About potatoes, unfortunately, the school program tells quite little information. In fact, this vegetable may be more interesting than you think. For example, you probably did not know that the potato is a distant relative of tobacco
. The fact is that potatoes and tobacco come from the nightshade family. By the way, in this family we can also find nightshade, eggplants and tomatoes. All of the above plants are united by a certain number of features. The flowers of these vegetables and berries are identical, the stems have a characteristic fuzz.
Of the entire family of nightshades, the potato still stands out. The root vegetable is a record-breaker in the number of prepared dishes with its participation.
Consider the preparation of potato cutlets
.
Ingredients for potato cutlets:
- potatoes – 700 g;
- flour – 400 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- dill – a bunch;
- minced meat – 300 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- onion – pcs;
- tomato – pcs.
Preparation of potato cutlets:
Onion should be cut into quarter rings and sent to a frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry the onion until golden, then add minced meat. It is necessary to brown the meat.
At this time, cut the tomato into small cubes, integrate it into the frying pan with minced meat along with salt and favorite spices. Stir the ingredients, stew the mixture on medium heat under a lid for 15 minutes.
Boil the potatoes until soft, peel off the skin and turn into a puree. Break the eggs into the mashed potatoes, add the finely chopped dill. Add fried meat with onions and tomatoes to the mashed potatoes, mix thoroughly.
Sift flour into the resulting mixture, form cutlets from the potato mass.
Dip the cutlets in flour.
On medium heat in a frying pan with plenty of oil fry the cutlets until golden.
This dish can simultaneously serve as a side dish and a main course.
The cutlets are quite budget and easy to prepare.
