Do you like boiled young potatoes, but they decompose when cooked? Not sure how to cook the tubers: peeled or peeled? Interested in what to serve a dish with to make it tasty? Then this article review is for you.
In the photo boiled young potatoes Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
So, in order to answer all the exciting questions, you first need to choose the right potato. In order not to buy old small salad tubers instead of young potatoes, you need to check it - rub the potato with effort. If the peel peels off easily, then you have young fruits in front of you.
Before cooking, you can remove the peel from a young vegetable with an ordinary iron sponge, a metal mesh or a foam brush. This process can be accelerated by placing the tubers in a bag of salt and shaking them well. After that, the potatoes are simply washed under running water. Although boiled young potatoes, like fried potatoes, do not need peeling. Its peel is so delicate that it can be safely eaten.
To prevent the potatoes from falling apart during cooking, immerse them not in cold, but in boiling water. Match tubers of the same size so they cook at the same time. Otherwise, when the little ones are ready, the big ones will still take some time to cook, and at this time the small tubers begin to boil down and disintegrate.
Boiled potatoes can be served with finely chopped herbs, sprinkled with sour cream, olive or butter, grilled with cheese or fried mushrooms. Also, young potatoes "love" spices and spices: black pepper, basil, cumin. You can also make a delicious sauce: from chopped garlic, olive oil, finely chopped mint, mustard, yogurt, yogurt, or a couple of drops of lemon juice.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 16, 7 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Young potatoes - 10 pcs. medium size
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Dill - bunch
- Cilantro - bunch
- Butter - 30 g
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
- Allspice peas - 4-5 pcs.
Cooking boiled young potatoes
1. Peel the tubers, or you can leave it intact. It's a matter of taste. But in any case, wash them thoroughly with running water.
2. Put the pots of pepper, bay leaves, salt in a saucepan, add water and boil.
I draw your attention to the fact that potatoes seasoned with salt at the beginning of cooking will turn out to be more tight and dense, which will prevent it from boiling. At the end of cooking, in 2-3 minutes, salt is added if mashed potatoes are being prepared.
3. Then put the prepared tubers in a saucepan and cook them for about 10 minutes.
Usually, young potatoes are cooked for no more than 10 minutes, but the time may vary depending on the size of the vegetable. The degree of readiness of the fruits is checked using a narrow knife or fork.
4. When the potatoes are completely cooked, drain the water, put the butter in a saucepan and cover. Leave it on for 5-10 minutes to melt the butter. By the way, the water in which the potatoes are boiled can not be drained, but used to make soup, stews and other dishes.
5. Meanwhile, wash the herbs (dill and cilantro) and chop finely. Peel and chop the garlic.
Boiled young potatoes reveal their taste only in a company with dill, garlic, butter, green onions, fried bacon and other products.
6. Add the herbs and garlic to the potatoes.
7. Place the lid on the saucepan and shake gently to distribute the spices evenly. But do not be too active, so as not to break the tubers.
eight. Put the finished potatoes on a platter and serve immediately until they cool. Additionally, you can make a creamy sauce in which you will dip the tubers.
See also the video recipe on how to cook young potatoes in an original way (program "All will be good" issue 193 - 2013-03-06).
