If you have mashed potatoes that you haven't eaten from yesterday's dinner, then don't rush to throw it away, prepare delicious cartopeans with meat. This is a very easy to prepare and delicious dish for the whole family.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Cartopeans with meat also have a second name "zrazy", which refers to the Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian cuisine. Initially, this dish consisted of beaten meat with a vegetable filling along with eggs. After the dish evolved, its varieties appeared, like potato zrazy or cartopeans. It is a dish in the form of flat cakes or cutlets from boiled potatoes with any fillings: meat, mushroom, vegetable. And the most nutritious and satisfying this dish is obtained precisely with meat filling, which is used as any kind of meat: pork, lean beef, chicken fillet. Well, and potato tubers, it is advisable to take those that boil well.
Hostesses most often prepare such a dish for the everyday menu, although it is also great for treating at a festive feast. Among the advantages of this dish: it can be consumed both hot and cold. In addition, such potato cutlets are convenient to take with you on the road and to work as a snack. When frying potatoes, they may start to crack, which means that there is little flour in the dough. And if you suddenly go too far with flour, then beat another egg into the dough. They can be served as a separate dish, or with the first course, for example, with borscht.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 123 kcal.
- Servings - 10-12 pcs.
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 5-6 pcs.
- Pork - 500 g
- Chicken fillet - 200 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Wheat flour - 3-5 tablespoons
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step-by-step cooking of the cartoons with meat:
1. Peel the potatoes and wash them under running water.
2. Cut the potatoes into pieces and place them in the cooking pot. Add bay leaves, peeled garlic cloves and salt.
3. Fill with drinking water and place on the stove to boil. Boil, skim off the froth, reduce heat to low, cover the pot and simmer for about 20-30 minutes. Then try the potatoes with a fork or knife, they should be soft.
4. Then drain the water, and transfer the boiled tubers to a deep container. Take a crush and crush the potatoes until puree. Then taste and add salt as needed.
5. Next, add flour to the mashed potatoes and mix well. The consistency of the dough should be such that you can form cutlets with your hands.
6. Meanwhile, wash and dry the pork and chicken fillets. Grind the meat through the middle wire rack in a meat grinder. Peel the onion and also pass it through a meat grinder.
7. Season the minced meat with salt and pepper and mix well.
8. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and add the minced meat. Fry it over high heat until golden brown.
9. Then take a serving of mashed potatoes, roll it into a ball, which you press down to make a cake. Place it on a floured board and put the minced meat in the middle. Cover the minced meat with the same potato cake on top and fasten the edges. When shaping your hands, sprinkle with flour so that the potatoes do not stick to your palms.
ten. Heat a frying pan with oil and put the cartoons to fry. Fry them over medium heat until golden brown, then turn over to the back side and bring to the same consistency. Serve the finished dish with sour cream, garlic sauce, vegetable salad, borscht and other dishes.
See also a video recipe on how to cook potato zrazy with meat.
