If you want to cook something delicious and very tasty from ordinary products - I suggest making a very simple dish - potato gratin with meat. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step preparation of potato gratin with meat
- Video recipe
On the everyday menu, we tend to have less discerning dishes, and the dinner parties put our culinary skills to the test. In this case, a wonderful recipe will help - gratin. This dish was born in France in the 18th century and gained popularity all over the world. The word "gratin" simultaneously means both the name of the dish and the method of preparation. Prepare gratin by baking food in the oven under a cheese crust. In this way, you can cook anything you want: vegetables, meat, fish, mushrooms, seafood. That is, if in a French restaurant on the menu next to the name of the dish you see the inscription au gratin next to it, it means that the dish will be served baked under a crispy crust. It will not be not boiled, not fried in a pan, not steamed, but baked. Therefore, to prepare gratin, you will need heat-resistant dishes: any convenient baking dish, a roaster, a cast-iron brazier. In heat-resistant ovenware with a thick bottom and walls, the temperature will be more evenly distributed and will last for a long time. And this is important, because gratin is a multi-layered dish.
In our understanding, gratin is very similar to Russian casserole. After all, in fact, everything is practically the same here. The only difference is that gratin must have a crispy golden crust, but it may not be in casseroles. Today I propose to cook delicious potato gratin with meat. This dish is easy to prepare. The whole process will take a little over an hour, but spend 15-20 minutes of active time. But as a result, you will get a ready-made full meal, where both meat and potato side dishes will be present.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 256 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 500 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Seasonings and spices to taste
- Hard cheese - 200 g
- Cream - 250 ml
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Meat - 500 g
Step by step cooking potato gratin with meat, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the potatoes, wash and dry with a paper towel. Cut it into rings 3-5 mm thick.
2. Wash the meat, dry it and pass it through a meat grinder.
3. Twist the onions through a meat grinder as well.
4. Season the minced meat with salt, black pepper, any spices and herbs. Mix it well. If desired, you can lightly fry the meat in a pan until half cooked.
5. Grease a baking dish with a thin layer of butter and lay out the first layer of potatoes.
6. Sprinkle with cheese, cover with minced meat and lay out a second layer of potatoes.
7. In total, you should have 3 layers of potatoes and 2 - minced meat. Fasten each layer with a small amount of cheese shavings.
8. Pour cream over the food. Although, according to the classic recipe, gratin is poured with Bechamel sauce. Therefore, you can cook it. How to do this, you can find out in a step-by-step recipe with a photo, which is posted on the pages of the site. To do this, use the search string.
9. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the food.
10. Close the form with a lid and send the baked potato gratin with meat in a heated oven to 180 degrees for half an hour. Then remove the lid, raise the temperature to 200 degrees and continue cooking for another 15 minutes until golden brown. A properly prepared gratin will have a dense golden crust and a juicy filling inside.
See also a video recipe on how to cook potato gratin with meat.
