How to cook potato grenaille
The French call very small potatoes "grenaille". This is a typical way of cooking them: the tiny potatoes are pan-fried in their skins and make an excellent accompanient for meat.
Grenaille can be made with any kind of potato; it is a question of size, rather than variety, though I think that firm-textured potatoes, such as rattes or charlottes, work best. I am using rattes in the photos.
The cooking is a combined method: boiling first, then frying. This is quicker than using a single method.
Grenaille can be made with any kind of potato; it is a question of size, rather than variety, though I think that firm-textured potatoes, such as rattes or charlottes, work best. I am using rattes in the photos.
The cooking is a combined method: boiling first, then frying. This is quicker than using a single method.
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Last modified on: September 16th 2015
Keywords for this recipe:CookingVery small potatoesGrenaillePotatoes2 cooking
1 kg 
4 tablespoons 
2 
2 sprigs 
2 
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| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 11 min. | 32 min. | 43 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Prepare the grenaille
Thoroughly wash 1 kg potatoes of very small size in lukewarm water.Stage 2 - 5 min.
Drain and transfer them to a large saucepan.
Use this opportunity to check each potato, trimming off any eyes and bad bits, and discard any black, green or damaged potatoes.
Use this opportunity to check each potato, trimming off any eyes and bad bits, and discard any black, green or damaged potatoes.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
First-stage cooking: boiling
Cover the potatoes with cold water and bring to the boil.Boil until the potatoes are just barely cooked.
Stage 4
Drain the potatoes.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
Second-stage cooking: frying
Heat a large non-stick pan on medium heat and add 4 tablespoons oil, 2 bayleaves, 2 sprigs thyme and 2 cloves garlic.Stage 6 - 1 min.
When the oil is hot, add the potatoes and stir well to coat them with oil.
Stage 7 - 20 min.
Leave the grenaille to fry, stirring from time to time...
Stage 8
...until nicely browned.
Salt and pepper.
Salt and pepper.
Stage 9
This is goes very well with grilled meat, for example.
Remarks
You can also try frying in clarified butter instead of oil.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,417 Kcal or 5,933 Kj | 21 gr | 196 gr | 61 gr |
| 71 % | 8 % | 18 % | 9 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 131 Kcal or 548 Kj | 2 gr | 18 gr | 6 gr |
| 7 % | 1 % | 2 % | 1 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hot box cheese , Potato and broccoli gratin, Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, Home-made potato crisps , Piedmont salad, ... All |
 | Oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rémoulette dressing, Fish in a seed crust, Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce , Taos hotpot, Quiche Lorraine, ... All |
 | Garlic clove: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Duo of slow-cooked pork, Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, Bourguignon potatoes , Celeriac and mushroom gratin, Cervelle de Canut, ... All |
 | Bayleaf: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spicy seafood plancha, Bourguignon potatoes , Home-made doner kebab, Herb olive oil, Duo of slow-cooked pork, ... All |
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