the conditions of hunger. In our state, this vegetable was still not popular.
In modern times, the situation has changed, so keep the original recipe for potato pies
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Ingredients for potato pies:
- milk – 150 ml;
- paprika – tsp;
- water – 150 ml;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- sugar – tbsp;
- vegetable oil – 30 ml;
- salt – ½ tsp;
- cheese – 100 g;
- sour cream – 2 tbsp;
- butter – 30 g;
- yeast – 7 g;
- onion – pcs;
- flour – 600 g;
- potatoes – 500 g.
Preparation of potato pies:
In warm milk add water of the same temperature, add sour cream, salt, granulated sugar and yeast.
After the formation of the yeast opara, sift the flour into the milk liquid. Knead a non-sticky and elastic dough by hand. Leave the dough lump in the heat under a towel for an hour.
In the meantime boil the peeled potatoes until ready, mashed potato them. Salt, add ground black pepper to taste.
Onions should be cut into small cubes in advance, fry in a frying pan until golden. Grate cheese on small grating teeth. Together with butter and onion, integrate the cheese into the mashed potatoes.
From the resulting mass form 9 identical lumps
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The dough is similarly divided into 9 equal lumps, which we roll out into tortillas with a diameter of 10-12 cm. Put a potato ball in all the flat cakes and seal the edges into a kind of sack.
The sack should be slightly flattened, leave to insist on the tray under the food film for 15 minutes. In the meantime, in a bowl combine vegetable oil, paprika and garlic cloves run through the press. Soak
the surface of the pie blanks with the oily liquid.
Bake the pies in the oven for half an hour at 180 degrees.
We advise to sprinkle the surface of the pies with cheese before baking.
However, even without a cheese cap you get a tasty flour product with potatoes inside.
