We can say that the potatoes and the oven found each other. After all, it is technologically the preparation in the oven that is as close as possible to the traditional languor, which was provided by the Russian stove. And where, if not in the oven, to cook potatoes ?!
Pick your recipe
Whole baked potato
The easiest way to cook potatoes in the oven is to bake whole. No skepticism - from the simplicity of the approach, such potatoes will not cease to be tasty! There is one trick: to bake whole is only young tubers, or at least do it before the new year. In the old ones there is a lot of starch, which when baked leads to the feeling that there is mashed potato inside the peel. Another nuance of cooking - potatoes should try to choose about the same size. Otherwise, the uneven cooking will nullify all your efforts to turn whole potatoes, baked in the oven, into a tasty and beautiful dish.
For a basic recipe, you will need:
- 1 kg of new potatoes;
- 25 g of butter;
- 5 g of salt.
Wash the potato, depending on the condition of the peel, treat it with an abrasive cloth or scrape it with a knife, rinse again and dry thoroughly. Grate the tubers with dry salt and place on the baking sheet of the oven. Bake potatoes correctly in a gentle mode. It turns out very tasty if the first half hour in the oven is 45-50 degrees, and the subsequent cooking time, the temperature will increase to 75-80 degrees. Willingness is determined using a thin wooden stick: it should enter the tuber without pressure.
While the potatoes are baked in the oven, you can think about the filling. The scope of imagination is not limited by anything but the budget. A very tasty addition is finely chopped herring fillet mixed with green onions. For lovers of more satisfying dishes, small cubes of ham and cheese are recommended. If guests are planning, the filling can be chicken or trout cooked in cream and white wine sauce. Whatever you choose as accompaniment, the main character is potatoes. Even if you decide not to start it at all, the basic recipe is self-sufficient. It’s worth cutting the potato in half, putting a slice of fresh butter inside and eating it with pleasure - believe me, it’s already delicious.
Home-baked potato
Another dish that you can cook in the oven is Home-style Potatoes. Both starchy tubers and those in which there is little starch are suitable for him. Potatoes should be processed similarly to the previous recipe, and then - depending on size - cut into halves or quarters. An important condition regarding the uniformity of slicing is also observed in this recipe for cooking potatoes in the oven. There is nothing worse than non-baked wedges adjacent to mashed wedges.
For a basic recipe, you will need:
- 1 kg of new potatoes;
- 25 g of vegetable oil;
- 7 g of garlic;
- 2 g coarsely ground black pepper;
- 3 g of salt.
You should start with the preparation of vegetable oil, in which you need to add garlic squeezed through a press, crushed pepper and salt. It is important to dry the sliced potato wedges, this moment is the key to a beautiful golden crust on the finished potato from the oven. Dried potatoes should be greased with an oil mixture using a silicone brush so that pieces of garlic and pepper do not fall on the underside of the slices, the one that comes in contact with the baking sheet. Otherwise, the potatoes in the oven will burn, nothing good will come of the dish. Putting potatoes at home in the oven, it is recommended to set the temperature to 140 degrees, and after 10 minutes. reduce heat to 80 degrees. It is this temperature regime that will provide both an appetizing crust and uniform cooking. If your stove has a blow function, it is better to cook potatoes in the oven according to this recipe with it.