Juicy potato cake

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4.5 2
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 700 g mainly waxy potatoes (e.g. Solara)
  • 30 g fresh yeast
  • 1 TEASPOON Sugar
  • 500 g + some flour
  • 150 g Parmesan (piece)
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper
  • 5 TABLESPOONS + some + 100 ml olive oil
  • 125 g Raclette cheese (piece)
  • 7-10 Tbsp 1 large bunch of flat parsley
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Hazelnut kernels

Directions

  1. 1

    For the dough, wash 300 g potatoes and cook covered in water for about 20 minutes. Then drain, rinse, peel and press the still hot potatoes through a potato press.

  2. 2

    Crumble yeast into 1⁄4 l lukewarm water and dissolve in it with the sugar while stirring. Let stand for about 5 minutes until the yeast water starts to bubble. Put 500 g flour into a mixing bowl and press a depression in the middle.

  3. 3

    Pour in the yeast water and mix with some flour to a pre-dough. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes.

  4. 4

    Finely grate the Parmesan cheese. 1 1⁄2 Add a teaspoon of salt, 5 tablespoons of olive oil, potatoes pressed through and 100 g of parmesan cheese to the pre-dough. Mix everything with the dough hooks of the mixer to a smooth dough.

  5. 5

    Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes.

  6. 6

    Grease baking tray, dust with flour. Knead the dough once again on a floured work surface. Roll out on the baking tray. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.

  7. 7

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Grate the raclette. Wash and peel 400 g potatoes and slice them into thin slices. Cover dough with potato slices and sprinkle with raclette.

  8. 8

    Bake in the oven for about 25 minutes.

  9. 9

    For the pesto, wash the parsley, shake dry and pluck the leaves. Peel garlic and chop coarsely. Coarsely chop the nuts. Puree parsley, nuts, garlic and 50 g parmesan cheese with a hand blender.

  10. 10

    Let 100 ml olive oil run in. Season with salt and pepper. Arrange potato cake with pesto.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
280 kcal
CARBS
28 g
FATS
13 g
PROTEINS
10 g