You can't surprise anyone with mashed potatoes with meat anymore.If you want to add variety to your usual menu, but you have absolutely no time to prepare exquisite dishes, we suggest taking note of a simple recipe for a hearty meal. Potato casserole with cheese and minced meat turns out very appetizing and ruddy - it can be served not only hot, but also cold. This quick dish is an ideal dinner option for bachelors and busy women.
Potato casserole stuffed with minced meat and onion
Potato casserole is prepared in different ways:some prefer to make it from mashed potatoes, while others prefer to cut the vegetable into rings and then cover it with minced meat. Everyone has their own taste, and the second option is less time-consuming. Cooking this recipe will take you 40 minutes at most, but the dish will turn out simply excellent! Ingredients:
- 500 grams of ground beef
- bulb
- eight pieces of potatoes
- two eggs
- 150 grams of any cheese
- 20 grams of flour
- Salt and pepper - to taste
- breading
- three tablespoons of sour cream
Method of preparation:To make a tasty potato casserole, buy white vegetables that cook well. So, peel them, put them in a saucepan, cover with water, add a little salt and put them on the stove. When the potatoes are ready, mash them, then add the eggs and flour, previously beaten until smooth in a separate bowl. Mix all the ingredients well and leave the puree to cool. Now pay attention to preparing the filling: peel the onion and cut it into small cubes, then put it in a frying pan with heated vegetable oil. Sprinkle the minced meat with salt, pepper and mash thoroughly with a fork so that the mass does not form lumps. Then combine it with the onion and fry, stirring regularly, until the meat lightens slightly. The casserole is almost ready - all that remains is to collect all the ingredients and form the dish. Take a deep baking sheet and grease its bottom and walls with vegetable oil. If you want the dish to have a crispy crust, sprinkle the inside of the dish with breadcrumbs. Put some potatoes on top, grate cheese on top (half of the total amount of this product) and cover everything with minced meat. Then make another layer of the remaining ingredients and grease the "roof" of the dish with sour cream. The casserole is cooked in the oven at a temperature of at least 200 degrees. When its surface is covered with a crust, take the dish out and cover it with foil or cling film. Let it stand for about half an hour so that all the layers stick together well. It may happen that the dish will not turn out - it will fall apart. But this does not mean that you did something wrong. Next time, try boiling potatoes in their skins instead of peeled ones. Chefs often use this technique for making casseroles. The fact is that in this way starch remains inside the vegetable, which affects the strength of the structure: it acts as glue, holding together the different layers of the dish. So your potato casserole with hard cheese and ground beef will definitely turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful. Good luck!
Casserole with cheese and pork
This potato casserole takes aboutin half an hour, that is, even faster than the dish according to the previous recipe, because you will not need to make mashed potatoes. The dish with minced pork will appeal to everyone: adults, children and the elderly. It is filling and not at all fatty, so any stomach can digest it, and without any harm to health. By the way, if you do not have hard cheese, use processed cheese or do without it at all. In this case, to brown the top of the product, grease it with cream or sour cream. Ingredients:
- slightly more than half a kilogram of potatoes
- pork and beef - 200 grams each
- vegetable oil - for lubricating dishes
- onions - one piece
- salt
- 200 grams of Russian cheese (or use any one at your discretion)
- 100 milliliters of sour cream
- black pepper (ground) - if desired
- small bunch of fresh greens
Method of preparation:If you have enough time, we recommend making the pork and beef filling yourself. In this case, you will be completely sure of its quality and taste, because store-bought products are not always truly excellent. If you don’t have time, go to the nearest supermarket and buy ready-made minced meat, which during the cooking process, do not forget to pepper, salt and mash well with a fork. Now let’s get back to the casserole: first, cut both types of meat into medium pieces, peel the onion, send all the ingredients to the blender. Also tear the greens with your hands or chop them finely, then beat the products until smooth. If you don’t have a food processor, use a regular meat grinder. When you make the minced meat, add a little salt and pepper to your taste. It should not be too thick or runny, so add one or two tablespoons of water and mix thoroughly. The next step in preparing the dish is to work on the potatoes. Peel it and cut into not too thick circles. If the vegetable is not very young and quite hard, it is better to boil it in water (no longer than five minutes from the moment of boiling). This way the casserole will be soft, juicy and appetizing. You are almost close to the end - there is not much left. Treat the inside of the form with vegetable oil and put a layer of potatoes in it (but not all), sprinkle with salt, pepper and grease with sour cream. Then comes the hard cheese, pre-grated, again circles of potatoes and minced meat. Each "floor" of the dish can be soaked in mayonnaise or another sauce, for example, a mixture of beaten eggs and milk. Put the remaining potatoes, grated cheese on the dish and treat everything with sour cream so that the dish browns. Bake the product in the oven for a little more than half an hour, the recommended temperature is 200 degrees. We will give some advice on how to prepare this dish. Keep in mind that the filling, whipped with a blender, will be very fine, similar in consistency to thick puree, only meat. To make the mince look more attractive, pass it through a meat grinder. One more thing: you can not add onion to the pork and beef mass. Instead, cut it into rings and marinate in water with granulated sugar and table vinegar, and then lay out in layers, like the rest of the casserole ingredients.
Baked potato casserole with tender chicken
This potato casserole is not only suitablefor a quiet family dinner, but also for a small celebration with close friends. It is prepared with minced chicken and not with regular cheese, but with Parmesan, which, combined with paprika and other spices, gives the dish a piquant flavor and unrivaled aroma. Ingredients:
- six medium potatoes
- one egg
- olive oil
- 350 grams of chicken minced meat
- 70 grams of Parmesan cheese
- ground paprika
- fat homemade cream - a few spoons to lubricate the dish
- spices - to taste
Method of preparation:This recipe is slightly different from the previous ones, and now you will find out why. Do not cut the peeled potatoes - grate them into large strips on a grater. Boil the chicken eggs, then cool them under running water, remove the shells and also grind them. Combine the above ingredients in one bowl and mix well. As for the mince, we used a ready-made product that only needs to be salted and peppered. However, you can do it differently: buy a small chicken fillet or breast, cut the meat into large pieces and put it through a meat grinder, or better yet, beat it with a blender. Then add salt and paprika to your taste and a little grated Parmesan to the mince, leaving some for further cooking. Treat the bottom and inner edges of the baking sheet with olive oil, if you have parchment or baking paper, cover the dish with it so that the product does not burn. Now put ½ of the potato mass on the very bottom, grease it with cream, and evenly distribute the minced chicken on top. The last layer of the dish consists of the remaining potatoes, which need to be sprinkled with cheese, paprika and poured with cream. The latter, by the way, can be safely replaced with sour cream or gourmet mayonnaise. Cook the dish in the oven until it is browned. This will take from half an hour to 45 minutes. Potato casserole is an independent dish, to which salted cucumbers, mushrooms, sauerkraut and fresh vegetables are suitable as an appetizer. Most people pour sour cream on it, but there are many other sauces. For example, take note of this recipe: boil 50 grams of champignons and fry them with onions. In a separate frying pan, brown the flour in vegetable oil, dilute it with mushroom broth, add salt, a little pepper and combine with the above ingredients. We recommend reading:
