Potatoes are everything. Probably, no other vegetable is used to prepare as many delicious dishes as potatoes. This vegetable is universal, it is “friendly” with almost all products, with the exception of sweets.
Below we want to offer you a recipe for potatoes in garlic-mint sauce. This dish is quite simple to prepare and is an example of healthy cuisine. In it, potatoes baked in the oven are generously flavored with fragrant garlic-mint sauce, and even sprinkled with chopped mint leaves. Pepper, always freshly ground and coarse sea salt are used as seasonings.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes (medium size) – 1 kg.
- Garlic – 1 head.
- Fresh mint – 1 small bunch.
- Olive oil – 2/3 tbsp.
- Freshly ground black pepper – to taste.
- Coarse sea salt – to taste.
Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes. Servings Per Container: 6.
How to cook:
1. Wash the potatoes thoroughly with a vegetable brush, as you will bake the tubers in their skins.
Prick each tuber with a fork so that the peel does not burst on them during cooking.
2. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Lay potatoes on a baking sheet.
3. Preheat the oven to 170⁰ C. Put the baking sheet with the potatoes in the oven and bake the tubers for 1 hour – 1 hour 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, rinse the mint thoroughly. Remove the leaves from the branches and lay them on a towel to dry (both stems and leaves).
4. Divide the garlic into cloves. Clear. Cut the mint stalks into small pieces. Place the garlic and mint stalks in a blender.
5. Pour in the olive oil.
6. Grind and beat the contents into a homogeneous mass. Garlic-mint sauce is ready.
7. Finely chop the mint leaves.
8. Remove the finished potatoes from the oven and cut each tuber straight into quarters while hot. Put in a bowl.
9. Add garlic-mint sauce. Season to taste with freshly ground black pepper and sea salt. Stir gently.
10. Let stand for literally 5 minutes so that the potatoes soak in the sauce. Then put the potatoes in garlic-mint sauce on a beautiful dish, sprinkle with chopped mint leaves and serve immediately.
Bon appetit!