Creamy Mashed Potatoes with Canned Stewed Meat
A simple, hearty dish for a family lunch or dinner! Mashed potatoes with canned stewed meat (known as tushyonka) is about as easy as cooking gets — any beginner can pull it off on the first try. Serve it with a vegetable salad or a plate of fresh or pickled veggies.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make mashed potatoes with canned stewed meat? Start by gathering your ingredients. Peel the potatoes ahead of time and rinse them clean. You can use canned stewed meat made from any kind of meat — store-bought or homemade. Milk of any fat content works fine.
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Step 2:
Put the peeled potatoes in a pot and add enough water to cover them completely. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and add a little salt. Cook the potatoes for 20–25 minutes, until tender, then drain — but reserve a little of the hot cooking water in a mug to use for the mash.
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Step 3:
Add the butter to the potatoes while they're still hot and mash with a potato masher. Pour in the warm milk and keep mashing until the potatoes drink it all up. For a looser mash, add a splash of the reserved hot cooking water.
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Step 4:
The mash soaks up the milk beautifully.
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Step 5:
Peel and finely chop the onion. Spoon a little of the fat from the canned meat into a hot skillet, add the onion, and sauté for about a minute, until fragrant.
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Step 6:
Add the canned stewed meat to the skillet with the onion and warm everything through together.
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Step 7:
Add the mashed potatoes and stir to combine. Heat the meat and mash together in the skillet for a few minutes, then take it off the heat.
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Step 8:
Fragrant, delicious, and filling — dinner is ready! Spoon onto plates and serve hot. Fresh vegetables and herbs make the perfect side. Enjoy!
- To keep your eyes from stinging while you chop, rinse the onion and the knife in cold water first. Rubbing the cutting board with a slice of lemon beforehand keeps it from holding onto the oniony smell.
- Root vegetables clean up best with a brush or a stiff sponge under running water.
- A note on cookware: the wrong skillet can spoil even a great recipe, so pick one suited to the dish.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in their skins - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat - 54 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Salted peasant butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Clarified butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Pork stew - 349 kcal/100g
