How to bake potatoes correctly so that they are delicious: experienced housewives revealed the main rules

30.07.2023 10:45

If you want to prepare an inexpensive, but tasty and healthy dish, then baked potatoes will be one of the most worthy options.

In order to fully reveal the taste of the vegetable, it is worth knowing some tricks.

What do they consist of?

Not every potato variety is suitable

If you know that the potatoes you have chosen do not boil well even for mashed potatoes, then they are also not suitable for cooking in the oven.

This vegetable should be left for cooking as a side dish, making soup or even frying.

Cooking

Even if it seems to you that the potatoes are boiling well, it is still better to pre-cook them.

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It is best to put the vegetable in a saucepan for literally seven minutes. The potatoes should be cooked on minimum heat.

Dimensions

Avoid choosing potatoes of different sizes: it will be difficult to prepare the dish, since the vegetables will take different amounts of time to cook.

Therefore, they try to select tubers according to size.

Spicy herbs

When baking potatoes, aromatic spices play an important role, which significantly improve the taste of the dish. You can add some fresh rosemary and marjoram.

You can limit yourself to the usual dill and parsley.

Marina Michalap Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor


Content
  1. What do they consist of?
  2. Not every potato variety is suitable
  3. Cooking
  4. Dimensions
  5. Spicy herbs