Alastair Little, Richard Whittington

Rösti

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

  • About

Despite indications to the contrary on Loyd Grossman’s Sunday Morster-Bate, rösti is a potato dish... period... and the secret of this delicious but calorific Swiss treatment for potatoes is lots of clarified butter, that is butter which has been heated to extract the residual milk solids.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg/ 2 lb 2 oz floury potatoes
  • 170

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/ gas 7. Boil the potatoes in their skins for 15 minutes. Run them under cold water until they are cool enough to handle and then peel them.

Grate the potatoes coarsely into a bowl and pour over the clarified butter. Season with salt and pepper, t