How to cook potatoes with meat in pots so that it turns out juicy, aromatic and tasty? You can find the answer to the question below.
It is worth noting that for the preparation of such a dish, it is advisable to purchase small portioned clay containers specially designed for the oven. Otherwise, you will have to use ordinary dishes (with a lid).
How to cook potatoes with meat in pots: recipe for 5 servings
Essential Ingredients:
- refined vegetable oil - 5 large spoons;
- freshly frozen chicken breasts - 500 g;
- greens (fresh leek and dill) - on the 1st bunch;
- small sweet bulbs - 3 pcs.;
- black peppercorns - 10 pcs.;
- young potato tubers - 6-7 pcs.;
- bay leaves - 5 pcs.;
- ground black pepper - 5 pinches;
- large fresh carrots - 2 pcs.;
- iodized salt - a small spoon;
- ripe red tomato - 2 pcs.
Meat processing
Before you cook potatoes with meat in pots, you should well process all of the above ingredients. For such a dish, you can buy pork, and beef, and lamb, etc. However, the fastest and tastiest thing is this dinner is prepared from tender chicken breasts. They should be washed, freed from bones, skin and cartilage, and then chopped into small pieces with a knife. Next, the meat must be flavored with black pepper, iodized salt and set aside while all other products are being prepared.
Vegetable processing
To understand how to cook potatoes with meat in pots deliciously, you should remember that this dish necessarily includes products such as onions, herbs and carrots. They should be washed, peeled and chopped coarsely. It is also required to do with young potato tubers, and with tomatoes (it is desirable to cut them into circles).
The process of forming a dish
A delicious potato with meat is formed as follows: you need to take 5 clay pots, pour 1 large spoonful of vegetable oil into each of them, and then add peppercorns, bay leaves, salted and pepper chicken fillet, chopped onions, carrots and potato tubers . After that, add 1-2 pinchs of salt to the ingredients, put in a 1st circle of ripe tomato, and pour ½ cup of drinking water (in each container).
Heat treatment
When the clay pots are filled with food, they should be closed with a lid and sent to a preheated oven. Such a dish is prepared over medium heat for about 1-1.2 hours. Before turning off the oven, it is advisable to taste the lunch. If the potatoes are soft, then clay pots can be safely obtained.
Proper serving
Potato with meat (photo, cooking recipe presented above) is served for dinner right in clay pots. However, before that, it is recommended that they be placed hot on flat saucers or plates. Also, the surface of the dish should be sprinkled with chopped fresh dill and leek, serve rye bread, mayonnaise or thick fat sour cream and tomato hot sauce (ketchup).