Potato nests with minced meat - a hearty dish for a homemade lunch or dinner. Mashed potatoes with meat products go very well, so that all households and guests will be satisfied. You can replace the meat with fried mushrooms or vegetables, as well as add various creamy or sweet and sour sauces. The dish harmonizes well with various salads, sour cream or other sauces. Potato nests can be baked in a slow cooker or oven. In our recipe, we bake them in the oven. I like this recipe not only for its taste, but also for the opportunity to prepare an unusual dish of mashed potatoes. My kids love these interesting dishes. In addition, it is easy to cook, especially if there is thawed minced meat and leftover mashed potatoes from yesterday's dinner. Therefore, for all busy women and those who are looking for options for recycling mashed potatoes, this recipe will come in handy.

In addition to potatoes, a similar dish can be prepared with pasta, described in more detail.

Taste Info Second potato dishes / Baked potatoes in the oven

Ingredients

• Potatoes 700 g;
• Onion 120 g;
• Vegetable oil 25 g;
• Minced meat 200 g;
• Wheat flour 2 tbsp. l.;
• Garlic 2 cloves;
• Salt pepper;
• Breadcrumbs.

How to make minced mashed potato nests

Peel and wash potatoes. Cut into sticks or cubes. At the same time, put the water on the fire, add the prepared potatoes to boiling water and boil. Boil potatoes until softened, 15-20 minutes.

Clean the onion from the husk. You can use white or Crimean. Cut into medium sized cubes. Put the pan on the fire, heat it up, and then add vegetable oil. Add the onion to the hot skillet and cook until golden, 3-5 minutes.

Take the minced meat out of the refrigerator. It can be either pork or chicken mince. Add minced meat to fried onions. Continue frying over medium heat for 7-10 minutes until the minced meat and future potato filling are completely cooked. Add a little salt and pepper to this mass, you can also use spices for meat and others.

Drain water from boiled potatoes. Mash the potato pieces until pureed. Add salt, pepper and a little butter. Once again, knead and mix until the butter is completely melted and the spices are distributed.

At the same stage, you can add spices to your taste: turmeric, ginger, dry dill or dried onion.

Add a raw egg to the mashed potatoes. Stir quickly with a spoon so that the egg has time to soak into all the potato filling and does not form lumps.

Finally, add the pre-sifted flour. Mix well with a whisk or spoon. You can replace flour with semolina. After adding flour, leave aside for 5-7 minutes.

Grease the form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Squeeze potato nests out of a pastry bag onto a baking sheet or baking dish. You can use a spoon just by building a platform for stuffing. Add the prepared fried minced meat with onions to the nests. Sprinkle cheese on top, which can be either solid or melted. Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. The cooking time depends on the power of your oven.

As soon as the cheese melts and the potato nests turn golden, your dish is ready.

Potato nests with minced meat are ready. Enjoy your holiday dinner and rave reviews from friends.

Suppose you are tired of traditional cutlets - the soul and household require something new and spectacular. Prepare minced meat nests - with egg or mushrooms, as you like. You can take any minced meat, depending on which meat you prefer - chicken, pork, or mix pork and beef. Believe me, at the end you will get both deliciousness and beauty!

Minced meat nests with mushrooms

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 600 g;
• bread - 200 g;
• milk - 1 glass;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• mushrooms - 300 g;
• cheese - 150 g;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• greens, mayonnaise - to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Take a crumb of white bread and pour milk over it. Cut the onion into cubes, mushrooms into small pieces, grate the carrots and cheese. Add eggs, half the onion, all the carrots to the minced meat and mix well. Fry mushrooms in a pan with onions. Grease the mold in which you will bake the nests with oil. Form koloboks from minced meat, flatten them a little and put them in a mold. Press the middle of each kolobok lightly to make a nest, and spread the fried mushrooms with onions. Top with a little mayonnaise. Bake for about 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees. Sprinkle with grated cheese 5 minutes before the end of cooking.

Minced meat nests with tomatoes

Try to cook nests with tomatoes - the dish will turn out very tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 500 g;
• cheese - 200 g;
• bread - 100 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• eggs - 1 pc.;
• tomato - 4 pcs.;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Pour the bread with warm water, then squeeze. Finely chop the onion. Thoroughly mix the minced meat, egg, onion and bread in a bowl. Add spices (you can take paprika, marjoram), salt. Grate the cheese and add half to the minced meat. Mix well. Divide minced meat into portions, form nests. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and lay out the nests. Put finely chopped tomatoes in the middle of each nest. Send for 10 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees, then remove the baking sheet, sprinkle the nests with the rest of the cheese and cover with a circle of tomato. Place in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.

Minced meat nests with egg

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 500 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• bread - 100 g;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• eggs - 5 pcs.;
• milk - 200 ml;
• salt, pepper, spices - to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Soak the bread crumb in milk, then squeeze a little and mix with the minced meat. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots. Add the onion, 1 egg and carrots to the minced meat, then salt and pepper and mix well. From the minced meat, form 4 nests, put in a baking dish, greased with oil and pour 1 egg into each nest, salt a little on top and put in the oven for 35-40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Minced swallow's nest

Try to cook a dish of minced meat "Swallow's Nest" and you may forget about the classic cutlets.

Ingredients:

Cooking

Salt minced meat, add spices, finely chopped garlic and dill, eggs and white bread pre-soaked and squeezed in milk. Knead thoroughly and form nests from minced meat. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, lay out nests and put ketchup in the middle of each nest, then onion, mayonnaise, tomato circle, mayonnaise and a slice of cheese. Cut the pepper into circles, press each circle around the filling. Send "Swallow's Nests" from minced meat to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

Choose firm, medium-sized tomatoes. Do not experiment with cheese - take a proven, hard variety. It is better to refuse the purchase of a cheese product.

Ingredients:

• minced pork - 700 g;
• lard - 100 g;
• table salt - 1 teaspoon;
• onion - 1 large head;
• egg - 1 piece;
• hard cheese - 150 g;
• red tomato - 1 piece;
• ground pepper - 1 teaspoon.

How to cook meat nests with cheese in the oven

If you purchased goulash or a piece of pulp, wash and pat dry. Remove the films and cut the meat and fat into small pieces. Peel the onion and cut it into four pieces. Scroll the prepared meat, lard and onions through a meat grinder. If you have ready-made homemade minced meat, then chop only the onion slices and combine with minced meat.

Throw in a fresh egg and mix it in. Add coarse salt and pepper, mix again. Optionally, you can add a clove of garlic, passed through a garlic press.

Mix the meat platter well and beat off, then the nests will be more juicy and tender. If the stuffing turned out to be dense enough, pour in a tablespoon of warm water and mix the mixture thoroughly.

Wash the tomatoes and place on a towel to drain the water. Cut into circles no more than five millimeters thick. Grind the cheese with a coarse grater or cut into thin slices. With a spoon or hand, separate the required amount of meat mixture and roll into smooth balls. Make meatballs out of them. Put the finished products in a baking dish. If you bake the nests directly on a metal surface, the juice may leak out and burn.

Place a tomato circle in each recess, lightly salt.

Put cheese on top.

You can sprinkle a little freshly ground pepper. Place the form in a preheated oven and bake for 45 minutes, maintaining a temperature of 200-220 degrees. Serve hot.

Enjoy your meal!

Also try to cook

To prepare a festive dish, you need minced meat. This product can be made independently by passing beef and pork in equal proportions through a meat grinder. Also, a ready-made semi-finished product from the store is suitable for the recipe. I would like to immediately emphasize that homemade minced meat is more preferable, since when preparing it, you can use a mesh for a meat grinder of a larger fraction. When processing meat, this fact is of great importance. Coarsely ground minced meat remains juicier during heat treatment due to the fact that the fiber structure is not completely cut.

After the minced meat is ready, you need to add raw onions to it. For one kilogram of meat, you need to take two medium onions. When chopping this vegetable, do not use a meat grinder. It is best to cut the onion with a knife. This is what all professional chefs do, since grated onions quickly lose their juice, and during heat treatment, the dish may not have enough moisture. To finish the preparation of minced meat, you must also add salt, pepper and spicy herbs to it. If the minced meat is well kneaded, then you do not need to add an egg to it.

To prepare the filling, you need to fry 0.5 kg of champignons in a pan, and onions are also added to the finished frying.

At the next stage of cooking, you need to properly form the nests. To do this, the resulting brick of minced meat must be divided in straight lines into 8 parts.

Then each square is given the shape of a nest, and the recess of the mold is filled with mushroom filling.

You can bake such nests on a baking sheet or in a tray with high sides. The oven temperature must be at least 200 degrees.

Approximately 25 minutes after the start of baking, sprinkle each nest with grated cheese. This must be done at the end of cooking so that the cheese does not burn.