Baked potatoes – the dish loved by all which is cooked in usual week-days. But baked potato with ease can turn into a festive delicacy if to fill it with interesting and unexpected filler.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes in a peel of the average size – 12 pieces;
For meat filler:
- Sour cream – 200 g;
- Smoked meat – 60 g;
- Horse-radish – 20 g.
For shrimp filler:
- Mayonnaise – 150 g;
- Shrimps – 200 g;
- Fennel bunch.
For herring filler:
- Sour cream – 100 g;
- Herring – 200 g;
- Onions – 1 piece.
Preparation:
- Warm an oven to 220 degrees. Wash out potatoes. Puncture with a fork a peel that potatoes didn't blow up in preparation time in an oven. Lay potatoes on a baking tray, put it on the lower part of an oven. Bake 45-60 minutes, duration depends on the size of potatoes.
- Get the made potatoes. A knife make deep cuts a cross on a cross and press down big and a forefinger so that potatoes opened. Further it is necessary to fill potatoes with filler. About 4 potatoes with each option of filling have to turn out. Fillers can be prepared in advance, and it is possible after roasting of potatoes.
- For meat filler to take smoked meat and to cut it into small pieces. On a small grater to grate horse-radish, it is possible to use ready mix of table horse-radish. Mix meat with horse-radish and sour cream. Lay the turned-out filler in deepening of potato.
- For shrimp filler it is necessary to boil in the added some salt water of a shrimp within 3-5 minutes. Cool, clean and to cut small. Four cleaned shrimps to postpone for ornament. Wash out, dry up fennel and to crush thinly. To leave couple of branches of fennel for ornament. Mix the cut shrimps, fennel and mayonnaise, to mix. Fill deepening in potato with the received mix. Decorate verification with the remained whole shrimps and branches of fennel.
- To prepare herring filler it is necessary to take light salted herring, to peel it from stones and to cut in cubes. To small chop onions. To put in deepening of potato on 1-2 spoons of sour cream, and from above herring cubes. Strew with the cut onions.
It is necessary to serve potatoes hot, it is possible to decorate a dish cut by feathers of onions and other greens.