How to cook stuffed potatoes in the oven

Potato is the most popular vegetable among the Slavs. It is difficult to imagine a festive or everyday dinner without this meal. Stuffed potatoes are considered to be interesting, which is suitable even for a banquet.

As the filling, various ingredients are used, for example: fish, meat, mushrooms or vegetables. In the article I will review the most popular and most successful recipes for cooking stuffed potatoes at home.

Preparation for cooking

Cooking potatoes for baking in the oven in several ways:

1. Boil in their skins until fully cooked. Then they cut it in half and use a spoon to make indentations where the filling is added.
2. Jacket potatoes are brought to a half-ready.
3. Baked raw. In this case, the tubers are washed, cut in half and formed boats.
4. And the easiest option. For preparation use a special device. With its help, they make identical holes where the filling is placed. Such potatoes look the most attractive.

Stuffed Potatoes - A Classic Recipe

A classic recipe is potatoes stuffed with meat.

• Wash and dry the potatoes thoroughly.
• Cut the dry tubers in half. Spread each half with butter.
• Cut the chicken into small cubes. Then add finely chopped greens to the meat and mix thoroughly.
• Cut hard cheese into thin slices, and stuff the potatoes with pre-prepared minced meat. Put the cheese strips in the form of a grid on top.
• Cover the baking sheet with parchment. Then put the halves on it.
• Bake for about 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

The most delicious potato with minced meat in the oven

Cooking is quick and easy, especially if the kitchen has a tool for forming holes in the tubers.

• 20 potatoes;
• 300-400 g of minced meat;
• One egg;
• 200g cream;
• One onion;
• 70 g of butter;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 50 ml of water;
• Salt pepper to taste.

1. Rinse tubers of the same size and shape with water and peel. Cut the middle.
2. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and lay the potatoes on it with the holes up.
3. We proceed to the preparation of the filling. Stuffing is suitable for pork, beef, chicken or mixed. Put the meat in a bowl, add the egg salt, pepper and spices as desired. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
4. Add it both raw and fried until golden brown. Mix everything thoroughly and stuff the potatoes.
5. Melt the butter in a pan and add the cream. Warm the mixture a little and mix. Do not boil!
6. Add water and a warm butter-and-butter mixture to the potato pan. Place the oven for 40-50 minutes. Bake at a temperature of 180-190 degrees.

Serve with sour cream and finely chopped herbs.

Stuffed Potatoes with Mushrooms

Another original recipe with which the hostess will surprise households and friends.

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 400 g of any mushrooms;
• 150 ml cream;
• 2.5 teaspoons of salt;
• 1 teaspoon black pepper;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Step by step recipe:

1. Rinse the potatoes with water, put in a pan, fill with cold water, add salt and put on fire. Cook until cooked.
2. While the tubers are boiling, prepare the filling. Peel the mushrooms, wash, cut into small cubes.
3. Fry the mushrooms until half cooked in vegetable oil. Then add cream and salt. Bring to full readiness. Some housewives cook without adding cream.
4. Peel the boiled potatoes and cut in half. On the side of the cut with a spoon, make a recess. After greasing the baking sheet with vegetable oil, spread the salted and pepper potatoes.
5. Put the filling in the cut holes. Preheat the oven to 200-220 degrees. Bake for about 15-20 minutes.

If desired, a little grated cheese can be put on the potatoes and cooked until an appetizing crust is formed.

Stuffed Potatoes with Vegetables

This cooking method is the longest. It is popular with ladies who are afraid to gain extra pounds.

Ingredients:

• 10 potatoes;
• Squash;
• One carrot;
• Bulb;
• 1 PC. - a tomato;
• A little nutmeg (on the tip of a knife);
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• 100 g butter;
• A bunch of fresh dill;
• Salt to taste.

1. Wash and boil tubers in their skins.
2. While potatoes are being prepared, prepare the remaining vegetables. They must be washed and dried.
3. Cut off the tops from the boiled tuber, and use the spoon to make indentations. Put the contents in a separate cup and mash.
4. Cut vegetables into small cubes of the same size.
5. Fry chopped vegetables in a pan for about 5 minutes. Add mashed potatoes, salt, spices and nutmeg. Mix everything thoroughly.
6. In the middle of the potato, first put the oil, and then the filling.
7. On a greased baking sheet, put the potatoes and send to bake in an oven preheated to 180-190 degrees for 20 minutes. When ready, grease each potato on top with butter.

Sprinkle with chopped dill before serving.

Useful Tips

To make the dish in the oven tasty, pay attention to the following nuances.

• The tubers must be of the same grade and the same size.
• When choosing a variety, pay attention to species with an average starch content. During baking, they will not fall apart.
• Do not take too small tubers.
• To make neat grooves in the potatoes, use a teaspoon or a special one for ice cream.
• When serving the dish, think about complementing it. If you used minced meat or fish as a filling, by the way you will have a vegetable salad. If stuffing with vegetables, take fish or chops. Sauce is welcome.
• Serve hot or warm.

Cooking stuffed potatoes is quick and easy. Various filling options will be appreciated even by the most demanding gourmets. It is important to remember that any business must be approached creatively and with love, then everything will work out.