When you have no idea what to make for lunch or dinner, it’s usually best to look in the fridge and see what ingredients we have available. French fries are one of those dishes that almost certainly came about this way since they are made from ingredients that are always on hand.
It is an excellent and simple classic dish that we often ate in childhood, but we still enjoy making it now because it is impossible to make a mistake with it. Its rustic taste combines potatoes, eggs, and sausages and appeals to almost everyone. And if by chance you don’t like sausages (or don’t have them on hand), dried meat or some other meat product will also work great, and you can enrich everything with other favorite ingredients.
Although French potatoes are not made very quickly, and it takes a little more than an hour and a half to prepare, most of it is spent on cooking the ingredients and final baking.
The work itself is not too much and it mainly boils down to cutting and stacking the ingredients and making a simple topping of eggs, cream and milk, so anyone can make this dish without any problems, regardless of their experience in the kitchen.
After all, many people take their first steps in the kitchen by making french fries.
By the way, the very name of this dish is unusual because it does not exist in French cuisine, but was authentically created in these regions. Some speculate that the idea for the name came from the French potato gratin, which is baked in cheese and cream, but we will probably never know the real reason.
Be that as it may, that shouldn’t stop us from enjoying this excellent dish that shows how simple flavors are often the best.
French Potatoes
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- 8 medium-sized potatoes
- 5 eggs
- 4 sausages (chopped)
- 100 g of smoked ham (chopped)
- For the topping:
- 2 eggs
- 200 ml of sour cream
- 100 ml of milk
- Other ingredients:
- oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Place potatoes in a large bowl, cover with water
Turn on the heat and when the water boils, cook on moderate heat
Pour water into another cooking pot, add the sausages and when the water boils, cook for 5 minutes
In the third container, put the boiled eggs in cold water and when the water boils, cook for 10 minutes
Remove the cooked sausages from the container onto a plate to cool to room temperature
Cool the boiled eggs in their shells, then peel them and let them cool to room temperature
Potatoes are cooked when a fork passes through them (cook for about 40 minutes)
Cut the cooled sausages into rings about 5 millimeters thick
Cut the eggs into slices about 5 millimeters thick
Cool the boiled potatoes and peel them
Cut it into slices about 5 millimeters thick
Grease a 28x28 cm dish with oil
Arrange a row of potatoes so that one plate partially covers the other
Lightly salt and pepper
Place the sausages on top of the potatoes
Arrange the eggs on top of the sliced sausages
Next is a layer of sliced potatoes, which again need to be salted and peppered
We put the smoked ham on top, which we will cover the whole dish
For the topping, break the eggs into a separate container, add salt, and beat them
Add milk, mix, and finally pour sour cream
Mix everything well and pour it over the potatoes
Potatoes are baked in an oven heated to 170 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes
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