Baked potato casserole

Potatoes are an excellent product, because you can cook a huge number of dishes from it. And, there are a lot of cooking recipes . One of the most popular is a potato pudding with minced meat.

To make it, you will need to make the choice of the filling, since the rest of the process is pretty standard.

Let's start with the recipe for cooking "Casserole with mashed potatoes". It is necessary to wash the tubers very well, thoroughly clean and boil as usual. Next, we make a puree from it and leave it to cool. Naturally, it will need to be made quite steep (without the addition of milk), because otherwise the casserole from potatoes with minced meat can simply not properly bake. You can add a small amount of butter to it, but just a little bit.

Now you can start cooking stuffing. In the event that a potato pudding with chicken forcemeat is being prepared, it will be necessary to purchase poultry fillets. The remaining stages will be absolutely identical, regardless of the type of meat. But the best option is to use the meat mixture. The choice is with the hostess.

The meat is rinsed several times in the combine with the addition of onions. Now add a little oil to the deep saucepan and put the mixture for frying for about twenty minutes. After the liquid has separated from it, cover it with a lid and leave it for a while to bring the meat to its full capacity. At this stage, you will need to add a little salt and pepper. Still, the rest of the seasonings everyone can choose for himself, as this is a matter of taste.

Now you can proceed to the stage of forming and baking the dish.

It is necessary to take a suitable shape and prepare it by oiling it with a little oil. Now a layer of half of the potatoes is carefully laid out on the bottom and leveled, then - all minced meat. Now we send the remaining puree to the mold and carefully cover the entire surface. It's time to make the final touches - to spread the grated cheese and pour the beaten eggs. Do not add water or broth, otherwise you will get a puree. In the oven, the shape should be placed on a medium fire for a maximum of half an hour. Ready-made casserole from potatoes with minced meat looks very appetizing and the taste is simply amazing.

The proposed recipe is standard, but it can be varied by using a different type of filling. So, very original will be cooking such a casserole with chicken hearts or liver. Or you can add minced mushrooms and cheese. Each mistress can choose her own, the best recipe.

It is very pleasant and unusual to taste a casserole from potatoes with minced meat, when raw tubers are taken as raw materials. In this case, they need to be cleaned and chopped as if they were going to fry them. To this recipe, any minced meat will work, but the most delicious is chicken. Differences from the previously proposed recipe will appear when you need to spread it into the form.

On the bottom layer of chopped potatoes will need to put an additional layer of vegetables. It can be chopped Bulgarian pepper, mushrooms or tomatoes. Everyone can choose to your taste. Everything else fits as well. But keep in mind that in this recipe potatoes will be prepared completely in the oven, so the time will be needed twice as much. The most basic rule is that you can not put the maximum temperature in the oven, otherwise the upper part will be heavily fried, but the middle will remain moist.

The described recipes are quite common. Naturally, each hostess can add something of his own.