Mashed potatoes can be served as a garnish for fish and meat dishes, and can be used in the preparation of quiches or rolls. To get a tasty purée, it is necessary to know the secrets of its preparation.
How to cook mashed potatoes - what to look for
Secrets of a tasty sauce:
- To use mashed potatoes, which are well fall apart.
- Before cooking potato skins of clean and hold it for 30 minutes in cold water.
- In a saucepan put potatoes of the same size or the same cut potato slices.
- When cooking the potatoes do not put salt. It add a ready-made mashed potatoes.
- Potato mash is converted to its immediately after boiling, i.e. very hot.
- To puree turned tender and tasty, with repulsion potatoes pour it boiling milk or cream.
- Butter or margarine, add the puree has melted and hot.
- To prepare the sauce use a special tolkushkoy stainless steel with holes. Do not use the blender - it fries become a sticky mass.
- Mashed potatoes can not only to flavor milk and butter, but any finely chopped greens.
How to cook mashed potatoes usual
stages:
- Potato fill with water, so that it covered the upper layer on one finger. Bring to boiling potatoes and cook 20 to 30 minutes. Willingness to determine with a sharp thin knife - it should be easy to pierce the potatoes.
- With the help tolkushkoy mash the potatoes until smooth. In this case, pour as much milk or cream, how thick or thin you want to get mashed. 1 kg of potatoes, you will need liquid from 1.5 to 2 cups.
- The resulting puree pour melted butter (50 to 100 g) and put the salt to taste. Stir with a spoon mashed potatoes.
Before serving keep mashed potatoes in a hot oven, but no more than 30 minutes.
How to cook mashed potatoes colored
On 4 parts of potatoes, take 1 part of the carrot (800 and 200 g). Clean carrots Cut into cubes and boil in a separate dish until soft. Water pour water, and carrots wipe through the siete. Make a potato puree on the recipe described above. Together with the oil, interfere with the potatoes and carrot mashed potatoes.
In the same way, you can make potato mashed potatoes with beet or spinach. You then get puree purple and green. Color mashed potatoes are well prepared for children who are capricious at the table and do not like potato dishes.
How to make mashed potatoes spicy
Such a potato mashed potatoes are served in the most fashionable restaurants and it is worth a decent money. But it's very easy to cook at home:
- Take the head of garlic and cut it along two halves. Place garlic on a foil sheet and add a 10 cm white onion to it. Pour vegetables with olive oil and wrap foil. Bake them in a hot oven 25-30 minutes. After the onions and garlic become soft, override them in a blender. Clean the garlic before that.
- In the blender, grind a bundle of parsley and a bundle of kinse.
- Make ordinary potato mashed potatoes, but instead of milk add boiling clean water to it, and instead of butter oil - olive oils.
- Mix the potato mashed potatoes, puree garlic and onions, puree from greenery. Do not forget to salute and pepper.
Potato mashed potatoes are very tasty with the addition of root celery. Vegetables can take equally and cook them together. After the potatoes and celery become soft, use any recipe from this article.
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