Potatoes as a side dish: enhance every meal

Who does not eat potatoes , as if he does not live. Yellow, delicious and magical . Why magical? Because they can be used to prepare thousands of dishes.

If you only make boiled potatoes at home, then you are in the right place. We will show you that potatoes can be used as a side dish for just about anything.

Try our 5 best potato recipes .

Potato Dumplings

Ingredients

• 4 potatoes
• 1 handful of semolina
• 1 handful of coarse flour
• 1 egg
• salt

Method

1. Roll out 4 large hot potatoes on a roll, add 1 handful of semolina and 1 handful of coarse flour and 1 egg
2. We add salt, make a dough, we can also add diced bread
3. We shape them into a roller and put them in boiling salted water. Cook for 15-20 minutes and turn halfway through cooking

Potato dumplings can also be steamed by pouring an appropriate amount of water into the pot . Place a steamer on the pot and grease it.

Bring the water to a boil and then place the dumplings on the steamer. We cook for 20 minutes.

Cut immediately after removal, preferably with threads.

Mashed potatoes with sour cream

Ingredients

• 75 dkg of potatoes
• 1 sour cream
• salt
• sweet onion
• 2 tablespoons of butter

Method

1. Peel the potatoes and boil them in salted water
2. Mash the boiled potatoes with butter
3. Add the chopped onion and cream and stir in the sour cream

Scalloped potatoes

Ingredients

• 8-10 large potatoes
• 4-6 cloves of garlic
• salt
• 2 teaspoons Provencal spices
• a handful of fresh greens
• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 2 eggs
• 2 dl sour cream

Method

1. Peel the potatoes, cut them into thin slices and mix them with pressed garlic, salt, spices and chopped greens (chives, parsley or according to your taste)
2. Grease a baking dish or baking pan with butter, put seasoned potatoes in it and put it in a hot oven
3. After the potatoes have softened, beat the eggs with sour cream, pour over the potatoes and bake until golden

Stewed potatoes with tomatoes

Ingredients

• 60 dkg of potatoes
• 3 onions
• 3 tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons lard or oil
• 1 sour cream or white yogurt
• 2 teaspoons of ground paprika
• salt

Method

1. Finely chop the onion, fry it in fat, add ground pepper, let it foam and cover with water or masox broth
2. Peel the raw potatoes, cut them into slices, add them to the onion base with paprika, add salt and simmer until semi-soft
3. Add diced tomatoes to the semi-soft potatoes and simmer
4. Finally, add sour cream or yogurt and add salt to taste, you can also add a pinch of chili pepper and marjoram, oregano or basil

Potato salad with mushrooms

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg of potatoes
• salt
• pepper
• 4 boiled eggs
• 15 dkg of mushrooms sterilized in vinegar
• 1 apple
• 1 boiled carrot
• 2 medium onions

Mayonnaise

• 1 mayonnaise
• 1 small white yogurt
• salt
• sugar (optional)
• 1 teaspoon of mustard
• lemon juice

Method

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins, drain, let cool and peel
2. Cut them into pieces in a bowl or press them through a potato sieve, salt and pepper
3. Drain the brine from the mushrooms and cut them into smaller pieces as needed
4. We add them to the potatoes together with the boiled eggs, which we cut into cubes. Add finely chopped onion and finely chopped apple and carrot
5. Mix mayonnaise with yogurt and season with salt, lemon juice and mustard. Mix lightly into the salad

And what to have with potato side dishes? We recommend perhaps the most famous, the classic fried schnitzel .