Few will refuse such a popular side dish as fried potatoes. Golden and crispy slices of this inexpensive root always perfectly complement your favorite dishes, but often the potato, cooked in a frying pan, looks more like a stew, breaks up and does not crack at all. To avoid accidents with your favorite garnish will help multivarka. How to fry potatoes in a multivarker we learn in this article.
Fried potatoes with mushrooms in a multivark
Prepare the right fried potatoes is not so simple, you need to take into account a lot of nuances: from the process of cutting and ending with the procedure of stirring.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 700 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- mushrooms - 400 g;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
First, the potatoes must be cleaned and washed, and, most importantly, cut. There are several ways of cutting, but the most common and convenient is cutting cutlets with a side of 1-1.5 cm. In order to avoid sticking together and the formation of a mushy mass from potatoes, it must be soaked in cold water for 2-3 hours, periodically changing water. With a turbid liquid, starch will leave, and our garnish will turn crispy and crumbly. After soaking, the potatoes are dried with a towel, since the presence of excess moisture prevents the formation of a favorite golden crust.
When all steps are completed, you can go directly to the frying. Fry potatoes in the multivarker can be on lard or vegetable oil, which is preheated in the bowl. Preparation of fried potatoes in the multivarker will take about 60 minutes in the "Bake" or "Frying" mode, depending on the model of your kitchen assistant. The cooking takes place when the lid is open. At this time, do not try to stir the potatoes often, otherwise it will turn into a mess. Also do not forget that the favorite side dish should be salted only at the end of cooking, otherwise it will turn out to be excessively greasy.
It is better not to add mushrooms directly to potatoes, otherwise they will give excess moisture, it is more correct to prepare this addition to the side dish in a separate frying pan along with onions and add already at the very end of the preparation in order to saturate the potatoes with aromas.
The recipe for fried potatoes in the multivarquet
Another way to make good potatoes is to fry with a small amount of water. Do not be frightened, despite the presence of moisture, the potatoes will eventually have a crust outside and friable flesh inside.
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 5 pcs .;
- water 50 ml;
- butter - 30 g;
- spices - to taste.
Preparation
How to start fry potatoes in a multivariate? Root my roots and clean, cut into small slices, and put in a multivark, pour water (calculation of approximately 10 ml per 100 g of potatoes). We add butter and, if desired, onions and greens. Turn on the "Plov" and cook until the water is completely evaporated, occasionally stirring. In the same way, fried potatoes in the multivarquet are prepared and in the baking mode, however, make sure that the butter is not burnt.
If you want to make a roasted fried potato with meat in a multivark, do not forget that before cooking large pieces of meat must be pre-fried in the "Baking" mode with the lid open, in case you add minced meat - preliminary cooking is not needed.
The versatility of such a garnish as fried potatoes is that you can serve it almost to any dish, in combination with your favorite vegetables, meat and, of course, onion, and the spices like fennel, oregano, rosemary and basil, and certainly sauces: soy, barbecue, horseradish and mustard or simple tomato. Bon Appetit!