Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate … Check This Amazing Recipe: Cheese and potato nests
How to Make Cheese and potato nests
Preparation time:
less than 30 mins
Cooking time:
10 to 30 mins
Serves:
Makes 6
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp soft butter
- 500g/1lb 2oz waxy potatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 garlic
- 1 bay leaf
- 200g/7oz lardons
- 100ml/3½fl oz dry white wine
- 250g/9oz Reblochon cheese
Method
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Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and brush a six-hole muffin tin with the soft butter.
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Peel the potatoes and use the julienne blade on a mandoline to make thin matchsticks (or slice by hand).
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Put the onion, garlic, bay leaf and lardons into a large non-stick frying pan and cook until the lardons are golden-brown. Add the wine and reduce until only a couple of tablespoons of liquid remain. Remove the bay leaf.
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Stir in the potato matchsticks and take off the heat, then stir in the Reblochon cubes.
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Divide the potato mix between the six holes in the muffin tin and bake for 15–20 minutes or until golden-brown and bubbling. Serve hot.
