7 culinary life hacking with potatoes, which is worth a try

1. Cook the potatoes in the microwave to save time

Wash potatoes and pierce with a fork every 5-6 times. Put on a plate and send in the microwave. Depending on the size of the potatoes, set the cooking time. Tuber preparing average value for 5 minutes, two tuber - 10 minutes, four - 15 minutes.

Remove the potatoes from the microwave using towels or pot holders. Cut it and add your favorite toppings: butter, herbs, cheese, sour cream, bacon.

2. Spend a knife to the potatoes before cooking to then quickly clean it

Wash the potatoes and draw on it with a knife in a circle. When the potatoes are cooked and cooled, remove the peel. Come out much faster than clean knife or peeler before cooking.

3. Save salted soup, add to potatoes

Put the sliced ​​potato in salted soup, and then simmer for 10 minutes. The potato will absorb the excess salt, and your soup will be saved.

4. Turn water remaining after cooking potatoes in gravy

Mix broth, a little water left after cooking potatoes, salt and pepper. Add ½ tablespoons of cornstarch to make a thicker gravy.

5. Make mashed potatoes fragrant, then the potatoes in cream with herbs

Ingredients:

• 1 kg potato;
• cream;
• 3 teaspoons melted butter;
• 3 teaspoons of olive oil;
• 2 garlic cloves;
• sprig of rosemary;
• a sprig of sage;
• a sprig of thyme.

preparation

Peel and slice the potatoes. Put it in a pan. Fill the cream (they should cover potatoes) adding olive oil and butter, sage, garlic, rosemary and thyme. Cook about 20 minutes over medium heat until the potatoes are tender.

Drain off the liquid into a separate bowl. Mash the potatoes, adding to the remaining broth to the desired consistency, add salt and pepper. puree ready.

6. Use the remnants of mashed potatoes for cooking other dishes

potato waffles

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cold mashed potatoes;
• ¼ cup flour;
• 2 large eggs;
• ½ cup grated cheddar cheese;
• 1 tablespoon chopped green onions.

preparation

Mix mashed potatoes, flour and eggs in a large bowl. Add the cheese and chives.

Coat the waffle iron with oil and turn it on full blast. To make one middle wafer, put ½ cup of dough in the center of the waffle iron and close it. Cook until lightly browned waffle.

To make a mini-waffles, toast at a time of ¼ cup of dough.

Baskets of mashed potatoes with cheese filling

Ingredients:

• 2 cups mashed potatoes;
• 3 strips of bacon;
• a handful of chopped green onions;
• ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese;
• 1 teaspoon salt;
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper;
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder;
• 1 cup grated cheddar cheese.

preparation

Mix in a large bowl, mashed potatoes, and fried sliced ​​bacon (two strips), green onion, cheese, salt, pepper and garlic powder.

Fill 12 muffin molds for mashed potatoes, making each groove. Add grated cheddar cheese in center of each basket.

Bake baskets in the oven at 200 ° C for 30-35 minutes, until they do not become browned and crunchy.

Garnish with sour cream, green onions and finely chopped bacon left.

donuts

Ingredients:

• ½ teaspoon of yeast spoons;
• ½ cup of warm water;
• ½ cup sugar;
• ⅓ cup melted butter;
• ½ cup of hot mashed potatoes;
• ½ cup of warm milk;
• 1 egg;
• ¾ teaspoon salt;
• 4 cups flour.

preparation

Stir the yeast in warm water and leave them to rise. Mix in another bowl, butter, sugar, mashed potatoes and milk.

Add the yeast to the water with the egg, salt and cup of flour, and then a lot of potatoes and three cups of flour. Stir until you have a sticky and soft dough. Cover it with a towel and leave for half an hour to climb.

Put the dough on a surface sprinkled with flour. Roll it to a thickness of 1 cm. Cut out the donuts and holes in them. Leave to rest for 30 minutes.

Pour about 2 cm in the oil pan. Heat it to 200 ° C. Put donuts. When their lower part browned, flip and sauté the other side. Remove the finished donuts and place on a paper towel. Sprinkle with sugar, treat, icing sugar and pour glaze.

7. Cook the potatoes in an unusual way

Hot sandwich with fries

Ingredients:

• 2-3 strips of bacon;
• 1 potato;
• 2 tablespoons of cream;
• cheddar cheese;
• green onions;
• 2 slices of bread;
• butter;
• vegetable oil;
• garlic powder;
• salt and pepper to taste.

preparation

Pour into a medium-sized frying pan vegetable oil so that it almost obscured the bottom. Put it over medium heat.

Cut the potato slices equal to 4-5. Fry in a pan until they become rosy and crispy. Lightly salt and pepper them and sprinkle with garlic powder. Many do not salt: in a sandwich is more bacon. Fry it over medium heat, using a different pan.

Slice the bread and spread the outer part of each piece of butter. Promazhte the inside of one teaspoon of sour cream, put a slice of cheese. When the potatoes are cooked and bacon, wrap them in paper towels that they gave extra fat. Arrange potatoes on bread, add a little more cream, then bacon and chopped green onions. Put another slice of cheese and a slice of bread close.

Fry the sandwich in a pan on both sides until bread is lightly browned.

Crushed potatoes, roasted garlic

Ingredients:

• ½ kg young potato;
• salt;
• 4 garlic cloves;
• olive oil;
• ground black pepper;
• Coarse salt;
• 2 teaspoons of ground coriander seeds.

preparation

Put potatoes in large pan and fill it with cold water at 5 cm. Good salt water.

Put the pan over high heat, bring the water to a boil and cook the potatoes over low heat until it becomes soft. Pour out the water and allow the tubers to cool slightly.

Clean the tubers if you want. Crush every press for mashed potatoes or a fork. The thickness of the potato should not exceed 5 mm. Crush the garlic in the same way, not cleaning it.

Put the potatoes on a heated pan with oil. Put between the potatoes and garlic. Slightly reduce heat to slowly roasted potatoes. When, after 5-8 minutes it becomes brownish, turn and sauté it with the other hand. Garlic is preparing faster, so when it browned on both sides, to shift it on a plate.

Ready Put the potatoes on a plate, sprinkle with freshly ground pepper, a little salt, add the coriander.

see also

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