Fried Kefir-Dough Hand Pies with Liver and Potato

They whet your appetite just by looking at them! A wonderful recipe for golden, fluffy, tender yeast-free hand pies filled with potato and liver — they'll surprise you with their fantastic flavor and are sure to be a hit!

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 19 % 8 g
Fats 24 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 57 % 24 g
218 kcal
GI: 21 / 0 / 79

Cooking method

  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    To make these delicious fried hand pies, gather the ingredients. Coarsely chop two onions, add them to a skillet heated with vegetable oil, and fry, stirring, until translucent.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Cut 450 grams of beef liver into medium pieces.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Add the liver pieces to the skillet with the onion.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Fry the liver, stirring, for ten minutes, then cover the pan and keep cooking for another ten minutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Add one tablespoon of butter to the pan, then a pinch of nutmeg to taste.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Add salt and a blend of black and red pepper to taste.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Stir everything in the pan together well.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Cover the pan, turn off the heat, and let the cooked liver rest for three minutes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Run the cooked liver and 150 grams of boiled potato through a meat grinder into a bowl.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Mash and mix everything in the bowl until smooth.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Pour 300 milliliters of room-temperature kefir into a large bowl.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12

    Add the yolk of one egg to the bowl of kefir.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13

    Add one teaspoon of salt and one tablespoon of sugar to the bowl.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14

    Add two tablespoons of sour cream to the bowl.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15

    Stir all the ingredients in the bowl together well.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16

    Sift 500 grams of wheat flour into the bowl in batches.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17

    Add one teaspoon of baking soda to the bowl with the flour.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18

    Start kneading the dough and add two tablespoons of vegetable oil to the bowl.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19

    Gather the dough into a ball in the bowl.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20

    Dust the counter with a little flour, turn out the dough, and knead it for about five minutes.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21

    Put the well-kneaded dough in a plastic bag for twenty to thirty minutes.

  22. Step 22:

    Step 22

    When the time's up, turn the dough out onto a floured counter, shape it, and cut it into eleven equal pieces.

  23. Step 23:

    Step 23

    Flatten each piece of dough into a round of the right size.

  24. Step 24:

    Step 24

    Put the right amount of filling on each round.

  25. Step 25:

    Step 25

    Pinch the edges of each round tightly closed over the filling.

  26. Step 26:

    Step 26

    Shape the pies to the size you want.

  27. Step 27:

    Step 27

    Pour 100 milliliters of vegetable oil into a skillet and heat it. Add the pies seam-side down and fry over medium heat until golden on both sides.

  28. Step 28:

    Step 28

    Cooking together, cooking simply, making the tastiest dishes at home from everyday ingredients! Enjoy — and a cozy tea time to all!

  • Fried hand pies with liver and potato on kefir dough — a really simple, perfect recipe for pan-fried pies to go with tea! The most golden, incredibly fragrant, super fluffy and tender pies filled with potato and liver! What could be tastier than homemade pies? My family adores them and asks me to make them as often as possible, because these kefir potato pies fried in a regular skillet can rouse a fierce appetite just by their looks. These wonderfully tasty, tender, fragrant kefir pies come out light as a feather and are easy to make once you have this tried-and-true dough recipe. Make these simple pies with liver and potato and treat your loved ones! Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Mature potatoes - 80  kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70  kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380  kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82  kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in their skins - 74  kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192  kcal/100g
  • Sour cream, 30% fat - 340  kcal/100g
  • Sour cream, 25% fat - 284  kcal/100g
  • Sour cream, 20% fat - 210  kcal/100g
  • Sour cream, 10% fat - 115  kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210  kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398  kcal/100g
  • Full-fat kefir - 62  kcal/100g
  • Kefir, 1% fat - 38  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30  kcal/100g
  • Doctor Bifi kefir, 1.8% fat - 45  kcal/100g
  • Kefir, 2.5% fat - 53  kcal/100g
  • Butter, 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted table butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted farmhouse butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Salted farmhouse butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Clarified butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0  kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80  kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556  kcal/100g
  • Beef liver - 130  kcal/100g
  • Ground pepper blend - 255  kcal/100g

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