Potato casserole is a hearty dish that will appeal to both adults and children. It is not difficult to cook it; most of the ingredients are at hand every day for any housewife. In addition, there are a large number of its options in the culinary arsenal, so each time you can cook it somehow in a new way. Believe me, you are guaranteed to enjoy double pleasure: first you will be surprised how easy it is to cook this casserole, and then you will be captivated by the taste of this dish.
Classic cooking
A potato casserole according to this recipe is prepared not only simply, but also very quickly, it is even called a quick casserole. This dish is based on two key ingredients - boiled potatoes and meat. If you want, instead of meat, you can use, for example, sausage, but most are convinced that it is with it that you will get the most delicious potato casserole. If you take already boiled potatoes, then such a dish is prepared really really quickly. If necessary, you can also add cauliflower or other vegetables to the main components, which will decorate and diversify the taste of potato casseroles.
For four servings of casserole you will need to take:
- 400 grams of potatoes;
- 300 grams of turkey breast (the meat may be different, but it is with the turkey breast that the casserole you get is the most tender and delicious);
- 3 eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of not very fat mayonnaise;
- spices to taste.
According to this recipe, a potato casserole should be obtained by anyone, even a novice cook. Especially if most of the ingredients that you will need during the cooking process, you will prepare in advance.
Potatoes should be boiled in a peel. As a rule, this takes about half an hour. Turkey breast is also worth boiling. This is done in slightly salty water for about half an hour. After the meat has cooled, it must be cut into small cubes. Using the same principle, we cut potatoes, which are previously peeled.
Together with the breast, fry it in a frying pan in hot oil until a delicious crispy crust appears. This should give your casserole an extra crunch that guests and family will appreciate.
In a separate container, beat the egg, add mayonnaise to it, which can be replaced with sour cream, if you advocate a healthy lifestyle. Add pepper and do not forget about other spices that you like most, mix the dish thoroughly.
According to the recipe for a meat casserole with potatoes in the oven, gently fried potatoes and turkey in a baking sheet. Fill everything with an egg-mayonnaise mixture. Only after that we send to the oven. According to the recipe for a potato casserole, it should be held there for up to half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. It is better to carefully monitor it and, if necessary, remove it before this time. Notice that when the eggs are baked, a characteristic golden crust will appear. This means that the meal is ready. After taking it out of the oven, it needs to be allowed to cool for a while. Now you know how to make potato casserole.
Fish casserole
Fish casserole with potatoes is usually cooked in a special sauce, thanks to which it always turns out juicy and very fragrant. Therefore, if you want to surprise guests with some original dish at the celebration or just to please relatives at dinner, then be sure to master this recipe.
As a rule, you don’t have to specially run to the store for products that are necessary for fish casseroles with potatoes. Most families always have everything they need in the refrigerator. Another advantage of this dish is that in fact it is hot and a side dish together.
To cook this casserole, take:
- 600 grams of fish fillet;
- one kilogram of potatoes;
- 2 onions;
- a glass of sour cream;
- salt and spices to taste.
Note that this amount of food is enough for four servings of casserole. To start, the potatoes are boiled in salted water. The fish must be thawed and cut into portions. Be sure to remove the excess bones, ideally they should not remain at all. In your favorite seasonings, pickle fish, if necessary add lemon juice and a little vinegar. Finely chop the onion, also chop the herbs and add them to the fish so that they are marinated together.
We take out the finished potatoes from the pan, cool and cut into medium-sized slices. Put on a baking sheet, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Next, we lay the pieces of fish together with the remains of the marinade. Above all, abundantly pour sour cream. If you like more sharply, then at this stage you can pepper and salt the dish again.
Cook in the oven, which is preheated, for about 40 minutes. If you wish, about 10 minutes before full readiness, you can lay a layer of grated cheese on top to form a delicious crust, so the casserole will turn out even tastier.
Forcemeat option
The recipe for potato and minced meat casseroles will appeal to all lovers of delicious food. It will turn out very satisfying, one casserole can be served to the family instead of a full lunch or dinner. Such a casserole is suitable for a large and noisy company of friends. It is important to serve it on the table while it is still hot, so that the cheese remains soft. It will turn out tastiest of all. At the heart of this recipe are potato and ground meat casseroles - affordable and simple ingredients that are almost always in the kitchen. In combination with each other, they will present an original and nutritious dish.
To prepare a meat casserole with potatoes and minced meat in the oven you will need:
- 500 grams of potatoes;
- 250 grams of minced meat;
- 100 grams of onions;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- a few tablespoons of vegetable oil, which will be required for frying;
- ground black pepper and salt to taste.
To prepare a casserole with potatoes, minced meat, cheese in the oven, to begin with, heat vegetable oil in a pan, put the minced meat on it and fry for several minutes at maximum heat.
At this time, wash and peel the onion, chop it finely and add to the minced meat so that it also browns a little. Season with pepper and salt and fry for a few more minutes. Peel the potatoes, wash them thoroughly and cut into small slices. It is better to cook the casserole with minced meat and potatoes in the oven in advance, so that by the time you arrive, you can already serve this delicious dish to the table.
Grease a heat-resistant baking sheet with vegetable oil and put potato circles on it in a dense layer. This will be the basis of the future casserole with minced meat and potatoes.
Now you can proceed to the next step. For potato casseroles with minced meat and cheese, divide the minced earlier minced meat into two approximately equal parts. Put one of them on the potatoes and spread over the entire surface. Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle minced meat on it. Then pour the ingredients with sour cream and lay out a layer of potato circles again. Add spices, do not forget about salt and black pepper. Only after that put on the potato all the remaining mincemeat. Sprinkle with grated cheese again and finally pour over the remaining sour cream.
According to the recipe, a potato casserole with minced meat is baked in the oven for 40 minutes. The oven itself must be preheated to 190 degrees.
Chicken casserole
Culinary specialists note: one of the advantages of a chicken casserole with potatoes cooked in the oven is that you can use freshly cooked potatoes or yesterday’s potato left over after a hearty dinner or celebration. Note that chicken, of course, can be replaced with some meat or fish, but in this recipe we will consider exactly the chicken version of the casserole.
For six servings of this delicious dish we will need:
- 0.5 kilograms of potatoes;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 3 tablespoons of sour cream;
- 150 grams of cheese;
- 0.5 bunch of dill;
- about, 5 bunch of parsley;
- 2 pickled tomatoes;
- 2 pickled zucchini;
- 0.5 kilograms of chicken;
- oil to taste.
The chicken fillet must be washed thoroughly and cut into small pieces. We put a frying pan on the stove, heat the oil and fry the pieces of meat until half cooked.
Unlike previous recipes, in this we will use mashed potatoes. For this, boil the potatoes and knead. Then you need to drive two eggs into it, put sour cream and mix thoroughly. Mashed potatoes must be homogeneous, without lumps.
Wash and dry the greens, finely chop it with a knife or chop it thoroughly with scissors. Add the resulting greens to mashed potatoes and mix this mixture again, pepper and salt.
Heat-resistant baking dish with oil. Put on it half our mashed potatoes, and on top - fried pieces of chicken. It's time for pickled vegetables. We cut them into small pieces and lay them in shape on top of the chicken. Top - another layer of mashed potatoes, sprinkle with grated cheese. Remove the casserole in the oven for 50 minutes. It is prepared at a temperature of 180 degrees. After it can be cut and served immediately.
Potato and mushroom option
There are a lot of types of potato casserole. Therefore, as soon as one of them gets tired, you can safely take on the development of a new recipe. This is an easy way to cook casseroles, which will take you about an hour and a half.
We will need the following ingredients:
- 6 large potatoes;
- 400 grams of minced meat (it can be either meat or chicken, but mixed meat, pork and beef is considered the most preferable);
- 250 grams of champignons;
- one onion;
- 200 grams of cheese;
- 400 ml sour cream;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- one chicken egg;
- spices to taste.
Potatoes need to be peeled and cut into thin slices. We spread it on the bottom of the pan, which is pre-lubricated with vegetable oil. We overlap them, and then salt and pepper.
Cut into thin strips and onion, spread on top of the potatoes. Finely chop the mushrooms for our casserole with minced meat and potatoes and mushrooms. Mix it all with minced meat, pepper and salt again.
Minced meat mixed with mushrooms will be the next layer of our casserole. Pour on top half of our available hard cheese, grated on a coarse grater. As a preferred option, it is recommended to take cheddar, but you can replace it with some other, simpler variety.
Next, lay another layer of potatoes. Pepper and salt again. In a separate bowl, mix the sour cream with the garlic passed through the garlic press and a small pinch of salt. After adding the egg, mix everything thoroughly. Pour the casserole with this mixture.
We put it in the oven for 50 minutes at a recommended temperature of about 170 degrees. It is recommended to sprinkle the finished dish with grated cheese and return to the oven for a few more minutes.
Vegetarian Casserole
It is believed that the recipe for this casserole came to us from Indian cuisine. This becomes apparent when you use a special Indian seasoning called asafoetida, which is considered the original substitute for garlic or onion. It is noteworthy that it has an unpleasant taste and a pungent, repulsive odor, therefore, in its pure form, it is fried to neutralize these unpleasant features. In Russia, it can be found on sale in the form of a powder, which is mixed with rice flour. Therefore, problems with its use should not arise. In this form, it can be used without thinking about the adverse effects.
To cook a recipe for casseroles with potatoes and cheese in the oven, you will need the following ingredients:
- 0.5 kilograms of potatoes;
- 200 grams of Adyghe cheese;
- 50 grams of hard cheese of any kind;
- 200 ml of sour cream;
- 30 grams of butter;
- 2 tablespoons of milk powder;
- salt to taste;
- coriander, ground pepper, herbs, asafoetida - one pinch each.
Potatoes need to be peeled and cut into slices of small thickness. Blend together sour cream, turmeric and butter until a homogeneous mass is formed. All ingredients, with the exception of hard cheese, must be conditionally divided into three approximately equal parts.
Thoroughly oil the bottom of the heat-resistant cookware. Put there all the potatoes, cover with the third part of spices and crumble Adyghe cheese. Pour in sour cream sauce.
Repeat the procedure two more times. Cover the top with hard cheese grated on a coarse grater. Cover the potato casserole with cheese foil and cook at 200 degrees for about half an hour.
Chopped Potato Option
Here is another interesting recipe. Grated potato casserole can be prepared by arranging the filling of mushrooms or minced meat. To prepare, take:
- 6 potatoes;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- salt and dill to taste.
Cheese must be grated on a fine grater, just the same with garlic. Mix half the grated cheese with dried dill and egg. With this mixture we will need to cover the casserole.
Mix one more egg and the remaining cheese with mayonnaise and garlic. This will be the main preparation for the casserole.
At this time, grind the potatoes on a medium or large grater and add to the mixture. Pepper and salt.
Put the casserole in the baking dish, sprinkle it with cheese-egg-dill mixture on top. We put the bake in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees, for 40 minutes. Readiness can be determined by the formation of a characteristic golden crust.
Spinach Casserole
Potato casserole with spinach is much easier than fish and meat options. In addition, do not forget that spinach is very useful in itself. Even when you purchase it frozen in a store, it retains most of its useful properties. In addition to spinach and potatoes, the main ingredients of this dish will be hard cheese and a small onion. Of spices, in addition to pepper and salt, it is recommended to add curry or turmeric.
For cooking, take;
- 400 grams of potatoes;
- 300 grams of frozen spinach;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- 50 grams of butter;
- one onion;
- spices to taste.
This amount is enough for five servings. Potatoes need to be peeled and cut in neat cubes. Boil it until cooked. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, and cut the onion into small rings. You can cut it in other sizes, it will have little effect on the taste, only on the final appearance of the dish.
Rinse the frozen spinach with hot water, as it will defrost faster. If you got whole spinach leaves, cut them as small as possible. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until it becomes a transparent color. After that, add the spinach to the onion and fry them for about five more minutes. Fried spinach and onions should cool well.
At this time, cook mashed potatoes, add butter and cheese to it. Thoroughly mix everything into a homogeneous mixture. The resulting cheese and potato mass must be pepper and salt according to your preference.
Take the baking dish. It can be ceramic, metal and even silicone, the main thing is to be heat resistant. Lubricate it with vegetable oil so that nothing burns.
Spread potatoes with the first layer. Lay out about half, and put the rest aside. Next up is onion and spinach. Then - the remaining potatoes, sprinkle with grated cheese. From the listed number of products, approximately two forms of medium size will be obtained.
Put them in the oven for half an hour, heated to a temperature of 200 degrees. Ready potato casserole should turn out to be juicy and airy, provided that you do not ram the potatoes much. Serve the casserole with salad or fresh vegetables.
Cooking option with liver
This recipe for potato casseroles, cooked in the oven, implies that you can add any liver. You can choose the one that you like best. At the same time, it is worth noting that the chicken liver is the fastest to prepare, compared to pork or beef. In addition, chicken liver does not need to be pre-soaked, which takes extra time. This article just considered the option of cooking casseroles with chicken liver.
Experienced chefs advise to sprinkle the casserole with cheese and generously grease with sour cream to make it even tastier, more palatable, and brown faster.
To prepare it, we need:
- 500 grams of chicken liver;
- one onion;
- 2 carrots;
- one kilogram of potatoes;
- 150 grams of cheese;
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- spices to taste.
This amount of ingredients is enough for about four servings. Prepare all the foods that we will need when cooking this casserole, put the potatoes to boil. Mash the boiled tubers. To make it even more tender and tasty, you can add milk and butter to it.
Finely chop the onion and fry in a skillet in preheated vegetable oil until golden brown and characteristic softness. Grind carrots on a grater, add onions to it. If you wish, you can also fry it, only in a separate frying pan - it should turn out even tastier.
The liver is cooked in vegetable oil, it is necessary to fry it for a quarter of an hour. Send ready-made chicken liver to a blender, where it is crushed to the state of mincemeat. Add carrots and pre-fried onions to this ingredient.
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In the cookbooks, you can also find the original recipe for potato casseroles based on seafood. In particular, squid. Many gourmets are convinced that these ingredients combine perfectly, and therefore offer the following recipe. This casserole is quite light and tender, so it is optimally suitable, for example, for a hearty afternoon snack.
To implement it, we need:
- 500 grams of squid;
- 8 potatoes;
- 2 onions;
- 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- one chicken egg;
- 3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs;
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- ground black pepper and salt to taste.
Please note that this amount of ingredients is enough for about four standard servings. If you want to treat a larger number of guests, then proportionally increase the number of ingredients.
Thoroughly clean the squid surface from the film, rinse them under running cold water. Bring one liter of water in a pan to a boil. Once this happens, dip the squid into the water and cook for one to three minutes. After that, ready-made squid should be passed through a meat grinder.
At the same time, heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry finely chopped onions, along with salt, black pepper, other spices that you like best, and directly squid. Mix everything thoroughly and fry.
Boil the potatoes until they get the consistency of mashed potatoes, and then mix it with the egg. Now we take a heat-resistant baking dish, which we carefully lubricate with vegetable oil. Sprinkle the surface with breadcrumbs. Spread on top about half the harvested mashed potatoes, on top we send the squids that we fried with onions. Only after that we spread all the remaining mashed potatoes.
Sprinkle our casserole with breadcrumbs again. We bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees until the formation of a characteristic appetizing golden crust. As a rule, this requires at least 40 minutes. When the casserole is ready, we wait until it cools directly in the form, and after that we can transfer it to the dish, in which we will serve it. To do this, you can just flip it. If you carefully lubricated the baking dish, then our dish will not stick to the bottom, easily falling out on a plate.
Immediately before serving, you can sprinkle the casserole with melted butter to make it look even more appetizing, as well as sprinkle with finely chopped greens. Now it remains only to cut it into portioned portions and serve it to guests.
As you can see from this article, potato casserole is a very hearty and tasty, but at the same time easy to prepare dish. Due to the wide variety of recipes, you can cook a new casserole every time, mainly forming various fillings. This treat will appeal to meat lovers, and fish fans, and staunch vegetarians, and those who carefully monitor their diet and fitness.