A dish of mashed potatoes. How to make puree: recipes

Hello dear readers. Have you ever had a situation where you made a lot of mashed potatoes? We recently had friends come over for dinner. And we made a lot of mashed potatoes. It didn’t immediately occur to me what to do with the leftover puree. But a friend suggested frying potato pies or zrazy. And then I remembered how I tried potato zrazy with fried minced meat and cabbage at my grandmother’s. And a couple of years ago, after watching Yulia Vysotskaya’s program, I was preparing potato zrazy with salmon. Otherwise, the puree remains like this, so don’t eat it for several days; you can make so many different delicious dishes from the puree.

Today I want to tell you how to prepare potato zrazy, I have a recipe with step-by-step photos. Today zrazy without filling. But I plan to prepare different fillings and show everything with photos.

In our family we never cooked zrazy, but my grandmother sometimes did, not from leftover mashed potatoes, but cooked mashed potatoes specifically for this purpose. She said that preparing this dish is simple, potatoes, flour, egg and filling.

Potato zrazy is a very tasty and satisfying dish. It is very easy to prepare, especially if you have mashed potatoes prepared in advance. It often happens that for a holiday or birthday, you prepare a lot of puree and it remains. But it doesn’t matter, there are so many options for different and very tasty potato dishes. For example, potato casserole with minced meat, zrazy made from mashed potatoes.

How to make potato zrazy from mashed potatoes

• 500 grams of mashed potatoes
• 1 egg
• 1-2 tbsp. spoons of flour
• salt. pepper to taste
• vegetable oil

I have a lot of mashed potatoes left, so I’ve already made them several times. What I would like to note is that the children liked the zrazy, especially with sour cream. My son even called zrazy potato pies. You must add milk and butter to mashed potatoes, then the zrazy will turn out very tasty.

If the potatoes are from the refrigerator, then they need to be slightly warmed or left on the table so that they come to room temperature, making it easier to form zrazy.

1. Place mashed potatoes in a bowl. Add egg, flour, salt and pepper to taste. My eggs are rustic. You can add greens, but this is optional. Mix everything thoroughly.
2. If you just cooked the puree, let it cool. And then start cooking right away.
3. When everything is thoroughly mixed, we begin to form zrazy. They can be in the form of cutlets, pies or round shapes. Do as you please.
4. The finished zrazy should be rolled in flour on both sides. If you are making zrazy with filling, then take part of the potato, put a teaspoon of filling in the middle and cover the flatbread with mashed potatoes, forming a pie.
5. Make zrazy out of all the potatoes, placing them already prepared, sprinkled with flour, on a plate or board. Then it will be very convenient to fry the zrazy.
6. Meanwhile, put a frying pan on the fire and pour vegetable oil into it. Place zrazy on a heated frying pan.
7. Fry zrazy from mashed potatoes on both sides until golden brown. I wanted to make them in the form of pies. This is how they turned out for me.
8. So we fry all the zrazy that you made. Zrazy can be placed on a plate previously covered with a paper towel to absorb excess vegetable oil.
9. It turns out to be a very tasty, satisfying dish, especially with sour cream. Of course, zrazy will turn out even tastier with minced meat or cabbage. Next time we'll cook it.
10. Zrazy can be served hot or cold. Potato zrazy goes well with vegetables or vegetable salads.

These are the images we got. They are very tasty to eat warm and with sour cream. A hearty dish.

Zrazy can be filled like pies, then you need to add more flour to the dough. Our zrazy turned out to be soft and tender that you couldn’t even hold it in your hand. We ate from plates and with sour cream.

If you are making Lenten meals, then cook the potatoes without butter and milk. Now I will tell you the most popular fillings for zraz.

Recipes for filling potato zrazas

Meat filling

The most popular is the meat filling. Raw minced meat is not suitable for zraz, so minced meat must first be fried with onions in vegetable oil. Fry until done.

If desired, add carrots to the minced meat. For 300 grams of minced meat, 1 onion. You can add carrots if desired. To do this, you need to grate it on a fine grater. You can use any meat: chicken, pork, beef.

Cabbage filling

The filling can be either fresh or sauerkraut. Which one do you like better? If the cabbage is sauerkraut, then just fry it in a frying pan, squeezing it out first.

Fry cabbage with onions. We fill potato zrazy. From the remaining potatoes I made zrazy with cabbage for the children. I love it when there is a lot of filling, be it pies. dumplings or zrazy.

If you want to make zrazy from fresh cabbage, then you need to cut the cabbage, fry it, add onions, carrots and a little tomato. Fry until done.

Fish filling

I once prepared zrazy stuffed with red fish. I boiled the fish, removed the bones, chopped it, added finely chopped dill, salt and pepper. I filled zrazy with this filling. Served with sour cream. This is delicious.

Mushroom filling

If you like mushrooms, then they are quite suitable for the filling. Mushrooms need to be fried with onions until cooked in a frying pan. Champignons are usually used.

Egg filling

It's like a filling for pies with eggs and onions. Boil the eggs and chop. Finely chop the greens and add to the eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. Add a little melted butter to the filling. This way it does not crumble, but becomes more homogeneous.

You can add a little hard cheese to the filling.

They also prepare the filling for zraz from sausages, sausages or canned fish. If you use sausage or frankfurters, then they need to be chopped and combined with onions fried until golden brown.

And if you want to fill zrazy with canned fish, I recommend using canned fish in oil. The oil must be drained and the canned food must be mashed with a fork. You can add fried onions to the fish. They also add boiled rice.

In general, there are filling options for every taste. But my favorite is zrazy with cabbage. As you can see, preparing them is not at all difficult. If you have leftover mashed potatoes, don't worry about what to do. Prepare potato zrazy. It can be with filling, or without filling. Bon appetit and all the best to you!

You can make something so delicious that you'll lick your fingers! No one will even think that this dish is made from yesterday’s mashed potatoes.

I usually, if there is any leftover, make POTATO GNOCI WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE.

If you want, try it too. Add a beaten egg, grated hard cheese, a little milk and a little flour to these potatoes. Pour flour onto a board, roll out the potato sausage and cut it diagonally into equal pieces. Press each piece with a fork and cook in boiling water with the addition of vegetable oil so that they do not stick together.

And this is the mushroom sauce for them: cut the onion into cubes, add mushrooms cut into pieces, simmer in vegetable oil, gradually adding cream, salt, pepper and a little flour to thicken.

Place the Gnocchi on a plate, pour hot sauce over them, sprinkle with chopped parsley and dry chopped onion.

We prepare the onions in advance: cut the onions into rings, roll them in flour and fry them in a large amount of vegetable oil (i.e. deep-frying). Then we put it on a napkin so that the fat drips off and the onions dry - and we keep it like this for a day, until it dries. Then we crush it by hand and store it in a cardboard box.

Here's an original way to use yesterday's mashed potatoes. But if you really want Gnoki, and yesterday’s mashed potatoes, as luck would have it, were eaten, then feel free to boil the potatoes in their jackets, peel them, mash them into mashed potatoes, and then you already know what to do... Good luck and bon appetit!

Yesterday's puree can simply be heated in a frying pan with butter, it will form a crust on the bottom, very tasty.

Can be used as a filling for dumplings, pancakes, pies or pie, you can simply, or you can add fried mushrooms and onions.

I suggest making potato focaccia from yesterday’s puree. In fact, everything is simple for those who know how to make yeast dough. Take about 150 g of yesterday's puree. If it is too hard, then add a little milk so that it becomes medium soft, but not liquid. Now add a couple of tablespoons of sugar and 25 g of yeast to 1/3 cup of warm water. Bring the yeast to the cap. Now add the remaining 2/3 cup of water, 1 tsp. salt, mashed potatoes and little by little add 2.5 tbsp. flour. Finish with a little olive oil. Knead the dough and let it rise 2 times. Knead again and make a flat cake with indentations, grease with olive oil, sprinkle with Provençal herbs and salt and set to bake.



Our focaccia is ready.



Is there much left? You can use potato balls - add eggs, a little soda, and flour to the mashed potatoes. Fry in vegetable oil. You can use puoe as a base for pancakes - just like regular pancakes, add puree to the dough. Fry like regular pancakes. You can make pies with potatoes. You can add mushroom or liver filling. You can make dumplings with potatoes. You can have fashionable gnocchi - dumplings made from potato dough.

I also often end up making mashed potatoes with a reserve, eat the meat, and leave the potatoes.

I use it in the following dishes:

1. If there is dough, then I fry onions, add them to the puree and make pies.



2. I cut thin Armenian lavash into strips, usually into 6 parts. On each one I spread a thin layer of mashed potatoes, half a sausage, sprinkle with grated cheese, roll it into a tube and place it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. It turns out delicious! If desired, the tubes can be fried in a frying pan.



3.You can make potato casserole.



If you don’t want to bother and sculpt something, make a potato casserole. To do this, you need to grease a frying pan without a handle with oil (for example, sunflower oil), and put in layers what you have:

1. a layer of mashed potatoes, a layer of fried minced meat with onions, again a layer of mashed potatoes, spread sour cream or mayonnaise on top.
2. the same thing, but replace the middle layer with canned fish.
3. the same thing, but replace the middle layer with mushrooms fried with onions.

In general, there is room for fantasy to unfold - and it is eaten with a bang.

In general, yesterday’s mashed potatoes can be eaten if they have been in the refrigerator since yesterday. This is what we usually do. But if you absolutely do not eat yesterday’s food, you can always make delicious pies from the puree. You can also add pickles, fried onions or mushrooms, ham or minced meat to the filling. You can also make a casserole from mashed potatoes. But it is no longer as tasty and versatile.

There are Indian potato cakes that are very tasty and easy to prepare. They were probably specially designed for processing leftover mashed potatoes. This is how they are done. Knead a thick dough, like dumplings, from water, salt and flour. There is no need to lay eggs. Take a piece of ready-made dough, roll it out very thin, put puree in the middle of the resulting flatbread, and gather the edges of the dough in the middle like manti. Then they roll out this structure with a rolling pin to the state of a thin cake and fry the resulting miracle in boiling oil. The result is something crispy and tasty. The main thing is to ensure that the air inside the cake does not break through the thin dough too much during rolling.

Yes, a lot of things. For example, take knead the dough and make dumplings, I always when I get bored and just make dumplings, they are very tasty. Of course, you can make cutlets or potato pancakes, just take potatoes and roll them into cutlets, roll them in flour and fry them in oil.

You can't make it up on purpose.

Only literally the day before yesterday I had such a small problem, and now I come across your question. The decision was quite simple, because I had defrosted minced chicken on hand. I think then you yourself guessed how the matter ended. Fast, simple and ultimately delicious.

I mixed everything (the proportions are up to your taste, of course), but my puree was even slightly larger in volume. There are onions and garlic. I added one more egg to the pile and then a little flour was needed to bring it all to the desired consistency.

I didn’t even have breadcrumbs in stock, so I replaced it with flour. And into the frying pan. I don’t know the name of the result. But it's delicious, I assure you.

You can cook dumplings with potatoes!! You can fry pies with potatoes!! They make pancakes with mashed potatoes!! It’s also delicious!! So if you want!! Or you can just heat it in a frying pan or in the microwave and eat it with a side dish!! So that yesterday’s puree is quite edible and can be eaten with a little effort! The dough for dumplings is made quickly! Half a liter of kefir, a spoon, tea soda, salt and mix everything tightly and make dumplings)) Quick and tasty!!

Crushed potatoes are one of the most popular side dishes among Russian housewives. This dish is universal: it is very tasty and goes well with almost any other food, be it vegetables, fish, mushrooms or meat. Mashed potatoes fill you up for a long time and at the same time do not give you a feeling of heaviness.

How to make mashed potatoes

Even such a low-component, easy-to-prepare dish has certain nuances. In order for the pound to turn out tender and airy, you should follow some rules. How to make mashed potatoes correctly:

• young potatoes are not suitable for cooking; you should choose mature yellowish tubers with a high starch content;
• Warm/hot milk should be added to the finished fruit, as a cold product will turn the dish an unsightly gray color;
• do not keep peeled potatoes in water for a long time, since starch, which is important for mashing, leaves the vegetable at this time;
• you need to not just crush the potatoes, but beat them - this way the side dish will acquire the necessary fluffiness;
• To create a dish with a rich, creamy taste, don't skimp on butter.

Mashed potatoes - recipe with milk

To make crushed potatoes not only tasty, but also have an appetizing appearance, you need to cook them correctly. To do this, you do not need to have special skills, you just need to take into account a few important rules. So, according to the classic recipe, pound cake is prepared from 4 components - boiled potatoes, milk, butter and salt. At the same time, it is not advisable to use a blender or other electrical appliances to beat the dish. The most delicious side dish is obtained if you use a regular masher or pestle. How to make mashed potatoes with milk?

Ingredients:

• milk – 0.3 l;
• potatoes – 1 kg;
• butter – 50 g;
• salt.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the peeled tubers in half to speed up the cooking of the vegetable.
2. Place the product in a saucepan, add water so that the liquid barely covers the vegetable halves. You can salt the dish at this stage or during pounding.
3. Boil the vegetable until tender (this will take about 20 minutes). Its readiness is indicated by the soft insertion of the knife/fork into the pieces.
4. After draining the broth from the pan, start pounding the potatoes with a pestle/masher, gradually adding heated milk into the pan.
5. Add pieces of butter to the mixture, thoroughly beat the side dish using improvised means and serve with fresh vegetable salad.

Without milk

Few people are indifferent to this dish, which is why the side dish is served on almost every holiday; it is no less often prepared on weekdays. The side dish goes well with various other dishes - fish, meat, salads and all kinds of snacks. There are many recipes, each of which has its own characteristics. Below is how to make mashed potatoes without milk. If you remove butter from the list of ingredients, the side dish can even be included in a vegan menu. How to cook potatoes for mashed potatoes?

Ingredients:

• salt;
• water – 2 l;
• potatoes – 1.5 kg;
• butter – ½ pack.

Cooking method:

1. First, prepare the main ingredient; for this, the potatoes are peeled and washed thoroughly. Then cut into medium slices to reduce cooking time.
2. The vegetable is placed in a pan, filled with water and boiled until tender (about 20 minutes).
3. When the product becomes soft, the potato broth is poured into a cup, and the rest of the volume is poured into the sink.
4. Dry boiled vegetables are pounded with a pestle, gradually adding the remaining broth.
5. The mass is seasoned with butter, salted, and then it can be served.

Mashed potato dishes

Puree can serve not only as a side dish, but also as an integral component of various independent dishes. Since potatoes are often left over after festive feasts, practical Russian housewives use them to prepare original appetizers, casseroles, cutlets, pies, etc. Below are interesting, tasty options for dishes that can be prepared from puree.

Casserole

Yesterday's crumpled potatoes lose their airiness, plasticity and taste. However, you should not throw away the product - you can prepare a simple, unusual, satisfying dish from it. Mashed potato casserole can be prepared with different fillings, be it meat, cheese, fish, mushroom, cottage cheese or vegetable mass. Below is a recipe for a dish with ground beef.

Ingredients:

• large onion;
• semolina – 2 tbsp. l.;
• sour cream or heavy cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• hard cheese – 100 g;
• minced beef – 0.3 kg;
• puree – 0.5 kg;
• flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
• seasonings

Cooking method:

1. Chop the onion finely, fry in oil, turning on medium heat.
2. Add the minced meat to the same pan, after mashing with a fork. Season the mixture.
3. Grate the cheese.
4. Grease a baking dish with oil and sprinkle the bottom with semolina.
5. Place ½ of the puree into a container, then all the minced meat with onions and 1/3 of the cheese.
6. Place the rest of the potatoes and cheese on top. Fill the dish with sour cream, sprinkle with a pinch of semolina.
7. Bake the food at 200 degrees oven, covering the top of the pan with foil.

Cutlets

After the holidays, as a rule, every housewife is left with a large amount of powder, which needs to be quickly disposed of so that the product does not go to waste. There are several options for how to do this - reheat and eat the not-so-tasty dish, or show your imagination and make mashed potato cutlets. Below is how to make tender, savory cutlets.

Ingredients:

• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• spices;
• mashed potatoes/potatoes – 1 kg;
• butter – 50 g;
• flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
• vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. If the masher is not ready yet, you should know how to make puree. To do this, cut the peeled vegetable into small pieces, boil the product until tender and crush with a pestle, after draining most of the water into the sink. Add a spoonful of butter and a little salt to the mixture.
2. Add egg, flour, spices to the warm mixture.
3. Form small balls from the finished homogeneous mass (it is better to do this with wet hands).
4. Dip each cutlet into the breading and place in a heated frying pan.
5. Fry each cutlet on both sides until golden brown and serve with sour cream and mushroom sauce.

Pies

The unclaimed mashed potatoes left after dinner can be used to make very tasty, unusual potato pies. In this case, any filling can be chosen for them - mushroom, vegetable, meat. The fastest and easiest option is to use sausage/ham and cheese as a filling. Pies made from mashed potatoes turn out very tasty, no matter what filling you choose. Below is a recipe for an appetizer with mushrooms. How to cook pies?

Ingredients:

• breadcrumbs;
• frying oil;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• puree – 0.6 kg;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• mushrooms (any) – 100 g;
• spices;
• butter – 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the potato mixture with egg yolks and soft butter. Mix thoroughly.
2. Wash the mushrooms, chop and fry them along with the onions in vegetable oil.
3. After wetting your hands, begin to form cakes from the potato mixture, into which place a spoonful of fried mushrooms. The edges should be pinched as tightly as possible so that the pies do not fall apart.
4. Dip each bun first into beaten egg whites, then into breadcrumbs.
5. Fry them in oil on both sides until golden brown. Then place the finished pies on a flat plate lined with a paper towel to absorb excess oil.

With cheese

The dish goes well with any food, including cheese. By adding such an ingredient to a traditional side dish, you don’t have to worry about preparing a meat or fish dish, since the puree will already be very satisfying and nutritious. You can use semi- or hard cheese, and in this case it is better to choose sandwich or melted butter. How to cook mashed potatoes with cheese?

Ingredients:

• Parmesan/Dutch cheese – 100 g;
• garlic cloves – 3 pcs.;
• milk – 200 ml;
• potatoes – 10 pcs.;
• butter – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the potatoes in half and boil over medium heat, covered.
2. Drain the water after the vegetable is ready.
3. Pound the potato pieces with a pestle while adding warm milk. Salt foods should be moderate, as cheese will also give a salty taste.
4. Squeeze the garlic, mix with melted butter, add to the crush, mixing it thoroughly again.
5. The cheese shavings are added last. Serve cheese puree with fresh vegetable salad.

With minced meat

To make a quick lunch, you can use yesterday's puree. By mixing the finished product with minced meat, you will get a completely different hearty and tasty dish. It bakes in the oven for about half an hour and does not require any effort on the part of the cook. If you wish, you can supplement the list of ingredients with any vegetables, herbs, and spices. Below we describe in detail how to prepare mashed potatoes with minced meat.

Ingredients:

• cheese – 150 g;
• butter – 100 g;
• minced meat – 0.5 kg;
• potato mass – 0.5 kg;
• high fat cream/milk – 2/3 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Reheat the potatoes, re-buff them and place them on a greased baking sheet/casserole dish.
2. Place the minced meat fried until tender along with the onion on top.
3. Sprinkle the food with cheese shavings so that the finished product has an appetizing crust.
4. To prepare the dish, place it in the oven for half an hour at 200 degrees. Then let the casserole cool slightly and serve, cutting into portions.

With mushrooms

To prepare pounded mushrooms, you don’t need to put in any serious effort; in addition, the dish does not require a large number of ingredients - all of them, as a rule, are already in any housewife’s refrigerator. Mushroom puree is an excellent lunch or dinner option for fans of vegetarian food. How to make mashed potatoes with mushrooms?

Ingredients:

• oyster mushrooms/champignons – 0.2 kg;
• mashed potatoes – 1 kg;
• garlic cloves – 2 pcs.;
• butter – 2 tbsp. l.;
• sour cream – 50 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Heat the finished puree, add heated cream and butter to it. Try to prepare a perfectly plastic and homogeneous mass.
2. Season the mixture if necessary, cover, and set aside.
3. Fry the crushed garlic in butter, then add the mushroom pieces. Cook the ingredients, stirring vigorously, until golden brown.
4. Place the potato mixture on serving plates and place the fried mushrooms on top.

Video

Mashed potatoes are an ideal side dish for most meat and fish dishes. What if you have boiled potatoes left? In this case, you need to figure out what to make from mashed potatoes. There are many options - from banal pancakes to exquisite casseroles.

What to cook from mashed potatoes: recipes

Did you have a feast yesterday and have some mashed potatoes left over? What can you make from leftover side dishes? The variety of dishes made from second bread is so huge that it is impossible to list them all. These include pancakes, meatballs, zrazy, cutlets, casseroles, balls, side dishes with vegetables, etc. Let's look at recipes for the most popular and delicious dishes.

New life for yesterday's side dish

A serving of potato side dish is not enough to feed everyone in the household, but it’s a shame to throw it away? Let's think about what to make from yesterday's mashed potatoes. One option is diet cutlets. You can also make unusual balls that are served as an addition to baked meat or fish fillet. Quickly write down how to make mashed potato balls.

On a note! To ensure that mashed potatoes retain their shape, the balls are breaded in flour or breadcrumbs.

Compound:

• 1 kg mashed potatoes;
• 2-3 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• 2-3 tbsp. l. sour cream with any percentage of fat content;
• 2 tbsp. l. soft butter;
• 5 tbsp. l. refined sunflower seed oil.

Preparation:

Cutlets with a surprise

How to make mashed potato cutlets? Even an inexperienced housewife will tell you about this. But who can you surprise with ordinary cutlets now? If you're bored with everyday food, try adding variety to your menu. For example, you can make delicious zrazy or meatballs from mashed potatoes. Of course, this will require filling, but here your choice is unlimited.

Compound:

• 200 g mashed potatoes;
• 5 pieces. raw potato tubers;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• onion head;
• 0.2 kg minced beef;
• 4 tbsp. l. refined sunflower seed oil;
• salt and dried basil to taste.

Preparation:

Lazy pies

This is by no means an exhaustive list of dishes that you can make in your kitchen. What can you make quickly from mashed potatoes? What about lazy pies? You don’t even have to knead the dough, just buy thin sheets of pita bread. The taste of such baked goods will amaze your household and will forever win their stomachs and hearts.

Compound:

• 50 g butter;
• 0.3 kg mashed potatoes;
• 2 tsp. sesame seeds;
• 2 pcs. lavash sheets.

Preparation:

On a note! If you like to make baked goods from homemade dough, make kystyby. These Tatar flatbreads, prepared with the addition of mashed potatoes, will please everyone without exception.

Mashed potato pizza is delicious!

Do you crave Italian cuisine? Prepare the pizza. You can improvise by adding leftover mashed potatoes to the filling, for example. Everyone will remember the taste of such a dish for a long time.

Compound:

• packaging of semi-finished puff pastry;
• 0.2 kg of fresh champignons;
• 200 g mashed potatoes;
• carrots - 1 root vegetable;
• bulb;
• 3-4 pcs. tomatoes;
• 100 g hard cheese;
• mayonnaise – 3-4 tbsp. l.;
• salt and spices to taste;
• refined sunflower seed oil.

Preparation:

1. Immediately remove the dough from the freezer and defrost it naturally.
2. Peel the carrots and onions.
3. Wash the peeled vegetables and champignons and chop everything.
4. Sauté carrots and onions in a frying pan in refined oil.
5. Then add chopped champignons and fry until tender.
6. Combine fried vegetables, champignons with mashed potatoes.
7. Stir until smooth.
8. We make a layer from puff pastry.
9. Spread the prepared potato mixture on top in an even layer.
10. Chop the tomatoes into cubes and place in the next layer.
11. Lubricate with mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped hard cheese.
12. Place the dish in the oven.
13. Cook at a temperature of 180° for about 20 minutes.