Casserole from potatoes and variations on the theme of this dish

Dishes from potatoes are traditional food in Russian cuisine. Moreover, from this wonderful root can be prepared a huge variety of dishes, from soups to desserts.

For example, if you take a dish like a potato casserole , you can immediately offer a variety of cooking options. For the basis, you can take raw potatoes, cut into slices or worn on a grater, or pre-cooked and mashed in puree or sliced. And how many different fillings you can come up with! For casseroles it is possible to prepare forcemeat from meat, vegetables, fish, chicken, eggs, mushrooms. In total, and not enumerate!

For example, to cook a dish like a baked potato casserole with mushrooms, you need to boil a kilogram of peeled potatoes and cook mashed potatoes, adding 2 tablespoons of butter and one glass of hot milk. Mix the mass with a mixer and bring in the raw egg, whilst continuing to beat. Season to taste with salt, nutmeg and pepper.

In the meantime, we prepare mushroom stuffing by cutting half a kilogram of champignons and frying them together with onions in vegetable oil. The filling is also podsalivayem and season it to taste.

Now take a baking dish or a frying pan, which can be put in the oven. Lubricate it with oil and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Now put half the potatoes in the mold, level. On top are prepared mushrooms, and then the remainder of the potato. Again, we spread everything, lay out small pieces of butter. If desired, grease with sour cream. Bake in the oven for about 20-30 minutes. Served with a potato casserole with vegetable salad.

On the same recipe, you can prepare casseroles with vegetable minced meat (for example, from fried eggplants or stewed cabbage), with meat (sausages) or fish.

And here is a potato casserole for which raw root crops are used. To prepare this dish, in addition to potatoes, you need onions, chicken fillets (can be replaced with fish or minced meat), tomatoes, cheese, seasonings to taste and mayonnaise.

Potatoes are cleaned and cut into circles about two millimeters thick. Salt potatoes and sprinkle with your favorite spices. Then put it in a form, which was previously lubricated with oil.

The bulb is cut into half rings and spread over the potatoes. Now we take up the meat component of our casserole. If it is chicken or fish fillet, then it must be cut into small pieces, spread over the next casserole, salt and sprinkle with pepper. When using minced meat, it is first seasoned, a little water is added to it, and evenly distributed over the surface of the vegetables.

The tomato should be peeled and cut into thin slices. If cherry tomatoes are used, they should simply be cut in half. The casserole is sprinkled with olive oil, and then add a little water so that it only slightly covers the bottom.

We put in the oven at a temperature of 150 degrees and bake for about thirty minutes. Readiness is checked with a fork, if the potato is easily pierced, then the casserole is almost ready.

Now sprinkle our dish with cheese, and top with mayonnaise. We put in the oven before the formation of a ruddy crust. Our casserole from potatoes is ready to serve on the table.

And you can make a casserole without filling. An example of such a recipe can serve as a casserole from potatoes with cheese. Potatoes for this dish are prepared in the same way as in the previous recipe. Then spread it into the mold and fill it with cream (milk). The liquid must be so much that it is flush with the potatoes. This potato is baked in the oven at a temperature of about 150 degrees until soft. Then the casserole is taken out, thickly topped with cheese and sent back to the oven until a crust is formed.