Most often, zraz is understood to mean a mushroom, vegetables and other products stuffed in a meat layer or minced meat. However, there is a variation of zraz, when the chopped meat itself turns into stuffing wrapped in a base of boiled or raw potatoes. Potato zrazy with minced meat is prepared in different countries, and there are many recipes for this dish. Cooking methods too much. Most often, potato zrazy fried in a pan, so that they are covered with an appetizing crust. If you bake them in the oven, they will be healthier and more tender. Zrazy can even be extinguished, but this method of their preparation is used infrequently, since it is more difficult to extinguish zrazy from potato of the original form when stewing.
Cooking Features
Whatever method of cooking you choose, it makes sense to adhere to some general rules for cooking potato zraz with minced meat. In this case they will turn out at you both tasty, and beautiful.
- The main task when cooking potato zraz is to make a sufficiently dense potato base, in which you will wrap minced meat. It is important that it does not fall apart during cooking. To do this, most often cooked mashed potatoes, mixing it with egg and other products that can make it more dense and viscous. However, the properties of the potato itself play an important role here. For cooking zraz most suitable are varieties of this vegetable, which suggest a high starch content. Most often, these tubers inside are quite yellow. Such potato varieties are grown, in particular, in Belarus.
- In order for the potato to retain its “starchy” properties and after cooking, boil it better in the skin, only puncturing it in several places with a knife. Potatoes are salted after the water in which it is boiled boils. If you remove the pot with potatoes from the fire, when the tubers in the very center remain slightly damp, it will be even better, since in this case the mashed potatoes will be more dense and viscous.
- Zrazy will taste better if used to make homemade minced meat stuffing, made from high quality meat. At the same time mixed minced meat from several types of meat is preferred. Buying mince in the store, you can not be sure of its high quality, as a result, the taste of ready-made zraz may not meet your expectations.
- Before filling zrazy with minced meat, it must be fried, because otherwise the roasting time may not be enough to bring it to readiness, and it will remain half-baked, and this is tasteless and unsafe for health.
- Mashed potatoes of boiled potatoes can be made with the help of tolkushki or meat grinder. If raw potatoes are used for cooking zraz, it is ground on a coarse grater. If you use a blender, the dough made from raw potatoes will turn out too thin, and the boiled one will strongly adhere to the knives.
- To prevent the potatoes from sticking to the hands when forming zraz, they can be moistened with water or smeared with vegetable oil. The second option is more effective.
- Potato zrazy will be best kept in shape when roasting or roasting, if they are pre-breaded in flour or breadcrumbs. Breading will keep better if you dip the zrazy in a beaten egg before. Moreover, in this case, the crust, which is formed when frying zraz, will be even more appetizing.
- In order for zrazy to be well brown and to keep their shape, they need to be fried in a hot frying pan, without sparing oil. Excess of it is removed after frying. To do this, spread the zrazy on a napkin, which absorbs excess fat, and only then laid out on plates and served to the table.
Serve potato zrazy with minced meat with sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup or gravy, cooked with your own hands - they are universal and can be combined with almost any sauce.
Potato zrazy with minced meat in a frying pan
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- pork pulp - 0, 25 kg;
- beef pulp - 0, 25 kg;
- carrots - 150 g;
- onions - 150 g;
- chicken egg (only protein can be used) - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 100 g;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
- allspice peas - 5 pcs .;
- breadcrumbs - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the potatoes well, make several punctures with a knife on each tuber, put them in a saucepan. Fill with water and put on fire. When the water boils, add salt, peas, laurel leaves and cook until the tubers are soft enough - you can check their readiness with a knife.
- Drain, slightly dry the potatoes, leaving the saucepan with him on the stove for just a minute. Cool the potatoes, peel.
- Mince or turn into a mashed potatoes using tolkushki. Add eggs and two tablespoons of flour (the rest is needed for breading). Mix thoroughly.
- Wash pork and beef, dry and slice. Alternating, turn through the meat grinder.
- Peel and grate the carrots.
- Free the onions from the husk and chop finely.
- Heat the butter in a pan and put the mince in it, fry it for 10 minutes.
- Add chopped vegetables, salt and pepper to taste, fry for another 10 minutes.
- Put the minced meat in a bowl, mix with breadcrumbs.
- From mashed potatoes, form round shaped lozenges about the size of a palm, not too thin. On each put a pair of small spoons of minced meat. Raising the edges of the cakes, form zrazy, shaped like burgers.
- Roll zrazy in flour.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry zrazy in it on both sides for several minutes until golden brown.
Serve zrazy hot with sour cream or tomato sauce. Before serving, do not forget to remove excess oil by putting zrazy on a napkin.
Potato zrazy with minced meat in the oven
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- ground beef - 0, 4 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 70 g;
- potato starch - 50 g;
- breadcrumbs - 100 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Peel and wash the potatoes. Put in a saucepan, fill with water. Put a stew. Do not forget to salt after the water boils.
- While potatoes are being cooked, prepare the filling. To do this, finely chop the peeled onion and place it in the mince. Add salt and pepper, mix. Fry the minced meat in a small amount of oil for 15-20 minutes until cooked.
- Drain the water in which the potatoes were boiled, cool slightly. Add eggs, starch, flour and turn everything into a homogeneous mass using tolkushki or a special mixer nozzle.
- Pour breadcrumbs on a chopping board, smooth it.
- Put a couple of tablespoons of mashed potatoes right on the rusks and smooth them to make a round cake.
- Place the minced meat in the center of the tortilla and put its edges on top of the minced meat, forming a patty.
- In the same way, do the rest of the zrazy.
- Grease a baking sheet with butter and put zrazy on it. Top them with oil.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send a baking tray with zrazami for 20 minutes.
When cooking zraz from potatoes with minced meat in the oven, less oil is used than when frying in the pan, so their caloric content will be slightly lower. On the taste they will not give up fried.
Potato zrazy with minced meat and mushrooms
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- ground beef - 0, 25 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 25 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- fresh greens - 100 g;
- ground nutmeg - a pinch;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- wheat flour - how much will leave;
- breadcrumbs - how much will go;
- ghee - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes and mash them. Salt lightly and leave to cool.
- Wash mushrooms and cut into small cubes.
- Crush the onion with a knife, after clearing it from the husk.
- Heat ghee in a pan, put onion in it and fry for a few minutes.
- Add mushrooms and minced meat to onions. Fry them over low heat until excess moisture is evaporated from the pan.
- Finely chop the greens, add it to the stuffing with salt and seasonings, mix.
- Add two eggs to mashed potatoes, mix well. If necessary, thicken the mashed potatoes with flour.
- Add the egg to the mince, mix. Pour a spoonful of breadcrumbs, stir.
- After making a flat cake from mashed potatoes, fill them with minced meat. Seal the edges, shape the patties. Roll in breadcrumbs.
- Fry zrazy in oil in a pan for 2-3 minutes on each side or bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
Potato zrazy with mushrooms and minced meat are especially nourishing and fragrant. Under them is any sauce, including mustard and horseradish. Sour cream also harmonizes well with this dish.
If all the housewives knew how easy it is to cook zrazy from potatoes, they would include this dish on the menu as often as possible.
