Potato grandmother in the oven with minced meat

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a potato grandmother with minced meat in the oven? Prepare all ingredients. The minced meat in this recipe is pork, but it can be replaced with chicken or beef, an egg of category C1. I used a ceramic mold measuring 20*15.5 cm .

2. Step 2:

   

   First prepare the meat filling. How to make the filling? Peel one onion and garlic from the husk. Cut the onion into cubes, chop the garlic. Pour vegetable oil into the pan, heat it up. Fry the onion cubes for 4 minutes over low heat. Then add the chopped garlic and fry everything together for another 1 minute so that the garlic gives off its flavor. It is not necessary to fry vegetables too much.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the minced meat in the pan with the steamed vegetables and, breaking the lumps, fry the meat until it loses its red color. In the process of frying, add salt to the meat filling. When the filling is ready, remove the pan from the stove and leave aside until the potato dough is collected.

4. Step 4:

   

   Now proceed to the preparation of the potato base. Wash the potatoes, peel them, peel the onion and rinse under water. Please note that the weight of already peeled potatoes is indicated in the recipe.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cut potatoes and onions into several pieces so that their pieces pass through a meat grinder. I use a grate with small holes, pass the vegetables through a meat grinder. If you do not have a meat grinder, then grate the vegetables on the smallest grater. In this case, it is better to grate the onion first, which will not allow the potatoes to darken. Stir the potato mass from time to time so that the onion juice mixes evenly with the grated potatoes.

7. Step 6:

   

   Transfer the resulting mass into a sieve and, pressing the potato mass with a spoon, squeeze out a little juice. This will remove excess starch from the dish. But do not overdo it, otherwise the potato grandmother may turn out very dry. Return the potato mass to the bowl.

8. Step 7:

   

   Beat a chicken egg into the potato mass, add flour and salt to taste. Mix thoroughly to get a homogeneous mass.

9. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the form. Using a pastry brush, thoroughly lubricate the bottom and sides of the mold with vegetable oil. You can use any shape: a duck coop, a cast iron, a ceramic mold, a baking tray and even pots. In a greased form, put half of the potato mass and smooth it out a little. Put the meat filling in the next layer, also distributing it evenly. Put the remaining potato mass in the last layer. Carefully smooth out again, without mixing the layers.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put thin plates of butter on top of the potatoes. Place the form with the potato dough in a preheated 180 ° C oven and bake for about 50-60 minutes. During this time, the mass should seize and gild.

11. Step 10:

    

    After the specified time, remove the potato grandmother from the oven, cut it into portions and serve it to the table hot with sour cream.