Boulangère Potatoes

Name: Boulangère Potatoes
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: freshly ground black pepper; sea salt; a few sprigs of thyme; 25 g butter; 2 onions; 300 ml hot chicken or vegetable stock; 1 kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper, Desiree, King Edwards or Idaho

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 55

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

This dish takes time; don’t rush it! The result is worth it: meltingly tender potato slivers topped with a crunchy, golden crust like French bread, hence the name, Pommes Boulangère.

Ingredients

1 kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper, Desiree, King Edwards or Idaho
2 onions

Europe
France
Side dish
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4.

Peel the potatoes and slice them very finely using a mandolin or a food processor. Slice the onions in the same way.

Butter an ovenproof dish and make layers of the potatoes and onions, with seasoning and the thyme leaves (stripped from the st