Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
To cook potatoes Pushkin or Pushkin-style, we need only three ingredients: potatoes (preferably young), delicious butter and salt. It is better to take medium-sized potatoes, but not quite small either. Smooth medium tubers are ideal. So the potatoes will boil evenly. ! Pick potatoes from one batch and one variety - so it will boil evenly and at the same time.
Step 2:
Wash the potatoes well and rub thoroughly with a brush or a stiff sponge under running water. Put the potatoes in the peel in a saucepan and pour clean cold water. The water should completely cover the entire potato. Immediately add salt.
Step 3:
Put the pan on the fire. Bring the water to a boil and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes. Check the readiness of root vegetables with a knife: if the knife easily pierces the vegetables, then the potatoes are ready. There is no need to pierce all the tubers in a row - it is enough to choose the largest of all and check its readiness. If he's ready, then so are the others.
Step 4:
Drain the water and leave the potatoes in the pan to cool. Peel the potatoes with a knife. If the tubers are large, cut in half, leave the small and medium ones entirely. I fry the potatoes whole, but if desired, you can cut the potatoes into slices: circles or quarters.
Step 5:
Heat the butter in a frying pan.
Step 6:
Lay out the potatoes and, stirring occasionally, fry on all sides over medium heat until golden brown.
Step 7:
Put the finished golden potatoes on a platter and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!
No additional spices are needed for this potato, however, if desired, ready-made potatoes can be additionally peppered and sprinkled with coarse sea salt - it will turn out very tasty.
You can serve such potatoes to completely different dishes: meat, fish, poultry. This is a universal side dish, which can also act as a main dish, because potatoes are not called second bread for nothing - it contains a lot of nutrients and minerals.
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 uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g