Potato Matafans with Pears

Matafans de Pommes de Terre aux Poires

Preparation info
  • Yield

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

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Ingredients

  • 3 unripe Bartlett or Bose pears, cored and sliced
  • Salt
  • Pepper from the mill
  • 3 ounces

Method

Slice the pears, put them in a baking dish, sprinkle them with salt and pepper. Render the bacon and sauté it until golden, then remove it to a plate. Remove most of the bacon fat from the pan, and in the bit left, sauté the pears until brown, return the bacon to the pan, and mix with the pears.

Cook one or two matafans per person. Put a small portion of pears and bacon on each c