| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 1 hr 45 min |
| Prep: | 10 min |
| Inactive: | 30 min |
| Cook: | 1 hr 5 min |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 6 large baking potatoes
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 3 1/2 ounces smoked bacon, thinly sliced vertically
- 3 1/2 ounces onion, diced
- 1 sprig thyme
- 3 1/2 ounces mushrooms, diced
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 ounces butter
- 6 slices Gruyere
- Serving suggestion: green salad.
Instructions
- Boil the potatoes in their skins for 20 minutes, drain and leave to cool. Peel them. Using a cheese grater, grate them into a large mixing bowl and sprinkle with salt.
- In a frying pan saute the bacon and onions. Strip the leaves off the sprigs of thyme into the pan. Add mushrooms and cook for about 5 minutes until soft. Combine with the potatoes and mix gently, taking care not to mash them too much.
- Heat oil in a frying pan and add 3 or 4 spoonfuls of the mixture, See cook’s note*. Using a spatula, pat the mixture into a round flat cake. Brown it over a high heat. When the bottom side is cooked flip it over. Repeat with remaining potatoes to make 6 cakes.
- Put 1/2 tablespoon of butter and a slice of Gruyere on each cake and melt under a hot grill or broiler. Turn the Rosti onto a plate and serve with a green salad, if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 6 servings |
| Calories | 596 |
| Total Fat | 28 g |
| Saturated Fat | 13 g |
| Carbohydrates | 69 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Sugar | 4 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 62 mg |
| Sodium | 1078 mg |
Reviews
Very tasty first attempt. My pancakes didn’t hold together, however. Too dry; nothing to bind them together. (Or maybe I just had too much bacon and onion, as I made a fractional, 1 potato version to test it out.) I’ll definitely be making this recipe some more.
Thank you, Tyler! Again, a recipe that has been added to my box as a favorite – a staple even! I like to serve this dish with steak.
Tyler, you are the best!! This is easy and great. Always good to find new ways to used the lowly stanby potatoe!!
This is an excellent recipe for either a dinner side dish or for breakfast. Similar to making just hashbrowns but ten times better.
“Superior” expresses it all.
These are awesome! I did not find the recipe hard to understand at all as other reviewer said and the flavor was excellent! I used more of the mushrooms, onions, and bacon the recipe called for and sauteed for a tad longer. Also, didn’t have Gruyere so used swiss but imagine it would be even better with Gruyere. My only complaint is that when I tried to flatten with spatula, they fell apart and stuck to the spatula, so I ended up rolling them in a ball and flattening with my hands before I put in skillet and that was the only way I could get them to stay together. (Probably beacuse I doubled veggies and bacon?)