Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, rösti (swiss potato pancake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Rösti are made with cooked potatoes, so I use it often as "leftovers" instead of the typical fried potatoes, hash and so on. Rösti - Making The Great Swiss Traditional Potato Dish. Rösti or rööschti (Alemannic German: [ˈrøːʃti]) is a Swiss dish consisting mainly of potatoes, in the style of a fritter.
Rösti (Swiss Potato Pancake) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Rösti (Swiss Potato Pancake) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have rösti (swiss potato pancake) using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Rösti (Swiss Potato Pancake):
- Take 1 kg Potatoes
- Make ready 1 Onion
- Make ready 50 grams Bacon
- Prepare 1 Butter
- Make ready 1 Olive oil
- Prepare 1 Salt
- Get 1 Pepper
Grate the peeled raw potatoes into a bowl. The grating is usually done by hand and traditionally with a rosti grater with large holes, but a box grater will do nicely. It was Swiss farmers who first enjoyed Rösti—for breakfast. Today, this grated, fried potato pancake is enjoyed at any time of day, either as its own meal or as a side dish.
Steps to make Rösti (Swiss Potato Pancake):
- These are the ingredients. It's really easy.
- Boil the potatoes in their skins. If a bamboo skewer goes through one easily they are done. Peel them while they are still hot, and let cool.
- Finely chop the onion, and dice the bacon.
- Grate the potatoes with a special potato grater (which looks like a pizza cheese grater). If you don't have such a grater, finely chop half the potatoes and mash the rest.
- Put some olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the onion until it is translucent. Add the bacon and sauté some more. Season with salt and pepper.
- Mix the potato from Step 4 and the Step 5 ingredients. Season with salt and pepper.
- Heat up the olive oil and butter together in a frying pan to melt the butter. Add the Step 6 mixture, form into a round pancake, and cook slowly over low heat.
- To flip it over, hold a plate over the frying pan and invert the pancake on it, then slide it back into the pan. The one in the photo got messed up.
- When it's golden brown on both sides, it's done.
Rösti recipes vary wildly in the type of potato, fat, and method for cooking, but this is my mum's recipe and it's the one I like best. A rösti cooked from raw potatoes. The raw potato rösti looks far more like my image of the dish - the strands of potato are still distinct and it's ragged For some Swiss, it's not enough to parboil the potatoes - they must be done a day in advance and chilled before grating. Swiss Potato Rosti is your classic recipe for a satisfying potato pancake. Traditionally eaten for breakfast, we serve our Swiss Potato Rosti with The "Rosti Ditch".
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