TARTIFLETTE
Ingredients
1kg good quality potatoes - Desiree 1 medium onion
200g smoked bacon 1 clove garlic
2 tablespoons fat: butter or duck fat Salt and pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine 250g curd cheese
Fresh parsley
1/3 cup crème fraiche or heavy whipping cream.
200g smoked bacon 1 clove garlic
2 tablespoons fat: butter or duck fat Salt and pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine 250g curd cheese
Fresh parsley
1/3 cup crème fraiche or heavy whipping cream.
Method
Peel the potatoes and cut them into slices.
Roughly chop the onion.
Heat the duck fat in a heavy skillet and add the onions, bacon and sauté gently for 3-5 minutes.
Add the potatoes and continue to sauté for 5 more minutes.
Add the wine, give the potatoes a stir, cover, season with salt and pepper as desired, and let simmer and steam in the wine for 10 minutes more.
Grease the gratin pan with duck fat, crush the garlic clove, and rub the garlic clove all over the inner surface of the pan.
Reserve the remaining garlic for another use (the vinaigrette for the accompanying salad, for example).
Add the crème fraiche to the potato onion bacon mixture, and transfer it to the gratin pan
Sprinkle the cheese on top and place in a hot oven and bake for 10 minutes at 250C
Turn the heat down to 200C and bake 10 more minutes
Turn off the oven, and leave the dish in the oven without opening it for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot with a salad, crusty bread, and the wine you cooked with.
Roughly chop the onion.
Heat the duck fat in a heavy skillet and add the onions, bacon and sauté gently for 3-5 minutes.
Add the potatoes and continue to sauté for 5 more minutes.
Add the wine, give the potatoes a stir, cover, season with salt and pepper as desired, and let simmer and steam in the wine for 10 minutes more.
Grease the gratin pan with duck fat, crush the garlic clove, and rub the garlic clove all over the inner surface of the pan.
Reserve the remaining garlic for another use (the vinaigrette for the accompanying salad, for example).
Add the crème fraiche to the potato onion bacon mixture, and transfer it to the gratin pan
Sprinkle the cheese on top and place in a hot oven and bake for 10 minutes at 250C
Turn the heat down to 200C and bake 10 more minutes
Turn off the oven, and leave the dish in the oven without opening it for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot with a salad, crusty bread, and the wine you cooked with.
Comments
This recipe features potatoes, bacon, onion and cheese. Serves 6