Preparation: Step 1
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Prepare all ingredients. The bacon can be taken fresh or store. Suitable for slices in individual packaging. Select hard cheese to your liking, the main thing is that it melts well when baking. Choose greens to your liking. Dill, parsley, green onions are perfect. Cream is suitable with a fat content of 10-30 % liquid. Cream can be replaced with milk.
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Step 2
Peel the root crops. Grozen well. Cut into cubes. Cut the root of the celery in smaller pieces than potatoes. Move vegetables to a pan for cooking.
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Step 3
To make the vegetables more fragrant, add bay leaf, garlic and a mixture of peppers in pea. You can wrap spices into a shred of pure gauze and lower it into a container with potatoes, then just remove it.
Pour in water. To speed up the boiling process, you can add boiling water. Pour a little salt and send it to the fire. Cook until soft for about 20-25 minutes from the moment of boiling. The cooking time depends on the variety of vegetables and the size of the chopped pieces. Periodically pierce vegetable pieces with a fork and try to readiness.
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Step 4
In the meantime, take the bacon. If there is a skin, cut it. Cut the pulp in small cubes. Warm up the pan. Add chopped pieces of bacon. Stiring with a spatula, brown over a moderate heat.
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Step 5
Add good quality butter to the stewpan. Pour cream. Set on moderate fire. Warm up, stirring, before boiling and complete melting of oil pieces.
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Step 6
When the vegetables become well soft, drain the water. Mash the potatoes with a potato tank until the consistency of mashed potatoes without lumps.
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Step 7
Pour hot cream with melted butter to the potato mass. Make it out again well.
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Step 8
Prepare a baking dish. In this case, ceramic 27.5x15x6 cm. Lubricate the bottom and side sides with fat, which remained from frying bacon. Put the mashed potatoes. Leve.
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Step 9
Distribute about 1/3 of the fried bacon to the potato layer in a chaotic manner.
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Step 10
Sprinkle generously with grated hard cheese.
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Step 11
Distribute the remaining fried bacon. Heat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees. Send a form with a potato mass to a hot stove for 10-15 minutes so that the cheese chips melted well.
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Step 12
Get out of the stove. Sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve.
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Step 13
Such mashed potatoes can be prepared in advance, stored in the refrigerator, before serving, heated in the oven.
