A potato and meat casserole is something between a pie and a main course.
It can be served with tea or garnished with vegetables and used for dinner.
It all depends on the method of preparation, additional ingredients and personal preferences.
And here you can peek recipes for really tasty potato casseroles, cooked in many ways.
Potato casserole with meat in the oven - general principles of preparation
For casserole, you can use directly meat or minced meat. The product is laid in raw, boiled or fried form. It is supplemented with onions, salt, pepper. Raw meat can be marinated in advance.
Potatoes for casserole are always cut into thin slices, you can grate. Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to get ready. For this reason, mashed potatoes are used in many recipes. But sometimes the slices just boil a little in boiling water, bringing the vegetable to half cooked.
What else is put in casseroles:
• onion garlic;
• mushrooms;
• tomatoes;
• eggs;
• cheese;
• butter.
Casserole is mainly formed by layers. The sequence and amount depends on the recipe of the dish. If raw foods are used, various sauces of sour cream, mayonnaise, eggs, cheese and broths can be added.
Recipe 1: Potato casserole with meat in the cheese oven
The recipe for a simple potato casserole with meat in the oven under a delicious cheese crust. Pork is used, but tender veal can also be taken.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of pork;
• 5 potatoes;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• salt and pepper;
• 1 onion head;
• 120 grams of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Rinse the pork, wipe with napkins and cut into cubes no more than 1.5 centimeters. Sprinkle with spices, put a spoonful of mayonnaise, stir and let stand for a while.
2. We clean the vegetables. Cut the onion head into thin rings and the potatoes into slices. But do not connect together.
3. At the bottom of a greased non-stick form, pour a layer of thinly chopped onions. Then spread half the potatoes. Sprinkle with spices, grease with mayonnaise and lightly sprinkle with cheese. It will provide strong adhesion of the layers.
4. Now lay a layer of meat. It needs to be seasoned with nothing more, just a little sprinkled with cheese. We suck a little bit.
5. And again, the potatoes that we salt, grease with the remaining mayonnaise and sprinkle thickly with all the cheese.
6. Pull a piece of foil onto the mold.
7. The casserole is cooked for 30 minutes at 190 degrees under the foil, then fried for another 15-20 minutes in the open. If the potatoes are already soft, you can add temperature and shorten the cooking time.
Recipe 2: Potato casserole with meat in the oven "Diplomat"
An interesting name for a potato casserole with meat in the oven, to which marinated mushrooms are added. You can take absolutely any. The dish is simple, but very satisfying and tasty.
Ingredients
• 5 potatoes;
• 200 grams of minced meat;
• 120 grams of pickled mushrooms;
• 2 tablespoons creamy. oils;
• spices;
• cheese at will;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
• We twist the meat into minced meat, add the pickled mushrooms, diced, and season with spices.
• We cut potatoes with 3-4 cm slices and boil in boiling water for 4 minutes. We immediately salt the water. We discard slices for draining water into a colander, cool in the same place.
• Peel the onion with chopped straws.
• At the bottom of the mold we lay a layer of potatoes, onions on it, then minced meat and again potatoes.
• Mix soft butter with sour cream and grease the casserole on top.
• If you wish, you can sprinkle with grated cheese.
• Bake at an average temperature of about 35 minutes.
Recipe 3: Mashed potato casserole with meat in the oven
A feature of this recipe is the use of mashed potatoes with a sufficiently large number of eggs. The casserole is somewhat reminiscent of a pie in structure, it is well and neatly cut into pieces.
Ingredients
• kilogram of potatoes;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• salt;
• 6 eggs;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1 spoon of sour cream;
• 700 grams of meat (beef);
• 3 tablespoons walnut. nuts.
Cooking
1. Cook until fully cooked potatoes in their skins. We clean, grind in mashed potatoes with a combine, can be passed through a meat grinder. We cool and introduce 5 eggs one at a time. Do not forget to salt, put a pinch of nutmeg.
2. Grind the beef into minced meat.
3. Onion cut into cubes, fry in oil for a couple of minutes.
4. Put the minced meat to the onion and fry for another five minutes. Season with spices, put chopped nuts and fry for another minute, turn off.
5. As soon as the meat mass cools down a bit, add the beaten egg to it, stir.
6. Collect the casserole. We take the form, the size of which should be about 25 centimeters. Lubricate well, sprinkle with breadcrumbs or semolina.
7. Spread a layer of mashed potatoes, then the filling and again the potatoes. Lubricate with sour cream.
8. Bake until golden brown on the surface.
Recipe 4: Oven Potato Casserole with Meat and Tomatoes in the Oven
This dish has a lighter and fresher taste, as it is cooked with tomatoes. We take ripe, but dense tomatoes, which will be easy to chop.
Ingredients
• 0.6 kg of potatoes;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 2 onions;
• 400 grams of meat;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• 400 grams of tomatoes;
• 100 grams of sour cream (you can take cream, mayonnaise);
• thyme, salt, pepper.
Cooking
1. Grind the meat with onion into minced meat, lightly fry in a pan.
2. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices and fry them in a pan, adding a little oil. No need to cover, just fry until lightly crusted.
3. Cut the tomatoes into circles.
4. We rub the cheese, mix with sour cream. Salt, add thyme, pepper.
5. Collect the casserole. We spread potatoes with the first layer, all at once. Add a little pepper.
6. On it minced meat, level with a spoon.
7. Now we spread the circles of tomatoes, you can do an overlap. They do not need to be salted.
8. Fill the casserole with cheese sauce with sour cream.
9. Send to the oven for half an hour.
Recipe 5: Oven Potato Casserole with Meat and Carrots in the Oven
A bright version of a potato casserole with meat in the oven, for which you need carrots. We use pork or ground beef.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of potatoes;
• 400 grams of minced meat;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons of ketchup;
• spices;
• 120 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices, cook in boiling water for a couple of minutes. If the pieces are more than 4 millimeters, then you can take a little longer.
2. In a frying pan, fry the grated carrots, salt, and pepper.
3. Separately, fry the onion with minced meat until half cooked. At the end, add 2 tablespoons of ketchup, alter and slightly bitter, salt.
4. Put in the form half the cooked potatoes, then a layer of carrots, fried minced meat and again the potatoes. We coat each layer with sour cream, just a little bit. Potatoes are slightly salted.
5. Pour cheese and into the oven! Fry until golden brown for about thirty minutes.
Recipe 6: Oven Potato Casserole with Meat and Corn
A very interesting and unusual potato casserole with corn and meat. We use canned corn.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of mashed potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 150 grams of corn;
• 250 grams of minced meat;
• salt, pepper;
• a piece of oil;
• 4 tablespoons of grated cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 spoon of sour cream.
Cooking
1. Dice the onion and fry until transparent, preferably in butter. It tastes better with him.
2. Add minced meat to the pan, fry together.
3. Cook the usual mashed potatoes with salt, cool slightly and add raw eggs. Mix thoroughly, do not forget to add salt, you can add other spices.
4. Collect the casserole: mashed potatoes, corn, minced meat, corn and mashed potatoes again.
5. Lubricate with sour cream, cover with cheese and bake until cooked.
Recipe 7: Oven Potato Casserole with Meat and Raisins in the Oven
Instead of raisins, you can add prunes and dried apricots to the casserole. You can mix several types of dried fruits, but you do not need to put a lot. Do not exceed the amount of spicy additives indicated in the recipe.
Ingredients
• 7 potatoes;
• 0.5 kg of meat;
• 60 grams of raisins;
• 140 grams of mayonnaise;
• 130 grams of cheese;
• spices;
• 1 onion head.
Cooking
1. Immediately pour raisins with warm water, let stand for half an hour.
2. We cut the meat with plates, beat off. Then strip in strips, sprinkle with spices and leave.
3. Cut into thin slices of potato.
4. Shred the onion with straws, add a pinch of salt and mash until the juice is released.
5. Collect the casserole: potatoes, meat, onions, squeezed raisins and again the potatoes. We coat all layers, except raisins with onions, with mayonnaise, salt and potatoes.
6. We fill in cheese and bake for half an hour under the foil, then another half hour without foil. Temperature 180.
Potato casserole with meat in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• To hold together the layers of the casserole and they do not fall apart when sliced, you can sprinkle them lightly with grated cheese or grease with a raw egg.
• If you sprinkle the greased form with breadcrumbs, a crisp will appear on the finished casserole.
• To prevent cheese from burning, you can lubricate it on top with a thin layer of sour cream or mayonnaise.
• To give a potato casserole a spicy flavor, you can add not raw onions, but pickled in vinegar.
• Mayonnaise, cream and sour cream are products that can be replaced with each other. But remember that they have a different taste and fat content.
• For the casserole, you can use the remaining mashed potatoes. For a richer flavor, you can add fried onions, herbs, chicken eggs to it.
