Frugal Food Thursday: Mini Potato Knishes

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With Passover coming up soon, I thought I'd share a couple of my favorite frugal Passover recipes in the next few weeks.

Here's a kosher for Passover version of potato knishes.   Knishes usually consist of a filling, like potatoes, covered in a dough, then fried or baked.  But for Passover, instead of using a dough, I put matzah meal directly into the filling, then bake.  It's like a potato dumpling - and very yummy!

I got this recipe from somewhere on the pre-Web Internet back in 1995.  I'm guessing it was from a Usenet group, though the printout I have doesn't show which group.  I've made it a bunch of times during Passover as well as other times throughout the year, and it's always delicious.

MINI POTATO KNISHES

1 onion, chopped finely
1 tbsp butter
3 cups mashed potatoes (from 2-3 large russet potatoes)
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 tbsp margarine
1 tsp salt
freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/2 cup matzo meal
1 tbsp oil for baking sheet1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tbsp water

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  In a saute pan, saute the onion in margarine over medium-high heat until browned.  Set aside.

In a large bowl, mix the mashed potatoes, slightly beaten eggs, margarine, salt, pepper, and matzo meal.  Mix in the sauteed onions.  Grease the baking sheet with the 1 tbsp oil.

Take a teaspoon-sized portion of the mixture and form into a ball.  Place it on the baking sheet and flatten slightly.  Repeat until all of the mixture has been formed into balls.

Brush the knishes with the diluted egg yolk.  Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, or until well browned.

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