Marie Becker’s Potatoes

Name: Marie Becker’s Potatoes (Pommes de Terre de Marie Becker)
Yield: Yield 6 to 8 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 4 tablespoons butter; 1½ pounds Red Bliss potatoes, peeled, quartered, and turned; 2 shallots, finely chopped; Salt; 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley; Pepper from the mill

Pommes de Terre de Marie Becker

Preparation info

Yield
6 to 8
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Savoie

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

About

See Marie’s story. This dish probably came into her life through her husband Paul Guimard, a native of Saint Pierre d’Albigny in the Combe de Savoie.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons butter
1½ pounds Red Bliss potatoes, peeled, quartered, and turned
Salt

Europe
France
Side dish
Gluten-free
Savoie
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the butter to the noisette stage in a 2-quart cocotte. Toss the potatoes in the butter until they start browning; add just enough warm water to cover them; salt and pepper them. Cover the pot and cook on medium heat 20 to 25 minutes, until all the water has been absorbed; let the potatoes stick to the bottom of the cocotte and brown. Turn the heat off.

Squeeze the shallots i