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Filling for Potato Hand Pies

Made from budget-friendly ingredients, quick, simple and tasty! The filling for potato hand pies can be made with just two things: potatoes and herbs. But in this recipe we make it with milk, green onion and butter. It turns out super tasty!

Ropotushka

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Potatoes

1.5

Green onion

Fresh herbs

Milk

Salt

Butter (optional)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 10 % 2 g

Fats 19 % 4 g

Carbohydrates 71 % 15 g

104 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:

How do you make the filling for potato hand pies? Gather all the ingredients. Use any potatoes — new or old; the taste will just be a little different. Choose herbs to your taste. Personally, I love the combination of potatoes with green onion and dill.
Step 2:

Wash the potatoes thoroughly, peel them, and rinse again.
Step 3:

Cut the potatoes into roughly equal-sized pieces so they all cook at the same time. The smaller the pieces, the faster they cook.
Step 4:

Put the potatoes in a pot and cover with clean cold water. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 15–25 minutes. The cooking time depends on your stove and how the potatoes are cut. No need to salt the potatoes.
Step 5:

While the potatoes cook, remove any wilted parts from the herbs and rinse them under running water. Dry the herbs thoroughly with a cloth or paper towel.
Step 6:

Chop the fresh herbs with a knife or blender. I like visible bits of herbs in the filling, so I chop them with a knife. Bring the milk to a boil and immediately take it off the heat — we need it for the mash.
Step 7:

Check whether the potatoes are done like this: pierce a potato with a knife; if it slides back off when you lift it, it's ready; if it stays on the knife, cook a bit longer and check again. Drain all the water from the pot.
Step 8:

Pour the boiled milk into the potatoes and add the butter. The butter is optional — you can leave it out. Mash the potatoes with a potato masher. Many people use a blender, but that won't work here: it makes the mash heavy and very sticky, and hard to work with. Mash the potatoes while they're still hot, since it gets difficult to do later.
Step 9:

Add the chopped herbs to the mashed potatoes, salt them, and mix thoroughly until smooth. The filling for potato hand pies is ready. Fill the pies with it only once it has cooled, or you'll ruin the dough.

With this potato filling you can also make fried hand pies or baked pies in the oven.
By adding other ingredients, such as mushrooms or fried onion, you can vary the filling.