Potato Pancakes With Minced Meat: A Step-by-step Recipe For Sorcerers With Meat In A Pan, Photo And Video

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Cooking juicy and aromatic potato pancakes with minced meat for the whole family

Many people know how to cook potato pancakes. In some regions they are called "potato pancakes" or even "sorcerers". It would seem that there is nothing unusual here: grated raw potatoes, a little flour, an egg, salt and spices. But if you turn on your imagination and add additional ingredients, for example, minced meat, then you get a completely new original dish!

How to cook potato pancakes with minced meat: a step by step recipe

Such potato pancakes need to be made a little thicker than ordinary ones. Thanks to the minced meat, they will bake well from the inside and will be juicy.

Thanks to the minced potato pancakes, they are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside.

You will need the following products:

• 250 g minced meat;
• 6 medium potatoes;
• 4 eggs;
• 1/2 onion;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• salt and pepper to taste.

You can add any condiments you like.

1. Chop the onion as small as possible. Add it to the minced meat, beat in 1 egg, salt and pepper (or add your favorite seasonings). Stir the food thoroughly.

   

   Mix onion, minced meat and eggs into a homogeneous mass

2. On a coarse grater, grate the raw potatoes and rinse well in running water. If you have a very starchy potato variety, then rinse it for as long as possible: you need to wash out all the excess starch. After that, squeeze the grated potatoes with your hands and put in a colander.

   

   Grate and squeeze potatoes

3. Salt the potatoes in a colander, add the remaining eggs. Let the juice drain out.

   

   Add salt and eggs to potatoes and wait for excess moisture to drain

4. When excess moisture has drained, combine all foods in a colander until smooth. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Spread out the potato mixture little by little with a tablespoon, kneading into thin cakes. Put a small amount of minced meat on each of them and carefully distribute. Put the potato mass on top. Remember that each layer should not be too thick.

   

   Spread the potato mass and minced meat in layers and fry on both sides

5. Fry the pancakes for 3-4 minutes over medium heat, then turn over. Now put the lid on the skillet. Thanks to this, potato pancakes will be well extinguished from the inside, and will not burn on the outside.

   

   To ensure the pancakes are well done, cover them with a lid after turning

Do you know why we needed to rinse the grated potatoes so thoroughly? Because the starch that it contains contributes to the rapid darkening of the potato mass due to interaction with oxygen. Not that it hurts the taste of potato pancakes, but the finished dish ultimately looks not rosy, but grayish. And I can say from my own experience: dough with a high starch content is very naughty, it sticks first to your hands, and then to the pan.

The color of the finished pancakes depends on how much starch remains in the dough.

What can be used instead of minced meat

As a filling for such potato pancakes, you can use whatever you like: sauerkraut, fried mushrooms, vegetable lecho, beans, fish. Try filling potato pancakes with a mixture of grated cheese or cottage cheese with herbs and spices: this will make them even juicier and more aromatic.

Almost any product can be used as a filling for pancakes.

Video recipe for pancakes with minced meat ("sorcerers")

Look how beautiful they turned out: on the outside they are ruddy, crispy and crispy, but on the inside they are white, juicy! Such potato pancakes will surely decorate any festive table. Enjoy your meal!