Every person from time to time likes to treat himself to delicious and fragrant homemade cakes, for example, pies. Let's talk about how to bake hearty potato pies.
Cooking the best dough for potato cakes
Patty dough is prepared in various ways. Consider the best recipes.
Option number 1
- Dry yeast - 2 tsp;
- Salt - ½ teaspoon;
- Warm milk - 1 cup;
- Sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Margarine - 200 g;
- Flour - 3.5 cups.
- Mix the yeast with salt, then add milk, sugar and margarine. Whip all ingredients with a whisk or mixer. Then gradually add flour to the mass.
- The dough should not be too thick and heavy. Thanks to margarine, it will not stick to your hands.
- Wrap the mixed mass in a bag and refrigerate for 4 hours. For convenience, you can leave overnight.
Feel free to start sculpting and baking pies in the morning.
Option number 2
Ingredients:
- 25 g of fresh yeast;
- 500 to 600 g of flour;
- 100 g of vegetable oil;
- A tablespoon of sugar;
- 2 teaspoons of salt;
- Boiled water at room temperature.
- Make a dough. Fill a quarter glass with warm water. Add yeast, sugar and a little flour. Mix everything and leave to fit for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Pour flour, salt and mix into a large bowl, then pour the dough and warm vegetable oil.
- Slowly pour in the water, gently stirring the ingredients.
- Stir until the mass is soft but not sticky.
- Cover the bowl with cling film or a towel and let it sit for about 40-60 minutes.
- Once the dough comes up, knead again and leave to rise for an hour.
The dough is ready for baking pies.
Step-by-step recipe for delicious cakes with potatoes in the oven
To prepare delicious, fragrant and airy cakes in the oven with potatoes you will need such products:
About 40-45 small pies are obtained from this amount of dough. If you need to bake less, then halve the amount of ingredients.
- For the test:
- wheat flour 1600 g
- egg yolks 2 PC
- water 1 l
- vegetable oil 50 ml
- salt 2 tsp
- sugar 3 Art. l
- dry yeast 22 g
- For filling:
- potatoes 1000 g
- onion 1 PC
- vegetable oil 3 Art. l
- salt taste
- Cooking the filling. Boil potatoes and mash. We send a frying pan with vegetable oil to the fire, and fry the onion, chopped into small cubes. Fry until golden. Then add the fried onion along with the oil to the cooled potato, and mix thoroughly.
- We begin to prepare the test. Take a large bowl and pour warm water and yeast into it. Stir and leave for a couple of minutes to dissolve.
- Add salt, sugar, vegetable oil and mix. Now we begin to add flour (to begin with, we pour only one kilogram of flour). Pour, stirring the dough with a spoon. Leave warm to fit.
- As soon as the volume doubles, we crush the mass, adding the rest of the flour. Then let the test come up. After that, it is ready for use.
- We dress a small piece of dough and roll it into a long "sausage". Then cut into identical pieces.
- Using a rolling pin, we roll out each piece. Remember, the dough will fit, so the thickness should be 2 - 3 mm.
- On the rolled circles we lay out the filling, and begin to form pies.
- Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Put the pies on the sheet with the seam down, grease with whipped yolks. You can’t place the pies close to each other, otherwise in the oven they will increase in volume and stick together.
- Bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Useful Tips
To make the pastry tasty, you must follow simple rules.
- Regardless of the recipe, observe the proportions of the ingredients.
- Use fresh and quality products. For example, old flour can make baking stiff.
- All products must be at room temperature.
- The classic pastry dough is kneaded only by hand.
Follow the recommendations and tips to learn how to make pies at homethat all relatives will like. Choosing the right recipe, you can cook pies not only with potatoes, but also with other fillings.