How to cook young potatoes at home? TOP 4 recipes with photos of delicious dishes. Tips and subtleties of cooking. Video recipes.
Young potatoes are a welcome vegetable on our tables in early summer. It is good in any form, and boiled and fried, and baked in the oven or on charcoal. Whichever recipe for cooking young potatoes you choose, it will be difficult to spoil it. Young potatoes will always turn out tasty and aromatic. And it doesn't matter if it is small or cut into pieces. On the eve of the new harvest, we offer TOP-4 recipes for the most delicious dishes from this vegetable.
Tips and subtleties of cooking young potatoes
- Young potatoes are easier to clean if you put them in hot water for 5 minutes and then in cold water, or soak them in cold salted water for 15-20 minutes.
- To preserve the maximum vitamins in the tubers, put the potatoes in boiling water. When heated slowly, the benefits of the product are quickly lost. Vitamins and mineral salts will also be preserved if potatoes are boiled in their skins.
- To prevent the potatoes from boiling, add 1-2 tablespoons to a pot of water during cooking. cabbage or cucumber pickle.
- When frying potatoes, they will not burn or stick together if the cut slices are rinsed with cold water and dried with a clean towel.
- The dish will turn out with a golden and crispy crust if you put the slices in well-heated oil and cook without a lid.
- The best seasoning for potatoes is dill and green onions. But it will also be delicious to season it with rosemary, garlic, black pepper, coriander, cumin …
- Potatoes will be tastier if you put onions, garlic, bay leaves in a saucepan during cooking.
- Use young potatoes in a few days, as it keeps worse than the old one.
- New potatoes are usually cooked for 10 minutes, but the specific time may vary depending on the size of the tubers.
- Check doneness with a fork or a narrow knife.
- Young potatoes go well with many products: dill, parsley, green onions, garlic sauce, bacon, sour cream, meat, mushrooms, etc.
Baked potatoes with bacon and cheese
Young potatoes baked with lard and cheese turn out juicy and soft on the inside, with a crispy and golden brown on the outside. The dish is tasty and aromatic and difficult to resist.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 326 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 1 kg
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Parsley - a few twigs
- Salt to taste
- Lard - 60 g
Cooking young potatoes baked with bacon and cheese:
- Rinse the potatoes, put them in a saucepan, cover with cold water, salt, boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Tip the potatoes into a colander so that the glass is water, cool slightly, cut in half and cut them up, place them on a baking sheet.
- Cut the bacon into slices and put it on the potatoes.
- Bake the potatoes in a preheated oven at 220 ° C for 5-10 minutes until crispy and golden brown.
- Then sprinkle the tubers with grated cheese, screw the oven temperature to 180 ° C and cook for another 10 minutes to melt the cheese.
- Garnish with chopped parsley before serving.
Whole potatoes in the oven
Whole village-style young potatoes baked in the oven turn out to be very appetizing, beautiful and tasty. It can be cooked entirely on its own, or you can make young potatoes with chicken fillet.
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 1 kg
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves
- Ground black pepper - to taste
- Vegetable oil - 3-4 tablespoons
- Fresh parsley or dill - a few sprigs
- Hot red pepper - a pinch
- Dried dill - 0.5 tsp
Cooking whole young potatoes in the oven:
- Wash the young potatoes. Depending on your taste, it can be baked with or without the peel. Heat large tubers in several places with a knife or fork to cook them faster.
- For pouring, peel the garlic and crush it in a garlic bowl. Add vegetable oil, salt, black pepper, dry dill, hot red pepper.
- Put the potatoes on a baking sheet in one row, pour the resulting mixture and stir so that all the tubers are covered with sauce.
- Send the baking sheet with potatoes to a well-heated oven up to 200 ° C and bake for 30-35 minutes until golden brown and soft.
- Sprinkle whole oven-baked new potatoes with chopped fresh parsley and dill.
Potatoes in a sleeve with garlic
Young potatoes in a sleeve with garlic are a tasty and simple dish that will decorate any table at minimal cost and become an excellent side dish. The tubers can be cooked on their own, or you can make new sleeve potatoes with chicken or meat.
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 10 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Sunflower oil (not refined) - 2 tbsp.
- Salt to taste
- Dill - bunch
Cooking young potatoes in a garlic sleeve:
- Wash the potatoes, dry them and, without peeling, cut into slices into 6-8 pieces, depending on the size.
- Wash the dill and chop finely. Peel the garlic and pass through a press or chop with a knife.
- Mix vegetable oil with dill and garlic, salt and pepper.
- Place the tubers in a sleeve and place on a baking sheet.
- Send young potatoes in a sleeve with garlic to bake in a preheated oven to 200 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
Potatoes in sour cream
Young potatoes in sour cream with herbs is a simple but delicious dish for lunch and dinner. You can cook new potatoes in a saucepan on the stove or in a slow cooker.
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 800 g
- Sour cream - 4 tablespoons
- Butter - 1 tablespoon
- Salt to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper - to taste
- Dill - bunch
- Young garlic - 2-3 cloves
Cooking young potatoes in sour cream:
- Scrape the young potatoes with a knife to remove the skin, wash and place in a saucepan. Pour potatoes with water, put on fire, salt and cook until cooked for 15-25 minutes.
- Finely chop the dill greens and peeled garlic cloves.
- When the potatoes are boiled, drain the water and add freshly ground black pepper, dill with garlic, sour cream and butter to the pan.
- Cover the saucepan and shake several times to mix the food and form a delicate sauce.
Fried potatoes in a pan, whole
Young potatoes fried in a pan fried in a frying pan in a village style can be cooked whole with mushrooms, or on their own. It is preferable to use the smallest potatoes for the recipe. It does not need to be cleaned and boiled beforehand.
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 1 kg
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Parsley - a few twigs
- Dill - a few twigs
- Green onions - for serving
Cooking whole pan-fried young potatoes:
- Wash the potatoes and dry with a paper towel.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet and add chopped garlic. Cook it for 30 seconds to flavor the oil.
- Then add the potatoes, pepper, season with salt and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until tender and until the potatoes are browned.
- Serve whole fried young potatoes in a skillet, sprinkle with chopped dill, parsley and green onions.
