Potatoes with cracklings are very easy and quick to prepare. Despite its calorie content, quite a large number of people like to pamper themselves with this dish. Today we will take a closer look at how to make this vegetable and fatty lunch even more tasty and aromatic.

Potatoes with cracklings: recipe

Required ingredients for the dish:

• fresh lard - 50-70 g;
• medium potato tubers - 6-10 pcs.;
• red - 1/3 dessert spoon;
• fresh herbs (parsley, leeks and dill) - half a bunch of each type;
• large onions - 2 pcs.;
• large fresh carrots - 2 pcs.;
• small garlic - 2 cloves;
• dried basil - 1;
• table salt - add to potatoes to taste;
• ketchup or tomato sauce - bring to the table.

Processing of main products

Potatoes with cracklings turn out especially tasty if you use only young and fresh ingredients to prepare them. Thus, you need to take several onions, carrots and medium-sized potato tubers, and then wash them well, peel them and chop them into cubes. You also need to chop the leeks, parsley, dill and 2 cloves of garlic with a knife.

Preparing cracklings

Typically, crackling potatoes are made from fresh lard. It must be taken in a small amount (50-70 g), cut into medium pieces, and then placed in a hot frying pan. The product should be fried until it begins to release fat and is covered with a golden crust. After this, carefully place the greaves on a plate, leaving the separated lard in the frying pan.

Heat treatment of the dish

In addition to fresh tubers and lard, potatoes with cracklings include many other ingredients. They make the dish more aromatic and tasty. To do this, place onions and carrots in a hot frying pan and lightly fry them in previously melted lard. After 10 minutes, you need to add chopped potatoes, iodized salt, dried basil, red allspice and mix everything thoroughly. It is recommended to fry all components over medium heat for half an hour. In this case, every 7-10 minutes the vegetables must be mixed using a metal spatula.

The final stage in creating a vegetable lunch

After the potatoes become soft and golden brown, add the previously prepared greaves and chopped garlic cloves and stir everything well. In this composition, it is advisable to keep the dish covered for 3-5 minutes, and then remove it from the gas stove. After this, the potatoes need to be completely sprinkled with parsley, dill, leeks and placed on portioned plates.

How to serve correctly

With cracklings it is served to the family table only hot. This dish should be accompanied by some homemade marinades (cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms), as well as wheat bread, tomato sauce or ketchup. Some lovers of fatty lunches also prefer to add mayonnaise or sour cream.

• cut the lard, put it in a heated frying pan without oil
• cut the potatoes, throw them into the frying pan, fry with the lid closed, stirring occasionally
• chop the onion, add to the almost finished potatoes along with salt and coriander
• we bring everything to readiness

Fried potatoes are probably one of the most common and delicious side dishes in the world! I love both cooking and eating it. Today we will prepare a version that is a little forgotten in the cities - fried potatoes in lard. In Central Asian cuisine, foods are often fried on melted fat tail. It doesn’t stink at all, as many may think, but on the contrary, it improves the taste of the dish. So we will use our product for the same purpose. It will turn out very tasty! Potatoes brown perfectly in this fat and take on a rich color! You involuntarily start looking with your fork for pieces of fried lard (by the way, I salted it myself) in the plate, because it’s, well, very tasty!

The result is an excellent, filling side dish. Because I added the onions at the very end, they are slightly crunchy but already sweet. Coreander gives volume to the taste of this dish. You can use other seasonings as well. How do you like ground cumin or oregano, for example?

Potatoes with cracklings are very easy and quick to prepare. Despite its calorie content, quite a large number of people like to pamper themselves with this dish. Today we will take a closer look at how to make this vegetable and fatty lunch even more tasty and aromatic.

Potatoes with cracklings: recipe

Required ingredients for the dish:

• fresh lard - 50-70 g;
• medium potato tubers - 6-10 pcs.;
• allspice red - 1/3 dessert spoon;
• fresh herbs (parsley, leeks and dill) - half a bunch of each type;
• large onions - 2 pcs.;
• large fresh carrots - 2 pcs.;
• small garlic - 2 cloves;
• dried basil - 1 dessert spoon;
• table salt - add to potatoes to taste;
• ketchup or tomato sauce - bring to the table.

Processing of main products

Potatoes with cracklings turn out especially tasty if you use only young and fresh ingredients to prepare them. Thus, you need to take several onions, carrots and medium-sized potato tubers, and then wash them well, peel them and chop them into cubes. You also need to chop the leeks, parsley, dill and 2 cloves of garlic with a knife.

Preparing cracklings

Typically, crackling potatoes are made from fresh lard. It must be taken in a small amount (50-70 g), cut into medium pieces, and then placed in a hot frying pan. The product should be fried until it begins to release fat and is covered with a golden crust. After this, carefully place the greaves on a plate, leaving the separated lard in the frying pan.

Heat treatment of the dish

In addition to fresh tubers and lard, potatoes with cracklings include many other ingredients. They make the dish more aromatic and tasty. To do this, place onions and carrots in a hot frying pan and lightly fry them in previously melted lard. After 10 minutes, you need to add chopped potatoes, iodized salt, dried basil, red allspice and mix everything thoroughly. It is recommended to fry all components over medium heat for half an hour. In this case, every 7-10 minutes the vegetables must be mixed using a metal spatula.

The final stage in creating a vegetable lunch

After the potatoes become soft and golden brown, add the previously prepared greaves and chopped garlic cloves and stir everything well. In this composition, it is advisable to keep the dish covered for 3-5 minutes, and then remove it from the gas stove. After this, the potatoes need to be completely sprinkled with parsley, dill, leeks and placed on portioned plates.

How to serve correctly

Fried potatoes with cracklings are served to the family table only hot. This dish should be accompanied by some homemade marinades (cucumbers, tomatoes, mushrooms), as well as wheat bread, tomato sauce or ketchup. Some lovers of fatty lunches also prefer to add mayonnaise or sour cream to fried potatoes.

Once again let's remember about potatoes. For some reason, the recipe for the dish I want to talk about has been undeservedly forgotten. In any case, none of my friends cook potatoes with cracklings. But this is a very simple and tasty dish. And even it can be called originally Ukrainian and Russian.

Ingredients for potatoes with cracklings:

potatoes 400-500 gr.

salted lard 100 gr.

Preparation of cracklings:

“Once God sent a piece of cheese to the crow.” Not for the crow, but for me. And not cheese, but lard. The lard is very tasty. And I decided to remember another childhood recipe.
First thing . While cooking, add a little salt to the potatoes. While the potatoes are cooking. Take salted lard. Cut it into small pieces (to taste, maybe someone likes large pieces of lard). First you need to remove the skin from the lard. Heat the frying pan and place the pieces of lard directly into the frying pan. Fry the lard until light brown. You can taste the readiness. Salted lard cracklings are tastier than any chips. As a child, we ate them just like that, unfortunately, a little at a time.

Preparing potatoes with cracklings:

If the cracklings are already ready and the potatoes are already cooked, it’s okay. Remove them from the heat and finish cooking the potatoes.
Boiled potatoes need to be crushed, as for masher. Pour the rendered fat and cracklings into the crushed potatoes directly from the frying pan. And mix thoroughly with potatoes.
It turns out very tasty mashed potatoes. It is not only the melted fat that gives it a special charm, but the cracklings that come across. This dish is served as a side dish.

You can also use raw lard. Then the potatoes need to be salted as always. But personally, I prefer salted lard cracklings. It is very tasty to fry potatoes using cracklings, and also add them to various soups. Bon appetit!!!

Fried potatoes with cracklings is the quintessential Ukrainian national dish, very tasty, easy to prepare, incredibly appetizing and incredibly satisfying. In addition, lard is very beneficial for the body if eaten in moderation and there are no contraindications (but this applies to all products in general). Fragrant fried potatoes with fresh or salted lard! What could be tastier for dinner or lunch? And here is the recipe!

Ingredients:

• potato,
• fresh or salted lard,
• salt to taste,
• ground black and red pepper to taste,
• other favorite spices for potatoes,
• a few cloves of garlic (preferably young).

Recipe for fried potatoes with cracklings

A detailed and step-by-step method for preparing fried potatoes with cracklings:

1. The potatoes need to be washed, peeled and “eyes” removed, rinsed from dirt and dust and cut into regular cubes or slices (who is used to peeling potatoes for frying).
2. Cut fresh or salted lard into thin flat pieces and place in a heated frying pan. Fry the lard on both sides until cracklings form (crispy, golden-colored lard).
3. When frying, the lard will melt and there will be enough fat to fry the potatoes on it. The finished greaves should be removed from the frying pan and put the potatoes on it, frying them until golden brown, stirring occasionally so that they fry evenly.
4. 5 minutes before cooking, add salt and pepper to the dish, place finely chopped garlic in the frying pan, add spices as desired, mix everything well, cover the frying pan with a lid and turn off the heat. After 5 minutes, the potatoes can be served with fresh vegetable salad and delicious meat cutlets. As soon as you open the lid of the frying pan, a wonderful aroma will fill the kitchen and everyone will immediately want to try this magic.

Bon appetit!