Potato Nests with Chicken
Original, unusual, delicious! For holidays and everyday meals! Potato nests with chicken are very simple and easy to make. It's a hot dish made from the simplest ingredients, but its unusual, eye-catching presentation makes it right at home on a holiday table too. And little food-lovers are sure to enjoy it — they'll ask for seconds!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make potato nests with chicken? Gather the ingredients you'll need. I'm using chicken breast fillet. You could use thigh or drumstick meat instead, and the filling will be juicier.
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Step 2:
Cut the peeled potatoes into small pieces. Boil them in salted water until tender. To check, pierce a piece with a knife — if it's soft, the potatoes are done.
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Step 3:
Drain all the water from the potatoes and mash them with a potato masher until there are no lumps. Let the mash cool.
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Step 4:
Cut the peeled onion into small cubes.
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Step 5:
Wash the chicken fillet and pat it dry well. Cut it into small cubes.
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Step 6:
Add vegetable oil to a skillet. Sauté the prepared onion over moderate heat, stirring now and then, until soft.
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Step 7:
Add the fillet pieces to the onion in the skillet and stir.
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Step 8:
Over slightly higher than medium heat, fry the chicken until golden. This keeps the meat juicy. As it cooks, salt the chicken and add ground black pepper (or any spices to taste). Stir so the pieces brown evenly.
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Step 9:
Wash the parsley, dry it, and chop it finely. You can use dill instead of parsley, or leave out the herbs altogether.
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Step 10:
Combine the chicken with the herbs and stir.
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Step 11:
Beat the egg into the cooled mashed potatoes. To make the potato mixture hold together better, add the flour. Mix everything well until smooth.
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Step 12:
The easiest way to form the nests is with a piping bag fitted with a tip. Or you can snip the corner off a sturdy zip-top bag and squeeze the potato mixture through it. Pipe the potato nests as little round baskets onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Grease the parchment with vegetable oil first.
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Step 13:
Fill the potato nests with the chicken filling.
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Step 14:
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
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Step 15:
Sprinkle the cheese over the potato nests.
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Step 16:
Bake the assembled baskets in an oven preheated to 375°F (190°C) for 20–25 minutes. The potato mixture should firm up and the cheese should melt.
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Step 17:
Serve the potato nests with chicken hot. Enjoy!
- Any oil is only good up to a certain temperature — its smoke point, at which the oil starts to burn and forms toxic compounds, including carcinogens. For how to gauge the right frying temperature and choose the best oil for frying — and which oils are better avoided entirely — read more here.
- Keep in mind that everyone's oven is different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from what's given in the recipe. To make any baked dish a success, check out the helpful tips on how ovens behave!
- So the oven has time to reach the right temperature, turn it on ahead of time (10–20 minutes before you start cooking).
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
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavl cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Soviet cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Steppe cheese - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appenzeller cheese 50% fat - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheshire cheese 50% fat - 363 kcal/100g
- Edam cheese 40% fat - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms 50% fat - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese 45% fat - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese 45% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Amadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom Blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo Spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Etorki cheese (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Yellow full-fat cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyère cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Parsley greens - 45 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 113 kcal/100g
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