How to learn how to cook delicious mashed potato cakes

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• pan;
• deep bowl with a capacity of 4 liters or more;
• potato pusher;
• cutting board;
• kitchen knife;
• kitchen scales;
• beaker.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. For baking potato pies (zraz) from mashed potatoes, an previously unused product is taken. You can prepare mashed potatoes specifically for baking these soft, delicious patties. Boil potatoes until cooked. Make mashed potatoes. Be sure to let it cool completely. If you add the egg to the hot mashed potatoes, the protein will curl up and lose its fastening ability.
   
2. Transfer cold mashed potatoes (400 grams) into a deep bowl. Add the chicken egg (1 piece). Stir with a fork or pusher for potatoes. If you want pies to be denser, increase the number of eggs to 2.
   
3. Pour wheat flour (4-5 tablespoons) into a bowl of potato mass. Add flour gradually, the dough should not be jammed. Shuffle.
   
4. Knead uncooked dough, collect it in a ball. The dough may stick a little to your hands.
   
5. Peel the onion (1 piece) from the husk, cut into small cubes. In well-heated vegetable oil (40-50 ml), fry pieces of minced meat with minced meat (200 grams) until cooked, stirring all the time. Salt and pepper the filling to taste. For the filling, you can also use pork, minced chicken, ground boiled liver.
   
6. On a wide plate, pour 3 tablespoons of flour for rolling pasties. Take a tablespoon a portion of potato dough and spread in flour. The size of the pies depends on the amount of mass gained. Make a cake from the dough, put a tablespoon of meat in the center, pinch the edges.
   
7. Give the workpiece a pie shape (make it as you wish, round or oval). If your hands stick to the dough, sprinkle them with flour or brush with vegetable oil.
   
8. Pour vegetable oil into a well-heated pan (50-60 ml of a total of 150-200 ml). Fry zrazy until golden brown on each side for 3-5 minutes. As you fry oil, add it to the pan.
   

Serve hot pies with sour cream, sauce, salad, fresh vegetables. This baking is delicious and cold. As a filler use: fried mushrooms, stewed cabbage, boiled eggs with green onions, fried fish fillet and other ingredients. Often such pies are called potato zrazy, cartoplans.

Video recipe

How to cook delicious potato cakes from yesterday's mashed potatoes, you will see in this story. After viewing the step-by-step preparation of baking, you can easily repeat all the steps shown.

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