Potato is a universal product. It can be boiled, stewed, fried. Potato baked in foil is especially delicious . Photos and recipes are offered to study in this article.
The first way to bake potatoes
To bake potatoes in foil, you need to take:
- several fruits of the same size potato (preferably large);
- vegetable oil - a few spoons;
- sour cream - about 150 grams;
- mayonnaise - about 100 grams;
- a couple of spoons of capers or one medium-sized pickled cucumber;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- dill, salt, pepper.
Cooking potatoes in foil
Wash all potatoes using a brush. They must be perfectly clean, since they need to be baked in their uniforms. Dry the root crops. Oil each potato and wrap it in pieces of foil. Fold the prepared tubers in a baking sheet or heatproof form, put in the oven. It takes about 1.5 hours to bake potatoes in foil. If you have small tubers, it may take less time. Once the set time has passed, pierce the root crop with a knife, evaluate the readiness. Make the sauce. To do this, finely chop the cucumber, add mayonnaise and sour cream to it. Chop the garlic and put in the sauce. There also send finely chopped greens. Open the foil, cut the baked potatoes into 4 parts. Put a spoonful of sauce in the middle. Cover the foil and let it soak for 10 minutes. Potatoes can be served as a side dish or a dish on their own. If the mayonnaise sauce does not seem salted enough to you, then sprinkle the chopped potato with salt, and then pour it with a mixture of sour cream and cucumbers.
Baked potato with bacon
We offer another recipe for how to bake potatoes in a foil. You need:
- several potato tubers (it is better to choose small or medium size);
- salty lard;
- a few cloves of garlic and salt.
Cooking technology
Wash the potatoes thoroughly and cut each tuber lengthwise into two halves. Peel off excess salt from the fat and cut into pieces, the size of which will be approximately similar to the size of the cut of potatoes. Prepare the salt and minced garlic. Dip each half of the potato in salt, rub with garlic and put a piece of bacon, cover with a second slice and wrap in foil. You can simultaneously put 2 or 3 potatoes in foil. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes. The temperature is 180 degrees. This dish can be made on charcoal. In this case, you need several layers of foil so that the potatoes do not burn.
Cooking tips and tricks
Foil before serving to the table baked potatoes can not be removed. In it, it will stay warm longer, and the dish looks spectacular. Eating potatoes is most convenient with a teaspoon. It will not damage the peel of the root crop and keep the sauce inside. The easiest way is to bake potatoes in a foil with oil and salt. But there are various options for the filling. For example, it will turn out very tasty if you make a mixture of cream cheese, feta cheese, feta or regular hard cheese. You can prepare meat filling from the remains of sausages: ham, sausages, brisket or bacon. Boiled meat fried with onions, garlic, seasoned with sour cream, ketchup and mayonnaise, will also be an excellent option for mincemeat for potatoes. The original filling will be canned corn along with peas, seasoned with sour cream and red caviar. Baking potatoes in foil is easy! The dish will turn out to be satisfying and tasty.