The combination of potatoes and meat is the basis of delicious dishes of various national cuisines. Potato pancakes with minced meat, potato pancakes, sorcerers and zrazy have gained great popularity.

There are several classic recipes for making minced potato pancakes.

Draniki with minced meat - a classic recipe for Belarusian sorcerers

In the classic Belarusian recipe, the minimum components are:

  • Potatoes
  • Minced pork
  • Salt

The potato must be finely rubbed and squeezed so that the grated mass remains sufficiently sticky and viscous. The difficulty lies in the fact that many modern varieties of store potatoes do not contain enough starch, and sorcerers from it will fall apart. Therefore, it is advisable to add a handful of flour and an egg.

On a well-heated frying pan with oil, circles are formed from potato grounds, a filling of salted minced meat is laid on them, which is covered with a second layer of grounds. The resulting "cakes" are fried on both sides over low heat.

Potato pancakes with minced meat

 

Perhaps the easiest way to cook potato pancakes with minced meat is to bake them in pots in the oven.

For one medium-sized pot, you will need 2 potatoes, 70 grams of minced meat, spices to taste, a small piece of butter.

Grate one potato in each pot, put a slice of oil on it and seasoned minced meat, cover with the remaining grated potatoes. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 ° C.

Improved recipe for sorcerers

Essential Ingredients:

  • 7-8 medium sized potatoes;
  • 2-3 eggs;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • 1 onion;
  • 3 tbsp. l flour;
  • salt to taste;
  • 200 g of minced meat;
  • cooking oil for frying;
  • sour cream;
  • if desired, you can add pepper and your favorite greens.

Tasty recipe: meat pancakes

Preparation and selection of ingredients

The taste of the dish depends on the quality of the products used.

  • For potato pancakes, fresh, not too young potatoes of various varieties of medium and large sizes are well suited.
  • Minced meat should be chosen as fresh and not too fat, beef half with pork is ideal.
  • The best frying oil is sunflower refined and purified from unnecessary impurities.

Wash and peel potatoes, peel onions and garlic. Put the vegetables in cool water. In 10-15 minutes, the liquid will take away excess juice and reduce the amount of nitrates and other harmful substances that get to our table from plant foods.

Cooking dough

  1. The first chopped onion, it can be very finely chopped with a knife or rubbed on a coarse grater. Whatever eyes are watery, it helps to draw cold water into the mouth and keep it while working with onions.
  2. Next, add the grated potatoes - the onion juice will not let the starch darken and your dough will remain a pleasant light color.
  3. Mix the eggs in a homogeneous mass, salt and pour into a common bowl.
  4. Add crushed garlic and chopped herbs if desired.
  5. Mix.
  6. Pour the flour gradually. If the potato is too watery, then it is necessary to increase its number so that the dough does not spread too much. The final mass in density should be close to the test for fritters.

Cooking Stuffing

  1. Add salt and pepper to the meat to taste.
  2. Pour two tablespoons of water.
  3. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Lightly fry over low heat.

Cooking stage

As in the classic version, potato cakes with minced meat are formed in a pan. You can fry on high or medium heat, meat roasted in advance will not remain raw, which greatly reduces the cooking time.

With cheese in the oven, in molds

This cooking option is characterized by the ease of forming a beautiful form of sorcerers and the addition of a cheese component. Replacing roasting with baking is suitable when you do not want to stand with a frying pan near the stove or want to make the dish more “healthy”.

We prepare the dough as in the previous recipe, and combine the meat filling in half with cheese: you will need 100 grams of minced meat and 100 grams of grated cheese. When baking in the oven, the filling does not need preliminary frying.

Cooking

To create potato pancakes, metal or silicone round molds with a diameter of 7-10 cm are suitable.

  1. Grease a baking sheet and molds with oil.
  2. We place the molds on a baking sheet at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other.
  3. We decompose the prepared components into forms: the lower potato layer, the filling and the upper potato layer.
  4. Oven in a well-heated oven at 180 ° C for 30 minutes.

Innings

Aesthetically pleasing form allows you to perform serving in the best restaurant traditions. The most suitable decoration will be greens, sour cream or a sauce based on it.

Russian Burrito: Draniki with minced poultry and salted mushrooms

Essential Ingredients:

  • 6-7 potatoes;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 3 tablespoons of flour;
  • One medium sized onion;
  • Chicken breast or you can take ready-made minced chicken;
  • Canned Salted Mushrooms;
  • Baking paper;
  • Red hot pepper;
  • Salt.

Training:

Prepare the filling: chop the chicken breast, onion and mushrooms to a homogeneous consistency. If you use ready-made stuffing, then add chopped mushrooms and onions to it. Add red pepper to taste.

  • Mix eggs and flour.
  • Chopped peeled potato tubers, squeeze out excess moisture.
  • Add the potato mass to the dough.
  • Lightly salt.

Cooking a burrito:

  1. Form a “burrito” on baking paper. We cut the paper into rectangles of size 15 by 20 cm.
  2. Distribute the dough on sheets evenly, leaving the side paper edges 3-4 cm and the top edge 2 cm blank.
  3. Form a line of chicken filling in the middle of the rectangle.
  4. Wrap the product with “candy”.
  5. We put the "candy" on a baking sheet at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other.
  6. Bake in the oven at 200 ° C for 40 minutes.

Draniki with minced meat under cheese in sour cream filling

It is most traditional to combine pancakes with cheese and sour cream.

Essential Ingredients:

  • 7-8 medium sized potatoes;
  • 200 gr lean meat;
  • 150 g sour cream 25% fat;
  • 100 g of grated cheese;
  • 2 eggs;
  • Favorite greens;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • Salt pepper.

Cooking

  1. On a greased baking sheet, evenly distribute circles of half grated potatoes.
  2. Place salted minced meat in equal portions in the center of the circles and cover the filling with the remaining potato mass.
  3. Bake in a well-warmed oven for 25 minutes, then sprinkle with each ginger cheese grated cheese, send to bake for another 5 minutes.
  4. While the potato pancakes are baked, beat the eggs with sour cream, add chopped herbs, garlic, as well as salt and pepper to taste.
  5. After 5 minutes, when the cheese is melted, pour the contents of the pan into the prepared filling.
  6. Finish the dish until cooked.

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