Belarusian Pyzy
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Potato pyzy with meat is a national Belarusian dish, which is the first thing you will be offered in every cafe in any Belarusian city.
It's really worth trying: the delicate potato-curd shell goes amazingly with the juicy meat filling. This dish is somewhat reminiscent of Lithuanian zeppelins. The cooking process is extremely simple and does not require any complex skills.
Ингредиенты
Ingredients for the dough:
Potatoes - 250 g
Flour - 100 g
Cottage cheese - 100 g
Potato starch - 15 g
Salt - 1/2 tsp.
Filling ingredients:
Minced meat - 200 g
Onions - 1 pc. (75 g)
Salt - 1/3 tsp.
Ground black pepper - 1/3 tsp.
For frying:
Vegetable oil - 60 ml
Рецепт
1. Prepare all the ingredients for Belarusian potato pie with meat. Immediately peel the potatoes and onions. I used homemade pork mince. The cottage cheese I have is purchased in blocks, with a fat content of 9% (here you can use absolutely any kind).
2. Finely chop the onion.
3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat, add chopped onion. Fry, stirring constantly, until soft - about 7-10 minutes.
4. Place minced meat, fried onions in a spacious bowl, add salt and pepper. Mix everything.
5. Using a fine grater, grate the potatoes directly into the bowl.
6. Add cottage cheese and salt to the potato mixture. Mix.
7. Add starch to the resulting mixture, sift all the flour.
8. Knead the potato dough first with a spoon and then with your hands. The dough should be soft, slightly sticking to your hands. I weighed it and it came out to 610 g.
9. In order for the finished pyzy to be approximately the same size, I divided the entire mass of dough into six parts of 100 g each, rolling them into balls.
10. Lightly dust the work surface with flour so that the dough does not stick when rolling out. Roll out each ball of dough with a rolling pin into a disk 0.5 cm thick.
11. Place a tablespoon of meat filling in the middle of each potato dough disc.
12. Lift the edges of the dough and seal them with your fingers, enveloping the filling with dough. Turn the prepared pieces over, seam side down.
13. Heat a generous amount of vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat, lay out all the preparations and fry the future pyzy on both sides until golden brown.
14. Place all the pyzys (I got 6 of them) into a saucepan, fill with water so that the tops stick out just a little bit from the water. Place on low heat and simmer for 45 minutes with the lid closed.
15. Bon appetit!