Baked potatoes in a slow cooker can be cooked for a family dinner or on a festive table.
At the same time, you can safely dream and create your culinary masterpieces, because the potato is combined with almost any product.
Baked potatoes in a slow cooker - the basic principles of cooking
Ideal for roasting young potatoes, which can not even peel. Mature potatoes are cleaned and well washed. Small tubers are left entirely, and large ones are cut into slices.
It is very important to dry the potatoes before baking so that it does not stew, but it is baked.
In the bowl of the device, warm the vegetable oil and spread the potatoes. Then it is sprinkled with oil, salted and seasoned with spices. The lid of the device is tightly closed and cooked in “baking” mode for about an hour. After that, open the lid, shake the contents of the bowl to turn the potatoes, and continue to cook in the same mode for another 20 minutes.
Potatoes can be baked in cream or sour cream, so that the vegetable gets a soft creamy taste. In addition, potatoes are baked with cheese, meat, bacon or fish. In this case, you get 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.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut them into slices. Oil them on all sides with sunflower oil and place in a deep plate. Salt and season with pepper. Stir.
2. Transfer the potatoes to the multicooker bowl. Close the lid tightly and activate the baking function for half an hour. Then turn the potatoes over and continue cooking for the same amount of time.
3. Peel and finely chop the garlic clove. Add it to the potatoes for a couple of minutes until done.
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 with sour cream
Ingredients
- filtered water - 100 ml;
- black pepper;
- half a kilo of potatoes;
- sea salt;
- 20 g butter;
- a small bunch of greens;
- 200 ml sour cream;
- spices;
- 3 g nutmeg;
- sunflower oil.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the potatoes, wash them and chop them in bars or chunks. Put in a separate dish, pepper, salt, season with nutmeg and mix. Leave on for seven minutes so that the vegetable is soaked with the aromas of spices.
2. Lubricate the bowl of the device with sunflower oil. Put the potatoes in it.
3. Dilute the sour cream with drinking water in a deep dish, mix and pour the potatoes in the bowl in the sauce.
4. Turn on the device in the “baking” mode for an hour. Remove the container with the prepared potatoes from the multicooker and sprinkle with finely chopped greens.
Recipe 3. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with cheese
Ingredients
- eight potatoes;
- kitchen salt;
- 500 g of meat with a layer;
- black pepper;
- 100 g of mushrooms;
- 10 g of vegetable oil;
- onion head;
- 200 g of cheese;
- 50 g of mayonnaise.
Method of preparation
1. Peel and wash the potatoes. Cut it into thin plates. Rinse the meat, dip with napkins and cut into slices. Onions clean and chop rings. Rinse the mushrooms, dry and cut into thin slices. Cheese coarsely grate.
2. Oil the bowl of the device and place the slices of meat on the bottom. Pepper and salt. Lay out the third part of the potato. Season this layer with salt and pepper too. Put mushrooms and onion rings on potatoes. Salt and decompose the rest of the potatoes so that it completely covers the filling.
3. Top everything abundantly sprinkle with cheese chips. Run the baking function for an hour. Close the lid. Move the valve to the “closed” position. Let off steam, open the lid and arrange into plates.
Recipe 4. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with bacon
Ingredients
- eight potato tubers;
- table salt;
- 200 g of bacon;
- Black pepper;
- lean oil;
- a bunch of greens.
Method of preparation
1. Clean, wash and dry potato tubers. Make transverse cuts on each one by a little more than half. Vegetable salt and pepper.
2. Wrap each tuber with a thin slice of bacon and seal the ends with a toothpick.
3. Lubricate the container of the device with lean oil and place the potatoes in it with a seam down.
4. Close the lid tightly and run the baking program for 45 minutes. Serve the potatoes hot, sprinkled with chopped greens.
Recipe 5. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker in foil with shrimps
Ingredients
- five large potato tubers;
- salt kitchen;
- 10 small shrimps;
- 20 g of mayonnaise;
- a bunch of dill, onion and parsley.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the tubers of potatoes, carefully cut the core, without cutting to the end. It should make such a kind of “keg”.
2. Rinse greens, shake and finely crumble. Mix greens with mayonnaise.
3. Salt the potatoes. Put two peeled shrimps inside and cover with mayonnaise sauce on top.
4. Wrap the potatoes in foil so that it completely covers the tuber.
5. Put the prepared potatoes upside down. Run bake mode for an hour. This dish can be cooked in a post, taking a 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.
Method of preparation
1. Tubers clean, wash and cut into thin slices. Put the sliced potatoes in a sieve and douse with hot water.
2. Capacity of the device we grease with butter and garlic crumbled into it. Spread half of the potato slices, salt and season with nutmeg. Fill half with cream. 3. Now lay out the remaining potatoes, season with salt and nutmeg. Fill the remaining cream.
4. Start the “baking” program and cook 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 greens;
- six tubers of potatoes;
- salt;
- 30 ml of sunflower oil;
- 5 g chicken seasoning.
Method of preparation
1. Potato tubers clean, wash and chop in small bars.
2. My chicken drumsticks under the tap, dry them with napkins and season with plenty of salt and spices. Mix and leave for ten minutes.
3. Lubricate the bottom of the container with oil and put chicken drumsticks into it.
4. Put 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 move the valve to the “closed” position. After half an hour, stir the potatoes with chicken. Serve, sprinkled with herbs, as an independent dish.
Recipe 8. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with tomato-mayonnaise sauce
Ingredients
- 50 g of cheese;
- 30 ml of vegetable oil;
- eight potato tubers;
- spices;
- 80 ml of tomato sauce;
- 30 ml of mayonnaise;
- two eggs.
Method of preparation
1. Remove the peel from the potato tubers, wash the vegetable and cut into large chunks, a centimeter thick. Put in a deep dish, season with salt and spices. Stir
2. Coarsely grate cheese.
3. Lubricate the bottom and sides of the container with vegetable oil. Put the potatoes in it.
4. Pour the mayonnaise on the vegetable. Sprinkle with cheese and cover the whole with tomato sauce.
5. Activate the device in “baking” mode for 20 minutes. Close the lid. Move the valve to the “closed” position.
6. Whip the eggs in a separate plate. Five minutes before the end of the program, fill the contents of the bowl with egg mixture.
Recipe 9. Baked potatoes in a slow cooker with pork
Ingredients
- eight tubers of new potatoes;
- onion;
- 30 ml of sunflower oil;
- greens;
- 200 ml sour cream;
- ground black pepper;
- 400 g pork pulp;
- salt.
Method of preparation
1. Free the potatoes from the peel, wash the vegetable and cut into slices, one and a half centimeters thick.
2. Peel the onion and cut into rings. Put the potatoes and onions in a separate bowl.
3. Clean the pork flesh from the films and veins. Wash under running water and soak in napkins. Cut meat into cubes, two centimeters thick.
4. Send the meat to the potatoes. Salt, season with spices and mix. Leave the vegetables with meat to marinate for ten minutes.
5. Add half a glass of drinking water to the sour cream and mix. Pour the mixture with potatoes and meat.
6. Switch on the slow cooker to “baking” mode. Smear the bottom and sides of the bowl with sunflower oil. Put the food in the bowl and bake for an hour. 20 minutes before the end of the program, open the lid so that the potatoes are covered with a ruddy crust. Put the potatoes with meat on the dish and garnish with finely chopped greens.
Baked potatoes in a slow cooker - tricks and tips
- For cooking 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.
- Baked whole potatoes, cook from varieties of vegetables, which holds the shape well.
- Pierce tubers in several places with a fork before cooking. So it does not crack.
