Alastair Little, Richard Whittington

Straw Potato Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • 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

For whatever reason, Lyons has more culinary specialities associated with it than any other French city. These include charcuterie, Lyonnaise potatoes, which are shallow-fried and mixed with fried onions, and the potato dish called pommes paillasson – straw potato cake.

Ingredients

  • 900 g/ 2 lb baking potatoes
  • 60 g/ 2

Method

Peel the potatoes and put them through a rotary food-mill fitted with a shredding disc or use the designated disc on your food processor to produce the longest strings you can. Rinse them in cold water, drain through a colander, roll up in a tea towel and squeeze gently to get them as dry and starch-free as possible.

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