Hello, dear readers! Today we continue the theme of potato dishes. We have recently prepared the most delicious potato recipes up our sleeves. We also already know how to bake roast chicken in pots. And today we will look at the best recipes for zraz with minced meat!
Often after holidays or family dinners there is puree leftover, and the next day no one wants to eat it, because it sticks together in one piece and does not look appetizing. So, this is the best moment to prepare zraz. It is from yesterday's potatoes that the most fried and juicy cutlets are obtained.
Zrazy are filled with various fillings, it can be minced meat, mushrooms, vegetables and so on. Today we are doing it with meat filling, and in the next article we will deal with all the other variety of fillings. This dish is very economical and easy to prepare. It always turns out very tasty!
There are countless recipes. Today we have prepared for you 3 step-by-step recipes with photos. Also, according to tradition, we will consider two video recipes. Choose any, and eventually try each! Experiment with the ingredients in the composition, adjust the spices to taste. We begin!
Potato zrazy with minced meat step by step recipe
I offer you a recipe for very tasty, rosy potato zrazas with minced meat. They are very simple to prepare, however, they always turn out appetizing and tasty. Can be served as a separate dish or as a side dish. You can use any minced meat, for juiciness we will add an onion to it.
To prepare we will need:
- Potatoes – 1 kg.
- Starch – 1.5 tbsp.
- Flour – 100 g.
- Raw egg yolks – 4 pcs.
- Medium size onion – 1 pc.
- Greenery
- Sunflower oil
- Salt, spices - to taste
- Minced meat – 500 g.
1. Wash the potatoes, peel them.
2. If it is large, you can cut it into pieces so that it boils faster. Place in a saucepan and fill with clean water. The liquid should completely cover the contents. We put it on the stove.
3. Prepare the filling. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. We send minced meat here. As for meat, you can use whatever you have. For example, mixed, pork + beef. Fry until the minced meat is completely light.
4. When there is no pink juice in the pan with minced meat, add finely chopped onion. Fry together until soft.
5. Now add salt and pepper to taste. If you want, you can add your favorite seasonings to the meat. Add fresh herbs, in this case dill, to the pan with the minced meat. Mix everything and turn off the stove.
6. When the potatoes are completely boiled, drain all the water from them. We push it with a pusher. Just don’t beat it with a blender under any circumstances - the mass will become sticky!
7. Salt the potatoes, add starch and flour. If desired, you can add 1 tablespoon of vegetable or melted butter. We also introduce the yolks. Now you need to stir the contents with a spoon as quickly and intensively as possible. We need the flour to cook a little from the hot potatoes, but the yolks do not curdle. The mass turns out to be quite plastic and practically non-sticky.
8. Lubricate your palms with vegetable oil. This will make it easier to work with potato dough. Take a little in your hand and shape it into a thin cake, right on your palm. Place the filling in the center.
9. Now cover the filling with the free edges and hide the minced meat inside. Form a neat cutlet.
10. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. All products included in the preparation are currently ready for consumption. But, for an appetizing color, we need to brown our pies. Fry on both sides until golden brown.
After frying, place our zrazy on a laid out paper towel. It will draw out excess oil. Now you can serve! Bon appetit!
Solving cooking problems
Even if you repeat exactly the step-by-step recipe for potato zrazas with minced meat, you may be disappointed with the result. Don't scold your culinary skills. Perhaps it's all about the quality of the products. In particular, the shape and elasticity of the potato depends on the variety and age of the potato. It is suggested not to despair and take advice if something goes wrong.
- Plastic. Everything is done according to the recipe, the proportions are correct, but for some reason the base is liquid? The reason is most likely due to the low starch content. Some varieties of potatoes become loose after cooking, and in this case it is problematic to glue the mass together. There are two ways out. The first is to add another egg. The second is to dilute the potato starch powder with water and pour it into the mixture. It is not recommended to add flour in large quantities - the cutlets become dry and tasteless.
- Liquid. This applies to both the base and the filling. Excess moisture makes the dish more plastic. Even a decently molded zraza can “float” in a frying pan if you don’t squeeze out the excess liquid. Therefore, it is better to fry minced meat without adding water or to evaporate the moisture as much as possible. It is recommended to salt watery vegetables after chopping and then drain the resulting liquid.
- Dryness. The easiest way is to add some hot water. You can also soften the base with egg yolk. If nothing helps, and the mass is still dry, brittle and non-sticky, then it is better to make potato pancakes from two flat cakes. Hide the filling between the layers of the base and, without pinching it, put it in the freezer for half an hour. Then place on a baking sheet, grease with butter (you can put a small piece on each at a time) and bake.
Heat the pan well before serving. It is better to use non-stick cookware. If the zrazy doesn’t turn over well and doesn’t hold its shape, you can try baking it.
Any recipe for potato zrazas with minced meat can be adjusted to your personal discretion. Experienced chefs add ingredients by eye, achieving the desired consistency. If you are preparing a dish for the first time, you should experiment with a small amount of simple ingredients. For example, you can prepare the filling from Adyghe cheese and carrots. The products are finely grated and wrapped in potato dough.
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How to cook potato zrazy with minced meat in the oven
Most often, zrazy is fried in oil. It is certainly very tasty, but not very healthy! For those who are watching their figure and proper nutrition, I found a recipe right in the oven. Per 100 grams of this yummy there are only 140 Kcal. They also turn out very tasty and filling. A great option for dinner for the whole family, and you don’t have to stand at the stove turning over each item in the pan. And to prevent them from turning out pale, they need to be brushed with egg before putting them in the oven. It even looks very appetizing, I just want to try it!
To prepare you will need:
- Potatoes - 800 gr.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Minced meat - 300 gr.
- Butter - 50 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Peppercorns - 6 pcs.
- Allspice - 2 peas.
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Ground pepper - 1/2 tsp.
- Ground nutmeg 1/2 tsp.
- Coriander 1/2 tsp.
- Vegetable oil - 70 ml.
For the sauce
- Sour cream - 200 ml.
- Dill - a couple of sprigs
- Salt to taste
A detailed recipe awaits you in the video:
Bon appetit!
Recipe in the oven
Many people believe that dishes baked in the oven are much lower in calories than those fried on the stove. Let's try?
| INGREDIENTS | QUANTITY |
| yolks | 2 pcs |
| onion | 1 PC |
| sunflower oil | 25 ml |
| potato | 9 tubers |
| starch | 20 g |
| flour | 20 g |
| ground meat | 380 g |
It will take 25 minutes to cook.
Calorie content – 104 calories.
How to cook:
- Remove the skins from the potatoes, wash them, rinse them of starch and place them in a saucepan;
- Next, fill the potatoes with water to cover, add three pinches of salt and place on the stove;
- Cook until soft and the knife can be easily inserted;
- Drain the water from the prepared root vegetables and pass the potatoes in a blender or meat grinder;
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, add finely chopped onion and add minced meat;
- Cook the minced meat until fully cooked;
- Combine potatoes with yolks, starch and flour, stir until smooth. The dough should become elastic;
- Divide the dough into balls of equal size;
- Form the balls into flat cakes and place the filling into them;
- Pinch the edges of the cakes, forming oblong zrazy. It will turn out like cutlets, but more voluminous;
- Preheat the oven to medium temperature and bake the zrazy for twenty minutes.
Tip: to avoid having to wash the pan or baking sheet again, you can cover the bottom with parchment paper.
Potato zrazy with minced meat in a frying pan, step-by-step recipe
I offer another recipe for potato zrazas in a frying pan. Tasty, juicy, tender with a crispy crust - they will be an excellent option for lunch or dinner for the whole family. They don't need a side dish. After all, it contains both potatoes and meat. As a nice bonus, we will also consider a recipe for a delicious sauce for them. I recommend!
The peculiarity of the recipe is that the zrazy are rolled in breadcrumbs, it turns out very appetizing!
To prepare we will need:
- Potatoes – 800 g.
- Salt and ground pepper to taste
- Medium size onion – 1 pc.
- Lavrushka – 2 pcs.
- Medium sized carrots – 1 pc.
- Flour – 3 tbsp. (approximately)
- Minced meat – 350 g.
- Raw chicken egg – 1 pc.
- Breadcrumbs – 6 tbsp.
Garlic sauce for serving:
- Sour cream – 150 g.
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Fresh dill
- Garlic – a couple of cloves
1. Let's start with potatoes. We clean it and cut it into large pieces.
2. Place in a saucepan. Fill with water until the liquid completely covers the vegetables. Place on the stove and cook until done. When you pierce a piece of potato, it should be soft. After boiling, you can add salt to taste and add a couple of bay leaves.
3. From the moment of boiling, we have another 15-20 minutes until the potatoes are ready. Without wasting any time, we will start filling. Peel the carrots using a grater. Finely chop the onion. Heat about 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a frying pan. We send prepared vegetables here. Fry together until soft and lightly browned.
4. For now, remove the vegetables from the frying pan into a bowl. In the same frying pan, heat more oil and transfer the minced meat here. Stirring frequently to break up any large lumps, cook until the meat is light in color. Then add salt to taste.
5. Now add the previously fried vegetables to the meat. Mix everything.
6. When the potatoes are cooked, drain all the liquid from them. Cool it a little so that the egg does not curl when it gets there. Mash everything into a homogeneous puree without lumps. Then add flour. But not all at once. First, I recommend adding 2 tablespoons and mixing everything thoroughly. The mass should be plastic, slightly sticky. If you find it a bit runny, you can add more flour.
7. The palm on which we will form the potato cake can be dipped in flour or greased with vegetable oil. Add some puree and form a flat cake on your hand. Place the filling in the center. We also cover it with potato mixture. We cover everything so that the minced meat remains completely inside. Carefully form the product. Roll in breadcrumbs. Thus, we proceed with the entire amount of puree and filling.
8. Heat a little oil in a frying pan. We send our cutlets here. Let's fry them a little here until they have an appetizing color on both sides.
Our images are ready. I promised you that there would be a bonus in the form of sauce. And it will happen right now.
Transfer the sour cream into a bowl. Finely chop fresh herbs and add to sour cream. Grind the garlic into the same mass using a press or fine grater. Salt and pepper, mix.
We serve this sauce with our dishes. Delicious! Bon appetit!
Potato zrazy with meat and mushrooms
Most of all I love zrazy with mushrooms. In general, the combination of mashed potatoes with fried mushrooms is very successful. Especially if they are accompanied by minced meat. This is the recipe I use to make this dish most often. The composition is simple and accessible. There is nothing complicated about cooking either. Even a beginner can handle it. The main thing is that the cutlets get a crispy crust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Rl8FHmH3Y
To prepare we will need:
- Potatoes – 1 kg.
- Raw egg 1 pc. or starch - 2 tbsp. (of necessity)
- Minced meat – 150 g.
- Fresh champignons – 200 g.
- A little vegetable oil
- Medium size onion – 1 pc.
- Flour – 5 tbsp.
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Dill, sour cream - for serving
1. As always, we start with the base - potatoes. We clean it and cut it into 2-4 pieces, depending on the size. So it will boil faster.
2. Transfer to a saucepan. Fill with cool, clean water. We put it on the stove. After boiling, cook for 20 minutes until fully cooked.
3. Peel the onions. Cut it into small cubes. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. We send the onion here. Fry for some time until transparent. In the meantime, let's take care of the mushrooms.
4. Wash the champignons. If necessary, we clean it. Cut into small cubes.
5. Transfer the mushrooms to the onions. Fry everything together until the moisture evaporates. Then salt to taste, add pepper or your favorite spices. Mix everything and fry until the mushrooms are golden brown.
6. For now, transfer the mushroom mass from the frying pan to another bowl. Add a little more oil to the same pan. We transfer the minced meat here. Mix everything thoroughly so that there are no large lumps. Salt, season, fry for 7-10 minutes until cooked. Then transfer to the mushroom mixture. Mix everything and the filling is ready!
7. Drain all the water from the finished potatoes. Add about half a teaspoon of salt. Knead with a masher until smooth. If the vegetable was not starchy enough, you can add a couple of tablespoons of potato starch or one raw egg.
8. Now we will form the zrazy. Alternatively, in order not to get your hands dirty, you can put a regular plastic bag on your palm or put a piece of cling film. Add some puree and spread it into a thin flat cake. Place some filling in the center.
9. Press your palm so that the cake closes and all the filling remains inside. Roll in flour, forming smooth products without cracks.
10. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. We transfer our products into a hot frying pan. There is no need to fry for a long time. After all, all the components are already pre-prepared for use. Our goal is only to give them a golden, crispy crust. After frying, place them on paper to remove excess oil.
Sprinkle the finished yummy with fresh herbs. Serve hot with sour cream! No side dish required. And without it it turns out satisfying and extremely tasty.
Add cheese to the zrazy
Imagine another hot zraz that you bite into and not only does it drive you crazy with its crunch, but the cheese also stretches from the inside.
| INGREDIENTS | QUANTITY |
| carrot | 2 pcs |
| ground meat | 280 g |
| potato | 680 g |
| cheese | 75 g |
| flour | 150 g |
| egg | 1 PC |
| onion | 110 g |
It will take 40 minutes to cook.
How many calories – 123 calories.
How to cook:
- Remove the skins from the potatoes, cut them into cubes and rinse them to remove starch;
- Next, add enough water to the potatoes, add salt and place on the stove;
- Boil the potatoes until fully cooked;
- Next, grind the potatoes into a paste (or, as they usually say, mashed);
- Peel and cut the onion into cubes, cut off the roots and wash the head. If the onion is not washed with running water at the place where the roots are cut, the released juice will begin to burn your eyes, which will cause tears later;
- Peel and chop the carrots using a grater;
- Grind the cheese with a grater;
- Heat a frying pan with oil and fry the onions and carrots until soft;
- Add salt, pepper and minced meat to the prepared root vegetables;
- Cook the meat, breaking up any lumps. The minced meat should become crumbly;
- Simmer covered until fully cooked;
- Combine potatoes with flour and egg, stir until smooth;
- Form the potatoes into flat cakes, fill the center with minced meat with carrots and cheese;
- Secure the tortillas so that the filling remains inside;
- Fry potato zrazy until golden brown on both sides in a frying pan heated with oil.
Tip: to make them richer immediately, you can fry them in butter.
Video recipe for making potato zrazas with minced meat
The author of this video offers another interesting version of potato zrazas with minced meat. In this case, not raw minced meat is used, but boiled chicken breast passed through a meat grinder. This recipe will come in handy if you have made broth and now need to use the boiled meat somewhere.
To prepare you will need:
- Peeled raw potatoes – 1 kg.
- Onions – 2 pcs. (approximately 250 g)
- Raw meat – half a kilo
- Chicken egg – 1 pc.
- Butter – 50 g.
- Salt and ground pepper to taste
- Vegetable oil
- Flour – 2-4 tbsp, depending on the situation
Detailed cooking instructions are waiting for you in the video:
Dear friends! I hope I was useful to you today. I will be glad if you use our recipes. After all, tasty, appetizing, filling zrazy is always a great idea! If you want, just cook them with minced meat. You can add mushrooms, stewed vegetables, cheese. You can fry it in a pan or bake it in the oven. There are a lot of options!
The main thing is that it always turns out delicious if you cook according to this recipe. All of them are time-tested. This means you can safely cook. Even if you are doing this for the first time, you will definitely succeed. After all, thanks to the detailed step-by-step description, this is not difficult to do!
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Zrazy from puree with minced meat in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
- pork or beef meat – 430 g
- wheat flour – 60 g
- potatoes – 700 g
- milk – 50 ml
- creamy butter – 40 g
- fresh eggs – 2 pcs.
- golden onion – 1 head
- salt - one pinch
- refined grows. oil – 60 ml
Step-by-step preparation:
- Chop fresh meat or pass it through a meat grinder.
- Add peeled and chopped raw onion. Mix.
- Boil the potatoes, then mash them with a mortar and add butter. Pour in the raw egg and add flour. Mix again.
- Form flat circles from the potatoes into which to place the filling (there is no need to fry it first).
- Grease the bottom of the multicooker with sunflower oil. Place the cutlets on the bottom. Set the “Baking” mode and close the lid. After 20 minutes, open the multicooker and turn the zrazy over to the other side, adding a little oil. Put it back on the “Baking” mode.
- Some multicookers have a “Fry without a lid” mode - it is better suited for frying potato slices on all sides. The zrazy are ready.
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