I want to share recipes and recommendations on how to cook potatoes in the microwave. Simply, many people do not even suspect that in our home assistant you can quickly make fries, boil potatoes in your uniform, cook with meat in pots, even make chips.
Most housewives use microwave only to defrost or heat food. And the older generation in general is afraid of it, considering that the irradiation of microwaves is very harmful. Of course, this is complete nonsense, would we have become so massively produce this wonderful invention.
Recommendations for cooking potatoes in the microwave
I never give exact cooking time in recipes. All stoves are different. Yes, even the stress in the morning and in the evening makes the dish get ready for a run in minutes.
- The first thing that determines the cooking time is the size of the potatoes. So, if you are going to cook whole potatoes, pick tubers of the same size.
- Before cooking potatoes in their uniform, rinse the rind with a brush. Sometimes it bursts when cooking and dirt can easily get inside.
- Another thing to keep in mind is that a large, volumetric dish is cooked longer in time.
- To make the potatoes tastier, it’s best to sprinkle them with vegetable oil, with spices.
- Checking the product for readiness is very easy, poking the potatoes with a toothpick.
Boiled potatoes in the microwave
Cook potatoes in the microwave faster than on the stove. Especially convenient if you need a small amount, for example, for salad. We will need:
- Four large potatoes
- Half a glass of water
- According to the taste of ordinary salt
- A large spoonful of unscented sunflower oil
Cooking process:
Tubers are washed and cleaned to cook quickly, cut into quarters. We salt, we fill in with water, we add from above oils, it will accelerate preparation.
Under the lid closed, boil the potatoes for five to eight minutes. Time depends on whether the old or new potatoes. Young tubers boil fast.
At the end, you can check for readiness, pierce a piece of potato, if it's damp, then put it up for a couple of minutes.
How to cook potatoes in the microwave in the package
In a baking bag, quickly cook potatoes for the same salads or as a side dish. When there is no package, I simply wrap each potato in plain paper.
How to cook:
Potatoes need to be cleaned, washed and blotted so that the tubers are dry. If large, it can be cut in half. Fold them in a bag for baking, season with salt and spices, shake a little to evenly distribute. Cook about eight minutes. Next, cut the package so that the steam does not get on you and take out the potatoes.
Instead of a package, the tubers are wrapped in a wet towel, they are prepared in much the same way.
Potato in a microwave jacket in a hurry
Most often we are in a hurry and just need to quickly cook potatoes. This method helps me out when you need to make a lot of blanks for salads before any holiday.
We will need:
- Potato
- Salt
- Vegetable oil
Cooking process:
Wash the tubers thoroughly with a brush, dry each one so that there is no excess moisture. Grease each with oil. We put in a heat-resistant dish and prisim quite a bit, cover with lid and shake to evenly distribute the salt. Then turn on the microwave for eight minutes. Try, if the potatoes have not reached, add a couple of minutes.
How to cook french fries in the microwave
Frees in the microwave can be cooked if there is a grill function. By the way, the potatoes are not as fat as in traditional cooking. So the dish will be more useful.
We will need:
- Five medium potatoes
- Five large spoons of any odorless vegetable oil
- Plain salt and favorite spices
Cooking process:
We clean the potatoes, wash them and dry them, chop them into thin, identical sticks, well, if there is a special vegetable cutter.
Cooking a flat dish, we cover it with parchment. Grease each slice with butter and lay it on paper, top it to taste and set the grill for six minutes. After we take out the dish, turn over all the slices, season with salt and spices on the other side and set to redden once more.
Potatoes with meat in the microwave in the sleeve
Awesome tasty dish, besides, very fast. In the evening for dinner, prepare such potatoes with meat, sweet thing.
We'll take:
- Two potato tubers
- Two hundred grams pork tenderloin
- Small carrot
- Small onion bulb
- Spoonful of sunflower oil
- A spoon of oregano
- Two spoons of soy sauce
- Spoonful of lemon juice
- Salt with pepper
Cooking:
Cut the peeled potatoes into cubes, cut the meat in the same way, only everything should be dry, without excess water. Carrot cut into semicircles, onions into thin half rings.
We put all the components in a wide bowl, season with all the spices at once. If you use soy sauce, then you need less salt, but you can not salt it at all.
We transfer the contents of the bowl to the baking sleeve, tie it tightly and place it in the microwave. We set the maximum power and time of twenty minutes.
Potatoes with mayonnaise in the microwave
This recipe with mayonnaise is very suitable as a side dish or as an independent dinner, in addition with some meat or fish salad.
We take:
- Three large potato tubers
- One hundred grams of hard cheese
- Half a glass of mayonnaise
- Glass of water
- One medium sized bulb
- A bunch of green
- Salt and spices for potatoes
Cooking process:
Cut potatoes into thin slices, cut onions into half rings, rub cheese through a grater. Finely chop the greens with a knife.
In a special dish lay out half the potatoes, then the onion (all), on top again a layer of the remaining potatoes.
Mayonnaise is diluted with water, all spices are poured there, garlic can be crushed, mixed and poured into potatoes.
Sprinkle with greens first, then with a layer of cheese. Tighten the food film and send for half an hour in the microwave oven with a power of 800 W.
How to cook potatoes with meat in pots
Potatoes with meat in pots are no worse than in the oven, and cook it much faster. So, my dear, if you need to feed someone urgently and tasty - write down a recipe for two pots.
We take:
- Five medium potato tubers
- Two hundred grams of lean pork
- Two cloves of garlic
- Glass of boiling water
- Medium Bulb
- Two tablespoons of butter
- Fifty grams of hard cheese
- Salt, pepper, spices
Cooking process:
Cut the pork tenderloin into small pieces, peel the potatoes and cut them like soup. Onion is better to cut thinly into quarters of rings. Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
In each pot on the bottom lay out the garlic, then a layer of meat, salt and pepper, make a layer of onions and potatoes, again the meat, onions and the final potatoes. Top put on a piece of butter and pour half a pot of boiling water.
Cover with a lid and set in the microwave. If you put two pots at once, then set the cooking time for fifteen minutes, if there is one, then ten is enough.
Then take out the pots, sprinkle with grated cheese and again send to the oven for two minutes.
Potatoes with bacon in the microwave
Quickly and without problems you can cook a delicious lunch in just ten minutes. Yes, almost everyone likes potatoes with lard; it turns out to be crusty, fragrant and nourishing.
We'll take:
- Four medium sized potatoes
- One hundred grams of pork fat
- Small bulb bulb
- A pair of fresh dill sprigs
- Salt with pepper
Cooking process:
We will carefully wash the potatoes, because we will not peel the skin, it is generally advisable to take a young one. Cut it into rings, each tuber across four ringlets. On each do punctures with a fork.
Lay the potato slices on a platter, sprinkle salt and pepper on each, put a piece of bacon and onion ringlets on top of each.
We bake in the microwave for ten minutes at the highest power. Then sprinkle with chopped dill.
Mashed Potatoes
Of course, if you can cook whole potatoes in HF, then you can make mashed potatoes.
We'll take:
- Six large tubers of potatoes
- One hundred grams of butter
- Half a cup of boiled warm milk
- Salt
- A couple of dill sprigs
Cooking process:
We clean the potatoes, cut them into eight parts so that they can cook faster, pour water in a special dish and do not forget to salt them. Under the lid, cook on the full power of the microwave in ten minutes.
Add some water from the finished potato, add butter and milk and, as usual, shake it. Top mashed potatoes decorated with sprigs of dill.
How to bake potatoes with cheese in the microwave
It turns out very tasty potatoes with cheese, suitable as a side dish, as an independent dish. My kids love it so much. Prepares quickly and easily. Preferably from young potatoes.
We need:
- Eight tubers of medium size
- Two hundred grams of hard cheese
- Two hundred grams of butter
- Two cloves of garlic
- Salt, seasonings, greens
Cooking process:
We wash and dry the tubers; we do not remove the peel. We put on a flat dish, you can put parchment, on each potato we make punctures with a toothpick. Bake for eight minutes.
Three cheese, butter, soften, mix everything, add crushed garlic, herbs and spices. We take out the potatoes and cut each tuber cross to the cross to the middle. In each center we lay the curd and bake for another two minutes.
Country-style potatoes in a microwave
I often do this recipe, when there is no time to cook anything else. You can add any meat.
We need:
- Kilo of potatoes
- One onion
- Three cloves of garlic
- A pair of dill sprigs
- Three glasses of water
- Salt, rosemary, paprika, black pepper
Cooking process:
Peeled potatoes cut into small cubes, season with spices, add onion rings and finely chopped garlic. Fill with water and set under the lid in the microwave, with a power of 700 W will be prepared for eight minutes. Then we pour out the water and decorate it with greens.
