Potato with meat - a dish that is considered to be a classic. Usually these two ingredients are baked together, stewed or fried with various spices and seasonings.
The cooking process can be accelerated using not raw meat, but homemade stew or quality purchased. Pans, casseroles and pots will successfully replace the slow cooker - a modern kitchen unit. The dish is cooked in it quickly and simply.
Dishes with stew are not often prepared today. But to have in stock a few jars with preservation will not hurt. They will come to the rescue when there is no fresh meat, and hunting is good to eat.
To family members were happy with lunch and dinner, you need not to hesitate and cook potatoes with stew in a slow cooker.
Potato with stew in a slow cooker - general principles of preparation
Potatoes and stew are the main ingredients of the dish. Its taste is completely dependent on the quality of the constituents. Therefore, you need to carefully choose both potatoes, and especially stew.
Ideal when using homemade meat. But you can buy high-quality stew in the store. Any one is suitable: beef, pork, chicken and turkey.
Choosing a jar, you must consider that a real stew can not be cheap. After all, to get 330 grams of the product, half a kilogram of raw meat is used.
Stew is worth buying premium. The jar should not have any flaws, and the lid - blisters. When the packaging is broken, it is likely that the stew is spoiled.
The smell of the product should be pleasant, such as the one that makes the stew. Any extraneous notes indicate a low quality of canned food. This stew is best left for pets.
After making sure that all the products are of good quality, you can start cooking.
First you need to prepare all the vegetables: wash them and peel.
In addition to potatoes, you can add any of their types to the dish: onions, carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers.
Mushrooms and garlic go well with meat.
Vegetables can be slightly fried, and then stewed with meat. Most often, frying is prepared from pieces of onion and carrot. This happens in the multicooker bowl, where you need to add a little oil.
For cooking, potatoes are used both young and more mature. Basically it is cooked in slices. But you can cook mashed potatoes with stew.
Decorate the taste of dishes sour cream, butter and greens. Ground pepper or peas, basil, curry, thyme, and lavrushka add a special aroma.
Stew can be cut into pieces or mashed with a fork.
Preparing food no more than an hour. Depending on the brand of the multicooker, the following modes are selected: "Stewing", "Baking", "Soup". All ingredients slowly languish, turning into a fragrant and nutritious dish.
The dish is served hot. It can be supplemented with slices of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.
Recipe 1. Potato with stew in a multicooker "Quick dinner"
Ingredients:
• five potatoes;
• one carrot and one onion;
• one can of beef stew (335 gr.);
• two tablespoons of art. water;
• salt;
• french herbs;
• half a bunch of dill.
Cooking method:
Prepared vegetables are cut into small pieces.
We load them into the multicooker.
Open the jar of stew and put the contents on a plate. Cut the meat into small pieces and send it to the vegetables.
Add a mixture of French herbs and a little salt.
Pour in water and mix the contents of the multicooker so that the spices and meat pieces are evenly distributed.
We start the "Extinguishing" mode for one hour.
We cut dill and send it to the bowl of the multicooker three minutes before the end of cooking.
Recipe 2. Potato with stew in a slow cooker with basil and thyme
Ingredients:
• 700 gr. potatoes;
• 300 gr. beef stews;
• one onion and one carrot;
• two tomatoes;
• sprig of thyme;
• one spoon of h. Basil;
• salt.
Cooking method:
Cut the onion into two parts and cut into half rings. Then we divide into feathers. We send to the slow cooker.
Coarsely cut the potatoes and place it on the surface of the onion. Sprinkle with basil and put a sprig of thyme.
Grind carrots with straws. Put it on the potatoes and lightly salt.
Add the stew and turn on the multicooker.
Install the "Stew / Vegetables" program for 60 minutes.
Peel the tomatoes and finely chop them. We send them to the slow cooker twenty minutes before the end of cooking.
Recipe 3. Country-style potato with stew in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• kilogram of potatoes;
• a jar of pork stew;
• red onion;
• one carrot;
• two tablespoons of art. sunflower oil;
• one teaspoon of salt.
Cooking method:
Onions are cut into small cubes, and potatoes into large cubes. Cut the carrots into circles.
In a slow cooker, pour vegetable oil.
We load onions and carrots and start the “Baking” mode for ten minutes. During this time, the vegetables are fried until soft.
Open the stew, put it on a plate. Remove excess fat, and knead the meat with a fork.
Add potatoes, pork and salt to the multicooker bowl. We mix everything.
We turn on the "Extinguishing" mode for forty-five minutes.
Recipe 4. Homemade potato with stew in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• half a kilogram of potatoes;
• 340 gr. beef stew;
• onion;
• two cloves of garlic;
• carrot;
• sunflower oil;
• sea salt;
• 50 gr. butter;
• one false h. Paprika;
• a half-bunch of parsley;
• a mixture of peppers.
Cooking method:
Cut potatoes into medium cubes, onions into small cubes.
Crush the garlic with the flat part of the knife and chop finely.
Cut the carrots into strips.
Remove the fat from the stew. Break the meat into fibers and mix with the sauce.
Pour a little oil into the slow cooker, load pieces of onion and carrot. Sprinkle with paprika and mix.
In the "Frying" mode, we cook vegetables for ten minutes.
Put potatoes, stew and garlic in a slow cooker. Pepper and salt.
Add butter and mix.
We cook the dish for forty minutes in the "Baking" mode.
Five minutes before the end of the program, add finely chopped parsley.
Recipe 5. Potato with stew in a slow cooker with slices of bacon
Ingredients:
• one kilogram of potatoes;
• 150 gr. lard;
• 250 gr. beef stews;
• one hundred gr. Luke;
• two tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• one and a half liters of water;
• salt.
Cooking method:
Cut the potatoes into medium slices. We put it in the bowl of the multicooker, salt and fill it with water.
We set the program "Steam / cooking" for twenty five minutes, the type of product is "Vegetables".
Put the stew on a plate and knead with a fork.
Lard and onion cut into small cubes.
From the cooked potatoes, drain the liquid, unload and turn it into mashed potatoes.
Pour the vegetable oil into the multicooker cup. We install the program "Frying" for a quarter of an hour.
Fry the onion and lard for about ten minutes, stirring occasionally.
Pour in the stew and cook until the end of the program.
We load the crushed potatoes and mix it with the stew.
Recipe 6. Potato with stew in a slow cooker with mushrooms
Ingredients:
• five potatoes;
• two handfuls of dried mushrooms;
• 400 gr. stews;
• one onion;
• two carrots;
• 50 gr. celery and parsley;
• two lavrushki;
• one teaspoon of salt;
• four peas of black pepper.
Cooking method:
We wash the mushrooms and pour boiling water. Leave them in the water until softened.
Finely chop the carrot and onion.
Shred the greens into small pieces.
We cut the potatoes with an average cube and put them in the crock-pot cup.
We cut the mushrooms and send to the potatoes.
In the same container we put the stew, herbs and carrots with onions.
Pour into a bowl a glass of water in which the mushrooms were soaked. Add salt and stir.
Pour salted water into a bowl with vegetables and stew.
Stir, place lavrushka, peppercorns on top and turn on the slow cooker. We set the "Soup" mode for forty minutes.
Recipe 7. Potato with stew in the multicooker "Vegetable expanse"
Ingredients:
• 600 gr. potatoes;
• a can of beef stew;
• one onion and carrot;
• two tomatoes;
• two sweet peppers;
• four tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
• a bunch of greenery;
• three cloves of garlic;
• salt;
• five peas of black pepper;
• sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
We peel and cut vegetables: potatoes - slices, onions and carrots - half rings, peppers - strips, tomatoes - in small pieces.
Grind garlic with garlic presses.
Pour a couple of tablespoons of sunflower oil into the slow cooker.
In the "Frying" mode, cook onions and carrots for three minutes.
Add the potatoes, salt and cook in the same mode for a quarter of an hour.
In a separate bowl, mix the bell peppers, tomato and load them into a slow cooker. Add the peppercorns of black pepper.
Knead the stew with a fork, remove the pieces of fat and put to the vegetables.
Finely chop the greens and mix with garlic and sour cream. Pour the resulting mix into the multicooker.
Set the slow cooker to the "Stewing / Vegetables" mode, set the time: three quarters of an hour.
Forty-five minutes later, the aromatic dish is ready.
Sautéed potato in a slow cooker - tricks and tips
To prepare the dish, vegetable oil can not be used. As a rule, canned foods contain a lot of fat. But to reduce calorie content it is better to remove it partially or completely.
The potato variety in which the starch is smaller is more suitable. Otherwise, during cooking, it may become too boiled.
If young vegetables are used, especially potatoes, the stew time can be reduced by at least five minutes.
The lid of the multicooker with the finished dish needs to be opened carefully, because a large amount of hot steam can accumulate in the bowl. Therefore, it is worth saving your face and hands.
To get a flavorful and spicy dish, it is better to add chopped garlic at the end, close the crock-pot with a lid and leave for several minutes.
