Potato zrazy with minced meat
Potato zrazy with minced meat is a win-win option if you want to cook something tasty, satisfying, and quite quickly. Yes, and this dish does not imply special financial costs! The main thing is to find the right mealy potato for him, which keeps its shape well. The choice of minced meat is also important: if possible, buy a good piece of meat and pass it through a meat grinder yourself. So you will definitely be sure of the quality of the filling! And you can serve potato zrazy with minced meat not only with sauce, as recommended in our recipe, but simply with good thick sour cream.
Ingredients
Servings 6- 1 kg potatoes
- 1 large onion
- 500 g minced beef or pork
- 300 ml milk
- 100 ml heavy cream
- 2 eggs
- 50 g flour
- 15 g butter
- 20 g vegetable oil
Cooking
Step 1
Prepare ingredients for potato zrazy. Peel and very finely chop the onion. Melt some butter in a frying pan, add the onion and fry for 5 minutes. Add minced meat, increase heat, fry, breaking up minced meat with a wooden spoon so that it does not stick together into lumps until the color changes. Remove from heat, salt, pepper and set aside.
Step 2
Wash the potatoes with a brush and cook in boiling salted water until soft (this may take 15-25 minutes). Then carefully drain the water and rinse the tubers with cold water.
Step 3
Peel the potatoes from the skin, cool. Grate, mix with beaten eggs, melted butter (2 tablespoons), salt and pepper. Pour in enough flour to make a dough of medium density (so that you can sculpt it).
Step 4
With wet hands, make several small round cakes from the potato mass. Put some minced meat in the center of each and form round cutlets-zrazy.
Step 5
Roll the zrazy in flour and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown on both sides. At the same time, in a saucepan, fry in 3 tbsp. l. butter 2 tbsp. l. flour until brown. Pour in the milk, stirring all the time, cook until thickened. Add cream, salt, pepper. Serve potato zrazy with sauce.