Braised potatoes with dried mushrooms: 2 cooking methods

Potato stew with mushrooms (fresh or dried) is a favorite and hearty meal. Mushroom aroma contributes to the awakening of appetite, so even if you can’t be called an ardent admirer of mushroom dishes, everything changes in this situation, and recognizing the incredible taste, you will most likely want additives. Stewed potatoes with dried wild mushrooms are a great side dish for meat. Also, the dish has proven itself as an independent hearty lunch or dinner. Let's cook potatoes with mushrooms according to the recipes below. The one that will appeal to consumers will rightfully earn a place in the family's cookbook.

How to stew potatoes with dried mushrooms. Simple option

First we test the recipe with the minimum number of components. Here's what you need to get from the kitchen bins:

• dried forest mushrooms - 80-100 grams;
• potatoes - 6 pieces;
• onion - 1 piece;
• Bay leaf;
• lean oil;
• pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking process

1. Before you cook dried mushrooms with potatoes, you need to process them. To do this, we thoroughly rinse them. Slice and place in a deep cup, pour boiling water. We immediately cover with any suitable lid. We steam the mushrooms for at least half an hour.
2. Swollen mushrooms are slightly salted and boiled in the same water for another half hour with moderate boiling. As soon as the forest mushrooms lie on the bottom of the dishes - they are ready. We don’t drain the broth.
3. Wash and peel the potatoes. Young tubers can only be thoroughly washed and cooked with peel. Cut the potatoes into pieces.
4. Pour the entire rate of vegetable oil into the pan. We heat it and lightly fry the potatoes. Add a little salt and add chopped onions.
5. Now we reduce the temperature of the plate. Covering the pan with a lid, bring the onions to softness. For this we need about three minutes.
6. We spread all the mushrooms and add a leaf of laurel. To make the stewed potatoes with dried mushrooms very aromatic, add some of the broth that remained from the mushrooms during cooking.
7. Cook for 25 minutes over moderate heat. Do not forget to stir the contents of the pan and add broth from the pan as needed.
8. As soon as the potatoes are stewed well, add spices and herbs.

Braised potatoes with dried mushrooms and sour cream

A very tender and rather high-calorie dish will turn out. Here is what you need to cook it:

• potatoes (the exact amount is calculated approximately like this - two potatoes per one eater, on average 6-8 root crops are taken for cooking stewed potatoes with dried mushrooms and sour cream according to this recipe;
• forest mushrooms - 150 grams of dry product;
• onion - 2 medium-sized heads;
• odorless vegetable oil - for frying;
• sour cream (or sour cream product) - 2 cups;
• salt, bay leaf and other spices.

Cooking a dish

We will prepare the mushrooms: rinse, pour boiling water for half an hour and leave it under the lid.

Wash and peel the potatoes, if the root crops are not young. We cut the potatoes as we like, but we don’t have to chop it very much: it can fall apart and ruin the appearance of the dish.

Bulbs are free from all inedible elements. Shred them not very finely. Fry until golden brown in vegetable oil at a moderate temperature.

After 30 minutes, pour the mushrooms with the water in which they were soaked into a pan of a suitable volume. If necessary, add a glass of boiling water and simmer for 25 minutes.

Preliminary preparations are completed. Let's start creating the dish.

In the pan, we begin to stew the potatoes, pouring water. The liquid should barely cover the vegetables. We turn on the stove and, adding salt, bring to a half-ready.

Mushrooms will be sent to the frying pan to the sautéed onion. Fry until thin crust. At this time, the potato reached half-preparedness. Send to the pan everything that happened in the pan. Also add salt and bay leaf with spices. Reduce the temperature under the pan. Mix its contents. With the lid closed, simmer for five minutes.

Add the entire norm of the sour cream product, mix again. We make the fire even quieter. We will cook stewed potatoes with dried mushrooms and sour cream for at least 15 minutes. Sometimes you need to open the lid of the pan in order to mix the cooking dish. At the end of the process, try on salt. If desired, grind washed, fresh greens and pour into a potato with mushrooms.

You can add carrots to any of these recipes: it will give an interesting shade of stewed potatoes with mushrooms.