Baked potatoes in a slow cooker can be prepared for a family dinner or on a festive table.
At the same time, you can safely fantasize, and create your culinary masterpieces, because potatoes are combined with almost any product.
Baked potatoes in a slow cooker - basic principles of preparation
For baking, young potatoes are ideal, which can not even be peeled. Ripe potatoes are peeled and washed well. Small tubers are left whole, and large tubers are cut into slices.
It is very important to dry the potatoes before baking, so that it is not stewed, namely baked.
In the bowl of the device, warm the vegetable oil and lay the potatoes. Then it is sprayed with oil, salted and seasoned with spices. The lid of the device is tightly closed and cooked in the “baking” mode for about an hour. After that, open the lid, shake the contents of the bowl to turn the potatoes over, and continue cooking in the same mode for another 20 minutes.
Potatoes can be baked in cream or sour cream, so that the vegetable acquires a soft creamy taste. In addition, baked potatoes with cheese, meat, bacon or fish. In this case, you will receive a full meal for lunch or dinner.
Recipe 1. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with spices
Ingredients
four medium potato tubers;
sunflower oil - 70 ml;
salt;
clove of garlic;
freshly ground pepper;
a bunch of dill and parsley.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato, wash and cut into slices. Lubricate them on all sides with sunflower oil and put in a deep plate. Salt and season with pepper. Shuffle.
2. Transfer the potatoes to the multicooker bowl. Close the lid tightly and activate the baking function for half an hour. Then turn over the potatoes and continue cooking for the same amount of time.
3. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Add it to the potatoes a couple of minutes until cooked.
4. Put the finished potatoes on a plate, and sprinkle with finely chopped greens. You can serve the dish as a side dish to fish or meat dishes.
Recipe 2. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker under sour cream
Ingredients
filtered water - 100 ml;
black pepper;
a pound of potatoes;
sea salt;
20 g butter;
a small bunch of greenery;
200 ml of sour cream;
spice;
3 g nutmeg;
sunflower oil.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potatoes, wash them and chop them into pieces or chunks. Put in a separate bowl, pepper, salt, season with nutmeg and mix. Leave on for seven minutes to let the vegetable soak in the aromas of spices.
2. Grease a bowl of the device with sunflower oil. Put potatoes in it.
3. Dilute sour cream in a deep bowl with drinking water, mix and pour the potatoes in the bowl with the resulting sauce.
4. Turn on the device in the "baking" mode for an hour. Take the container of ready-made potatoes out of the slow cooker and sprinkle with finely chopped greens.
Recipe 3. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with cheese
Ingredients
eight potatoes;
table salt;
500 g of meat with a layer;
black pepper;
100 g of mushrooms;
10 g lean oil;
onion head;
200 g of cheese;
50 g mayonnaise.
Cooking method
1. Peel and wash the potatoes. Cut it into thin plates. Rinse the meat, soak it in napkins and cut into slices. Peel and chop the onion rings. Rinse mushrooms, dry and cut into thin slices. Coarsely grate the cheese.
2. Lubricate the appliance bowl with oil and put sliced meat on the bottom. Pepper and salt. Put a third of the potatoes. Season this layer with salt and pepper too. Put mushrooms and onion rings on the potato. Salt and spread the rest of the potatoes so that it completely covers the filling.
3. Above everything, sprinkle abundantly with cheese chips. Run the baking function for an hour. Close the cover. Move valve to closed position. Release steam, open the lid and place on plates.
Recipe 4. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with bacon
Ingredients
eight potato tubers;
salt;
200 g of bacon;
Black pepper;
lean oil;
a bunch of greenery.
Cooking method
1. Peel, wash, and dry the potato tubers. Make each transverse incision a little more than half. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper.
2. Wrap each tuber with a thin slice of bacon and fasten the ends with a toothpick.
3. Lubricate the capacity of the device with lean oil and put the potatoes in it with the seam down.
4. Close the lid tightly and start the baking program for 45 minutes. Serve the potatoes hot, sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Recipe 5. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker in shrimp foil
Ingredients
five large potato tubers;
kitchen salt;
10 small shrimp;
20 g mayonnaise;
a bunch of dill, onion and parsley.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato tubers, carefully cut the core, without cutting to the end. Such a peculiar "barrel" should turn out.
2. Rinse greens, shake and chop finely. Mix greens with mayonnaise.
3. Salt the potatoes. Put two peeled shrimp inside and top with mayonnaise sauce.
4. Wrap the potatoes in foil so that it completely covers the tuber.
5. Spread the prepared potatoes with the hole up. Run the baking mode for an hour. This dish can be prepared in fasting by taking lean mayonnaise.
Recipe 6. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with cream
Ingredients
ten large potato tubers;
cheese - 100 g;
cream - 400 ml;
salt;
garlic - four cloves;
ground nutmeg - two pinches;
butter - 30 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel the tubers, wash them and cut them into thin slices. Spread the chopped potatoes in a sieve and pour over with hot water.
2. We lubricate the capacity of the device with butter and crumbled garlic into it. Spread half the potato slices, salt and season with nutmeg. Fill with half the cream.
3. Now spread the remaining potatoes, season with salt and nutmeg. Fill with the remaining cream.
4. Run the baking program and cook the potatoes for 45 minutes. To get a very soft potato, add another quarter of an hour.
Recipe 7. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with chicken
Ingredients
four chicken drumsticks;
25 g of fresh herbs;
six potato tubers;
salt;
30 ml of sunflower oil;
5 g chicken seasoning.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato tubers, rinse and chop them with small bars.
2. Chicken drumsticks are washed under the tap, dried with napkins and seasoned with salt and spices. Mix and leave for ten minutes.
3. We grease the bottom of the device’s container with oil and put chicken drumsticks into it.
4. Spread potatoes on top of the meat. Salt and season with spices.
5. Insert the container into the device and start the “baking” mode for 50 minutes. Close the lid tightly and put the valve in the "closed" position. After half an hour, mix the potatoes with chicken. Serve sprinkled with herbs, as an independent dish.
Recipe 8. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with tomato and mayonnaise sauce
Ingredients
50 g of cheese;
30 ml of vegetable oil;
eight potato tubers;
spice;
80 ml of tomato sauce;
30 ml mayonnaise;
two eggs.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato tubers, wash the vegetable and cut into large slices, a centimeter thick. Put in a deep bowl, season with salt and spices. Shuffle
2. Cheese coarsely.
3. Lubricate the bottom and walls of the appliance container with vegetable oil. Put potatoes in it.
4. Pour the vegetable with mayonnaise. Sprinkle with cheese chips and cover with tomato sauce.
5. Activate the device in the "baking" mode for 20 minutes. Close the cover. Turn the valve to the closed position.
6. In a separate plate, beat the eggs with a whisk. Five minutes before the end of the program, pour the contents of the bowl with egg mixture.
Recipe 9. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with pork
Ingredients
eight tubers of new potatoes;
bulb;
30 ml of sunflower oil;
greenery;
200 ml of sour cream;
ground black pepper;
400 g of pork pulp;
table salt.
Cooking method
1. Free the potatoes from the peel, wash the vegetable and cut into circles, one and a half centimeters thick.
2. Peel the onion and cut into rings. Put the potatoes and onions in a separate bowl.
3. Strip the pork pulp from the films and veins. Wash under running water and dab with napkins. Cut the meat into cubes two centimeters thick.
4. Send the meat to the potatoes. Salt, season and stir. Leave the vegetables with meat to marinate for ten minutes.
5. Add half a glass of drinking water to sour cream and mix. Pour potato and meat with the mixture.
6. Turn the slow cooker into baking mode. Lubricate the bottom and walls of the bowl with sunflower oil. Put the food in a bowl and bake for an hour. 20 minutes before the end of the program, open the lid so that the potato is covered with a golden brown. Put the potatoes and meat on a dish and garnish with finely chopped greens.
Baked potatoes in a slow cooker - tricks and tips
To cook baked potatoes in a slow cooker, take varieties rich in starch.
Do not forget that not in all modes you can open the lid during cooking. Specify this moment personally for your device.
Whole baked potatoes, cook from varieties of vegetables that hold their shape well.
Before cooking, pierce the tubers in several places with a fork. So it does not crack.
