How to bake potatoes in a slow cooker
There is a desire to cook an unusual dish, but the fantasy has dried up? Culinary specialists know many recipes from potatoes: boiled, in their uniforms, fried, baked in foil, etc. Try to cook potatoes with slices in a slow cooker at home. This option is suitable for lunch or dinner, even for a festive table. Potatoes in a slow cooker turn out crispy and fragrant, so all family members will like it.
The recipe for cooking is simple, any housewife will cope with it. Used foods and spices are usually on hand in the kitchen.
Calorie content
In raw potatoes, about 77 kcal per 100 grams, depending on the variety. Those who like to monitor their health and weight will like a multicooker dish so that the potatoes are baked, and
calories will be 98 kcal per hundred grams. If you add fat or butter, calories will increase three times.
Classic recipe
Ingredients:- Potatoes - 4-5 pieces of medium size.
- Vegetable or olive oil - 50 ml.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Dried basil - a pinch.
- Italian herbs to taste.
- Garlic 2 cloves.
- Fresh dill.
- Rinse the potatoes, peel.
- Cut into 4 parts and combine in a deep cup with olive oil.
- Add salt, pepper, basil and Italian herbs, mix well.
- Cut the dill separately and chop the garlic. Leave on a plate.
- Place the tubers in the multicooker bowl and set the “Baking” or “Frying” mode for 60 minutes.
- In order for the potato to bake and the crust to become rosy and crispy, after 30 minutes open the lid and turn the workpiece over.
- Add garlic and dill 10 minutes before being cooked. They will add an exquisite aroma.
Serve with sour cream, garlic, sweet and sour or tomato sauce.
Video recipePotato in a foil in a slow cooker
I will reveal the secret of cooking young potatoes in foil in a slow cooker.
- Rinse the tubers well and peel if desired (but not necessary).
- Dip in olive oil and sprinkle with spices and salt to taste.
- Wrap each tuber separately in foil. Set the mode: “Baking” for 60 minutes.
- Turn over several times during cooking.
Serve with your favorite sauce and as a side dish to the main course.
Bake potatoes in a slow cooker with pork
The dish is hearty and aromatic, will appeal to many meat lovers.
Ingredients:- Young medium-sized potatoes - 7 to 10 pieces.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Sour cream 15% - 200 ml.
- Pork 500 - grams.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Onion - 1 piece.
- Peel the potatoes, cut into plates no more than 1 cm thick.
- Cut the onion into thin half rings.
- Cut the pork into portions of 2-3 cm, salt and pepper.
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, add sour cream. Add 50 ml of water if necessary.
- Set the "Bake" or "Stew" mode for 60 minutes.
Serve with vegetable salad or sauce.
Video cookingUseful Tips
- For baking, choose those varieties in which there is less starch. They boil longer. Use root crops of dense structure.
- Turn the potatoes every 15-20 minutes to evenly bake and form a crisp.
- If you add grated cheese at the end of cooking, the potato is saturated with a delicate creamy taste.
- Adding caraway seeds, you get a fragrant dish that does not require additional ingredients.
- The bowl of the multicooker can be pre-greased with butter to get a golden crust.
- You can bake potatoes with bacon, the dish will turn out to be fatter, but very tasty. Calorie content will increase to 370 kcal per 100 grams.
Baking potatoes in a slow cooker is very easy. The dish is easy to prepare and hearty. It can be varied with cheese, bacon, nutmeg, prunes - it depends on your taste.
A slow cooker will do any. In a bowl of a larger volume, you can cook a large portion, but there will be no differences in taste. Calorie content is easily controlled by the composition of foods that you eat with potatoes. A great addition and side dish is a light vegetable salad, sauerkraut and pickles.