Potatoes stuffed with minced meat in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make potatoes stuffed with minced meat in the oven? Prepare the specified products. Peel the potatoes, rinse in water. Use pork minced meat, preferably fatty, so that the fat melts during baking and the potato slices absorb it into themselves, otherwise the output will turn out to be dry potatoes.

2. Step 2:

   

   Put the peeled and washed tubers in a cauldron or saucepan, pour warm water, add salt, add bay leaves and place the container on the stove. Boil for 15-20 minutes until almost ready. Keep an eye on the vegetables so that they are not digested, otherwise it will be impossible to stuff them. Many cooks recommend stuffing raw potatoes, but you do not need to do this - it will not bake in the oven!

3. Step 3:

   

   When the vegetables are cooked, let them cool slightly by taking them out of the water. Cut each of them horizontally in half, take out the middle with a teaspoon or a knife. Grease the baking dish with oil and put the halves of boiled potatoes into it.

5. Step 4:

   

   Cut onion into small cubes, combine with minced meat, salt and pepper to taste. Mix and stuff the potato halves with minced meat. Do not smear with sour cream and do not sprinkle with cheese! Minced meat and sour cream or cheese have different cooking time periods: cheese or sour cream will burn, and the minced meat will still remain raw under them. It's the same with potatoes, which is why potatoes must be boiled first, so as not to get fried minced meat and half-cooked potatoes at the exit!

6. Step 5:

   

   Bake the dish for about 25 minutes at 180-200 C in the oven. 3-5 minutes before cooking, you can smear with sour cream or sprinkle with finely grated hard cheese, but this is purely optional, since stuffed potatoes are served on a platter with sour cream or other sauce based on it.