Fried Pies with Potatoes and Mushrooms
September 9th, 2017 in Main Dishes, No-meat by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 2h 30min
Another traditional russian dish for these who feel adventurous to make it: fried pies with potatoes and mushrooms (piroshki or pyrizhky).
I don’t think it is hard to do, but it does require some time and can be a nice activity for whole family, since assembling pies will go faster with more hands 🙂
You can use ready-to-go dough, or prepare dough yourself, for this recipe you would need about half of the batch prepare for unsweetened yeast dough
Serve pies warm or cooled down, alone or accompanied by a clear broth or soup.
Ingredients:
- 1-1.5lb of potatoes
- 8-10 oz of mushrooms
- 1 onion
- Dried or fresh dill (optional)
- Pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
- Not sweet yeast dough
- Oil for frying
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients:
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Peel potatoes, slice them, add to the pot with water, bring to boil, salt to taste and keep cooking until softened:
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While potatoes are cooking, peel and dice onion, warm up a skilled with a bit of oil and fry onions until colored, stir from time to time:
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Rinse mushrooms, clean if needed, slice and add to the same skillet to onions:
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Cook onions and mushrooms together until liquid produced by mushrooms evaporates, then add dried (or fresh) dill, salt and pepper to taste, and cook all together for another minute or two, then remove from heat:
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When potatoes are ready, strain the liquid off and mash them:
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Add mushrooms and onions:
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Mix everything, taste and add more salt and pepper if needed, mushroom and potatoes stuffing is ready:
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Now it is time to make pies. For that divide dough into smaller pieces and roll each into circle:
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Put stuffing in the middle and seal dough edges to form a pie:
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Repeat with rest of dough and stuffing (make sure you dust the board generous amount of flour and don’t put pies too close together):
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Warm up deeper skillet with significant amount of oil. Working in batches, fry pies from one side until colored:
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Then flip to another side and cook through:
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Move ready pies to a plate:
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Serve with broth or by itself:
Fried Pies with Potatoes and Mushrooms
