Housewives in everyday life often puzzle over how to diversify the usual menu, when they got fed up with cutlets with a side dish and other favorite, but pretty annoying dishes. Potato zrazy with minced meat can be an excellent choice. They are obtained not only tasty and nutritious, but also can not afford. In addition, there is where you can take your fantasies, because you can use various variations of the fillings.

Classic zrazy in a pan

The most popular filling is minced meat. Thanks to him, the dish is so satisfying that in most cases it does not even require a side dish. Well, maybe a light vegetable salad.

Ingredients Composition:

  • potatoes - 1 kg;
  • pork or ground beef;
  • flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • perfect chicken egg - 1 pc.;
  • onions - 1 head;
  • sunflower oil - 1 - 2 tbsp. l .;
  • breadcrumbs - 1 pack;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

Regarding breading, its exact amount is difficult to indicate, because it all depends on the juiciness of the potato.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel and boil potato tubers until cooked. Then mashed in any convenient way.
  2. So that mashed potatoes do not go too far while the filling is done, you need to immediately introduce a raw egg into it.
  3. Season with salt and spices. Pour the flour and bring the mixture to a homogeneous state.
  4. Dice the peeled onions and fry in oil with minced meat until tender. Usually, 20 minutes is enough.
  5. Blind flat cakes the size of a palm from potato dough. In the center of each lay 1 tbsp. spoon of minced meat fried with onions and pinch the edges, giving the product the shape of cutlets.
  6. Cook potato zrazy with minced meat in a pan with hot oil on each side until a fragrant crust appears.

Universal potato zrazy with minced meat, the recipe of which is discussed above, can be supplemented with your favorite spices. Ideal in all respects is crushed dill, added in mashed potatoes.

Oven baking recipe

Proponents of good nutrition are skeptical of this dish. A suitable option for them would be a step-by-step recipe, according to which zrazy is baked in the oven. The product will also appeal to small gourmets.

Ingredients Composition:

  • mashed potatoes - 1.2 kg;
  • minced meat - 450 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • onions - 1 medium head;
  • nutmeg - ½ tsp;
  • salt and pepper - to taste;
  • flour - 230 g;
  • breadcrumbs - 250 g;
  • vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l

If instead of pork for the filling, choose veal or chicken breast, then you can further reduce the calorie content of the dish.

Cooking method:

  1. Fry chopped onions until golden. Then add the meat component to it and simmer everything under the lid until almost ready.
  2. If desired, season with spices and then salt.
  3. Place the minced meat with onion in the blender bowl and work through the composition with the appliance until a creamy structure is obtained.
  4. Add mashed salt, nutmeg, egg and flour. Knead the base thoroughly.
  5. Fashion potato cakes.Significantly facilitate the sculpting process, if you grease your hands with vegetable oil. Thanks to this puree, it will not stick to them.
  6. Distribute the meat filling in the center of the cakes and form zrazy.
  7. Bread products breaded.
  8. Place blanks on a baking sheet. To protect against burning it is better to cover it with parchment.
  9. Bake in an oven heated to 180 degrees for no more than 30 minutes, because initially all the components of the dish are almost ready. Oven time is only needed for browning.

An ideal addition to oven-baked zrash is low-fat sour cream, sprinkled with chopped dill.

Cooking with minced chicken

A feature of the dish is that almost any kind of meat and many other products are suitable for the filler. The most popular, along with pork and veal, is chicken.

 

Ingredients Composition:

  • boiled and peeled potatoes - 1.5 kg;
  • minced chicken - 500 g;
  • flour - 150 g;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • butter - 50 g;
  • sunflower oil - if necessary;
  • spices with salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Pass the potatoes through a meat grinder, then add oil and do not forget to salt. Creamy fat will give greater softness to the finished dish, which will increase its attractiveness for young children.
  2. Fry minced chicken with chopped onion in vegetable oil until the meat is lightly browned.
  3. Add the flour in the puree and mix thoroughly. Form cakes - the basis of future dreams. Work better with wet hands.
  4. Lay the filling in the center of each blank and cover it with free edges.
  5. Place the resulting “pies” in a pan with heated vegetable oil and fry on both sides until golden brown. As a rule, 5-7 minutes on each side is enough (depending on the intensity of the fire).

In this recipe, zrazy are cooked without breading, which allows you to get a softer, but no less tasty dish.

With mushrooms

There are many ways to prepare a lean variation of a dish. One of the successful ones is a recipe with mushroom filling. Theoretically, any variety of mushrooms can be used, but champignons will be most appropriate.

Ingredients Composition:

  • potatoes - 800 g;
  • champignons - 300 g;
  • raw egg - 1 pc.;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • flour - 130 g;
  • salt and pepper - to taste;
  • vegetable oil - 25 ml.

As a component of the filling, it is better not to use pickled mushrooms, since the presence of vinegar in them will give the dish excess acid.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel potatoes, onions and mushrooms.
  2. Put the boiled tubers, and at this time do the filling.
  3. Cut champignons into small pieces, onions - into cubes. Fry them together in vegetable oil. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Mash cooked potatoes in mashed potatoes, stir in an egg and half a glass of flour.
  5. Form cakes, on each of which lay 1 tbsp. spoonful of mushroom filling and cover it with the free edges of the potato dough.
  6. The dish can be brought to readiness both in a pan and in the oven. You need to focus on the presence of a golden brown. As soon as it appeared, you can shift it on the other side until a similar effect appears.

Serve refreshments better hot. The ideal complement to it would be sour cream with chopped herbs, tomato or garlic sauce.

From mashed potatoes in a slow cooker

The main kitchen assistant can be involved in the preparation of potato zrazy. The recipe does not have any global differences from traditional cooking, but greatly simplifies the process.

Ingredients Composition:

  • peeled potatoes - 1.5 kg;
  • minced meat - 700 g;
  • dill greens - ½ bunch;
  • onions - 1 head;
  • raw egg - 1 pc.;
  • starch (can be replaced with flour) - 4 tbsp. l .;
  • spices and salt - optional;
  • sunflower oil - 40 ml.

Cooking method:

  1. Boil potatoes in a traditional way or use a slow cooker. For this, 2 modes are suitable: “Soup” and “Steam”. When the product is cooked, knead it and beat with an egg, chopped dill, salt and starch.
  2. In order to make the filling in the slow cooker, you need to grease the bowl with oil and first put the onion in it. The meat is laid only after 3-5 minutes and is cooked until all the juices are completely evaporated. Season the finished stuffing.
  3. Form zrazy with filling in the usual way and fry them until browned.

You can diversify the taste of the dish by adding vegetables, aromatic spices or herbs to the filling.

Zrazy with minced fish

Potato is one of the few universal products that perfectly combines not only with meat, but also with fish. Therefore, quite calmly this product can be used in the filling.

 

Ingredients Composition:

  • mashed potatoes - 1.5 kg;
  • eggs - 4 pcs. (1 raw, 3 boiled);
  • fish pulp - 500 g;
  • flour - 130 g;
  • refined sunflower oil - 40 ml;
  • onions - 1 head;
  • breadcrumbs - 200 g;
  • dill - 20 g;
  • salt and seasonings - optional.

Fish will suit both sea and river. However, in the case of the latter, the problem arises of removing bones, of which there is an enormous amount in it.

Cooking method:

  1. Add mashed egg, flour and spices to the smoothie.
  2. Pass the fish pulp through a meat grinder, combine with finely chopped onion and fry until golden.
  3. Add grated eggs and chopped dill to the finished filling.
  4. Form the base of the zrazy from the potato mixture into which the filling is to be placed (its amount varies based on the size of the product).
  5. Roll the breadcrumbs into breadcrumbs and brown in a pan.

In principle, filling the zraz can be without eggs, but with them the taste of the dish turns out to be more interesting.

How to make raw potatoes

In the absence of desire or the ability to stand for a long time at the stove, you can significantly reduce the cooking time if you immediately make zrazy from potatoes, without preliminary boiling.

Ingredients Composition:

  • potatoes - 1.2 kg;
  • minced pork - 450 g;
  • vegetable and butter - 50 g each;
  • garlic - 1 clove (can be replaced with a pinch of granular);
  • onions - 1 pc.;
  • raw chicken egg - 1 pc.;
  • salt, pepper and herbs of Provence.

The process is better to start with the filling, because raw potatoes quickly darken. Therefore, if possible, it should immediately be subjected to heat treatment.

Cooking method:

  1. Finely chop the onion, mix it with minced meat, salt and a mix of dried herbs.
  2. Grate or peel potatoes through a meat grinder. Squeeze out excess fluid.Add the egg, garlic and spices with salt to the pulp.
  3. Form zrazy with meat filling and fry in sunflower oil under a lid for about 20 - 25 minutes.

Lubricate the finished hot dish with butter. It is better to eat food right away, since raw potato zrazy are not intended for long-term storage - when cooling, they become very stale.

Following these recipes, you can cook a tasty and budget dish, unfortunately forgotten by many. If desired, the meat filling can be diluted with ingredients such as grated carrots, cheese, celery and other products.

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