When mashed potatoes, boiled and fried potatoes manage to be pretty fed up, the harmonious potato in the oven will help diversify the menu. This dish is absolutely not difficult to prepare and has a lot of variations. Potatoes baked in this way are served with various vegetable salads, pickles or sauces.

Basic recipe

From several oblong tubers of medium-sized potatoes, a slice of cervelat and a small slice of cheese, you can prepare a tasty and uncomplicated dish - accordion potato.

The ingredients of the basic recipe listed above should be taken in the following quantities:

  • 400 g of potatoes;
  • 200 g of cervelat;
  • 50 - 70 g of hard cheese;
  • salt, pepper and herbs for serving.

Roasting recipe step by step:

  1. Peel the potatoes. Then make deep cuts along each through 5 - 7 mm. If you take young root vegetables for the accordion, then you do not need to peel them, it will only be sufficient to thoroughly wash the tubers with the hard side of the dish sponge.
  2. Chop the cervelat into thin slices. Pepper-salt and fill the cuts in it with sausage slices.
  3. Place potatoes firmly in a baking dish and cover with foil on top. Next, send the form with potatoes for 20 minutes to the oven, the temperature in which is set at 200 degrees.
  4. After that, remove the foil, sprinkle sausage and potato “accordions” with cheese chips and return to the oven for another 20 minutes, while lowering the temperature to 170 degrees. Serve potatoes, sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Bacon variant

Low-fat juicy pork meat, pierced with even layers of fat - a product obtained as a result of bacon production, gives the potato “accordion” not only taste, aroma and nutrition, but also juiciness.

Harmonica potato with bacon - a dish, for one serving of which you only need:

  • 5 large oblong potato tubers;
  • bacon, salt and spices to taste.

How to bake with bacon:

  1. A well-washed young (or peeled already mature) potato is cut transversely without literally cutting a couple of millimeters to the end. To carefully cut the potato, not being afraid to cut it, you need to put a tuber between two bamboo sticks and cut the root crop exactly before them.
  2. Thin strips of bacon cut into pieces approximately equal to the diameter of the potatoes and insert them into the slots of root crops. Prepared "accordions" tightly lay in a fireproof form with high sides.
  3. Salt potatoes in a form and season with spices, given the fact that bacon will also give its salt to the dish. Bake until soft at 180 - 200 ° C.

Cooking with Bacon

Not only the product from specifically fattened pigs can be used for this potato dish. Ordinary fat is suitable, which can be fresh, salted or smoked. An accordion potato with bacon will turn out to be appetizing in any case, although the taste will differ, depending on the type of pork product chosen.

The list of ingredients from the composition of the dish:

  • 400 g of large oblong potatoes;
  • 100 g of lard (fresh, salted, smoked);
  • salt, paprika and black pepper to taste;
  • fresh chopped greens for serving.

Bake as follows:

  1. Carefully wash, if necessary, peel and cut potatoes.
  2. Freeze fat well in the refrigerator and cut into thin plates.
  3. Insert the slices of fat into the slots on the potatoes, close to each other, put the root crops in the form and sprinkle the top with paprika, salt and pepper.
  4. Bake in a preheated oven for about 45 minutes. Serve the dish hot with various pickles.

Harmonica potato in the oven in foil

So that the potato “accordions” do not break up during cooking and retain their juiciness, they are tightly packed in a baking dish.

 

But for a small portion of such a dish, it will be difficult to find a suitable shape. In this case, ordinary foil will come to the rescue. In it you can cook potatoes with any filling: bacon, cheese, lard, mushrooms, ham, sausage or, as in this recipe, smoked chicken breast.

Ingredients:

  • 4 large potatoes;
  • 100 - 120 g smoked chicken breast;
  • 50 g of hard cheese;
  • vegetable oil for lubricating the foil;
  • spices, salt and herbs.

Cooking method:

  1. We prepare potatoes in the same way as in the previous recipes.
  2. We chop the chicken breast into thin slices, which fill the cuts in the potatoes.
  3. Cut the food foil into squares, into which it would be easy to wrap potato accordions.
  4. Each square should be greased with vegetable oil, put one potato in its center, season with salt and spices on top. The ends of the foil to collect at the top and tightly wrap.
  5. On a baking sheet, send the potatoes for 20 minutes in a preheated oven. Then open the foil, but do not remove it completely. Sprinkle hot root vegetables with cheese chips and put back into the oven until it melts.

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How to cook with mushrooms

To make it easier to stuff potatoes with mushrooms, it is worth choosing instances with large hats that easily fill the incisions in the root crops.

List of required products:

  • 800 g of potatoes;
  • 300 g large mushrooms;
  • 50 g butter;
  • 50 g of hard, not refractory cheese;
  • salt, spices.

Baking algorithm:

  1. Peel, wash and cut the potatoes, as in previous recipes.
  2. Mushrooms should be cleaned with a sponge or wiped with a damp cloth so that they do not absorb excess moisture. Chop thin slices.
  3. Insert mushroom plates into the gaps cut in the potatoes, lay the roots tightly in a deep form, add salt and pepper.
  4. On top of the potatoes, put the butter sliced ​​in small cubes. This will make the dish softer and softer, give it a creamy taste.
  5. Baking "accordions" will take about one hour or until soft. 5 to 10 minutes before the completion of the heat treatment, sprinkle the dish with cheese chips.

With herbs and garlic

A lean version of a potato “accordion” with herbs and garlic is prepared from:

  • 500 g of oblong potatoes;
  • 20 g of fresh herbs (dill, parsley and other);
  • 20 g of garlic or to taste;
  • 20 - 30 ml of vegetable oil;
  • 4 to 5 g of salt.

Working process:

  1. Along the prepared tuber, make frequent cuts after 0.5 cm. Squeeze the garlic through a press, finely chop the greens, mix with salt and vegetable oil.
  2. Stuff the potatoes with garlic-dill mass, generously filling the cuts with it. In preparing such a dish, this is the most time-consuming process that must be performed carefully.
  3. Grease the baking dish with vegetable oil and put potato "harmonica" with herbs in it. Bake everything at 200 degrees until soft for about one hour.

Accordion potato with cheese

An accordion potato with cheese is prepared from the following grocery set:

  • 400 - 600 g of large potato tubers;
  • 200 g butter;
  • 200 g of hard cheese;
  • salt, garlic and black pepper to taste and desire.

The sequence of actions:

  1. Rinse washed and peeled potatoes at the same distance (1 - 2 cm) with transverse cuts, preserving the integrity of each.
  2. Slice the cheese into thin slices, and thoroughly freeze the butter and turn it into thin slices.
  3. Salt the resulting cuts in potatoes, pepper and fill with plates of frozen oil. Prepared in this way, "accordions" send for 50 - 60 minutes to bake in the oven at 200 ° C.
  4. Remove the finished potatoes from the oven and into the cuts, where before that there was butter, insert the cheese plates. Return the dish to the oven and as soon as the cheese melts a little, it can be served.

Meat recipe

Potato tubers prepared in this way turn into a very satisfying, tasty and beautiful dish. It is better to take lean pork as the meat component of the accordion.

The ratio of potatoes, meat and spices will be as follows:

  • 600 g of potato tubers of approximately the same size;
  • 200 g pork tenderloin;
  • 20 ml of olive oil;
  • salt, garlic and meat seasonings to taste.

How to cook:

  1. Using a sharp knife or a special knife for peeling vegetables, thinly peel the potatoes. Then make transverse cuts in them at the same distance, but so as not to completely cut the potato.
  2. Cut the meat pulp into thick medallions that fit perfectly in the cuts of root crops. The hard fibers in the meat should be beaten off a bit.
  3. Stuffed potatoes should be generously greased with a mixture of chopped garlic, salt, spices and oil. Lay them tightly in a refractory form and tighten with foil on top.
  4. Preheat the oven to maximum temperature, put potatoes with meat in it and reduce the degree of heating to 180. Cook the dish for 40 minutes, removing the foil for the last 5 - 10, so that a delicious crispy crust appears on the potato. A more appetizingly baked accordion potato looks if it is sprinkled with fresh fragrant herbs.

Any of the proposed options for such a dish will appeal to everyone at home and will satisfy the hostess with the ease of preparation, satiety and the beauty of serving.

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