What to cook from yesterday's mashed potatoes

What to cook from yesterday's mashed potatoes is a frequently asked question for many housewives, and it is precisely to prepare a new dish, and not just reheat the mashed potatoes. There are many simple, affordable and tasty solutions to this issue: cutlets, casseroles, zrazy, pies and even chips, and you can diversify their taste by adding different ingredients with herbs and spices.

Cutlets made from mashed potatoes in a frying pan

A tasty and quick way to use yesterday's potatoes is to make mashed potato cutlets in a frying pan. They are often prepared with any filling, but in this recipe we prepare them without it. Mix the puree with oatmeal and fried onions and carrots, which will give the cutlets a special taste and aroma. To make it fluffy and maintain its shape, add eggs and flour breading.

1. 
   Place cold mashed potatoes into a mixing bowl.
2. 
   Break three chicken eggs into it.
3. 
   In a separate bowl, you can pour 1.5 cups of boiling water over the oatmeal in advance and leave it to swell and cool.
4. 
   Add the cooled oatmeal to the mashed potatoes and add salt and black pepper to your taste.
5. 
   Mix these ingredients well with a spoon.
6. 
   Peel the onions and carrots, rinse and chop them in any way. Fry vegetables until soft in vegetable oil. Transfer the fried vegetables to the cutlet mixture and mix again.
7. 
   Using your hands, form small cutlets from this mass, roll well in flour and fry until golden brown on both sides in a frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Serve the prepared mashed potato cutlets hot, topped with any sauce. Bon appetit!

Mashed potato casserole with cheese and mushrooms in the oven

A casserole of mashed potatoes with cheese and mushrooms in the oven is prepared quickly and easily, because we already have the mashed potatoes ready. Supplemented with any mushrooms fried with onions and under a golden cheese crust, the casserole will be a delicious dinner for you, and yesterday’s puree will take on a new taste.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 650 gr.
• Champignons – 500 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 5 tbsp.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Dill – 1 bunch.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately you need to prepare the filling for the casserole. Peel the onion and finely chop it. Wash the champignons and chop into slices. Wash the dill and chop finely.

Step 2.Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion in it until golden brown. Then add the chopped champignons to the onion, fry until all the mushroom juice has evaporated and for 10-15 minutes. Add salt and black pepper to the mushrooms, add two tablespoons of sour cream, chopped dill, stir and simmer for 3-5 minutes.

Step 3. Grease a baking dish with a small amount of oil. Place mashed potatoes in an even layer and form sides around the edge. To ensure the puree lays out in an even layer, warm it up a little in the microwave. Spread the mushroom filling evenly over the puree.

Step 4. Apply the rest of the sour cream in a thin layer on top of the filling and sprinkle with grated cheese. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the casserole dish in it for 20 minutes. Serve the prepared dish hot. Bon appetit!

Pancakes made from yesterday's mashed potatoes

In this recipe, you are invited to make pancakes from yesterday’s unclaimed puree. Tender and with a golden brown crust, they will be both an independent dish and a good side dish for meat. Let's add mashed potatoes with grated semi-hard cheese, which will add a special taste. The batter for the pancakes turns out thick, so we form them with our hands and fry them in breading, but you can do it without it.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 500 gr.
• Flour – 6 tbsp.
• Semi-hard cheese – 80 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Sour cream for serving - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all ingredients for pancakes according to the proportions of the recipe and the number of servings you need.

Step 2.Warm up yesterday's mashed potatoes a little and transfer them to a bowl for kneading dough. Add 4 tablespoons of flour with salt and black pepper to it, break a chicken egg and add any semi-hard cheese grated on a coarse grater.

Step 3. Mix these ingredients well into a homogeneous mass. With wet hands, form small equal balls.

Step 4. Place two tablespoons of flour for breading on a separate saucer. Give the balls a flat shape and roll well in flour.

Step 5. Heat the vegetable oil well in a frying pan. Place the formed pancakes in it and fry over medium heat until golden brown and crispy on both sides.

Step 6. Immediately transfer the prepared pancakes from yesterday’s mashed potatoes onto portioned plates and serve, topped with sour cream. Bon appetit!

Pies from the remaining mashed potatoes in a frying pan

A good way to use leftover mashed potatoes is to make pan-fried pies. Any filling is suitable for pies. In this recipe, we mix the dough with mashed potatoes with the addition of flour and eggs, and for the filling we use minced meat fried with onions.

Cooking time: 55 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 400 gr.
• Flour – 8 tbsp.
• Egg – 1-2 pcs.
• Minced meat – 200 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 150 ml.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare the remaining mashed potatoes according to the proportions of the recipe, or cook fresh and be sure to cool, because it will be the basis of the dough for the pies.

Step 2.Transfer the puree into a separate bowl, break one or, for a denser dough, two chicken eggs and mix everything well with a fork, mashing the potatoes.

Step 3. Add 5 tablespoons of sifted flour to the puree in portions and with constant stirring. Knead the dough until the texture is homogeneous; the potato dough will stick a little to your palms.

Step 4. Roll the kneaded dough into a log and leave for a while while the filling is prepared.

Step 5. Finely chop the peeled onion. Heat 50 ml of vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the minced meat with onions. Sprinkle the filling with salt and black pepper to your taste and cool slightly.

Step 6. With hands greased with vegetable oil, form cakes from potato dough, place the filling inside and, tightly sealing the edges, give them the shape of pies.

Step 7. Bread the formed pies in the rest of the flour.

Step 8. Heat the remaining vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry the formed pies in it until golden brown on all sides.

Step 9. Transfer the pies prepared from the remaining mashed potatoes to a dish and serve hot, topped with any sauce or sour cream. Bon appetit!

Potato casserole from leftover mashed potatoes with minced meat

Potato casserole with minced meat in itself is a tasty, self-sufficient dish for the family table, and in this recipe we prepare it from the remains of yesterday's mashed potatoes, which retain their taste well. For the filling, take minced meat fried with onions and bake everything under a cheese crust. All the ingredients are ready, so the casserole cooks quickly.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 500 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Minced meat – 200 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Butter - for greasing the pan.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Mash the remaining mashed potatoes with a fork or warm them up a little until they are pliable. Break a chicken egg into it, add black pepper and mix well.

Step 2. For the filling, chop the peeled onion into small cubes.

Step 3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the minced meat and onions until the meat juices evaporate. Sprinkle the fried filling with salt and black pepper.

Step 4. Grease any baking dish with butter. Spread most of the mashed potatoes into it in an even layer.

Step 5. Spread the fried minced meat evenly on top of the puree.

Step 6. Cover the filling layer with the rest of the puree and smooth the surface with a spoon. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Place the casserole in it for 20 minutes.

Step 7. Grind a piece of hard cheese on a fine grater.

Step 8. After 20 minutes, sprinkle the casserole evenly with grated cheese and continue baking for another 10 minutes until the cheese melts and gets a golden brown crust.

Step 9. Keep the oven-cooked casserole from the leftover mashed potatoes for a while in the switched off oven and then serve at the table, adding sauce and vegetables. Bon appetit!

Mashed potato cakes in a frying pan

Tortillas made from mashed potatoes in a frying pan will be a hearty breakfast option, a good snack, and an alternative to bread for the first course. The taste of potato cakes is well complemented by cheese with garlic and other spices. In this simplest and fastest recipe, we prepare flatbreads only from yesterday’s puree with the addition of flour.The dough turns out quite dense and the cakes retain their shape well.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 3 tbsp.
• Flour – 6 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Transfer the remaining mashed potatoes from yesterday, and it is already with milk and butter, into a bowl for kneading dough.

Step 2. Add a little salt with black pepper and any spices to your personal taste.

Step 3. Sift the flour into a sieve and pour into the puree.

Step 4. Use your hand to replace these ingredients into a homogeneous dough; it will stick a little to your palms.

Step 5. With wet or oiled hands, form the dough into thin cakes of any diameter.

Step 6. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Place the cakes on it one by one, depending on the size of the product.

Step 7. Fry the tortillas over moderate heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 8. Use a paper towel to remove excess oil from the fried tortillas. Then immediately transfer them to portioned plates, or onto washed lettuce leaves.

Step 9. Serve hot mashed potato cakes cooked in a frying pan. Bon appetit!

Zrazy from leftover mashed potatoes

Potato zrazy is similar in taste and appearance to potato pies or cutlets, but there are some differences. Zrazy is always prepared on the basis of mashed potatoes and always with any filling. In this recipe, we mix the dough for zraz using yesterday’s mashed potatoes with egg, sour cream and flour, and use mushroom filling. Fry the zrazy in a frying pan.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 3 tbsp.
• Egg – 1-2 pcs.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Butter – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For filling:

• Mushrooms, canned/frozen - to taste.
• Onion – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Place the remaining cold mashed potatoes into a bowl for kneading dough. Add black pepper to it and add sour cream with melted butter.

Step 2. Break 1 or 2 chicken eggs into the puree, depending on the consistency of the puree.

Step 3. Pour flour into the puree in portions and at the same time stirring with a spoon and knead the dough into a plastic and uniform texture.

Step 4. For the filling, cut canned or frozen mushrooms into small pieces.

Step 5. Chop the onion into small cubes and fry until golden brown in vegetable oil. Then mix the fried onions with chopped mushrooms.

Step 6. To form the dough, sprinkle the work surface with flour. Place the kneaded dough in tablespoonfuls onto a layer of flour.

Step 7. Then place a tablespoon of mushroom filling on the dough.

Step 8. Cover the filling with the second spoonful of dough. Using your hands, give these products an oblong shape.

Step 9. Roll the formed zrazy in flour.

Step 10. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the zrazy in it until golden brown on all sides. Serve the zrazy prepared from the remaining mashed potatoes hot, but they will be tasty even cold. Bon appetit!

Breaded mashed potato balls

Breaded mashed potato balls will be an unusual and tasty way to use yesterday's mashed potatoes, and they are easy to prepare.In this recipe, to make the dish more satisfying, add boiled sausage, cheese and pickled cucumber to the puree. We double-bread the balls, which will retain their shape well, and bake them in the oven.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 400 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 150 gr.
• Boiled sausage – 150 gr.
• Water – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Pickled cucumber – 1 pc.
• Breadcrumbs – 4 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for lubrication.

Cooking process:

Step 1. We have mashed potatoes ready. Grind a piece of any hard cheese on a coarse grater and place in a separate bowl.

Step 2. Grind the boiled sausage in the same way and add to the cheese.

Step 3. Chop the pickled cucumber into very small cubes and add to the cheese.

Step 4. Then add yesterday’s mashed potatoes to these ingredients and mix them well with your hand.

Step 5. For breading, pour breadcrumbs into one bowl. In another whisk, beat the egg with a spoonful of water and a pinch of salt.

Step 6. Use your hands to form identical balls with a diameter of no more than 3 cm from the kneaded mass.

Step 7. First dip each ball in beaten egg and then in breadcrumbs.

Step 8. Cover a baking sheet with paper and place the formed breaded balls on it. Then grease the balls well with vegetable oil.

Step 9. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake the balls for 15 minutes until crispy.

Step 10. Serve breaded mashed potato balls cooked in the oven hot. Bon appetit!

Mashed potato pie in the oven

The ideal option for a mashed potato pie in the oven is mashed potatoes made from boiled potatoes in their jackets, but you can also use yesterday’s mashed potatoes. In this recipe we knead unleavened dough, although there are also yeast dough options. For the filling, take boiled chicken fillet with champignons and onions and add sour cream to the pie. Form the pie into a cake shape.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Mashed potatoes/jacket potatoes – 400 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Flour – 200 gr.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

For filling:

• Boiled chicken meat – 250 gr.
• Champignons – 200 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Butter – 2 tbsp.
• Greens - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

For filling:

• Sour cream – 200 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Place mashed potatoes into a mixing bowl. Break an egg into it, add black pepper and add sifted flour in portions.

Step 2. Knead the dough well on a floured countertop, roll it into a log and put it in the refrigerator. The texture of the kneaded potato dough will be quite soft.

Step 3. For the filling, fry the finely chopped onion in a frying pan with heated butter. Break the boiled chicken meat into fibers and add to the onion.

Step 4. Then add sliced ​​champignons and finely chopped greens to these ingredients, add salt and pepper. Mix everything and fry for 5 minutes over medium heat.

Step 5. To pour in a bowl, whisk two eggs with sour cream.

Step 6. Grease a baking dish with a small amount of butter. Place the potato dough in an even layer and form the sides with a spoon.

Step 7Place the prepared filling on the dough.

Step 8. Then fill the filling with sour cream filling. Turn on the oven at 180°C.

Step 9. Bake the pie for 25-30 minutes until golden brown.

Step 10. Cool the mashed potato pie baked in the oven a little, remove it from the mold and can serve. Bon appetit!

Mashed Potato Chips

It's easy to make chips from leftover mashed potatoes at home. They will not be inferior in taste and crispy texture to store-bought ones and will be natural, without any additives, which is important for children. Mix the dough for chips using mashed potatoes with flour, egg, cheese, cream and baking powder. Fry in a frying pan in a large amount of oil.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Mashed potatoes – 200 gr.
• Flour – ½ tbsp.
• Cream 10-20%/milk – ½ tbsp.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Transfer yesterday's mashed potatoes into a bowl for kneading dough.

Step 2. Break one chicken egg into it.

Step 3. Then pour in the cream to make the dough thin. Cream can be replaced with regular milk, which is not important.

Step 4. Add finely grated hard cheese to these ingredients and mix everything with a spoon.

Step 5. Then pour sifted flour into this mixture.

Step 6. According to your taste, you can add any spices and a little salt to the dough, depending on who you are preparing this dish for. Lastly, add baking powder and mix the dough again.

Step 7An important point for preparing the dough is its homogeneous texture, even without small lumps of flour, so mix the dough well again with a mixer.

Step 8. In a deep bowl, heat a sufficient amount of vegetable oil, as for deep frying. Transfer the kneaded dough into a pastry bag with a nozzle. Drop the kneaded dough into the hot oil, forming thin curls of any shape. If these curls are thick, they will look like pancakes, and we want crispy chips.

Step 9. Fry the chips over high heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 10. Immediately transfer the baked chips to paper napkins to remove excess oil.

Step 11. Chips made from mashed potatoes can be served at the table, either hot or cold, adding any sauce to them. Bon appetit!