Potato casserole with minced meat

A dish that is perfect for a quick lunch or dinner is a potato casserole with minced meat cooked in the oven. This is a very simple dish that even a young housewife can easily cook. Potato casserole with minced meat turns out to be incredibly tender and fragrant, with a beautiful golden brown crust.

Cooking time: 90 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Calories: 168.

Ingredients

Simple foods to prepare:

• boiled potatoes (mashed potatoes) – 1 kg. 300 g;
• minced meat (beef) – 600 g;
• onion – 1 piece. (large);
• chicken egg (raw) – 1 piece;
• butter – 80 g;
• milk (warm) – 50-70 g;
• salt – to taste;
• hot pepper – ⅓ tsp;
• chili pepper (flakes) – ¼ tsp;
• coriander – ½ tsp;
• oregano – ½ tsp;
• hard cheese – optional;
• parsley and cilantro – ⅓ bunch.

Cooking

1. Prepare minced meat. Beef is perfect for this dish. The meat must be twisted through a meat grinder.

2. Put the potatoes to boil on mashed potatoes. Potatoes can not be salted.

3. While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the meat filling. Onion mode in a small cube.

4. We send the onion to the pan. For frying, you need a little vegetable oil, heat it in a pan. Fry the onion until transparent.

5. Spread the minced meat to the fried onions. Fry the meat over high heat, stirring constantly. We do not need meat to be stewed, but it should not be dry either.

6. For minced meat, you will need spices, they must be prepared according to the list or taken to your liking. Salt minced meat, add spices.

7. You will also need cilantro and parsley. We cut them finely.

8. Put the prepared greens in a pan with minced meat. Stir the filling and remove from the stove. The meat filling is ready.

9. The potatoes are almost cooked, let's prepare the products for a delicious and tender mashed potatoes.

10. Completely drain all the liquid from the pot with potatoes. Add butter, salt and chop the potatoes into mashed potatoes.

11. In order for the mashed potatoes to keep their shape, we send a raw egg to the potatoes. We continue to interrupt the puree.

12. We heat the milk to a warm state and also add it to the potatoes. Whip the puree until smooth. For a fluffy puree, you can use a special nozzle with a blender.

13. Lubricate the ceramic mold with the remaining butter.

14. Visually divide the mashed potatoes into two equal parts. We shift one part to the bottom of the form.

15. Put the minced meat in the second layer. The meat turned out incredibly fragrant, thanks to spices.

16. Lay out the potatoes again with the top layer. While the puree is hot, put small pieces of butter on top of it.

17. The butter will immediately become soft, you can easily cover the potato casserole with a spatula.

18. Grind a piece of cheese as finely as possible.

19. Cover the potato casserole with minced meat with a layer of chopped cheese. We send the form to the oven, preheated at t-180 ° C, for thirty-five to forty minutes. Until golden brown.

20. We take out the casserole from the oven, lightly cover with oregano. On hot potatoes, the oregano brought out its flavor even more.

21. Let the casserole cool slightly and serve in portions.

You can serve sour cream for such a potato casserole, it will be very tasty. Often, a potato casserole with minced meat in the oven is prepared after a gala dinner, when potatoes and minced meat are left. And these products will be perfectly combined in a new dish.