Ways to bake potatoes in the oven: in foil, on a grate, in a uniform, in the company of other products ...

Since then, as potato was brought to Russia, it has become not just a common dish, but truly a staple food. Almost no soup can not do without potatoes, and as a side dish it is used cooked for various recipes fried potatoes, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, potatoes in uniform, baked potatoes.

In the arsenal of every good housewife there are at least a dozen recipes for preparing potatoes. For many men, the favorite dish is fried potatoes, with onions, with lard or with mushrooms. Potatoes can be fried according to the principle of fries, in a lot of oil, and you can prepare delicious and delicate slices of potatoes in a rustic way.

But do not forget that the task of a loving wife is not only to feed her husband deliciously. It is necessary to try, that the dish turned out to be useful, but at the same time it was pleasant to the fastidious taster.

Everyone loves the taste of potatoes baked in the coals from childhood. Immediately remember the nightly conversations around the fire, the songs under the guitar, the romantic atmosphere and ... burning potatoes directly from the coals, so friable and fragrant. It seemed that there was nothing more delicious in the world than baked potatoes, green onions and salted cucumber.

But this unforgettable taste can be recreated and at home. To be missed, perhaps, is only the smell of smoke and hands smeared in soot.

How to bake potatoes in the oven in foil?

There are many options for preparing potatoes in the oven. Let's start with the simplest method. We bake simply potatoes with salt in foil. In order to get potatoes from the fire, you just need to wash the medium potatoes, wrap each potato in two layers of foil and send it to the oven. We select the warming-up mode from above and from below, the temperature is 200 degrees and the potatoes are cooked for half an hour, and then at a temperature of 150 degrees, we bring it to readiness in convection mode. We are checking the potatoes with a match or toothpick. The cooking time may vary slightly, depending on the type, size and age of the potato.

If desired, you can not wrap each potato in foil, but simply close the foil with a baking dish.

Potatoes with oil

In order for the potato to turn out to be less dry and more crumbly, it is necessary to bake the potatoes in the oven in foil with butter. To do this, potatoes are cleaned, salt, wrapped in foil and accompany each potato with a thin piece of butter. With it together and wrapped in foil. And then we send it to the oven in the same mode.

If you want a variety

You can bake potatoes in the oven in a foil with stuffing. As a filling, it is very good to use bacon or lard with veined meat. To prepare this dish, we choose potatoes of medium or even large size. We make several notches across each potato. We cut lard or bacon with thin leaves. Slice it into garlic. Potatoes are rubbed with salt, and then in each slot we insert a slice of bacon or fat and a piece of garlic. We wrap the potatoes in foil and send them to the oven for 190-200 degrees for 40 minutes for 40. You will not be killed with potatoes exactly, since not only the landlady but all the households will come running to the smell.

Rustolstey-ka ...

Very tasty and at the same time a very high-calorie way to bake potatoes in an oven in foil is called "rastolstey-ka". To cook this stunningly delicious dish, potatoes are cleaned, cut into 3 -4 parts, salt, then we lay a thin layer of bacon or bacon, top with tomatoes, cut into thin rings, then sprinkle with grated cheese, grease with mayonnaise and sprinkle with herbs. All this splendor is placed in a mold in which pre-melted butter. Close the form with foil and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees just over half an hour.

Potatoes with eggs and cheese

A very tasty and very simple way to bake potatoes in an oven in foil is potatoes with eggs and cheese. For this dish, we need potatoes boiled or cooked until half cooked. We cut potatoes into large pieces, salt, split several eggs from above, sprinkle with cheese and greens. Then we close the form with foil and send it to the oven.

How to cook potatoes in the oven with meat or poultry?

If the meat dish is baked in the oven, it's easiest to choose potatoes as a side dish. To do this, meat or chicken, prepared according to the recipe, you need to put in the center of the form, and put the potatoes around. Potatoes need only salt. During cooking, the potatoes will be soaked with the juice and flavor of the meat dish. As a result, you will get a full-fledged hot with a side dish that does not require a separate care. A taste of potatoes will please the guests.

Many housewives are wondering how much to bake potatoes in the oven. It depends on how juicy ingredients are sent along with the potatoes into the oven. The empty potatoes will be baked from 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the size, and potatoes with meat, butter or lard will be ready in half an hour.