Potato Pampushki
photo by Steve S.
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 680.38 g potatoes, peeled
- 630.98 ml mashed potatoes, leftovers are good
- 2.46 ml salt
- black pepper
- 118.29 ml cottage cheese
- 29.58 ml fresh chives, minced
- oil, for frying
directions
- Coarsely grate the raw potatoes and squeeze out as much water as possible. Put them in a bowl with the mashed potatoes, salt and pepper. Mix together.
- In another bowl, mix the cottage cheese and chives together.
- Using a spoon and your fingers scoop up a portion of the potato mixture, slightly smaller then an egg and flatten into a circle.
- Put 1 teaspoon of the cheese filling in the middle; fold over the edges and pinch to seal.
- Repeat with remaining potato and cheese mixtures; makes about 12 dumplings.
- Heat the oil to 340 degrees Fahrenheit in a deep fat fryer.
- Fry for 10 minutes or until deep brown and crisp.
- Drain and serve hot.
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I am a clothing designer that loves to cook. I run a business and a home and have little time to enjoy cooking so I do a lot of bulk cooking and take full advantage of my freezer when I do.