Potato is a dish without which not a single table can do - whether it is everyday or festive. On a typical day, few people think about how to serve this dish beautifully, but on a holiday, the opposite is true.
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Pick your recipe
There are plenty of options for serving beautiful and original potatoes on the table, so before you start cooking, it is important to determine in what form the vegetable will be served. The most common potato cooking options are boiling, stewing and baking.
Most housewives prefer to serve potatoes stewed with meat at the festive table, but this option is too commonplace, so if you want to surprise guests, then take a look at a more original recipe for cooking potatoes that will appeal to most eaters.
An interesting option for serving potatoes is to make balls from vegetables and deep-fry them. Before serving, decorate them with greens or bacon. The recipe is quite simple: you need to boil the potatoes in salt water, then knead it, add spices and eggs (one egg for every 250-300 grams of potatoes), mix everything. Roll balls of the size of a walnut from the resulting mass, roll them in breading and fry in oil over high heat. Before serving, it is better to decorate the balls.
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If you want to unusually serve mashed potatoes, then do this: put a warm dish in a pastry bag, then squeeze it in the form of a tower or any other figure on a wide flat plate.
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Lovers of baked potatoes can try to make something like kebabs from a vegetable. To do this, peel the small potatoes (about 4 cm in diameter), place them on wooden skewers as densely as possible to each other (the number of skewers is a piece per person), then place them in a dish and pour in the marinade with spices.
After an hour, skewers with potatoes, put on a greased baking sheet and bake the dish at a temperature of 180-190 degrees, the cooking time is 40 minutes.
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