Potato-Filled Tatar Flatbread

Nourishing, very tasty, made from simple ingredients. Kystyby with potatoes is a national Tatar, Chuvash and Bashkir dish. It is a fresh fried flatbread with potato filling. You can also fill kystyby with millet porridge or stew.
cook time: 50 min
Miles Denholm
Potato-Filled Tatar Flatbread

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

195
Calories
8g
Fat
25g
Carbs
5g
Protein

Ingredients (12 portions)

For dough:

Wheat flour 280 g
Milk 100 ml
Butter 50 g
Chicken eggs 1 pc
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 2 g

For the potato filling:

Potato 500 g
Butter 1.5 tbsp
Milk 100 ml
Bulb onions 1 pc
Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
Salt to taste

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make kystyby with potatoes? First, prepare the necessary ingredients for the filling. Wash, peel and cut the potatoes into a couple of pieces, place in a pan with cold salted water and put on fire. It is better to use crumbly varieties of potatoes so that the mashed potatoes are more tender and tasty. Boil the potatoes until done. You can check readiness with the sharp tip of a knife; it should go into the potatoes easily.

Step 2

Step 2
Drain the water from the pan with the potatoes, use a blender or masher to mash the potatoes, add milk, a piece of butter and add salt if necessary.

Step 3

Step 3
Peel the onion, rinse with cold water so that it does not sting your eyes when slicing, and finely chop with a knife. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it and fry the onion in it until transparent.

Step 4

Step 4
Add onion to potatoes and stir.

Step 5

Step 5
Prepare the necessary ingredients for the dough. Beat a chicken egg into a deep bowl. Melt the butter in the microwave or steam bath.

Step 6

Step 6
Add sugar, salt and pour in warm milk and melted butter. Mix everything until smooth.

Step 7

Step 7
Pour the sifted wheat flour into the bowl with the liquid. The flour must be sifted so that it is saturated with oxygen, the dough is softer, and the finished products are more tender. Knead into an elastic, smooth dough. You may need a little more or a little less flour than the specified amount.

Step 8

Step 8
Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and place in a warm place for half an hour. Thanks to this, the gluten in the dough will swell, the dough itself will become more elastic, and it will be more convenient to work with it.

Step 9

Step 9
After half an hour, you can start preparing the flatbreads. They are fried in a dry frying pan. Divide the dough into 12 parts and roll each of them into a thin layer. To make the flat cakes smooth and beautiful, they can be cut out of the dough on a plate.

Step 10

Step 10
Place the flatbread on a well-heated frying pan and fry it until golden brown on both sides, a couple of minutes on each side will be enough.

Step 11

Step 11
Grease the finished flatbreads immediately with butter on each side. You need to do this while the tortillas are hot so that they absorb the oil well.

Step 12

Step 12
Place some of the potato filling on half of each tortilla and cover it with the other half of the tortilla. The cakes turn out soft and do not unroll, so there is no need to seal the edges tightly. Before serving, kystyby should be greased with melted butter. Bon appetit!

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