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Hasselback or "Swedish-style" potatoes

Hasselback potatoes are cut into thin strips, leaving some of the flesh intact, to form a sort of puff pastry or "porte-feuilles". They are then baked in the oven, and topped with cheese and ham.

It's a simple recipe, and at the same time quite technical.

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Last modified on: November 26^th 2023

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For 12 potatoes, you will need:

1 12 potatoes
2 0 kg 5 g Clarified butter
3 thyme
4 0 kg 5 g Comté cheese
5 6 slices ham
6 fine (or table) salt

Change these quantities to make: 2 potatoes 4 potatoes 8 potatoes 12 potatoes

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
53 min.	1 hour	1 hour 53 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 4 min.

Wash and dry 12 potatoes.

You can peel them if you prefer, but it's not essential.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

With a vegetable peeler or knife, make a dish under the potato, removing a slice.

We do this so that they are stable afterwards.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Place the potato, with the dish created in the previous step underneath, on a chopping board.

To make cutting easier afterwards, surround the potato with 5 mm-thick pastry blocks.
If you don't have any, use whatever you have on hand that is also around 5 mm thick: school rulers, "Chinese" chopsticks, etc.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Using a sharp knife, slice the potato from top to bottom along its entire length, until you reach the wedges.

Note that the beginning and end of the potato are too small to be protected by the wedges, and will be cut off completely.

Stage 5 - 12 min.

Do this for all the potatoes.

Stage 6 - 12 min.

Brush the potato slices with a brush dipped in clarified butter, and put a pinch of salt in each slit.

No secret, it's a bit time-consuming, but it's quicker with 2 people: one to spread the potato slices, and the other to add the pinch of salt.

Preheat your oven to 200°C (390°F).

Stage 7 - 40 min.

Do this for all the potatoes, then place them on a sheet of baking paper on a baking sheet.

Brush the outside of each potato with butter, sprinkle evenly with salt and thyme, and bake at 200°C (390°F) for 40 minutes.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Meanwhile, cut 0 kg 5 g Comté cheese and 6 slices ham into strips, then into small squares, approximately the diameter of the potatoes.

Stage 9 - 1 min.

After 40 minutes, remove the potatoes, which should already be golden brown.

Stage 10 - 12 min.

Divide the pieces of ham and cheese between the slits in the potatoes.

It's best to spread the chosen slit with a knife blade, insert the piece of cheese or ham, then remove the knife blade, holding the cheese or ham in place.

Here again, working in pairs is a very good idea.

Stage 11 - 20 min.

Return the potatoes to the oven for 15-20 minutes.

Stage 12

Serve on their own, or with a green salad, for example.

Remarks

This 2-step cooking method takes a little longer, but you'll get much better results than with raw potatoes topped with cheese and ham before going into the oven.

This is a recipe that can be adapted to just about any taste: you can change the cheese and meat as you like. You could even replace the ham with vegetables, such as grilled zucchini slices.

If you prefer, replace the clarified butter with oil.

Keeping

Enjoy immediately.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
5,943 Kcal or 24,882 Kj	146 gr	376 gr	428 gr
297 %	56 %	35 %	65 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
236 Kcal or 988 Kj	6 gr	15 gr	17 gr
12 %	2 %	1 %	3 %

Per potatoes
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
495 Kcal or 2,072 Kj	12 gr	31 gr	36 gr
25 %	5 %	3 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 12 potatoes : 8.67 €
Per potatoes : 0.72 €

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	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fried cheese toasties with avocado, Cocotte eggs with Comté, Salmon and spinach quiche, Fougasse with bacon and Comté, Courgettes (zuchinis) , ... All
	Clarified butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Warm apple feuillantines, Flambéd bananas , Pears and caramelised walnut samosas , Celeriac in cream and mustard sauce, Corn salad with croutons, ... All
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	Ham: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Welsh (French Welsh Rarebit), Potted meat (rillettes), Rice à l'italienne, Escalope cordon bleu, Involtinis, ... All