Potato is one of the main products that is present in the diet of every person. It is preparing in different ways: fried, cook, bake. Also, this vegetable is part of both the first courses and salads, side dishes, snacks. Below, let's talk about potato mashed potatoes and reveal the secrets of its preparation.
A few words about potatoes and potato mashed potatoes
Puree - this word came to us from France, but it means purricated homogeneous mass, which is obtained by using a blender or alent. The plowed potato performed perfectly on the tables of our ancestors, after Peter I brought her to the Tsarist Rus from the countries of America. Originally fir potatoes with sugar. Significantly later he became the "second bread" of Slavs. Well, today it is difficult to submit a diet of a modern person without potatoes.
How to choose potatoes for making mashed potatoes?
The more starch is contained in the potato club, the air and lifestyle will be mashed, so you need to give preference to the starchy varieties of potatoes. To check whether the starch contains potatoes for puree, ask the seller to cut potatoes in half. Next, pour two halves with each other if they stick, then this potato can be taken to make mashed potatoes.
How to make mashed potatoes?
To get a great potato mashed potatoes, choose the "right" potatoes, it is half an end. Next, you need to make the following actions.
- Clear potatoes, wash. Cut each into 4 parts.
- Fold out chopped potatoes in a saucepan and pour boiling water so that its water is slightly covered.
- Put on the middle fire and cover the saucepan with a lid.
- Cooking potatoes 30-40 minutes. Check availability can be knife. If it easily enters a piece of potatoes, he is ready.
- Drain the water in which potatoes cooked, salt and pinch the pieces into the total mass.
- Attach milk, butter and raw egg.
- Mix well and you can enjoy a delicious dish.
What could be potato mashed potatoes?
Potato mashed potatoes are always the same regardless of the composition of the ingredients. As for recipes, they can be different:
- Potato mashed potatoes on water - mostly used for wellness diets and diets for weight loss.
- Mask potato mask is a classic version of the second dish, to which meat or fish, vegetables are usually served.
- Potato mashed potatoes with spices - dish for lovers of unusual ingredients. In the puree you can add garlic, turmeric, Italian herbs and other spices your favorite.
Also, potato mashed potatoes can serve as a basis for vegetable masses. For example: mashed potatoes and pumpkin, mashed potatoes with mushrooms, potatoes and zucchini mashed potatoes.
Secrets of cooking delicious mashed potatoes
You will simply not see how to cook potato mashed potatoes. But we share some secrets that will help "not put on" when preparing pushed potatoes.
- Mashed out of young potatoes are not cooked, as it will work out with a lump, and will not have a homogeneous consistency.
- Before cooking, do not leave the purified potatoes for a long time in the water, as it loses the starch, which is needed for the preparation of a delicious puree.
- Additional ingredients (milk, butter, egg) are added to already rumble potatoes.
- Milk for puree should be well heated, then it will be possible to avoid the formation of lumps.
- Drinking an egg in the puree, be sure to stir the mass intensively. Otherwise, instead of appetizing yellow color, you will get brewed pieces of eggs.
- If you want to saturate a dish with a creamy taste, then do not spare the oil for potatoes.
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