Clay pots are the most convenient kitchen utensils, much better than the usual enameled pots. Covered with a heat-resistant layer, environmentally friendly, they give a special taste to the food prepared in them. Food in pots is not just cooked - it is stewed, warmed up as if steamed, and it seems to be just pulled out of a Russian oven. The convenience of dishes also lies in the fact that you can purchase it in different sizes: small, portioned, and large, which is enough to make dinner for the whole family.
Potted dishes
What to cook in a pot of delicious? Yes, anything! First courses, second courses, caviar, roast, stew, meat, cereal. Even sweet desserts are completely successful for the housewives in these clay miracle helpers. It was as if specially invented for borscht, soups, cabbage soup in order to pour them on plates of painted clay containers with round sides. The meat will come out in them more juicy, soft, tiny, tender. Therefore, if you doubt what to cook in a pot, start with it, and we will share a good recipe.
Meat with onions and cheese with mayonnaise
For this gourmet dish you will need a pound of high-quality pork pulp of medium fat content. If the fat is too much, it is better to cut off the excess. You also need onions, and many - 3 large, and preferably 4 heads, almost half a packet of mayonnaise (250 grams, mild flavor, not sour), 250 grams of hard cheese, 2-3 tablespoons butter or margarine, several cloves of garlic, herbs and seasoning (parsley, dill, bay leaf, peppercorns and ground), salt. Now, in detail about how and what to cook in a pot so that the food is a success. Let's start with the main product. Wash the meat, dry it, cut into small slices. To make it softer, beat off with a hammer, just like for meatballs. Salt the slices on both sides, sprinkle with pepper and grease with garlic, which should be crushed. Cut the onion for the dish, as for a barbecue, - thin rings. Part of the cheese is also thin, but already sliced. The ingredients tab is the last step in our lesson called “What to cook in a pot?”. Put meat in a piece of the dish, onion on top of it, and cheese on top. Pour this splendor with mayonnaise (do not skimp, but do not overdo it) and sprinkle with grated cheese. Do not turn on the oven in advance - clay loves to be warmed up gradually. Just put the pots (do not cover with lids, otherwise the meat will turn out more like steamed, not baked), set fire to gas. Handle for about 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes to warm up, total half an hour), the fire is small. Sprinkle with herbs before serving. Very tasty, right? Now you know how to prepare a
dish in pots so that it smells tempting, looks appetizing and even gourmets like it.
Pot, cook porridge!
Remember the famous
story of the Brothers Grimm about such a magical vessel in which porridge itself was cooked? We will also tell you about our
porridge, buckwheat. It is popularly called "down", because it turns friable, soft, literally melting in your mouth. Amount of required products: 400 g cereals, 2 eggs, salt, butter (100 g). The recipe suggests boiling in milk (4 cups), but you can also in water. How to make porridge in a pot? First, in the prepared buckwheat (sort out, wash), you need to beat the eggs, mix and put on a baking sheet and heated in the oven to dry slightly. Then pour the groats into the pot, pour in the milk, put butter and salt, and you can also have a little sugar. Stir and send to the oven. Turn on a small fire and cook until tender. Serve with milk, honey, jam and other sweets.
Here they are - culinary delights from a pot!