Tasty and delicious dishes in pots, step-by-step recipes (with photos) of which are offered in this article, can be an excellent decoration of any evening feast, arranged for any reason or without it. In addition, they can also be made for a hearty dinner - they contain a huge amount of nutritional components that are necessary to ensure human life throughout the day.
So, how to cook tasty and mouth-watering dishes? Consider a few recipes with photos of dishes in pots for the oven, which are very simple to make and will surely appeal to all households.
Features of potted food
As most culinary experts note, practically all dishes in pots actually turn out to be much more useful than those that are created in a pot or pan. This is due to the fact that during the entire period they are cooked under a tightly closed lid, as a result of which almost all the useful components found in food are stored. In addition, in the process of laying the ingredients in the bowls very often there are no requirements for adding water - it is simply not needed, since vegetables, meat and other components of the dish secrete a sufficient amount of their own juice, which also contains a large amount of vitamins.
Many dishes in pots are classified as dietary. This is due to the fact that when laying products in containers, it is not necessary to lubricate it with oil, because food does not burn. Consider some of the most popular recipes for dishes in pots (with photo).
Roast in Russian
This dish is made from chicken, which goes well with the rest of the ingredients. To create this gentle and simple dish in a pot, you should take a whole chicken, clean it, wash and dry. After this, the carcass should be divided into several parts and each of them sprinkled with salt and ground pepper, mixed to taste. The chicken should be fried in butter, using for this purpose a hot pan. After that, its pieces must be arranged in pots.
In a pan where the frying process was carried out, 400 g of onion should be processed until its surface is golden brown. It is also divided into pots. In the same pan, fry 50 g of fresh mushrooms, which must first be finely chopped. They also need to be sent to the chicken with onions. Also, in pots, you need to evenly spread 50 g of walnuts and raisins.
In a separate bowl, you need to prepare an excellent sauce, which is done by melting butter in a preheated frying pan and frying 25 g of sifted flour on it. Separately, it is necessary to heat a couple of glasses of sour cream and pour the fried flour with it. After thorough mixing until the lumps are eliminated, the sauce will be ready. With this sauce, evenly pour each pot and send them to the oven, heated to a temperature of 180 degrees, for 20 minutes. After the dish is ready, it must be sprinkled with finely chopped greens.
Tomato soup
How to cook such a dish in pots? The step-by-step (with photo) technology described here fully reveals all the subtleties of creating this delicious and very tasty culinary masterpiece.
To create a soup:
- Three finely chopped onions with three cloves of garlic should be fried in a hot pan. A small amount of olive oil can be used for this procedure.
- There you should add a kilogram of fresh tomatoes, which must first be cut into slices, as well as 800 ml of broth and three slices of white bread, cut into cubes.
- In this composition, the ingredients must be covered and stewed over low heat for 40-50 minutes.
After the specified time, the resulting mixture should be decomposed in prepared pots, each of them should be placed on one piece of white bread, which must be rubbed with garlic. On top of the mass should be sprinkled with grated hard cheese, drizzle a few drops of olive oil and send to the oven for baking until cooked.
Fish with vegetables
Strange, but most housewives are used to cooking only meat in pots. However, this approach is not entirely correct, since fish and vegetables in them also come out wonderful.
To create a particularly tasty dish in pots, you need to take 800 g of pike perch fillet, cut it into small pieces and sprinkle with spices to taste from a ready-made set of seasonings for fish, which are sold in stores. Also, do not forget that the fish must be salted.
Separately, peel 800 g of potatoes and cut it into small cubes. This vegetable should be evenly distributed over the four pots and put in each of them a small piece of butter. On top of all this, lay out a small amount of onion (1 head), cut into small cubes, as well as a prepared fish fillet. Two medium carrots need to be peeled and grated, it should also be evenly distributed in each pot. After this, the ingredients must be salt to taste and pour 75 ml of purified water into each container.
In a separate bowl, you must mix 120 g of grated hard cheese with the same amount of sour cream. The ingredients must also be spread out evenly over the pots, after having rammed what they already have. At this stage, all preparations are completed, the dishes with products should be covered with lids and sent to the oven for 50 minutes for baking at a temperature of 180 degrees.
When the fish is ready, it must be sprinkled with fresh finely chopped herbs.
Buckwheat porridge with pork
To prepare such a dish in a pot in the oven (photo below) with the addition of meat, it is best to use pork, since when using another ingredient, it will simply turn out to be dry.
To prepare such an original culinary masterpiece, you need to take a pound of pork without veins, wash it thoroughly, dry and cut into small cubes. It should be spread out evenly in three pots and add to it a pair of finely chopped onions, which also need to be divided equally. Then, in each container, pour three tablespoons of pre-washed buckwheat (or another, to taste), add a small amount of bay leaf crumbs on top.
In a separate bowl, you need to dilute a couple of broth cubes and pour each container to the top with the resulting liquid. The field of this pot should be placed in the oven for cooking at medium temperature. This process will take about an hour.
Dumplings with mushrooms
Perhaps no one knew, but among the recipes of dishes in pots in the oven there are also many varieties of dumplings. So, let’s look at how to cook dough products with meat filling in this way under appetizing mushroom sauce.
To do this, you need to cook the dumplings themselves, for which homemade stuffing is done. To make it tasty and balanced, you need to make minced meat, consisting of minced meat:
- lard (50 g);
- chicken breast (350 g);
- onion heads;
- salt, pepper to taste.
In addition, for greater juiciness, 2.5 tablespoons of water or three ice cubes should be added to the prepared meat. After thorough mixing, the stuffing will be ready.
Now is the time to start creating an appetizing mushroom sauce. To do this, cut 350 g of pre-washed mushrooms into slices and fry them in vegetable oil with the addition of chopped onion heads. In total, the process of thermal processing of the ingredients should be a little more than five minutes. After that, pour a glass of fat cream on the mushrooms and stew in this form for another five minutes. The creamy mushroom sauce is now ready for use.
For dumplings, you need to knead a simple dough, which is made from a combination of 350 g of sifted flour, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil, an egg, one and a half glasses of water and a pinch of salt. All the components must be brought into one mass and formed from them a large lump of dough, from which it is necessary to form juices, stuff them with minced meat and put in dumplings.
When the dumplings are ready, they must first be boiled in boiling and salted water for five minutes, then immediately catch and let the water drain. Now they can be arranged in pots, which is recommended to be done evenly. On top of them, pour mushroom sauce, sprinkle with your favorite greens, which should be finely chopped before adding, and also generously crush with the desired amount of cheese. Now the pots should be covered and sent to the oven to finish cooking. When baking this dish in a pot in the oven, it should be heated to a temperature of 200 degrees. It only takes 15 minutes to cook.
Julien
Julien is a favorite in many potted dishes. The step-by-step technology for its preparation is very simple and does not require special culinary skills of the hostess. Let's consider it in more detail:
- 200 g of chicken (it is better to take the breast) should be poured with cold water, salt and boil it so that the meat remains slightly juicy.
- While it is boiling, it is necessary to do the preparation of mushrooms. To do this, 250 g of champignons (you can take both fresh and frozen) should be washed and cut into thin plates.
- After they must be fried in a pan with hot butter mixed with vegetable (for a teaspoon and a tablespoon, respectively).
- This procedure must be continued for five minutes, after which add the chopped onion to them.
- Cooked by that time chicken fillet is recommended to cool and chop into slices.
In another pan, prepare the sauce for the future dish in pots. To do this, pour a tablespoon of flour onto a hot surface, add 50 g of butter to it and mix everything thoroughly. It is necessary to pour an incomplete glass of sour cream here and, bringing to a boil, salt. After this, the pan is recommended to immediately remove from the heat.
When all the ingredients for the dish are ready, you should mix the meat, onions and mushrooms and arrange the resulting mass in pots. On top of all this, pour the resulting sauce and sprinkle all the ingredients with grated cheese (150 g). To complete the cooking process of this dish in pots, you do not need to close the container with lids - the cheese will not allow the filling to burn. Julienne must be cooked for 20-25 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
In order for the dish in the pot to look more impressive in the photo, after the end of cooking it is necessary to crush it with finely chopped parsley and dill.
Veal with Prunes
An excellent dish, which will undoubtedly become a favorite among all family members, is veal cooked in pots with the addition of prunes. This is a very aromatic and truly delicious dish in pots. In the oven, it cooks relatively quickly, and this process does not require special knowledge in the field of cooking.
To prepare such a dish, you should take a kilogram of high-quality young veal (without veins and other unnecessary components). The meat should be thoroughly washed, wiped with a paper towel and cut into small cubes. After that, each piece should be carefully salted and pepper to taste, and then fry in a pan with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil. In another pan, fry three finely chopped onions.
After the ingredients are ready, they must be evenly arranged in pots, on top of them lay 10 diced potatoes, 100 g of prunes, as well as finely chopped parsley. The future aromatic and very juicy dish should be covered and sent to the oven for the final preparation of all components. This recipe for dishes in pots in the oven involves thermal treatment for about 50 minutes under high temperature (about 180-200 degrees).
Eggplant with mushrooms
In order to prepare such a juicy dish for 4 servings, you need to take four eggplants of small size and, having peeled them, cut into small cubes. In crushed form, they need to be slightly salted and allowed to lie down for some time at room temperature. In the meantime, you can do mushrooms. They need to be taken only fresh, champignons or white (400 g) are ideal. The ingredient should be washed, boiled and, finely chopped, fried in a pan with hot butter. After several minutes of frying, chopped onion must be added to them and heat-treated until the onion becomes transparent. It is not necessary to bring it to the state of a golden crust, as this will significantly spoil the taste of the finished dish. Eggplant, which by that time has already been infused and will give juice, must also be fried in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil. 4 hard boiled separately.
After all the components have been prepared, you need to evenly arrange them in pots in the following order: first part of the eggplant, then onion with mushrooms, then cut into circles eggs. After all preparations, you need to sprinkle the dish with salt and pepper (ground black) on top of the dish, and then put the rest of the eggplant. All this must be filled with sour cream, covered with lids and sent to the oven until a ready state is reached.
When the dish is ready, it must be sprinkled with herbs, which must first be chopped very finely.
Pork with mushrooms
Another simple recipe for potted dishes is pork with mushrooms. If you follow all the described technology, you can get a fragrant and incredibly tender dish that will surely appeal to households of different ages.
To create such a masterpiece, you need to take pork (about 500 g) and cut the meat into small pieces. After that, they need to be salted and pepper to taste, and then evenly arranged in pots. Mushrooms are spread on top of the meat, cut into thick slices - it is recommended to take about 8-12 pieces (depending on size). Potatoes (5-6 pieces) are laid out on top of everything, which also needs to be chopped into cubes. After such preparations, 1.5 tablespoons of fat sour cream should be placed in each container, cover with lids and sent to the oven for baking until cooked. As practice shows, cooking takes about 35 minutes, provided that the process takes place at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Omelette Meat
And this dish in a pot is an excellent breakfast option, preparations for which are done very quickly, and while the omelet is being cooked, you can carry out the collection process for work.
To create a truly wonderful omelet, you need to cut 700 g of veal with thin bars, salt it to taste, lightly pepper and fry in a hot frying pan with butter. After a couple of minutes of frying, you need to add the chopped onion to the meat and continue this process until the meat is almost ready.
In a separate bowl, you need to break 8 chicken eggs, add half a glass of milk to them, a little salt, ground black pepper and beat thoroughly with a whisk.
When the meat is ready, it should be spread out evenly in pots and pour the egg-milk mixture on top. The container must be covered and sent to the oven to complete the cooking process, which will take a small amount of time.
Some housewives replace veal with beef, however, as noted, in this case the cooking process takes a slightly longer amount of time.