Potato pies fried in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to fry potato pies in a frying pan? First of all, boil the potatoes. How to cook potatoes? Wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into small pieces so that they cook faster. Put the potatoes in a saucepan, pour cold water so that it barely covers the contents of the pan. Put the pan on the fire.

2. Step 2:

   

   When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium, add a little salt to the water and cook the potatoes for about half an hour until fully cooked. The cooking time depends on the potato variety and the size of its pieces. You can check the readiness with the tip of a knife or fork, they should easily fit into the pieces. Drain the broth from the pot with potatoes into a separate container, you do not need to pour it out immediately.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mash the potatoes with a hand pusher in mashed potatoes, adding broth if necessary. Add a piece of butter, mix. Mashed potatoes should be plastic and soft, not dry and not too liquid, it took me about half of the broth. Let the mashed potatoes cool down a little, taste it with salt, add salt if necessary and add a little ground black pepper.

4. Step 4:

   

   Beat the chicken egg into the puree, mix, add wheat flour, mix again. Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

6. Step 5:

   

   You should get a sticky dense dough.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour wheat flour into a plate. Take the potato dough with a tablespoon, put it in flour on a plate, roll it with flour on all sides and shape the pies. At the same stage, you can put any filling inside.

8. Step 7:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan with a thick bottom. In the preheated oil, put the blanks of the pies and hold them for a couple of minutes on high heat. Then reduce the heat to medium and fry the pies for a couple more minutes, they should become ruddy. Then turn them over and fry them on the other side also until golden brown.

9. Step 8:

   

   Cover the pan with a lid and hold the pies in the pan for about 5 more minutes so that they are well fried inside. Remove the finished pies from the pan onto a dish with paper napkins so that excess oil is absorbed into them. Then put the pies on another plate and serve to the table. They are very tasty warm with sour cream and herbs. Enjoy your meal!