Oven-Baked Potato Nests with Chicken

Treat yourself in an original way — festive cockerels in potato nests! A very tasty and original dish for the holiday table made from the simplest ingredients. Children especially like it. Tender cottage cheese and egg chickens on hearty oven-baked potato nests with minced meat look amazing and appetizing on the table!
cook time: 1h
Caleb Huxley
Oven-Baked Potato Nests with Chicken

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

212
Calories
16g
Fat
8g
Carbs
8g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Milk 100 ml
Potato 800 g
Hard cheese 200 g
Carrot 50 g
Bulb onions 100 g
Vegetable oil (50 ml for frying + 10 ml for greasing the pan) 60 ml
Minced meat 500 g
Peppercorns (or cloves) 12 pc
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp
Chicken eggs 4 pc
Lettuce (three leaves) 3 pc
Cottage cheese (1%) 2 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Boil the potatoes. Make mashed potatoes with milk using any convenient method. Fry the minced meat with finely chopped onion in oil. Boil three eggs, leave one raw.

Step 2

Step 2
Beat the raw egg into the mashed potatoes and mix well.

Step 3

Step 3
Grease the baking dish with oil. Divide the puree into six even parts and form nests out of them.

Step 4

Step 4
Distribute the minced meat and onions evenly among the potato nests.

Step 5

Step 5
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Spread most of the cheese evenly over the minced meat on the potato nests. Bake the nests for 15 minutes.

Step 6

Step 6
Meanwhile, use the remaining ingredients to prepare the chicken.

Step 7

Step 7
Separate the yolks from the whites of three boiled eggs.

Step 8

Step 8
Chop the whites well with a fork.

Step 9

Step 9
Add cottage cheese and mayonnaise to the proteins. Knead everything well.

Step 10

Step 10
Chop the yolks just as well with a fork.

Step 11

Step 11
Roll a ball from one teaspoon of the protein-curd mixture and roll it in grated yolk.

Step 12

Step 12
You need to form twelve such balls. Prepare the dish by decorating the bottom with lettuce leaves.

Step 13

Step 13
Place the baked nests on a plate. Form a chicken from two balls on top of the nest. Cut scallops and beaks from boiled small carrots and place them in their places on the chicken’s head. Use peppercorns or cloves to make eyes for the chickens.

Step 14

Step 14
Place chicks in all six nests this way. The nests with cockerels are ready — you can serve them. Bon appetit!

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