Potatoes with sour cream sauce, ham and herbs are an unusually tasty, appetizing dish that is not even ashamed to be served at the festive table. Such a hearty and aromatic treat is prepared simply, it looks beautiful and unusual. Even a novice in the culinary arts can make a snack using a step-by-step recipe with photo instructions.
When preparing country-style potatoes with sour cream sauce and tender ham, you need to add other products for taste: fresh cucumber, green onions, spices for pungency and piquancy. For decoration, you can use slices of lemons, onion feathers. Butter and sour cream will add satiety to the dish, transforming it from ordinary into a real festive treat.
Ingredients
The main ingredients cannot be replaced, however, instead of ham, it is allowed to use salted red fish or bacon, it will also turn out delicious.
What to cook:
- 6 smooth oval potato tubers;
- 12 oblong ham slices;
- a bunch of green onions with feathers;
- 30 g butter;
- 2 small fresh cucumbers;
- 200 g thick sour cream;
- salt, any seasonings.
Home cooking
It is easy to make a hot appetizer by preparing all the products, having studied the step-by-step recipe with the presented photos. You can change the decoration a little by adding fresh dill, parsley, and garlic for flavor.
How to make
Place the washed tubers in a saucepan, cover with water, boil on the stove until tender, avoiding boiling. It is enough to cook young potatoes for 15 minutes, old ones - about 25 minutes over low heat.
Wash the cucumbers, cut off the tips and tough peel, grate on a coarse grater. Drain excess juice from a bowl.
Cut the washed and dried green onions into rings, leave a few feathers to decorate the finished dish.
Mix chopped onion, grated cucumbers and sour cream in a bowl, season with salt and pepper to taste.
Carefully remove the boiled potatoes from the pan, drain the water into the sink, and put on a plate. Make a cruciform incision on top of each tuber without removing the peel. Squeeze the flesh in the hole slightly with a fork.
Place a small piece of butter in the cut for each potato for flavor.
Roll up 2 slices of ham in the manner of roses, insert inside the cut to make a "flower".
Decorate each tuber with long green onion feathers and place 2 potatoes on a plate. Pour sour cream sauce on the side.
You can add a couple of lemon slices for aroma, a few pink peppercorns. If desired, it is easy to add chopped garlic, finely chopped parsley, cilantro, dill into the sour cream sauce. Cucumbers can also be substituted with fresh radishes.
