Potatoes are perhaps the most popular product used by housewives. Mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, and jacket potatoes have firmly settled on our table. But this list can be diversified with a little effort.
Potato cutlets
An ideal dish when there is a little mashed potatoes, a couple of eggs, a piece of sausage, and homemade ones are about to get together for dinner. You will need:
- Potato puree
- Eggs 1-2 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Salt pepper.
- Wheat flour.
- Sunflower oil.
Clean the onion, finely chop, fry in sunflower oil. While the onions are fried, slightly heat the puree, add salt, pepper, eggs, fried onions to it and mix thoroughly. Then add flour and knead until smooth. From the resulting mass we form cakes, put a piece of sausage and pinch like a pie. Fry in hot oil for 5-7 minutes on each side. The patties can be served with sour cream and finely chopped green onions.
Dranniki
- Potatoes 6-8 pcs.
- Salt, ground pepper.
- Egg 1-2 pcs.
- Flour.
- Sunflower oil.
Rub the raw potatoes on a coarse grater, if necessary, squeeze the juice, break the egg, salt, pepper, knead thoroughly. Add flour in small portions (its amount depends on which chickpeas, thick or crunchy, we want to end up with), mix again. Put the mass into boiling oil with a tablespoon. Cover and fry on both sides: 2-3 minutes thin, 4-6 minutes thick.
Potatoes in a pot with meat and mushrooms
- Pork (chicken) - 300 gr.
- Potatoes 6-8 pcs.
- Hard cheese 100-150 gr.
- Mushrooms (champignons) - 200 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Salt pepper.
- Sunflower oil.
Cut the meat into cubes of about 1.5 * 1.5 cm, pour into the pan, salt, pepper, simmer under the lid for 20 minutes. At this time, clean the mushrooms, cut into slices, add finely chopped onions and simmer in another pan under the lid for 10-15 minutes until the mushrooms give juice. Cut the peeled potatoes into small cubes. Put in pots: potatoes, meat, mushrooms with onions and fill with water for 2/3 of the resulting volume. Salt and seasonings can be added if necessary. We put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 45-60 minutes. The pots should be covered with lids. Three cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle on the finished dish, turn off the oven and leave the pots in it for 10-15 minutes to melt the cheese.
Potato pizza
An original dish that can be prepared from the remains of mashed potatoes. Cooking potato mass, as in recipe # 1. Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan (it is better to take a frying pan with low walls). We spread the mashed potatoes with a flat cake, gently level and leave to fry on one side. While the cake is fried, prepare the filling. Everything that is in the refrigerator is suitable here: tomatoes or pickles (cut into slices), sausages (into cubes or strips), boiled chicken (you can make minced meat from it). Turn the cake over, grease it with ketchup or mayonnaise and lay out the filling in layers, sprinkle with grated cheese, cover and cook for about 10-15 minutes.
Potato casserole
For the casserole you will need:
- Potatoes 1 kg.
- Large carrots -1 pc.
- Large onion - 1 pc.
- Salt, pepper, potato seasoning.
- Mayonnaise.
- Sunflower oil.
Cut the peeled potatoes into 0.7-1 cm circles. Put them in a bowl, add seasonings and mayonnaise and mix gently and leave to marinate. Fry carrots, grated on a coarse grater, and onions in half rings in sunflower oil. Grease the deep form with oil and lay out potatoes and sputum with onions in layers. If you have sausage, ham or sausages, you can add an extra layer (between the potatoes and the vegetables). We put in a preheated oven for 30 - 45 minutes. To prevent the potatoes from being dry, you can put a saucepan of water under the baking sheet. When the potatoes are cooked, you can sprinkle with thin mayonnaise or sprinkle with grated cheese, leave in the oven for another 10 minutes.
