Tuesday, February 23, 2010

RECIPE: Crispy Potato Cake

I love potatoes and I love everything that Melissa D'Arabian has prepared on Food Network.  I've made her Potato-Bacon Torte and it's so good!  I love to use her recipe for pie crust for my Freezer Apple Pie.  It's delicious!  And I genuinely like her $10 Dinner concept.  It's reasonable and makes sense.  So this week for the FNCCC, we had our choice of Melissa D'Arabian, Morimoto or Mary Nolan, it was a no-brainer for me.   I knew I was going to make a Melissa recipe.

I chose her Crispy Potato Cake.  I recorded her show and was able to see her make this one. 

Crispy Potato Cake
2 tablespoons bacon grease (don't have a heart attack!)
2 Idahoan potatoes (I know 3 are pictured...but I only used 2)
salt
onion powder 
sour cream (optional)

Grate the potatoes and put them into a tea towel to squeeze out any liquid.  
Fluff up the "dried" grated potatoes and sprinkle with salt and onion powder.  Heat bacon grease in a non-stick skillet and press the grated potatoes into the bottom of it.  Let cook undisturbed for 8-10 minutes.  

Gently flip the cake onto a plate and then place it back into the skillet so the other side can brown up.  Cook another 5-10 minutes.  Cut into wedges and and serve.  

I wish we had fresh parsley but I didn't make it to the store and just used what I had on hand.  I put a dollop of sour cream in the middle of the plate and me and my daughter DEVOURED these in a about 5 minutes flat!  They were so good.  Haylei kept saying "mommy, these are A-lish-ous!"  (interpretation of 3 year old talk:  Delicious).  I might have taken a better picture so the sour cream wasn't "glowing" but like I said, one bite and we didn't stop!  Yummy afternoon snack!

Enjoy!

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8 comments:

Susie said...

I have been really impressed with her recipes:-)

Pamela Scott said...

looks and sounds yummy a must rey thanks

Anonymous said...

YUM!!!
Christina

SnoWhite said...

awesome! If you have an indoor grill (like a Foreman) you can do these really easily on there!

Cole said...

This is definitely going on my "must make" list! Thanks for sharing with TATT!

Sarah said...

Oh, very nice. This is so simple. I might top it with scrammbled eggs, bacon and cheese. Like a breakfast pizza with a crispy potatoe crust. Making me hungry! Thanks for cooking along with FNCCC. Glad to hear that the crust from the torte was a winner. I'll use it next time because I usually don't have the premade ones.

Jenna @ Newlyweds said...

I have some potatoes that need to be used and I think I am doing breakfast for dinner tonight, so this would be perfect.

Sara said...

i love cooking potatos like this, never thought of topping with sour cream. yum!

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