Hungarian Christmas Mashed Potatoes Recipes

AUTHENTIC HUNGARIAN-STYLE MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the potatoes and cook until tender. Drain well. Add the butter to the potatoes and mash with a potato masher (do not use a mixer or the potatoes may get gummy). Add half of the sour cream to the potatoes and mix well. Stir in the egg and beat by hand until completely incorporated. Add the remaining sour cream to taste along with the salt, as desired. Serve hot.

HOLIDAY MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Beat hot potatoes until all lumps are removed.
• Add cream cheese (in small pieces) and the butter.
• Beat well until cheese and butter are completely melted and mixed.
• Stir in sour cream.
• Add eggs and onion to milk and add this to the potatoes with salt and pepper.
• Beat until light and fluffy.
• Place in a greased 9-inch casserole.
• Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until lightly rounded on top (puffy).

HUNGARIAN CHRISTMAS MASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil peeled and quartered potatoes in salted water till tender.
• While potatoes are cooking --.
• Heat skillet. Add mustard seeds. Cover & shake until the popping slows. Add the butter & when melted, add the onions. Cover and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Uncover, continue cooking over low heat for until very soft, dark & caramelized. Add the paprika. Stir over lowest heat for a minute or two until the paprika has lost its raw taste. Set aside.
• Back to the potatoes --.
• Strain off cooking water & mash. Add 1/2c of the sour cream and blend into potatoes. Add the egg into the potatoes and whip. Add the stick of butter & the remaining sour cream to taste. Stir in the onion mixture. Add salt to taste.

RAKOTT KRUMPLI, HUNGARIAN SCALLOPED POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil potatoes in their skin. Boil eggs. Peel potatoes and eggs. In a pyrex baking dish layer the ingredients: start with sliced potatoes on the bottom, sprinkle grated butter on them, salt, sliced boiled eggs, salt, sour cream, sliced sausage -or franks-, repeat one more time. The last layer should be potato. Cover the pie with grated cheese, than lay the bacon slices on the cheese in a diagonally crossed way. Bake the dish in the oven for 45 to 60 minutes at 400?F until bacon is crisp on the top and cheese melted