Layered Potato Cake

Submitted by Stardustannie

"This potato dish is nice served hot or cold. Great to take along on a picnic served with a salad."

 

• Ready In: 16mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 8 medium potatoes (approx 1 kg)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 cups fine dry breadcrumbs
• 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley

directions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Grease an 8-inch spring form pan. Line base and sides of pan with wax paper.
3. Peel potatoes and thinly slice with mandoline.
4. In microwave melt butter add oil, garlic, and pepper.
5. Arrange some of the potato slices in bottom of pan, overlapping edges.
6. Brush with butter mixture.
7. Combine bread crumbs, cheese and parsley sprinkle some over potato slices.
8. Continue layering potatoes, brushing with butter mixture and sprinkling with cheese mixture, ending with cheese.
9. Using your hand, press the top layer down. Bake, uncovered, 1 hour or until golden brown.
10. Cool slightly, cut into wedges.
11. Serve warm or cold served with salad.

Reviews

[Peter J]

We really enjoyed this and it's a nice dish that would go well along with so many different mains. One thing I will change next time is I thought the very top layer with twice the quantity of crumbs as cheese had a bit too much of a 'toasted' flavour on top, my oven has baking elements both on the top and bottom that may not have helped in that regard. I think next time I'll cut the mixuture to about 1 1/2 cup breadcrumbs and 3/4 cup of mozzarella, and then for the last layer place a very small sprinking of breadcrumbs over the top followed by enough mozzarella to cover it.

 

[gluten_free_mommy_c]

I have been looking forward to trying this recipe for weeks and was very disapointed. For starters, I did follow the recipe exactly. The potatoes were still raw after an hour which I didnt find out til it was already out of the pan. So I microwaved them until they were cooked. <br/>The appearance of the potatoes (pre-microwave) is very unappetizing. They are brown and just look nasty. The dish was horribly bland. I will not try this one again.

 

[weekend cooker]

After reading the other reviews I decided to cut the breadcrumbs in half, and that worked great for us. I also had a little cheddar cheese leftover to and added it to the mozz. cheese, loved the taste of this. Nice easy, quick meal. Made for Auz/nz swap #33

 

[L DJ3309]

Made this to serve with meatloaf. Hubby took his meatloaf sandwich to work and a side dish of this. You're right it is delicious hot or cold. Thanks for sharing

 

[Dreamgoddess]

After reading the other reviews, I only used about half of the breadcrumbs, which was plenty for our tastes. We really enjoyed the flavors of this dish. Made for A/NZ Recipe Swap #16.