Habitual potatoes can be boiled or baked so that all households will be surprised by your culinary skills. Once you learn how to cook it correctly, you will end up with an infinite number of dishes.
What can be cooked from potatoes? We offer you the recipes of very tasty dishes.
Potato baked with bacon
At home, without even picking out a picnic, you can pamper yourself with baked potatoes. It will be very tasty.
It will take:
- 20 tubers young;
- 400 grams of lard (smoked or salted);
- 2 pinches of Zira seeds;
- 10 grams of coarse (sea) salt;
- grind pepper in the mill - add to taste.
The dish is designed for 6 people, cooked for 1 hour, in each portion - 430 kcal.
Stages of cooking:
- Put lard in advance in the freezer. It should be slightly frozen to make it easier to work with it. Prepared a piece of bacon cut into plates, corresponding to the size of the potato. The thickness of each slice is about 3 mm;
- Select tubers of the same size, wash with a brush, dry. Next, cut the potato across with an interval of 3 mm. So that the potatoes do not fall apart, it should not be cut to the end;
- Crush cumin (seeds) with pepper and salt. Sprinkle the slices of bacon with this mixture.
Insert in each cut on the potato on a slice of bacon;
- Potato bake in the oven for about 40 minutes. The recommended temperature range from 180 to 190 degrees. Readiness is easy to check if you pierce a potato with a thin knife;
- Such a vegetable can be used as a side dish for meat, but in itself this dish is just excellent.
Stuffed potatoes
What can be cooked from minced meat and potatoes? A great option is a potato stuffed with minced meat. Thirty minutes - and dinner is ready.
Ingredients Required:
- 10 potatoes;
- 600 grams of finished minced meat;
- bulb;
- cilantro - 4 twigs;
- 35 grams of refined oil;
- to taste - spices;
- optional - thyme (4 twigs).
Cooking time - 30 minutes. The dish is designed for 5 persons, in each - 410 kcal.
Cooking fast:
- Boil until half ready potatoes (without peel);
- While the vegetable is boiling, chop the onion into small pieces. Combine minced meat with onions, mix;
- Heat vegetable oil in a pan with a thick bottom. Add the mince and fry, stirring for 5 minutes. Season the stuffing with chopped greens and spices to your liking;
- Prepare the potato base. To do this, with the cooled potatoes cut along the cap. Using a spoon and knife, remove the "insides";
- Put the meat stuffing in potato "form", sprinkle with butter and bake in the oven;
- To make the dish juicy, during cooking it should be another 2 times sprinkled with vegetable oil.
Tip: To make the potatoes look more appetizing, you need to decorate it on top with thyme.
Warm salad of baked potatoes with eggs
Not sure what you can quickly cook from potatoes and eggs? Try the next salad! Fragrant potatoes, green lettuce leaves, healthy eggs - all this wealth and asks for salad immediately.
Required food set:
- pitted olives - 150 grams;
- egg "guinea fowl" - 5 pieces;
- potatoes (medium-sized) - 800 grams;
- salad leaves (dense) - 8 pieces;
- 4 anchovy (fillet);
- 20 Art. spoons of olive oil;
- Wine vinegar (white) - 15 g;
- mustard (mild) - 15 g;
- mustard (with grains) - 15 g;
- granulated sugar - 10 g;
- the dish is seasoned with spices - to taste.
Preparation takes 30 minutes. Each serving of salad contains 349 kcal.
Cooking recommendations:
- For the sauce: mix one egg, anchovies, wine vinegar, mustard (unsharp), granulated sugar and 10 tbsp. spoons of butter. Beat the mixture so that the consistency becomes homogeneous;
- Beating, add olive oil (what's left). After all the manipulations should get a thick sauce. Add mustard (with grains), pepper to it, and season with salt if necessary;
- While the sauce is infused, wash the potatoes with a brush, cut each into four parts and cook in the usual way. The main thing is that the vegetable does not fall apart, so 20 minutes is enough for its preparation;
- Boil the eggs (4 pieces): immerse in hot water and when it boils, you can turn off the burner, and leave the eggs for 8 minutes in hot water, in which they were boiled;
- From the pot in which the potatoes were prepared to drain the water, and slightly dry the vegetable in the same pan over a very slow fire;
- Put the potatoes in a bowl, pour the sauce, add the olives;
- In cold water, lower the boiled eggs, after 10 minutes, clean and cut in half;
- Arrange the lettuce leaves on a la carte plates, on them potatoes in a sauce with olives, on top of half eggs. Season with spices and serve.
Casserole with meat, potatoes and dark beer
What other dish can be prepared from potatoes and meat is another question that torments the housewives, who have tried to cook hundreds of different dishes. There is a fresh idea - casserole, despite the name, it is very unusual in taste!
So, potatoes with meat is always appropriate - both in winter and in summer. To make it unusual, you can add dark beer to the dish. Together with other ingredients, it will give a wonderful shade of taste.
For cooking you will need:
- beef (tenderloin) - 0.5 kg;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- natural beer (dark) - 300 ml;
- regular onions - 2 heads;
- 35-40 grams - refined oil;
- fresh parsley - 5 twigs;
- black pepper (ground) - 2 pinches;
- white salt - to taste.
The time spent on the casserole will be 60 minutes. Each portion contains 405 kcal.
How to cook a dish:
- Preparation of vegetables: remove the peel, then cut the onion into half rings, potatoes into slices, preferably thin;
- Meat preparation: wash, dry, grind in the form of a cube. Fry it in oil on a preheated pan. First, over high heat, then after the appearance of the juice, reduce the temperature to an average level, cover the meat with a suitable lid. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes;
- Preparation of the oven: heat up to 200 degrees. Capacity for cooking casseroles handle oil;
Laying the ingredients in the form:
- the first layer is potatoes (half of the total volume);
- the second layer - meat cubes;
- the third layer - onion half rings;
- the fourth layer is the rest of the potatoes;
- Spice up the dish with spices, pour in dark beer. And first use only half of the drink, and pour the rest if necessary during preparation;
- On top of the dish is tightly covered with foil (the shiny side of which is in direct contact with food);
- Cooking time from 30 to 40 minutes. In order for the top layer to be beautiful, it is necessary to be golden; about 10 minutes before the end of the cooking process, remove the "cover" from the foil;
- Top with casserole to decorate with finely chopped parsley.
What can be cooked from chicken and small potatoes - of course, the stew!
There is a mass of recipes for cooking chicken meat with the addition of the favorite vegetable - potatoes. But there is definitely a delicious dish - stew with chicken and small potatoes.
It will require:
- potatoes (small) - 0.4 kg;
- 40 grams - sunflower oil;
- Cherry tomatoes - a branch on which from 8 to 10 pieces;
- chicken fillet (breast) - about 400 grams;
- sweet pepper - 3 red (or yellow) pods;
- hot pepper - to taste;
- salt;
- leaf parsley - 3 branches.
Stew is cooked for 40 minutes, each serving contains 305 kcal.
Recommendations for cooking stew:
- Work to begin with small potatoes: wash, without peeling, cook until ready in the traditional way;
- While the potatoes are preparing, cut the meat from the bone, chop into strips;
- Ready vegetable (potato) to cool, peel and fry in hot oil until golden brown;
- Remove the potatoes and fry the meat strips for 8 minutes in the same pot. While cooking, season with spices;
- Prepare the vegetables - chop the sweet pepper in strips, chop into sharp half rings, divide the cherry in half, chop the parsley;
- Add vegetables, except greens, to the pan, where the meat is fried. After 2 minutes, turn off the stove. That's it, chicken stew is ready;
- It remains to mix it with golden balls of small potatoes, and top with parsley.
Baked Potatoes with Vegetables
What delicious cook from potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes? Let's try to bake these healthy vegetables in the oven! The main thing in any successful dish is taste. Baked potatoes with zucchini and tomatoes, just from this series.
It will take:
- 8 potatoes;
- 2 pieces of dense tomatoes;
- 1 young squash;
- 1 Bulgarian pepper;
- 5 garlic cloves;
- squeezed lemon juice - 30 ml;
- 120 grams - oil from olives;
- coriander, cumin, salt - you can add to your taste.
The total time required for cooking will be 55 minutes, caloric content - 404 kcal;
Cooking Instructions:
- Prepare potatoes: wash, peel. Chop it into pieces of large size. To cook in the usual way, but not to finish doughing (until half ready);
- The next stage is the preparation and cutting of vegetables. Zucchini and tomatoes are crushed into rings, Bulgarian pepper is shred in the form of strips. All chopped vegetables are fried in hot oil. Five minutes is enough;
- In a deep bowl, combine the ingredients for the dressing: chopped garlic cloves, coriander, lemon juice, cumin and olive oil (remaining). Stir vegetables with dressing;
- Put the potatoes on the bottom of the form, vegetables mixed with the dressing (zucchini, sweet peppers, tomatoes);
- Prepare the oven: heat to 175 degrees. Put the form with vegetables on top covered with foil. After 25 minutes, be sure to remove the foil. After that, another 15 minutes to bake potatoes with vegetables.
Tip: this dish can be filled with vegetables, seasoned with spices in accordance with their taste preferences.
Useful tips
- If you fry raw potatoes, they turn red unevenly, sometimes it becomes brittle, and in the oven it just dries. Therefore, before roasting or cooking in the oven, it is better to boil the potatoes until half cooked;
- It is better to fry potatoes in fat, but you can use vegetable oil. When cooking, set the medium heat and remember that the products do not need to be mixed frequently. To taste at the very end of cooking put the butter (one cube). Spice up the spices too at the end;
- To bake potatoes, it should be rolled in flour, then browned in a pan and only then send to the oven or slightly cook the vegetable, remove excess moisture, then mix the vegetable oil with chopped garlic and your favorite spices, pour the potatoes with this mixture, put in the roast;
- Always fry potatoes in a large frying pan, it should not be crowded, then it will brown on all sides at the same time.
In principle, the potato is combined with any products. Therefore, from it you can cook a lot of light, dietary, aromatic dishes.
And in addition - three more delicious dishes from ordinary potatoes.
