Top 10 Budget-Friendly Potato Dishes

Potatoes are the perfect ingredient for unleashing your culinary talent, even if you’re just starting out in the kitchen. They pair perfectly with any ingredient: fish, meat, mushrooms, vegetables, and seafood. Cooking them is as easy as it gets; you can boil, fry, bake, and even microwave them.

But that’s not all! AdmiGram.com wants to share a big collection of potato recipes for all occasions – from simple to the most unexpected! We’re confident that you, and everyone you decide to treat with these dishes, will love them.

Top 10 budget-friendly potato dishes

Country-style baked potatoes

Ingredients: Potatoes, your favorite spices, a bit of vegetable oil, salt to taste.

How to cook: Peel and slice the potatoes into wedges, parboil them in water for 5-7 minutes, drizzle with oil, and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown. Young potatoes will be ready in about 15 minutes. You can bake small potatoes whole. If you want the spices to be evenly distributed, put the potatoes, spices, and oil in a plastic bag, seal it, and shake it well.

Potato “Dauphinoise”

Ingredients: 9 medium potatoes, 9 teaspoons of butter, margarine, or heavy sour cream, 9 slices of hard or melted cheese, salt and pepper to taste.

How to cook: Peel the potatoes and cut a small piece from one end to make them stand vertically. Make slits along the length of the potato as if you were making french fries, but don’t cut through; leave about 0.5 inches (1 cm) uncut. Season with salt and pepper and place 1 teaspoon of butter (or margarine or sour cream) inside each potato. Optionally, you can add a bit of garlic to the slits. Place the potatoes in an ovenproof dish with high sides. Top each potato with a slice of cheese. Bake in a preheated oven at 356 °F (180 °C) for about 45-50 minutes, or until done. Serve hot, garnished with herbs.

Potato stuffed with bacon and cheese

Ingredients: Potatoes, some bacon and cheese, garlic clove, salt, pepper to taste.

How to cook: Choose medium-sized, elongated potatoes. Make slits all over the potatoes without cutting through. Lightly salt them. Insert a slice of bacon and cheese alternately into each slit. Season with pepper, wrap in foil (add a garlic clove in the foil), and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes.

Potato patties for breakfast

Ingredients: 4 boiled potatoes, 0.3 lbs (100 g) of hard or melted cheese, 0.3 lbs (100 g) of boiled sausage, 2 raw eggs, 1 tablespoon of flour, vegetable oil for frying, green onions, salt, pepper to taste.

How to cook: Grate the potatoes, cheese, and sausage. Add eggs, green onions, salt, and pepper. Add flour and mix well. Roll the mixture in flour, form patties, and fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Serve hot with sour cream.

Country-style potato stew

Ingredients: 1 lbs (0.5 kg) of chicken meat, 5-6 potatoes, 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 2 tablespoons of flour, salt, pepper to taste, vegetable oil for frying.

How to cook: Slice the onion into half-rings and grate the carrot coarsely. Fry them until golden. Cut the chicken meat into medium-sized pieces and sauté until almost cooked with the onion and carrot. Dice the potatoes into large cubes or rings. Add 2 tablespoons of flour to the potatoes and mix. Add the potatoes to the meat. Pour enough water to cover the potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer with a lid until the potatoes are cooked.

Baked potatoes with tomatoes and cheese

Ingredients: 1 lbs (0.5 kg) of potatoes, 0.5 lbs (200 g) of hard cheese, 0.5 lbs (200 g) of tomatoes, salt to taste.

How to cook: Peel and boil the potatoes in salted water until tender (about 20 minutes after boiling). Let them cool. If the tomatoes are small, slice them into circles; if they are large, cut them into half-circles. Slice the cheese. Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise and place them in a buttered baking dish. Arrange cheese and tomatoes on top of the potatoes. Place in a preheated oven at 356 °F (180 °C). Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Potato with cottage cheese cream

Ingredients: 2 lbs (1 kg) of potatoes, 0.5 lbs (200 g) of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons of sour cream, 2 cloves of garlic, herbs, salt, pepper to taste.

How to cook: Peel and boil the potatoes in salted water until tender. Finely chop the herbs. Mix the cottage cheese and sour cream. Add herbs and crushed garlic to the cottage cheese, mix, season with salt and pepper. Cut the hot potatoes in half lengthwise. Place the cottage cheese mixture on top of the potatoes. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.

Fried potatoes with wild mushrooms

Ingredients: 2 lbs (1 kg) of potatoes, 1 lbs (0.5 kg) of mushrooms, 0.5 lbs (200 g) of onions, vegetable oil, herbs, salt to taste.

How to cook: Finely chop the onions, cut the mushrooms into small pieces, and dice the potatoes. In vegetable oil, fry the onions, add mushrooms, and sauté for 5-6 minutes. Add the potatoes and fry until cooked (about 20-25 minutes). Season with salt. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.

Baked potatoes with quail eggs

Ingredients: 5 medium potatoes, 10 quail eggs (you can use small chicken eggs), cheese, salt, and pepper to taste.

How to cook: Boil the potatoes (without peeling) in salted water, then peel them. Cut them in half, slightly trim the bottom to make them stand. Use a teaspoon to make an indentation in each potato. Crack and pour quail eggs into the indentation. Place the potatoes in a baking dish. Season with salt and pepper. Grate the cheese finely and sprinkle it over the potatoes. Bake in the oven at 356 °F (180 °C) until golden brown (approximately 30 minutes).

Quick potato dish

Ingredients: 3 potatoes, 2 eggs, salt, pepper to taste, spices (to taste).

How to cook: Grate the potatoes coarsely, add eggs, salt, pepper, and spices. Mix well. Place the mixture in a skillet, like a pancake. Fry on both sides until golden brown.

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