An obvious hit among the side dishes for meat, fish, meatballs is mashed potatoes with onions. However, it will also please as an independent dish. In the Irish version, it is called "champ." The difference is in the thick creamy taste, achieved by adding cream instead of milk and a large amount of butter.
Essential Ingredients
To prepare mashed potatoes with fried onions, you will need products that are always at hand:
- potatoes - 800 grams;
- onions - one or two small onions;
- cream 10% - 100 ml;
- butter - 2 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil - 1.5 tablespoons;
- salt to taste.
A good flavor combination gives fresh greens of onions and dill, as well as cucumbers.
Cooking order
Cooking mashed potatoes with onions is not difficult: just peel the tubers and onions, rinse thoroughly under running water. Boil potatoes in water with salt until cooked. It’s good if the tubers are boiled. Mash with a mallet, add cream, butter, mix thoroughly.
The calorie content of potatoes can be reduced by washing out excess starch. To do this, hold peeled tubers in cold water for at least half an hour.
Cut the onion in half rings or finely, depending on your own preferences.
Heat the oil over high heat, toss the onion, reduce the heat to medium, fry until golden. Serve either separately from the mashed potatoes, or mix everything (in the second case, the taste of fried onions will add special piquancy to the mashed potatoes).
Useful Tips
To diversify the usual recipe for mashed potatoes with onions, you can use simple manipulations:
- Mashed potatoes will be airy and melting in your mouth if you beat it with a mixer or blender.
- An interesting texture of mashed potatoes with onions is given by beating with a raw egg. If there is doubt about the lack of heat treatment, you should bake it in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
- Delicious taste will give caramelized onions. For caramelization, just add half a teaspoon of sugar when frying onions.
- Instead of the usual fried onion, you can serve crispy rings to the finished mashed potatoes: cut the onion into rings, dip it in whipped salted protein, then in breadcrumbs and fry.
- An important aspect is the effective presentation of the dish. To do this, just put the finished mashed potatoes in a cooking bag and squeeze in the shape of a small nest. Bake in the oven, and then put in the middle of the onion fried to a crunch.
These tips will help turn an ordinary meal into a dish worthy of a festive table. Serving can be done in the neighborhood of slicing fresh vegetables, while only personal imagination will determine the appearance of the dish. Thanks to the plastic texture from mashed potatoes, you can create interesting fantasy side dishes for children's dishes: in the form of smiling faces or cute animals.
One option is a mashed cockerel. To do this, you need to lay out a slightly curved body with a spoon, use a boiled quail egg as a head, create a tail with strips of green and red sweet pepper, attach a comb with a quarter of cherry tomato. And make a sprig of dill with your wing. The child will definitely like a fun and beautiful dish. And in balance, it will argue with any good dinner. The only moment - do not fry onions for the children's menu. And you must take into account the age of a little gourmet: such a dish is suitable for children from two years and older.