Baked young potatoes in the oven - a hearty hot dish that will be appropriate both on the festive table and on the daily menu. It can be prepared in many ways.
Can be made dietary, with a minimum of oil and seasoning. In this case, baked young potatoes in the oven are perfect as a source of complex carbohydrates for those who want to lose weight. And you can supplement it with meat, fish or lard, fry additionally on the grill.
Baked potatoes in the oven
The first option is to put the potatoes in the oven without oil in the peel, spreading the washed and brushed tubers on the wire rack. You can add any fragrant vegetable oil to the cooked potatoes: olive, linseed or sesame. You can additionally flavor it with garlic. Baked young potatoes in the oven will be amazing! Mash a few cloves of garlic and mix with oil, spices and herbs (for example, rosemary is good).
Put the finished tubers in a deep container, pour in a mixture of oil, herbs and garlic. Small young tubers and varieties with a red skin are particularly suitable. Add vegetable oil at the beginning of potato cooking is not recommended. When heated,
free radicals harmful to health are formed in it. If you
bake potatoes with butter, then it is better to use creamy, and even better - melted. This oil is well absorbed even after being exposed to high temperature. It can be prepared at home. The unsalted butter briquette should be melted in a pan with a thick bottom, and after it becomes liquid, simmer for about half an hour on low heat. When it acquires transparency and a light nutty flavor, it must be removed from the heat, filtered, cooled and stored in the refrigerator. Butter can also be added to stewed vegetables, in cereals and just eat, spread on bread. This is a very tasty and healthy product.
Oven baked potatoes on skewers
This cooking method may seem exotic. In fact, it is very common in the countries of the East. A dish prepared in this way is called potato kebab. It is often cooked at picnics. You can try this cooking option, when once again you are faced with the question of how to deliciously bake young potatoes. Take fresh lard and cut it thin enough (this is convenient to do, after cooling the piece in the freezer). Potatoes should be washed well and, without peeling (since it is young), cut into slices. Put them on a skew, alternating with pieces of bacon. If necessary, slightly salt, pepper, add crushed garlic and seasonings (zira, thyme, rosemary). Wrap each skewer separately in foil and put in the oven for twenty minutes (or place over the coals if you are cooking outdoors). After this time, open the envelopes and place the almost ready-made kebabs on the coals or on the grill. This will help the dish to lighten and acquire a mouth-watering appearance.