Classic potato casserole with meat: two layers of mashed potatoes and a layer minced meat between them. Everything is very simple, but how delicious! With green salad, pickles or sauerkraut- My household is happy with her in any form. I am sure that your potato and meat casserole will also give you pleasure.

Ingredients

To make potato casserole with meat, you will need:

• 1 kg potatoes
• 125 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 20 g butter
• 250 g minced beef and pork
• 2 onions
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 50 g semi hard cheese type "Emmental", "Gouda", "Cheddar"
• 2 tbsp breadcrumbs for mold
• 10 g butter for greasing the mold
• salt, black ground pepper

Cooking

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Peel the onions and cut into small cubes. Heat up the pan and grease vegetable oil. Fry the onion and meat in a pan until cooked, it will take about 20 minutes. Fry over medium heat, stirring occasionally so that the onion does not burn.



In the finished fried minced meat, add salt and pepper to taste, mix and cool slightly.



Peel the potatoes, wash, cut in half and place in a bowl. Pour in enough water to just cover the potatoes. Salt and cook for about half an hour until the potatoes are cooked. Check the readiness of potatoes with a knife or fork, they should easily pierce the largest tuber in the thickest place.



Drain the water from the hot potato and mash it by adding 20 g of butter. Pour the milk into the puree gradually, and then add the eggs one at a time, stirring the puree well each time. Check the puree for taste, if there is enough salt, if necessary, add salt.



Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Grease a 30cm x 20cm baking dish and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Put half of the mashed potatoes on the bottom of the mold and level it, spread the whole minced meat on top in an even layer.



Put the second half of the puree on the minced meat and sprinkle everything with grated cheese on a fine grater.



Place the potato and meat casserole in the preheated oven and bake for about 45 minutes until golden brown. Remove, let stand for 10 minutes at room temperature, then cut into pieces and serve with fresh salad. Bon appetit!

Potato casserole. Potato is one of the most popular vegetables. Its cost-effectiveness, pleasant taste and wide possibilities of use make not only ordinary consumers, but also artists (take Tosya from "Girls", listing dishes from potato tubers) sing an ode to potatoes. One of the simple and delicious meals from potatoes is a casserole.

The unique neutral taste of potatoes is a field for culinary fantasy, since the vegetable goes well with any kind of meat and poultry, offal, mushrooms, vegetables, cheese, etc. By the way, depending on the filling, you need to select spices. You can use ready-made seasonings for potatoes and other vegetables, but their taste is fairly standard due to flavor enhancers and preservatives. Another thing is to choose from a number of natural seasonings to your taste. Black pepper goes well with potatoes, nutmeg, cumin. Garlic also rules the ball here - not only the taste, but also the smell will not leave indifferent any household member (otherwise, look, the neighbors will come running too). green onion, parsley and dill are always welcome guests at potatoes. Thyme, marjoram, ginger are perfect for potato casseroles with meat. Provencal herbs go well with potatoes, mixtures of which can be found everywhere on sale. If you want to diversify the dish, use oriental turmeric and coriander. Experiment by writing down the “progress of the experiment”. Very soon you will surely hear from the household a request to “repeat” the dish.

Many consider potatoes to be a high-calorie product, which is better to refuse. However, nutritionists have long refuted this opinion, pointing out that potatoes can be dietary product, if you cook it correctly, and the potato diet is recognized as one of the effective weight normalization systems. Depending on the ingredients, potato casserole can be either hearty, high-calorie (for example, from fatty meats) or lean (with potatoes and other vegetables).

Cooking potato casserole is a pleasure. All you have to do is put the products in the form (or in the pan) and send the future culinary masterpiece to the oven. appetizing dish with fragrant crust ready in the blink of an eye - you won't even have time to look back.

Potato casseroles are very diverse, because they can be prepared from raw potatoes, and from ready-made, boiled, as well as mashed potatoes. Leftover mashed potatoes from dinner, which, as we know, lose their taste when reheated? Use it to make casseroles for dinner. Take some minced meat or pieces of chicken breast, ham or sausage, stewed cabbage or champignons, put the filling between two layers of potatoes, brush with sour cream on top - and you get great dish for dinner, maybe even breakfast. Although this is unlikely - the age of casseroles is short-lived, since they are eaten very quickly (it is hardly worthy until the morning). By the way, in order for the dish to keep its shape, it is recommended to use a filling of eggs, sour cream and cream. Also, many sprinkle potato casseroles with grated cheese - a magnificent duet of potatoes and cheese has long earned them fame and love of everyone who loves to eat deliciously.

It is not difficult to prepare this treat, moreover, it allows you to realize a lot of creative ideas! Recipes for meat casseroles are amazingly diverse: you can come up with hundreds of unique varieties! Using various ingredients, culinary specialists strive to create new flavors and sensations. You can bake any meat: be it pork, rabbit, beef or chicken - each time the chef will receive a completely original dish.

The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes are:

Weight watchers can choose the most “easy” option to deny themselves the pleasure of tasting a treat. In addition, potatoes and other vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, cheese, butter, many different spices and spices. Fans of spicy food willingly add garlic and use spicy sauces, creating a spicy, burning taste. Spicy herbs give a pleasant aroma, awakening the appetite. Soon a ruddy and juicy creation will appear from the oven, which everyone will appreciate! Regardless of the type of minced meat, dinner will turn out to be incredibly satisfying, delighting those sitting at the table.

Step 1: prepare the meat.

This casserole is the perfect family breakfast, lunch or dinner. Prepared from the most simple ingredients, it turns out delicious and very satisfying. So, to begin with, we wash a fresh tenderloin under streams of cold running water. After that, we dry it with paper kitchen towels, put it on a cutting board and use a sharp kitchen knife to remove a thin film, veins, cartilage, and bones from the pork, which very often remain on the meat after chopping the carcass. Then cut it into small cubes or slices with a thickness within 1.5 centimeters and transfer to a clean bowl.

Step 2: Prepare potatoes and onions.

Next, using a clean knife, remove the peel from the potatoes and onions. We wash the vegetables, dry them, send them in turn to a new cutting board and continue cooking. Shred potatoes in round layers, straws or cubes size, not exceeding 5 millimeters. Onions cut into rings or half rings thickness from 5 to 7 millimeters and distribute everything in separate small bowls.

Step 3: prepare cheese and other ingredients.

Now we cut off the paraffin crust from hard cheese and grind it on a fine, medium or large grater into a small deep plate. Then we heat up the oven up to 200 degrees Celsius, at the same time we put the rest of the products on the countertop, as well as the spices that will be needed to prepare the dish, and proceed to the next step.

Step 4: form a potato casserole with meat.

We take a medium-sized non-stick or heat-resistant baking dish and cover its bottom with an even layer of onions. On top of it we distribute pieces of pork, which we immediately sprinkle with a mixture of spices for meat and soak with half of the mayonnaise. Next comes the potatoes. It can be laid figuratively, in an artistic mess, or simply evenly, it all depends on the shape of the cut. Then we season the pieces of vegetable to taste with salt, ground black pepper and spread the remaining mayonnaise on them, so that it lies evenly and completely covers the potatoes.

Grind the surface of the formed casserole with chopped cheese.

We tighten the dishes with the still raw food with aluminum foil, trying not to leave gaps.

Step 5: Bring the dish to full readiness.

Then we put the form in the oven preheated to the desired temperature on the middle rack and keep the dish there 40–45 minutes before fully prepared all components. After this time, we very carefully cut the top layer of foil with a knife, spread its edges in different directions and leave the casserole in the oven for another 10–15 minutes to brown.
Once its surface is covered golden crust, we put kitchen gloves on our hands, rearrange the form on a cutting board, previously placed on the countertop, and let the yummy cool slightly. Then, using a spatula, divide the casserole into 4-6 servings, arrange them on plates and serve to the table.

Step 6: serve the potato casserole with meat.

Potato casserole with meat is served hot as a second main course. After cooking, it is slightly cooled, divided into portions, distributed on separate plates, decorated with sprigs of fresh herbs if desired, and served at the table. As an addition to this culinary masterpiece you can offer pickled, fresh or pickled vegetables, salad and, of course, bread. Enjoy delicious, simple and highly nutritious meals!
Bon appetit!

The set of spices is not fundamental, use any that season meat dishes;

Alternative to pork chicken breast, mayonnaise - sour cream, and onion- leek;

Some hostesses, before putting food into the mold, lubricate it with a thin layer of butter or vegetable oil;

If desired, the casserole can be supplemented with a few more layers of fresh, thinly sliced ​​salad peppers and mushrooms, laid on top of the meat, and tomato rings, distributed on the surface of the potatoes.