How to learn how to cook delicious pastry for potato pies

Kitchen appliances and utensils: hob, large and small bowls, whisk, sieve, towel or cling film, tea and tablespoons, paper towels, pan, potato crusher, cutting board, large plate, frying pan, fork, deep frying pan or cauldron.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Knead the dough

1. We activate the yeast. To do this, pour dry yeast (10 grams) into a small bowl. Add sugar (a teaspoon) and a small amount of warm milk to them to make a pulp consistency. Mix all the ingredients, cover the bowl with cling film and leave in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.
   
2. In a large bowl, combine sugar (teaspoon) and salt (0.5 teaspoon). Add sour cream (100 grams) at room temperature to the bowl. Take sour cream with a fat content of 20%. Rub the foods well in a bowl with a whisk.
   
3. Beat in a chicken egg (1 piece) and pour the vegetable oil (50 ml). The oil should also be at room temperature. Mix the ingredients thoroughly.
   
4. Pour the remaining warm milk into the bowl (a total of 250 ml is required for the recipe, but a little was poured into dry yeast). Mix the whisk with other products.
   
5. Mix the yeast that has grown in volume and pour into the milk mixture. Mix the ingredients well until smooth.
   
6. Sift the flour into a bowl and knead the dough. As soon as the dough becomes thicker, dust the table, lay out the dough and continue kneading. As a result, you should get a soft dough that does not stick to the table and hands. In time, you need to knead the dough for about 5-7 minutes. Remove excess flour. In total, 580-650 grams of flour may be needed, it depends on sour cream and the flour itself. Lubricate the kneaded dough on top with vegetable oil, place in a bowl, cover with cling film and put in a warm place for 1 hour for a good lift.
   

Cooking stuffing

While the dough rises, prepare the filling.

1. Peel and boil the potatoes (1 kg). During cooking, salt water to taste and add bay leaf (2 pieces). Peel and cut into small cubes onions (2 pieces). Fry the onion until golden in a pan with vegetable oil (2 tablespoons).
   
2. Drain the potatoes from the finished potato and mash it in mashed potatoes.
   
3. Put the fried onions in a pot with potatoes, salt and pepper to taste. You can add another 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
   
4. Mix the potatoes well and place the filling in a large plate for cooling. The filling when forming the pies should be slightly warm.
   

Sculpt and fry pies

1. Mash the dough and remove it from the bowl onto the table. The dough does not stick to your hands, but if necessary, you can grease your hands with vegetable oil. Cut the slices from the dough with a knife, depending on the desired size of the pies. If you want to make pies of medium size, then a piece of cut dough will be the size of a chicken egg.
   
2. From a cut piece of dough, form a cake on your palm, put the filling (a tablespoon) in the center and pinch the edges.
   
3. Put the formed pies on a chopping board dusted with flour at a distance from each other. When the board is full, cover the pies with cling film or a towel and allow them to stand for 10-15 minutes.
   
4. Pour so much vegetable oil into a deep pan or cauldron so that the patties float when frying. Warm the oil well. Dip the approached pies into the heated oil and fry on both sides until golden brown over medium heat.
   
5. Take the finished cakes onto a plate covered with paper towels to remove the remaining oil.
   
6. In this way, overcook the remaining pies. From the amount of ingredients given in the recipe, 20 pieces of medium pies are obtained.
   

Video recipe

How to activate the yeast and knead the dough for pies with potatoes, see the video.

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