From potatoes are prepared the most diverse andunexpected dishes. If there is no time or too lazy to stand at the stove, the simplest thing you can do is boil this vegetable with chunks or crush it in a mash. When the culinary mood is at the peak of its activity, recipes will become useful, thanks to which ordinary potatoes will turn into a fragrant and surprising by their flavoring qualities. Today we will share the secrets of preparing a dish with meat, cheese and the product mentioned above. If you try a little and take the time to translate these recipes into reality, a potato casserole will appear on your table, which promises to be incredibly appetizing. 
Casserole usual
Let's start with the simplest and fastest incooking recipe. This potato casserole is an ideal dish, when you do not want to spend time in the kitchen. You just need to cut the necessary products, put everything in the oven and enjoy your favorite thing while your creation is baked. We used beef, but you can cook a dish with chicken, pork or other meat. Ingredients:
- half a kilo of fresh beef
- eight medium potatoes
- two onion bulbs
- 300 grams of hard cheese ("Russian" or "Dutch" is suitable)
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil
- two chicken eggs
- salt - to taste
- 300 grams of cream (they can be replaced with fatty sour cream)
- fresh parsley
Cooking method: To ensure that your casserole has turned out to be successful, we recommend buying potatoes of unsorted varieties, for example, white. It is well cut and does not fall apart. In addition, it is better to pre-cook beef or bake in the oven, otherwise it will be too stiff. If you replaced it with chicken or pork, then they do not need to be prepared. So, chop fresh parsley or other greens (depending on what you have chosen), and cut the beef in small pieces, then mix both ingredients, salt them and, if you want, add ground pepper. Peel potatoes from the peel and cut into thin circles, and bulb onions - semirings. Now smear with vegetable oil the form in which you will prepare the dish, and lay out in it such layers: meat, chopped onions, potatoes. Fill everything with a salted mixture of eggs and cream, whipped with a special whisk. Put the dish in the oven, heated to 180 degrees. After forty minutes, take it out, sprinkle with grated cheese and again send it to the oven. After a quarter of an hour, your potato casserole will be ready for use. If you made a dish in special pots, then you can serve it on the table in this form. Or put everything into plates. Bon Appetit! 
Dish from potatoes and chicken with champignons
Not all women preferbeef or pork. This product is more like men. Therefore, if you decide to get together with your friends, treat them to a dish prepared according to this recipe. It is very quickly done and does not require special culinary skills from the cook. Potato casserole with chicken and fresh mushrooms, sprinkled with cheese - what is not the reason for a friendly meeting? Ingredients:
- one kilogram of white potatoes
- 500 grams of chicken (we recommend taking breast or fillets)
- 400 grams of fresh mushrooms (you can use other mushrooms)
- two onions
- 150 grams of cheese
- Salt, as well as spices - all for your taste
- 200 milliliters of pasteurized milk
- egg - one piece
- 50 grams of oil (take olive or other vegetable)
Cooking method: If you use a brisket, separate the meat from the bone and cut it into cubes, and the mushrooms - in small pieces. It is not necessary to take this sort of mushrooms, because you can buy oyster mushrooms or put dried chanterelles or honey agarics in a dish. However, in this case they need to be soaked for a while in warm water - then they will be soft and juicy. Put into the saucepan, preheated with butter, chicken, sprinkled with spices. Stir it, and when the meat brightens, add mushrooms and chopped onions. A little salt and keep on the stove until ready. Now, on the bottom of the oiled form, put half a serving of potatoes, previously cut into mugs, and then - fried chicken with mushrooms. Once again salt, then cover everything with a layer of potatoes. In a separate bowl, beat whisk with fresh milk and egg, you can pepper the mixture for your taste. Then fill it with the above ingredients. The casserole is cooked in the oven at 190 degrees. After a lapse of 30 minutes, take out the dishes, sprinkle the dish with grated cheese and put it again in the oven. Before you get food, try to see if meat and potatoes are ready. We hope, your casserole will turn out delicious, and a party with friends - cheerful.
Potato casserole with ham
Potato casserole is prepared not only withmeat and cheese. We offer a recipe, which also includes ham and mushrooms, where fresh beets and bread crumbs give the dish an element of surprise. We think that not all have tried such a dish. Ingredients:
- kilogram of boiled potatoes
- five tablespoons of milk
- 500 grams of champignons
- onions - one piece
- 160 grams of smoked ham
- 200 grams of pork
- table salt - at your discretion
- two tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 150 grams of cream cheese
- some breadcrumbs
- 100 grams of any hard cheese
- 150 grams of raw beet
- olive oil
Cooking method: Half an hour before cooking, boil the potatoes in the "uniform". In the meantime, tackle the filling. To do this, fry the chopped meat to a brown golden crust. Now cut into cubes onions and ham, and chop mushrooms in small pieces. Then the first two ingredients are sent into the pan with olive oil, lightly salt, and, stirring, hold for five minutes, then put the champignons and put the pork. Let your stuffing stew for about ten minutes. You can add special seasonings - they will give the dish a pleasant aroma. Finished potatoes in mashed potatoes, so it was not too thick, add a little warmed milk. Now grate both kinds of cheese on a grater, and creamy mix with a meat-mushroom filling. We made a dish in clay pots. You can use any form for this - just treat its inner edges and bottom with olive oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and grease with mayonnaise. Place a piece of mashed potatoes here, and top - stuffing. Now rub medium beet strips and combine it with the remaining potatoes. It is from this mixture that the last layer of the dish is composed. It can be put out with a spoon or squeezed out in the form of patterns from a confectionery bag filled with beet-potato puree. When this procedure is over, sprinkle your creation with hard cheese, grated, and bake in the oven. The temperature should not exceed 180 degrees. The cooking time will take fifteen to twenty minutes. If there is fresh greens, chop it with a knife and sprinkle each portion of the dish. Eat with appetite! 
Casserole from potatoes, cheese, corn and meat
Casserole is a favorite dish of many housewives. Its plus is that it is quickly prepared and does not require much trouble. There are many variants of this dish: it is made from cottage cheese, manki - we will have a potato with meat. We took a frozen chicken leg, but you can use more nutritious foods: beef or tender pork. Ingredients:
- one chicken thigh
- potatoes - five small pieces
- vegetable oil - two large spoons
- one can of canned corn
- two onions
- 100 grams of "Dutch" cheese
- delicacy mayonnaise
Cooking method: Remove the chicken in advance from the refrigerator so that it is slightly defrosted, then use a knife to remove the meat chips from it. If you use a fresh whole leg, then boil it in a beginner to boil slightly brackish water, and then cut into strips. Fry the pan with high beads (or any other shape) with oil. This is suitable for both vegetable and cream. Then at the bottom of the dishes lay a chicken, which is topped with a layer of onion and corn cut into half rings. With potatoes, peel off the skin, cut it with mugs and put it in a frying pan on top of the rest of the products. Now sprinkle all the grated Dutch cheese and abundantly grease with delicious mayonnaise. Casserole for this recipe is prepared without salt, but you can add this ingredient at your discretion. Keep the dish in the oven for half an hour. Suitable temperature is 200 degrees. If the potato casserole seemed to you too dry, next time you can pour it instead of mayonnaise with a mixture of whipped eggs and low-fat sour cream. When serving a dish, we recommend sprinkling it with chopped herbs, so the food will look much more appetizing.
Hot pudding from potatoes and chicken
We offer one more, this time an acute versiondishes with meat. Casserole with paprika, of course, is not suitable for every stomach, but if you like dishes with a sharp taste and aroma, then you just need to try this recipe. Ingredients:
- a tablespoon of butter
- two garlic cloves
- onions - two small pieces
- 80 grams of vegetable oil
- red, as well as yellow paprika - just two pieces
- one medium hen
- two large spoons of flour
- 600 milliliters of milk
- four tablespoons of Mascarpone cheese
- salt put in your own discretion
- freshly ground paprika - small spoon
- 900 grams of potatoes
Cooking method: The most delicious potato mass is obtained from vegetables of white varieties. Therefore, if there is such an opportunity, buy this particular product. Cut in thin strips two kinds of paprika and onions, then fry all together with the crushed garlic in a saucepan with vegetable oil. Approximate cooking time - ten minutes. In a shallow saucepan, put a small piece of butter and put it on a weak fire. When the product melts, enter the flour and fry it to the color of gold. Then slowly pour the milk. Mix the mixture well and put the cheese. Now add the ground paprika and one or two pinch of salt. Lastly, enter the onion mass that you prepared in the pan. In a different bowl, boil the chicken and potatoes. Then separate the meat from the bones and cut it with thin strips, which must be laid out on the bottom of the mold, treated with oil. Pour everything with a spicy mixture of milk and onions. When all this is done, rastolkite potatoes to the state of mashed potatoes and lay it on top of other products. Send the form to the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Half an hour later, the fragrant golden casserole will be ready! Finally, we will tell you some secrets of the ideal dish. So, the most spectacular is the dish, which is put on the table directly in pots, small bowls or in other forms. There is another option: you can cut the casserole into rectangular pieces and spread it over the plates. Some cooks, in order for meat to be softer, pre-beat it with a special hammer. In addition, instead of chicken, beef or pork, you can use minced meat. Lubricate the dish not only with mayonnaise, but with a beaten egg, sprinkle with breadcrumbs or sprinkle with a few spoonfuls of bird fat. If you do not have an electric but a gas stove, put a baking sheet, sprinkled with a thick layer of table salt, on the bottom of the oven to prevent the casserole from burning. We hope that these tips and the above recipes will help you to master the culinary arts. We advise you to read:
