Belarusian cuisine: cartoplers - recipe for cooking

5.03.2024 Country kitchen

Kartoplyaniki is a rather well-known dish in Belarusian, as well as in Ukrainian and Russian cuisine, but nevertheless I think that you can safely give the palm of primacy in all recipes from potatoes to Belarus.

Cartoplers are such pans fried in a pan, which are based on boiled potatoes. They can be made with filling. In the form of the filling can be cabbage, meat, mushrooms, liver ... And with the filling, and without the filling - in any case, cartoplans will be a cozy, home-like delicious dish.

In our recipe with photos, we will tell you in detail and step by step how to prepare the basic version of cartoplans - without filling.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of potatoes:
2-4 tablespoons of flour;
1 chicken egg, not large;
salt, black pepper to taste;
cooking oil for frying.

How to make cartoplans

Boil the potatoes in a uniform until cooked. Boiled potatoes still warm peeled and cut into small pieces that will go into the opening of the meat grinder. Peeled potatoes are also still warm pass through a meat grinder. If the potatoes cool completely, even after the meat grinder, the potato mass will not turn out homogeneous, which will worsen the appearance of future cartoplans.

Add the egg, flour, salt and ground black pepper to the twisted potatoes.

Mix thoroughly. Depending on the potato variety, the flour may take a little more or less.

From potato mass we form 8 - 10 identical balls. From each ball, flattening with fingers, we form a round cutlet - cartoplane.

Roll them in flour.

We well heat the pan with vegetable oil and spread the cartoplans. We do not lay out tightly, so that it is more convenient to turn over. Fry on fire slightly above average until golden brown. Using a spatula, carefully turn the cartoplans and fry the other side in the same way.