Lean Choux Pastry Placings with Potatoes

Plachindy with potatoes are unleavened flat cakes with filling. Delicious, simple and satisfying. The perfect fasting dish.

Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• Flour – 3 cups
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp
• Salt – 1 pinch
• Water (boiling water) – 1.5 cups

For filling:

• Potatoes – 800 g
• Bulb onions – 1 pc.
• Salt
• Pepper

For frying:

• Vegetable oil – how much will it take

Instructions

1. Boil the kettle. Sift flour. Make a dough for plachind with boiling water. To do this, mix flour, oil, salt. Pour boiling water in a thin stream, stirring constantly so that there are no lumps. Knead the dough. Leave the lean custard dough under a towel for 20 minutes.
2. At this time, make the filling. Peel and wash potatoes and onions. Grate raw potatoes on a coarse grater. Chop the onion. Place the onions and potatoes in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Mix all.
3. Divide the dough into 4-6 pieces. Roll out the dough thinly. Make 8 cuts on the circle (you get something in the form of a chamomile with petals), put the potato filling in the middle and wrap them through the petal in the middle (close the filling with them).
4. Preheat a frying pan, pour 30 g of vegetable oil. Put plachinda in a skillet with heated oil and fry on both sides (5-6 minutes) over medium heat, covered, until golden brown.
5. So fry all the plachindas ready to put in a pile. Serve the placindas with warm potatoes.

Bon Appetit!