Irish-style mashed potatoes with onions

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

An undoubted hit among side dishes for meat, fish, meatballs - mashed potatoes with onions. However, it will also please as an independent dish. In the Irish version, it is called "champ". The difference is in the thick creamy taste achieved by adding cream instead of milk and a lot of butter.

Required Ingredients

To make mashed potatoes with fried onions, you will need products that are always on hand:

• potatoes - 800 grams;
• onions - one or two small onions;
• cream 10% - 100 ml;
• butter - 2 tablespoons;
• vegetable oil - 1.5 tablespoons;
• s alt to taste.

Successful flavor combination gives fresh onions and dill, as well as cucumbers.

Cooking order

Preparing mashed potatoes with onions is not difficult: just peel the tubers and onions, rinse thoroughly under running water. Boil potatoes in water with s alt until fullreadiness. Well, if the tubers are boiled. Mash with a mallet, add cream, butter, mix thoroughly.

The calorie content of potatoes can be reduced by washing out excess starch. To do this, hold the peeled tubers in cold water for at least half an hour.

Cut the onion into half rings or finely, depending on your own preference.

Heat oil over high heat, add onion, reduce heat to medium, fry until golden brown. Serve either separately from the mashed potatoes, or mix everything (in the second case, the taste of fried onions will add a special piquancy to the mashed potatoes).

Helpful tips

You can diversify the usual recipe for mashed potatoes with onions with simple manipulations:

1. The puree will be fluffy and melt in your mouth when beaten with a mixer or blender.
2. An interesting texture to mashed potatoes with onions is given by whipping with a raw egg. If in doubt about the lack of heat treatment, you should bake it in the oven at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
3. The caramelized onions will add a delicious taste. For caramelization, just add half a teaspoon of sugar while frying the onions.
4. Instead of the usual fried onion, you can serve crispy rings to the finished mashed potatoes: cut the onion into rings, dip in whipped s alted protein, then in breadcrumbs and fry.
5. An important aspect is the effective serving of the dish. To do this, just put the finished puree in a culinary bag and squeeze out in the form of a smallnests. Bake in the oven and then put the crunchy onion in the middle.

These tips will help turn an ordinary dish into a dish worthy of a festive table. You can serve it next to sliced fresh vegetables, while only personal imagination will determine the appearance of the dish. Thanks to the plastic texture of the puree, you can create interesting fantasy side dishes for children's dishes: in the form of smiling faces or cute animals.

One option is mashed cockerel. To do this, you need to lay out a slightly curved body with a spoon, use a boiled quail egg as a head, use strips of green and red sweet pepper to create a tail, attach a comb with a quarter of a cherry tomato. And make a sprig of dill with a wing. The child will definitely like a fun and beautiful dish. And in terms of balance, it will compete with any full meal. The only point is that it is not worth frying onions for the children's menu. And be sure to take into account the age of the little gourmet: this dish is suitable for children from two years and older.