Mexican Potatoes

Name: Mexican Potatoes
Ingredients: 4 oz (110 g) cheese, sliced; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 red chilli peppers, finely sliced; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 1 fat onion, chopped; 3–4 tablespoons tomato purée; 4 hard-boiled eggs, sliced; 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 2 lb (900 g) potatoes, peeled; 6 slices bacon

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

Full-blooded food, a complete meal in itself, the ingredients of this can be varied according to what you have available, but the chilli peppers are integral.

Ingredients

2 lb (900 g) potatoes, peeled
6 slices bacon

Main course
Christmas
December

Method

Cook the potatoes in lightly salted water until just tender. Slice them in half and lay cut-side down on an ovenproof dish. Have the bacon slices lightly grilled and lay on top, together with the eggs.

In a heavy pan, warm the olive oil and sauté the onion for a few minutes. Add the other ingredients, except the cheese and cook for about 10 minutes. Pour over the potatoes and cover with