Now it’s hard to imagine, but some 300 years ago, for Russians, potatoes were an overseas vegetable. But now so many different dishes are prepared from it that it is simply impossible to count them. Mashed potatoes, wanderers, sorcerers, croquettes - and that's not all. True, not everyone will be able to cook delicious potatoes in a slow cooker. The recipe for how to do this is very simple. And most importantly, it is prepared in completely different ways, but every time it’s delicious.
As on the stove, in a slow cooker you can boil potatoes, stew and fry, as well as make different dishes from it. You only need to know which modes to use for this. In order to cook
boiled potatoes in a slow cooker, the most commonly used is the "Steam cooking" mode. For this, the tubers are previously peeled.
Young potatoes can simply be washed well. Put everything in a double boiler, pour 4 multi-glasses of water into the multicooker pan and cook for 15-25 minutes for a couple. How long it takes to prepare a potato depends on its size, as well as whether it is young. To give it an additional aroma, you can put in the water a little stalks of parsley and a clove of garlic.
You can make a more traditional way of boiled potatoes in a slow cooker. The recipe at the preparation stage is exactly the same. Tubers must first be washed and peeled. Put everything in the multicooker pan, put spices, salt and pour water so that it covers the potatoes. Select the "Baking" mode and set the time to 40-50 minutes. You can, of course, eat like that, but you can make mashed potatoes with the addition of butter and hot milk.
And, of course, they cook
stewed potatoes in a slow cooker. The recipe for its preparation is probably the easiest of all. For 4 servings you will need 5-6 potatoes, 1 piece of carrots and onions and a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil. Spices, herbs and salt are added to taste. Wash and peel all vegetables. Cut onions, carrots and potatoes into cubes and put in a slow cooker. Add your favorite spices, salt. Mix everything and select the "Extinguishing" mode. After 1 hour, the stewed cartel will be ready. If desired, you can add meat or mushrooms to it. In any case, it turns out delicious, and the potatoes are cooked in their own juice.
But frying potatoes in a slow cooker does not work for everyone. Of course, if there is such a mode by default, it is better to use it. And if not, then you can cook
fried potatoes in the "Baking" or "Pilaf" modes. In both cases, to get a crispy crust or frying, it is important to put a little potato - not more than 5-6 pcs., And also pour a little vegetable oil and add salt and pepper to taste. In addition, at the same time as frying potatoes in a bowl, you can steamed cutlets, meat or fish.
Of course, these are only the simplest options for how to cook potatoes in a slow cooker. The recipe that was used on the stove can be easily repeated in it. Therefore, today potato pancakes, zrazy, casseroles and other dishes based on potatoes are easily cooked in a slow cooker. It is enough to know the features of all the modes of your multicooker and not be afraid to experiment.