Mother Carles’ Potatoes

Name: Mother Carles’ Potatoes (Pommes de terre ‘Mère Carles’)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 220 g (7¾ oz) smoked bacon, very thinly sliced to make 28 slices; 1.5 kg (3 lb 6 oz) waxy potatoes; salt, freshly-ground pepper; salt, freshly-ground pepper; 80 g (2¾ oz) butter

Pommes de terre ‘Mère Carles’

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros

By Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

1.5 kg (3 lb 6 oz) waxy potatoes
220

Europe
France
Side dish
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Peel the potatoes and, with a vegetable knife, cut into 28 large cylinders or corks 5 cm (2 in) long. Cut the bacon into 28 thin slices if you have not had this done for you in the shop.
Take a heavy sauté pan, large enough to hold all the potatoes side by side. Put in the potatoes, cover with cold salted water and bring to the boil to blanch them. Drain immedi