Potato zrazy is the best reason to try and show off culinary talents. The choice of fillings is so huge that my eyes run wide. With onions, mushrooms, saury ... Already in the description of recipes incredible appetite flares up. We’ll tell you how to cook tender cutlets with juicy filling so that they do not fall apart.

Classic potato zrazy with minced meat

Zrazy with minced potato is also called kortoplyaniki. Such potato patties with different fillings are incredibly fond of in Western Ukraine, Lithuania, often cooked in Belarus and Russia. Cutlets are even mentioned in the classics of literature. Babel, in Odessa Tales, has a phrase like “an old man drank vodka from a teapot, ate it immediately, smelling like a happy childhood” ... In general, we learn to cook cutlets worthy of a literary pen.

For cooking, we need:

  • a kilogram of potatoes (the best is the red variety for baking - it will not fall apart);
  • large head of onion;
  • half a kilo of any quality stuffing;
  • a glass of milk;
  • half a glass of cream of any fat content;
  • chicken eggs - 2 pcs;
  • flour (the amount will depend on the number of cutlets);
  • vegetable or butter for frying - to taste;
  • a pinch of salt, pepper.

I wash the potatoes under water and carefully clean them with an iron brush. Boil until cooked in salted water. Three cooked potatoes on a coarse grater in a separate container.

We clean the onion and cut into cubes. Fry the minced meat with onions, salt in a pan. Add salt, pepper to taste and add 2 chicken eggs.At the same time, the forcemeat should not be too hot so that the eggs do not “cook”.

If you put raw minced meat in zrazy, it runs the risk of not frying and the zrazy will remain raw.

We make potato cakes. In the center of each we lay out a little mincemeat, pinch the edges to get beautiful, even cutlets. It remains to roll them in flour and fry on both sides in a mixture of vegetable and butter to a beautiful golden crust.

Serve warm with zrazy sauce made from flour, milk or cream. But, in principle, you can not bother with the sauce. Serve cutlets with fresh sour cream and parsley leaves. Eat and lick the plate! Bon Appetit.

Recipe for cooking with mushrooms in the oven

It often happens that in the evening there is a little mashed potato. On the second day there are few who want to eat, because puree is delicious only fresh. It's time to revive the potatoes and serve for dinner gorgeous fragrant potato zrazy with mushrooms, with sauce from yogurt, sour cream and whipped cream.

 

For cooking, we will need a small saucepan of cooked mashed potatoes, fresh champignons - 200 g, a large onion, a couple of chicken eggs, salt, pepper to taste, a little oil is not frying.

It is better to fry the mushrooms in butter - this way they will turn out deliciously creamy. Evaporate the water completely, otherwise the filling will soften the zrazy, and they will stick up directly in the pan.

A step-by-step instruction looks like this:

  1. We break eggs into mashed potatoes.
  2. Add a little flour.
  3. Knead the potato mixture thoroughly.
  4. If necessary, add salt, otherwise the cutlets will come out fresh.
  5. In a pan, fry the mushrooms, cut into cubes, and the onion.
  6. We make beautiful cakes, put mushroom stuffing in the center and pinch the edges.
  7. Roll zrazy in flour and fry in a hot pan on both sides.

Serve rosy, delicious zrazy on a large flat dish, adding sour cream sauce and small pickled or fresh cucumbers to them at your discretion. We eat, savoring the delicate mushroom taste, emphasized by creamy mashed potatoes. Bon Appetit!

With cheese

When cutting zrazy with cheese, a viscous molten filling is found, surprisingly in harmony with airy mashed potatoes. Take any cheese - spicy, freshish Russian, sweet Maasdam, classic parmesan. The taste will be different. But do not skimp on cheese - there should be a lot of fillings.

There is an option in haste - with cubes of good cream cheese. If the cheese comes with additives, such as slices of ham or mushrooms, the dish will sparkle in a new way.

Among the necessary ingredients:

  • cheese - 100 g;
  • 2 chicken eggs;
  • mashed potatoes - 500 g;
  • salt, pepper to taste;
  • breadcrumbs - 300 g;
  • vegetable oil for frying - 100 ml.

Grate the cheese. Break the eggs in mashed potatoes and knead the potato dough thoroughly. We form cakes the size of a palm, in the center of each we pour a generous portion of cheese. We "seal" the patties on both sides so that they turn out to be tight, and the filling does not leak. Bread zrazy in crackers, quickly toss into a heated frying pan. Fry on all sides to a crust.

Cakes are conveniently sculpted, periodically wetting hands with cold water - so they will not stick.

Put the finished zrazy on a paper towel, so the excess fat is absorbed. Serve with herbs, cherry tomatoes, fresh cucumber.

With cabbage

During fasting or on a diet, we recommend cooking cartoplans with cabbage. Juicy filling, potato dough, golden crust ... Mmmm ... You get a nice variation of pies, especially tasty in the cold.

When stewing, cabbage is best seasoned with dry dill. It will give a subtle mushroom flavor to the filling.

For cooking, we need a little cabbage stewed in vegetable oil, mashed potatoes and a couple of eggs (you can not take them if you fast).

We do this:

  1. Potatoes are slightly warmed up (or just take room temperature).
  2. We make neat cakes, and put the stewed cabbage in the center of each so that the filling does not fall out.
  3. We pinch the edges very tightly.
  4. Fry zrazy in a hot pan greased with plenty of vegetable oil.

Serve with herbs, cucumbers, pieces of herring. You can pour it with tomato sauce - the taste will be extraordinary, with a slight acidity. Such zrazy is easy to give children to school and take with them to work as a light but satisfying snack.

Mashed potato zrazy with meat

Potato zrazy with meat also turns out more delicious from mashed potatoes: they come out more tender, magnificent, very like children. It is easy to prepare a dietary version of zraz if you are not too lazy: first cook the meat and roll it with the onion through a meat grinder.

If mashed potato is liquid, it is better to add some yolks to it.

Proteins will make the consistency even more watery, you will have to add flour and the zrazy will turn out to be rough.

For cooking you will need:

  • 300 g lean beef;
  • large onion;
  • butter or sunflower oil (for frying);
  • mashed potatoes - 500 g;
  • and 2 chicken eggs.

Cook the meat until soft, grind it in a meat grinder or blender, passing it along with the onion, fried in vegetable or butter. Break the eggs in mashed potatoes, mix the dough well. Add salt and pepper to taste.

We sculpt beautiful oval cutlets from mashed potatoes, placing the meat filling inside. Lightly fry the zrazy in a pan.

Serve such kartoplyannikov possible with kvass milk (yogurt), sour cream and even whipped cream. The dish is suitable for children from an early age. You can cook a meat casserole, alternating layers of potatoes and meat, and bake it in the oven until golden brown.

Option without adding eggs

Zrazy is easy to cook without eggs and flour. They will turn out melting, with a pleasant crisp. Choose any filling. And we offer a classic combination of potatoes with mushrooms. We will prepare mashed potatoes with a small amount of liquid to make the dough steep enough.

 

Kortoplianniki are prepared from: a kilogram of potatoes, 500 g of mushrooms (you can dry, previously soaked in water), semolina - we will sprinkle it on our patties, large onions, salt, pepper to taste and sunflower oil.

We follow the steps:

  1. Boil the potatoes, knead in mashed potatoes (we drain the water almost completely, leaving a minimum).
  2. Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in a pan with onion.
  3. We add, pepper.
  4. We make pancakes from mashed potatoes with a thickness of 1.5 cm.
  5. We spread a tablespoon of the filling.
  6. We pinch the edges.
  7. We form oval pies.
  8. Roll them in semolina - it will make the dough sticky even without eggs.
  9. Heat the pan.
  10. Pour oil.
  11. Quickly fry the pies.

We offer mushroom zrazy without eggs with fresh vegetables, herbs or pickled cucumbers.

Some housewives always add a little (dessert spoon) of sugar to the potato dough. It makes the taste of the dish much brighter.

Potato zrazy without filling - garnished

Zrazy without filling is a great way to use mashed potatoes left over from dinner. Pork chop, potato patty, greens - dinner will be simple, inexpensive, but almost festive. If desired, you can add the filling: bacon, sausage, chicken. But we advise you to try an unusual recipe with dill oil: pieces of butter should be mixed with finely chopped dill and allowed to freeze in the freezer.

Necessary components:

  • two glasses of mashed potatoes;
  • one egg;
  • a couple of tablespoons of flour;
  • a pinch of salt, pepper, nutmeg;
  • 30 g of any cheese (if any);
  • breadcrumbs;
  • vegetable oil for frying.

In the puree, add spices, three cheese, put a little flour and break the egg. Knead the dough. We make potato cakes, stuffing each piece of dill oil. We pluck tightly, bread in breadcrumbs and quickly fry in a hot frying pan. Serve with any meat dish, watering with fresh sour cream. Decorate with parsley branches!

With peas

You can cook zrazy by adding peas.It costs a penny, but it is extremely tasty, especially in combination with pieces of meat, chicken liver, and just potatoes.

In season, you can replace dried peas with green. It is important to cook it and lightly punch in a blender with oregano or fresh dill.

We need: 200 g of cooked peas, mashed potatoes 700 g, large onion, salt, pepper, vegetable oil, 2-3 tablespoons of flour, chicken yolk, bread crumbs.

How to cook? Simply:

  1. We cook steamed mashed peas.
  2. Add mashed potato, yolk, a little flour to the sticky dough for warm paste.
  3. Let it cool slightly so that it does not burn hands.
  4. Fry peas with onions. You can add a lot of onions - so the peas come out juicy.
  5. We make pies with pea filling.
  6. Bread them in breadcrumbs.
  7. Fry in vegetable oil until crusted.

We eat cutlets a little warm or even cold - at your discretion. Hearty, but easy to digest, they are delicious with hot tea or a light vegetable salad seasoned with aromatic oil. They can be sprinkled with chopped sweet onions to give a special piquancy.

Juicy potato zrazy with egg and onion

Zrazy in the oven in the manner of everyone's favorite pies with green onions and eggs are prepared without frying. So, they are not only tasty, but also less high-calorie. We recommend eating them to anyone who monitors weight, but prefers hearty food.

Prepare cold mashed potatoes, yolk, protein, a bunch of green onions, 2 boiled eggs, salt, pepper, vegetable oil and 2-3 tablespoons of flour.

Remember the cooking rules:

  1. In mashed potatoes, add any spices, yolk, knead thoroughly. You should get a smooth potato dough that does not stick to your hands.
  2. Finely chop eggs into crumbs.
  3. Cut green onions into circles.
  4. Mix the eggs and onions. For uniformity of the filling, we recommend adding a little vegetable oil or a piece of butter.
  5. We sculpt cartoplans by wrapping onion stuffing inside.
  6. We spread each on a baking sheet so that they do not stick to each other.
  7. Grease the pies with protein.
  8. We send it to the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
  9. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.

Ready hot cakes can be greased with butter, pour sauce with milk, cream or eat with low-fat sour cream. Be sure to try to bite pies marinated mushrooms, seasoned with aromatic oil. Take such a dish with you to work, eat cold with tea - all colleagues will definitely ask for a recipe.

With minced chicken zraza

With chicken, zrazy is more popular with children, because the dish comes out airy, but satisfying. And the chicken cooks much faster, which increases the speed of cooking. For the filling, you can take chicken thighs fillet and even chicken breast, especially if it is boiled and chopped in a blender to the state of a thick meat paste.

 

We will need 400 g of chicken or breast, onion, butter or sunflower (for roasting), mashed potatoes - 500 g and 2 chicken eggs.

Zrazy will be even more interesting if you add a little grated hard cheese to the minced meat.

  1. Boil chicken, pass through a meat grinder or pierce with a blender.
  2. Add the onion fried in butter.
  3. Minced meat, pepper to taste.
  4. We make elastic dough from mashed potatoes, make flat cakes, and inside each we place a spoonful of chicken and onion filling. We pinch the edges.
  5. Then do as you wish - bake pies in the oven or fry.

Prepare mushroom bechamel for chicken cutlets: chop any mushroom caps and fry lightly with onions. In the mass, add a glass of milk, 2 tbsp. l flour. Stew until the sauce is slightly thickened. Creamy sauce, meat cutlet with juicy filling and gentle mashed potatoes are the perfect treat that households will definitely appreciate.

With saury filling

Even those who absolutely do not like fish eat zrazy from mashed potatoes with saury. The fish gives an interesting and somehow non-fishy flavor (rather, meat).Saury - the fish is rather oily, zrazy come out satisfying, although eaters, without exception, always require supplements.

For fish zrazy we will prepare: a jar of saury, two glasses of mashed potatoes, onion, flour - 100 g, vegetable oil, ground black pepper and an egg.

The cooking process is extremely simple:

  1. Knead the dough with flour and egg from mashed potatoes.
  2. Drain the liquid from the saury jar.
  3. Fry the onions in a frying pan, add the fish and stew so that the liquid evaporates.
  4. We form pies, filling them with saury.
  5. Bread in semolina or flour and fry.

We cover the finished patties with a thin mesh of mayonnaise, sprinkle with parsley. Cutlets are especially tasty when cold - they just need to cool when they fly off the plate at the speed of light. A zrash recipe can also be made as a casserole. It is satisfying, tasty and very simple.

Potato sorcerers in Belarusian

Belarusians erected potatoes in a cult, made a national treasure. But sorcerers love not only in this country. They are often cooked in the Baltic states. But who would dare to challenge the authorship of branded sorcerers among the Belarusian people! Cooking, following the advice of hospitable residents of the most potato country in the world.

Sorcerers are a special kind of potato pancakes. Unlike zrazy, they are always prepared from grated potatoes.

Essential Ingredients:

  • a kilogram of white large potatoes;
  • 500 g of any minced meat with onions, peppers (we recommend using chicken, which is cooked much faster than pork or beef);
  • flour - 3 tbsp. l;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • vegetable oil - 100 g;
  • salt, pepper to taste.

Three peeled potatoes on a coarse grater and add. Let the juice stand out. Squeeze the surplus through cheesecloth or recline in a colander. Add flour, egg, salt and pepper. And now - attention - we will do everything very quickly! We heat the frying pan, pour vegetable oil there and heat it.

Immediately make a cake (you can sculpt it with your hands), put the minced meat on top, pinch the edges and squeeze slightly to make the shape more flat. Put immediately in the pan. Fry until crisp. At the end, you can cover with a lid so that the mince is finally cooked.

Do not make the fire too strong, otherwise the potato will burn from below, and inside it will remain damp. Stuffing is not stewed even more so.

Sorcerers with sour cream sprinkle with herbs. Nourishing, with juicy meat filling, fried flat cakes - an ideal start to the weekend.

With sausage

All children love sausage in the dough. And if the dough is potato, the pie will be much more interesting and tastier. That's just what you need: a few sausages, yesterday's mashed potatoes, an egg, a little flour, vegetable oil, salt, pepper to taste.

Sausages should be of high quality, for example, dairy, GOST.

How to cook?

  1. From mashed potatoes, flour, eggs, knead a thick dough.
  2. With our hands we prepare a cake, and inside we wrap a sausage.
  3. Fry the pie in hot oil.
  4. We spread it on a paper towel - it absorbs excess oil.

Patties with sausage are delicious cold with hot herbal tea, aromatic coffee latte. For a children's holiday, it is easy to make mini-versions of crumbs sausages (they are sold in any store) or simply cutting the standard into 2 - 3 parts.

How to cook a dish in a slow cooker?

Inventive housewives cook zrazy in a slow cooker. But, we warn you right away, potato patties in the multi-bowl can creep out. Try making clean meatballs. Zrazy from pure meat - originally from Poland; there they are prepared from different varieties, filling the patties with different fillings; translated from Polish zraza translated as "separate pieces of meat" - before meat was only chopped, never scrolled through a meat grinder.

We will need:

  • minced meat - 700 g;
  • egg - 6 pcs.;
  • salt, pepper to taste.

5 hard boiled eggs, cool and clean. Add the egg to the meat, beat off with your hands. Salt and pepper. Making cakes. We put the egg inside, gently pinch it - the cutlet should turn out to be smooth, dense.
Brave housewives can try making classic potato zrazy.At the same time, the multicooker lid cannot be closed, and cooking should be done only in the "Frying" mode.

Fry zrazy at the bottom of a multi-bowl heated with vegetable oil. Close the lid and simmer until cooked in the "Meat", "Stew" or "Baking" mode. In the process, zrazy will give aromatic meat juice - they will definitely need a side dish. Cook mashed potatoes, pasta, rice. Serve cutlets with curry sauce, salted capers, fresh bread, herbs.
With an incision inside each "zrazinki" a testicle will be found. They look very appetizing, and the taste of zraz is incredibly pleasant.

With cottage cheese

Everyone who loves culinary experiments will love zrazy with cottage cheese and is not afraid to discover new flavor combinations. It would seem how potatoes are combined with cottage cheese? Our answer is wonderful. At the same time, we recommend making the filling difficult - season the cottage cheese with herbs, sour cream and certainly squeeze a clove of garlic there.

Prepare: mashed potatoes, a pack of cottage cheese of any fat content, a bunch of greens, a little sour cream, salt, pepper, a clove of garlic, a little flour and an egg. Add a little oregano, basil or any fragrant herbs to the puree - this will turn out to be a very aromatic dish.

The process looks like this:

  1. Knead elastic, smooth potato dough with flour, egg.
  2. Mix cottage cheese with sour cream, herbs, garlic, add.
  3. We form cutlets, inside each we spread a tablespoon with a slide of curd filling.
  4. We distribute the patties in a baking dish.
  5. Grease with protein.
  6. Bake in the oven until golden brown.

If desired, it is easy not to bake zrazy, but to fry. The technology is also very affordable, and the result is amazing. Cutlets must be allowed to cool a little - the cottage cheese should “grab”. Serve with tartar sauce or based on yogurt with herbs.

Thousands of recipes for snacks exist: each Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian family has its own company recipe. In Ukraine, zrazy is adored with cracklings, in Belarus with sour cream, in Lithuania with cream and, imagine, slightly salted herring. There are even very original recipes for zraz with dried fruits. You can also try, invent your own combinations. Then the dish will never get bored. Bon appetit and new discoveries on the culinary “front”!

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