Potato baskets with stuffing in the oven

For potato baskets, let's take three or four large potatoes. Peel the potatoes and boil them in salted water until tender.

Then we prepare mashed potatoes with the addition of the specified amount of butter. Carefully, so as not to curdle, we drive a raw egg into the mashed potatoes, mix well so that there are no lumps. We leave the mashed potatoes to cool. There is one caveat here - depending on the potato variety, you may need a little flour in mashed potatoes for a bunch of potato dough, I usually add two tablespoons of flour.

We make baskets from the cooled puree. To do this, we will need silicone molds for cupcakes or muffins, if the molds are not silicone, then we pre-lubricate them with vegetable oil.

Small portions of mashed potatoes (about one tablespoon with a slide) are placed in molds and with hands soaked in water, we carefully distribute the potatoes inside the mold over the entire area. We put potato baskets in a preheated 180 degree oven and bake until browning, 15-20 minutes.

We take the finished baskets out of the oven, let them cool down a little so as not to get burned. Then carefully remove our potato baskets from the molds and leave them to cool until completely cooled on the grill.

You can stuff such baskets with anything, for example, cottage cheese cream with salmon or herring forshmak, as well as any favorite salad.

I suggest you try the option a la "Herring under a fur coat" in a new way.

We clean the herring from the skin and bones, separate the fillets. Half of one herring fillet cut into small pieces. The amount of herring depends on your love for this product and on the salinity of the herring itself. Beetroot and egg are grated on a coarse grater. Add finely chopped onion (you can pickle). We fill it with mayonnaise. Season with freshly ground black pepper. Mix well.

Potato baskets are stuffed with the resulting salad "fur coat", and spread a piece of herring on top and decorate with onion rings.

Bon appetit!