If the hostess wants to cook a full, hearty dinner, but does not have time to deal separately with the side dish and the additions to it, then the best solution is a potato casserole with meat. This dish can be infinitely improved to your liking. And its basis will be soft potatoes and juicy meat.

Classic potato casserole with meat in the oven

To prepare the main dish, you can take both pork and veal. In addition to meat (520 g), it will use: 5-6 potato tubers, salt, onion, 220 g of hard cheese, 140 g of mayonnaise, any aromatic herbs.

  1. The meat is washed, dried with napkins and cut into thin strips. Pieces are sprinkled with salt, selected spices, mixed with mayonnaise and left to infuse.
  2. The potato is cut into thin slices, and the onion into half rings.
  3. Onions are laid out at the bottom of the greased form, then half the potatoes. The resulting layers are smeared with mayonnaise, salted, sprinkled with herbs and a small amount of grated cheese.
  4. Then comes the meat layer, also sprinkled with hard cheese.
  5. Baking is covered with the remaining potatoes, which are also salted, smeared with mayonnaise and sprinkled with cheese crumbs.
  6. The container is tightened with foil and baked in a well preheated oven for 35 minutes. Readiness is checked by the softness of potatoes.

Sprinkling layers of cheese is necessary for their reliable connection.

Cooking Recipe

For eating according to this recipe, it is better to choose mixed minced meat as a meat component. For example, from pork and chicken (270 g).You will also need to prepare: 6-7 potatoes, 2 raw eggs, a couple of garlic cloves, 75 g semolina, salt, a little ketchup, onion, a small spoonful of mustard, carrot, 130 g mayonnaise, a pinch of saffron.

  1. Small balls are molded from salted and mixed with seasoning minced meat.
  2. In the “Frying” program, chopped onions, garlic cloves and carrots are passaged on any fat.
  3. Potatoes are washed, peeled and grated with the largest teeth. Then it is mixed with mayonnaise, eggs and mustard, salted, sprinkled with saffron and semolina.
  4. It remains to connect the potatoes with frying and put in a greased cup of the device. The mass is leveled in a container and covered with meat balls.
  5. The surface is smeared with ketchup to taste, after which, in the Baking program, the casserole in the slow cooker is cooked for 50-55 minutes.

If desired, you can add cherry tomatoes to the meat balls, slightly pressing them into the potato mass.

Cooking with minced meat

This is the simplest recipe for the dish in question, which always succeeds. If there is such an opportunity, then it is better to cook minced meat (450 g) for casserole yourself from meat and onions. Of the other products will be used: 4 tbsp. sour cream and the same amount of white flour, salt, 140 g of parmesan, 6 potatoes, 40 g of breadcrumbs, 3 raw eggs, onion, a mixture of ground peppers.

  1. Potatoes are cooked in salt water until tender, after which they are kneading with mashed flour and eggs.
  2. The onion is fried until golden, after which it is stewed for 10-12 minutes already with minced meat. It is necessary to add salt, pepper to the mass and break the lumps.
  3. The form is greased with oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs. This is necessary for the appearance of a delicious crisp in the dish.
  4. The first layer will be half the mashed potatoes, which must be sprinkled with part of the grated cheese on an average grater.
  5. Next is the minced meat with vegetable roast.
  6. It remains to close the meal with potatoes, sprinkle with the rest of the cheese and grease with sour cream.
  7. The dish is cooked about 45 minutes before browning.

Served hot casserole with fresh or pickled vegetables.

With boiled meat

Often, cooked meat remains at the disposal of the hostess from other dishes. It can be used for filling in a potato casserole. In addition to meat cooked in salted water (480 g), it takes: 800 g of potatoes, an egg, a pinch of coarse salt, 130 ml of fat milk, pepper, 80 g of breadcrumbs.

  1. Potatoes are boiled until soft, drained from the water, after which they turn into mashed potatoes with eggs and warm milk. If the liquid during cooking was unsalted, then you can add salt at this stage.
  2. The meat is passed through a meat grinder and then lightly fried in a greased skillet.
  3. Half the potatoes are laid out in the form, then minced. It is covered with the remaining mashed potatoes. Potatoes are evenly distributed over the surface of the casserole and sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

You can refuse any roasting during the cooking process, then a potato casserole with meat in the oven will turn out to be more dietetic.

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With chicken

Chicken can also be used for cooking potato and meat casseroles. For it, 350 g of meat is taken from the breast and thighs, salt, 450 g of potatoes, 70 ml of low-fat cream, 2 tbsp. wheat flour, 2 raw eggs, greens.

  1. Potatoes are cooked in salt water until tender, and then mashed with cream.
  2. Chicken is finely chopped with a knife, mixed with potato mass, flour, eggs and finely chopped greens.
  3. The workpiece is distributed in a greased form and baked for 45 minutes in the oven.

If desired, you can divide the potatoes and meat into different layers, but this will only lengthen the cooking process.

Bake with cheese in the oven

You can cook another version of potato-chicken casserole. Its composition will include: 2 fillets, 130 g of fat sour cream, salt, 3 tomatoes, 180 g of hard cheese, 2 onions, 8 potatoes.

  1. The filet is washed and cut into strips. Next, you need to salt it. You can also spice to taste.
  2. The potato is peeled and cut with the finest slices. Then it is salted and mixed with onion rings.
  3. On a baking sheet covered with oiled foil, potato slices with onions are laid out, then meat strips.
  4. Top layers are covered with circles of tomatoes.
  5. It remains to pour the future treat with salted sour cream and generously sprinkle with grated hard cheese.
  6. The dish is prepared for 50 minutes.

If you want to get a golden crust, you need to mix sour cream with chopped cheese.

With meat and mushrooms

Mushrooms perfectly complement the dish under discussion. The main thing is to take fresh or frozen product, but not pickled. In addition to mushrooms (210 g), taken: 2 large potato tubers, salt, onion, 360 g pork, 1 tbsp. medium-fat cream, 90 g of hard cheese, ground pepper.

  1. Pork is washed, cut into small cubes and laid out in a mold. The meat must be salted and seasoned with pepper.
  2. Mugs of peeled potatoes are spread on top of the pork and covered with finely chopped onions.
  3. Mushrooms are washed, if necessary, boiled and cut into pieces, after which they are laid out onion. Champignons will be enough scalded with boiling water.
  4. Cream is salted, minted and poured into a mold on top of all used products.
  5. After sprinkling with grated cheese, a potato casserole with meat and mushrooms is sent to the oven for 50 minutes.

It is better to cover the container with foil for the first half hour so that the cheese does not burn out during cooking.

Cooking in the oven for children

If the treat is prepared for kids, then you should refuse to fry foods, and, in addition, take healthy and low-fat ground turkey. Enough will be 120 g of meat, as well as: ¼ parts of the onion, 3 potatoes, salt, quail eggs, 120 ml of water, a piece of oil.

  1. Mashed potatoes with the addition of quail eggs, salt and butter are prepared from potatoes.
  2. Stuffing is mixed with finely chopped onions.
  3. In a greased form, half the potatoes are laid out, then - minced meat and from above - the rest of the mashed potatoes.
  4. Cook the casserole for 35 minutes in a hot oven.

Served with fat sour cream or unsweetened yogurt.

Potato, meat and tomato casserole

As in any other dish, fresh ripe tomatoes are responsible for juiciness here. Do not take solid or greenish fruits for such a casserole. Of the products used: 600 g of potatoes, a couple of onions, 120 g of cheese and the same amount of sour cream, 380 g of any meat, 4 tomatoes, salt, thyme.

  1. Meat with onions in any convenient way turn into minced meat. The mass is salted and seasoned with thyme.
  2. The potato is peeled, washed and cut into thin slices, which need to be fried in a skillet until light crust.
  3. The cheese is rubbed on a medium grater, mixed with sour cream. The sauce is salted and seasoned with any spices to taste.
  4. First, potatoes are laid out in the form, then minced meat
  5. On top of the lap circles of tomatoes are sent.
  6. Casserole is poured with sauce and baked for 25-35 minutes.

Served platter with assorted fresh vegetables.

How to cook a dish with beef?

Chefs note that any meat is suitable for such a casserole. You can also take beef (460 g), which will give the treat a milder taste. Of the remaining components taken: 450 g of mashed potatoes, a small onion, 230 g of low-fat sour cream, half a small spoon of salt.

  1. Minced meat is prepared from beef, which is then salted, sprinkled with your favorite seasonings and stewed with chopped onions for 10-12 minutes.
  2. Half of the “crushed meat” is laid out in a mold, the meat component and salted sour cream are distributed on top. The dish closes with the remaining potatoes.
  3. Baking treats 45 minutes in the oven.

If the casserole was baked for too long and turned out to be rather dry, you can add it with any sour cream sauce.

Mashed potatoes and minced meat

Most often, experienced cooks use mashed potatoes and minced meat as the main components of the discussed casserole. Such components are harmoniously combined with each other. In general, the dish uses: 7 medium potato tubers, 470 g of any low-fat minced meat, salt, 2 chicken eggs, 120 ml of cream, onion.

  1. The potato is finely chopped so that it is cooked in salt water as quickly as possible. Next, the product turns into mashed potatoes with cream and eggs.It is convenient to use a special blender nozzle for this.
  2. First, chopped onions are fried in oil in a pan, then the vegetable is cooked together with the minced meat until the latter is ready. The mass is salted to taste.
  3. Potatoes and meat are laid out in a form greased with oil in layers according to the following principle: mashed potatoes, minced meat, mashed potatoes.
  4. A treat is being prepared 25-35 minutes until golden.

Served casserole with pickled cucumbers.

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