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- detritus0
So, a couple of hangovers ago, I bought an instant potato breakfast from the supermarket, was somewhat disappointed by it (the cover image lied to me... it LIED!), so decided to reverse-engineer it.
A few generations later and I've come up with ..
"Bavarian Breakfast Potatoes"
One - two people
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Potatoes (ideally, Anya - anything small and with loads of skin (NOT NEW!!))
Quality Stock Cube (Chicken, Vegetable)
Onions (1)
Smoked Ham (3-4 slices)
Olive Oil (lots)
Finely chopped fresh Parsley and Thyme (enough to cover a plate when dusted)
Salt & Pepper to taste
Garlic clove- -
Cube Potatoes into 2cm blocks.
Heat two fingers worth of oil in un-coated saucepan
Before flashing, pour in potatoes, slightly reduce heat.Prepare stock (½ pint worth)
Prepare Ham, onions, garlic and fresh herbs.Ham - finely chopped - any fat, minced and kept aside
Onions - roughly chopped, ½ cm at max- -
Once potatoes are browning and looking tasty, carefully remove and leave in a bowl, to keep warm and not soak in own oil too much (No need to kitchen towel excess oil off, though a metal gauze might come in handy, to avoid pooling).
Store aside majority of oil for later use, leaving enough to shallow fry onions.
Ensure pan is at a medium, not high, heat.
Shallow fry onion. Once softening, add chopped garlic. If you have excess fat from smoked ham, add to pan.
Once onions are cooked - but before they brown or darken, stir in stock. The idea here is to use the stock to allow onions to cook to a soft, 'over-cooked' but not at all burnt, consistency.
Allow stock and onion mix to reduce to a thick, tasty gloop.
Scrape out gloop into bowl, add a little fresh oil to pan, shiggle around so there are no overly-encrusted areas. Bring heat back to medium.
Add smoked ham, allowing edges to darken, then add potatoes.
Allow potatoes to heat through, mix with ham, ensuring good distribution.
Add stocky onion gloop, again mix through.
Remove pan from heat and mix in parsley and thyme.
Salt and Pepper to taste.
- Oh, yes. Now we're talking.Continuity
- One day I'll share my reverse-engineered Pot Noodle 'recipes' :)detritus
- 'Cooking with QBN' :DContinuity