Many people remember how delicious the taste of potatoes seemed to be in childhood, baked whole in the ashes of a fire. And let the ashes burst on his teeth, and his lips and cheeks are soiled with soot, but the taste of this smelling potato smoke is indescribable!
But you can cook baked potatoes in the home kitchen, and at the same time, you don’t need to soot everything around with soot. One of the best options for this dish is potato baked in foil. Potatoes prepared in this way are not only tasty, but also very healthy. Since almost all vitamins and minerals are preserved intact. Baked potato is rich in potassium, so it is recommended to use it more often for those who suffer from heart diseases or suffer from periodically occurring leg cramps.
Baked potatoes in foil can be cooked using any kind of root crops. The only condition is that tubers of the same size (medium) should be selected and there should be no damage to them. It is better to eat potatoes baked in foil immediately after cooking, but if the potatoes have cooled, then you can warm them up without removing the foil in a pan under the lid or in the oven. On the taste it will not affect.
Best of all, of course, is a young potato baked in foil. It does not even need to be cleaned, it is good enough to wash it under the tap and dry it. Then make an incision in each tuber in the form of a cross, in which a piece of butter should be put. In addition, you can pour finely chopped dill into the cuts.
Now we wrap each tuber in a square of foil (if the foil is thin, it is better to wrap it in two layers). We spread the wrapped potatoes on a baking sheet, which we put on the lower level of the oven and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees. Potatoes will bake for about forty minutes. We check readiness with a fork by unfolding the foil. You can eat such potatoes directly with the skin, adding salt or any sauce as necessary.
If only old potatoes are available, then you can use the following simple recipe. Wash the potatoes with a brush, dry with a paper towel. Rub with salt and vegetable oil, wrap in foil, as described above and bake. Such a potato, baked in foil, will be ready in about an hour. The potato will turn out fragrant with a crispy crust.
If you only have large root vegetables, you can also cook a potato dish in foil. The recipe is not much different from the previous one, only the potatoes need to be peeled and boiled for ten minutes at a low boil. Then dry, sprinkle with spices, grease with oil and bake in foil in a preheated oven to two hundred degrees.
And you can cook potatoes with filling. To do this, cut each tuber in half and put between the halves a piece of bacon, salted lard, cheese (whoever likes it). Add potatoes on top. Wrap in foil and bake.
A very sophisticated version of the dish is baked stuffed potatoes. You can cook it in different ways. For example, you can boil potatoes “in their uniforms”, and after cooling, peel, cut in half and remove the pulp from the middle with a teaspoon. Stuff the resulting "boats" with minced meat and bake, pouring sauce and sprinkling with cheese.
You can make preparations for stuffing from raw potatoes, using a special knife. And you can first bake the potatoes in foil, as mentioned above, and after cooling it, make blanks from it, as well as boiled potatoes.
You can choose any stuffing for stuffing, potatoes go well to taste with meat, mushrooms, vegetables. You can stuff potatoes with fish - boiled or salted, or even cottage cheese, mixing it with sour cream or mayonnaise, salt and chopped garlic. You can serve baked potatoes with any sauce, garnished with fresh vegetables.