With some minced meat in the fridge and potatoes in the pantry, you can diversify your daily family menu and prepare a delicious dinner. The recipe is simple and doesn't require any effort.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Minced meat in the oven is always an incredible saving of time and a huge scope for culinary imagination. It's very easy for them to stuff vegetables. Although minced meat is in great harmony with all kinds of pasta and cereals. Such dishes, cooked in the oven, will appeal to absolutely everyone and even the most fastidious connoisseurs of homemade food.
In this recipe, we will stuff potatoes with minced meat. It is a versatile stand-alone dish that does not require a separate side dish. Is that a bowl of fresh vegetable salad. Such a potato will become a "lifesaver" in many cases. This is a wonderful dish for every day, while it is not a shame to serve it even on a festive table. Guests will surely appreciate your culinary creativity and talent. The time for cooking this dish is minimum, and the taste at the outlet is maximum. You couldn't think of it better! At your discretion, the recipe can be modified by adding additional ingredients. For example, a dish will make spicy spices more piquant, mushrooms nourishing, vegetables juicy, and cream more tender. An important plus of baked potatoes with minced meat in the oven is availability and low cost.
You can take any kind of minced meat: chicken, pork, beef, turkey, lamb or mixed. It is believed that it is better to use minced meat from several types of meat, although this is not essential.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 93 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 4 pcs.
- Minced meat (any) - 250 g
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Hot pepper - 1/4 pod
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Spices and herbs to taste
Step-by-step cooking of baked potatoes in the oven with minced meat:
1. Wash the tubers and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut in half lengthways, season with salt and ground pepper. I used new potatoes, so I didn’t bake them peeled. If you use winter potatoes, peel them. Although not necessary, if you like baked skin, you can leave it.
2. I had minced mutton and was already ready. If you have a whole piece of meat, twist it through a meat grinder or chop it with a food processor. Season the minced meat with salt, ground pepper and any spices to taste.
3. Stir and add finely chopped fresh hot peppers. You can replace it with dry ground hot pepper. Stir the minced meat again.
4. Peel the garlic and cut into thin slices, which are placed on two halves of the potatoes. Form the minced meat into a small cutlet the size of the potatoes and place on one of its halves.
5. Cover the meat with the other half of the potato and wrap it tightly with cling foil so that there are no empty spots through which juice flows out during baking. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the potatoes for 35-40 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick. Use it to pierce the tubers right through the foil, it should slide in easily.
See also a video recipe on how to cook baked potatoes in the oven with minced meat and cheese.
