Pommes de Terre à l’auvergnoise

Name: Pommes de Terre à l’auvergnoise (Oven Baked Potatoes with Bacon)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 2 lb (1 kg) potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced; Salt and pepper; Salt and pepper; 3–4 cloves garlic, chopped; 1 bayleaf, quartered; 3½ oz (100 g) streaky bacon, cut into small pieces; 4 thin slices good bacon

Oven Baked Potatoes with Bacon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on France

By Keith Floyd

Published 1987

About

Originally this dish was cooked in a baker’s oven and took on the delicious fragrance of freshly baked bread. If you know a friendly baker, it’s well worth trying.

Ingredients

2 lb (1 kg) potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
3–4 cloves garlic, c

Europe
France
Gluten-free
Auvergne
Baking

Method

Butter an earthenware baking dish. Layer the potato slices into the dish, scattering the garlic, bayleaf, salt and pepper among them.

Fry the streaky bacon until crispy. Add it and its fat to the potatoes, plus enough boiling water nearly to cover. Place the slices of bacon on top.

Bake in a hot oven, gas mark 6, 400°F (200°C), for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the potatoes are te