Mashed potatoes: a technological map and its use in cooking

In any family, regular meals are prepared from potatoes. And puree from it can be safely called the favorite option. Usually housewives creatively approach the process of cooking. And those who want to get the present, by all rules cooked mashed potatoes - a technological map to help. It's not for nothing that this dish from kindergarten and Stolovka times causes uncontrollable nostalgia.

Recipe and map

The technological map of the dish "mashed potato" is not at all the same as its recipe. The latter is just an enumeration of products included in its composition, recommendations for cooking - and all this can be filed in any form, from hand-written text to an electronic file.

The situation with the technological map is much more serious. This is a real document, certified by the persons responsible for food, and regulates all stages, subtleties and nuances of creating the appropriate dish. There can not be "to taste" and "by eye", everything is strictly according to instructions.

And it's not so bad - more and more housewives prefer to use this approach lately, even when the usual mashed potatoes are prepared: the technological map allows you to get from time to time a quality and preferred dish. And for all catering enterprises it is a sacred and strictly observed rule.

Mashed potatoes: technological map

One serving is to take 165 grams of tubers; After cleaning of them will be 120-130 grams of "net". Salt for this amount of vegetable requires 2 grams, unsalted butter - a slice of 10 grams, and pasteurized milk of medium fat content (2.5%) - 24.

The potato is cleaned according to all the rules established by the appropriate norms, cut into cubes and boiled in a salted water specified by the amount of salt. Ready-made tubers are wiped (or rumpled) to smoothness, pre-melted butter and heavily warmed milk are introduced into the mass. Puree is first diligently mixed, then whipped until it is fluffy. Keep it ready in its SanPIN is allowed no longer than six hours.

Design rules

It's not enough just to cook mashed potatoes according to all the rules: the technological card obliges it to submit a nice gift. The dish is laid out in the center of the plate with a slide or steps "cut out" by a spoon. If it is served with gravy, the sauce is poured on top. Meat additions - sausages, meatballs, cutlets - are laid out side by side. Salad, if it is provided for the menu, is either located next to the hill, or served in a separate salad bowl.