Röstis

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
25 min.	20 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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