A win-win of tasty side dish - mashed potatoes. Its peculiarity is that it is possible to serve puree to any dishes - meat, fish, mushroom, vegetable. Serving it is accepted and as an independent full dish.
Often mashed potatoes act as baby food. That is why it is necessary to have variations of cooking this dish in your personal culinary collection.
Traditional recipe
A simple, but at the same time requiring attention in the preparation, the recipe requires the following ingredients:
- potatoes (do not use young crop) - 2 kg;
- pasteurized milk - 1 cup (full);
- salt (the amount is selected individually to taste);
- butter (melted or melted) butter - 80 g
Cooking time - 40 minutes (plus or minus 5 minutes).
Calories per 100 g - 119 kcal.
How to cook mashed potatoes with milk without lumps:
- Potatoes that will be used for the dish, wash, peel, boil in salted water (you can add a little black pepper or pepper for the aroma;
- After the potatoes have boiled (it is checked simply - the tubers should be easily cut with a knife), the water should be completely drained;
- Milk needs to be heated a little, then add to potatoes;
- Using tolkushku or modern fixture - a blender with a special nozzle, it is required to knead the available ingredients;
- The procedure should be carried out for at least 5 minutes, constantly stirring the contents of the container in order to guarantee the presence of lumps.
Before serving, you need to salt the dish, add butter (you can melt it beforehand), mix.
Mashed potatoes with milk and egg
Saturated, but at the same time gentle taste and light texture - puree with milk content and egg. For the preparation of this variant of the side dish will require the use of ingredients such as:
- potato (crumbly) - 1.7 kg (a variety with a high starch content is ideal);
- butter (can be homemade) - 65 g (82.5% fat);
- egg - 2 pieces (chicken);
- milk (if homemade - boil before use) - 250 ml.
Cooking time - half an hour.
Caloric content of the finished dish (100 g) - 124 kcal.
Cooking process:
- Peel potatoes, put in a container with salted water, cook until ready (half an hour) on medium heat;
- Heat the milk (if homemade is used - boil and cool);
- In a separate container to "break" chicken eggs (to prevent spoiled ones from entering the puree);
- After cooking potatoes need to drain all the liquid (vegetable decoction) from the tank;
- Add milk (it should not be cold or boiling), knead or skip through a blender;
- Add chicken eggs, knead again and mix.
Before serving, add butter to each serving.
Mashed potatoes with milk and butter
This option of mashed potatoes is very similar to the classic. The difference - for its preparation it is recommended to use non-fat milk. As an option - it can be diluted in equal parts with water. The following ingredients will be required:
- potatoes - 1.2 kg;
- pasteurized cow or boiled milk (0.5-1.5%) - 130 ml;
- butter - 85 g
Cooking time - 30 minutes.
Caloric value (100 g) - 120 kcal.
Cooking process:
- Peel potatoes, cut into 2 or 4 parts;
- Cook in salted water until cooked (20 minutes);
- Drain the water (preferably completely);
- Spread potatoes, add milk (preferably slightly warmed) and butter;
- All components mix well and knead again.
Before serving, it is recommended to salt the garnish to taste and decorate it with fresh herbs.
Delicious mashed potatoes in milk with onions and cracklings
This version of the dish is complete and independent, because it contains a full range of nutrients. For its preparation will require:
- potatoes (yellow varieties) - 1 kg;
- milk (cow or goat to taste) - 500 ml;
- onion - 2 pcs
- pork lard - 200 g (salted or fresh, you can use bacon);
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil (for frying) - 20-25 ml.
Cooking time is about 40 minutes.
Caloric content of 100 g dishes with cracklings - 138 kcal.
Cooking process:
- Peel the potatoes, cut large tubers into several pieces;
- Put them in salted water and put on medium heat to cook until ready (potatoes should be soft);
- Peel and chop the onion, fry in oil until soft and golden brown;
- Chop the bacon and place it in the frying pan. Fry until the moment until you get a crisp - cracklings;
- With boiled potatoes drain without residue all the liquid;
- Heat the milk, then add it to the container with potatoes, knead until a homogeneous mass, in which there will be no lumps;
- Mix the resulting puree with fried onions and bacon.
Additionally, you can add salt to the dish and decorate it with chopped fresh herbs. Serve with vegetable salad or its individual elements - cucumbers, tomatoes.
Recipe for mashed potatoes without milk
Sometimes cooking a side dish of potatoes has to be done without using milk. The recipe will allow you to create the perfect taste and texture option that everyone will like. It will require a set of such ingredients as (based on 1 kg of "last year's" crumbly potato):
- Lavrushka - 2 pcs;
- pepper (black) peas or, alternatively, ground - 5 pcs;
- bouillon cube - 1 pc;
- butter (optional or to impart taste) - 50 g
Cooking time - 30 minutes.
Caloric value (100 g) - 110 kcal.
Cooking process:
- Peel potatoes, cut into small pieces (4-6 parts);
- Put to cook until ready (do not salt the water);
- Add bay leaf and pepper;
- In the process of cooking, add a bouillon cube to the water (select the taste as desired);
- After cooking, do not drain the water, knead the potatoes in it until the composition is homogeneous.
Before serving, add the butter and mix the garnish well again.
The subtleties of cooking popular dishes
Taste, aroma and air texture - these indicators are easy to achieve, knowing the subtleties and secrets of cooking.
All ingredients must be warm. If chicken eggs are present in the recipe, they should be prepared in advance so that they are at room temperature. Mix them with hot potatoes should be quickly - so completely eliminated the likelihood that they will roll.
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