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A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 1 kg 500 g cooked potatoes
• 2 2 shallots
• 3 100 g small pieces of bacon
• 4 2 tablespoons goose fat
• 5 salt
• 6 pepper
• 7 2 tablespoons goose fat
• Total weight: 1,710 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
22 min.	18 min.	40 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Chop 2 shallots.
2	Melt 2 tablespoons goose fat in a frying pan.
3	Put in 1 kg 500 g cooked potatoes sliced, in a single layer.
4	After 5 minutes turn over potato slices, and cook until golden brown. Don't salt at this stage, otherwise your potatoes will stick.
5	Put onto absorbant paper to remove the excess fat. Repeat operation until all potatoes are cooked.
6	Clean the frying pan, melt the remaining fat, add chopped shallots, salt and pepper, and cook 1 or 2 minutes.
7	Add 100 g small pieces of bacon.
8	And cook for a further 3 or 4 minutes. Note: Everything so far can be prepared in advance (the day before or so). But what follows must be done at the last minute for a better and crusty result.
9	Put cooked potato slices back in the frying pan.
10	Mix well and reheat on medium heat.
11	Taste and adjust seasoning.
12	It's ready ! Serve piping hot, alone or with a good green salad.

Remarks

In the swiss version, potatotes are grated rather than sliced (thanks to Nicole for this detail).

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