Parcels of Potato and Irish Farmhouse Cheese

Name: Parcels of Potato and Irish Farmhouse Cheese
Ingredients: Melted butter; 4 sheets filo pastry; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3–4 oz (75–110 g) Cashel Blue cheese; A little olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 4 medium potatoes, boiled and diced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Filo pastry is not difficult to deal with as long as you remember to keep the spare sheets of it covered with a damp cloth until you use them. Filo pastry also has the great advantage that it can be refrozen if you have any to spare. The amount below makes four parcels. They can be prepared well in advance and cooked at the last minute.

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes, boiled and diced
A little olive oil
1 onion, chopped

Pastry
Vegetarian
September

Method

Heat the oil and quickly fry the onion and potato until lightly browned. Season and set aside.

Lay out 1 sheet of filo pastry and paint with melted butter. Cut into 4 rectangles and layer, painting each surface with melted butter. Repeat with the remaining 3 sheets.

Lay a quarter of the potato mixture in the middle of each rectangle and cover with little slivers of cheese. Pull