Potato is like a second bread. People are so used to it that they have no idea how to do without it in the kitchen. From this vegetable you can cook a huge number of a variety of dishes. These are the simplest options: mashed potatoes, jacket potatoes, boiled and fried. There are more complex dishes, such as stuffed potatoes in the oven, this is a very tasty and unusual treat.
This versatile vegetable was brought from South America. Locals, Indians, have used potato tubers for food for centuries. In addition, they worshiped this plant and worshiped it as if it were alive. When potatoes came to Europe, then initially the culture was considered poisonous and it was grown only for decorative purposes. And only in the 1800s, potatoes began to be used for food, becoming the number one product in the world.
Potato Rooks with Chicken and Vegetables in Bechamel Sauce
If you want to amaze your friends and family with a culinary masterpiece, then you can cook this simple, but original dish. The recipe is designed for four people.
Ingredients:
- large potatoes - 6 pieces;
- chicken breast fillet - 500 grams,
- medium-sized onion - one piece;
- green onions - a small bunch;
- cherry tomatoes - six pieces;
- Bulgarian pepper - one piece;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- butter or corn oil - 2 tablespoons,
- dill - one bunch.
Bechamel sauce
- milk - 750 grams;
- oil - 40 grams;
- wheat flour - 40 grams;
- add salt and pepper to the sauce to taste.
Cooking bechamel: fry flour in butter in a high-frying pan in a butter, stirring constantly so that the flour does not burn. Pour milk into a flour in a thin stream, stirring constantly with a whisk to prevent lumps from appearing. Salt and keep on fire until thick, be sure to stir the sauce so that it does not burn.
Product Preparation
Put cooked potatoes in their skins, do not forget to wash them properly. Fry the chicken in a pan. The fillet must be cooked quickly, if it is overexposed, it will lose juice and become hard. Potatoes need to be cooked to an almost ready state.
In order to make the filling, you need to chop vegetables and fried fillet as finely as possible. Stir everything and simmer in a pan for ten minutes. Before removing the filling from the fire, add greens to it.
Build Rook
Cool the boiled potatoes and cut lengthwise into two halves, with a spoon, make a depression in each half. Put the halves on a baking sheet. In each "boat" put the prepared filling, mixed with the pulp of potatoes, as it should be pour over the sauce on top. Bechamel should spill onto a baking sheet. Sprinkle “rooks” with cheese and dill. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Bake stuffed potatoes in the oven for about 15 minutes. The cheese should melt and brown.
Potato Stuffed with Cream Cheese
A very simple but tasty stuffed potato, baked in the oven, can be prepared according to this recipe.
Ingredients:
- processed cheese - 100 grams;
- potatoes - 4 pieces (200 grams each);
- egg - 1 piece;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- sour cream - three spoons;
- salt, pepper to taste;
- fresh dill - a small bunch.
Cooking method:
Turn on the oven and heat it to a temperature of 180-200 degrees. While the oven is warming up, prepare potatoes. Wash well, grease each tuber with vegetable oil and put on a baking sheet covered with foil. Bake potatoes in the oven for about forty minutes.
Grate processed cheese, add sour cream, crushed garlic and egg to it, mix well. From the finished potatoes, cut off the top and carefully remove the pulp, so that the peel remains intact. Mix the potatoes with the prepared filling, salt, add pepper and stuff the potato peel with this mixture.
Put stuffed potatoes in the oven and bake for about twenty minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Before serving, sprinkle baked potatoes with fresh dill.
Stuffed Potatoes "Italy"
This dish is found in restaurants in sunny Italy. Typically, baked potatoes are served as a side dish to a steak of grilled meat or baked fish.
Ingredients:
- 3 large potatoes;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- bulb;
- lemon;
- ginger root;
- one hot chili pepper;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- a handful of dried mushrooms;
- 3 walnuts;
- one nutmeg;
- rosemary and turmeric in half a teaspoon;
- 3 tablespoons of sour cream,
- olive oil - one teaspoon.
Instructions for cooking stuffed potatoes in the oven (photo below).
If desired, peel the tubers and cut them in half. Carefully cut the middle of the potatoes and chop this pulp finely, you can use a grinder for this. Separately prepare the ingredients. Thinly chop the ginger root, chop the onion into cubes, finely chop the chilli. Peeled walnuts grind in a mortar.
Soak dried mushrooms for 20 minutes in a hot marinade of garlic, lemon, rosemary and salt. Then squeeze the mushrooms and chop. Add mushrooms to an egg, nuts, chili pepper, potato mass and turmeric. All products should be mixed well. Place potato boats in heat-resistant dishes greased with olive oil. Put the filling on them, add sour cream on top and sprinkle with nutmeg, grated on a fine grater.
Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees and bake the stuffed potatoes in the oven for 25 minutes. The dish is served hot to the table as a side dish for meat and fish.
Potato with herbs "Cheerful beetle"
Potatoes cooked according to this recipe are very similar to beetles, so the dish got such a funny name. Suitable as a side dish for meat. Due to its name, the dish is popular with children.
Ingredients:
- medium potatoes - 5 pieces;
- dill - a bunch;
- parsley - a bunch;
- green onion feather;
- sunflower oil - one tablespoon;
- add salt and pepper to taste.
Potato tubers should be washed thoroughly. The peel can be peeled or left on the potatoes. Make deep and frequent cuts without cutting the tuber to the end. Put the prepared potatoes on a baking sheet or in a heat-resistant dish greased with oil. Grease the potato with sunflower oil. Cover with foil and bake future stuffed potatoes in the oven for about an hour at a temperature of two hundred degrees. When the tubers are ready, remove the foil and hold in the oven for another 10 minutes so that they brown. Put the ready-made Cheerful Beetles on a plate, sprinkle with salt, pepper and herbs, trying to get into the potato slots. You can additionally decorate the dish with cherry tomatoes and bell pepper.
Minced potatoes
Perhaps the most satisfying variant of eating potato is cooked stuffed potatoes with minced meat (in the oven). Such original food can be prepared for a holiday or to pamper your household. For minced meat, you can take any meat, chicken or fish; for vegetarians, mushrooms and vegetables are used as minced meat. For those who adhere to a diet, it is better to use minced chicken or fish, and those who want to gain weight should make minced pork and lamb.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 8 pieces;
- onion - 2 heads;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- garlic - half the head;
- sour cream - 4 tablespoons;
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- minced meat - 1 kilogram,
- salt and pepper to taste.
How to bake potatoes stuffed with minced meat in the oven? A photo of the finished dish is presented.
First you need to prepare the stuffing from minced meat. To do this, grind the meat in a meat grinder. Fry from one onion and one carrot (finely chop and cook in a skillet with butter). Stir the minced meat with frying, pepper and salt.
Potatoes can be peeled, or you can cook with the skin. Using a knife, remove the middle from the tubers. Put the prepared potatoes in a bowl with high sides and firmly tamp the filling.
Prepare the fill:
- Fry onions and carrots.
- Add garlic, tomato paste and sour cream.
- Pour everything with a glass of water and let it sweat for about ten minutes.
When the sauce is moderately ready, pour them stuffed potatoes, cover with foil and put in the oven for about an hour and a half, bake at a temperature of 150 degrees. Stuffed potatoes, baked in the oven, turn out to be juicy and tasty.
Housewives often cook the same thing, and this can be boring, and children begin to refuse food. Therefore, stuffed potatoes in the oven, the recipes of which are described in this article, will help diversify the family menu.