Tortino di patate e Carne

Name: Tortino di patate e Carne
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives; salt and pepper; 4 cold boiled potatoes, cut into small chunks; 400 g (14 oz) cold boiled beef, cut into small chunks; 50 g (1¾ oz) butter

Meat and Potato Cake

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse

By Valentina Harris

Published 1995

About

Originally from Austria, where it is called G’rostl, this dish is a very simple and economical way of using up leftover boiled beef to make a delicious fried ‘cake’ of meat and potatoes flavoured with chives.

Ingredients

50 g (1¾ oz) butter
2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives

Europe
Italy
Starter
Breakfast
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the butter in a 17.5 cm (7 inch) pan and snip the chives into the butter. Add the meat, potatoes and salt and pepper. Mix together very thoroughly, then cook for 10 minutes, pressing down with a palet