Potato casserole recipes abound. Someone makes them mashed potatoes with fillings, or without, someone from thin slices of root vegetables, filling all sorts of tasty sauces. But no matter what recipe you do not come to implement, remember: the most delicious casseroles are obtained only in the oven. Some housewives make casseroles and multivarka, but then they turn out not very beautiful, top without an appetizing crust. Alternatively casserole may be prepared in a microwave oven, but if it is a function of baking with blowing hot air.
Classic potato gratin
The fastest and win-win recipe is as follows:
- Boil 1 kg of potatoes and mash it into puree. While cooking water a little podsolite.
- The mashed put 100 g of butter, 2 raw eggs and spices to taste. It can be dry garlic, pepper, nutmeg or a dry mixture of herbs. Mass once again try to salt - perhaps it will have little to add.
- A small baking dish brush with oil and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
- Put the mashed potatoes in the shape and smooth out his shovel. On top of this mixture lubricate the thick sour cream and sprinkle with the same breadcrumbs.
- Bake the dish in the oven at 200-210 degrees until such time as the crackers from the top will be golden.
- Hot casserole slice portions and serve with white milk or tomato spicy sauce.
Casserole of mashed potatoes with meat
For this dish you will need a puree of the first recipe, or something that you like to cook for dinner sausages, but for some reason things are not eaten.
- Shape brush with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. At the bottom smooth layer lay half of mashed potatoes. Potato layer should be at least 2 cm.
- Mash too evenly lay any cooked meat, but the twisted in a meat grinder and additionally fried with onions. The meat may be cooked prior example of broth. You can take and the chicken and beef, and pork. When frying with onion and add any of your favorite spices.
- Meat on top again lay a second portion of mashed potatoes.
- Grease a casserole future salted beaten egg and send it in a hot oven for 25-30 minutes.
- Once on top of dishes appear shiny golden brown, remove the casserole from the oven and serve it on the table with sour cream.
Casserole of mashed potato "Mosaic"
If you like unusual serving dishes, then cook this beautiful casserole.
- Make mashed potatoes 1 kg. Salt it and add one egg.
- Boil until cooked 1 large carrot and cut it the same small cubes.
- Drain the floor by pouring cups of canned green peas.
- On half of red and yellow sweet pepper cut into pieces the size of the prepared carrot and peas.
- Enter pepper, peas and carrot puree and mix everything very carefully.
- Put the mass in a deep frying pan. It do not forget to treat the butter and breadcrumbs.
- Top potato mixture lubricate beaten egg with milk (1 egg and 50 ml milk). If there is a black olives, put their halves.
- Bake the dish in a well-preheated oven 30 minutes.
Potato gratin in peasant
For this hearty dish you can use any products that you did not eat yesterday or today at breakfast. Naturally, the main ingredient is potatoes.
- Boiled potatoes cut into small cubes.
- Sausages or any cooked meat also chop. You can even take a few chops and break them into suitable pieces.
- Vegetables (carrot boiled, braised cauliflower, onions, peppers, zucchini or fried mushrooms, etc.) cut into cubes.
- Mix potatoes, meat and vegetables. Put weight evenly in a baking - its lubricate any fat.
- Whisk a couple of raw eggs and add to them, or milk, or mayonnaise or yogurt. This sauce you should have a pretty thick. To spice and flavor, add a spoonful of mustard, a pinch of salt and pepper on the tip of a knife.
- Pour sauce products in the form and put it on for 10 minutes in a fairly hot oven.
- After 10 minutes, remove from oven casserole and sprinkle it with any hard cheese, grated on a coarse grater.
- Once again, send the casserole in the oven to melt the cheese.
Potato gratin in French
In the original, this dish is called Gratin, but if cooked strictly on prescription. Delicious potato gratin with flavored whipped cream - the French know a lot about food. Do you this delicious masterpiece.
- 500 g raw potato peel and cut into thin slices - they should even show through. Put the slices in a form with high sides. Take the form of a glass. The dish is served at the table entirely, and in the glass, it will look fine. Form before the potatoes laying grease with butter.
- 50 g butter, melted in a water bath or in a microwave oven, mix with two milled garlic cloves, a pinch of nutmeg, 200 ml whipping cream and two raw eggs. Podsolite sauce to taste.
- Potato slices pour cream sauce and return to the oven for 40 minutes. Oven before this heat to 180 degrees.
- When the closure to cooking will be only 10 minutes, remove from oven and gratin generously sprinkle grated cheese. Cheese you will need at least 100 g
- Bring dish until cooked in the same hot oven. On melting takes about 10 minutes cheese time.
Potatoes combined with other products, therefore it can every day to cook completely different casseroles. As an example, learn, and this video recipe. In it the author to prepare a dish, based on potatoes and zucchini.