Mashed potatoes with cheese: incredibly delicious potato recipes

We all love to eat. How wonderful it is to cook a favorite dish for the whole family and, sitting in a cozy atmosphere, chat with family members about how their day went, discuss what children learned new at school. Communicating with your family is sacred. And we have the opportunity to bring the whole house together. Just need to cook dishes according to the recipes presented in the article.

Try to diversify your lunches and dinners. Absolutely everyone will like it!

Potato Benefits

Potatoes are one of the main components in the diet of almost every family in our country. But often it does not belong to healthy foods. Moreover, undeservedly. Potato is good for our body:

  • It has a lot of amino acids.
  • It helps against swelling of the legs and a bag under the eyes. If you use it without salt, you can quickly get rid of excess fluid that has accumulated in the body.
  • Potatoes benefit the heart and blood vessels due to their high potassium and magnesium content.
  • The root crop is rather easily acquired. Starch and dextrin are easily processed by the body.
  • Mashed potatoes and boiled potatoes should not be abandoned for diseases of the stomach (gastritis or ulcer).
  • Potato positively affects the nervous system, has anti-stress properties.
  • Raw potato juice helps in healing wounds, inflammations, burns and other skin lesions.
Young potato

The nutritional value

The root crop contains almost no fat. It consists of water, carbohydrates, protein and fiber.

  • Calories: 77.
  • Proteins: 2.
  • Fats: 0.5.
  • Carbohydrates: 16.

The vegetable is rich in fiber, which helps with constipation.

Three potatoes

Potato dishes

In what form do we usually eat potatoes? Fried, boiled, stewed, mashed. Have you ever tried to cook mashed potatoes with cheese that melts at high temperature? Agree, it sounds tempting.

We offer to diversify the menu and try some new recipes.

Cheese Puree

An amazingly simple recipe that many did not know about. It will be delicious!

Ingredients:

  • a pound of potatoes;
  • 150 ml of milk;
  • 3 tablespoons of sour cream or 40 g of butter;
  • 200 grams of hard cheese;
  • salt;
  • pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Wash, peel and rinse the root crop again and send to a pot with cold water.
  2. Add salt and cook until tender (about half an hour) over medium heat.
  3. Transfer to a bowl and cook mashed potatoes.
  4. Heat the milk and pour a little into the container with potatoes.
  5. Add sour cream or butter there.
  6. We taste if there is enough salt.
  7. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Add to the bowl (you can do this before serving, but then you do not need to mix it with mashed potatoes). Mix.
Dill Puree

As a result, we get amazingly tender mashed potatoes with cheese, which literally melts in your mouth.

Note:

  • If you add 2 crushed cloves of garlic, this will add a spicy touch to the dish.
  • To boil the potatoes faster, you need to cook it not with whole tubers, but cut into small pieces.

Potato balls with cheese

Continuing the theme of mashed potatoes with cheese. Only now we will prepare balls from it.

This will require:

  • 3 large potatoes;
  • 1 chicken egg;
  • half a glass of flour;
  • 200 grams of hard cheese;
  • 50 grams of white bread;
  • 2 tablespoons of milk;
  • half a teaspoon of salt.

Cooking:

  1. Break the egg into a bowl and beat with a whisk or fork, adding salt.
  2. Peel the potatoes by washing them before and after. Grate.
  3. Add grated potatoes to a bowl with an egg (pour a little into another bowl, you will need it later for breading).
  4. Form balls with hands.
  5. Cheese cut into small cubes. Insert them into each potato ball.
  6. Pour a little flour into a plate and roll balls in it. Then dip them in a beaten egg from another container.
  7. Grind stale bread (you can blender). Roll balls into crumbs.
  8. Fry in a pan in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Fried potato balls

Potato balls with cheese are not only a delicious dinner, but also a great snack, for example, for beer. Serve with garlic sauce. You will be fascinated by the crunch of balls and delicate filling.

Cooking Potato Casserole

Useful recipes for cooking in the oven. Potato casserole with cheese will definitely please you and your family.

Ingredients:

  • 7 medium sized potato tubers;
  • 2 chicken eggs;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
  • 150 grams of hard cheese;
  • greens;
  • salt pepper.

Cooking:

  • Grind the garlic. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater or cut into slices.
  • Transfer half the mass of grated cheese to another bowl, break one egg there, mix with mayonnaise and garlic (this is the basis of the casserole). In the other half of the cheese, break the second egg and add the dill (needed for the crust).
  • Add grated potatoes to the base of the casserole.
  • In a baking dish, greased with oil, spread the mass of potatoes. Top with a mixture for crust.
  • Bake until golden brown at a temperature of 180 degrees for about forty minutes.
Cheese casserole

We hope that this recipe will become your favorite.

So, today you learned the recipe for mashed potatoes with cheese, casseroles in the oven, and also learned how to cook balls of potatoes. Diversity in nutrition is very important. Do not be afraid to try new dishes. Enjoy your meal!


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