This dish is a favorite and proven dish of many. Food lovers believe it never gets boring. Chicken puree (mainly potato) is a truly universal treat for both children and adults. This dish is a real find for those housewives who, for whatever reason, do not have the time or the strength to stand behind the stove, trying to surprise their families with the creation of an extraordinary delicacy. Chicken puree is a delicious, quick, hearty, but at the same time light lunch or dinner for any family. Often, this option is often chosen by the cafe visitors in the menu for business lunches. It is also known that mashed potatoes with chicken more often than other dishes are included in the diet and children's diet.
According to the hostesses, those who believe that the preparation of this dish is a common and monotonous thing are deeply mistaken. Created taking into account some tricks recommended by experienced home cooks, mashed chicken can surprise with a real richness of taste.
Features of cooking
The process of making mashed potatoes with chicken is completely uncomplicated, which is why novice cooks quite often choose this dish as an option for lunch or dinner for the family. Success depends on the presence in everyday life of a pair of potatoes, onions, as well as a small amount of carrots and chicken meat. Moreover, you can use any chicken - both baked in the oven, and fried in a pan, as a whole leg, and chicken breast or liver.
Experienced housewives advise, when preparing mashed potatoes, to drain the liquid in which the vegetables were boiled, and replace it with broth (chicken) or milk. This can significantly enrich the taste of the dish.
Delicious and satisfying mashed potatoes are also prepared from chicken meat - for this it is boiled, and then crushed in a blender.
In this article we will try to tell you how to cook deliciously and correctly mashed potatoes with chicken. The recipe at your discretion can be borrowed in the article.
Cooking in a slow cooker: ingredients
Use:
- 6-7 chicken legs;
- one onion;
- 600 grams of potatoes;
- 6-7 tablespoons of sour cream;
- pepper and salt;
- one glass of water;
- two tablespoons of butter.
Description of the method of preparation
To cook a delicious and juicy mashed chicken in a slow cooker (photo attached), usually meat is first marinated. To do this, each drumstick should be salt and pepper. Onions are cut in half rings. Next, they start frying chicken. Turn on the slow cooker and set the "Baking" mode. Add butter (butter), fry the meat until golden brown. Onions are added here, fried for about 5 minutes, and then water and sour cream are sent to the pan.
Wash the potatoes and cut into circles (thin). A bowl with chopped potatoes placed in it is installed in a slow cooker, without forgetting to necessarily salt the contents. Select the mode "Milk porridge".
The dish is cooked until a special beep sounds. After this, you should get the potatoes and crush it with the sauce, which is left over from the preparation of meat. Treats are served on the table, decorated with greens.
Sour cream puree: recipe ingredients
Use:
- 700-900 grams of chicken;
- one glass of water;
- 250 ml sour cream;
- two onions;
- 1 kg of potatoes;
- one glass of milk;
- two tablespoons of butter;
- salt.
How to cook?
In this recipe, it is recommended to use chicken meat:
- This part of the carcass is cut along the thigh line, separating the leg from it.
- The meat is fried. A little oil (vegetable) is added to the pan, the hips are salted and fried on all sides. After they are fully prepared, the fire should be made weaker and the lid tightly closed so that the meat is a little more sweaty.
- Potatoes (peeled) are cut into medium-sized pieces, poured with water, salted and set to cook.
- Onions are cut in half rings and added to the languishing meat. Put together a few more minutes.
- Then sour cream is added to the dish, mixed until an aromatic and delicate texture is formed. Together with sour cream add water (one glass). Leave to simmer for 15 minutes over low heat.
- After that, the liquid is drained from the pot with potatoes, and milk is added to the puree instead. The potato should be carefully crushed, add butter to it, mix.
Chicken cooked in a gentle sour cream sauce perfectly complements delicious and juicy mashed potatoes.
"Potato nests": mashed potatoes with chicken and mushrooms
It will take you about an hour and a half to cook this treat, which can be used as an independent hot dish or as a side dish for meat. It is recommended to serve with sour cream or mushroom sauce, decorating as you wish: greens, lettuce, tomato slices, etc.
Which products do they use?
To prepare seven servings you will need a set of products that can be found in any kitchen. Ingredients for the filling:
- 100 grams of champignons;
- one onion;
- 100ml sour cream;
- 200 grams of chicken;
- 100 grams of cheese "Russian";
- one pinch of ground black pepper;
- one pinch of curry;
- one pinch of salt.
For breading you will need 100 grams of crackers (ground). As the main ingredients use:
- five potatoes;
- one egg;
- 20 grams of butter;
- one glass of flour;
- one teaspoon of salt.
Cooking (in stages)
In the process of creating dishes, they act as follows:
- Mashed potatoes first. Oil is added to it (creamy, slightly warm). Allow to cool.
- After that, they are filling: the onions are peeled, washed and cut into half rings. Mushrooms are cut into slices.
- A pan with oil (vegetable) is well heated and fried onions to a state of transparency.
- Add mushrooms and evaporate all the liquid. Fry for about five minutes.
- Then add sour cream, pepper and salt to your taste. On low heat, put out everything for about 7-10 minutes.
- The chicken fillet is washed, dried with a napkin, cut into small cubes and fried for about 10 minutes.
- Salt and pepper are added to taste, seasoned with curry.
- Cheese grated on a coarse grater.
- An egg is added to the mashed potatoes, flour is poured and everything is well kneaded until the mass becomes homogeneous.
- Then the potato dough is divided into seven balls, each of which is rolled in a breading, and then placed in a mold pre-oiled (creamy). Then, a “nest” is formed from each ball, several slices of chicken fillet (fried) and one teaspoon of mushrooms are placed in the recesses.
- Dish for twenty minutes put in the oven to bake (using a temperature equal to 200 degrees).
- After the required time, the form with "nests" is removed from the oven, sprinkled with grated cheese and again sent to bake for 8-10 minutes.
Mashed potatoes and chicken (with croutons)
In some dishes, mashed potatoes are chopped not only potatoes, but also chicken itself. In fact, such a treat already belongs to the category of mashed soups, the recipes of which are known to be countless. Since all the ingredients in this dish are crushed in a blender, the delicacy tastes extraordinary softness and softness. This dish is very loved by children.
Products Used
To make chicken and potato soup puree, use:
- three potatoes;
- one onion;
- one carrot;
- 300 grams of chicken;
- one and a half tablespoons of butter;
- one tablespoon of flour;
- one bunch of dill;
- 4 slices of bread.
Cooking
The cooking process will take about an hour. All products are crushed with a blender (manual), since pieces may remain when using a meat grinder.
Stages:
- Chicken fillet is cut into pieces. The potatoes are peeled and also cut into small pieces. They put everything in a pan (small), pour water - so that it covers all the meat and potatoes.
- The pot is put on medium heat. After the water begins to boil, remove foam from the broth, add salt, add bay leaf and cook until cooked.
- Onions are cut into cubes (large), and the carrots are grated.
- The pan is put on the stove, vegetable oil is poured into it (you can olive) and the onions and carrots are fried in it. Then pour flour and fry all products for about four minutes, after which add water (1.5 cups) and stew for about ten minutes.
- Next, cook croutons. To do this, cut the bread into pieces (small), which are fried in a clean frying pan (you can not use butter).
- Chicken meat is crushed with a blender or several times passed through a meat grinder.
- Mashed potatoes are crushed. It is advisable to use a special crush for potatoes for this, since the product turns into an adhesive mass with a blender.
- Onion and carrots are added to the chicken puree and again chopped with a blender (using an average speed!) For 5-7 minutes.
- Then the meat is mixed with potatoes, add the broth and mix well.
Soup is recommended to be served hot. The dish is decorated with greens, fried croutons are laid on top of it.