Many housewives are confident that a tasty dish is necessarily difficult to prepare, has a tricky recipe with the addition of ingredients that are not so easy to find. However, there are options that do not require great skills, have a certain universality, can be prepared even from the remnants of dinner.
One of the most popular representatives of this kind of dishes are potato mash patties. In addition to simple components, you can safely add your favorite products here and the taste will not suffer from this at all.
Classic recipe
Before you cook more complex options with a filling, you need to try the classic method of cooking. A dish according to this recipe will please the household with taste, and the hostess with simplicity and affordability of components.
Ingredients:
- a kilogram of potatoes (should be approximately the same size for convenience);
- two chicken eggs;
- 75 gr. high-grade flour;
- about 70 gr. sunflower oil for roasting;
- breadcrumbs (optional);
- salt to taste
Cooking time will be about 45 minutes.
Calorie - one hundred and ninety kcal per 100 grams.
How to cook meat patties from mashed potatoes:
- to start boiling potatoes in their uniforms, after which it cools to an acceptable temperature and peeled;
- with the help of large or medium sized ordinary grater potatoes are rubbed;
- another option is to mash the boiled vegetable in mashed potatoes with a spoon or other devices;
- the resulting composition is moved to a bowl of sufficient depth, where eggs, flour, and salt are added (arbitrary order);
- the mixture is thoroughly mixed with a fork until mincemeat;
- Conveniently shaped patties are formed from the minced potato, rolled in bread crumbs if necessary and sent to a hot frying pan;
- frying takes place in the usual way for any other cutlets.
How to cook potato patties from mashed potatoes with mushrooms
Another option is a simple dish that will delight with its nutritional value and taste. We love vegetarians and simply lovers of tasty.
Components:
- a kilo of potatoes;
- 0.3 kg of champignons or other mushrooms currently available;
- 70 grams of flour;
- salt and pepper individually;
- Sunflower oil in sufficient quantities for roasting (usually one hundred grams is enough).
Cooking time is approximately 60 minutes.
Calorie content - about 175 calories.
How to cook meatballs with mushroom filling:
- To begin with, we are preparing a classic mashed potatoes of medium viscosity. To do this, the potatoes are boiled in salted water until cooked, after which the water is drained into the container, and the potatoes are kneaded. As required, added merged water;
- until the mash cools, it's time to do some mushrooms. They are thoroughly washed in running water and cut into medium-sized cubes;
- fry the prepared product in a pan in sunflower oil until cooked with salt and pepper;
- let the mushrooms cool;
- moistened hands form a pancake of potatoes, in which a teaspoon of mushrooms is placed in the center;
- after that, a burger with a filling in the center is molded;
- future cutlets are moved to a baking sheet (pre-filled with butter) and put into the oven (temperature about 200 degrees);
- baking process lasts 20 minutes;
- cutlets served hot or warm. The product from the fridge will not be so tasty.
How to make mashed potato patties with mashed cheese
Universal dish, now with grated cheese.
Components:
- 0.7 kg of potatoes;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- one chicken egg;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of flour;
- on a tablespoon of chopped green onions and parsley;
- a few tablespoons of vegetable oil for roasting;
- salt to taste
Cooking time - 40 minutes.
Calorie - 190 kcal. per hundred grams.
Preparation Procedure:
- for a start, mashed potatoes are prepared as described above or as you like. You can safely use the remnants of the previously prepared mashed potatoes from the refrigerator;
- we prepare deep tare, in which we put mashed potatoes, egg whipped not completely, grated cheese, greens, salt in a small or medium cell of the grater;
- add three spoons of flour;
- the composition is thoroughly mixed until a practically homogeneous mass (consistency of classic minced meat);
- wet hands (so that the stuffing does not stick) we form small patties and roll them in flour, which is scattered on a flat surface (flat plate, work surface, cutting board);
- fry the resulting cakes on a preheated pan with poured sunflower oil until cooked.
- Cutlets served on paper towels, which allow you to get rid of excess sunflower oil.
Mashed Potato Meatballs Recipe With Minced Meat
Another option is a delicious dish with a filling, but now instead of mushrooms, minced meat is used. You can use twisted beef, pork, chicken or mixture.
Ingredients:
- 8 medium potatoes (about a kilogram);
- three chicken eggs;
- 0.1 kg flour;
- baking powder (standard bag);
- 0.5 kg of minced meat;
- one bulb medium size;
- salt and pepper (the amount is selected independently);
- vegetable oil.
Cooking time - 60 minutes.
Calorie - 180 kilocalories.
Preparation Procedure:
- Prepare a standard potato mash medium cool. If it is too liquid, then in the future you will have to add more flour;
- Eggs and flour are added to the finished mashed potatoes. The composition is kneaded until smooth;
- in another bowl, minced grated onion in a minced meat (medium cell). The filling is salted and peppered, and then mixed;
- hands moistened with water; prepare pancakes of mashed potatoes and a teaspoon in the middle of them; put the mince;
- after that we form cutlets and put them on a hot pan with sunflower oil;
- fry the cutlets on high heat until golden brown appears on each side, then cover the pan with a lid, turn on the minimum heat and fry for 5 minutes on both sides;
- the dish is served hot with sour cream.
Recommendations from experts
To not upset the result, you need to know a few tricks:
- almost anything can be used as a filling, often seafood is used in restaurants;
- puree can be done on the water, and you can dilute with milk, add mayonnaise, boiled, grated eggs;
- such burgers can be cooked even on the grill, however, before that they are prudently wrapped in food foil;
- The potato variety also affects the quality of the finished dish; professional chefs choose a product with pink skin.
Enjoy your meal!
Another recipe for mashed potato patties is in the next video.
