Potato pie: recipe with photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Potato has long been one of the main products in the kitchen of a Russian person. With it, you can cook salads, and boiled, and fried, and baked dishes. Potato pie is one of the best cooking options for this root crop. But you can’t get by with potatoes alone, so you have to invent more and more new recipes with additional ingredients for this dish.

Preparation

What does it take to make a potato pie? First of all, it is the potato itself. If you need to cook a dish for four people (for 2 times), then about 2 kilograms will suffice. Before buying, you need to consider that a lot depends on the quality of the potatoes themselves and how they are peeled.

If you prepare large amounts of potatoes in advance in the basement, then it is better to take 2.5-3 kilograms for a pie.

When buying young potatoes, you should definitely consider how they are peeled. If you use a "peeler", you can lose 200-300 grams of product on the peel. And if you clean with a knife, yesalso not very spicy, go to the trash can up to a pound of ingredient.

Seasonings

Another important point in the preparation of potato pie is the spices used. Professional chefs prepare seasonings themselves, but a housewife can be content with ready-made mixtures from both branded manufacturers and those bought on the market. What are the best spices for potato pie? Here is the list:

• s alt;
• sugar in small quantities;
• parsley;
• dill;
• black pepper;
• oregano;
• turmeric;
• basil;
• thyme.

You can also prepare some vegetables - carrots, paprika, onions.

First recipe

There are many methods you can use to make potato pie in the oven. You can start with the following technique.

1. Preparing dough. You need to mix 150 grams of flour, 2 grams of s alt and 100 grams of melted margarine. For taste, 100 grams of processed cheese is also added. Everything is kneaded and sent to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
2. Preparing the filling. A pound of potatoes is boiled with seasonings to taste. In this case, it is better to limit yourself to s alt and pepper. You can add a bouillon cube. After that, you need to make a puree by adding 1.5 cups of hot milk. Then thinly sliced 250 grams of sausage cheese. Next, add 3 beaten eggs and mix all the ingredients.
3. A 24 cm wide baking dish is greased with 30 grams of butter. Closely need to be carefully rolled out and laid out in a mold so that the part rises above the edges. The excess is trimmed.
4. The dough is pierced with a fork in several places. Then the filling is laid out and leveled. Top everything with another beaten egg.
5. You need to bake in the oven at 180 degrees for an hour.

This potato pie recipe is super easy and doesn't even require a trip to the store. If some products are not available, they can simply be replaced.

With vegetables

The next recipe will require a little more ingredients and effort from the chef.

To make the most delicious potato pie in the oven, the recipe of which includes vegetables, you will need:

• 12 medium potatoes (about 1 kilogram);
• 400 grams of wheat flour;
• glass of yogurt;
• 4 eggs of the zero category (or 5 pieces of the first);
• onion head;
• one carrot;
• parsley to taste;
• a pinch of s alt;
• 1 teaspoon baking soda;
• 20 grams of vegetable or olive oil;
• 1 teaspoon of vinegar.

What can be done with this mess of food?

1. First you need to prepare the dough. Soda is extinguished with vinegar, and then mixed with eggs, kefir and flour. While the chef is whipping the dough, you can add some s alt there.
2. Carrots and onions are cut and fried in vegetable oil until golden brown. If something starts to burn, then the vegetables are alreadyoverexposed, but still usable.
3. Next, grease the mold with oil. The dough is not laid out completely, but only 1/3 of it. On top is the filling - thinly sliced potatoes, vegetables, parsley.
4. From above, everything is covered with the remnants of the test. A smaller portion ends up at the bottom due to the fact that most of the heat from the oven is distributed over the top surface.
5. Bake for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.

Dough

What else can you make potato pies with? The photo above clearly demonstrates a delicious dish with minced meat. You can use store-bought, home-chopped, or "ready-made" ground beef, chicken, pork, or ground beef. The main feature of the recipe will be that potato dough will be prepared.

1. First you need to peel and boil two potatoes. When ready, they must be crushed into a puree, but you do not need to add milk or water.
2. S alt, add 80 grams of butter.
3. Slowly adding flour to form a soft, buttery dough that can be used immediately.

With minced meat

The dough is ready, now we can talk about the next filling. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:

• half a kilo of minced meat;
• one tomato;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• one bulb;
• frozen mixed vegetables (corn, peas, green beans, carrots) or fresh vegetables;
• s alt, pepper, ground paprika - to taste.

Remainingpart of the recipe is not that complicated. The cook will only have to perform a series of usual actions, which were described above. What do you need to do to make minced potato pie?

1. Peel and finely chop the onion. After that, it should be fried until a golden hue appears.
2. After you need to add minced meat to it. It should also be fried, but not completely, but until the excess liquid evaporates and turns white.
3. S alt, pepper, add paprika. Top with about 80 grams of vegetable mixture. Its quantity depends on the preferences of the cook.
4. Fry the mixture.
5. Put the dough into a 22 cm diameter mold, make a side 2-3 cm high.
6. Shift the minced meat with vegetables into the dough.
7. Cut tomatoes on top.
8. All this is decorated with cheese and put in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
9. When ready, you can decorate with greenery.

Mushroom stuffing

Potato with mushrooms is one of the most common food combinations for pies. The dough can be used the same as in the previous recipe. For the filling, it is best to use champignons. These mushrooms can even be consumed raw, so if the chef makes a mistake, the chances of getting poisoned are minimal.

There are two uses for this ingredient.

1. Frozen. If a housewife buys a package of mushrooms in a store, then all she has to do is pre-thaw the product and drain the excess liquid.
2. Fresh mushrooms needadditional processing. First, they must be washed under running water, then gently, so as not to fall apart, wipe with a clean sponge to remove the skin.

One of these steps will prepare the mushrooms for use in the pie recipe.

With mushrooms

How to get a dish like in the photo? The recipe for potato pie with mushrooms is simple and elegant. You will need quite a few products and potato dough prepared in the above way. For the pie you need:

• 2 onions;
• s alt to taste;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 50 ml natural cream with 20-25% fat;
• 5 grams of butter;
• 200 grams of mushrooms (porcini or champignons).

Then everything goes according to the well-known scheme. You need to start cooking the dish with the filling.

1. Mushrooms and onions finely chopped after cleaning.
2. Heat the butter in a frying pan.
3. Fry "cutting". You can do this both in one vessel, and in different ones, and then mix it.
4. In a separate clean skillet lightly fry the flour.
5. Add mushrooms and onions to it, as well as cream and s alt and pepper.
6. Keep the mixture on fire for 2 minutes and remove.
7. Roll out the prepared dough on a board and put it into a mold.
8. Cut off the excess and make a "sausage" out of them. Transfer it to the form to get an additional side. Also, the dough can be re-rolled and cut into strips so that after addingplace the toppings in a basket.
9. Spread stuffing.
10. Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees.
11. Bake the pie for 15-20 minutes until the dough and egg are set. The rest of the ingredients are already ready.

The finished dish can be additionally decorated with herbs, your favorite spices, sour cream and other ingredients that do not require heat treatment.