Potatoes in pots - the most delicious recipes

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

You can cook potatoes in pots in any season. But this dish is most delicious in autumn and winter. And this is not at all surprising. Autumn is the time for the ripening of tubers and fresh seasonal vegetables. Winter is a time of cold, and potatoes in portioned pots are good when they are eaten straight from the oven. This is a very hearty and warming dish. If you haven't cooked it yet, now is the time to do it.

How to cook and from what

Today we offer you to cook potatoes in pots according to a recipe with a photo, described step by step. By tradition, we will start with a simple cooking option. Most likely, any hostess will find the ingredients necessary for a fragrant dish. If necessary, the missing products can be purchased at the nearest store. For the first preparation of potatoes in pots, it is better to take small volumes. To get started, try out the recipe, we suggest filling only two medium containerssizes.

Grandma's potato

Preparing products:

• Potatoes - 7 pieces.
• Any minced meat - 300-500 grams.
• Carrot - 1 piece.
• 2 bulbs.
• Laurel leaf - 2-4 pieces.
• Garlic - to taste.
• About 1 liter of water.
• 2 bouillon cubes (your favorite flavor).
• Vegetable oil (we will fry vegetables on it).
• Various green herbs - to taste.

Cooking technology (step by step) potatoes in pots (you could see the photo of the finished dish above):

1. Cleaning our potato tubers. It is better to take a small potato (4-5 cm in diameter).
2. Cut the onion into half rings. If you don’t really like onions in food, then you can cut them into small pieces. Pour it into a frying pan with oil.
3. Peel the carrots, rub and send to the onion. Let the vegetables fry until the onions are golden.
4. The next step is filling the pots with potatoes. We do not cut the tubers, but use them whole. Fill the pot 2/3 full with potatoes.
5. From minced meat you need to make balls that look like meatballs. Determine the size of the products yourself, depending on your preferences. But remember that it is better not to make very large meatballs.



The optimal diameter of products is 3-4 cm in diameter.

6. "We cover" potatoes and meat balls with browned carrots and onions.
7. Making broth filling. To do this, the cubes need to be filled with hot water andstir until they dissolve. Crush the garlic through a press and pour it into the broth.
8. Fill our potatoes in pots to half. We send the dishes with the dish to a cold oven and then turn it on. After heating, you can count the cooking time. In an oven preheated to 180 degrees, the dish should be simmered for 1.5-2 hours.
9. When the dish is ready, sprinkle it with herbs.

Potatoes with meat - yummy

For those who do not really like minced meat products, there are many recipes for cooking with different types of meat. How to cook potatoes with meat in pots, read below. Recipes can be modified depending on what kind of meat you prefer. For example, instead of fatty pork, take lamb, and replace chicken with turkey.

With pork

For 1 kilogram of pork, you need to take about a kilogram of potato tubers, 2 large onions and carrots (also 2 pieces). Tomato paste you need to take 1 dessert spoon. Vegetable oil, pepper and s alt - to taste.

Technology for cooking potatoes in pots with pork meat:

1. Chop onions and carrots. Onions should be cut into pieces, and carrots should be grated.
2. Fry the vegetables over medium heat until the onions are golden brown.
3. Cut the peeled potatoes into medium sized cubes.
4. Free meat from excess: films, fat, tendons. Then fry it with the addition of vegetable oil, pre-cut into small pieces.
5. Now it's time to put the meat and other food into the pots. The sequence is as follows: a layer of fried meat, then potato cubes and bay leaves. Lay browned carrots with onions on top.
6. Add 1/4 dessert spoon of tomato paste (if desired, you can replace it with ketchup). Add spices for flavor and finally fill the pots with boiled water. Don't forget the s alt.
7. Now you need to cover the pots with lids and place in a cold oven. As soon as it warms up to the desired temperature, we begin the countdown of the cooking time. After 40-50 minutes, you can turn off the oven and try a fragrant dish. You can add greens if you like.

With mushrooms and chicken

Delicious and fragrant, tender and most beloved potatoes will turn out exactly according to this recipe. We need:

• Chicken - about half a kilo of pulp (breast, chicken legs).
• Potatoes - about a kilo.
• Champignons - 250-400 grams. Mushrooms can be taken frozen, fresh or canned - as desired.
• 2 bulbs.
• Hard cheese - 150-200 grams.
• 200 grams of sour cream (or sour cream).
• Lean oil.
• Boiled water.
• S alt.

Cooking method

1. Onion peel and cut into half rings.
2. Champignons, if raw, process and rinse.
3. Fry the meat until crispy appetizing crust in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil. Now you need to put it out of the pan into pots. Leave the oil - itcome in handy.
4. Prepare the mushrooms by cutting them into slices and fry them in the vegetable oil left over from cooking the meat. With mushrooms, you need to fry onion half rings. Don't forget to add some s alt to the cooking ingredients.
5. Now the mushrooms go in the second layer after the meat in the pot.
6. After peeling, turn the potatoes into small cubes and send them to the mushroom layer. At this stage of cooking potatoes in a pot, you can add ground pepper.
7. Distribute sour cream into pots in equal parts and fill their contents with water. The water should cover the vegetables and meat.
8. It was the turn of the cheese. It needs to be crushed with a grater and put the cheese chips on top of the sour cream.
9. Cover each pot with a lid (if there are no lids, use foil). Place the sheet with the pots in the oven.
10. At 200 degrees, potatoes in pots will be ready in about an hour. When the set time has passed, remove the lids or foil and leave the pots in the switched off oven for about 15 minutes. After a specified period of time, a delicious cheese crust will appear in each of them.

Bon appetit!