Potatoes with bacon and herbs

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 200 g belly (streaky) bacon
• 2 500 g cooked potatoes
• 3 30 g butter
• 4 10 bayleaves
• 5 10 leaves sage
• 6 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 7 salt
• 8 pepper
• Total weight: 770 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	35 min.	1 hour

Step by step recipe

1	Finely slice 200 g belly (streaky) bacon (if not already sliced) and lay out flat on a sheet of cooking parchment. Cook in the oven at 360°F (180°C) for 10 minutes. This is just to lightly pre-cook the bacon, rather than cook it completely. Leave the oven on after this.
2	Peel 500 g cooked potatoeses. You should have the same number of potatoes as bacon slices.
3	Cut a small slice off one end of each potato so that they will stand upright in the dish.
4	Butter a gratin dish. Put a sage leaf and half a bayleaf on each potato, roll up in a slice of bacon and stand in the dish.
5	Prepare all the potatoes like this, packing them tight together. Drizzle a little olive oil over.
6	Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

Remarks

If possible, use herb olive oil, rather than ordinary, to drizzle over the potatoes before they go in the oven.

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