Patate al Latte e Burro

Name: Patate al Latte e Burro (Potatoes Cooked with Milk and Butter)
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 2 sweet white onions; 2 tablespoons of olive oil; ½ kg (1 lb 2 oz) new potatoes; milk to cover; salt and ground black pepper; salt and ground black pepper; grated nutmeg; 50 g (2 oz) butter; chopped parsley or coriander leaves; chopped parsley or coriander leaves

Potatoes Cooked with Milk and Butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Honey from a Weed

By Patience Gray

Published 1986

About

In May and June a delicious sweet white onion appears in Italian markets, freshly pulled and sold in little bunches, the stalks green, good for this dish.

Ingredients

2 sweet white onions
2 tablespoons of olive oil
½ kg (

Europe
Italy
Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
May
June

Method

Slice the onions in rounds into a pan in which the olive oil is heating, slice the peeled potatoes ½ cm (1/5") thick and put them in on top. Just cover with milk, add salt, and cook quickly with the lid off. Add a little ground black pepper and grated nutmeg.

When the potatoes are almost co