How to cook hearty potato pie with tomato sauce for lunch

Potatoes are an ideal product for preparing delicious and hearty dishes. It's worth noting that all potato dishes are hearty, healthy and tasty. These include mashed potatoes, zrazy, and pies.

Chef Yevhen Klopotenko shared a recipe for a delicious potato pie, which will be an ideal option for a hearty lunch, on his website.

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kg
• corn flour - 4 tbsp
• wheat flour - 4 tbsp
• eggs - 3 pcs

• cream - 150 ml
• thyme - 5 sprigs
• butter - 200 g

Tomato sauce:

• garlic - 3-5 cloves
• chili pepper - 1/2 tsp

• smoked paprika - 1 tsp
• paprika flakes - 1 tsp
• lemon - 1 pc
• sugar - 1 tbsp
• tomato paste - 2-3 tbsp
• water - 100 ml
• salt and pepper - to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Peel 1 kg of potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater.

2. After that, put them in a deep bowl. Do not squeeze them to make the pie juicy.

3. Add salt and pepper to taste, pour in 150 ml of 33% cream, add 3 eggs, 4 tbsp of corn flour and 4 tbsp of wheat flour.

4. Take a ceramic pie dish and grease it with butter and sprinkle with corn flour.

5. Put the potato mixture into the mold, smooth it with a spoon, then put the chopped butter on top and sprinkle with thyme.

6. Bake at 180 C for 35-40 minutes.

7. Put the tomato paste, finely chopped 3-5 cloves of garlic, chili pepper, smoked sweet paprika, and paprika flakes into a saucepan.

8. Pour in the water, add the sugar, lemon juice and zest, mix well and evaporate the liquid over medium heat until it thickens. This will take about 5 minutes.

9. Take the pie out of the oven and let it cool without removing from the mold. Then remove, cut, and pour the sauce over.