The 1990s were quite a difficult and hard time for many people in our country. In the stores, food common to a modern person was expensive. Therefore, resourceful housewives had to invent new dishes.
One of the main ingredients of most frugal dishes is potatoes
.
It was grown every year in the villages, in dachas. Also for cooking used cheap cereals and porridge.
Let’s tell you how to make cutlets from oat groats and potatoes
.
Ingredients for potato cutlets:
- Oat flakes – 200 g;
- Boiling water – 200 ml;
- Potatoes – 250 g;
- Onion – pcs;
- Garlic – 3 cloves;
- Salt – tsp.
Preparation of potato cutlets:
Pour boiling water over oat flakes and leave for 10 minutes to swell. At this time, cut large slices of onion
. Send onion and garlic in a blender bowl, chop to a homogeneous pulp.
Combine the onion mass and potato mass in a bowl with oat flakes
. Add salt to the vegetable mass, mix thoroughly
.
Form small cutlets from the potato mass.
Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the cutlets on medium heat under a lid until browned on both sides.
Potato cutlets turn out to be dietary, if you cook them in butter.
It is also recommended to add spices to the potato mass – black ground pepper.
